On Mar 24, 9:50*am, Chuck wrote:
Pat wrote:
On Mar 24, 7:26 am, "HeyBub" wrote:
"Rachel Merrill, mother of three, was holding innocuous-seeming contraband
in her hand at an Arlington Goodwill store earlier this month: a 1971
edition of "Little House on the Prairie." This copy of the children's
classic had just become illegal to resell because of concerns that some old
books contain lead in their ink. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...09/03/23/AR200....

It's for the children.

That's a big issue for libraries right now. *They either have to throw
out books for test them of lead. *Few if any budgeted for it.

I'm a BIG fan of lead control in homes but even to me this seems a bit
extreme. *I guess someone is afraid that a kid who loves a book is
eating it, or something.

What better way to destroy American history, World history, and all of the
Classics. On the road to changing America to a new form of Government, the
American people, themselves, erase all traces of our heritage.
What fun we are going to have. No books, no guns, one party system, National
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Nah. It's all the lead in things that has made the present generation/
s insufficiently intelligent; so we pass stupid regulations. Wait 20
years or so and maybe the next, lead free, generation will have more
sense!

Meanwhile we have a banking system, which unlike many other countries/
areas of the world, is out of control, and rife with corruption and
greed! Viz: Enron, AIG, Bernie Madeoff, corrupt mortgages etc.

An industrial/financial system with so much emphasis on the 'bottom
line' (and individual profit) that it has exported industrial
production and services out of North America, which was once the world
hub/leader of efficient and ingenious management and production!

Has created an agricultural system that is so costly to run that the
North American farm system has to be subsidized and/or propped up by
imposing tariffs; even though foods can be produced more cheaply and
with work creating benefit to farming communities elsewhere. By
artificially raising costs, we are often paying twice for our food
(including tarffs and subsidies).

It's an odd thing to worry about when there are many much more serious
pollution problems!

Ah well; I guess when all the ground water has been used up or
polluted; there is too much methane, carbon dioxide and carbon
monoxide in the air everyone breathes and world population spirals out
of control we will welcome a bit of lead in something to dumb down the
population so humans don't realise what's going on. Washington
lobbyists for the metals industry take note.

Was it not the Romans, whose Emperors thought their empire was forever
and then poisoned themselves with wine sweetened by keeping it in
containers made of lead and often went mad? By contrast the common
folk (plebeians?) who couldn't afford lead and depended on simple
pottery for containers, fortunately, survived.