Our tax dollars at work..

"When I was a kid, every spring farmers and landowners would burn off the swamps, bogs, and brushlands."

I can see burning a few trees that have fallen over into productive cropland and can't be easily pushed back into the woods, but why would it be necessary to burn off non-productive land? They already went to seed last year. Wouldn't you just be killing off rabbits, birds and other critters? They're just going to come back with the same vegetation as last year. And, fence rows? All I ever saw was just charred and weakened wooden fence posts--didn't have much effect on the poison ivy and bushes--they all just came back anyway. As for brushlands, I wished for more than we had--made good pheasant hunting.... Seems like you could better spend your time plowing, painting buildings, weaning calves, spreading manure, getting machinery ready for planting and cultivating,.............and, and......

Cell phone talking is about to be outlawed while driving at least texting is in many states now,
Eating While driving has ALWAYS been against the law, it is called "Inattentive Driving Incase you did not know it.
Crossing in the middle IS not lawful now.
And the last two are just nonsense, and being a bit down on Law Enforcement?

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Well I'm gonna push to outlaw using one side of quotes without closing quotes. Thats just plain stupidity......Where does it stop?

Did you know that every single flat screen tv has a little hole on the stand to screw it down so some little kid can't pull the tv on top of itself. Shall we send people to jail for not screwing down their tv?

It's called evolution, the smart live and the dumb die. Ever hit a squirrel that didn't get out of the road on time?

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VFD aren't government officials, but you already knew that.

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Well for one if it doesn't get burned in small fires, the fuel(dead limbs, brush,ect.) builds up and then when it does catch fire its some huge forest fire like they have been having over in CA.

Ever wonder how a forest goes from evergreen(fastest growing) to hardwood? It is done by fire. The evergreens block sunlight from reaching the forest floor so the hardwoods cannot grow since they are slower growing.

And almost all animals are able to smell or sense the fire and get out of the way before it kills them. That is at least the case before we let the fuel buildup and now the fires are beginning even in winter when their hibernating. They are awake in the spring and summer when the spring storms ignite natural fires with lightning.

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Burn permit season here is in the winter, when it is almost impossible to start a fire. Think it may have more to do with air quality, than fire danger. Nothing better than a burn to bring out a good crop of Morels.

yes I know even my 40 inch HDTV has one, and as soon as I got mine set up I put a SCREW in the strap so I could not accidentally bump it, and tip it over and I am the ONLY one living here.
Ii makes perfect sense to have it fastened down, whether it is to protect children or not.
I am happy there was a strap and a hole so I could fasten it, made life easier then ME trying to make something like that.
And being handicapped with severe RA I sometimes stumble a little and being close to 60 now I am very very glad it has that strap on it. Children or no children it makes sense.

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Blooba,
The main reason I started calling the firetower if my smoker grill started making it look like I was setting the woods on fire was since our ground smoke chasers are VFD, I know most of them and I don't always have enough meat to include extra dinner guests on the spur of the moment.

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I have seen both sides. I have burned pastures, and in my area all you have to do is call and let them know you are going to burn. I had a "neighbor" almost a mile away four years ago who was ignorant enough to burn his brush pile in 30MPH winds. The fire came within 100ft of my house, and even burned others. I could have sued, but it was early spring, and didn't really hurt me, so I didn't. Others weren't so lucky, the guy is gone now, and some people were out more than dry grass. Just sayn I may not be ignorant, and you might not be ignorant, but the person who is, isn't likely to shell out the money to fix your house, equipment, fences, and everything else that doesn't mix with fire.

There is a solution to stupidity. It's called a Darwin Award:

http://www.darwinawards.com/

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you cut off the most important part, the question. Should we make it illegal NOT to strap it down?

How about your dressers, shelving units, tv stand,ect? they all have safety straps too.

(Don't go writing your Senator to propose this as a new law) If I see Herb Kohl proposing this I'll know where it came from.

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Just a curious question what are your thoughts on the new health care bill that was passed by our president Obama?

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You mean the Health Insurance Mandate? you can do a search for my posts on it but I'm against it and all other forms of socialism/communism.

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This is a nation of laws. We cannot, we must not, go back to the early 1800's.
Even Tombstone, AZ. The Town Too Tough To Die" had laws.

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There is a big difference between criminal law and tort law.

Here's a definition that you all should remember and think about.

com·mu·nism   [kom-yuh-niz-uhm]
–noun
a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

Starting to sound familiar?

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There will always be and should be laws that protect the masses. Whether you agree or not this country is now 300 Million plus, it is not the "simple life" anymore.

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Oh, there's 300 million people in the country. Then I'd say its time to change over to communism. What have we been waiting for? Thanks for clearing that up.

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I'd never thought I'd see the day when someone would say Arabian Knight and communism in the same paragraph.

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Cause the other poster doesn't know me at all. Thinks he does but he is WAY off.
I fought tooth and nail to get this health care bill stuff stopped, and any and all boards i am on.

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But as Nevada says, This is your little "pet" project. Just like the HCB was his. Government needs to step aside on everything but criminal law.

Small government and small taxes will never happen if all 300 million of us get our pet project set as law as we are currently doing. I could think of a few "pet" projects that I believe would be good but I do not pursue it as it would not be good for the cause

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