Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Save the Planet and Die! The Case Against Reusable Shopping Bags



The Case Against Reusable Shopping Bags - Planet Gore - National Review Online

The Case Against Reusable Shopping Bags

June 30, 2010 2:30 PM

Telegraph:

Tests on shoppers’ bags revealed half contained traces of E.coli, a lethal toxin which killed 26 people in Scotland in 1996 in one of the worlds worst food poisoning outbreaks.

Scientists also found many were contaminated with salmonella.

Reusable plastic shopping bags have become increasingly popular in Britain thanks to supermarkets and other retailers giving out millions of free ones to shoppers in the last three years.

It is estimated that there are “hundreds of millions” of bags for life in use in Britain, according to sources within Wrap, the Government’s anti-waste watchdog. Because the vast majority of people do not wash their bags after each shopping trip, they could be putting themselves at risk.

The tests were undertaken by the University of Arizona, whose researchers stopped a total of 84 shoppers to check the state of their bags.

The researchers warned the levels of bacteria they found were high enough to cause a wide range of serious health problems and even death.

Children may be in the greatest danger, they added, as they are particularly vulnerable to the effects of organisms such as E.coli.

Many of the bags for life are made from jute or woven polypropylene, helping to reduce the amount of so-called “virgin plastic” used in carrier bags by 40 per cent in just the last three years.

But while they are better for the environment, the new research suggests they could be harmful to health if not cleaned regularly.

You have to love the do-gooders. We used paper and brown bags, then plastic bags to wrap our groceries. Fish and babies born in Taxicabs were wrapped in newspapers. Why? The paper was sanitary!
The eco-self righteous now demand that we use Reusable Shopping Bags to save the planet... and die!?

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