Pejman Yousefzadeh: Bloomberg. Again.
America’s most officious
meddlermayor is back:Now listen up, if you can.
Mayor Bloomberg — who has already cracked down on smoking, junk food, trans fats, salt and super-sized drinks — is embarking on a new crusade: preventing New Yorkers from going deaf.
Hizzoner’s health officials are planning a social-media campaign to warn young people about the risk of losing their hearing from listening to music at high volume on personal MP3 players, The Post has learned.
“With public and private support, a public-education campaign is being developed to raise awareness about safe use of personal music players … and risks of loud and long listening,” said Nancy Clark, the city Health Department’s assistant commissioner of environmental-disease prevention.
The campaign, which will cost $250,000, is being financed through a grant received from the Fund for Public Health, the Health Department’s fund-raising arm.
Of course, it’s plenty dumb to listen to extra loud music and podcasts, and risk losing one’s hearing as a consequence. But why must the mayor of New York once again play Metropolitan/National Nanny regarding the issue?
Bloomberg is weird in other ways as well, He seems to believe that homeless shelters in New York city are being overrun by rich people looking for a roof over their heads. Because of course, if you park your private jet in New York, the first thing you think of is not your favorite room at the Waldorf. No, the first thing you think of is securing your preferred spot at the homeless shelter of your choice.
To be fair to Bloomberg, he does have his virtues. For example, he accepts that government has no right whatsoever to force you to exercise.
At least, he accepts that for the moment.
One Child Policy Enforcer Runs Over Baby!
A Chinese official from Wenzhou, China, crushed a 13-month old baby-boy to death by driving over him after the parents refused to pay a fine for violating China’s one-child policy.
According to AFP, a state official working to enforce China’s one-child policy drove over a 13-month old baby-boy, resulting in the infant’s death.
A news item issued by PhuketNews relates that the official had an argument with the parents as, presumably, they “violated” the one-child policy by refusing to pay a fine. The reports goes on to say that the parents acted “agitated” in response to the official’s request.
The spokesman stated that the parents of the murdered baby were “agitated” as a result of the disagreement with the one-child policy enforcer, after which the official in question drove his car over the baby. PhuketNews however reports that Wenzhou authorities were quick to label the murder as an unfortunate accident.http://www.infowars.com/one-child-pol…
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Reasons as to why I do not want another “let’s ban ___” gun law.
I also do not want any laws that make the attainment of weapons more difficult.
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1) There is no statistical correlation showing increased gun regulation will decrease gun related death. In fact, according to a statistic of 100,000 randomly selected American residents gunpolicy.org (an Australian Medical University based think tank), gun ownership has increased while gun violence has decreased.
I’d also like to point out that Virginia and D.C. relaxed their gun policies and saw drops in gun related deaths. D.C., this year, will be recording a record low of deaths unheard of since 1960.
2) “But such a law would make it more difficult for lunatics to obtain guns!” The same law applies to rational evil people who wish to attain guns. Congrats, you stopped the few lunatics but you made the game easier for organized crime to abuse defenseless people and create incentives for sellers to sell guns on the black market.
3) Either kind of law does not account for incentives. Incentives are what drive people to make a choice among alternatives. If we want safer gun control, why not incentivize background checks? Gun sellers could be issued money in return for performing a quota of background checks. Such an incentive plan does not have to deal with the government and can be done through a think tank devoted to creating profitable solutions to gun safety.
7 Facts About Government Benefits and Who Gets Them, from The Atlantic. Full article here: http://bit.ly/UPfSRT
Battle for the Cato Institute
The Koch brothers are suing the Cato Institute in order to gain more control over the governance of the Cato Institute (Source). Because of laws in Kansas, where the Cato Institute is incorporated, the organization is controlled by the shareholders who each own 25 percent of the shares and appoint members of the board.
Charles and David Koch own 50 percent of the stock and are thus able to appoint half of the board members of the Cato Institute. The death of another shareholder - William Niskanen - has lead to his conflict, because his shares were transferred to his widow, which the Koch brothers contend is not allowed because the shares should have been offered for the other shareholders to purchase (Source).
Ed Crane, Cato Institute President, has referred to the lawsuit has a hostile takeover and alleges that the Koch brothers want to turn the institute into another partisan organization like Americans for Prosperity.
Even as someone who is not a libertarian, this interests me. I think the Cato Institute does reputable work on the policy front even if I don’t agree with all of it, because they provide serious, informed critiques of policies from a libertarian perspective, and I would not want to see it turn into another Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity, etc.
(via rigatonideology)
Soros Mouthpiece Pushing Pre-Crime Policy Through Google (by TheAlexJonesChannel)
So if there is no conspiracy. Why make it illegal. If conspiracy was all fake, then talk of it would be harmless. Talk about proving conspiracies exist, by the very fact they want to make it illegal.
The ruins of Detroit, Michigan — Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre document what remains of a once-great city
Leftest policy in action. Soon to be the rest of the nation.
(via scatteredaesthetics)
The EU can’t even stop you drinking yourself to death
Readers of academic journal Addiction will have become rampant eurosceptics after perusing a recent article by Rebecca Gordon and Peter Anderson entitled “Science and alcohol policy: a case study of the EU Strategy on Alcohol”. I didn’t know that the EU had a strategy on booze, but the bloc has a habit of launching “strategies” with variable amounts of substance. In this case, the EU Council asked the European Commission to devise a strategy on reducing alcohol-related harm. The Commission published a Communication on the subject in 2006. Is it any good?
Although the Communication acknowledges and supports existing interventions which have high evidence for effectiveness, such as enforcing blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limits for drivers, it extensively promotes other interventions which have been shown to be ineffective; for example, recommending education and persuasion strategies as a measure across all its five priority areas.(via Global Dashboard)
Vincent Vernuccio on TSA’s Priorities
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses the recent failure by the Transportation Security Agency to prevent an unauthorized passenger from boarding a plane. Vincent believes the agency may be distracted from its purpose by its recent decision to unionize.
