"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...id=smartliving

It's for the children.

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.

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
health, etc. etc.

We could be just like Europe, then.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Chuck" wrote in message
...

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
health, etc. etc.

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
health, etc. etc.- Hide quoted text -

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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.

On Mar 24, 10:22*am, stan wrote:
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).

No, it's the American people's unwillingness to pay for their food
that has created the subsidies and tariffs. We have some of the
cheapest food in the world. Everybody complains how expensive food is,
but only because it cuts into their toy budget... They'll spend $60 a
week on new video games, hundreds a month on fancy cell phones with
data plans, tens of thousands a year on big luxurious SUVs and houses
they can't afford, then complain about a $30/week grocery bill!

Why are so many poor people morbidly obese? Must be the expensive
food.

If the government didn't prop up the farmers with subsidies and
tariffs we wouldn't have anything but poisoned Chinese grain to eat.

stan wrote:

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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!

You may very well be right, but don't you want your kids to have the same
opportunities you did? (That's why I decline child-proof caps at the
pharmacy.)


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.

No one has ever claimed there was corruption in the banking system. Greed,
sure, but greed is good. Corruption is the sole province of government.



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!

Both of those, emphasis on 'bottom line' and exporting projects that can be
done more cheaply elsewhere, are good.


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).

I notice a disconnect - you complain about American industrial production
moving offshore and also complain about not being able to import cheaper
food. Hmm.


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

Pollution is not an on-going problem. By any metric, pollution has been
consistently dropping since the mid-60's. And it will drop even more when
all these harmful books are removed from the libraries!


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.

When all the ground water is used up, we'll desalinate sea water - there's
plenty of that. Carbon monoxide in the air has been decreasing for the past
decade. If the total atmosphere could be represented by a football field,
the amount of CO2 is roughly equal to the area between the offensive and
defensive lines (22 sq ft out of 57,000). Most of the increase in CO2 is the
result of global warming, but we've got a long way to go before anybody but
plants notice the increase.


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.

Uh, I don't think so. The Roman Empire fell because they kept electing gods,
or proto-gods, as leaders.

"HeyBub" wrote in message
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"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...id=smartliving

It's for the children.
I bought that book for my young daughter. She, during the years, has read
it many times. Her daughter has also read it many times and soon, her son or
daughter will probably read it many times also.

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.

Alas the 21st century justifucation for book burning!

Dick

Please don't give this or any other book or toy to used
sellers, or charities. As I understand it, all used toys and
books have to be tested for lead. Just give them to other
families, skip the used stores.

If I'm mistaykin, please kirrekt me.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
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"Denis Mitchel" wrote in message
...

I bought that book for my young daughter. She, during the
years, has read
it many times. Her daughter has also read it many times and
soon, her son or
daughter will probably read it many times also.

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:22:34 -0700 (PDT), stan
wrote:

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.

They did not have tin cans, I think. It was seamen, sailors, and early
explorers of the new world, that needed to store preserved food for
long journeys across the vast oceans.

Lead was used to seal the tin cans. Not like today's Campbell soup
can.

Oren wrote:
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:22:34 -0700 (PDT), stan
wrote:

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.

They did not have tin cans, I think. It was seamen, sailors, and early
explorers of the new world, that needed to store preserved food for
long journeys across the vast oceans.

Lead was used to seal the tin cans. Not like today's Campbell soup
can.

The Romans did, however, have lead water pipes. This turned out to not be a
problem because of the high alkali content of water in the region. Almost
immediately the pipes were coated with a layer of lime, effectively
isolating the water from the lead.

"Dick Adams" wrote:

Alas the 21st century justifucation for book burning!

Do it for the children!

Jon

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.

Right. It's the EATING of the lead, not the PRESENCE of the lead that's the
problem. If the regulators dealt directly with the symptom, libraries could
fashion some icky-tasting coating that would have to be cheaper than the
destructive, $700 test for lead content.