March 15, 2012
— rdbrewer Greeks started buying potatoes directly from farmers. Oh, the humanity!
The craze, which some are already starting to call the “Potato Revolution,” began in the northern town of Katerini two weeks ago. A group of local activists set up a website to allow people to order potatoes directly from local farmers, and then pick them up in a parking lot on the weekends. Their project was an instant hit. In the past two weeks, they’ve already sold 100 tons of potatoes, and inspired agricultural students in Thessaloniki to launch a similar program. Dozens more cities across Greece are planning to follow suit.. . .
“A funny thing happened – the local supermarkets started slashing their prices”
But as LauraW says in email:
I'm sure there is some Greek bureaucrat searching furiously to discover what law they're breaking. . . . [A]ctually, it's a no-brainer that they are breaking some law or other. In a euro-socialist economy, if two parties to a transaction are both happy with the deal, and no one is getting bribed to allow it, it's illegal.
Sure, those potatoes must be inspected. You have to submit samples, and they have to be tested in a lab for deliciousness. Only then can the potatoes be certified as "potatoes." Greek bureaucrats will not allow you to trade in "dirtbacks" and "Idaho turdmuffins."
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Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at March 15, 2012 12:37 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: Sockpuppet Czar at March 15, 2012 12:37 PM (62YR3)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 15, 2012 12:37 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 12:38 PM (YdQQY)
The mistake here will turn out to be letting the authorities know about this little capitalist freemarket action.
This will be squashed ten ways till Sunday, and the perpetrators punished appropriately.
In a socialist country, the first rule of freemarkets is never talk about freemarkets!!!
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2012 12:38 PM (neKzn)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 12:38 PM (+lsX1)
If no taxes are being paid on those potato transactions.....then, that is probably what they will go after them for, first.
That's always how the government tries to shut down private transactions and bartering......claiming that there are some taxes due.
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 12:39 PM (Izn98)
Posted by: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain at March 15, 2012 12:39 PM (bj+Nc)
Your Debbie Downer act is getting old. Is there a city in the country that doesn't have a farmer's market?
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 12:40 PM (+lsX1)
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 15, 2012 12:41 PM (vpe0k)
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2012 04:38 PM (neKzn)
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In a socialist country like ours, those free markets are called black markets.
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 12:42 PM (YdQQY)
10 They couldn't do that here either. We have 1 billion regulations that prevent it.
There used to be thousands of little roadside vegetable stands. ....Remember those? Gone now.
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 12:42 PM (Izn98)
Posted by: sTevo at March 15, 2012 12:43 PM (FzVlt)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 12:44 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 04:40 PM (+lsX1)
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Do you actually think a farmer's market is an unregulated free market. And wtf is there to be up about?
The country is going, correction, has gone to hell in a hand basket, we have a communist President and 4 of the biggest losers ever in the history of the Republican party vying to replace hi,
So yeah, I think we are f&*%ked.
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 12:44 PM (YdQQY)
This of course was impermissible, and he was required to undergo testing and certification. Because if he didn't, he'd be selling us corporate poisoned leaded Chinese eggs from oil-spill chickens.
Posted by: fb at March 15, 2012 12:44 PM (JVEmw)
Relatively speaking, farming potatoes isn't so hard. They're a hardy root vegetable that are highly competitive with all but the most aggressive weeds.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 12:45 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: sTevo at March 15, 2012 04:43 PM (FzVlt)
That's strictly for the union workers at lunchtime.
Posted by: joncelli, too stressed by half at March 15, 2012 12:45 PM (RD7QR)
Come on, Vic, look at the bright side--Internet Pron!
Except you may have to vote for the guy who will make it a capital offense.
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 15, 2012 12:46 PM (vpe0k)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 12:47 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 04:40 PM (+lsX1)
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There used to be one here in Oklahoma City. Closed about 5 years ago.
Posted by: Not an Artist at March 15, 2012 12:47 PM (Lo/3Q)
Posted by: Truman North at March 15, 2012 12:47 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Harry at March 15, 2012 12:47 PM (4Eh48)
I can go on craigslist right now and buy meat and eggs directly from any one of dozens of farmers. You might check back for those roadside stands a little later in the year, you know, when fruits and vegetables are ripe enough to sell.
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 12:48 PM (+lsX1)
Posted by: Spud Leonidas at March 15, 2012 12:48 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 15, 2012 04:46 PM (vpe0k)
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You forget, I live in SC. If it were possible to ban porn it would have been done here long ago. All this crap about social con issues is shit dreamed up by the liberals to get your mind and the issues to be discussed off the shitty economy.
