British Union Wants 'Sexist' High Heels Outlawed

The British Trade Union Congress (TUC) is railing against women's wearing high heels at work since they are "sexist and pose a health and safety hazard."

In the place of high heels, the TUC proposes "sensible shoes" that are no more than an inch high and are safer for the foot and back.

They didn't ask the women what they felt, evidently.

"This is absolutely ridiculous, and I think these union officials should be spending their time dealing with more important issues," said Michelle Dewberry, winner of the UK's The Apprentice. "I'm at work in five-inch heels and perfectly able to do my job. Heels are sexy, they boost your confidence and they are empowering to women."

Thanks to Erik Deckers for sharing this development with us across the pond. Deckers, however, sees men's ties as a bigger threat to safety, pointing to a man who got crushed to death when his tie got stuck in some machinery and pulled him through it.

Don't Read His Lips--It's All in HR 3200

The health care bill that emerged last week from the House of Representatives, HR 3200, indeed contains a provision mandating end-of-life planning despite Obama's insistence that no one would visit you to explain that health care ends when you get a terminal illness and you have no quality years left.

(There actually is a formula for figuring out quality life-years, and if you're retired, you're on the short end of that list. Quality in governmentese=productivity, or $$$ in taxes that you can pay.)

I bring this up because Fox TV's Glenn Beck has aired a video of Representative John Conyers, D.-Mich., explaining that congressmen are too busy to read bills before they pass them; besides, they couldn't understand them anyway. (Translation: "So long as my pet earmarks are in the bill, I'm votin' yes!")

Here's what the esteemed gentleman (I use the term quite loosely had to say):

"To get up and say, 'Read the bill.' What good is reading the bill if it's 1,000 pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?"

Scary, isn't it/he?