Town Manager Admits “There Are No Benefits to Living in Pahrump”

Well, besides the legalized prostitution I’d wager.

Found on aol.com:

The Nevada town of Pahrump is taking a stand not just against illegal immigrants but flags they may bring with them.

The elected town board in the remote Mojave Desert community voted 3-2 on Tuesday to enact an ordinance making it illegal to fly a foreign nation's flag by itself.

Flying another country's flag, whether it is a British Union Jack or the flag of Mexico, is punishable by a $50 fine and 30 hours' community service, unless it is flown below an American flag.

"Old Glory is sovereign," says Paul Willis, a retired carpenter and board member. "You can't fly any other nation's flag higher than the American flag."

The American Civil Liberties Union says the flag restriction violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech.

"There's no doubt about it," says Lisa Rasmussen, a board member of the Nevada ACLU. "People have a right, as much as we don't like it, to fly ... any flag they wish."

Pahrump is a rural fast-growing town of 33,000 about 60 miles west of Las Vegas. It is part of sprawling Nye County, home of the closest legal brothels to Las Vegas.

The law passed as part of a package of measures that also declared English the official language of Pahrump and denies town benefits to illegal immigrants.

"We don't have any" benefits, town manager David Richards says. "If we ever have any, they'll be denied to illegal immigrants."

"I'm in the middle of an episode of Walker Texas Ranger."

(If you saw the last two episodes of Studio 60, this news item is twice as funny.)

First feeble attempt at comedy: If I lived in Pahrump (“It’s a funny name, get past it.”), I would be inclined to fly me the old Jolly Roger and see what would happen. I could be an ACLU Pirate. On a side note: I bet the ACLU would get more supporters, especially from the moderates, if they gave themselves a cool team name like the Pirates. Or the ACLU Redskins. Something like that.

Second feeble attempt at comedy: “Old Glory is sovereign”??? Now, correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t our country founded by, key word about to be uttered, immigrants who were tired of sovereignty? Bringing up sovereignty - why that's just a slap in the face of every man that has ever stolen land from one of those red-skinned savages.

Third feeble attempt at comedy: wojr.com does not have any benefits either, but if we do have any, we will offer them to any immigrants. Illegal or legal. As long as they work in a brothel.

Last feeble attempt at comedy: I think the brothels, legalized or not, should make up their own flags. Something representing the individual whorehouse’s proficiencies and/or selling points. Fly them just under the Stars and Stripes, so they’re not breaking any Pahrump laws. Feel free to design some suggestions for flag concepts and send them in to wojr.com headquarters. Feel free to make them extra muffy.

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