[Alta_redneck]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Ok I'll bite, are you going to tell us what they are Hurley?

I can't think of anything that affects my life here that is banned.

Things Alberta has Banned:

Expiry dates on gift cards.
Spring fishing.
Smoking in all sorts of public places.
Fireworks, for the most part.

Now I'm not saying these bans are bad things. In fact, I agree with almost every one of them. But to say that Alberta has no bans or restrictions (You have to wear helmets and seatbelts here, too), is not true. To claim that only leftists call for restrictions and regulations is just not true.

Wow the fishing one really makes me you don't fish do you.

Conservation just sucks doesn't it. This has been the rule as far back as I can remember by dad baiting my first fish hook. Did you know that your risking your life by drowning for the first 5 weeks of those 2 months as the ice rots. Once the ice is out I go trout fishing, no ban on them.

hurley_108 hurley_108:

In fact, I agree with almost every one of them.

Just for the record which one's don't you agree with. I'd like to see parents that don't control their kids in public places, given the boot. If second hand smoke bothers some people, screaming whining kids do it for me.

[hurley_108]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

hurley_108 hurley_108:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Ok I'll bite, are you going to tell us what they are Hurley?

I can't think of anything that affects my life here that is banned.

Things Alberta has Banned:

Expiry dates on gift cards.
Spring fishing.
Smoking in all sorts of public places.
Fireworks, for the most part.

Now I'm not saying these bans are bad things. In fact, I agree with almost every one of them. But to say that Alberta has no bans or restrictions (You have to wear helmets and seatbelts here, too), is not true. To claim that only leftists call for restrictions and regulations is just not true.

Wow the fishing one really makes me you don't fish do you.

Conservation just sucks doesn't it. This has been the rule as far back as I can remember by dad baiting my first fish hook. Did you know that your risking your life by drowning for the first 5 weeks of those 2 months as the ice rots. Once the ice is out I go trout fishing, no ban on them.

hurley_108 hurley_108:

In fact, I agree with almost every one of them.

Just for the record which one's don't you agree with. I'd like to see parents that don't control their kids in public places, given the boot. If second hand smoke bothers some people, screaming whining kids do it for me.

The only one I'm hedging on is the fireworks. But to be honest, I really don't know what the restrictions are. What I'd like to be able to do is buy a few fireworks for a Canada Day camping trip, preferably to a lake or something (I don't know why, but being close to water just seems to be a good idea). If that is permissible, then I guess I have no disagreement with any of them.

Screaming kids may be a greater annoyance than a bit of second hand smoke, but they won't give you cancer.

[Zipperfish]

ridenrain ridenrain:

.. on no.. not the helmet laws again..
Individual states and provinces have their own rights to assign their own regulations on motorcycle helmets. Like seatbelts, the data FOR manditory standars helmets is so overwhelming that it really has wverything to do with smart and dumb, not left & right.

So to be clear--You're a right-winger in favour of banning riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

Thanks for proving my point.

[Zipperfish]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Just for the record which one's don't you agree with. I'd like to see parents that don't control their kids in public places, given the boot. If second hand smoke bothers some people, screaming whining kids do it for me.

So you want to ban kids inpublic places. Wow, aren't you the big defender of liberty.

[Alta_redneck]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

The only one I'm hedging on is the fireworks. But to be honest, I really don't know what the restrictions are. What I'd like to be able to do is buy a few fireworks for a Canada Day camping trip, preferably to a lake or something (I don't know why, but being close to water just seems to be a good idea). If that is permissible, then I guess I have no disagreement with any of them.

You need a pyro-guy to set them off and a permit

hurley_108 hurley_108:

Screaming kids may be a greater annoyance than a bit of second hand smoke, but they won't give you cancer.

Yeah I don't think I'd get to much support for the kids thing, but then again that's probably what the anti-smokers thought in the beginning, I know I sure like a smoke free meal.

I find a nice tip for the person that seats you will keep the kids away if a person mentions it. There’s just so many parents now a days that don’t try to keeps the kids quite, and if they give them a spoon to bang on the table for very long I’m out of there.

[ridenrain]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

ridenrain ridenrain:

.. on no.. not the helmet laws again..
Individual states and provinces have their own rights to assign their own regulations on motorcycle helmets. Like seatbelts, the data FOR manditory standars helmets is so overwhelming that it really has wverything to do with smart and dumb, not left & right.

So to be clear--You're a right-winger in favour of banning riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

Thanks for proving my point.

You must hate those seat belt and child seat nazis, and food inspectors too.
It's public safety, not right or left.
So can I put you down on the side of dumb?

[Zipperfish]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

ridenrain ridenrain:

.. on no.. not the helmet laws again..
Individual states and provinces have their own rights to assign their own regulations on motorcycle helmets. Like seatbelts, the data FOR manditory standars helmets is so overwhelming that it really has wverything to do with smart and dumb, not left & right.

So to be clear--You're a right-winger in favour of banning riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

Thanks for proving my point.

You must hate those seat belt and child seat nazis, and food inspectors too.
It's public safety, not right or left.
So can I put you down on the side of dumb?

No, you can put me down as having proved my point that the right is just as good as the left at banning things these days. I didn't say whether or not I agreed with the helmet laws--You asked for an example of where the right had banned something to make us safer and I provided it.

Unfortunately, it seems your eensy-teensy little brain forgot what we were talking about, and, as per usual, you went off on some partisan drivel instead.

I blame myself. I should know by now that you are absolutely incapable of raising your level of input beyond partisan rhetoric.

[ridenrain]

?? What a bizarre idea.
Arn't some things beyond left and right politics and just right or smart things to do? Are seatbelts or bicycle helmets left or right? What about food inspectors and transit passes?
Where are you going with this?

[Zipperfish]

ridenrain ridenrain:

?? What a bizarre idea.
Arn't some things beyond left and right politics and just right or smart things to do?

Exactly. That was my contention in the original post--that both the left and the right banthings all the time, if you had enough brain cells to actually remember back a single page. Sheesh.

[ridenrain]

Having re-read you're original post, I see where you're going with this. You just stared talking fancy with helmets and the like and I got all confused.

Why exactly, are you calling me names over this though?

[Freakinoldguy]

Bans are anti evolutionary and screw up the natural selection process. If people are stupid enough to do things that hurt, damage or kill themselves then so be it.

That's just natures way of doing away with the weak and mentally deficient of a species.

So IMHO, the only ban Ontario should be enacting is the one banning these children endangering sociopathic trogloydytes from reproducing.

[sandorski]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Bans are anti evolutionary and screw up the natural selection process. If people are stupid enough to do things that hurt, damage or kill themselves then so be it.

That's just natures way of doing away with the weak and mentally deficient of a species.

So IMHO, the only ban Ontario should be enacting is the one banning these children endangering sociopathic trogloydytes from reproducing.

Hmm, that wouldn't interfere in Evolution at all!

[Zipperfish]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Why exactly, are you calling me names over this though?

Because I enjoy it, you piffling blob of goo.