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 12:48 PM (YdQQY)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 12:49 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Truman North at March 15, 2012 12:49 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Roy at March 15, 2012 12:50 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Chairman, Greek Potato Inspection and Tax Collection Council at March 15, 2012 12:50 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 12:50 PM (YdQQY)
I finally found a local butcher (well, semi-local. About 20 minutes away) to replace the one nearly an hour from my house that I had been using.
And they sell some of the best beef jerky I've had in a long, long time.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 12:51 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 15, 2012 12:51 PM (HethX)
But I really, reallylove the UNC-A game.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Alex. Seriously, if Syracuse goes out, it couldn't happen to a more deserving team.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 12:52 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Alcibiades at March 15, 2012 12:52 PM (QKKT0)
So let me see if I have this straight. Competition is lowering prices, and the free market is simultaneously producing happy consumers and producers. Is that right?
Hmmm. Karl says that can't be. So does Barry.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 15, 2012 12:54 PM (7tPfr)
'Give Me Tater Tots or Give Me Death'
Drat you to heck, garrett, now I'm going to have to hit up Sonic tonight.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 12:54 PM (VtjlW)
Of course it is - it's the definition of an unregulated free market. Even better, there's a guy here that sells fresh fish out of an old school bus that he parks on the side of the highway. He's been doing it for years. Take a break from crying on your keyboard, not everyone is as ready to surrender as you are.
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 12:55 PM (+lsX1)
Posted by: Truman North at March 15, 2012 12:56 PM (I2LwF)
"Drat you to heck, garrett, now I'm going to have to hit up Sonic tonight."
B'Gal's been after me to pick up their Sweet Potato Tots for about a week now.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at March 15, 2012 12:57 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Truman North at March 15, 2012 12:57 PM (I2LwF)
In my lighter moments I hope phenomena such as this will cause the lightbulb to go on over the heads of the citizens of socialist countries.
But then I think of our 52%ers, and I think ... NAH.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 15, 2012 12:57 PM (7tPfr)
My BIL was going to turn these huge hot delicious pepper plants he had into a business selling pepper powder.....
then he told the government.
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 15, 2012 12:57 PM (vpe0k)
I have Syracuse winning in one of my brackets,
I had them through to the final four in all of mine I think but I went back and changed all that last night after Melo was declared ineligible. Seriously, this would be a huge huge bracket buster and that would be awesome.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 12:57 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 04:40 PM (+lsX1)
Sure, if you pay to have all your produce independently inspected for quality... if you don't they can fine you.
Hey, they tried to pass the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 to require tens of thousands of dollars of testing for all small farmer privately owned sales as well.
But you're right, it hasn't passed, yet... although they keep trying to shut them down and regulate them out of existence. So it's a non-issue; ignore them trying to destroy farmers markets because they haven't succeeded (quite yet).
I mean just because they're trying and proposing laws to do exactly this doesn't mean anything. We only worried about what Congress does once they actually succeed in removing liberty and freedom from people... we shouldn't complain when they're just TRYING to do this.
Or did you have a different argument to justify your defense and apathy for Congress actually working on this very thing? You think they'll never do it again? Or is a $1 million fine for any infraction something your local farmers market can afford?
Posted by: gekkobear at March 15, 2012 12:58 PM (X0NX1)
Posted by: Entropy at March 15, 2012 12:59 PM (TULs6)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 15, 2012 12:59 PM (HethX)
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That is not a Farmer's Market. It is a black market and he will get away with it until some local merchant gets a hard on because there is unlicensed competition taking his customers.
And what makes you think I have surrendered? I am just waiting for the collapse.
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 12:59 PM (YdQQY)
A NV "Farm to Fork" event got shut down by the health department. They didn't have a permit you see, and the meat hadn't been inspected by the USDA. The local gov't representative had the food thrown into the garbage and bleach poured over it.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 15, 2012 01:00 PM (ZPlWT)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 01:00 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 01:00 PM (GTbGH)
They should have eaten the health inspector.
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 01:01 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: sherlock at March 15, 2012 01:02 PM (7UMow)
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 05:00 PM (GTbGH)
Ooooo dat reminds me --I'm going shwimping did weekend!
