The Efficiency of our Government
Written on June 21, 2010 by moe2love
Filed Under: Current Events, General Talk
I’m not one to spend a lot of time cynically complaining about our government, but its agencies have been quite active
All who consume will live a cursed, immortal life
lately working hard on making things right with this world. For example, lately they have been trying to stop the sales of “unicorn” meat – an April Fool’s Joke that ThinkGeek started this year. Yes, that’s right – ThinkGeek, a company that specializes in producing, well, geeky products, has been given a cease-and-desist order by the National Pork Board (heard of this before? It was founded by the Pork Act) on their production of Unicorn meat. Apparently, their slogan – “The New White Meat” will result in consumers confusing Unicorn meat with “Pork: The Other White Meat”. Interestingly enough, that slogan is going to be changed soon anyways, so could we list this as another example of an agency using its power just because it can? Yeah, we probably could.
Here’s another benevolent act a government agency has committed for the betterment of American society. A while ago, a shipment of toy airsoft guns were confiscated because apparently they can be converted into machine guns… REAL ones. Every gun expert has denied that this has true, and that there’s no way that “anyone with knowledge of guns” can turn a toy airsoft gun into a machine gun – for one thing, the bullet rounds just wouldn’t fit. Feel free to watch and decide what you think: 
