Musings on De-nationalizing, Toilets, and Fighting Obama
Random thoughts on totally unrelated news items also unrelated to Tucson:
HAITI: Some nations just shouldn’t be nations and Haiti is at the top of that list. . .
TOILETS: I had always thought toilets, potties, loos, water closets were just places to do your business and begone. Not anymore, at least not in Brazil where they have become a cause of great contention . . .
FIGHTING OBAMA: Ultimate Fighting Champion Jacob Volkmann wasn’t serious when he said after a New Year’s Day victory that he would like to fight Obama next. ”He’s not too bright,” Volkmann opined . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3378
Showing posts with label toilets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toilets. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Tidbits: Toilets, Whitey, and Whoopi
Tidbits: Toilets, Whitey, and Whoopi
Toilets: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Under 3-term Mayor Michael Boomboom/Bloomberg, New York City is fast evolving into the Nanny Capital of America. Smoking is banned virtually everywhere, sodium-salt is restricted in restaurants, and sugary foods are next on the hit list as Bloomberg continues his quest to care for every health need of New Yorkers, at the expense of depriving them of the right to decide when and where they will puff and what they can eat.
Big Mike is watching you!
Perhaps bowing to complaints that the city is becoming a mini-nanny state with arbitrary rules imposed by an supposedly omniscient, authoritarian government, New York is now getting into toilets, actually into all things watery.
Already all the rage in Europe, “dual flush” toilets are coming to a New York bathroom near you.
As part of a wide-ranging water conservation law passed by the City Council this past week, “new toilets will have to be high water efficient or ‘dual-flush,’ which allow users to choose between a high pressure flush for solid waste, and a low-pressure flush for liquid:” http://tiny.cc/ao674
See! Bloomberg can now say, we allow individual decision-making, even if that decision is rather simple except in certain cases when toilet users . . . Well, use your own personal experience and imagination.
No word yet on whether thousands of new city workers will have to be hired to monitor strict compliance with the liquid-solid rules.
Whitey or Whitney?
Speaking of toilets, America’s educational system may be immersed in one but . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2243)
Toilets: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Under 3-term Mayor Michael Boomboom/Bloomberg, New York City is fast evolving into the Nanny Capital of America. Smoking is banned virtually everywhere, sodium-salt is restricted in restaurants, and sugary foods are next on the hit list as Bloomberg continues his quest to care for every health need of New Yorkers, at the expense of depriving them of the right to decide when and where they will puff and what they can eat.
Big Mike is watching you!
Perhaps bowing to complaints that the city is becoming a mini-nanny state with arbitrary rules imposed by an supposedly omniscient, authoritarian government, New York is now getting into toilets, actually into all things watery.
Already all the rage in Europe, “dual flush” toilets are coming to a New York bathroom near you.
As part of a wide-ranging water conservation law passed by the City Council this past week, “new toilets will have to be high water efficient or ‘dual-flush,’ which allow users to choose between a high pressure flush for solid waste, and a low-pressure flush for liquid:” http://tiny.cc/ao674
See! Bloomberg can now say, we allow individual decision-making, even if that decision is rather simple except in certain cases when toilet users . . . Well, use your own personal experience and imagination.
No word yet on whether thousands of new city workers will have to be hired to monitor strict compliance with the liquid-solid rules.
Whitey or Whitney?
Speaking of toilets, America’s educational system may be immersed in one but . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2243)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
NHS Updates
NHS Updates
The UK’s National Health Service, the NHS, a model for and a forerunner of Obamacare, continues to fail and disappoint the British people just as Obamacare will fail and disappoint the American people once it is fully implemented in 2014:
“But the place is full of blokes!” “Sorry, dearie, it’s all we have to offer.”
Thirteen years after Britain’s Labour Party promised that mixed sex wards in NHS hospitals would be abolished, patients were forced to spend some 20,000 nights in mixed sex accommodations last year, many hospitals used only thin partitions to separate the sexes, and dozens used a curtain.
In 2009, there were 18,685 breaches of the rules and the number is growing rapidly.