Posted by: Bawney Fwank at March 15, 2012 01:02 PM (CE2wR)
Posted by: jeannie the dancing bug at March 15, 2012 01:04 PM (GdalM)
Sure sweety, my observation that there are actual, functioning farmer's markets, u-pick operations and farm sold meat, eggs and produce everywhere in the country is exactly the same thing as defending fringe weirdos that would take that away. I didn't think it was possible over the internet, but it appears that you and Vic have synchronized your menstrual cycles.
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 01:04 PM (+lsX1)
Posted by: National Potato Asscociation at March 15, 2012 01:05 PM (axc/z)
Posted by: lowandslow at March 15, 2012 01:05 PM (GZitp)
Posted by: BuckIV at March 15, 2012 01:06 PM (AtjNL)
“That’s his political world, Chicago… Republicans, they’re not part of the conversation. There’s no need to engage their ideas because they just really don’t count for anything. And, the attitude of Chicago democrats to the private sector has always been that look, there’s lots of big businesses in Chicago and they will always have to – you can put any amount of burden on them and they will always pay up. And, they won’t leave and we can milk them for as much as we want. That’s what a private sector is for.”
It's a video at the link, not a transcript.
http://tinyurl.com/7sm96td
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 15, 2012 01:06 PM (nMiwq)
Government raids on Farms which sell direct to consumers has gotten so bad in recent years.....that there is now a 'Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund'.
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 01:06 PM (Izn98)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at giants vs Indians game at March 15, 2012 01:06 PM (WRaHa)
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 01:06 PM (GTbGH)
If Greece is going to revert back to pre-EU conditions, can they bring back the old Gods, too. World could use some serious Zeus-ing.
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 15, 2012 01:07 PM (HethX)
http://www.nydailynews.com/ opinion/i-massacre-coming-article- 1.1039181
Posted by: Grandma Mimi at March 15, 2012 01:07 PM (s+/C2)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2012 01:08 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: phoenixgirl getting mani pedi at March 15, 2012 01:09 PM (WRaHa)
Posted by: Michael at March 15, 2012 01:09 PM (2fJD1)
Posted by: phoenixgirl getting mani pedi at March 15, 2012 01:10 PM (WRaHa)
Posted by: phoenixgirl getting mani pedi at March 15, 2012 01:12 PM (WRaHa)
Posted by: X at March 15, 2012 01:12 PM (8Yc/9)
Actually, it sounds more like the "Parking Lot Revolution". I would call it the "Pathetic Revolution", myself.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 15, 2012 01:13 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: mama winger at March 15, 2012 01:14 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 15, 2012 01:14 PM (HethX)
Posted by: Michael at March 15, 2012 01:15 PM (2fJD1)
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 01:15 PM (GTbGH)
Europe and all of its pathetic sub-nations have VATs. The Greeks are breaking all sorts of laws with their Parking Lot Revolution (i.e. black market in a VAT economy). Greek law and more than likely EU law, too.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 15, 2012 01:15 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: the Russians at March 15, 2012 01:16 PM (Dll6b)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2012 05:08 PM (1Jaio)
If the Irish want work, they can dig me another sub-way!
Posted by: Harry Dixon-Bowles at March 15, 2012 01:16 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: willow at March 15, 2012 01:17 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 15, 2012 01:17 PM (HethX)
We have farmers markets here in OK. And they have to adhere to fed regs just like grocery stores. Do we pay sales tax? Yup.
Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 01:18 PM (uGXx4)
Posted by: Harry Dixon-Bowles at March 15, 2012 01:18 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2012 05:08 PM (1Jaio)
Why the Irish? It was the French who preferred starvation to potatoes.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 15, 2012 01:20 PM (X3lox)
99 There are lots of roadside stands near me. Some of them you just put the money in a little can and take what you pay for. Nobody's there to make sure you don't cheat.
That may be how they're getting around the regs and taxes. ....Maybe they're saying that money can is for 'donations', and they are giving their produce away for free?
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 01:20 PM (Izn98)
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 15, 2012 01:21 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at March 15, 2012 01:21 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Bob Costas at March 15, 2012 01:23 PM (vhwRj)
Posted by: Minuteman at March 15, 2012 01:23 PM (acEq7)
Posted by: d_fitz
Well that is quite a pair. Other than that... nothin'.
Posted by: Dang at March 15, 2012 01:23 PM (BbX1b)
Posted by: Escort Service Disclaimer at March 15, 2012 05:22 PM (v+QvA)
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So where do the potatos come in?
Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 01:24 PM (uGXx4)
Posted by: polynikes - Texan for Romney at March 15, 2012 01:24 PM (jTVGC)
Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 05:24 PM (uGXx4)
.
