Comments on: Are books dangerous?

By: markm

markm — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:27:05 +0000

Any congressman who gives the excuse, “I didn’t know what was in the legislation I voted for”, should begin by giving back his salary.

By: Shopfloor » Blog Archive » CPSIA Update: Destruction Continues; Congress Back Home

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:56:21 +0000

[...] 451. “Of all the risks facing American children, old books must rank very, very low,” writes leading education blogger Joanne Jacobs. Will Benton: “Every time I learn something new about the [...]

By: Betty

Betty — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:16:03 +0000

I am so disappointed to read this; however, it is not surprising. Just look at all of the old baby products that are no longer considered safe. People who saved all of their children’s things to pass along to their grandchildren have to turn them into decorations or throw them away. It is sad.

By: CPSIA and vintage books, cont’d: slicing the past

CPSIA and vintage books, cont’d: slicing the past — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:53:43 +0000

By: Bill Leonard

Bill Leonard — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:23:53 +0000

“I agree. SOMETHING MUST be DONE.”

I boxed and wrestled in college, and also played football in my youth. I vow to give it my late middle-aged best should any of these fools come within grasp or serious punching range.

Bill

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:03:55 +0000

I will not read you in a bus,
I will not even make a fuss
I can not read you here or there
I can not read you anywhere
……b/c your too freakin old.
oh well, I needed a new copy of “Green Eggs and Ham” anyway…for my iPod

By: Engineer-Poet

Engineer-Poet — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:31:23 +0000

I agree. SOMETHING MUST be DONE.

I suggest that we begin by taking the persons who knowingly wrote these things into law and refused to reconsider even after the consequences were made known to them, and punish them appropriately. Shooting them would be far too quick and painless; flaying alive, with liberal use of rock salt, would pehaps be approaching the level of agony required to properly impress on them the wrongness of their actions.

By: First They Came For The Thrift Stores, Then They Came For The Libraries « The Dark Diva Diaries

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:44:55 +0000

[...] clipped from joannejacobs.com [...]

By: Bill Leonard

Bill Leonard — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:40:06 +0000

Well, golly-gosh, what else can we do to stifle every single creative urge of any sort among kids?

Let’s start with books: Yes, lead might be an issue. So might PCB — but only if a kid of any age spends a lot — and I mean, A LOT — like, most of his/her waking hours — chewing and swallowing pages out of books. Yes, chewing book pages is a national scourge…

Well. This old mossback will continue to keep all of his childhood books about those politically incorrect American heros such as Davey Crockett, Daniel Boone, Wild Bill Hickcock, Buffalo Bill, selected juvenile boys’ favorites of all kinds, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Robin Hood and Heaven knows how many others…

And by God, I will read them to my grandsons (no granddaughters as yet, sadly) and let them have a helluva good time with their papa. And bugger the literary/”educational” establishment.

As always, unregenerate.

Bill

By: Bart

Bart — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:23:29 +0000

“Kids’ dirt bikes and ATVs also are banned under the law because of metal alloys used in the tire valves and batteries.”

By that line of [I hate to call it] reasoning, kids should be prevented from riding in cars that use lead batteries.