[An Nahar] A local Swedish politician wants to require all men to sit down whenever they use the toilets in a county council building, to keep them clean and promote good health, a counselor said Thursday.
Viggo Hansen, a member of the Left Party, submitted the proposal to the Soermland County Council in central Sweden earlier this week.
In Sweden, where daycare centers encourage little boys to "be a sweetie and take a seatie", the issue is not being taken lightly.
In an interview with a local television channel, Hansen pointed out that according to some experts sitting down to urinate is not only more hygienic but also reduces the risk of prostate trouble.
His proposal also claims that relieving oneself while seated "contributes to a better and longer sex life."
Critics suggest it may be difficult to enforce the rule, which the council has one year to study before reaching a decision, according to the head of the Left Party group, Maud Ekman.
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All Politicians want people to do something. Tell THEM to get Bent.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us wihtout end for they do so with approval of their own conscience." -C.S. Lewis
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...well, you see, in their mind, you can put more urinals per linear feet/meters than stalls. Doing so would be unequal as the men's facility of equal size would have more units than the female's facility. Given that it is Scandinavia, it could be there's only one uni-sex facility, it would discriminate against the other gender on the basis of denial of access. Therefore no urinals. /sarc off
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This is the jerk whose Party wants to increase the number of Somalis and Afghans to places like Eskilstuna, where they can ghetto-ise the suburbs. Maybe he can teach 'em not to piss on their hosts goodwill first, then to pee sitting down. (Any good Swedish lady worth the whiskers on her chin already has her man trained to do this, btw).
President Obama's Food and Drug Administration has caused "a public health crisis" -- a prescription drug shortage over the past two years -- by increasing the number of threats issued to raid and close drug manufacturing plants, according to House investigators.
"This shortage appears to be a direct result of over-aggressive and excessive regulatory action," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a statement. "These drugs can save lives and keep people who need them living healthy lives. The FDA is failing to ensure the availability of quality products."
President Obama signed an executive order last year to help the FDA anticipate drug shortages while knocking Congress for failing to pass his preferred legislation on the issue. "Congress has been trying since February to do something about this," Obama said in November. "It has not yet been able to get it done . . . we can't wait."
The committee report concluded that a significant portion of the drug shortage is a problem of the Obama administration's making. "Among shuttered manufacturing lines that occurred over the previous two years, the committee's review did not find any instances where the shutdown was associated with reports of drugs harming customers," the report says, noting a 30 percent drop in the manufacture of certain prescription drugs at the largest manufacturers in the country.
Instead, the drug shortage crisis began in 2010 after the FDA began sending letters to companies found to be in violation of a given rule, in which the company was warned that "failure to promptly correct these violations may result in legal action without further notice including, without limitation, seizure and injunction."
The FDA sent just 474 such letters in 2009, but that number spiked to 1720 in 2011. "A common sense approach to regulations must be restored at the FDA," the committee report advised, calling for more targeted measures to induce company compliance with regulations. "Agency protocols should be revised so that the agency is required to consider the implications of its actions on the nation's supply of critical drugs." I wonder how many of the raided companies were against Obamacare...
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It's worse. Imagine a shortage of a drug that comes from two vendors --say vendor A has a manufacturing issue. No problem, just have vendor B produce more, right?
Not so fast, chum, the FDA won't let that happen. Not only do you have to make the drugs in an FDA-approved way, but you can turn out pills ONLY at a prescribed rate. If you want to make more of a drug (to alleviate a shortage) you first have to get FDA permission.
Which almost never happens.
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What is the justification for prescribed rates?
It sounds anti-capitalism.
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WM the "excuse" is that they have to monitor / control drug protection to gaurd against prescription fraud. Big noise about pill farms writing oxy prescriptions in mass.
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A local Swedish politician wants to require all men to sit down whenever they use the toilets in a county council building, to keep them clean and promote good health, a counselor said Thursday.
President Obama's Food and Drug Administration has caused "a public health crisis" -- a prescription drug shortage over the past two years -- by increasing the number of threats issued to raid and close drug manufacturing plants, according to House investigators.
