Posted on 12/30/2016 5:25:04 PM PST by Twotone
In Jack London’s famous short story, “To Build A Fire,” a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in America’s far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed man—a chechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomers—is accompanied by a wolf-dog that knows the danger of the cold and is wholly indifferent to the fate of the man. “This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”
If only the bureaucrats in Washington DC knew what the wolf-dog knew. But alas, now comes the federal government to tell the inhabitants of Alaska’s interior that, really, they should not be building fires to keep themselves warm during the winter. The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency could soon declare the Alaskan cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance of the Clean Air Act early next year.
Like most people in Alaska, the residents of those frozen cities are burning wood to keep themselves warm this winter. Smoke from wood-burning stoves increases small-particle pollution, which settles in low-lying areas and can be breathed in. The EPA thinks this is a big problem. Eight years ago, the agency ruled that wide swaths of the most densely populated parts of the region were in “non-attainment” of federal air quality standards.
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We can call it the department of smith and Wesson.
What about cow patties I hear they burn really good.
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How about burning some of that cow ‘methane’?
Ah, the glory of it...the EPA freeze to death! Get your asses up into the Netherlands of Alaska...and keep your asses warm w/o a wood fire. And take Obama with you, maybe your appendage up his hinder parts will keep you both warm, until the cold really sets in.
Freeze to death, EPA...and all your minions!
With all due respect to mom & pop, if the good citizens of the State of Alaska were making sure that their children were being taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, then Alaskans would not only be able to argue the following against EPA regulations, but the regulations of many other federal agencies as well.
While it can be argued that environmental protection regulations are a good thing, the major constitutional problem with the EPA is the following imo. The states have never expressly constitutional delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate environmental issues.
In fact, using wide language, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that powers that the states have not constitutionally delegated to the feds are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Note that even if the states had constitutionally delegated environmental protection powers to the feds, it remains that the Founding States had expected the elected members of Congress, not non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the EPA, to take full responsibility for how those powers are used, including respecting citizen dissatisfaction with federal regulations. This is evidenced by the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide those clauses from Congress (sarc).
However, corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification, career lawmakers have been establishing many constitutionally undefined federal agencies, presumably so that non-elected bureaucrats can do all the dirty regulatory work that lawmakers probably want to do, such regulatory work based on state powers in many cases that Congress is letting these agencies get away with stealing from the states.
In other words, Congress is wrongly front-ending itself with regulatory agencies probably so that corrupt lawmakers can keep their voting records clean. And by keep their records clean, lawmakers can fool low-information citizens, citizens who have probably never been taught the fed’s constitutional limited powers, into reelecting them.
Patriots need to work with Trump to drain the unconstitutionally big federal swamp and lose these unconstitutional federal agencies.
We had a wood stove that was not EPA compliant. Would heat our whole house. Then they started ‘no burn’ days. The days got to be bigger and longer in number. We’d have 21 days of no burn days. Then we were going to sell so had to pull out the wood stove and restore the fireplace. That didn’t make sense but...whatever. The fireplace smoked a heckuva lot more than the stove. Didn’t sell so installed a pellet stove. Now it’s non EPA compliant and we’ll have to pull it out before we can sell again.
It’s non ending with them.
F#CK’EM; I just threw another oak log on the fire about 15 minutes ago, it’s 18 degrees on the front porch right now!
“Jack London fan...”
I have read that story several times and the only other time that I have felt so cold when I really wasn’t was watching Dr. Zyvago in an air conditioned theatre in July.
“We can call it the department of smith and Wesson.”
At our place we have two departments, Sig Sauer and Walther. They never fight with each other, but rather work well together to keep our home safe and sound
The EPA. How many divisions do they have?
I hope President Trump builds them a big old nuclear power plant to save the trees.
“Start burning spotted owls and whale blubber.”
I have a book on Clessie Cummins of Cummins Diesel. He was very big on PR projects and furnished the engines for one of the first powered polar expeditions. He had the engines built so that they were easily converted to run on whale oil if needed. The idea was that if the expedition ran out of petroleum feel they could harvest their own.
Amen to that.
Ignored just like the regulations on Dichlorodifloromethane. (Freon-12)
How about making all newspapers outlawed. What a waste of trees.
So you might have to make a second pass just to be sure.
We have a bunch of departments: mossberg Ithaca Remington colt smith ruger browning Winchester dpms Walter H&R savage glock bersa beretta and about 50000 workers. We ensure domestic tranquility and in fact I am the director whose acronym title is the DDT for director of domestic tranquility.
Ditto. Negligible tell-tale smoke due to complete, efficient combustion.
If you can't handle it, I know some people who would love to help out!
Thought cow patties produced methane when burned. Cow farms so and patties are just dried poop and farxs.
EPA will get mad.
“Ouch. They’d get blown away quite literally.”
Yes my friend was stationed on Adak Island when he was in the navy. I can’t think of a better place to station the EPA. Get a REAL idea what the environment - and “warm” climate is like!
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