Obama was pissed that the Libya overthrow and an earthquake in DC happened while he was trying to vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, so he’s aimed a hurricane right at the island.
Dude. . .that’s like. . .heavy. And shit.
LOSE! If they loosed a few billion they could have solved it.
“Come back, zinc!”
I call bullshit. Really, the industry lost “billions” and entire dealerships were closed solely because of stupid-assed lead-acid battery restrictions in kiddie ATVs and bikes? Really? I’d like to see an independent cite for that.
Probably not solely - but this regulatory uncertainty on top of the existing recession likely did not help.
Not only that, but poisonous!
I mean, poisenous!
Nobody got my Pb& J joke 
I missed it while composing my own smartass reply, but yours is indeed pretty clever.
I got it, and I’ve been trying desperately to work it into a Leadbelly joke but it doesn’t look like I’m gonna pull it off. So just pretend I I did you proud and followed it up with a cripplingly hillarious Leadbelly joke.
Of course, the OP seems to be arguing that this was actually a good thing. You know, protecting the kids and all that.
One could make that argument however about each and every Federal, State, and local regulation in existence. My point of calling for a cite is on the “billions.”
I’m not defending the cite of how much it cost the industry, I just quoted it.
However, this has been going on for what? 2 years? I first talked about it in Sept of 2009. The bill got delayed in Jan 2011 and has now been overturned.
For nearly that entire time sales were stopped. Including the sale of ATVs and Dirtbikes and I believe many different types of helmets and other safety equipment/accessories.
I imagine in that span of time there were many many millions of lost dollars, possibly into a billion? Could be but I’m not going to research it.
Would that be assault with a battery?
That’s plumb loco!
Rekd, shouldn’t you be back in school by now?
So you started a pit thread of Obama and are now admitting you aren’t even willing to put thought into it. You really were just trolling the internet looking for reasons to be outraged.
I heard Obama eats babies! No I’m not going to show you pictures, I haven’t actually seen them, I’m sure it’s actually happening cause I heard it on the internets! Could be it was just veal but that’s just like eating babies!
What, you mean this bill, sponsored by Mary Bono Mack, R-CA?
Obviously the desire to poisen our young’uns with lead is something our leaders* can* agree on.
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You did? Where?
You just registered two days ago–are you a sock?