STEYN: Selective safety

[Alpha Mare]

However, in St Albans, England, competitors were informed by health and safety officials that they were "banned from running due to fears they would slip over in the rain."    "I have been disqualified from a running race for running," he explained afterward.

"The resort suite I rented via the Internet promised a private patio with hot tub," she wrote. "Upon arrival, I found the door to my patio bolted shut. 'Entry prohibited by federal law,' read the sign. Hotel management explained that the drains in all the resort's hot tubs had recently been found not to comply with new safety regulations. Compliance costs would be astronomical. Dozens of hot tubs would instead be cemented over permanently." In the meantime, her suite had an attractive view of the federally prohibited patio.

Anything else? Oh, yeah. In Iran, the self-declared nuclear regime announced that it was enriching uranium to 20 percent. When President Obama took office, the Islamic republic had 400 centrifuges enriching up to 3.5 percent. A year later, it has 8,000 centrifuges enriching to 20 percent. CIA Director Leon Panetta now cautiously concedes that Iran's nuclear ambitions may have a military purpose.

On the one hand, governments of developed nations micro-regulate every aspect of your life in the interest of keeping you "safe."  On the other hand, when it comes to keeping you safe from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/19/selective-safety/

[The Village Idiot]

you tell'em Mark

[DixieBelle]

Love him...