In most places, that kind of action costs extra.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 15, 2012 01:27 PM (qx7YW)
Posted by: willow at March 15, 2012 01:27 PM (TomZ9)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7gmfv5z
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“If you have 10,000 regulations,” Winston Churchill said, “you destroy all respect for law.”
He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That’s what we have in America. We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities have probably doubled that. We have so many rules that legal specialists can’t keep up. Criminal lawyers call the rules “incomprehensible.” They are. They are also “uncountable.” Congress has created so many criminal offenses that the American Bar Association says it would be futile to even attempt to estimate the total.
So what do the politicians and bureaucrats of the permanent government do? They pass more rules.
ThatÂ’s not good. It paralyzes life."
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 15, 2012 01:28 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: real joe at March 15, 2012 01:29 PM (1QS0B)
Posted by: Y-not at March 15, 2012 01:30 PM (5H6zj)
Farmers Markets are a state and local thing. In our town all you have to do is rent a spot. No inspectors or regulators.<<<
Intra-state sales, no USDA involvement. South Louisiana has vegetable stands, fresh shrimp, oysters, fish - you name it.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 15, 2012 01:30 PM (EgUGc)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 15, 2012 01:30 PM (HethX)
bureaucrats of the permanent government do? They pass more
rules.
ThatÂ’s not good. It paralyzes life."
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 15, 2012 05:28 PM (Hx5uv)
I always imagine i must break several laws a day, even though i try to be law abiding. I imagine even breathing might break the law some day.
according to the greenies just being alive is a hardship on the earth.
Posted by: willow at March 15, 2012 01:30 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: polynikes - Texan for Romney at March 15, 2012 05:24 PM (jTVGC)
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My dad and my uncle owned a small grocery store. They'd barter all the time. Some poor dirt farmer couldn't pay his grocery bill? He'd slaughter one of his cows, have it inspected and processed and give it all to dad. Bill payed.
Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 01:31 PM (uGXx4)
Posted by: d_fitz at March 15, 2012 05:18 PM (f80uo)
Watching her walk away is like watching two hogs fighting in a gunny sack.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 15, 2012 01:31 PM (NVu2l)
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 01:31 PM (GTbGH)
Also, like all regulations, it punishes the honest people and does nothing to cure any perceived problems that the bill was alleged to cure.
One of the drivers for that bill was the tainted peanut butter factory in GA. They were already in violation of existing regulations that the FDA depended on paper to enforce.
As for regulations for farmers markets and roadside stands those are mostly State and Local. How strict they are and how they are enforced is a local issue.
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 01:31 PM (YdQQY)
If Vic was going to be hanged with a new rope, he'd gripe about that, too.
"I want the old rope. New rope's itchy - scratches mah neck."
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 15, 2012 01:32 PM (EgUGc)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 15, 2012 01:33 PM (EgUGc)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 15, 2012 01:33 PM (7tPfr)
We are all Greek! Last summer many of us read stories about lemonade stands being closed down/fined, same with vegetable gardens. We cannot fight the idiocy one at a time. If everyone who is able starts a vegetable garden, lemonade stand, etc. this year, we can win this game.
Posted by: Calyx at March 15, 2012 01:34 PM (r8gUg)
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 01:34 PM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Y-not at March 15, 2012 01:35 PM (5H6zj)
What gives?
Posted by: S Daniel at March 15, 2012 01:35 PM (BVkEs)
Farmers Markets are a state and local thing. In our town all you have to do is rent a spot. No inspectors or regulators.<<<
Not for long, buddy.
Posted by: Michelle Obama's Landing Strip at March 15, 2012 01:35 PM (dpExT)
Of course it is - it's the definition of an unregulated free market. Even better, there's a guy here that sells fresh fish out of an old school bus that he parks on the side of the highway. He's been doing it for years. Take a break from crying on your keyboard, not everyone is as ready to surrender as you are.
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 15, 2012 04:55 PM (+lsX1)
The guy that did that here in CT was bringing in fresh lobster/fish from Maine and got arrested and got a big fine. Not sure if he did any actual jail time. He failed to get a CT Food Vendors License, A CT Shellfish License, A road side vendor permit from the town of Montville, etc. He had literally about a dozen charges against him. So I guess you could say at least in CT that the "free market" is regulated as all heck.
