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“Too Many Laws”

The phone’s been a-ringin’/
Off the wall./
People with problems/
Continue to call./
“Too many lawyers,”/
I’ve heard ‘em say;/
But I say, “We don’t/
Have enough today.”/
People got problems/
And serious ones too;/
Come see the lawyer/
To learn what to do./
Some of ‘em even got/
A few bucks to pay;/
And when they do,/
It makes my day./
Law books becomin’/
A thing of the past./
Wonder how long/
This thing’s gonna last./
Just got a call from the F.B.I.;/
Wants to talk to my client/
Who ain’t gonna lie./
I need a break,/
Just a brief pause./
It’s not too many lawyers,/
But too many laws!

I’m so embarrassed. I was addressing the great Campbell Brown, via her father’s web-site, and I had a grammatical error in my posting: I failed to end the statement with a quotation mark (“). Please pardon me! One day I’ll learn to proof-read everthing I write and/or post. s/Hardy Parkerson

“Too Many Laws”

The phone’s been a-ringin’/
Off the wall./
People with problems/
Continue to call./
“Too many lawyers,”/
I’ve heard ‘em say;/
But I say, “We don’t/
Have enough today.”/
People got problems/
And serious ones too;/
Come see the lawyer/
To learn what to do./
Some of ‘em even got/
A few bucks to pay;/
And when they do,/
It makes my day./
Law books becomin’/
A thing of the past./
Wonder how long/
This thing’s gonna last./
Just got a call from the F.B.I.;/
Wants to talk to my client/
Who ain’t gonna lie./
I need a break,/
Just a brief pause./
It’s not too many lawyers,/
But too many laws!

It was the wealthy trail lawyers, the corrupt union thugs, the poverty pimps,the Hollywood Elite and the Main Stream Media that elected Barack Obama. Don’t ever forgive them it.

Hey, the Tarheels won big again today! Of course, that’s in football. I don’t think they have a basketball team. For some reason they don’t even play basketball in North Carolina, only football.

Hey, the Tarheels won big again this weekend! Of course, that’s in football. I don’t think they have a basketball team. For some reason they don’t even play basketball in North Carolina, only football.

John McCain would have lost no matter who his V P choice would have been.

He was not the choice of rank and file Republican. His problem was, he was trying to please Democrats like yourself.

And he got his just deserve.

Harry Fontenot sent me this e-mail and asked that the message be spread around:

ABC NEWS BANS FLAG LAPEL PINS!

YESTERDAY THE BRASS AT ABC NEWS ISSUED ORDERS FORBIDDING REPORTERS TO WEAR LAPEL PIN AMERICAN FLAGS OR OTHER PATRIOTIC INSIGNIA. THEIR REASONING WAS THAT ABC SHOULD REMAIN NEUTRAL ABOUT ‘CAUSES’.

SINCE WHEN IS SUPPORT FOR PREVENTING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION SOME SORT OF A ‘CAUSE’? SINCE WHEN IS PATRIOTISM TO BE DISCOURAGED?

I URGE YOU TO BOYCOTT ABC AND ITS SPONSORS AND AFFILIATES. WE ARE SLOWLY LOSING EVERYTHING OUR COUNTRY STANDS FOR AND EVERYTHING OUR MEN AND WOMEN FOUGHT AND DIED TO PRESERVE!

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY AS YOU CAN. THIS HAS BEEN VERIFIED THROUGH: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/noflags.asp

This should make your blood boil…it DOES mine!

*****

This has been checked out on Truth or fiction.com and on Snopes.com. This is true and even though I will have little effect on ABC News revenue I do plan on being careful to not view any program that is on ABC and boycott, if at all possible, the sponsors of ABC. Barbara Walters said that this was going to hurt ABC bad. As you know she works for ABC.

Sorry, it’s spelled “ichthyology.” PARDON MOI! SINCEREMENT, Hardy Parkerson

Nice that you Jim Brown have paid honor to the Hackberry Ramblers and to have noted the passing of the last member of that great Cajun misical group. I knew Mr. Duyon…oops! I mean Mr. Duhon, while he was living in Westlake. I believe he was the Chief of Police of the town of Westlake. His two sons are the famous Harlon Duhon, the famous labor leader and political activist; and Glenn Duhon, the great school teacher and high school and college basketball coach. Once I was out in San Francisco and I saw a notice taped to a utility pole. I walked up to read it, and it was an advertisement for the Hackberry Rambliers, who were–as I recall–performing at some prestigeous university in the San Francisco Area.

