Government Overstepping Bounds
Aug 27, 2010 Political
The EPA will consider banning lead ammunition along with lead shot and lead sinkers used for fishing. The EPA is not allowed to regulate ammunition (by statute) and this would seem to be out of its jurisdiction. That does not seem to have hampered the agency from taking up the issue.
The Weekly Standard is asking if the EPA will rule to ban lead ammo and further push voters to remove Democrats from office, particularly in conservative areas where Democrats hold office. This is a valid question given that lead is used by sportsmen and a ban on it will likely double the cost of sports items, particularly ammunition.
The answer here seems to be a simple one. The EPA has no jurisdiction to regulate ammunition so it should not be allowed to regulate the composition of ammunition. The problem is, rules and statutes are seldom followed by government unless those rules or statutes support what it wants to do. Otherwise it ignores them and pushes on with its agenda.
The voters will be sending a very simple message in November and if the EPA does something unlawful and stupid then that message might be sent to a lot more people than Democrats would be comfortable with.
The EPA is typical of a government agency that gets too big and involves itself in things that it ought not to. The problem we face is that these ever expanding agencies are not held accountable for what they do.
We can start that making government accountable by holding the politicians accountable. They make sure things get done the way we want or we bounce them on their rear ends.
November will be a good time to start and we can keep getting rid of the temple monkeys until we are governed by a smaller government that does what we tell it to.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: epa, fishers, fishing, hunters, lead ammunition, nra, rules, shot, sinkers, statutes
New Take On Clinging To Guns
Sep 26, 2008 Political
Not long ago (though it seems like eons in this never ending nightmare called the elections) Barack Obama said (about people who are frustrated over economic conditions):
“And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
This caused a firestorm because people realized that Obama, the elitist, had insulted the millions of people who are either religious or own guns, or both. He told his elite friends that people “cling” to religion and guns out of frustration. It never occurred to Obama that people own guns for a number of reasons and frustration has nothing to do with it. Unlike Obama who attended church to participate in radical racism and for political gain, most people have religious beliefs, not because they are frustrated, but because they believe in a being higher than themselves and they have faith.
Now we have a new attack on people who use their guns to hunt and this is all because of Sarah Palin. Congressman Alcee Hastings, the former federal judge who was impeached for criminal activity, was participating in a panel discussion sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council. Hastings was trying to drum up Jewish support for Obama and he stated this:
“If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention,” said Hastings. “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through.” ABC
Since Hastings said I should think it through, let me do just that. This is nothing more than the Ebonics version [one would think he would have better grammar] of what Obama said. Hastings told Jews that because Palin hunts game and cuts up what she kills, she does not care what she will do to Jews and Blacks. Does Hastings think that Palin will shoot Jews and Blacks and then field dress them? How about the millions of other hunters in this country? Because they hunt, do they not care much for Jews and Blacks? How does this apply if the hunters happen to be Jewish or black? Did anyone else pick up the racist comment embedded in this statement? He did not say “don’t” care much what they do to others, he said blacks and Jews. The unstated message is, this white woman kills animals so she don’t care what she does to Jews and blacks. Race baiting at its finest.
There are many Jewish butchers who prepare meats a certain way to ensure it is Kosher. They slaughter animals and drain the blood out of them and then butcher them up. Does the Hastings logic apply to the Jewish butchers? Do they not care much what they do to blacks and other Jews?
This was a ridiculous statement and shows what an absolute moron Hastings is. This is fear mongering, the very thing that Democrats say Republicans engage in.
Barack Obama is in favor of allowing children who are born alive after an unsuccessful abortion to be left to die. Is it safe to say that any person who will let newborn children be left to die “don’t” care to much what he will do to anyone regardless of color or religion?
I will say this though. Black on black crime, especially in major cities, is a huge problem. All the cities run by Democrats and with large black populations have high numbers of blacks who are murdered by other blacks. These criminals gun each other down and often kill innocent bystanders. Seems to me that this should be a major concern for the black “leadership” in America. You see, by failing to address the issue they demonstrate that it is they who care little about blacks.
When was the last time you heard about a hunter going around a city shooting people?
Hastings should stick to something he knows about like committing graft and corruption.
Tags: alcee hastings, corruption, hunters, moron, race baiting, sarah palin