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  • Town approves 3-cat limit

    11/05/2009 11:46:34 AM PST · by Red Badger · 53 replies · 781+ views
    www.upi.com ^ | 11/4/2009 | Staff
    DUDLEY, Mass., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts town outlawed owning three cats without a kennel license after a man complained his neighbor's felines were hurting his lawn. Voters at a Dudley town meeting Tuesday night approved the addition of the new language to a town bylaw, which will impose a $100 per day fine for violations, after a local man complained that some of the 15 cats owned by Mary Ellen Richards had destroyed his grass, the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette reported Wednesday. Richards said at the town meeting that she now plans to put her house up...
  • HPD Begins Creative Crackdown[Houston]

    11/02/2009 11:36:55 AM PST · by BGHater · 33 replies · 525+ views
    Click2Houston ^ | 29 Oct 2009 | Mary Benton
    HOUSTON -- The Houston Police Department launched a new creative campaign to crack down on dangerous and aggressive drivers, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday. The plan calls for putting plainclothes officers in different locations around the city to spot drivers who are speeding, not wearing seat belts, or changing lanes erratically. In one tactic, senior Houston Police Officer William Dodson will dress in street clothes and stand at a street corner with a sign in his hand. Some people could mistake him for a vagrant, but on closer inspection, they will see that the sign is reminding people to wear...
  • Did cops go too far busting up improper yard sale?[NJ]

    11/02/2009 11:26:58 AM PST · by BGHater · 40 replies · 1,310+ views
    News-JournalOnline ^ | 29 Oct 2009 | DEREK CATRON
    HOLLY HILL -- The yard sale at 722 Center Ave. has been canceled. That much is clear. The rest of the story, including allegations that police threatened to arrest the 80-year-old homeowner because she didn't have a permit? Not so much. The facts are these: After 60 years in Holly Hill, Pauline Liles is moving to Tennessee to live with her daughter's family. Her husband, Jack, is already there, having suffered a stroke that has immobilized him. Pauline, an old hand at yard sales, was hoping to sell most of their stuff before joining him next week. She advertised the...
  • What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body

    11/02/2009 11:02:02 AM PST · by goodwithagun · 108 replies · 2,553+ views
    Yahoo ^ | Oct 30, 2009 | Dr. Maoshing Ni
    Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health. As the debate for whether to put a tax on the sale of soft drinks continues, you should know how they affect your body so that you can make an informed choice on your own. Soft drinks are hard on your health Soft drinks contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients. However, it is what they do contain that is the problem: caffeine, carbonation, simple sugars — or worse, sugar substitutes — and...
  • America is FAT!

    10/31/2009 8:14:13 AM PDT · by kdun · 50 replies · 859+ views
    10/31/2009 | Kevin Dunnigan
    AMERICA IS FAT!! Why spend so much time on effect when problems are solved by dealing with cause. We do not have a health care system, we have a disease care system. And we all are about to go over the cliff with a new system that rewards those who make bad choices, which has led to a great part of the problem in the first place. Come on America, wake up!! Come on Washington, deal with the real issues instead you becoming the solution to a problem you created. Take some time today and look at your fellow Americans....
  • Halloween treats trick kids into sugar overload

    10/30/2009 5:43:52 PM PDT · by Eric Blair 2084 · 52 replies · 561+ views
    The Star Ledger ^ | October 30, 2009 | Connie Bennett and Stephen T. Sinatra
    Halloween is a spooky holiday. Without realizing it, three out of four American adults become inadvertent "sugar pushers" tempting some 36 million young trick-or-treaters into gorging on sugar-filled candies. Indeed, every Halloween, just about everyone "forgets" that our nation’s kids are experiencing never-before-seen rates of obesity, which can be triggered by consuming too many sweets. And this year, despite the fact that many are facing economic challenges, Americans will spend $1.89 billion on candies, 6.8 percent more than last year, according to IBISWorld, a market research firm. That’s about $45 per household. But you’re tricking, not treating kids, every time...
  • Maine restricts lemonade sale: Less than 0.5% alcohol in British drink (Nanny State Alert)

