Nannies in Power

[chanel]

Yep - and this is a doozy too. We will soon be forcing every manufacturer of large furniture to warn children (who can't read) not to climb on the bookshelves. The NJ "Toppling Law":

The bill would instruct manufacturers to put written notices in packages of televisions and other items at risk of toppling, informing the consumer how to find equipment to secure items against the wall or floor. Ikea includes such equipment with some products already, Ventresca said.

The Assembly’s Consumer Affairs Committee approved the bill in January, and the full Assembly passed it by a 55-16 vote June 18. That leaves the bill’s fate up to the Senate, where it has sat in the Commerce Committee since its introduction.

Southern New Jersey mothers fight for toppling warning on TVs after daughters killed - pressofAtlanticCity.com

The way I look at it, is it's a gift to the scumbag ambulance chasers.

 

[midcan5]

If there were a ban on whining the right wing would be speechless.

Slippery slope oh slippery slope - oh wait - let's go back to the days of lead paint and toxic air for if we ban them there is this slippery slope.

 

[chanel]

You are comparing lead paint to yo-yos and salt? Lame.

 

[Gatekeeper]

WASHINGTON -- Following the passage of Democratic health care reform legislation, President Obama assured the country that it was a "middle-of-the-road, centrist approach" instead of an intrusive, government power grab. But the government seems incapable of resisting the nannying impulse that undermines this claim.

So health reform includes a 10 percent tax on the use of indoor tanning beds. (Someone needs to stop this slow motion Chernobyl.) The law also requires fast food restaurants to post their calorie counts at the drive-through window, lest anyone be under the impression that a Big Mac is health food.

Recently, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., called for a ban on chewing tobacco in major league baseball. And concerned scientists raised the prospect of legal limits on the salt content of processed foods. There is safety in blandness.

Most symbolically, this year's White House Easter Egg Roll pointedly did not include the distribution of teeth-rotting, obesity-inducing candy. "Every goodie bag," according to one account, "was stuffed with pre-screened fruit, and the grounds were filled with exercise stations." One can only imagine the joy on young faces when they got their apple and their workout.

Michael Gerson : Nannies in Power - Townhall.com

What's next folks? A ban on extreme sports? Sharp knives? Swimming on an empty stomach? Sunbathing?

Welcome to the European Union.... where even the curve of a cucumber has a regulation... I kid you not.

Do they have a female panel of EU advisers to ensure the proper cucumber dangle angle?
Or is that being outsourced to San Fransisco?

 

[jillian]

The tanning bed tax was an attempt to bankrupt John Boehner

i do so love the amusement factor of the rightwingnuts... they're always good for a laugh.

 

[driveby]

WASHINGTON -- Following the passage of Democratic health care reform legislation, President Obama assured the country that it was a "middle-of-the-road, centrist approach" instead of an intrusive, government power grab. But the government seems incapable of resisting the nannying impulse that undermines this claim.

So health reform includes a 10 percent tax on the use of indoor tanning beds. (Someone needs to stop this slow motion Chernobyl.) The law also requires fast food restaurants to post their calorie counts at the drive-through window, lest anyone be under the impression that a Big Mac is health food.

Recently, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., called for a ban on chewing tobacco in major league baseball. And concerned scientists raised the prospect of legal limits on the salt content of processed foods. There is safety in blandness.

Most symbolically, this year's White House Easter Egg Roll pointedly did not include the distribution of teeth-rotting, obesity-inducing candy. "Every goodie bag," according to one account, "was stuffed with pre-screened fruit, and the grounds were filled with exercise stations." One can only imagine the joy on young faces when they got their apple and their workout.

Michael Gerson : Nannies in Power - Townhall.com

What's next folks? A ban on extreme sports? Sharp knives? Swimming on an empty stomach? Sunbathing?

It was essentially the same plan touted by the Republicans ....can't get more centrist than that.

The tanning bed tax was an attempt to bankrupt John Boehner

Sure it was the same plan, with all the Republican support it had and all. How many Republicans voted for it again ? .........