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Comment on Not for before meals dept. by VMS

VMS — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:50:25 +0000

Usually I look at the product before I put it in either my mouth or my dog’s mouth. Sometimes I give it the sniff test. I’ve had many incidents over my lifetime where the food was spoiled when purchased at the store. Moldy bread, moldy cheese and sour milk are the most frequent. An odball apropos to this thread is when I bought a sealed box of oatmeal at a regular supermarket a little over a year ago. It sat on my shelf for about 2 weeks before I opened it to make oatmeal. The box was infested with hatching moths and larvae. I immediately snapped the lid on the box and walked it outdoors where the temperature was in the 20s, then went inside and killed the few moths that escaped.

I didn’t sue, and I didn’t even bother wasting my time bringing the product back to the store. But I stopped patronizing that supermarket for a while.

By the way, ingesting a moth laden Peppermint Patty probably would not make you physically sick as in catching an infectious disease. One may have a reflex urge to vomit though.

Comment on “I am not afraid of my Toyota Prius” by Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:06:47 +0000

One would think there would be a number of “sudden accelerations” that did not end in death, substantially larger than the death toll.

Bob

Comment on New York bill would ban restaurant use of salt in cooking by Frogfucius

Frogfucius — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:53:46 +0000

Next thing you know they’ll be outlawing bacon for breakfast.

Comment on New York bill would ban restaurant use of salt in cooking by captnhal

captnhal — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:38:22 +0000

Does this mean no crackers will be served with soup?

Sugar seems to be next on the list of banned products starting with a NYS sugar tax on soft drinks.

If the intent is to force New Yorkers to consume healthier products, doesn’t alcohol cause more deaths than salt? I don’t hear any calls for going back to the days of prohibition.

Comment on Toyota acceleration: why I’m skeptical by Variations on the theme of beige « Blunt Object

Variations on the theme of beige « Blunt Object — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:28:41 +0000

[...] mystery of sudden acceleration (Marginal Revolution) In the 24 cases where driver age was reported or readily inferred, the drivers included those of the ages 60, 61, [...]

Comment on Federal anti-SLAPP legislation proposed by SLAPP bill: advancing free speech at federalism’s expense?

SLAPP bill: advancing free speech at federalism’s expense? — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:05:27 +0000

[...] Ken at Popehat: “Let’s get this straight from the start: I’m in favor of anti-SLAPP statutes and vigorous legal protections for free speech. I’m just not convinced that federalizing libel law is the right way to go about it.” Earlier on the Cohen bill here. [...]

Comment on Toyota acceleration: why I’m skeptical by The age of people who experience “sudden acceleration” in their Toyotas | Life, Liberty, and Property

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:01:26 +0000

[...] From Overlawyered.com: Dating back to 1992 models, LA Times reporters found 56 deaths reported to NHTSA over the course of 19 model-years. If Toyota is suffering from electronic problems, these electronic problems should affect all drivers equally. If Toyota sudden acceleration is caused by driver pedal misapplication, then we should expect to see a disproportionate number of elderly and short drivers. Unfortunately, we don’t have driver heights, and in only 24 of the 56 cases, did the Times list the age of the driver. [...]

Comment on “I am not afraid of my Toyota Prius” by GA

GA — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:10:24 +0000

You only have data on deaths after sudden acceleration. You don’t have data on sudden acceleration.

Substitute something else such as “beat up a N-year old” for “sudden acceleration” and you’ll probably get disproportionate deaths in the elderly. Now you can argue that they died because of their age and the beater upper is not at fault.

Comment on New York bill would ban restaurant use of salt in cooking by Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:56:42 +0000

I believe the bill says, “salt in any form.” That would essentially ban all food. Morons!

The lunatics are running the asylum.

Comment on Finger-in-the-chili lady out of jail by MF

MF — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:12:26 +0000

I suspect that if she were to enter a Wendy’s, no one would notice. But if she were to report any hijinx, they would tell her that she was banned and thus tresspassing, or something like that, and any legal action she might try to initiate would be moot. Of course today’s judicial activists would claim that whatever injustice she had suffered would be a right (to justice) that she could not waive…

KB, I especially like the R&M reference.