He simply used an executive order that empowers the federal government to take “additional measures […] by executive departments and agencies (agencies) with regulatory authority to further improve chemical facility safety and security in coordination with owners and operators.” (See Sec. 1 of E.O.)
And to do so, he created a new bureaucratic working group, the “Chemical Facility Safety and Security Working Group,” under the control of DHS, EPA, and the Department of Labor.
— Who will determine who and what ammonium nitrate can be purchased by and used for. And stick that info into a database, along with all the Google info, the NSA info, the IRS info, and the health care info.
Because, like pressure cookers and backpacks — along with gasoline and matches and black powder and aerosol cans and other such things, like wires and contacts and batteries and egg timers, etc, evil inventions of putrid capitalists, all. — commercial ammonium nitrate, the fertilizer that makes farming affordable and, yes, largely viable and successful, can also be used by unscrupulous people to make bombs.
And the President is very concerned about potential terrorist violence — so much so that he wants to make it more difficult to obtain the farming staple. Though that whole Benghazi thing? Can’t we all just get over that already?
So it’s all about our safety. Nothing more. Which is why the wingnuts sounding the alarm sound so foolish.
Obama cares. And it’s not like the EPA, DHS, or the Labor department would ever use a vague, largely open-ended mandate about “safety monitoring” to hassle farmers, frustrate their efforts to grow crops, assess punitive damages against them, watch them with drones, etc. — in an effort to kill off small farms and take a controlling interest, through cronies, in the food supply.
Honestly, that’s absurd. And those black helicopters you keep insisting you’re seeing? Are really just huge ravens.
Which you fear. Because they are black. And you want them to fail.
Racists.
Look, Jeff, if he doesn’t do it this way, then there will be tens of thousands of people that will require new waivers to use the same thing that they were safely using before… by doing it this way, and concentrating the farming interests into the hands of just a few, well now, the total number of waivers required will be only a handful.
You’re always on about intrusive government and regulation and all… why do you hate efficiency, Jeff?
There would be a lot of kulaks who’d like to chime in about government involvement in agribusiness, but they can’t, seeing as how they starved to death in the ’30s. (Look, Ma! No Godwin!)
Don’t look at it as a ban – Think of it as America’s Great Leap Forward…
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“everytime your doctor puts on that glove and checks your prostate i want you to think of john boehner” m. levin @ 7:58 pm
and checks your prostate i want you to think of john boehner” m. levin @ 7:58 pm
– That will be even more poiniant under BoehnerCare™.
– Bumblefucks brotherhood blinks.
– Between Egypt and Syria the ME is turning into a nightmare for Foodstamps. Reality catches up with the Left. First Obama’s Muslim buds get the boot, then sKerry declares Chemical warfare in Syria, where apparently Assad conjured up some of those invisible WMD’s that Boooooosh invented.
– What next, he actually locates a copy of that DDS-180?
In a response to Radley Balko’s book “Rise of the Warrior Cop” One such “warrior cop” writes, proudly,
Of course he works in one of the main battlefields in the wars on crime and drugs where they need all the “black helicopters and masked, armored warriors they can get, as Balko points out.
The problem is that black helicopters need to get low to let the mysterious warriors rappel out and then people with the courage to own hide and use illegal things and develop inconspicuous secret handshakes and the will to form a secretive ruthless cabal kick their asses and tear off their balaclavas and identify them and go after their families. The might even bribe the Mayor with his choice of silver or lead and lead the whole unit into an ambush. Just ask the cartels in Mexico about it. Or the bikers. You can’t end up happily overwhelming amateur and barely armed neighborhood meth cookers and their neighbors forever. Once you mess up the money flow you will be marked and dealt with and that’s when we all find out if you are the warrior you think you are. Personally I think you guys will choose the plata when offered the choice of metals.
It’s because I’m black, isn’t it?
BBH, Prezbo has just declared that Syria has WMD and that We Need to Do Something About It™.
