Posted on 02/09/2016 12:11:44 PM PST by Duke C.
Another example of government abuse of power, the EPA is seeking to remove more freedoms from American citizens in the name of the environment, by prohibiting the act of converting street cars into race cars. The sheer ridiculousness of this move to can be measured by how little of an impact it will have on the environment, given how little the number of cars converted into racecars per year.
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
Most of the real environmental issues are solved and individual site cases don’t take a department for oversight. The scramble is on to think up ever more creative means of keeping excrement eating bureaucrats in jobs and this is the result.
I’m waiting for them to jump on fiberglass as the next asbestos...
As others have posted, CARB (EPA on steroids) in Calif has made life miserable to impossible for performance enthusiasts for decades now. Leading to a cat and mouse game of swapping out parts to pass smog checks and then putting stuff back on again. And knowing what parts will not be detected.<>P Huge PITA, with most of the modified cars likely better tuned than the average "legal" ten year old GM POS.
I remember those days well. I was between 9 and about 12 when I first recall seeing hopped up 55s and 57s like this one. Jacked up in the front with leaf springs, the solid red aftermarket taillight replacement. Some of the 55 aftermarket replacements had a small white diamond in the center for the reverse light.
I think you are right. Kids from the beginning of time found entertainment outside or by doing something physical inside. Cars, baseball, other sports, hunting, fishing, bikes (as in Harley’s), whatever.
Today they are mindlessly operating their electronic devices or TV, often by themselves. The only interaction they might have with another is through texting.
My favorite story, which happens a lot, is a very nice looking young couple at a restaurant, not even looking at each other let alone talking. Both busy texting someone else.
It’s just pathetic. They will grow up with a very narrow perspective and be perfectly willing to let the govt ban hobby cars, hunting, fishing, Harley’s, etc etc.
NHRA is NRA without the H...see...see?....
Pussies.
Thank you for referencing that article Duke C.. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
As menioned in related threads, please consider the following about the EPA. Even if it could be argued that the EPA sometimes comes up with good regulations, it remains that there are major constitutional problems with the EPA imo.
More specifically, although it is arguably a good idea, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate environmental protection issues.
And even if the states had constitutionally delegated such powers to Congress, it remains that the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress, to clarify the following.
All federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the constitutionally undefined EPA. So Congress has a constitutional ”monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not.
But by unconstitutionally delegating legislative powers to members of the federal government outside the legislative branch, powers that Congress does not have in this case, Congress is wrongly protecting such powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.
Also consider that by letting non-legislative branch officials steal legislative branch powers, including stolen 10th Amendment-protected state legislative powers, that corrupt lawmakers are wrongly letting outsiders do their dirty, unconstitutional legislative work for them in order to keep their voting records clean.
And keeping their voting records clean helps corrupt lawmakers to fool low-information patriots into reelecting them.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
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