[Nachum]

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[PLD]

Surly this is an April Fools Joke

[PLD]

Surly this is an April Fools Joke

[madison10]

Obama administration: The world’s longest lasting “April” Fool’s joke.

[Truth29]

What are the alleged environmental problems with triclosan?

[Daveinyork]

If you dig deeper into this mes, you will see the hand of PETM (people for the ethical treatment of microbes)

[mowowie]

I bought a big box of Trisodium Phosphate because of these eco-nazis and plan on buying more soon.
Along with my lightbulb hoarding do i need to start collecting soap as well?

[sionnsar]

Actually, they don't. They "merely" specify minimum efficiences. (This does have the probably intended side-effect of banning traditional incandescents.)

[sionnsar]

You can’t blame Americans for feeling as though the government is increasingly crossing boundaries and reaching into their daily lives.

Perhaps because it is?

[Jo Nuvark]

Seems like the commerce laws should come into
play here.

In order to get business, a company lobbies,
smooges, extorts and bribes Congress to pass
corrupt legislation that forces us to purchase
a product we don’t necessarily need or want;

BY VILIFYING
a product / company / private citizen,

AND THUS
interfering with their ability and right to work,
produce and prosper.

[Right Wing Assault]

They already messed with detergents by taking the phosphates out.

Now, a dishwasher doesn’t wash since the ‘energy star’ pump motor is about the size of a golf ball and the phosphate is gone.

Mrs. RWA and I just put a bit of phosphate back in with each load, which seems to help. This will work until they ban it.

I hear they’re working on a way to make sure refrigerators aren’t able to cool things.

[La Lydia]

Not to mention what a disaster this would be for people who are forced to use public transportation.

[Roos_Girl]

"Anti-bacterial hand washes and soaps are used every day in our schools to stop the spread of viruses"

False. It kills bacteria, not viruses. Anyway, since I found out that anti-bacterial soap was developed for the home market of people with AIDS, since they have degraded immune systems and can't fight off bacteria like healthy people can, I stopped using it.

[GraceG]

Soap, hah, that is pase...

I clean my hands with hydrocloric Acid.

I just vomit it up and then rinse my hands, been a lot easier since Nov 2008 to do this.

[Madam Theophilus]

The problem is not the soap, but the anti-bacterial agent, triclosan. Studies have shown triclosan can interfere with the body’s thyroid hormone metabolism and health groups have requested the EPA to stop its widespread use. The difficulty isn’t the one time you wash your hands, but the inadvertent high doses people are receiving because it is in so many products. This is especially a concern for children in public schools where the administration mandates the use of hand sanitizers, wet wipes, and anti-bacteria soaps.

[King_Corey]

Paper Street Soap Company may be a group you don't want to offend.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Now, they have their sights set on our soap.***

As long as I can get lye and lard I am OK.

Ban lye and I will use wood ashes.
Ban lard and I will raise and KILL my own pigs.

Stock up on incadesent bulbs, and buy and install a toilet from Mexico.
Hand sanitizer? Use rubbing alcohol.

[CodeToad]

Wait until they go after shoe polish for being a petroleum product.

[TheOldLady]

They can set their sights on my soap all they want, but since I make my own, they can go pound sand.

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I will donate $10 for each sign up of a new monthly contributor to Free Republic, up to 20 new donors.