[Tongue in cheek alert]
For all the people that argued there should be no exceptions to the law, regarding allowing a half a glass of alcoholic wine at a mass held in prison - you will no doubt be sad to hear that sanity has prevailed and the Corrections Department has backed down and allowed Priests to use wine in communion.
There is some good news for you lot though:
An ambulance was stopped and given a ticket for speeding in a 50Kph zone. They were caught at 4am on an empty road doing 67kph. Once the ticket was issued, and the policeman had explained the importance for not allowing exceptions, the ambulance went off at a more stately 49kph, and delivered their heart attack victim to hospital. He was pronounced DOA.
The ambulance driver said - "the laws the law, and there never should be an exception, even if it is written into the law."
Further news tonight, Dr Michael Cullen announced a single flat tax rate of 39 cents in the dollar for personal tax, GST and company tax. "For too long, we have had a range of exceptions built into our tax laws, and it doesn't make sense. The entire country will now be taxed at the one rate - no exceptions."
And the Corrections Department also announced prisoners would no longer be allowed to exit the prison temporarily on compassionate grounds, such as attending a funeral relating to death in the immediate family. "We've been convinced that, apart from the issue of wine at communion, there should be no exceptions to any laws, no exemptions, no variations, no 'get out of jail free' cards, as it were."
Because to allow an exemption, for any reason just doesn't make sense.
Related Link: Corruptions Department confesses to sinning and seeks absolution
For all the people that argued there should be no exceptions to the law, regarding allowing a half a glass of alcoholic wine at a mass held in prison - you will no doubt be sad to hear that sanity has prevailed and the Corrections Department has backed down and allowed Priests to use wine in communion.
There is some good news for you lot though:
An ambulance was stopped and given a ticket for speeding in a 50Kph zone. They were caught at 4am on an empty road doing 67kph. Once the ticket was issued, and the policeman had explained the importance for not allowing exceptions, the ambulance went off at a more stately 49kph, and delivered their heart attack victim to hospital. He was pronounced DOA.
The ambulance driver said - "the laws the law, and there never should be an exception, even if it is written into the law."
Further news tonight, Dr Michael Cullen announced a single flat tax rate of 39 cents in the dollar for personal tax, GST and company tax. "For too long, we have had a range of exceptions built into our tax laws, and it doesn't make sense. The entire country will now be taxed at the one rate - no exceptions."
And the Corrections Department also announced prisoners would no longer be allowed to exit the prison temporarily on compassionate grounds, such as attending a funeral relating to death in the immediate family. "We've been convinced that, apart from the issue of wine at communion, there should be no exceptions to any laws, no exemptions, no variations, no 'get out of jail free' cards, as it were."
Because to allow an exemption, for any reason just doesn't make sense.
Related Link: Corruptions Department confesses to sinning and seeks absolution
The one thing I remember from my business degree is this quotable quote: "the last act of a dying organisation is often to bring out a new and expanded rule book." In other words, you know a company is on the slippery slope to oblivion when they focus on their efficiency in observing the rules rather than the effectiveness of the what the rules are trying to accomplish.
ReplyDeleteSeems eerily and increasingly applicable to New Zealand I think.