Posted on 07/03/2015 9:06:18 AM PDT by RightGeek
Enjoy Independence Day while you still can. If President Obama gets his way, this could be the last Fourth of July worth celebrating.
New ground-level ozone standards being pushed by Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency would result in widespread bans on fireworks shows, backyard grilling and other Independence Day traditions.
Because the proposed ozone rule is set so low, things as harmless as a few backyard chefs grilling burgers in the same area at the same time, or even festive fireworks being launched during an Independence Day celebration, could cause an area to violate federal ozone standard thresholds. Such a violation of the EPA’s unreasonably low ozone limit would result in fines and other penalties for local governments from federal regulators.
In an attempt to steer clear of punishment, local lawmakers will have to respond to the new EPA rules by enacting municipal grilling bans and canceling fireworks shows from sea to shining sea.
Outlandish environmental regulations are nothing new for Obama’s EPA, but the proposed ozone limit is likely the most costly and oppressive regulation yet. Besides ending Independence Day as we know it in many places, the lower ozone limit would stall construction projects and prevent job-creating manufacturing facilities from being built in hundreds of cities across the United States. [snip]
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Good luck with that, Barry.
There are already plenty of places where a large percentage of the population buys illegal fireworks. I don’t see this law as being very enforceable.
(For the record, I’m in favor of allowing any adult to buy anything they want. Just don’t light them near me, my family, or my property. And don’t expect me to pay your hospital bills when you blow your fingers off or burn yourself. (I know that 0vomitcare requires that I pay, but I strongly object to paying for another person’s deliberate stupidity. If you’re intelligent, you either don’t buy fireworks or you know how to handle them safely) Make all the noise you want, but try to do it within a few days of the 4th, please.)
I hadn’t decided whether I was going to BBQ tomorrow or not. This settles it. I’ll be firing up the grill, rain or shine.
Don’t tread on me.
He wants to end the United States as we know it.
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He’d probably like that.
Fireworks are illegal in Chicago without a license. Yet use of them are heavy in my neighborhood. Every year my dog is terrified.
“Official” fireworks shows could be hurt. That would piss people off.
Laws against bbq (on private property) would not be enforceable. In parks or something though...
Why should I have to sit in my own home and listen to you and your little immature friends popping firecrackers all night long? Do I not have the right to happiness, and peace and quiet, in my own home? If you want to pop firecrackers go out in the country somewhere. If you want to hear real “fireworks” go put on an army uniform and make sure you tell them you don’t want to be a REMF ‘cause you want to hear things go “bang”.
And by the way, have you read about the veterans with PTSD who have a problem dealing with fireworks? Or do you simply believe it’s your right to do anything you want at others’ expense?
What would you say to a veteran with PTSD sitting in his own home and loud booms start going off and he starts reliving the horrible things he witnessed in combat? “Sorry, bub. But it’s my right to pop firecrackers. You fought so I could have these rights. So, thanks and get over it.”
You say I don’t have the right to want something banned next door to my house. But you wouldn’t object to banning me from driving down a street paid for with my tax dollars.
Would you object to people playing loud music all night long next door to you? You shouldn’t. According to you people should be allowed to do anything they want and to hell with everyone else.
I know your kind. If a couple next door were to get in a fight and there be a big event with the cops and flashing lights and sirens you’d be at work the next door bitching about “the rednecks next door” keeping you up all night.
If I lived next door to you every night you pop firecrackers would mean there’s a night in your future with me firing up my dragster at two in the morning. You could bitch at work the next day because you couldn’t get a good night’s sleep. And, of course tell your co-workers that you called the cops because you have the right to a good nights’ sleep.
Too effing bad.
Sincerely, ‘Pod
Great response! I appreciate it!
Don’t forget to fly the Confederate Flag this weekend to say screw you to all the BS surrounding it.
I dunno. Fireworks are illegal in VA and the night has been widely punctuated with them. More laws that will be ignored I reckon.
Have a nice evening!
‘Pod
Snickering, sneering, holier-than-thou, self-appointed-genius
Progressives have done their best to do that, both in public office and as voters.
(They’re going to reap what they sow as a natural consequence of what they’re up to.)
IMHO
Tomorrow, I will walk about a mile to the high school to watch a fireworks display
that’s exactly what I’m going to do, except it’s only a quarter mile walk...which my arthritic left foot appreciates...
So what would happen if the states stopped sending tax money to the feds? Wouldn't that make that cancerous monstrosity just shrivel up? Serious question but I seriously doubt it would ever happen.
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