    10/30/2009 9:54:17 AM PDT · by markomalley · 39 replies · 869+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 10/30/2009
    Call it a culture clash, trans-Atlantic style. The British think Americans are puritanical and somewhat batty. Americans find the British morally lax and too willing to bend the rules. It all started at a high school in Maine when a student consumed half a bottle of Fentimans Victorian Lemonade, then looked at the label and discovered it contained small amounts of alcohol, listed as less than 0.5 percent. By contrast, a typical American beer usually contains about 5 percent alcohol. Not wanting to get in trouble, he showed it to school administrators, who called police. Police referred the matter to...
  • Fit for work? The boss may be counting your calories (Big Brother Alert)

    10/30/2009 2:44:53 AM PDT · by markomalley · 15 replies · 523+ views
    The Times ^ | 10/30/2009 | Chris Ayres
    Feeling guilty about not doing enough exercise? Well, guilt might soon be the least of your problems. Thanks to a new Big Brother-style gadget being adopted by American companies — and coming to Britain early next year — bosses can measure exactly how many calories you are burning in a day and compare the data with “performance benchmarks”. In other words: staying in shape might soon become as important as getting to the office on time. The gadget, from the Dutch electronics company Philips, is slightly larger than a postage stamp and must be carried around at all times, either...
  • Council bans parents from play areas

    10/29/2009 10:53:43 AM PDT · by FromLori · 25 replies · 574+ views
    Telegraph UK ^ | 10/29/09
    Parents have been banned from supervising their children in public playgrounds, because they have not undergone criminal record checks. Only council-vetted "play rangers" are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence. The Watford Borough Council policy has been attacked as insulting and a disgrace by furious relatives who say they are being labelled as potential paedophiles.
  • Burning home fires will be a crime on bad-air nights in Bay Area

    10/29/2009 7:58:28 AM PDT · by SmithL · 27 replies · 664+ views
    Contra Costa Times ^ | 10/29/9 | Dennis Cuff
    Light a fire at home, pay a $400 fine.Burning wood fires in home fireplaces and stoves on bad air nights in the Bay Area becomes illegal again as of Sunday, when the region enters its second cold-weather season with lighting up banned during Spare the Air alerts. The crackdown, aimed at protecting public health from smoke, has two significant changes this year, the Bay Area Air Quality Management announced Wednesday: The district will slap a fixed fine of $400 on second-time violators, who received a written warning the first time they burned on a dirty-air night. Violators last year were...
  • FDA to ban sale of raw oysters from Gulf of Mexico

    10/27/2009 7:35:24 PM PDT · by Artemis Webb · 33 replies · 946+ views
    AP ^ | 102709 | CAIN BURDEAU
    NEW ORLEANS – Federal officials plan to ban sales of raw oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico unless the shellfish are treated to destroy potentially deadly bacteria — a requirement that opponents say could deprive diners of a delicacy cherished for generations. The plan has also raised concern among oystermen that they could be pushed out of business. The Gulf region supplies about two-thirds of U.S. oysters, and some people in the $500 million industry argue that the anti-bacterial procedures are too costly. They insist adequate measures are already being taken to battle germs, including increased refrigeration on oyster...
  • Medical marijuana is an insult to our intelligence

    10/26/2009 10:17:19 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 83 replies · 1,193+ views
    Washington Post ^ | October 20, 2009 | Charles Lane
    The Justice Department says it's backing off the prosecution of people who smoke pot or sell it in compliance with state laws that permit "medical marijuana." Attorney General Eric Holder says "it will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers." Party hardy! I mean -- let the healing begin! I don't think the federal government should be spending a whole lot of time on small-time druggies, and I'm undecided about legalizing pot, which enjoys 44 percent support among the general public, according to a recent poll. Recreational use is not...
  • Welcome to Britain (Video rant against UK Government)

    10/25/2009 7:18:57 AM PDT · by libertarian27 · 4 replies · 286+ views
    You Tube ^ | October 24, 2009 | Hairy C
    Once upon a time in a land not that far away there existed happiness and freedom. Then a regime of persecution, taxation and control came along. And the country was cast into eternal darkness and despair. The end? I bloody hope not. This YouTuber is great! A Patriot from across the sea. (a few rough words in the video)
  • (Steny Hoyer and Dems) Shred The Constitution

    10/22/2009 8:32:14 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 28 replies · 1,081+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | October, 23, 2009 | IBD Editorial Staff
    Health Reform: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says it's constitutional to mandate insurance coverage. Congress, he insists, has "broad authority" to make us buy things to provide for the "general welfare." Democrats' Alice In Wonderland interpretation of what they consider to be a "living Constitution," where words mean what they say they mean based on political considerations, gets more bizarre by the minute. (snip) We've been down this road before. In 1994, Hillary Clinton's secretive health care task force was trying to nationalize health care. "A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of...
  • Nanny State, Squared

