Margaret Wente (Globe) - Yard sale laws? We’re being protected to death

[opento]

Authorities shutting down a four-year-old child's lemonade stand in Iowa:

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Coral...126592563.html

But you don't have to look to the U.S. for such bureaucratic stupidity.

In Canada, Health Canada has established a directive on the laws governing yard sales. The requirements were described in this Globe and Mail column today by Margaret Wente:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/comme...rticle4420849/

Seriously? Laws governing yard sales?

We have far too much government bureaucracy these days. It's time to seriously start prioritizing where we want government involvement in our lives, and where it's time to scale back.

The requirements governing yard sales are a great place to start.

[ronin1701]

Everyone's scared *****less about liability.

There was a case maybe three years ago in England, where a local council banned school bake sales because they couldn't control what was going into the cakes and other goodies.

[akira1971]

Well, you and Margaret Wente have something in common - plagiarism. You basically took someone else's post HERE (http://terb.ca/vbulletin/showthread.php?392341-Margaret-Wente-%28Globe%29-Yard-sale-laws-We%92re-being-protected-to-death) from two weeks ago.

[sandikosh]

Laws are created to protect the law makers. If they allowed everyone to do what they want to do, who is liable when something goes wrong? The kid with the 25 cents lemonade stand or the city for not creating standards for lemonade stand owners?

[Ottomaddox]

I avoid eating food made in a private kitchen I haven't been in. I kinda agree with these laws; there are public health laws in place for a reason; there are many ordinary people that don't understand basic hygiene and cross-contamination issues in food preparation.

[_Allan_]

Laws are created to protect the law makers. If they allowed everyone to do what they want to do, who is liable when something goes wrong? The kid with the 25 cents lemonade stand or the city for not creating standards for lemonade stand owners?

What about in the past, when things weren't so 'governed'? We didn't and don't need a bunch of laws, warning labels, etc, except people are f**kig idiots... 'Oh, my kid would have spit in a cake, I best not eat this one.' Or 'My son jaywalked, and was fatally hit. It wasn't his fault he broke the law, but the car driver and police.' Or 'I want a hot coffee. I am going to put it -without Its lid - between my legs, cuz there isn't a warning not to.'

[gei]

I avoid eating food made in a private kitchen I haven't been in. I kinda agree with these laws; there are public health laws in place for a reason; there are many ordinary people that don't understand basic hygiene and cross-contamination issues in food preparation.

If you're the tinfoil hat type then just eat inside a clean-room in your own house and let the rest of us live normal lives without government interference.

[Ottomaddox]

If you're the tinfoil hat type then just eat inside a clean-room in your own house and let the rest of us live normal lives without government interference.

You need to get out more. There are alot of lazy and stupid people out there, and one day you're going to have an unpleasant experience when the lady at the church picnic gets the plates with the raw and cooked chicken mixed up.

[akira1971]

Well, you and Margaret Wente have something in common - plagiarism. You basically took someone else's post HERE (http://terb.ca/vbulletin/showthread.php?392341-Margaret-Wente-%28Globe%29-Yard-sale-laws-We%92re-being-protected-to-death) from two weeks ago.

Sorry, I also have to point out that the post you copied word for word is from the forum of t**b.ca - an "Escort & Massage Reviews" website... Really, we don't need to know what you do in your spare time or how you need to pay for it...


Your plagiarism has been busted, and so has Margaret Wente's:

http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2012/03/margaret-teachers-are-lazy-and-soft-on.html

Wente, March 2012: “It is in almost every respect a system built for another age,” writes education historian John Fleming (whose views were cited in The Province newspaper). The union, the government and the school trustees, in his view, are all anti-visionary, anti-technological and completely committed to the status quo.

Here’s her colleague Gary Mason reviewing Fleming’s book in the Globe a few months earlier.

Gary Mason, October, 2011: “It is in almost every respect a system built for another age,” Dr. Fleming writes… the union, the government and the school trustees – are anti-visionary, anti-technological and completely committed to the status quo.

http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2011/05/margaret-wente-plagiarism.html

Her column in today’s Globe not only borrows quotes, but in one case, appears to reproduce a whole paragraph - including another journalist’s introduction and connecting sentence.

A 2009 article by Helen Rumbelow in the Sunday Times quotes Michael Kramer of McGill. Rather than taking the trouble to contact him herself for some fresh observations (they are on the same side of the Atlantic, after all), Wente reproduces the two Kramer quotes along with Rumbelow’s introduction and linking observation, “the trouble is, he said, that the breastfeeding lobby is at war with the formula milk industry”.

Wente: One of the world’s most authoritative sources of breastfeeding research is Michael Kramer, professor of pediatrics at McGill University. “The public health breastfeeding promotion information is way out of date,” he says. The trouble is that the breastfeeding lobby is at war with the formula milk industry, and neither side is being very scientific. “When it becomes a crusade, people are not very rational.”

Rumbelow: …one of the world’s most authoritative sources of breastfeeding research: Michael Kramer, professor of paediatrics at McGill University, Montreal. “The public health breastfeeding promotion information is way out of date,” Kramer says. The trouble is, he said, that the breastfeeding lobby is at war with the formula milk industry, and “neither side is being very scientific ... when it becomes a crusade, people are not very rational.”

http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2011/05/globe-and-mail-corrects-wentes-borrowed.html

Globe and Mail corrects Wente’s borrowed quote

A correction appeared in the print edition of the Globe on May 13 for one error in a more widely flawed article by Margaret Wente on the Gulf Oil spill. We looked at it earlier.

“A quotation about the abundance of red snapper in the gulf of Mexico, in a column of April 26, should have been attributed to Michael Carron, chief scientist of the Northern Gulf Institute”.