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2008-06-20 Fifth Column
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Posted by 3dc 2008-06-20 13:32|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 All true but a very small risk.
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2008-06-20 13:42||   2008-06-20 13:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, because no one ever broke a light bulb.

And they all come from China. Wonderful.

Instapundit, BTW, had a story a while back about a woman in MA who had to spend over two grand on a hazmat team to clean up after she broke a CFL in her small apartment. Just one.
Posted by Iblis 2008-06-20 14:41||   2008-06-20 14:41|| Front Page Top

#3 holy SHIT! A congressman who read the constitution!

Personally I think he should have walked up to the speaker and break the light bulb on her desk. Force the evacuation of the chambers and likely replacement of the speaker's desk.
Posted by CrazyFool 2008-06-20 14:46||   2008-06-20 14:46|| Front Page Top

#4 The amount of mercury doesn't pose an immediate hazard. However, if we use the standards of intolerance that the EPA has created for naturally occurring arsenic in water [parts per billion], then it will be. A decade ago the standard for arsenic was 50 parts per billion. The EPA jacked that down to 10 parts. In Albuquerque, that will require a significant hike in processing water. Even though there is no scientific evidence in the form of a comparison of populations of similar social-economic groups using both [the 50 and the 10] which demonstrates any statistical significant difference in illnesses or diseases related to arsenic, the government mandates compliance because of political pressure of self appointed special interest groups who don't give a crap about real science only 'scare' science. The same type of yahoos who run the Human Global Warming scare. You can count on this whole deal repeating itself on mercury, especially when those same people finally get around to doing the math of 300 million Americans dumping the stuff in their garbage for a decade accumulating in landfills. Times Beach Part Two.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-20 18:41||   2008-06-20 18:41|| Front Page Top

#5 When Lawrence KS passed its smoking ban, businesses would be fined if people were smoking inside them. People would go into city hall and light a cigerette. Perhaps something similar for congress?

BTW, is there a petition out there I can sign up on to protest this rediculous reach of poor government policy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2008-06-20 20:13||   2008-06-20 20:13|| Front Page Top

#6 BTW, is there a petition out there I can sign up on to protest this ridiculous reach of poor government policy.

The most effective one is coming this November.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-20 21:27||   2008-06-20 21:27|| Front Page Top

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