May the Hackberry Ramblers rest in piece! s/Hardy Parkerson – Lake Charles

Stupid me, once again! Should have been, “Keep up the good work, Jim Brown!” Again, nobody’s perfect, not even Hardy Parkerson.

“Too Many Laws”

The phone’s been a-ringin’
Off the wall.
People with problems
Continue to call.
“Too many lawyers,”
I’ve heard ‘em say;
But I say, “We don’t
Have enough today.”
People got problems
And serious ones too;
Come see the lawyer
To learn what to do.
Some of ‘em even got
A few bucks to pay;
And when they do,
It makes my day.
Law books becomin’
A thing of the past.
Wonder how long
This thing’s gonna last.
Just got a call from the F.B.I.;
Wants to talk to my client
Who ain’t gonna lie.
I need a break,
Just a brief pause.
It’s not too many lawyers,
But too many laws!

-by hardy parkerson

You have heard it said that we have too many lawyers. I say we do not have too many lawyers, but too many laws. Napoleon said that since every man is presumed to know the law and ignorance is no excuse for violating the law, that there should be no more laws than would fit in a one volume code that would fit in a man’s hip pocket or a woman’s purse. Thus the Code Napoleon, which Louisiana adopted as its own and which served us well for over two hundred years, until the Louisiana “Law Explosion” of recent years.

Now each time the Louisiana legislature meets it passes over a thousand new laws, not like the early years of my legal career when it passed a few laws only every other yearly session. Now instead of our having a code of laws, accessible to every man, now to find the law one must be trained in legal research and delve into literally hundreds of volumes containing literally thousands of black letter statutes. Louisiana’s citizens are inundated in an ocean of laws. Law has become a major industry in Louisiana: courthouses, courts, judges, clerks of court, court-reporters, bailiffs, lawyers, district attorneys, thousands of cops, law offices on every corner; and all of them busy as a one-armed paper hanger. There is no need for so many laws, for such a law industry. It is easy to understand why we need many doctors and hospitals, for we all need health-care; but law should not be such a big part of our daily lives. The less laws the better.

It’s time for Louisiana to return to the idea of codification: the publication of laws in plain and simply understandable principles of law contained in a one-volume code that will serve to guide the citizens and the courts as they interpret and apply the law. It’s time to tell our legislators to quit passing so many laws and to vote against those who do, to tell the governor to use her veto more, to vote against them or her if they do not, to elect to office only those public officials who will pledge in advance to quit passing so many laws and to reduce the number of laws already on the books. There is more to it all than this, but this is something to think about.

Boy, that’s a pretty good record: 7 and 4. And it looks like the ones they lost were very close games, with the excepton of the N.C. State game. I wonder what happened to the Tar Heels on that day, I just wonder if North Carolina has a basketball team, or do they just have a football team. I’ve never heard anything about their having a basketball team, only a football team.

What do you have against the KKK? They do a lot of good work.

From MY FIRST DAYS IN THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION.

As soon as I’m sworn in as Governor of Louisiana, I am going to do is to:

Establish New Health Care Science Centers,
Including Chiropractic Schools

At the same time I will be establishing six (6) six new schools of Health Care Science, including Medical schools and schools of Chiropractic Science, including schools for the education, training, qualification and certification of all of the other related health-care professions, such as Chiropractic Assistants, military-type Medics, Emergency Medical Technicians, Respiratory Therapists and Anesthetists. These schools will be free to Louisiana students who will contract in advance to remain in Louisiana after graduation and to practice their professions.

According to the Alexandria TOWN TALK, there is too much state government in Louisiana. Here’s what the newspaper article stated:

Forces beyond the control of any individual or community have changed the local economic and civic landscape, perhaps for good and definitely forever. Ask any business owner or public official who has any perspective, and you will hear this:

“Things today just don’t work the way they used to work.”

That’s true — period. If you have not accepted that reality, best of luck to you.

We focus on this today to ask two questions we’ve asked before: Do we need all of the local government agencies we have? Just as important, do we want all of them?

“Government” and the amount and quality of it help to define a town, a city, a parish, a state and so on. The cost of government helps to define a community and the quality of life of the people who call that community home.

You may rarely interact in person with local government and all of its agencies, but each and every one of them affects your life in significant ways, starting with the always-increasing bill for services.

