But no worries. After all, these are the same people who are helping beat off the marauding right wing savages who are waging a War on Women — so clearly they have nothing but the best intentions when it comes to bravely protecting the civil rights of the differently abled from Big Recreation.
They are noble, you see. Champions of the marginalized and the forgotten.
And honestly, why do you care about this, anyway? Is it you who is being discriminated against? WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN AND CRIPPLES?
Racists.
It’s in the Constitution.
Also: Stalin is actually still dead.
I’m just speechless. Honestly.
And I say this as the daughter of a handicapped person.
What’s not to like?
To recap: voter fraud, not a problem. Problems America faces: institutionalized and unfixable racism / white supremacy; pool access for the handicapped; non-universal condom access.
Also not a problem – restricting domestic oil production, national debt.
Feeling no pushback in the last days of the American experiment, the left is going all exponentially jaggy in its extremism. They’re happily exploring the outer boundarylessness of their own madness.
Ethics? What are you, nuts?
This is a willful, even giddy collective insanity they’re snorting and you’re an abject villain for so much as glancing at it. They’ll come over and stick you.
So dumb. And so predictable.
National debt? Also not a problem, a nation run by this outfit.
So, do I have to be disabled to bring a lawsuit? Cuz I’m sitting about 30 feet from my retirement plan…er… pool.
As far as helping anyone who is actually wheelchair bound, as my wife is, this will work out just like the handicap parking. The morbidly obese and the lazy will take over the use of this permanent lift and those who really need it to get in and out will be shoved aside. Whereas the portable lift would only be pulled out for those who did need it.
BTW my wife wouldn’t be using it as being in a heated pool or anything that gets her too warm is bad for her MS. What this will do is raise prices on any place that has a pool, like hotels.
Long years ago while I was alive, I wrote that “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.” Well, I was a bit off the mark. Substitute “boot” with “hydraulic pool lift” and you have a more accurate, if surreal, picture.
Pool-lifts, as opposed to poll-lifts, is how government gets lean. Or sumpthin’.
Unintended consequences are of no consequence.
By the way, has the DOJ considered the possible injurious ramifications of mass pool exodus pursuant to spotting a buoyant Baby Ruth?
the possible injurious ramifications of mass pool exodus pursuant to spotting a buoyant Baby Ruth?
The EPA has just seen an entire realm of potential hazardous material contamination requiring the hiring of a thousand new regulators. A new office building and valet parking would be nice too.
I’m saved.
I predict a whole lotta pool closures this year, some temporary, some permanant. To increase exponentially after the first lawsuit is filed. Which will happen without a doubt.
We demand that mandatory pool lifts feature free-of-cost prophylactic and Seconal dispensers, located precisely 52 inches above the lift floor. STOP THE WAR ON DIFFERENTLY ABLED BATHING WOMYN!
Way OT but: Now that another military-industrial complex killbot has gone Dick Cheney on innocent children in Afghanistan, are the rest of you ready to join the waves of progressive activists no doubt amassing and build the world’s largest papier-mâché puppet of B. Hussein Obama? Will we cry out righteously for his trial in the Hague as a vile war criminal?
Hello?
Hey, Barry said Afghanistan was the “good war” and his administration would concentrate his war machine there, where it should have always been, in A-Stan. So, with this latest affront to humanity, aren’t we all gathering in a storm of indignant People Power to call for Hussein Obama’s arraignment in a tribunal like Nuremberg?
Are these intertubes working?
Hello? Cindy? Michael? Keith? Matty Y? Andy S.? Billy Maher?
Hello?
My wife always chooses where we stay when we travel, because she wants an indoor pool and Jacuzzi. If this rule goes into effect and causes all of the hotels in our price range to rip out their pools and such, choosing a hotel will suddenly be much simplified.
Lawsuits over violations of these new rules should become quite the growth industry.
Just like the “social justice” championed by this particular ‘illegal alien/convicted felon’ crusader here in CA.
Seems to me the DOJ must demand pools be filled with cotton. How can the differently abled be expected to learn to swim? That’s discriminatory.
Next up: The DOJ goes on a crusade to defeat the prejudice in the Airline Pilots Association against the blind.
Way OT but: Now that another military-industrial complex killbot…
It’s worse than that. It seems the SecDef is now afraid of being fragged by his own bloodthirsty kill-crazy troops:
U.S. troops at Afghan base told to lay down weapons before meeting with Panetta
First. Homeland Security told us we couldn’t trust ’em after they were out of uniform. Now, the message we get is that they can’t be fully trusted while in uniform.
But never question their support for our brave men & women in uniform!
It’s worse than that. It seems the SecDef is now afraid of being fragged by his own bloodthirsty kill-crazy troops:
U.S. troops at Afghan base told to lay down weapons before meeting with Panetta
Someone tell me how this so-called Republic isn’t looking more and more like Rome in the time of Caligula. Caesar Obama and his fucking advisers don’t even trust the Praetorian Guard. Of course, the analogy should be they don’t trust the Roman legions, and the Secret Service is the Praetorian Guard.
But the Obama-as-Caligula thing fits. Mostly. Caligula was more fun.
Little Red Prince vs. Little-Boots?
[…] The Washington Examiner, Conn Carroll reporting, we learn [tip of the fedora to Jeff Goldstein]: President Obama’s Department of Justice — led by Attorney General Eric Holder — […]
The order for the Marines to put down their weapons came from Major Gen. Mark Gurganus, according to a press pool report.
Gurganus said that since the Afghan soldiers were unarmed, he did not want them treated differently, but said it was not because of the shooting this weekend.
I’m howling with tears of irony.
Caesar Obama and his fucking advisers don’t even trust the Praetorian Guard.
Reminds me of an interesting book I read last year: “A State of Disobedience” by Tom Kratman, which explores “What if Hillary Clinton was elected President and was able to begin implementing her fondest ideological and fascist desires?” and “what would the resulting Revolution look like?”.
In the book, the Secret Service has become the “Presidential Guard” and the Surgeon General gains a “Riot Control Police”, not to mention the newly armed agents of the FDA and EPA as well as the “Federal Commissioners” appointed for each state. It figures that the pushback would start in Texas…
If you’re curious, you can read the first six chapters for free here.
The order for the Marines to put down their weapons came from Major Gen. Mark Gurganus, according to a press pool report.
I’m having a hard time believing all of them are giving up their sidearms. If I know my Marines.
False advertising! Poolmaggedon for trial lawyers involves a lot of trial lawyers at the bottom of a lot of pools. The appropriate word for this circumstance should be “poolvana” or “pooladise” or some such.
Fortunately, there’s a shortage of lawyers right now. Doh!
“Poolmageddon?”
Nah, Carl can handle it.
So take you’re families and feel real safe with the now $1 dollar an hr Lifeguards.
Provided the company/ individual that owns the pool is isn’t flat out bankrupt by summer.
Thank you precious, benevolent government. Another win.
Wunderbar!
[…] (Via Jeff) […]
They overlooked all the lawsuits from people who use the lift to drive their electric wheelchairs into the pool.
Sounds stimulating! If you are in the tort claim industry!
What’s going to really suck is when they use the same logic the FDA is using to regulate vegetable gardens to demand that anyone with a backyard pool comply with this crap…
Worse: since any home may someday be purchased by someone who would (a) want to go swimming, but (b) need a power lift to use the pool, every house must have a pool with a power lift — installed at the current owner’s expense.
Lotsa public pools gonna be closed this summer.
I’m sure they didn’t mean for that to happen though.
McGeehee, I think the regulation is only for public pools. So far.
So far.