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Just in time for Independence Day, the Left is coming for our barbecue grills
Houston Politics Examiner ^ | July 4, 2015 | Mark R. Whittington

Posted on 07/04/2015 6:08:03 AM PDT by Marcus

On this Independence Day, one of the sadder aspects of American life we have to consider is the tendency of some Americans to wag their fingers at others about the way they choose to live, sometimes with disastrous results. The temperance movement of the 19th Century led to Prohibition which led to Al Capone, for example. Now someone writing in the New Republic on Friday wants to take away our right to barbecue.

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TOPICS: Food; Politics; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: barbecue; bbq; blogpimp; climatechange; globalwarming; greenhousegases
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1 posted on 07/04/2015 6:08:03 AM PDT by Marcus
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To: Marcus

No fireworks on base this year. Oh there are legit reasons all coincidental


2 posted on 07/04/2015 6:12:06 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Marcus

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


3 posted on 07/04/2015 6:12:26 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Marcus

They can have my grill when they pry it from my cold, dead, barbecue sauce-stained finger.


4 posted on 07/04/2015 6:13:05 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Marcus

I burn my garbage.

:-)


5 posted on 07/04/2015 6:15:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Marcus

Don’t forget about that second hand smoke either. It shouldn’t be long before the surgeon general hops on this bandwagon.


6 posted on 07/04/2015 6:18:00 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: abclily

Government hacks come out with their dire warnings about “lone wolf terrorists,” while media hacks warn about fireworks (especially the dreaded sparklers) and grilled meat and sunburn and sharks! This is the Left’s War on Independence Day, because they don’t want us to remember what this day celebrates. It’s becoming Warnings for Wusses Day.


7 posted on 07/04/2015 6:19:46 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Marcus
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Doing my part

8 posted on 07/04/2015 6:24:34 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: abclily
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

By taxing or fining you and me. The politicians have finally realized that no matter how much they tax us or fine, if they add another tax or fine, we will pay it. We will gladly pat it in hopes to be allowed another day. As we pay the tax or fine, we hope that it will be the last time and they will leave us in peace to live and let live.

This is the same cat and mouse game the National Socialists in Germany played with the Jews in Germany and Poland after they over ran Poland. They fined the Jews, the Jews paid the fine. Next time, they increased the fine, the Jews paid it . This cycle continued until the Jews ran out of money. At that time, the Jews were rounded up for extermination because by the time came that the Jews ran out of money, the National Socialists had built the camps that they did not previously have to hold them.

That is my answer to your study question.

9 posted on 07/04/2015 6:32:53 AM PDT by sport
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To: txrefugee

The red coals are coming! The red coals are coming!


10 posted on 07/04/2015 6:34:47 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: fruser1

I am convinced that finger-wagging-whiney-arse liberals gain most of their pleasure by denying others theirs.

As to the hazards of 2nd hand smoke... this sad story from the ‘Net! Happy 4th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAl4duriqlo


11 posted on 07/04/2015 6:39:32 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: FiddlePig

““Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

~ C.S. Lewis


12 posted on 07/04/2015 6:45:06 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Changing the name of a thing doesn't change the thing. A liberal by any other name...)
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To: abclily

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1: Atmosphere has just 0.04% CO2 in it

2: Man creates just 3.4% of that 0.04% (The rest is natural)

3: Therefore, the atmosphere has just 0.00137% CO2 produced by man (3.4% of 0.04% = 0.00137%)

4: The silly idea that 0.00137% CO2 in the atmosphere can cause ANY change to our climate globally is LAUGHABLE!

Study Question: How can 0.00137% of our atmosphere possibly capture enough escaping heat, and then back radiate a fraction of that, in large enough quantities, towards earth, to cause climate change?

Bonus Points: IF CO2 causes climate change, then hy is it that CO2 ONLY rises AFTER many decades of climate change?

Bonus Question 2: IF CO2 causes climate change, why has there been ZERO climate change for 2 decades now despite more CO2 I nthe atmosphere each successive year during those 2 decades?

Bonus Question 3: Why are ‘man-caused climate change’ LIARS allowed to open their LYING mouths in public?

Bonus FACT: ‘man-caused climate change’ LIARS claim we are reaching record high ppm of CO2 In the atmosphere because of man, and that it ‘can’t possibly get that high naturally- therefore man is to blame’- yet these LIARS ignore their own findings that show that ppm were much higher thousands of years ago (if you believe in long earth ages)


13 posted on 07/04/2015 6:50:08 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Marcus

Liberals wouldn’t hate barbecues so much if they were used primarily to roast vegetables.


14 posted on 07/04/2015 6:52:49 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: Marcus

Supreme court ruling imminent. No right to barbeque grill likely to be found so they must be illegal.


15 posted on 07/04/2015 6:55:11 AM PDT by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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To: CommerceComet

One more thing to stock pile along with ammo guns light bulbs etc.


16 posted on 07/04/2015 6:59:48 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Bob434
Take a glass of water and drop in some ice cubes. Fill the water until it reaches the rim. The ice is above the rim. When the ice melts, the glass will not overflow.

This experiment shuts up the rising sea level types. Leaves them stunned.

17 posted on 07/04/2015 7:01:10 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: CommerceComet

Yes, I believe the, First School Lunch Lady weighed in on this imploring us to grill vegetables instead of meat.


18 posted on 07/04/2015 7:09:42 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: Marcus

But it’s no problem if communists get together on the 4th of July to “celebrate” the American Revolution over a BBQ.

Obama Attended Bill Ayers Barbecue, July 4, 2005:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/06/04/exclusive-the-vetting-senator-barack-obama-attend-bill-ayers-barbecue-july-4-2005/


19 posted on 07/04/2015 7:12:26 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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