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Posted on 07/10/2009 10:49:14 PM PDT by TBP
Citing laws that govern vocational schools, like those for hairdressers and truck drivers, regulators have begun to require licenses for yoga schools that train instructors, with all the fees, inspections and paperwork that entails. While confrontations have played out differently in different states, threats of shutdowns and fines have, in some cases, been met with accusations of power grabs and religious infringement — disputes that seem far removed from the meditative world yoga calls to mind.
In April, New York State sent letters to about 80 schools to warn them to suspend teacher training programs immediately or risk fines of up to $50,000 — prompting yogis around the state to join in opposition, and, apparently, to persuade the state to back down.
In other states, regulators were not moved. In March, Michigan gave schools on the list a week to be certified by the state or cease operations. Virginia’s cumbersome licensing rules include a $2,500 sign-up fee — a big hit for modest studios that are often little more than one-room storefronts.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Today the yogis, tomorrow you and me.
Do I really need the /s?
/johnny
LOL....Too funny ......Libs are hillarious. Regulate GUNS..OK..Regulate..Food..OK...Regulate Yoga?..Hell No....
This would make an awesome campaign/tea party sign
They shouldn't be regulating any of it.
Here is a good commentary on this issue:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/note.php?note_id=107047526919&ref=mf
If the yoga instructors would be honest with themselves and the rest of us that Yoga is not just an exercise method but a religious practice, they’d be able to invoke the First Amendment to get these nannies off their back.
More Money to the state, more folks to regulate, which means more Union Members.
When will people wake up? Yogi teachers and in CA Gavin Newsom is saying no donuts in public buildings, bagels have to be cut in quarters and if he is elected governor they will serve gourmet meals in all jails and prisons, not to mention schools.
The problem is somewhat exacerbated by the fact that American “yoga,” so-called, has virtually nothing to do with yoga.
As most folks into Yoga are Libs, they are being hung on their own pecadillo. It’s laughable.
“As most folks into Yoga are Libs, they are being hung on their own pecadillo. It’s laughable.”
Geez, time to go to bed. I meant “hung on their own pitard, not peccadillo (which I also mispelled). Pardon my peccadillo in not using the word pitard.
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Petard, which is a small bomb, sort of an early satchel charge or Bangalore torpedo. So if you’re hoisted by one of your own, you’ve blown yourself up.
President Barack Obama today named Lilias Folan as Yoga Czar.
Aside from the fact that just as I spelled peccadillo wrong, I also spelled petard wrong (you could tell it was the middle of the nite when I posted, one eye was shut and the other one was half asleep), here is the origin of the phrase “hoisted on one’s own petard”:
Etymology
This idiom comes from the play Hamlet (III.iv.207) by the playwright Shakespeare:
For tis the sport to haue the enginer
Hoist with his owne petar.
Idiom
hoist by one’s own petard
(idiomatic) to be hurt, or destroyed by one’s own plot or device, of one’s own doing which one intended for another; to be “blown up by one’s own bomb”
He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.
“Hoist with his own petard”
If a petard were to detonate prematurely due to a faulty or short slow match, the engineer would be lifted or “hoist” by the explosion. William Shakespeare used the now proverbial phrase “hoist with his own petard” in Hamlet.
In the following passage, the “letters” refer to instructions (written by his uncle Claudius, the King) to be carried sealed to the King of England, by Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the latter being two schoolfellows of Hamlet. The letters, as Hamlet suspects, contain a death warrant against Hamlet, who will later open and modify them to instead request the execution of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Enginer refers to a military engineer, the spelling reflecting Elizabethan stress.
There’s letters seal’d: and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
For ‘tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar; and ‘t shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon: O, ‘tis most sweet,
When in one line two crafts directly meet.
After modifying the letters Hamlet escapes the ship and returns to Denmark. Hamlet’s actual meaning is “cause the bomb maker to be blown up with his own bomb”, metaphorically turning the tables on Claudius, whose messengers are killed instead of Hamlet. Also note here, Shakespeare’s probable off-color pun “hoist with his own petar”, i.e., flatulate, as reason for the spelling “petar” rather than “petard”.
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