In addition, 20% of NHS patients are forced to share washrooms and toilets with patients of the opposite sex and many are confined to hospitals which still feature “Victorian style” facilities, that is, men and women aren’t even kept in separate bays or have the benefits of flimsy separations for privacy.
It’s highly improbable that Queen Victoria had to share such undignified arrangements. If she had, she would certainly not be amused.
Meanwhile the conservatives and labourites quibble over which party is responsible for this offense to propriety in very proper England. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1662)
The UK’s National Health Service, the NHS, a model for and a forerunner of Obamacare, continues to fail and disappoint the British people just as Obamacare will fail and disappoint the American people once it is fully implemented in 2014:
“But the place is full of blokes!” “Sorry, dearie, it’s all we have to offer.”
Thirteen years after Britain’s Labour Party promised that mixed sex wards in NHS hospitals would be abolished, patients were forced to spend some 20,000 nights in mixed sex accommodations last year, many hospitals used only thin partitions to separate the sexes, and dozens used a curtain.
In 2009, there were 18,685 breaches of the rules and the number is growing rapidly.
In addition, 20% of NHS patients are forced to share washrooms and toilets with patients of the opposite sex and many are confined to hospitals which still feature “Victorian style” facilities, that is, men and women aren’t even kept in separate bays or have the benefits of flimsy separations for privacy.
It’s highly improbable that Queen Victoria had to share such undignified arrangements. If she had, she would certainly not be amused.
Meanwhile the conservatives and labourites quibble over which party is responsible for this offense to propriety in very proper England. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1662)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Of Terlets, Compassion, and Hypocrisy
Of Terlets, Compassion, and Hypocrisy
You may say terlet and I may say toilet, and you may say coib and I say curb. They mean the same things, bathrooms and the edges of sidewalks.
Those words only become problematic when private entities decide that some people should use the coibs for terlets instead of their tidy, pristine, reserved-for-patrons-only facilities.
The whole issue poses sticky questions for America, private property, and compassion.
Some 25 years ago, my wife and I encountered a terlet/toilet problem in Manhattan, (N.Y.), with 3 kids in tow, ages 5 to 12-ish. Due to a malfunctioning GMC, now Government Motors Corporation, product we were temporarily marooned in the City that Never Sleeps and the kidlets desperately needed relief.
We discovered that city may not sleep but lots of places close their doors–and bathrooms. I eventually bribed a matre d’ to allow us to use his facilities.
Americans are very attuned to rights lately and give short shrift to duties–pun not intended–but there’s more than a compassion issue involved when it comes to the rights of citizens to utilize private, as in commercial interest, gratis potty facilities.
For governments to mandate such requirements could be a violation of the 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, and 10th amendments to our Constitution. To deny them could be a violation of one of the most fundamental rights of every human being, the right to eliminate in private.
This isn’t Paris, thank God, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1510)
You may say terlet and I may say toilet, and you may say coib and I say curb. They mean the same things, bathrooms and the edges of sidewalks.
Those words only become problematic when private entities decide that some people should use the coibs for terlets instead of their tidy, pristine, reserved-for-patrons-only facilities.
The whole issue poses sticky questions for America, private property, and compassion.
Some 25 years ago, my wife and I encountered a terlet/toilet problem in Manhattan, (N.Y.), with 3 kids in tow, ages 5 to 12-ish. Due to a malfunctioning GMC, now Government Motors Corporation, product we were temporarily marooned in the City that Never Sleeps and the kidlets desperately needed relief.
We discovered that city may not sleep but lots of places close their doors–and bathrooms. I eventually bribed a matre d’ to allow us to use his facilities.
Americans are very attuned to rights lately and give short shrift to duties–pun not intended–but there’s more than a compassion issue involved when it comes to the rights of citizens to utilize private, as in commercial interest, gratis potty facilities.
For governments to mandate such requirements could be a violation of the 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, and 10th amendments to our Constitution. To deny them could be a violation of one of the most fundamental rights of every human being, the right to eliminate in private.
This isn’t Paris, thank God, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1510)
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