Freedom at the Farmer's Market

[wkmac]

Or controlling competition!

[video=youtube;B8T3QBJvLy0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8T3QBJvLy0&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

[Babagounj]

NYT - In the next weeks and months, Lisa P. Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is scheduled to establish regulations on smog, mercury, carbon dioxide, mining waste and vehicle emissions that will affect every corner of the economy.
She is working under intense pressure from opponents in Congress, from powerful industries, from impatient environmentalists and from the Supreme Court, which just affirmed the agency’s duty to address global warming emissions, a project that carries profound economic implications.
The new rules will roll out just as President Obama’s re-election campaign is getting under way, with a White House highly sensitive to the probability of political damage from a flood of government mandates that will strike particularly hard at the manufacturing sector in states crucial to the 2012 election.

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[moreluck]

NYT - In the next weeks and months, Lisa P. Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is scheduled to establish regulations on smog, mercury, carbon dioxide, mining waste and vehicle emissions that will affect every corner of the economy.
She is working under intense pressure from opponents in Congress, from powerful industries, from impatient environmentalists and from the Supreme Court, which just affirmed the agency’s duty to address global warming emissions, a project that carries profound economic implications.
The new rules will roll out just as President Obama’s re-election campaign is getting under way, with a White House highly sensitive to the probability of political damage from a flood of government mandates that will strike particularly hard at the manufacturing sector in states crucial to the 2012 election.

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If Lisa Jackson gets turned loose on mercury ALONE, she'll be checking on...............
jewelry
lamps
latex paint
security systems
shoes
TV sets
thermostats
thermometers
Elec. appliances
clothes irons
auto head lamps
guages
elec relays
etc.

Her mind will be so boggled, she'll never get passed shoes or jewelry. It'll be like Hillary taking on Healthcare....just work to keep her busy!!

 

[Babagounj]

This should keep her busy..........
Mercury Vapor Released from Broken Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Can Exceed Safe Exposure Levels for Humans

New Rochelle, NY, July, 6, 2011—Once broken, a compact fluorescent light bulb continuously releases mercury vapor into the air for weeks to months, and the total amount can exceed safe human exposure levels in a poorly ventilated room, according to study results reported in Environmental Engineering Science, a peer-reviewed online only journal published monthly by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
The amount of liquid mercury (Hg) that leaches from a broken compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) is lower than the level allowed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), so CFLs are not considered hazardous waste. However, Yadong Li and Li Jin, Jackson State University (Jackson, MS) report that the total amount of Hg vapor released from a broken CFL over time can be higher than the amount considered safe for human exposure.
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[wkmac]

Does Michelle Obama Know About This?

she’s demanding her right to a jury trial. So the city plans to throw the book at her.

Typical! How dare the mundane assert it's rights putting us in a position before their peers to look bad!

Would love to be called on that jury just to say "not guilty" and I don't give a flying "friend" what the damn evidence is. When the Sheriff of Nottingham sez you can't hunt the King's deer, it's time to hunt the Sheriff!

Crush the Bastards via Jury Nullification!

 

[moreluck]

I think they have a cuke court just for this sort of thing. Cauliflower counselors, Lettuce lawyers, Rutabaga reporters and Artichoke assistants and dandelion D.A.'s.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I'm sorry, I agree with the code enforcement officer. A front yard is no place for a vegetable garden.

 

[trplnkl]

I'm sorry, I agree with the code enforcement officer. A front yard is no place for a vegetable garden.

Then don't put one in your front yard. But what makes it right for you to say I can't?

 

[wkmac]

How dare you attempt to act in free market fashion with non gov't approved milk.

Silly rabbit, that's a monopolized market now with gov't nazi thugs protecting it on behalf of privileged milk producers who have paid good money to use regulatory capture for the sake of filthy lucer. You can't be allowed to sell that milk to anyone just because they walk up and make a voluntary market choice and want to buy your milk.

Come on, that's called freedom and nobody wants that ole relic around anymore. We like central planning and monopoly corp. America dictating what we want and don't want.

BTW: Thanks to Matt Drudge for giving this coverage.

 

[wkmac]

A new rule being proposed by the federal Department of Transportation would require farmers to get commercial drivers licenses.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is a part of DOT, wants to adopt standards that would reclassify all farm vehicles and implements as Commercial Motor Vehicles, officials said. Likewise, the proposal, if adopted, would require all farmers and everyone on the farm who operates any of the equipment to obtain a CDL, they added.
The proposed rule change would mean that anyone who drives a tractor or operates any piece of motorized farming equipment would be required to pass the same tests and complete the same detailed forms and logs required of semi-tractor trailer drivers.

Driving a farm tractor in the field could require a CDL if the DOT has it's way.


First, they came for the farm tractor. Then they came for the garden tiller. Next it was the lawn mower and then the weed eater and I never said anything. Now they've come for my pruning sheers and there is no one to cry out for me!


OK back to being serious, when the gov't is broke to the point of printing money out of thin air to keep itself going, what would all this licensing and enforcement cost us taxpayers but more to the point, what is the return on investment and how does this benefit greater society? Or is this rule really about limiting competition to the benefit of the big scale players who control the regulatory state via regulatory capture?

 

[moreluck]

Do you have experience operating a string instrument?? Violin or weed whacker ??

 

[wkmac]

Do you have experience operating a string instrument?? Violin or weed whacker ??

Actually, the answer to both is yes!