Posted by: Johnnyreb at March 15, 2012 01:36 PM (LysOu)
We need to have Term Limits for govt bureaucrats. ....Ten years, and they're out! .....Out into the private sector. No f'ckn pensions. No lifetime gravy train.
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 01:36 PM (Izn98)
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 05:31 PM (YdQQY)
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That plus the fact that private lawsuits over tainted food have increased, not decreased, shows that there is no benefit to having the FDA. Why exactly did we violate the constitution to create it in the first place?
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 15, 2012 01:36 PM (qx7YW)
Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 15, 2012 01:37 PM (3wYCm)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 15, 2012 01:37 PM (npr0X)
Posted by: rdbrewer at March 15, 2012 01:37 PM (Iyg03)
Get between the average SEIU thug and a biggie sized portion of french fries and you would have a potato rebellion.
I can't wait. I will be conflicted, but the entertainment value would be awesome.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 15, 2012 01:37 PM (NVu2l)
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 01:38 PM (GTbGH)
shakeshakeshake
...
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Commerce Clause!
Posted by: AoSHQ Offical Magic 8-Ball (AllenG Edition) at March 15, 2012 01:38 PM (8y9MW)
@153
Vic's last words, Rev. 1.1:
"Goddamn revenuers with their fancy copper-jacketed bullets. Lead Minie balls was good enough for Grampa to get shot with, why can't they show a man some respect..."
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 15, 2012 01:38 PM (EgUGc)
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 05:38 PM (GTbGH)
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I thought it was created by that 'Thalidomide" thing.
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 01:39 PM (YdQQY)
You know, a dic-tater.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at March 15, 2012 01:40 PM (WdKsY)
Posted by: S Daniel at March 15, 2012 05:35 PM (BVkEs)
Austin will shut down a lemon ade stand, but illegals who drive up a load of shrimp and set up alongside the road are cool. Go figure.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 15, 2012 01:40 PM (NVu2l)
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 05:36 PM (Izn9
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Oh, the wailing and the gnashing of teeth!
Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 01:40 PM (uGXx4)
Interesting phrasing in the Rasmussen poll: 48% blame bad economy on Bush Recession; 46% blame Obama policies.
Bush Recession huh...oh, Scott, why do you hurt me so...
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 15, 2012 01:41 PM (Ec6wH)
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 05:38 PM (GTbGH)
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So, what you are saying is that the FDA is the food version of the TSA - wasting my money and pretending the problem is fixed.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 15, 2012 01:41 PM (qx7YW)
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I live about 100 yards from a cop. No moonshining here. Besides, with the price of sugar so damn artificially high its cheaper to buy liquor than sneak around and make it yourself, even in this high tax damn State.
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 01:41 PM (YdQQY)
Yeah, but Austin and Reality have (at best) a tangential relationship anyway.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 01:41 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 01:42 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 01:43 PM (GTbGH)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7z4krcq
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 15, 2012 01:43 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 05:41 PM (8y9MW)
Austin is weird. 
They are not as crazy as california on labor costs. Which is also weird since so much of the city council are california commie transplants.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 15, 2012 01:44 PM (NVu2l)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 15, 2012 01:44 PM (tKFT6)
This is why NONE of these regulations ever work. We have just as many highly publicized cases of tainted food now as we had in the early days before the FDA.
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 01:45 PM (YdQQY)
@174, Soona
That's wheatie's version of "spread the wealth around". .....Those govt bureaucrat jobs have gotten so luxurious, they should give other folks a chance at them.
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 01:45 PM (Izn98)
No. No, it isn't.
Posted by: Grandmaster Flaash and the Furious Five at March 15, 2012 01:45 PM (vRSeu)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 15, 2012 01:46 PM (eCnLg)
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 01:46 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Massachusetts at March 15, 2012 05:44 PM (vRSeu)
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I was talking about liquor taxes. I suspect liquor taxes here are higher.
Posted by: Vic at March 15, 2012 01:46 PM (YdQQY)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 15, 2012 01:47 PM (eCnLg)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 15, 2012 05:41 PM (8y9MW)
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Heh.
Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 01:47 PM (uGXx4)
Posted by: lowandslow at March 15, 2012 01:48 PM (GZitp)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 15, 2012 01:48 PM (tKFT6)
Yup. The Food and Drug Act of 1906.
"The Jungle" did have something to do with it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at March 15, 2012 01:48 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: Keith Arnold at March 15, 2012 01:48 PM (Jdtsu)
No idea, really. Just piling on, like I said.
