Rebel viewers may recall the launch of my effort to strike back at the most outrageous acts of nanny-statism back in September with the Nanny State Ninny Award.
Continuing the tradition, we have the dubious honour of presenting the dubious award for October and this time our winner isn't just an over-reaching Nanny Stater but a hypocrite too!
Then again, those who like to tell others what to do often do eventually reveal their hypocrisy so this one might sound familiar to anyone who lives in a city that banned pesticides for homeowners but runs a municipally owned golf course.
I have a feeling ours isn't the only town council that has doubled-down on the nanny-statism on this issue. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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I have no use for Grass. I cut it, but there is just about nothing less important to me than grass. People will not go to church, won’t read their bible, won’t visit their children or do anything for anyone, but Oh, they got to weed and feed their lawn and have it perfect even if it means getting cancer and killing off the birds and bees.
The real crime is the fact that we let companies hire kids to spray lawns and let them soak in that junk day and night week after week, and wonder why the kid ends up with cancer or his kids are still born or whatever. With Cancer all around us, people washing their hands with Gas, one has to wonder if some self respect might be a important part of a daily diet.
While I don’t want a nanny state, I also don’t need to have my neighbor soak his lawn in chemicals.
You know what I meant Ken – so take it the way it was meant.
Or admit that the terminologies do get misused and abused by greenies all the time and even by those who accept the use of chemicals in ag and such.
I hear that in Ontario the organic nazis have finally manage to pervert the organic system even furtherby getting RoundUp authorized as a “natural” substance by the Ontario organic nazi bosses so they can dry down their wheat.
Want to call that a pesticide too?
Hell gasoline can kill plants AND insects – perhaps you would rather call that substance a pesticide and ignore the cross over?
I can point you in the direction of a few farmers that will disagree with you. Indeed, pesticides are designed to kill bugs and herbicides are designed to kill plants. The overlapping effect however, especially with the respect to herbicides is well documented. They to…even trace amounts, have the ability to stimulate illness and cause death in higher life forms including humans.
They are vastly different
To provide a reasonable and coherent argument about their use be sure to know the difference
Montgomery County’s prohibition is similar to the one imposed in the province of Ontario. On April 22nd, 2009, the government of Ontario arbitrarily imposed the needless, senseless, and malicious prohibition against pest control products used by home-owners and by the modern professional lawn care industry. Because of Ontario’s 2009 provincial prohibition, businesses operating in the professional lawn care industry were destroyed. However, AN EXCEPTION STATUS WAS PROVIDED TO INDUSTRIES LIKE GOLF, SPORTS FIELDS, SPECIALTY TURF, FORESTRY, AND AGRICULTURE. THESE INDUSTRIES EMPLOYED THE VERY SAME PEST CONTROL PRODUCTS OTHERWISE PROHIBITED FOR THE MODERN PROFESSIONAL LAWN CARE INDUSTRY. The legislation was implemented despite the fact that the prohibited pest control products were/are Health-Canada-approved, federally-legal, scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause no harm. http://wp.me/p1jq40-7HR http://wp.me/P1jq40-2ha http://wp.me/p1jq40-5ni Ontario’s 2009 provincial prohibition ignored the federal regulatory system and dictated aesthetics to the public. Moreover, there were serious issues with the Ontario minister of the environment, John Gerretsen, who was responsible for implementing prohibition. Gerretsen was indiscreet with his close public associations with radical and subversive anti-pesticide activists. http://wp.me/P1jq40-238 http://tinyurl.com/m4uez6c http://tinyurl.com/kjckx3x Thanks to Gerretsen and the government of Ontario, his party-pal-activists profited from prohibition through government pay-offs from Ontario Trillium Foundation. http://wp.me/P1jq40-48S Because of the 2009 provincial prohibition, the owners, employees, and families dependent on professional lawn care businesses have faced bankruptcies and business failures, as well as terror, despair, and destitution. http://wp.me/P1jq40-43B Gerretsen’s 2009 provincial prohibition led to the destruction of the professional lawn care industry. http://wp.me/P1jq40-43B http://wp.me/P1jq40-238 http://wp.me/P1jq40-5uv Because of the 2009 provincial prohibition in Ontario, businesses operating in the professional lawn care industry lost over 500,000,000 dollars, with over 12,500 unemployed. In Ontario, one-business-per-week disappeared into total oblivion, and, by 2012, half the businesses closed their doors. Because of the 2009 provincial prohibition, the professional lawn care industry lost over 500,000,000 dollars.
For UBER (and I have no problem with them) Why not go after the Johns? I mean customers. Just like prostitution. Make them attend a 20 hour taxi indoctrination course, so they may better understand the exemplary industry already here. After a $1000 fine of course.