29 Replies to ““You can’t have a law for everything.””

  1. “You can’t have a law for everything.”
    What a Neanderthal. Next thing you know, he’ll be saying people should be allowed to smoke! In their trucks! With gun racks! Oh, the humanity.

  2. “Officials with SGI, the provincial agency overseeing driving regulations and insurance, acknowledge that using hands-free devices while driving is just as dangerous as holding a cellphone to one’s ear.”
    …
    Officials with the SGI should also acknowldedge that having a conversation with a passenger, lighthing a cigarette, telling the kids in the back seat to keep it down, tuning the radio, or reading stupid road signs is just as dangerouns as holding a cellphone to one’s ear.
    The cellphone ban has to be one of the stupidest driving laws in the history of driving and it’s mind blowing to know that its being adopted everywhere. It makes me want to move to a third world country where you only get a ticket for firing your AK out the window.

  4. It is nice to see a bit of common sense. It seems that every politician thinks that he somehow has to leave his mark/legacy by creating or changing a law or laws. What this usually means is that perfectly fine laws are disected into smaller and smaller portions to narrow down situations and this only creates unenforceable regulations. In the case of cell phones we have had for many years a law against driving without due care and attention and rather than continuing to fatten up the law books with new laws this one could have been used quite effectively.

  5. OMG – we have one who thinks the slaves have rights!! That (Ra forbid) the law protects those rights! Someone slipped up – Quickly silence him!
    From the desk of General Gorgon of the new global empire

  6. Yep, it’s now official, Occupy is the official astroturf of secular fanaticism and fanatic secularism is a machination of cultural Marxist indoctrinating.
    Ask yourself where these mutts got the idea that assaulting people who dissent from their ideological fervor is OK? When you get the correct answer to that question you have put your finger on the epicenter of civil conflict in our societies.

  7. Oldest con on earth and we still fall for the banker’s bait of cheap money. When you go for a loan the fact of the matter is the bank is as broke as you are. It’s just that the reserve system allows them to create wealth out of thin air to lend out and then take tangible wealth as collateral and repayment – great racket if you can get in.
    I wish I had a fairy nanny state that would allow me to create money out of thin air like the reserve system banks that lend to rapacious socialist states.

  8. Laws don’t make people good, ever. Its the fundamental flaw in the statists thinking. The law is a covenant between the law giver and the the law receiver where breaking the law severs the relationship. Normally there is a mechanism for restoring the relationship (ie fine) but until you apply the remedy the relationship is severed.
    This is a factor in the social issues we see today. We know that we are over regulated and we know that we have probably not kept all the demands of the law and we instinctively know that severs the relationship we have with our society/country. We know we are,in one way or another, already criminals so why should we abide by any of society’s norms.

  9. Such a refreshing comment. Reminds me again why I worked so hard to get these folks keeping an eye on government.
    Remember: we elect the MLA’s to stop the government from doing things. The SaskParty understands that they exist in order to watch over the government and stop it from hassling citizens.

  10. Bob Harris didn’t get elcted just to ban photo-radar but it helped.
    Even McSquinty hasn’t dared to reinstitute it….
    Some laws just pi$$ folks off…….

  12. Wall drives to and from Swift Current several times a week, doesn’t he. That’s a long boring drive across the flat country with very few, if any, little knolls or valleys to make the trip interesting. Plus, being the premier, he must be on the phone all the time. 😉

  13. Want a law for everything, just live in California!
    Good for Wall. Even the law banning handheld phones in cars is idiotic. Many times, depending on the situation, it is possible to use a handheld phone and still drive safely – assuming you use your brain and think responsibly.

  14. Yeah, Good on Wall! He may be the only remaining sensible politician left in the world. Although our Danielle Smith has a few commonsense thoughts.

  16. Nice to see some libertarians around here. While we’re at it let’s take the pot laws off the books and save millions in law enforcement while generating billions through its taxation.

  17. “While we’re at it let’s take the pot laws off the books…”
    Just as long as I don’t end up having to pay for the charred lungs of every hippie out there.

  18. “Just as long as I don’t end up having to pay for the charred lungs of every hippie out there.”
    Fine, let’s start paying for our own healthcare as well, instead of making our neighbors pay for it while insisting on telling them how to live.