    10/22/2009 5:48:46 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 6 replies · 275+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | October 22, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Big Government: Hardly a day passes without the unveiling of some new federal intrusion into our lives. At some point Americans must say "enough's enough," or sit silently as all our precious liberties are taken away. The Democrats in Congress and the White House are pushing through the most sweeping changes toward direct government control of our economy since at least the Great Depression. Consider just a few news items from recent days: • The Senate moves to give the Food and Drug Administration huge new power over what we eat and drink, and what medicine we take. • A...
  • Man pleads guilty to DWI in La-Z-Boy

    10/22/2009 5:22:00 PM PDT · by boughtwithaprice · 11 replies · 593+ views
    A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. . . . Police said the chair was powered by a converted lawnmower and had a stereo and cup holders.
  • Senate proposals put premium on healthy living

    10/16/2009 5:44:08 PM PDT · by socialismislost · 46 replies · 1,583+ views
    washingtonpost via msnbc ^ | 10/15/09 | David S. Hilzenrath
    Get in shape or pay a price. That's a message more Americans could hear if the health care reform bills passed by the Senate Finance and Health committees become law. By more than doubling the maximum rewards and penalties that companies can apply to employees who flunk medical evaluations, the bills could put workers under intense financial pressure to lose weight, stop smoking or even lower their cholesterol.
  • Schwarzenegger set to ban 'energy-guzzling' big screen TVs in California

    10/16/2009 9:28:44 PM PDT · by kingattax · 82 replies · 1,736+ views
    Daily Mail ^ | 16th October 2009 | David Gardner
    Big screen plasma televisions are to be banned in California because they use too much energy. In a world first, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has given his backing to the crackdown on sets more than 40 inches wide. These liquid crystal display and plasma high definition sets can use as much as three times the power of smaller cathode ray models. Experts say the ban will reduce the state's rocketing electricity bill by £5billion over the next decade. This is the equivalent of about £20 a set per year. Environmentalists have applauded the move by the California Energy Commission, but manufacturers...
  • California considering banning giant TVs

    10/16/2009 1:05:47 PM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 50 replies · 1,229+ views
    California considering banning giant TVs Electricity-guzzling giant-screen televisions are on the verge of being banned in California in an attempt to cut the state's soaring energy bill. By Tom Leonard in New York Published: 8:38PM BST 16 Oct 2009 Arnold Schwarzenegger, the state's governor, has supported controversial proposals by the California's energy commission to impose strict energy consumption limits on TVs with screens that are more than 40 inches wide. The commission claims that California's estimated 35 million televisions and related gadgets account for about 10 per cent of household energy consumption in the state. Experts say that the large...
  • California appears poised to be first to ban power-guzzling big-screen TVs

    10/16/2009 12:32:57 PM PDT · by Marty62 · 88 replies · 1,411+ views
    LA Times BUSINESS ^ | Oct. 14,2009 | Marc Lifsher
    Reporting from Sacramento - The influential lobby group Consumer Electronics Assn. is fighting what appears to be a losing battle to dissuade California regulators from passing the nation's first ban on energy-hungry big-screen televisions.
  • U.S. Report Links Smoking Bans and Heart Health

    10/15/2009 4:45:18 PM PDT · by Drango · 22 replies · 583+ views
    NYSlimes ^ | 10/16/09 | PAM BELLUCK
    Smoking bans in places like restaurants, offices and public buildings reduce cases of heart attacks and heart disease, according to a report released Thursday by a federally commissioned panel of scientists. The report, issued by the Institute of Medicine, concluded that exposure to secondhand smoke significantly increased the risk of having a heart attack among both smokers and nonsmokers. The panel also said it found that a reduction in heart problems began to take effect fairly quickly after a smoking ban was instituted and that exposure to low or fleeting levels of secondhand smoke could cause cardiovascular problems. “Even a...
  • Mom Arrested for Washing Kid's Mouth With Soap

