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The Feds Can Tell Ernest Hemingway's Cats What To Do; Here's Why [Totalitarian Fed power grab]
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| December 10, 2012
| Mark Memmott
Posted on 12/10/2012 9:43:13 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture can regulate how the cats are treated, judges say. The museum gets visitors from out-of-state. It charges those visitors to see Hemingway's home and the famous cats. Interstate commerce gives Uncle Sam an interest, according to the courts.Are you @#$%ing kidding me? By this logic, the feds have jurisdiction over every business that gets at least one out-of-state customer - and how can they prove they don't? If this ruling is upheld federalism has been unilaterally abolished.
[Kitty lovers: Pix, video of the cats at source.]
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12/10/2012 9:46:18 PM PST
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Papa loved his cats. Can the Feds visit this tattle-tails home to see if she cut off any tags from her mattress or pillows?
Did Key West [city fathers] ever settle the *gypsy chicken* problem *some* busybodies think they have?
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12/10/2012 10:25:37 PM PST
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Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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The Feds Can Tell Ernest Hemingway's Cats What To Do; Here's Why [Totalitarian Fed power grab]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture can regulate how the cats are treated, judges say. The museum gets visitors from out-of-state. It charges those visitors to see Hemingway's home and the famous cats. Interstate commerce gives Uncle Sam an interest, according to the courts.
By this logic, the feds have jurisdiction over every business that gets at least one out-of-state customer - and how can they prove they don't? If this ruling is upheld federalism has been unilaterally abolished.
Check out article.
Thanks, Slings and Arrows.
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12/10/2012 10:37:41 PM PST
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LucyT
To: Daffynition
I’m sure the Feds will be moving on the chickens next.
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posted on
12/10/2012 10:52:14 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: LucyT
You’re welcome. Wish I wasn’t the bearer of bad news.
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12/10/2012 10:53:13 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
*Cluck the Feds and City Hall.*
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:15:56 PM PST
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Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: Slings and Arrows
Political considerations aside, the feds must think awfully highly of themselves.
I have never met ANYONE who can tell cats what to do and get away with it!
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:43:13 PM PST
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Nik Naym
(It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
To: Daffynition
What are the "Cleds?"
≤}B^)
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12/10/2012 11:47:03 PM PST
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Erasmus
(Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
To: Nik Naym
If anybody would try, it’s the Fed.
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12/11/2012 12:02:50 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Had years ago a multi-toed cat by the name of Goofy. Would drive my mother nuts for food, but he was a sweet boy. :)=^..^=
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posted on
12/11/2012 1:46:53 AM PST
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Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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posted on
12/11/2012 1:47:42 AM PST
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Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Hemingway was a fraud; but leave his cats alone Feds.
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posted on
12/11/2012 1:48:29 AM PST
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freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: LucyT
I live on this island of broken toys
this Fed bafoonery has been going on since the Bush administration
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12/11/2012 2:23:51 AM PST
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Elle Bee
To: Slings and Arrows
from what I remember of the first trials and hearings ... the local attorney - Cara Higgins - then from the firm of Key West's Denny Crane - David Paul [W]Horan ... failed miserably to make the case that a resident who travels away from their domicile and then purchases AND consumes a product or service away from their domicile does NOT constitute an out of state consumer
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12/11/2012 2:29:09 AM PST
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Elle Bee
To: Slings and Arrows
The exchange of goods, products, or any type of Personal Property. Trade and traffic carried on between different peoples or states and its inhabitants, including not only the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities but also the instrumentalities, agencies, and means by which business is accomplished. The transportation of persons and goods, by air, land, and sea. The exchange of merchandise on a large scale between different places or communities.....The Feds are overstepping on this one a bit. Aholes.
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12/11/2012 3:00:14 AM PST
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Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: Slings and Arrows
This is one topic where I am “Pro Choice.” I don’t want the feds regulating how we must keep our pussies!
To: Elle Bee
this Fed bafoonery has been going on since the Bush administrationActually it started with FDR.
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12/11/2012 4:12:06 AM PST
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tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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