2: Because when smart people with whom I otherwise agree distort facts to paint doomsday scenarios which are then proven to be unfounded, it dilutes the credibility of smart people everywhere.

Maybe you need a multivitamin.

Should have gotten asthma.

You know what? You're right. #1 was a stupid reason.

Reason #2 is the thing that really bothers me. We (smart people) accuse the media, the government, environmentalists, bureaucracies, etc., of using selective perception and distorting reality all the time. It is uncouth to do the same in response.

I have some stuff I bought called Gun Scrubber. The stuff is, quite litterally, pure CFC in a can. The propellant is the only thing in the can. Flashes off almost instantly, and will disolve any grease or oil. It will even remove the finish from cheap chinese SKS rifles.

How it's legal to sell, I don't know, but it is great stuff to use for cleaning guns, brake parts, carbs and a host of other things.

Sometimes I have to ask myself if shit like this is really happening or if this is a 3-year long lucid dream.

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(directed towards Braineack and those who fall into line behind his first post in this thread):

Look, I'm not in support of every little nannying regulation that a liberal government puts into place. God knows that CARB can curl up into a ball and die for all I care.

But if you're going to attack these policies and agencies, don't use the same brain-dead tactics to form your argument that they used in the first place. Everybody loses.

I didn't use tactics; i made a clever title.

here's my attack: how can the FDA approve something for ingestion, but somehow the EPA can urge them to overturn something making it more difficult more expensive to subdue an attack? I'm sure there are plenty worse things out there that hurt the ozone.

Simple: You (the EPA) find yourself in the position of not being compliant with an international treaty to which your country became a signatory 24 years ago.

It is much more important kill children now to protect the ozone layer than to let children live just to have them have a marginally increased chance at skin cancer later. Makes government sense to me. I'm all for killing the children.

Albuterol doesn't work as well (which is why the hell they were using CFCs/the other formulation in the first place). It took 20 seconds on Google to find this:

Newly formulated HFA asthma inhalers are replacing CFC propelled inhalers due to a ban on CFC propellant. Many people are finding the new inhalers (ProAir especially) ineffective and harmful to their health. If your asthma has been getting worse after being forced off of a generic or brand CFC inhaler, you are not alone! Please see the petition link below, read, and sign it to get your voice heard!



http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/s...ers/index.html


Sounds good to me, hehehehe! :twirls mustache while grinning sadistically and thinking of children dying on playgrounds everywhere:

BTW Brakleen without CFCs doesn't work for shit.

Like Buba bleeding his old R12 a/c system into the atmosphere. That accounts for probably 10,000 asthma inhalers.

Joe, how many days in a row would you let me borrow a dollar before you said, "Tough shit, pay for your own Cheetos."?

What's the appropriate response when the problem encroaches in minute degrees? Sure, we would all be pissed if they suddenly confiscated our guns tomorrow, but two dozen gradual and "reasonable" infringements over a 20 year period can produce the same result. Lots of minor annoyances can add up over time.

As an aside, apparently frogs will, in fact, jump out of a boiled pot of water, no matter how slowly the temperature is raised.

I have a clarification question:

The propellant was banned, but it's not possible to get the same active ingredient, with an approved propellant?

If so, the problem is that you can't assume that the substitutes will work as well for everyone.
A 40c migraine med just got effectively banned by the FDA and none of the substitutes I've tried work anywhere near as well.

So when are we to find out that the CFC scare is just as valid as the DDT debacle?

uhoh.....we got olderguy revved up with his DDT peeve. lol. i've sat through this one before.

we have awoken a sleeping giant.

To Joe:

Pseudoephedrine is controlled because it's used to make meth. Let's assume for the moment that it is morally correct to criminalize meth manufacturing.

The purpose of the laws controlling the sale of pseudoephedrine are:
1) make it harder for meth manufacturers to buy it
2) to make it easier to police for find said manufacturers

Now look at this
http://tribstar.com/local/x46868452/...ated-drug-laws

Gramma bought a 2nd box within a month, for her daughter and one for her husband (for a cold), and went over the limit. She got prosecuted, even though she did not use the meds to make meth.

The prosecutor said "she violated the law limiting the amount she was allowed to buy".

Here we have stupid prosecutors blindly enforcing a badly written law to the letter, instead of the intent of the law. This is but one form of tyranny.

One can classify laws into 2 types:
-Mala in Se and
-Mala Prohibita.
Mala in se means "immoral in itself" e.g. murder, rape
Mala prohibita means "illegal by statute" e.g. carrying >$10k in cash at an airport, and purchasing x grams of pseudoephedrine.

Most people are unaware of the distinction and blindly obey "the law" and worse, support bad laws. A simple example, is overtaking a tractor on a double yellow with excellent visibility and no cars in sight...


The creeping statism and autoritarianism of the government, is due to the boiling frog effect. Joe and everyone else don't see the creep as a problem.

I was diagnosed with Asthma as a child and I've been using that exact otc inhaler for years. Guess now I have to go out of my way and get a prescription now.
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I hate humans so I approve! Good job commander in chief!

No more $19.99 inhalers for you. You gotta pay your doctor to write a script, then pay a co-pay, then pay for the script. It suddenly became a lot more expensive for you to breathe.

but you can't keep your life saving medicine, so you'll be seeing that doctor a lot more :)

Irony?