    10/14/2009 10:07:58 AM PDT · by TruthBeforeAll · 33 replies · 1,076+ views
    NBC Miami ^ | Oct 14, 2009 | TODD WRIGHT
    A Palm Bay woman and her boyfriend were arrested Monday for child abuse after the couple went old school to punish their 8-year-old daughter for swearing. They washed her mouth out with soap. We don't know about you, but we would petition President Obama and Congress to make it mandatory for every parent to carry a bar of Irish Spring in their back pockets with all the profanity kids use today.
  • Maria Shriver Busted Breaking Husband's Own Law Calif

    10/14/2009 8:25:43 AM PDT · by BigEdLB · 34 replies · 1,181+ views
    WCBS ^ | 10/14/09 | WCBS
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling out his wife, Maria Shriver, for apparently violating a state law he signed — holding her cell phone while driving. The celebrity Web site TMZ.com posted two photographs Tuesday showing Shriver holding a phone to her ear while she's behind the wheel. It says one was snapped Sunday and the other in July. The Web site claimed that this was not the first time California's first lady was caught chatting on her cell while driving. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS) - On his Twitter feed Tuesday, Schwarzenegger wrote to TMZ.com founder Harvey Levin: "Thanks for bringing her...
  • The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933-45

    10/13/2009 11:47:08 AM PDT · by syriacus · 24 replies · 760+ views
    BMJ [British Medical Journal] ^ | December 1996 | Robert N Proctor
    One topic that has only recently begun to attract attention is the Nazi anti-tobacco movement. Germany had the world's strongest anti smoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s,supported by Nazi medical and military leaders worried that tobacco might prove a hazard to the race. Many Nazi leaders were vocal opponents of smoking. Anti-tobacco activists pointed out that whereas Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt were all fond of tobacco, the three major fascist leaders of Europe-Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco-were all non-smokers. Hitler was the most adamant,characterising tobacco as "the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man for having been...
  • An Indecipherable Embarrassment of Regulatory Incoherence (Byzantine Nanny State Alert)

    10/11/2009 4:55:05 PM PDT · by Copernicus · 1 replies · 266+ views
    JohnJacobH RKBA Commentary ^ | 10/11/09 | JohnJacobH RKBA Commentary
    To begin know it is said amongst the knowledgeable North Carolina is sprinkled with a number of “sweet spots” where a fellow can stand in an open field and box the compass in four opposite directions (North,East,South and West) for a few hundred yards and find himself under four conflicting sets of hunting regulations........... The leading (current) contender for complete Alice-In-Wonderland-Mad-Hatter “the law is ours to know and yours to find out” bureaucracy is DUPLIN COUNTY.......
  • Man fined $305 for smoking in workplace - his truck (Ontario)

    10/08/2009 4:28:07 PM PDT · by fanfan · 25 replies · 854+ views
    The Toronto Star ^ | Oct. 8, 2009 | Alan Black
    The burning question about precisely where a person can smoke these days is flaring up again in Ontario, where a 48-year-old trucker faces a $305 fine for lighting up on the job: while driving his big rig along Canada's busiest highway. The man, who hails from London, Ont., a two-hour drive southwest of Toronto, was headed for the Ontario border city of Windsor when he was pulled over Wednesday along Highway 401 and given a ticket under the Smoke-Free Ontario Act. The law, considered a Canadian standard-setter when it was passed in 2006, forbids smoking in all workplaces and enclosed...
  • Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV

    10/08/2009 12:59:49 PM PDT · by GraceG · 20 replies · 648+ views
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 10-05-2009 | Daily Mail Reporter
    A new internet game is about to be launched which allows 'super snooper' players to plug into the nation's CCTV cameras and report on members of the public committing crimes. The 'Internet Eyes' service involves players scouring thousands of CCTV cameras installed in shops, businesses and town centres across Britain looking for law-breakers. Players who help catch the most criminals each month will win cash prizes up to £1,000. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218225/Internet-game-awards-points-people-spotting-crimes-CCTV-cameras-branded-snoopers-paradise.html#ixzz0TNOMuvRg
  • Coke Didn't Make America Fat

    10/08/2009 6:15:17 AM PDT · by GOP_Lady · 240 replies · 4,319+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 10-07-09 | MUHTAR KENT
    Americans need more exercise, not another tax. Obesity is a complex issue, and addressing it is important for all Americans. We at the Coca-Cola company are committed to working with government and health organizations to implement effective solutions to address this problem. But a number of public-health advocates have already come up with what they think is the solution: heavy taxes on some routine foods and beverages that they have decided are high in calories. The taxes, the advocates acknowledge, are intended to limit consumption of targeted foods and help you to accept the diet that they have determined is...
  • UK, US PC: British Nanny State Tries For The Extreme

