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Seller, beware: Feds cracking down on garage sales
McClatchy ^ | 8/21/09 | James Rosen

Posted on 08/21/2009 11:25:10 AM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON — If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.

The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that's been recalled by its manufacturer.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; beware; bho44; feds; garage; garagesales; itsforthechillrun; nannystate; resaleroundup; seller
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To: cva66snipe

What’s next......Cash for cupcakes?


41 posted on 08/21/2009 11:52:36 AM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messia. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: dennisw

Yank the laws which directed or funded the hiring of these superfluous drones.


42 posted on 08/21/2009 11:53:44 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (59 million Americans joined hands and shouted, "Yes, We Can March off This Cliff!")
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To: freebird5850
I heard something about this earlier this summer.

Some of the good will stores are afraid to sell childrens clothing because of the rules on what 2nd hand items can be sold.

43 posted on 08/21/2009 11:55:01 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: GeronL

And to think it was over lead IN BATTERIES.


44 posted on 08/21/2009 11:55:10 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (59 million Americans joined hands and shouted, "Yes, We Can March off This Cliff!")
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To: Squantos; Tijeras_Slim

I bought the kids a “Slip-N-Slide” designed to be used with sulfuric acid rather than water.

Does this count as “dangerous”?


45 posted on 08/21/2009 11:55:26 AM PDT by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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To: Eaker

I got the one that uses wesson oil...


46 posted on 08/21/2009 11:55:52 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: MrB

“There’s a new game going around...”

That game’s been around forever. Or at least as long as I can remember.


47 posted on 08/21/2009 11:56:03 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: mware

So...

anyone doubt my “conspiracy theory” that the elitists that are in our government are trying to discourage large families, or even families in general?


48 posted on 08/21/2009 11:57:07 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: xcamel

I never really understood the problem with law darts. I hit a kid in the face with a baseball bat once, does that mean we should outlaw baseball?


49 posted on 08/21/2009 11:58:10 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane

So, what’s it been called... forever.

Hadn’t seen it before this summer, myself.


50 posted on 08/21/2009 11:58:16 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: MrB

“So, what’s it been called... forever”

Bean-bag Toss, or some variation thereof.


51 posted on 08/21/2009 11:59:07 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane

Corn Hole?


52 posted on 08/21/2009 12:00:59 PM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Push it too far or too quick and you get massive pushback, though, defeating the purpose. The Obamites are ham handed and have no finesse.

If the dems had a little more finesse and a little more self-control, they could have done a lot more damage. The mere thought scares the crap out of me.

53 posted on 08/21/2009 12:03:00 PM PDT by MetaThought
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To: jaydubya2

“Corn Hole?”

I’ve never heard it called that.


54 posted on 08/21/2009 12:04:21 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: TexasRepublic
My favorite quote from her.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

55 posted on 08/21/2009 12:05:53 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Tublecane
Me either, until recently. I think it's a Hoosier term for the game. I related it to something else when I first heard it...
56 posted on 08/21/2009 12:06:17 PM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: madamemayhem

>>lawn darts can be used as weapons in an emergency situation.<<

My biggest complaint about lawn darts is that they were way too dull out of the box. A bench grinder fixes that up nicely! :)


57 posted on 08/21/2009 12:07:08 PM PDT by RobRoy (This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
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To: MetaThought

Ironically, the thing that keeps the left in check when they get into power is their overwhelming sense of superiority...


58 posted on 08/21/2009 12:08:45 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Nachum

Oh, my.

Everything.

FedZilla run amuck.


59 posted on 08/21/2009 12:12:34 PM PDT by swarthyguy (MEAT, the new tobacco. Your right to eat meat ends where my planetary ecosystem begins.)
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To: Nachum

Well Hell !! Where am I going to get my “Readers Digest Condensed Books” if they go through with this. ??

Bastards just won’t let you live.


60 posted on 08/21/2009 12:17:32 PM PDT by Pompah
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