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Having a yard sale? Better check with Uncle Sam first to make sure you’re in compliance with all federal regulations, mandates, decrees, and royal edicts:
WASHINGTON — If you’re planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you’d best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.
The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that’s been recalled by its manufacturer.
The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or — increasingly — digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.
Secondhand sellers now must keep abreast of recalls for thousands of products, some of them stretching back more than a decade, to stay within the bounds of the law.
Can anybody reasonably argue that this insanity has the remotest resemblance to what the Founders had in mind? That it isn’t indicative of a monstrously out-of-control federal behemoth? That America remains America in any but the most banal sense? That we are still a truly free people when the State has seized power over aspects of their lives that are this trivial and mundane? That those same Founders would (rightly) look at their sheeplike, weak descendants with anything but shame, disgust, and contempt?
Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the agency, said it wouldn’t be dispatching bureaucratic storm troopers into private homes to see whether people were selling recalled products from their garages, yards or churches.
“We’re not looking to come across as being heavy-handed,” he said.
No, of course not. Why, any good subject can see that. Ed wraps it up:
What did we ever do before the CPSIA protected the US through its throngs of federal nannies? How did we ever survive garage sales in the past 233 years? Oh, yes: we used our common sense as consumers. Gee, those were the good old days, weren’t they, when our government treated us as though we had a lick of intelligence and maturity?
We’re not qualified to make our own decisions and exercise our own discretion any more. We need CPSIA federal inspectors to get between us and those dangerous thrift stores, Craigslist entries, and church bazaars.
It’s the era of Hope and Change! We’re all idiots! And that’s why the government is here to help.
If we go along with being treated like helpless, mentally-incompetent children, we can’t be too surprised when the Almighty State continues to do exactly that.
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Guess that kills my plan to find a set of lawn darts on eBay.
Those tools listen to "scientists" who screech the loudest and believe it.
Since they're freaking ignorant fools, they fall for all kinds of stupidities.
Like the guy in the CA legislature who got a bill introduced to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
So who do you listen to, your pastor? Scientists did not cause this law, write this law or otherwise have much to truck with it. Wise up. And if they aren't scientists as per your air-quotes then they are somewhere in the range of deranged fools to politicians or charlatans, label them as such.
Yeah, and that goes for most people in most situations. Without educating ourselves and others we're fucked. Assuming that everyone else is stupid doesn't get you anywhere, other than stuck with stupid. And when you're using ad-hominem attacks you might want to start thinking about where they are coming from and how they make you look.
Hate to ruin your narrative, but I don't believe in a god.
As for the rest, they made that law because of the lead in the ink.
In the ink.
You can't get enough of that to matter.
The people who are our leading scientists and engineers are usually the people who read the most, they read a lot of these books and they didn't get lead poisoning.
It's shoddy science that will lead to a huge intrusion into our lives. Just like global worming.
If you believe in that, explain why I should when absolutely no global warmmongering model predicted the current, 8+ year cooling period. And tell me why each and every global warmmongering model ignores clouds and the Sun.
They ignore the Sun when discussing the temperature of the Earth. Shoddy science.
Taking over vast swathes of my life because of shoddy science annoys me.
As for this,
And when you're using ad-hominem attacks you might want to start thinking about where they are coming from and how they make you look.
I didn't use ad-hominem. I explained exactly why I have such a low opinion.
I'll give you an example of ad-hominem
So who do you listen to, your pastor?
See, I showed I knew more about the "science" these tools used and yet you just called me a religious fanatic who only believes what science my pastor tells me.
See the difference?