Response from US Senators

[fiddle mike]

I sent letters to Sen Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Sen John Cornyn regarding the regulations that have stuck dealers with small motorcycles and ATVs.  I got responses from both.
The both pretty much told me what the regulatory agency is and what its mission is, stuff I already know.  Sen. Huchison even told me she sensitive to the problem of lead in toys  since she, too, has small children.  Her small children must be 50 years old.
Both of these US Senators blew smoke at me rather than comment on the nonsense Americans deal with.
I, at least, had respect for Sen. Huchinson till I received her email.
Punishing Americans for the sins of the Chinese is bad enough, but to be bullshitted and blown off by people who are supposed to be my voice in DC is nothing less than insulting.

[f-Stop]

Yeah, caught my son trying to chew the lead out of his chain the other day...thank god we have the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act to keep us from truly harming ourselves with the possibility of lead in small motorcycles and ATVs. 



Check out www.tomself.com - He's a State Rep from Missouri who's mounting a pretty good campaign to stop the insanity.

Has anybody out there actually eaten paint chips or actually heard of anybody eating paint chips?  You know, there is a thing called natural selection...

[Brad]

I got a similar response from mine as well.  No one even reads the letters they just scan it for a key word and then send out a form letter that they think matches.  When you send a copy of your original letter with a copy of their response and then ask the question why didn't you read the letter before you replied, you never hear from them again.  It's frustrating as hell.

[fiddle mike]

I got a similar response from mine as well.  ...  It's frustrating as hell.

Ticked me off.     I told the missus that the man tried to bury me under a definition of the act without ever addressing the issue.  What the act does is the problem, which is the gist of my response to his email.
I suspect that the only way the ban will fail is if it will, somehow, cause illegal aliens to be identified.

[fiddle mike]

Has anybody out there actually eaten paint chips or actually heard of anybody eating paint chips?  You know, there is a thing called natural selection...

I was working in a Sherwin-Williams store when the feds restricted lead-bearing paint to industrial/commercial uses (the miniature golf course was still allowed to use it on big  concrete dinosaurs). When asked, my boss (a knowledgeable guy) told a customer that a kid would have to naw all the paint off a porch before lead paint would affect him.
I believe "Lead" referred to metal pigments used to make color-fast reds and yellows, cadmium, for instance.  I don't know if a kid could ingest lead by licking a battery post or chain.  But then, I'm not a federal bureaucrat. 

BTW:  The feds have meddled like crazy in their attempt to circumvent Natural Selection.  They can't have their constituents dying of idiocy, after all.

[SgtBunny]

I think Darwinism is working in reverse anyway.  We keep electing the idiots into power.

[Jack]

I think Darwinism is working in reverse anyway.  We keep electing the idiots into power.

+1

[Disco]

I have sent numerous letters to both US Senators from Texas over the last few years and been consistently disappointed by their responses.  Cornyn will occasionally show some spine, but not nearly enough.  KBH is a mealy-mouthed, non-committal, bend with the breeze, opportunistic embarrassment.  The only issue I can remember her taking any lead on was when she co-sponsored the bill that gutted the financing for the much-needed border fence.  That's when I sent her my last letter informing her she would never again receive my vote.

Now, she wants to be governor. 

[fiddle mike]

... KBH is a mealy-mouthed, non-committal, bend with the breeze, opportunistic embarrassment.  The only issue I can remember her taking any lead on was when she co-sponsored the bill that gutted the financing for the much-needed border fence.  That's when I sent her my last letter informing her she would never again receive my vote.

Now, she wants to be governor. 

Yeah, she let us down on that one and I wrote voicing my disappointment, too.  I can't vote for a candidate for Governor who has any connection to Rick Perry and the TTC, anyhow.

I wrote to State Rep.  Solomon Ortiz Jr. concerning a proposed cell phone ban and, at least, his office exchanged a couple meaningful emails with me on the subject.

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Solomon Ortiz Jr. is a good guy.  I shot his TV ads for re-election to the State Senate last year and got a chance to know him a little bit...a few beers and shoot the bull type stuff.  Anyway, he's really being pressured to run for Congress, but didn't seem to want to do it, yet.  He'll probably be a shoe-in when he's ready, though.

The cell phone law is most likely going to happen soon.  Even though I hate to see laws passed because of people's inability to be considerate to one another, it is probably needed.  CPLDS (Cell Phone Lane Drift Syndrome) will be responsible for taking away just one more privilege...

For now, I'll use these to help prevent CPLDS...

They're a whole lot funner than a new law!