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

Monday, April 22, 2013

The Earth Day Intension - Plastic Grocery Bag Bans and Rise in Food Poisoning

Isn't the whole idea behind Earth Day and the Ban of Sanitary Plastic Grocery Bags to kill off the evil humans who have despoiled mother earth? It sounds just like Gov't public health planning. m/r

Are Plastic Bag Bans Making Us Sick?




The Volokh Conspiracy » Plastic Grocery Bag Bans and Public Health
 • April 22, 2013 
-full short post-

Jonathan Klick and Joshua Wright have argued that argued that the San Francisco plastic grocery bag ban was associated with an increase in food poisoning:
Recently, many jurisdictions have implemented bans or imposed taxes upon plastic grocery bags on environmental grounds. San Francisco County was the first major US jurisdiction to enact such a regulation, implementing a ban in 2007. There is evidence, however, that reusable grocery bags, a common substitute for plastic bags, contain potentially harmful bacteria. We examine emergency room admissions related to these bacteria in the wake of the San Francisco ban. We find that ER visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase.
My friend and UCLA Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology colleague, Daniel Blumstein, recently wrote a Huffington Post item about the article and about plastic bag bans (which he generally supports) that I thought I’d pass along — I meant to do it when it came out last month, but forgot. The post is here, and it’s very interesting.
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