Posted on 01/01/2009 7:07:28 AM PST by OldBlondBabe
“Do any of the idiots in congress read this crap before they sign it?”
Ummmmmm......no, they don’t.
First you must understand that libralism is a mental disease.
Secondly, one must take a look at what a congresscritter really is. Most are lawyers that could NOT make it in lawyerism, which is the so-called profession of the bottom-dwellers of all evil & corruptness. In order to read, one must be able to read. And they don’t sign because in order to sign, one must be able to write. Mix that with a good dose of liberalism, elitism and a little dash of “know it all” and you get this kind of legislation.
They hire pages and assistants (that they usually have sex with on the side) to do all that hard reading/writing for them. The only time they give a crap about you and what you think is when it comes time for re-election. Then, they outright lie to your face every chance they get to convince you to send em back to do some more of the same crap. Yep, Lawyers that couldn’t make it in lawyerism.
My church makes a food piece of its budget on the annual fair, including a lot of homemade crafts. When people figure out what this means, I think we can get a groundswell to demand its change.
I'm on the fence on this. I just saw a woman return a plastic toy saxophone to Wal-Mart because of lead in the mouth piece. The Chinese can't be trusted...ever. Our own companies, who contracted with the Chinese, who were supposed to periodically test the damn toys, didn't and CANNOT be trusted ever. A CEO who makes millions of dollars a year will do anything to keep it. Look at Wall Street. We can TRUST, BUT VERIFY!
There is no free trade, if one group, the consumer, is lied to or the truth is obfuscated.
Would all these "Made in China" industries have moved off-shore if they suspected that they would someday get caught using unsafe foreign suppliers? Or sued? Perhaps not. Some amount of regulation is required, particularly for food and toys. Why do we have to rely on friggin' attorneys to go after unsafe stuff after somebody gets hurt. How about making sure some minimum standards are adhered to, and more than once during the lifetime of a product; suppliers and methods change. The reason these lawyers exist is because of the abuses that our neighbors, who manage and run these companies, try desperately to earn bonuses. Caveat Emptor is not a product marketing strategy, except for the Hell-bound.
Help save handmade toys:
http://www.handmadetoyalliance.org/
http://coolmompicks.com/savehandmade/
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/handmadetoys/
My boss has a side business selling her hand-made jewelry (lovely stuff!) on Etsy. The crafters of kids’ items are totally up in arms over this, for sure.
Ping to #45. :)
More's the pity, because there are few things more gratifying than catching fish on tackle you made all by yourself!
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I suppose you could call it either "evolution" or "intelligent design optimization", but I started as a whole-hog bass fisherman - complete with broomstick-stiff "worm rods" and lines that could tow a Freightliner. And, I spent many hours, "playing 'tacklebox'" -- swapping lures from a tacklebox with so many fold-outs that I had to open it lengthwise of the boat. And I caught fish -- lots of 'em.
Then I discovered the beautiful, gin-clear stream on my F-I-L's place in the Texas Hill country -- and bought my first ultralight stuff for wade-fishing there.
One day out on the lake, the bass "developed lockjaw", so I picked up the UL to "play with the bream" I could hear snapping in the bushes -- and I started catching big bass!
The worm rods and bass tackle were in our garage when it burned -- and I have never missed 'em!
Nowadays, my "heavy" stuff uses 6-lb line, (which with a steady pull, can usually straighten a hung-up #6 hook) and I can about carry a day's worth of terminal tackle in my vest pocket. Even better, I've learned to make the spring of the graphite/boron rods do most of the casting work -- and I catch more fish!!!
Probably the best testament to my new "laid-back" fishing technique was the comment from a guy who was fishing the opposite side of the large lily pad patch where my teenage daughter and I were catching crappie:
" I bet you taught that young lady to cast so effortlessly. I've been watching, and I've just seen you make ten casts -- and hook nine fish -- without ever lifting your elbow off of your knee!"
That's a "fur piece" from my old days of flailing with that worm rod -- and setting the hook so hard I probably stretched the fish out a couple of inches! LOL!!
Let them do as they please?
They please to poison people, even their own. They have ways to get their poison into many many products sold here in America.
If anything is turned back, they will reship or do anything they can to get it sold. They’re like the Dims, they care only about money and power.
You NEVER know where the part of a product comes
from that says “Made in U.S.A.” It could come from China via other countries.
Not buying Chinese? Wake up my friend.
Our government has not been lax on our safety when it comes to China or other countries and now its getting worse.
So you want them to do as they please?
The press is too busy having Obasms over how hunky The One is, and how wonderful all the new taxes are that shall be imposed by His Oneness and his band of merry Chicago thugs...
There was a time when Congress thought that slavery was A-OK.
They may try to ban lead. But a certain kind of lead used in airborne projectiles will be hard to eliminate from the freedom-loving populace.
We will have to go underground like they do in third world countries. We'll still have garage sales, just have to keep the garage door closed and by invitation only. Keep sentries outside with family band radios. My family couldn't afford new kid's clothes so we'll have to get creative. I will defend the right to reuse items with force if necessary.
How about the lead bullets that 10 year old target shooters up the road use? Those kids are learning how to defend themselves against tyrannical governments.
If you are wade fishing or canoe fishing for stream bass in Texas, you need to go to Arkansas.
Yes it is a pity. I liked to build things out of wood. Made cabinets and furniture. You could easily go down to a thrift store, pick up an old worn out piece with an oak frame for pennies, reupholster it and have a near new sofa for cheap. Our living room has a circular couch made just that way, cost $50 for the massive oak frame, and beautiful upholstered covering. But now the fabric, good fabric, costs an arm and leg, you can buy cheapo new for less than the fabric cost.
Used to make wood casting plugs. But the cost of the good wood, Alaskan White Cedar, is so high today, the paint choices so limited, that I just quit.
Now it’s only jigs, and I liked to gussie them way up, eyes and all, to pimp the fish. Yet the white ones with the unpainted heads work just as good as any, and are much easier to make. Recently I have switched to a bare kook with unpainted lead head and a piece of surgical tubing pushed on the end. Surprisingly, it imitates a shrimp and catches near everything that swims. Cheap and quantity is all that matters anymore.
Surprisingly like you, we seldom go out in the boat anymore, since we discovered the catfish bonanza right off the dock. When the tide is right, WOW. Fried catfish, tops when it comes to fresh fish. Cleaning, not so good, ugh. AND they strike jigs, big time. We seem to have an endless supply of 5 pounders, if we manage it right, like don’t make a scene when spotters are around — LOL.
Making things with your hands is becoming a last art. The craft stores no longer carry ‘the good(expensive) stuff’ and the made by hand has a bad name. The rich man’s sport of fly tying is about all that is left ... times change.
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