“Shark Week”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-07/Calif-lawmakers-pass-bill-banning-shark-fin-trade/50291584/1

The California legislature is seeking to ban the selling, buying, and possession of shark fins.  Except through licensed, medical shark fin dispensaries.

If shark fins become illegal, police will be arresting anyone caught driving a 1959 Cadillac.

The idea is to get people to stop hunting and killing sharks for food, but no new legislation is trying to keep sharks from killing people for food.

“Birther Bill” or “Born in the USA”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-04-15-arizona-birther-bill.htm

The Arizona Legislature has passed the nation’s first bill to require proof of citizenship by birth in the U.S. to get on the stat’s ballot in presidential elections.  That means that Arizona’s own John McCain wouldn’t be able to run for president since he was born before the Americas were even colonized.

Tea Party members say the bill is insufficient, since they believe that some U.S. birth documents are manufactured and imported from Kenya.

The Constitution does say that the president must have been born in the US, and in Arizona, they just want him or her to be able to prove it, especially if they look Mexican.