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With Injuries Up, Feds Eye Fireworks Laws
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| MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
Posted on 07/03/2006 11:59:22 PM PDT by freepatriot32
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Happy independence day. I just wonder when we are going to become independent of all this nanny state B.S. If you spend your entire life covered in bubble wrap with nerf padding over every sharp corner in your house your just excisting not living and its high time the feds and most state governments learn that life is 100 percent fatal nobody gets out alive.
To: Gabz
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:00:03 AM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: Abram; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Allosaurs_r_us; Americanwolf; Americanwolfsbrother; Annie03; ...
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:02:07 AM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: freepatriot32
Nanny statism isn't freedom.
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:02:10 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: freepatriot32
It makes you wonder why there's never been a successful anarchist or libertarian state.
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:12:39 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: freepatriot32
The largest safety problem is product misuse rather than product failures, Heckman said. "It's teenagers having bottle rocket wars, parents giving sparklers to 2-year-olds and people having too much to drink and putting firecrackers up their nose." A quick Google search will turn up not just one, but several, videos of teenagers shooting bottle rockets out their butt.
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:15:26 AM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: freepatriot32
The largest safety problem is product misuse rather than product failures, Heckman said. "It's teenagers having bottle rocket wars, parents giving sparklers to 2-year-olds and people having too much to drink and putting firecrackers up their nose." LOL. Hey, y'all, hold muh beer and watch this!
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:17:08 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: freepatriot32
These lard ass Feds oughtta FOAD.
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:17:22 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok.)
To: freepatriot32
Trotting out more "victims" in order to abridge the freedom of non-victims everywhere.
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:19:57 AM PDT
by
JennysCool
(Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
To: freepatriot32
The commission and AFSL have made fireworks substantially safer since 1976, while usage soared from 29 million pounds in 1976 to 118 million pounds in 1996 and 281.5 million pounds last year, Heckman said. The rate of injury has plummeted from 38.3 injuries per 100,000 pounds of fireworks in 1976, to 6.1 in 1996 and to 3.6 in 2005. Apparently, the voluntary standards worked.
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:20:13 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: FreedomCalls
...teenagers shooting bottle rockets out their butt...
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:32:47 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
To: freepatriot32
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:35:11 AM PDT
by
Hexenhammer
(America for Americans.)
To: JennysCool
Jenny for President!
Imagine what a fine job they'd do on fireworks after the magnificant work they did on Katrina?
Let's just give up state's rights and local controls and let these genius's fix every thing.
NOT!
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posted on
07/04/2006 12:35:20 AM PDT
by
CBart95
To: freepatriot32
Happy independence day.BWAHAHAHAHA! I mean, uh, thanks, you too.
My fireworks come from Remington, Federal and Winchester.
To: JennysCool
Trotting out more "victims" in order to abridge the freedom of non-victims everywhere.bump...
I heard you were cool.
To: freepatriot32
I can't locate it online, but the late and great Jeff McNeilly drew a marvelous cartoon which I saved in my scrapbook:
Uncle Sam, in a baby carriage, being pushed by a huge, fat, overbearing Nanny:
Nanny: "You smoke too much! You drink too much! You eat too much!"
Sam: ( rummaging through his suitcoat ) "Where'd I put my pistol?"
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posted on
07/04/2006 1:23:17 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: Hexenhammer
Okay, where did you get that video? what exactly is happening there?
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posted on
07/04/2006 2:29:42 AM PDT
by
Husker24
To: backhoe
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
I miss MacNeilly!He was first featured ( much as Dave Barry was ) in my local paper before he came to national attention.
Two cartoons I saved and remember:
1)- a brooding, odious Keep, sewage pouring out of pipes sticking out of it, and a Soviet flag flying... the voice-over in the balloon above it, "I'm getting worried about our image..."
2)- the Ayatollah Komeni riding and oxcart named "Iran" over a hill... and the sign by the road reads:
"Leaving 20th Century
Please Dim Lights"
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posted on
07/04/2006 2:46:45 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: backhoe
and=an
PIMF ( preview, it's mah friend... )
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posted on
07/04/2006 2:49:02 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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