Responding to a grassroots outcry from gun owners, the Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has denied a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and other radical groups that had sought to ban the use of lead in ammunition.
Agreeing with the position of the NRA and the firearms industry, the agency explained in a news release that it “does not have the legal authority to regulate this type of product under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).” Further crushing the hopes of anti-gun and anti-hunting activists, the release added: “nor is the agency seeking such authority.”
“It’s outrageous that this petition even went this far,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA-ILA Executive Director. “We applaud the EPA for its understanding of the law and its common sense in this situation -- both of which were totally missing in the petition filed by these extreme anti-gun and anti-hunting groups.”
Because the EPA has no power to regulate ammunition, it will not move ahead with a public comment period on the petition. However, a comment period will remain open until September 15 on the other part of the petition, which asks EPA to ban the use of lead in fishing sinkers.
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So the EPA folded under pressure from the NRA. What is wrong with this picture is that the EPA should have folded under pressure from the Republican leadership, as soon as they proposed this crap.
Call it "The 5% rule for bad bureaucrats". A standing threat from the Republicans to bureaucrats that every time they propose such unconstitutional, overreaching, obnoxious, and radical programs, that their agency will lose 5% of its budget, when the Republicans are back in power.
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However, a comment period will remain open until September 15 on the other part of the petition, which asks EPA to ban the use of lead in fishing sinkers
That's OK, fisherman can substitute something REAL DENSE - like liberals.
US Senate candidate Charlie Crist (I-FL) on opinion of health care bill: "I would have voted for it but I think it can be done better. I really do." Crist says he thinks he can fix it and if he is elected he will try.
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An attempt of Democrat fratricide - defined as, one that murders or kills his or her own brother or sister or an individual (as a countryman) having a relationship like that of a brother or sister. --- The Internationale plays in the background ----
Poorly written article with a line "2AM in the morning."
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I want my money back if you EVER supported him, you traitors. Whats the use of a gun if you have no Republic to defend? What democrat should you ever defend now you idiots. NRA is useless.
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Everyone traded on everyone this last election.. AARP to be forefront of a lobby voting against their own. But the NRA,GE,Progressive, Ford Foundation, all of you a-holes.
FU all.
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They all keep sending requests for $. I keep throwing them all out. Give you money directly to candidates you agree with, beggars you can stand the smell of and gun shops that offer a square deal...
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newc, I'm a lifetime NRA member but don't disagree w/your sentiments...I've found manytimes it is almost more effective to support the local state or grass roots gun orgs. When I was in the Ohio, Buckeye Firearms seemed to do good work. NRA does do good work but they're definitely not 100% right all the time.
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I'm also Lifetime NRA, mostly glad that I am. It's a pretty democratic organization. They tried to hide behind the "we're a one-issue orgaization" lame excuse recently. It's a big picture world now. Join up and hold 'em to that fact...
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This is how Harry can win hands down. All he needs to do is get the crooks from Chicago to whisper into the SecAF's ear to announce that Nellis AFB is on the block. Harry can step up, raise his arms and say over my dead senate leader body. Then he as senate party leader becomes important to Nevada.
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I'm a lifetime member of the NRA. At the state level we have TFA which does a good job. The NRA should continue to be a one issue organization otherwise they will get diluted and become ineffective. At the same time they need to look over their endorsements carefully on a larger scale. Because someone has a good record of supporting firearms rights doesn't mean the candidate isn't a worthless POS.
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Life Member of the NRA myself. But its the Gun Owners of America that has been the most protective of our rights. The NRA is all too willing to play insider games and compromise things that should never be compromised. Change the NRA board when you get a chance to vote, dump LaPierre and cronies for being mush. Also, for legal things, look into the Second Amendment Foundations - those guys work the courts.
The NRA needs to score votes for leadership as well as simple gun votes.
The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.
The Democratic comptroller's spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. The center has sparked an intense debate over U.S. religious freedoms and the sanctity of the Trade Center site, where nearly 3,000 perished in the September 11, 2001 attack.
"If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning tax-exempt financing, we'd certainly consider it," Sieber told Reuters.
Spokesmen for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson and the Islamic center and were not immediately available.
The proposed center, two blocks from the Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, has caused a split between people who lost relatives and friends in the attack, as well as conservative politicians, and those who support the project. Among those who support it are the mayor, civic and religious groups, and some families of victims.
The mosque's backers hope to raise a total of $70 million in tax-exempt debt to build the center, according to the New York Times. Tax laws allow such funding for religiously affiliated non-profits if they can prove the facility will benefit the general public and their religious activities are funded separately.
The bonds could be issued through a local development corporation created for this purpose, experts said.
The Islamic center would have to repay the bonds, which likely would be less expensive than taxable debt.
New York City's Industrial Development Authority could not issue debt for the center because the state civic facilities law, which governed this type of financing for non-profits, was allowed to expire about two years ago.
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From Socialism Quotes: "The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mahometan will co- operate together† For, as we have said elsewhere, Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic,Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only HUMAN."
-Connolly,James
Labour, Nationality, and Religion.
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No, just obfuscation ..... Mohammedan (also spelt Muhammadan, Mahommedan, Mahomedan or Mahometan) is a Westernized term for a follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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The Democratic comptroller's spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. The center has sparked an intense debate over U.S. religious freedoms and the sanctity of the Trade Center site, where nearly 3,000 perished in the September 11, 2001 attack.
Not to be glib, but I am more beginning to wonder if the 3,000 who "perished" were actually a sinless remnent raptured by God, and we are now well into the 7 years of an Obama "Tribulation."
1) If that was "The Rapture", I think the end times would have happened sooner, and
2) There are 19 who died that day who were far from sinless. I'm hoping they got an express ticket to the bottom reaches of Hell, but then again, I'm a blackhearted, evil-tempered little thing....maybe the Almighty would be more merciful than I am....
Anyway, where's all the talk about "separation of church and state" from the usual suspects now? Or are they ok with the state and religion mixing as long as it is with Islamists?
And speaking of cathedrals, I'm sure that John Liu would give the board of St Nicholas the same tax-favored consideration for their rebuilding plans, right??? Wouldn't want to give them a chance for a lawsuit against the city, now, would he?
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The separation of church and state in this case is New Yorkers fund the infrastructure and the Saudis fund the jihadi prostelizing.
Insert note about money being fungible here.
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"can prove the facility will benefit the general public"
It is written in the Koran that Muslims are not to befriend Christians or Jews. And the last time we saw outreach by a Muslim around these parts, it was the kind of out reach that ended up with dozens of troops shot up at Ft Hood. By a Muslim Psychiatrist at that.
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US Senate candidate Charlie Crist (I-FL) on opinion of health care bill: "I would have voted for it but I think it can be done better. I really do." Crist says he thinks he can fix it and if he is elected he will try.