    10/07/2009 9:12:48 AM PDT · by mondoreb · 3 replies · 369+ views
    DBKP ^ | Ocfober 7, 2009 | Pat
    NANNY STATES NANNY DUELS THE WINNER LOSES LIBERTY, FREEDOM Many of you no doubt read of the Brit's attempt to humiliate and criminalize a police woman who exchanged baby sitting services with a close friend. They had given birth about the same time and the arrangement suited both their schedules. This enraged authorities. As reported in The Daily Mail: "A policewoman told last night how she was banned from looking after her colleague’s daughter because she was not a registered childminder. Detective Constable Leanne Shepherd was ordered by the education watchdog Ofsted to end her private arrangement with her...
  • 12 indicted for $2 million in food stamp fraud (TROP alert)

    10/06/2009 8:55:14 PM PDT · by GinaLolaB · 22 replies · 1,424+ views
    news10now.com ^ | Oct. 6, 2009 9:09 PM | Iris St. Meran
    UTICA, N.Y. -- Twelve Utica residents face federal charges for approximately $2 million in food stamp fraud. These charges come after an 18 month state and federal investigation. Police say those indicted were accepting food stamp benefits in exchange for cash, which is a violation because these benefits are only to be used for eligible food products. A federal grand jury indicted the 12 Tuesday. Only eight were actually arrested and charged Tuesday with defrauding the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program formerly known as the Food Stamp Program. They include: · Muteea Alfahdd, 41 · Najeeb Abdullah, 44 · Hamoud...
  • Those White Coats In The Rose Garden

    10/06/2009 5:08:05 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 62 replies · 2,277+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | October 6, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Politics: The administration stages a photo-op with handpicked doctors who support its health care reform. Fortunately, most doctors still believe that the first rule of medicine is to do no harm. It would seem some doctors still make house calls. Some 150 of them made one at the White House Monday in an attempt to give a booster shot to the administration's chaotic and stalled health care reform drive. Rather than a grass-roots uprising of physicians, this was a classic case of AstroTurfing. Attendance was by invitation only, and 40 of the 150 were said to be members of Doctors...
  • The Fat Police Are Failing

    10/06/2009 10:53:38 AM PDT · by STONEWALLS · 18 replies · 481+ views
    CNBC ^ | 10-6-09 | Jane Wells
    According to a study by the Health division of the RAND Corp., restrictions on the availability of fast food in poorer neighborhoods of Los Angeles "are unlikely to improve the diet of residents or reduce obesity." Why? Because people aren't getting fat on fast food. Instead, liquor stores and small convenience stores are "more likely to be the source of high-calorie snacks and soda consumed substantially more often by residents of South Los Angeles as compared to other parts of the city." So go long on McDonald's, short 7-11.
  • Citizens deserve faithful service from lawmakers and public employees

    10/06/2009 6:24:49 AM PDT · by James H. Shott · 8 replies · 533+ views
    Annuit Coeptis ^ | October 6, 2009 | James H. Shott
    <p>As if Michigan isn’t having enough trouble with the effects of the recession and the ailing auto industry, some of its citizens are suffering under laws and enforcement policies that simply defy common sense.</p> <p>But Michigan is not alone in having goofy laws and dopey bureaucrats. Vermillion County, Indiana, Prosecutor Nina Alexander said that she is proud to be "enforcing the law as it was written" by prosecuting a grandmother for buying two boxes of cold medication in less than a week.</p>
  • The Butt Stops Here

    10/05/2009 6:12:07 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 11 replies · 669+ views
    New West ^ | October 5, 2009 | Amy Linn
    As Montana bars dealt with their first smoke-free weekend since the state’s indoor smoking ban went into effect, ingenuity ruled. In Missoula, according to a great piece by Michael Moore in the Missoulian, the Rhino Bar gave smokers their very own place to light up: a Butt Hutt, created by Dave Golden of Well Done Welding and Jim Bell, a general contractor. Moore describes the hut as a 4-by-8-foot “metal smoking dugout” in the alley behind the Rhino in Missoula. The no-smoking laws spark the type of debate that never seems to get extinguished. Pro-smokers argue that the bans hurt...
  • Bake sales are banned in NY city schools

