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The EPA Planning To Crack Down On Backyard Barbecues, Too?
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 03/20/2015 | John Merline

Posted on 03/20/2015 10:00:10 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

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To: IBD editorial writer

EPA=DOA


21 posted on 03/20/2015 10:29:10 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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As FReepers read the following material, please bear in mind the following. While we must protect the environment, the EPA probably would not exist today if state lawmakers hadn’t ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up the voices of state legislatures in the Congress by doing so.

As mentioned in related threads, the major constitutional problems with the EPA are as follows.

First, consider that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate environmental issues.

In fact, regardless that federal Democrats, RINOs, activist judges and indoctrinated attorneys will argue that if the Constitution doesn’t say that the feds can’t do something then they can do it, the Supreme Court has addressed that foolish idea too. Politically correct interpretations of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause (5.2) aside, the Court has clarified in broad terms that powers not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate environmental issues in this case, are prohibited to the feds.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So with all due respect to the family and friend of the late President Nixon, he was wrong to sign the bill that established the EPA imo.

Next, even if the states had delegated such power to the feds, note that the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Section 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide them from Congress, to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the EPA and many other so-called “independent federal regulatory agencies.”

So Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. And by delegating regulatory power to federal agencies like the EPA, especially powers that the feds don’t have in the first place, Congress is wrongly protecting the unpopular use of such powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.

The 17th Amendment has to go.

22 posted on 03/20/2015 10:33:35 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Some of my dogs celebrating the vernal equinox global warming.


23 posted on 03/20/2015 10:36:42 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: broken_arrow1

It’s to stop preppers.


24 posted on 03/20/2015 10:56:41 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Lurkinanloomin
From my cold dead fingers.....

That won't be hard as well armed as the EPA is. You'll be dead before you put down the tongs.
25 posted on 03/20/2015 11:01:28 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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If the EPA is so concerned about backyard barbeques, they should do something about the yearly forest fires.


26 posted on 03/20/2015 11:05:35 AM PDT by 353FMG
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They won’t be satisfied until we are all living like Ebenezer Scrooge, sitting in a cold,dark room, eating lukewarm gruel.


27 posted on 03/20/2015 11:15:30 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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yet the Forest Service burns tens of thousands of acres of timber a year in “controlled burns” which choke everyone for a hundred miles in all directions!


28 posted on 03/20/2015 1:24:18 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: jmcenanly

*door burst open*

And how sir were you able to warm your gruel?

It should be cold as Dear Leader has decreed.

Off to Hillary’s Fun camp with you!


29 posted on 03/20/2015 2:19:37 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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Good luck with that one. Summer is on the way. Can you say cookout? :-)


30 posted on 03/20/2015 3:48:09 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: broken_arrow1

Trying to ban wood burning stoves in MN


31 posted on 03/20/2015 8:49:46 PM PDT by Foolsgold (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: aces

True story from the 80’s. Driving up north a ways to stop at a place along the river where there are nice rapids. Was stuck behind an old blue panel van. I smelled a smell - thinking what is that then it hit me. I told hubby that smells like a charcoal grill. He said it couldn’t be. After a while we were convinced. The van was going the same place as we were. It parked, an old black guy got out and opened up the back doors. There was a lit kettle grill going in the back. He must have been hungry, did not want to wait to cook the fish he was going to catch.


32 posted on 03/21/2015 6:24:24 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)
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To: Crim

They’ll also want to be certain that it was gluten-free.


33 posted on 03/22/2015 6:36:47 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: TexasGunLover; Lurkinanloomin

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


34 posted on 03/25/2015 9:49:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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35 posted on 03/29/2015 9:47:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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