Any new laws take effect tomorrow in your state?

[cupman]

I'm about to look up Oregon but I saw a clip on the news. Apparently in Kansas after tomorrow you can no longer own more than four cats in one household. Not sure how I feel about that. Anything exciting in your neck of the woods?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Sex offenders are not allowed in the library while children are there.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Louisiana. Yes, I agree. In my area, children are always in the library, so that means they will NEVER be able to go in the library. And that's great!

I am not sure this accomplishes anything.  First of all you need to teach your child how to protect themselves.  You cannot be with them all the time. And secondly, people are so focused on children being molested by strangers, they forget or do not know that most of the time children are not molested by registered sex offenders, but by family members and family friends.

I think this will help. I feel that parents can teach, teach and teach their kids how to "protect" themselves but there are some monsters out there that will still commit such a horrible crime by taking these innocent children no matter how much they have been taught.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Truth Matthew...your school is not trying to scare you with lies, but with the truth. The child porn laws are such that possessing the images, even if they were sent to you by the girl in question, is against the law. Forwarding an e-mail like that can even get you into worse trouble....

 

[kuntrygirl]

One question. What is a salt dome?

A salt dome is a geologic formation caused by a phenomenon known as diapirism, in which lighter materials force their way up through denser ones. Salts and other evaporated minerals are generally lighter than the sedimentary rock which surrounds them, and as a result, salt has a tendency to well up, creating a visible bulge in the surface of the earth which is often capped with a layer of rock. Salt domes have been utilized by humans for centuries as readily available supplies of salt, since they typically contain a high concentration of halite, otherwise known as table salt.

The formation of a salt dome takes centuries. It starts with the formation of an isolated marine inlet, which slowly evaporates, concentrating the salts. Geologists believe that these inlets must be flooded and evaporated several times to reach the concentration of salt needed to create a salt dome. Once a large deposit of salts is created, sediments are deposited over the salt as the centuries progress, but the salt will continue drifting to the top, because it is less dense than the sediments around it. As a result, the salt creates a distinctive bulge, and it appears to be boring its way through the surrounding rock when viewed in cross-section.

Salt domes can be found all over the world, in a wide variety of settings. Some are in isolated desert environments, testifying to the fact that these regions were once covered in water, while others are in marshes and swamps near the ocean. Historically, salt domes have been mined for their cargo of salt, and they also have other economic uses which can make ownership or control of a salt dome extremely profitable.

Many salt domes contain pockets of oil and natural gas, which become trapped as the salt rises. These deposits have nowhere to go until they are drilled, and they can be quite significant. Salt is also an extremely stable storage medium, leading some companies to use salt domes to store deposits of fuel and natural gas; it has been suggested that nuclear waste could potentially be stored in salt domes as well, since salt is inert and very stable.

An incomplete salt dome is known as a salt pillow, and salt domes can turn into salt glaciers, huge deposits of salt which actually move across the surface of the Earth, typically when the ground and the salt are lubricated by rain.


Salt Domes
There are 11 interior salt domes in north Louisiana and not less than 100 salt domes in the coastal area. Salt domes, or plugs, are an important element in the origin of the south Louisiana oil fields.
Northeast Louisiana with the salt domes markedExploration for oil and gas has revealed salt domes in more than 100 sedimentary basins that contain rock salt layers several hundred meters or more thick. Salt domes are known in every ocean and continent.

Salt domes supply industrial commodities, including fuel, minerals, chemical feedstock, and storage caverns. Giant oil or gas fields are associated with salt domes in many basins around the world, especially in the Middle East, North Sea, and South Atlantic regions. Salt domes are also used to store crude oil, natural gas (methane), liquefied petroleum gas, and radioactive or toxic wastes.

Salt domes are largely subsurface geologic structure that consists of a vertical cylinder of salt embedded in horizontal or inclined strata. In the broadest sense, the term includes both the core of salt and the strata that surround and are �domed� by the core. Major accumulations of oil and natural gas are associated with salt domes in the U.S., Mexico, the North Sea, Germany, and Romania; domes along the Gulf Coast contain large quantities of sulfur. Salt domes are also major sources of salt and potash on the Gulf Coast and in Germany, and they have been used for underground storage of liquefied propane gas. Storage �bottles,� made by drilling into the salt and then forming a cavity by subsequent solution, have been considered as sites for disposal of radioactive wastes.
The salt that forms these deposits was laid down in prehistoric times, mainly in places where inland seas were periodically connected and disconnected from oceans. Louisiana has SALT DOMES As these seas are cut off from the main body of water, the water evaporates, leaving immense salt pans. Over time, the salt is covered with sediment and becomes buried. Since the density of salt is generally less than that of surrounding material, it has a tendency to move upward toward the surface, forming large bulbous domes, sheets, pillars and other structures as it rises. If the rising salt diapir breaches the surface, it can become a flowing salt glacier. In cross section, these large domes may be anywhere from 1 to 10 kilometers across and extend as far down as 6.5 kilometers.
One example of an island formed by a salt dome is Avery Island in Louisiana.

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[chickened]

Not sure how the police will prove cat ownership. I suspect that law is a response to the feral cat problem. If you are a responsible cat owner and keep them where they belong I really dont care how many someone has... this rarely happens though. Four seems reasonable to me but maybe not reasonable to someone else, it really is none of my business but apparently everything nowdays is subject to what society thinks. Just my opinion.

 

[Matthew3590]

I forget the state but it will be legal again to flash your lights at cars warning them of a cop. It is either California or Florida I forget.

 

[conny63malies]

The cat thing is only in one city in Kansas. Here in Kentucky popping wheelies seems to be illegal now. Also: Some of the changes Kentucky made this year have been head-scratchers. The state recently got around to removing wording from its constitution that gives guidelines on pensions for Confederate soldiers
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. So no more pension for soldiers of the confederacy?
Its also illegal now to release WILD HOGS into the wild.

 

[redhen]

Sex offenders are not allowed in the library while children are there.

What state?... awesome law!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I forget the state but it will be legal again to flash your lights at cars warning them of a cop. It is either California or Florida I forget.

I thought that was struck down on first amendment issues...