PBDE Flame retardants in Californians

They are trying to kill us again.  More good intentions gone bad.  That's what happens when you don't use your head and only use your feelings like the democrats do.  And as you can see in DailyTech - Californians Found to Have High Levels of PBDE Flame-retardants in Bloodstream, House Dust some democrats were bought off my the chemical company as always and we are the ones who pays. 

I mean from car seats, helmets, talking on cell phones in the car, etc., someone that sells these things pay off some bureaucrat to pass a law so we can pay and the government imposes a fine so they can get their cut.  We are always the ones that get hurt.

Finally the Children are returned

The Children are back with their parents.  The abuse that the State did to these kids is what will have to be repaired if it ever can.  The State is what we need to be scared of, not parents.

Sect’s Children Returned to Parents, but Inquiry Continues - NYTimes.com

Government Control

I was told recently that "this is a free country" and I said that it used to be but it isn't very free anymore. This weekend the NY Times ran a story about Lack of Supervision Noted in Deaths of Home-Schooled. So much for freedom. What business is it of the government to tell me how to school or raise or whatever I want with my kids? There is always some slightly good reason to stop the idiots and we all end up paying with less and less freedom.

Another new story tells the same thing is happening to MySpace also. They have the good intention of stopping child predators but the rules they put into place will certainly disrupt our freedoms.

Warning Labels

Over the holiday I saw a mother take her baby out of it's carrier and there on the carrier was a big warning label on it. That made me think of all the warning labels we all ignore every day of our lives. One wonders why all these warnings labels are necessary. Well the reason is all the stupid lawsuits - the lawyers that bring them and the people that are so stupid that they have no common sense. If we actually took serious all the warning labels we see daily we would have to stay in our homes. Though we may not even be able to stay there as I am sure there is enough warning labels to make us want to lock ourselves into a bunker.

To All the Kids Who Survived the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

Here's a fun thing that was circulating in an e-mail a few years ago and I just received it again and thought it was appropriate to put here since we are plagued with fears like these and so many threats from lawyers. Wish we could go back to an easier and happier time.

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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms…WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that! !

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS!