When Obama Doesn’t Get His Way via Congress…He Does It Anyway

Obama is setting the bar and people are following.
We are quickly moving away from being a society that values “rule of Law,” over lower forms of governance.
Today was the end of Ramadan.

http://www.lohud.com/article/20110830/NEWS02/110830004/Dispute-sends-scores-police-Playland-park-reportedly-closed

In New York a melee broke out Tuesday afternoon at Playland Amusement Park when Muslim visitors became angry that the park was enforcing its ban on headgear by prohibiting the women from wearing their traditional head coverings on some rides.

WHY?

Playland’s policies, posted on its website, include: “All items and clothing must be appropriately secured while on a ride; some smaller items can be stored/secured in cargo pockets or waist pouches. Hats must be secured, and jackets/sweaters must be worn properly and not around the waist while on a ride. Some rides do not allow backpacks, purses or head gear of any kind.”

But the Muslims wanted to make their own rules.

A park cashier told a Journal News reporter that a woman wearing a hijab either pushed or hit a ride operator who forbade her from going on the ride. She said a police officer tried to restrain the woman and the woman’s husband took offense, at which point a multiple-person fight broke out.

She wouldn’t accept RULES.

Brooklyn resident Amr Khater, who had come to the park about noon with his family, said his family was told about the hijab rule by park employees when they arrived.
“Everybody got mad, everybody got upset,” he said. “It’s our holiday. Why would you do this to us?”

Why should he and his family have to follow these RULES?

Lola Ali, 16, of Astoria said she witnessed a group of girls and women wearing hijabs go to park security to confront them about the headgear issue.
She said the women were upset and yelling. She said the security officers started pushing them away and the girls stood their ground, at which point the security officers grabbed them, pushed them to the ground and handcuffed them.
Men within the park saw this and tried to intervene, Ali said, and the situation went downhill from there.

Solution……start a fight with legitimate authorities over the fact that you don’t like their RULES.

The headgear ban was among safety rules that went into effect after three deaths between 2004-2007.
“It’s a safety issue on rides. If it’s a scarf, you could choke,” Tartaglia said.

Here’s a bit of artistic history about a wonderful artist and her scarf and nasty death …..

Isadora Duncan’s fondness for flowing scarves was the cause of her death in an automobile accident in Nice, France, on the night of September 14, 1927, at the age of 50.
Duncan was a passenger in the Amilcar automobile of a handsome French-Italian mechanic Benoît Falchetto.
When Falchetto drove off, Duncan’s large silk scarf, a gift from Desti, draped around her neck, became entangled around one of the vehicle’s open-spoked wheels and rear axle. As The New York Times noted in its obituary: “Isadora Duncan, the American dancer, tonight met a tragic death at Nice on the Riviera. Miss Duncan was hurled in an extraordinary manner from an open automobile in which she was riding and instantly killed by the force of her fall to the stone pavement.”
Other sources described her death as resulting from strangulation, noting that she was almost decapitated by the sudden tightening of the scarf around her neck.

Whichever.
Just awful!
Some safety rules actually save lives.

Sources:
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30C10F9355F17738DDDAC0994D1405B878EF1D3 (FEE)
http://www.isadoraduncan.org/about_isadora.html

Obama is just like those post-Ramadan celebrants; he wants to get his way.
Even if he doesn’t think it through.
How he goes about it is destructive to our country.

Is it safe to say that the companies who donate the most to King Obama are the ones who will profit most by putting the coal industry out of business? I don’t have a problem eliminating the coal industry because of its polution, but let’s do it the right way. Government and businesses should work TOGETHER to come up with a solution that is best for the country, not select companies.

Proff positive of the power of the MSM and the environmental-nut propaganda.
“I don’t have a problem eliminating the coal industry because of its (polution), but let’s do it the right way.”

Obama uses regulation via executive fiat to achieve what he cannot via congress. That is the essence of the OP, and the numerous examples of that come to light every day. The latest;

NLRB agrees to new rules that will harm workers, job creation

The National Labor Relations Board yesterday issued three decisions that will make it easier for workers to unionize even when a majority of workers prefer to remain non-union.
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In a case known as Specialty Healthcare, the board decided that the union could seek to organize a group that consists only of nursing assistants, a blow to the employer, which wanted to include other nonprofessional employees in the unit. Employer groups had been concerned the board would use the health-care industry case to endorse the formation of so-called mini-bargaining units in a range of workplaces, which they said would allow unions to target small groups of workers the unions know would support unionization. …

In another case known as Lamons Gasket Co., the board decided that employees opposed to a union would no longer have the right to immediately challenge the recognition of a “card-check” election—in which employees sign cards to show their interest in joining. Unions prefer the card-check method over secret-ballot elections.

In the third case, known as UGL-Unicco Service Co., the board decided that after the sale of a unionized company, the new owner, the employees or a rival union can’t immediately challenge the incumbent union’s right to represent the workers. Instead, there must be a “reasonable period” of time for collective bargaining to have “a fair chance to succeed,” the board’s Democrats decided.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/31/nlrb-agrees-to-new-rules-that-will-harm-workers-job-creation/

The first case is particularly troubling, as it allows unions to unionize a small portion of the regular business workforce, at the expense of all other workers. It will do many things, and none of them good, such as limiting upward mobility, creating more pressure for a business to cow to union demands, and taking from the non-unionized and giving to the unionized in order to stay in business.

The second case allows unionization by “card check”, even though that is not necessarily authorized by unions to do at the moment, by preventing challenges to the unionization method immediately. In other words, if the unions can force, intimidate, and cajole enough workers(51%) into signing a card showing “interest” in unionizing, the union is formed. Card Check legislation didn’t pass Congress, but the NLRB has issued, essentially, an edict, by virtue of their ruling in this case, that Card Check is active.

The third case prevents a new owner of a business from dealing with anyone other than the established union. The new owner cannot de-unionize his business, and cannot allow a competitor union to come in and represent the workers. Because of this, the new owner will not be able to address personnel concerns that the new owner may feel will make the business more competitive in the marketplace.

I’m sure everyone remembers the NLRB decision on Boeing as well. The NLRB has shifted far away from being a third party independent in resolving labor disputes, to becoming another method of force wielded by the unions. In nearly every case since Obama was elected, the NLRB has ruled in favor of the unions, and against businesses. The one Republican appointed member of the four-person panel has dissented in nearly every one of those cases as well.

@liberalmann: We can file that comment in the “don’t take the moonbats’ bait” category…