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rpannier

(24,950 posts)
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 09:45 AM Feb 2024

This person holds an elected position in the Idaho legislature

I give you Rep Heather Scott, R-Idaho State Mental Hos... I mean... Blanchard, ID

An Idaho lawmaker wants to expand a law that bans cannibalism over fears about a rise in human composting.

Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, introduced a bill Thursday to expand the state’s cannibalism ban and told a legislative committee that she’s worried about the possibility that people are eating other people.

“This is going to be normalized at some point, the way our society’s going and the direction we’re going,” Scott said.

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Scott said she has been “disturbed” by the practice of human composting, which has been legalized in several states as another option for dealing with remains that may be more sustainable than other burial methods and reduce a person’s carbon footprint. But she said outlawing composting would require overhauling rules for morticians, and so instead focused on deliberately giving another person human flesh.

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article285234417.html#storylink=cpy

Words fail me

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This person holds an elected position in the Idaho legislature (Original Post) rpannier Feb 2024 OP
"Normalized"? Republicons have already normalized doing nothing useful. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2024 #1
Now. To be fair Captain Zero Feb 2024 #4
Clearly she doesn't know how plants take up nutrients and how animals absorb plant nutrients. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2024 #2
Maybe she'll receive a late night visit by... Hugin Feb 2024 #9
This is the logical conclusion... 2naSalit Feb 2024 #3
No surprise. She's a complete loon. bbernardini Feb 2024 #5
I have so many visions of her sitting in front of the TV, watching the Walking Dead rpannier Feb 2024 #6
Maybe she's articulating the sentiment of her constituents bucolic_frolic Feb 2024 #7
So rec'ing this rpannier Feb 2024 #8
Damn eating the rich is out.... Historic NY Feb 2024 #10
Seen at Home Depot....* MiHale Feb 2024 #11
Only the rich get to eat other people. Midnight Writer Feb 2024 #12

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
2. Clearly she doesn't know how plants take up nutrients and how animals absorb plant nutrients. . . nt
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 09:49 AM
Feb 2024

Hugin

(37,954 posts)
9. Maybe she'll receive a late night visit by...
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 10:20 AM
Feb 2024

The ghost of my junior high Earth science teacher.

I can hear him now, “It takes the average monkey less than a second to realize that rain water is safe to drink even though there’s a dead zebra nearby.”

bbernardini

(10,022 posts)
5. No surprise. She's a complete loon.
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 09:58 AM
Feb 2024

Gets very high scores from the IFF, which recently hired the guy that came up with the idea for (and also filmed the drone footage) the tiki torch march in Charlottesville.

rpannier

(24,950 posts)
6. I have so many visions of her sitting in front of the TV, watching the Walking Dead
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 10:00 AM
Feb 2024

and taking notes so she's prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse

Historic NY

(40,113 posts)
10. Damn eating the rich is out....
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 10:27 AM
Feb 2024


The Old Grey Hearse goes rolling by,
You don't know whether to laugh or cry;
For you know some day it'll get you too,
And the hearse's next load may consist of—you.

They'll take you out and they'll lower you down,
While men with shovels stand all a-round;
They'll throw in dirt and they'll throw in rocks,
And they won't give a dam-m-n if they break the box.

The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out,
They crawl all over your chin and mouth.
They invite their friends and their friends' friends too,
And you look like hell when they're—through—with you.

MiHale

(13,135 posts)
11. Seen at Home Depot....*
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 10:29 AM
Feb 2024

Human Composting Kits…*
Now be able to enjoy Grandma at dinner again…get a Grannies Garden kit, complete with composting material, tomato seeds, lettuce seeds, just add Grandma…sprinkle a little Composting material, add water, wait.
Wait until you taste the delicious vegetables that Grandma gave back…just like when you were a kid.

* this is a republican pipe dream. ….oh,oh,oh…gotta ‘ other idea! Uncle Zeke’s Medical Marijuana Garden

“He lived high, he died high, let his soil get you high.”

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