Muslim Exploding Panties
By Bernie on 16 Aug 2007:
I was thinking recently of all the things I cannot do because of evil or stupid people. If a Muslim owns a fast-food franchise I can't get pork with my breakfast and in a number of states it is still legal for pharmacists to refuse to dispense emergency contraceptive prescriptions:
commondreams.org,
Moral Judgments on Birth Control Endangering Women's LivesSome pharmacists "just say no" to filling the prescriptions. Others don't offer these women alternative locations where they can get them filled. A few zealous pharmacists have actually gone off the deep end and refused to return the prescriptions to the women for whom they were written. That's obstruction -- someone who is licensed by the state to provide a medical service (to wit, the pharmacist) has instead barred a customer from obtaining that service.
I can't get on an airplane unless I remove my shoes. Suppose the shoe bomber had instead been a female wearing exploding panties? Would women boarding airplanes be required to wear their panties on the outside? But joking aside, what would the procedure be at airline check-in? "Excuse me mam, just lift your skirt for a moment?"
In my previous post Tort Reform - We need to stop these idiots from suing, I noted that because of idiots, Beni Hana no longer flings shrimp into customers' mouths.
I can't buy a really hot cup of coffee at any national franchise because of one moron who spilled coffee in her lap. Now when I put milk in my coffee it's lukewarm.
Instruction manuals for almost everything in this country are filled with so many disclaimers and warnings that I can't find the really serious warnings that can kill me from the frivolous ones that were put in just for morons. Case in point: [from stellaawards]
Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.
As long as most of our juries are composed of those without any jobs or education (otherwise how come they didn't get out of jury duty) and we have tort laws that allow these insanities, life will only get worse for the rest of us who know not to clean our ears with a drill, or know not to try to dry our private parts with a vacuum cleaner.
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