The left’s reaction? *crickets*
In a simpler time, people recognized the incredible importance (and the countless people fed) from the endless ammonium nitrate yielded through the Haber-Bosch process, not to mention the benefits to mankind of chemistry and chemicals. Now “chemical” is a word with all manner of unpleasant connotations.
When I was a young fellow I worked at an open pit coal mine in Wyoming where ammonium nitrate, diesel fuel, and blasting caps were routinely used to assist in the digging. I have pictures, being as it was pretty cool.
I suspect that Oklahoma bomber dude’s fate did more to discourage additional bombings in America than any Obama regulations will ever do. Probably the fasted anyone was executed in the US since WWII. It would probably do more to secure the borders too, keeping out the non American sneaky and swarthy Arab types what like to be named Mo, but I really don’t see Obama doing that.
BBH, Prezbo has just declared that Syria has WMD and that We Need to Do Something About It.
Remember when we were all crazy for suggesting that the ‘missing’ WMD in Iraq just might have gone on a little truck ride north to Syria. Because of Bush’s LIES!
I seem to remember something about that, too John.
You don’t suppose Bush was right all along do you? /sarcasm
Obama didn’t ban it, I just can’t buy it at Home Depot or Lowes anymore.
Get it at the Co-op. That’s what we do anyway.
Are really just huge ravens.
Which you fear. Because they are black. And you want them to fail.
I happen to like corvids. Proof.
Also, one of my favorite movies when I was a kid was Capricorn One, which featured black helicopters.
I’m safe.
Sorta related in cost of regulatory burden sort of way:
ABC wanted to stick it to a Republican Senator bad enough that they actually came out against a government oversight program, going so far as to note that it was an anti-c0mpetitive measure.
Don’t nobody tell ’em about Potassium perchlorate.
Helicopters? HA! That’s so 90’s!
Your movements ARE tracked. From 17,500 feet, and you’ll never notice a thing.
ARGUS-IS (Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System), with 1.8 gigapixels. It’s what’s DARPA serves for dinner.
Thanks, serr8d. I feel a lot better now.
Hearing Kerry declare their are WMDs in Syria reminds me of Team America:World Police>/i> in so many, many ways.
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“everytime your doctor puts on that glove and checks your prostate i want you to think of john boehner” m. levin
With due respect to Mr. Levin, he should be informed that henceforth, prostrate and breast examinations will no longer be given by trained (and very expensive) medical professionals, but instead by TSA agents.
Men and women over certain age thresholds will no longer be encouraged to visit a clinic, but rather to purchase airline tickets.
24 hours have elapsed since Kerry announced the intention of the US to strike Syria over the use of WMDs. I don’t see any protesters.
What the hell?
When the right people (actually the left people) are doing the bombing, it’s a-okay.
Boys to be tried as adults in WWII vet’s beating death
Sort of like when the six o’clock news stopped giving us the daily death count of soldiers, cranky? We skipped right over the 5000 + dead like it was nothing.
Meanwhile, Ostupid disses Putin again by cancelling his meeting with Vlad 72 hours out. That’s twice in only a week or two. I expect to see more pictures of a bare chested, bandoliered Putin riding a Grizzly bear to appear in the press soon.
“.I’m white and I’m so sick of conservatives whining their have been times I wanted to give them something real to cry about. ”
I rather hope this idiot gets himself shot.
Or at least gets an ass kicking when he shares this bit of wisdom at the local watering hole.
“I rather hope this idiot gets himself shot.”
I’m pretty sure this person only says things like that where known only as “day_in_the_sun”
You know, where claiming “I’m white” is the same as being white…
Ooooo…RACIST!!
Me, I’m dead chuffed to be on the verge of coming to the aid of the Muslim Brotherhood against China, Russia, and Iran.
Whatever can go wrong?
You don’t suppose that that’s the idea, do you?
“Russian Deputy Premier Calls West ‘Monkey With Hand Grenade’”
I have to admit that’s pretty pithy and apt. Can we get this guy a show on Fox?
Fox hell, have him do a rodeo.
Wearing an Obama mask?
We skipped right over the 5000 + dead like it was nothing.
What? I missed a Grim Milestone(tm)?
Words fail.