  19. “Fine, let’s start paying for our own healthcare as well, instead of making our neighbors pay for it while insisting on telling them how to live.”
    Fine with me. Health insurance rates should depend largely on the type of lifestyle you lead. If you want to get stoned every weekend while charring your lungs in the process, then your insurance rates should be higher. No different than car insurance – it’s just actuarial science.
    And if you don’t want to pay the higher rates, then you when you get lung cancer you can be left to die on the side of the road.

  20. Sasquatch has referred to him already, but PLEASE, do not suggest this law to the McMoron of Ontario.Which, incidentally, the existing law has not stopped texting and hand held cell phone use in this province, at least in my driving observations.

  21. assuming you use your brain and think responsibly.
    Big assumption. Too many drivers don’t, and a cell phone just adds to the distraction. Stupid people need to be talking to someone, anyone, just to verify their existence. Women are by far the worst examples.

  22. ‘wafer’ hit the nail on the head! A proposed law that cannot be easily enforced, or enforced at all, should never become law. Period. But Leftists never think about such things. In the same vain, they never think about misuse of gov’t programs that might occur. Instead of trying to “bulletproof” a transfer of public monies and/or services by figuring out how people might game it, instead they just stick their heads in the sand and exclaim, “Everyone will be fair. No one will abuse it.” Wrong!
    Getting back to the mobile phone issue, I strongly believe that the hand up to the ear is a tiny part of the problem with using a phone in a car. The real issue is that a person’s mind is transported away from what’s going on in front of their vehicle. But are the police now to pull over everyone whose lips are moving while in the driver’s seat. Some on the Left would suggest ‘Yes’. 🙁

  23. Health insurance rates should depend largely on the type of lifestyle you lead.
    Obese people should pay the highest premiums, then smokers and alcoholics. All use a disproportionate amount of health care funding.

  24. The law is only as good as the people who believe in it. Once you allow control freaks access, it becomes in disrepute.
    With meaningless restrictions of dubious help, that only fill the coffers of the State. Cause property to be confiscate & depreciated.
    Those entrusted to keep law & order become weighed down in trivialities . While the real intent for community peace with order, becomes lost in social political meddling.
    That of course ends in contempt for the Law if not hostility towards its enforcers who have by this time become corrupted by social law in place of Community protection or order.

  25. I believe it was Churchill that said something to the effect that a country that has 10,000 laws is lawless.
    When the people don’t buy into a law, they ignore it. Witness the useless ban on pesticides in Ontario. Unenforceable! Then the ban on purchasing “illegal” tobacco. The reserves are thriving and the
    convenience stores are starving. Unenforceable!
    Texting and speaking on a cellphone or other “distracted” driving. Unenforceable!
    The list goes on…and on…and on…

  26. We’re already paying for the charred lungs of pot smokers in addition to needlessly tying up the court system and law enforcement resources. We may as well get some tax revenue back from it. The billions that would come from marijuana sales would more than compensate for increased public health care expenses (I’m assuming that the ideal of a 100% privatized system won’t come into fruition)

  27. ‘taint just the smokers and eaters that cost the system money. Skiers and boarders are continually breaking limbs and expect them to be patched up on the public coin. Soccer players, rugby players, football players, every kind of sport players all take a disproportionate risk that ends up costing the rest of us money. Enough of that already. Lets get into a pure user fee health system, the only fair way of apportioning costs.

  29. Live clean, eat healthy, die anyway. Even worse, live to a ripe old age with Alzheimers. Cellphones ?, I like Darwins law. People that can’t chew gum and walk at the same time will eventually weed themselves out. Can’t protect everyone from everything and people are in good supply. I don’t give a damn if people eat too much, drink too much, smoke or enjoy risky sports. We are all born with that stamp……Best before ….? and all the planning in the world changes nothing. Does anyone honestly believe health care costs would go down if everyone lived a pure life ? Not a hope in hell. Longevity is far costlier. 10 or 20 years in a seniors center far exceeds dropping dead from a heart attack due to one fatty hamburger too many or a variety of lifestyle choices. Nothing like seeing grandad sitting in his wheelchair, staring at the wall with a puddle under the chair because his depends are full. He lived clean and ate healthy. Been there …done that. Life is simple. If you enjoy it, do it (as long as it’s fairly legal). Eat that burger, enjoy that booze (in moderation) and have that cigar/cigarette. When your numbers up, it’s up but you lived your own life. The only thing that will kill you long before your time is worrying about what will kill you in the first. place. More stupid laws just create more stupid stress which we are told will kill us:) Full circle. We only go around once. Be your own travel agent. And mind your own business.

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