Posted by: fluffy lives close to NH at March 15, 2012 01:48 PM (vRSeu)
Posted by: Truman North on the iPad at March 15, 2012 01:49 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Soledad O'Brian's magical earpiece at March 15, 2012 01:49 PM (/E3ql)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 15, 2012 05:46 PM (eCnLg)
When the economy collapses, I going into car mechanic-ing. Lots of single females need their cars fixed, and barter is a good thing. How does Uncle Samovitch tax er...favors?
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 15, 2012 01:49 PM (NVu2l)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 15, 2012 01:50 PM (qx7YW)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 15, 2012 05:46 PM (eCnLg)
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When I was growing up (prior to the "Great Society"), that's how we did it.
Posted by: Soona at March 15, 2012 01:50 PM (uGXx4)
load of shrimp and set up alongside the road are cool. Go figure.
Sounds like L.A., unfortunately.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at March 15, 2012 01:50 PM (bjRNS)
Posted by: polynikes - Texan for Romney at March 15, 2012 01:51 PM (jTVGC)
We have much less food-borne illness than in 1906, but that is a function of the increase in wealth and scientific progress, not as a result of the government.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at March 15, 2012 01:51 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 15, 2012 01:51 PM (eCnLg)
Posted by: toby928© at March 15, 2012 01:51 PM (GTbGH)
They pro-rate the cost of birth control to the State, tovarich.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at March 15, 2012 01:52 PM (bjRNS)
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 05:51 PM (Izn9
That would just be so wrong. They'll probably try. What would be a fair share?
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 15, 2012 01:54 PM (NVu2l)
The FSMA was signed into law 1/4/2011
Posted by: Heorot at March 15, 2012 01:54 PM (Nq/UF)
Posted by: mama winger at March 15, 2012 01:54 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 15, 2012 01:54 PM (eCnLg)
Posted by: mpfs, Under March Madness Spell at March 15, 2012 01:55 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: Stalin at March 15, 2012 01:55 PM (mQMnK)
Is that the story grandpappy told you while bouncing you on his knee, telling you all about those damned Yankees and their infernal rifles that you load on Sunday and shoot all week?
Nice story but it isn't true. Lincoln may have signed the beast into being, but its antecedents were well established in the federal government by the time Lincoln was elected.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at March 15, 2012 01:56 PM (nEUpB)
For every tenth, you owe Nancy Pelosi one.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at March 15, 2012 01:56 PM (bjRNS)
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 01:57 PM (Izn98)
Posted by: Truman North on the iPad at March 15, 2012 01:57 PM (I2LwF)
The one with the Idaho sticker.
Remember to tip your waitress.
Posted by: Spuds Bitman at March 15, 2012 01:59 PM (axc/z)
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at March 15, 2012 05:56 PM (bjRNS)
Ewww. I think my plan might need more market research. The other nine would have to be spectacular.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 15, 2012 01:59 PM (NVu2l)
Posted by: crosspatch at March 15, 2012 01:59 PM (ZbLJZ)
211 Per orgasm?
....Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 05:51 PM (Izn9
That would just be so wrong. They'll probably try. What would be a fair share?
It would be discriminatory against men, of course. ....Because us girls could just lie and say "Orgasm? What orgasm?" .....Lesbians could end up being tax free.
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 02:01 PM (Izn98)
Posted by: wheatie at March 15, 2012 06:01 PM (Izn9
I'm not teaching any lezbos to fix cars unless they share.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 15, 2012 02:03 PM (NVu2l)
A friend who's a nurse also gardens and sells her produce at the markets. She says she makes more in the summer from the garden than she does from nursing @$20+ per hour.
Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2012 02:06 PM (gre5a)
Posted by: izoneguy at March 15, 2012 02:20 PM (edKMc)
Posted by: Jean at March 15, 2012 03:16 PM (Mpktm)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 15, 2012 03:21 PM (6RnvM)
Posted by: The kind of guy who always signs posts "just thinking" when he's clearly not. at March 15, 2012 03:30 PM (JVEmw)
I would like to see the Greeks empower themselves, starting with the lowly tater (precious). It is a start on breaking the power and stagnation of big brother govt. This could spread all over. Best of luck to us all.
Posted by: Alaska Paul at March 15, 2012 04:52 PM (rMkgW)
Posted by: befuddled at March 15, 2012 06:04 PM (xJU23)
Posted by: befuddled at March 15, 2012 06:11 PM (xJU23)
Posted by: scr_north at March 16, 2012 09:44 PM (/fseW)
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