    10/05/2009 4:30:27 AM PDT · by prisoner6 · 23 replies · 876+ views
    STLToday.com/NY Times ^ | 10/05/2009 | JENNIFER MEDINA
    Bake sales are banned in NY city schools BY JENNIFER MEDINA NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK — There shall be no cupcakes. No chocolate cake and no carrot cake. According to New York City's latest regulations, not even zucchini bread makes the cut. Trying to limit how much sugar and fat students put in their bellies at school, the Education Department has effectively banned most bake sales, the lucrative if not quite healthy fundraising tool for generations of teams and clubs. The change is part of a new wellness policy...
  • Police Order Home Security System Dismantled

    10/05/2009 12:49:50 PM PDT · by John Semmens · 37 replies · 1,302+ views
    A retired policeman, Ralph Harvey, in the town of Saltash (United Kingdom) was ordered to take down the electrified wires he installed to protect his home from break-ins. Harvey constructed the system after burglars had stolen all his wife’s jewelry. Local police have been unable to solve the case or to prevent frequent episodes of vandalism against Harvey’s property. Saltash Police spokesman, Andy Dunstan said that “While I’m not entirely unsympathetic, what with Mr. Harvey being a former policeman and all. But we can’t abide the risk to potential thieves from this fence.” The electrified fence is only 12 volts—not...
  • ID to buy Robitussin?

    10/05/2009 6:46:50 AM PDT · by QQQQ · 86 replies · 2,099+ views
    Few minutes ago I came back from local Safeway.I had to buy Robitussin for my son.The cashier asked me for ID.He told me that Safeway does it at the government request.Something new???
  • Guns,Grenades and Ammo Banned In North Carolina October 1st.(Nanny State Alert)

    10/01/2009 9:31:59 PM PDT · by Copernicus · 5 replies · 629+ views
    JohnJacobH RKBA Commentary ^ | 10/01/09 | JohnJacobH RKBA Commentary
    Apparently the population of stupid children and even dumber parents has grown so large in North Carolina it is now necessary to ban the retail sale of novelty cigarette lighters. EVERY novelty cigarette lighter that resembles a cartoon character,toy,gun,watch, musical instrument, vehicle, animal, food or beverage, or SIMILAR articles( Heaven only knows what THAT means!) is banned for retail sale. So that clever .50 Caliber Cartridge you keep on your desk to light cigars? Gone baby, gone.
  • Food Fight Waged Over Refrigeration of Asian Noodles

    10/02/2009 9:58:58 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies · 412+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | October 2, 2009 | Ching-Ching Ni
    Manufacturers unite against a California law that prohibits the pasta from being kept at room temperature, saying it ignores a long-held cultural tradition. Public health officials cite safety.For 25 years, the Lucky K.T. Noodle Factory in El Monte has been making fresh rice noodles for hundreds of Asian restaurants and supermarkets in Los Angeles and around the country. But a state law requiring manufacturers to refrigerate the pasta instead of allowing it to be stored at room temperature threatens to alter a long-held Asian tradition, said factory owner Tom Thong. "The health inspectors don't understand our culture," said Thong, 53....
  • Woman refuses 'Sweden's smallest benefit payment'

    10/01/2009 11:34:44 AM PDT · by WesternCulture · 18 replies · 1,153+ views
    www.thelocal.se ^ | 10/01/2009 | TT/David Landes
    A pensioner from western Sweden may have received the smallest benefit payment ever paid out by the country’s social insurance agency (Försäkringskassan). Ängelholm resident Gunnel Johansson receives a whopping 50 öre (7 cents) every month in support payments for low-income seniors (äldreförsörjningsstöd), the Helsingborgs Dagblad (HD) newspaper reports. According to a description on the agency’s website, the payments are meant to guarantee the elderly “a reasonable standard of living even if you have a low pension or no pension at all”. The payment is so small that Försäkringskassan has taken the unusual step of paying Johansson every other month. She...
  • The Revolt Up North

    09/30/2009 5:54:02 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 15 replies · 1,354+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | September 30, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Health Care Systems: A return to private health care is rising from the grass roots north of the border. While we rush headlong toward socialized medicine, Canadians are saying, "No, thanks — been there, done that." We recently told the story of Ava Isabella Stinson, born 13 weeks premature at St. Joseph's hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. She weighed all of two pounds and had no time to be put on a waiting list. But there were no open neonatal intensive care beds for her at St. Joseph's or anywhere else in the entire province of Ontario it seems. Canada's perfectly...
  • Canada's Single-Prayer Health Care (Obamacare Run Amok)