Louisiana, like most states, is loaded with government at every level. And, while the private sector gets as lean as the market dictates, government — the public sector — remains the same size or grows.

Something is very wrong with that and with those of us who accept it as a given.

There are, for example, 297 municipal police departments in Louisiana. Go to the head of the class if you can name 297 towns and cities in the Bayou State.

That number does not come close to the total number of police agencies in Louisiana. In addition to paying for local police departments, taxpayers in their respective communities pay for part or all of lots of other police agencies.

That includes the parish sheriff’s offices, municipal marshal’s offices, state fire marshal’s office, state police, campus police, medical center police, levee district police, state parks enforcement, agriculture and forestry officers, wildlife and fisheries enforcers, livestock brand enforcement, alcohol and beverage control officers, Mississippi River Bridge police, state public safety and corrections officers, state probation and parole officers, state department of justice, state revenue and taxation police, the little-known state museum police and the ever-popular Causeway Cops in Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes.

We’re picking on the police because they are tough and because we need to make a much larger point.

Do we need all of the local government agencies we have? Do we want them?

Any answer starts with the fact that we’re paying for all of them.

Jim I enjoyed the history you revealed on Ill. and Lincoln as well as the point on the troubles of their Governor. NO I do not feel he will get a fair trial in Ill., but remember I still want EWE out of jail and have always supported him.
I am having a good time however by seeing corruption somewhere other than Louisiana. I can’t wiat until trail time.

What the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury did when it purchased the building at 901 Lakeshore Drive was wrong, wrong, wrong! At least the method in which such a large amount of public money was spent and/or wasted.

Sincerely,

Hardy Parkerson
Chm., Ronald Reagan-George W. Bush Democratic Caucus

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Im from mongolia
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What a nice message, Mr. Thompson! I also went to school with the great Jim Brown in the mid 1960s at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. I recognized him
even as early as then as
a great person: very, very,
very talented! Over the years
I have maintained a close
friendship with him, and he
has not let me down a bit.
He is one of the most-talented
and best-thinking statesmen in
America. I still look for him
one day soon to be governor of Louisiana, if not a U.S. Senator, or even President. Again, your comment to Mr. Brown and on this his web-site was very nice. Nice seeing your post on Jim Brown’s “Graffiti Wall”. Boy, you seem to have done well in your career also. Must have been some good school and teacher(s) that you guys had in Kansas! Sincerely, Hardy Parkerson; Retired Lawyer after 41 years, Lake Charles.

This Art Thompson expects Jim Brown a non office holder, to do more than he expects Barack Obama to do.

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH –

Dear President Bush,

You have done a great job as President of the U.S.! Please do one more thing for us, before you leave office; and that is release our former Governor Edwin W. Edwards from Federal Prison in Oakdale, You will not be making a mistake by doing so! I believe that if you do tthat, either you or your brother will be the next president of the U.S.

Keep up the good work!

Sincerely,

Hardy Parkerson, Chm.
Ronald Reagan, George W.
Bush, Bobby Jindal Democratic Caucus of Louisiana
Lake Charles
hparkerson@suddenlink.net

Here’s the link for Newt Gingrich’s web-site. Take a look and let us all know what you think about what he’s got to say. Sincerely, Hardy Parkerson – Lake Charles

http://newt.org/default.aspx?tabid=37

They Cash In

-by hardy parkerson

The women work; the men just play,/
Both at the poker machines./
Some win, some lose;/
But there’s another day./

The machines smile and say,/
“Feed me your money and win today!”/
And the people sit and pump it in and win/
And lose ag’in, and go away./
(But there’s another day.)/

The doctor sits and then he hits,/
And then he loses all./
“Get your money ready, young man!/
I’ll see you now in the back of the hall.”/

“But, Doc, twenty’s all I’ve got!”/
“That’s all right,/
I understand!/
I’ll see you now, young man.”/

“Here, get this filled!/
Take it before you sleep!/
You don’t need a receipt./
Thanks! Come see at my office!/
(Now it’s back to that machine.”)/

Baseball caps turned front-side back;/
Bearded old man in sneakers/
Playin’ the machines and winnin’,/
Beside the sweatered girl who loses all./

She says, “I know a better game /
That we can play, if you can pay.”/
The old man says, “It’s a shame, but I’m game./
Here, take this and go cash in!”