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Why does the EPA want to crack down on BBQs?
2015-03-20
$18T in debt and we need to crack down on evil BBQs and keep track of your water usage in the hotel shower?

Even if we aren't $18T in debt, is this the best we can do to give people quality of life?

What could possibly be wrong with that?

Click the link to watch the video.
[YahooFinance] State Senator Eric Schmitt, (R-Missouri), on the reasons why the EPA wants to crack down on barbecuing and monitor hotel showering.

BBQ'ing promotes family gatherings, self-reliance, leisure time, achievement, white privilege, etc.
Posted by:gorb

#20  Budget-busting, Too-Costly + Too-small serving Spicy Snails, versus Hotdogs Steaks + assorted Manly Tailgate.

Yuup, its a tuffie for the Goobermint.

Thusly ... ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US BECOMING A FEMINAZI NATION.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-03-20 22:37  

#19  We need a "sunset" amendment to the Constitution: all laws, agencies, taxes, regulation, etc, expire 5 years from the date they first were put into existence, except for the defense department, the supreme court, the office of the president and the Congress.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-03-20 21:53  

#18  Maybe a mid-level administrator is vegan and tempted annoyed by the smoke from his neighbor's grill? (Probably Glenmore is right, though.)
Posted by: James   2015-03-20 20:57  

#17  ...you forgot to include removing judicial review to include the declaration that any judicial action constitutes 'bad behavior' per authorization for impeachment.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-03-20 17:25  

#16  Its time to abolish the EPA.
Fire everyone in it.

Design a new agency whose rules must be approved by Congress by a two thirds vote after mandatory hearings in Congress.
Review of ALL old rules to stop things like protecting snail darters, at the expense of farmers.
Posted by: djk   2015-03-20 17:17  

#15  Because Texas....
Posted by: Goober Schwarzeneggar4930   2015-03-20 15:40  

#14  The Left is anti-human. Understand that and the rest makes sense.
Posted by: Iblis   2015-03-20 13:28  

#13  Already have regulations on wood stoves.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-03-20 13:07  

#12  Coming soon: Regulations on wood-burning fireplaces.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-03-20 12:27  

#11  This says the EPA is way over staffed.
Posted by: Clonter Thruling4064   2015-03-20 11:43  

#10  Now if they could only regulate the amount and strength of bullshit coming out of the EPA itself...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-03-20 10:25  

#9  The bureaucracy is literally a cancer. A fire and forget menace for politicians, now too lazy to even bother to subjugate the population. Once in place they only grow, continuously seeking and expanding self justification and power all while expanding and worsening any issue they were established to cure. Tar and feathers?
That which could be construed as a threat deleted. We do not say such things here. It causes problems for Fred Pruitt.

trailing wife for the moderators
10:17 A.m. ET
Posted by: Cesare   2015-03-20 10:11  

#8  No one forces Congress to provide appropriations for any executive branch department or agency. Where's the graft in doing that?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-03-20 09:38  

#7  They finally gave up on trying to stop cows from farting?
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2015-03-20 09:33  

#6  As Instapundit is fond of saying, tar and feathers. Maybe they could do a study on the environmental effects.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2015-03-20 09:25  

#5  I think it's just a study (so far) & not actual regulation. And focussed on 'big' barbecue operators' exposure to harmful smoke and chemicals, not casual back yarders (so far.) Not (yet) an attempt at more power, just a way to justify a job by doing a 'study.' There is a HUGE amount of that kind of thing in government.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-03-20 09:23  

#4  Hmmm. Time to make an example out of some EPA regulators. I'm thinking, spitting them and slow roasting over a bed of Mesquite coals just might get the message across.
Posted by: Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194   2015-03-20 09:14  

#3  Regulators live to regulate. If the serfs are mostly following the rules, they will look for something else to regulate.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2015-03-20 09:07  

#2  You can have my barbeque tongs and brined pork when you take them from my cold, dead hands.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2015-03-20 08:59  

#1  Because... power.

Now get in line serf.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-03-20 08:53  

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