    06/30/2009 5:13:32 PM PDT · by WhiteCastle · 47 replies · 1,120+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | June 30, 2009 | Investor's Business Daily
    Health Reform: A critically ill premature baby is moved to a U.S hospital to get the treatment she couldn't get in the system we're told we should emulate. Cost-effective care? In Canada, as elsewhere, you get what you pay for.Ava Isabella Stinson was born last Thursday at St. Joseph's hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. Weighing only two pounds, she was born 13 weeks premature and needed some very special care. Unfortunately, there were no open neonatal intensive care beds for her at St. Joseph's — or anywhere else in the entire province of Ontario, it seems.
  • Over-reaching Bureaucracy Goes After Babysitters and Grandmothers

    09/30/2009 5:26:18 PM PDT · by Portnoy · 4 replies · 540+ views
    The Hippo's A** ^ | September 30, 2009 | Portnoy
    The TODAY Show on Tuesday featured a story you read here last week. A Michigan woman is threatened with a fine by the Michigan Department of Human Services for letting her neighbors' kids stay at her house before the school bus arrives. Then there is this story from Terre Haute Indiana: Sally Harpold is a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of...
  • Holdren: Seize babies born to unwed women

    09/30/2009 1:37:13 PM PDT · by Mind Freed · 38 replies · 947+ views
    Obama science czar John Holdren stated in a college textbook that "illegitimate children" born to unwed mothers could be taken by the government and put up for adoption if the mother refused to have an abortion. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, argued that "illegitimate childbearing could be strongly discouraged" as a socioeconomic measure imposed to control population growth. As previously reported, WND has obtained a copy of the 1970s college textbook "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment" that Holdren co-authored with Malthusian population alarmist Paul R. Ehrlich and Ehrlich's wife, Anne. The authors argued involuntary...
  • State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids

    IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school. Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers. "I was freaked out. I was...
  • Over-reaching Bureaucracy Goes After Kind Neighbors and Grandmothers

    09/30/2009 4:15:28 AM PDT · by Portnoy · 21 replies · 1,389+ views
    The Hippo's A** ^ | September 30, 2009 | Portnoy
    UPDATE: The TODAY Show on Tuesday featured a story you read here last week. A Michigan woman is threatened with a fine by the Michigan Department of Human Services for letting her neighbors' kids stay at her house before the school bus arrives. MORE: Sally Harpold is a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of pseudoephedrine in a week’s time. The end...
  • State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids

    09/29/2009 10:56:18 PM PDT · by kingattax · 57 replies · 1,638+ views
    AP/Yahoo ^ | 9-29-09 | JAMES PRICHARD
    IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school. Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers. "I was freaked out. I was...
  • See Government Bully Day Cares (watch neighbor kids, go to jail?)

    09/29/2009 6:15:59 PM PDT · by suspects · 10 replies · 748+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | September 29, 2009 | Michael Graham
    They are from the government, and they don’t want you to help. Lisa Snyder’s neighbors in Middleville, Mich., left for work every morning before the school buses arrived. So she told her friends she’d watch their three kids at her house before school. She didn’t get paid for it. She didn’t get reimbursed for Cheerios or juice boxes. So what did Lisa get for her trouble? Threatened with prosecution. The state declared her yard an illegal day-care operation. She either had to stop, get licensed or go to jail. “We’re just friends helping friends,” Lisa says. But that’s not good...
  • More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation

    09/28/2009 12:31:37 PM PDT · by wk4bush2004 · 100 replies · 2,449+ views
    WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe. "Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."
  • Massive FBI Data Mining Revealed, Set to Expand

    09/28/2009 2:08:30 PM PDT · by Coleus · 54 replies · 2,431+ views
    JBS ^ | 9.25.09 | Alex Newman
    Recently declassified documents obtained by Wired magazine reveal a massive Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data mining operation. It already possesses over 1.5 billion records from government and private-sector sources. That figure is expected by the FBI to balloon to over 6 billion within a few years. And it is not just terrorists they are after.  According to the documents, the National Security Branch Analysis Center (NSAC) is being used to pursue multiple types of non-terrorism domestic investigations. It is also meant to be able to sort through the data — everything from health and travel records to credit card...