Posted on 12/14/2012 9:19:49 AM PST by GSWarrior
It felt like Christmas had come early when I got my package of Buckyballs in the mail a few days ago. Buckyballs are small, super-strong spherical magnets made of the rare-earth metal Neodymium. A set of 216 Buckyballs fits comfortably in the palm of your hand.
Obviously Buckyballs are adult toys, and Maxfield and Oberton emphatically warns users not to give them to children, eat them, inhale them, or place them near objects (such as pacemakers) that are sensitive to magnets. However, for those who use Buckyballs with common sense and due care, they are reasonably safe—just like countless other objects in or around the home from hammers to knives to sugar to prescription drugs to firearms to bicycles to automobiles.
What has been the government’s response to Buckyballs? Has it been to recognize the outstanding productive achievements of the company that makes them? To leave the company in peace to conduct its business? Of course not. The government has put Maxfield and Oberton out of business so far as Buckyballs are concerned. The sets I ordered are among the last that will be produced, ever.
The unanswered question is, who will protect Americans from the risks posed to our lives, liberties, and happiness by rights-violating government regulators?
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Oh, good grief. We’ve apparently arrived at the point in nanny-statism where we ban any product that some little tykes might be tempted to stick in their mouths - in other words, just about everything. If your kid swallows a bunch of rare-earth magnets, the fault lies with you as a parent or maybe with your kid if he/she is old enough to know better - blaming and banning the inanimate object is the inevitable reaction of the government.
My local Hallmark had them on sale for $10 because of this stupid government meddling. They are usually around $30. I bought five sets. I love playing with them and gave them to my kids.
That makes you a bad parent. I'm telling the First Lady.
; )
Can you imagine what would have happened 110 years ago if an overprotective US government had found out that the new invented automobile would cause maybe 50,000 deaths and injuries a year?
We would still be using horses and trains to get around.
I’m not sure the enough of today’s Americans are capable of handling Buckyballs responsibly.
It’s sad to see adults get caught up in these restrictions. But too many Americans are irresponsible children in adult bodies, so such restrictions are necessary - both to protect them from themselves and to protect us from them as well.
Don’t get mad at the government. Get mad at the irresponsible child who’s ruining things for the rest of us.
Meh.
The government banned a commonly-occurring weed that has killed exactly nobody in 25,000 years and some people on Free Republic can’t cheer them on enough. Maybe we have the nanny state we deserve.
Well, they are 19 and 22 y.o., so I doubt they’ll swallow them or anything!
Ban paper, it causes cuts
Got mine ordered!
Gonna be great Christmas gifts!
“The government banned a commonly-occurring weed that has killed exactly nobody in 25,000 years...”
People die every day while under the influence of that commonly-occurring weed - they wreck their cars, fall off stuff, make bad decisions around machinery, etc.
If you don’t believe me, go hang out at a trauma center sometime.
People die every day while under the influence of that commonly-occurring weed - they wreck their cars, fall off stuff, make bad decisions around machinery, etc.
Ditto for alcohol - should government ban it?
People die every day while under the influence of that commonly-occurring weed - they wreck their cars, fall off stuff, make bad decisions around machinery, etc.
You can make the same point about alcohol times a zillion. I guess we should ban that, too.
This is rancher-and-his-cattleism.
We are now nothing more than livestock owned by the feral government.
This means we have no right to anything, starting with private property, which is what Agenda 21 is all about.
When I was a toddler, my parents made plenty of long-distance drives to my grandparents’ house with me in a playpen in the back seat of their ‘64 Comet 2-door. Plus there were many trips after I got a bit older (and after my sister was born) where us kids rode in the back of a station wagon with the rear seats folded flat.
Oh, the horror! I never should have lived this long. :)
That reminds me of our old VW bug. All of us kids would fight to sit in the “hole”, the space behind the back seat. Great fun!
They did; the results are an object lesson.
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