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January 03, 2013

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matt

most atmospheric lead today comes from the weights used to balance tires. They fall off and get ground down. Still, the exposure through tetra ethyl lead would seem to have some credibility.

Lead itself is inert. There has been a massive drive to ban lead in products such as electronics that has absolutely no impact on lead exposure levels. The loons take one instance and make it a template for the complete ban on certain substances. Foolish.

peter

That whole lead poisoning scam was and still is a big moneymaker for the trial lawyers.

Richard Aubrey

Talked to a contractor about the state and fed requirements for renovating in a home with lead paint. Major, major pain in the rump.

Rob Crawford

Lead bulks like tire weights, fishing weights, and slugs are nearly inert. Once the outer layer oxidizes, it's stopped.

The overwrought reaction to lead is also being used to go after shooting ranges. The only source of biologically active lead in shooting is from the primers and their smoke; the slugs are only dangerous if they hit you. But the ignorant want every gram of lead removed from ranges.

Remember when Clinton signed an executive order requiring arsenic levels in water BELOW the natural levels in some areas? That's where the lead scare is going.

Old Lurker

Well I worked through dioxin. And I worked through asbestos. And I worked through mold. But when Rhode Island handed down rules and court decisions regarding liability for lead paint I figured I had seen the movie so I sold all interests in rental residential properties and never looked back.

It is an issue in commercial properties but the regs are easier and the ratio of rent to risk is the reverse of residential rentals.

narciso

Meanwhile they tell us not to focus on those things that are 'clear and present dangers'

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/01/cair-demands-media-drop-term-islamist/

Rob Crawford

I will admit to being biased against the lead scare. Besides shooting, I paint miniature figures that, traditionally, have been made from lead because lead is cheap, easy to cast, and harmless. Back in the early 1990s, a New York attorney general made noise about suing the companies that make the figures over their lead content -- "They're toys! Made from lead!" -- never mind the target audience averaging 30. As a result, the manufacturers moved to god-awful brittle pewters. The prices doubled, it became nearly impossible to modify them, and the life span of figures was easily halved because if the figure bent, well, you could bend it back ONCE.

A few years ago the Indonesians jacked up the price of tin, doubling the the prices of figures again. Some companies started moving back to lead, some to plastic. But the start-up costs for plastics are something like 10x that for metal -- and so many small companies die...

Jane - Mock the Media!

Many years ago when I owned a 2 family house I evicted some tenants who were dealing drugs in the apartment and in retaliation they called in the board of health AKA the lead paint police. I had to completely strip all the paint in all the rooms and repaint - even tho it was a 100 year old house and the lead part was about 10 paint layers deep.

The contractor had to pass a course in lead paint removal before he was allowed to do the job and you couldn't do this or that or anything else. It was expensive, ridiculous and as big a pain in the ass as it gets. I felt like I was hanging on for dear life when they did the re-inspection.


It passed but the whole thing was a complete nightmare.

Beasts of England

I blame my decreased waterfowl harvest on the lead ban. That's gotta be it, right?

narciso

I know this is why Bloomberg was the lesser evil;


http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/03/msnbc-guest-equates-gun-owners-with-child-molesters-wants-them-treated-the-same/

but he's been drinking from lead lined goblets as well.

Chelate to the party.

For Tetraethyllead give Ethylenediaminetetracetic acid.
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Clarice

Well , yes, the lead ban is ridiculous esp the painting of already encapsulated lead paint. It looks even crazier when you consider the govt that puts you thru all those hops demands that you replace your perfectly good lightbulbs with ones containing mercury.

narciso

OT, They have gone bonkers over at the Weather channel, haven't they kim, yes there was a SyFy
film along those lines of 'Space Weather'

matt

Tin, the major replacement in electronics jumped from $7,000/ton to a rough value of $25,000 ton today because of the shift. Not only that, I was in three separate discussions today on the poor electrical liability of tin soldered printed circuit boards.

Airbus went to all lead free electronics on the A-380 and a lot of us in the electronics industry really don't like flying that model for that reason.

Clarice

*hoOps*

narciso

Like Venkman, I'm no specialist in metallurgy, and that seems like a crazy move.

centralcal

Haven't kept up with the thread today, so hope I am not repeating something posted by others - late in the day and caught up at work, several folks had the same link on Twitter, followed by a stream of HA HA HA's.

The link went to some Democrat Underground comment thread. What a hoot. Apparently, these liberals had gotten their first paychecks of the new year and were whining, wailing, and gnashing teeth because their take home pay was less than last year.

Gave me a great big gloating smile on my face.

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Gee, I read and I read and I read Kevvy's article and I saw where he said conservatives were wrong and the coppers were wrong and the prison builders were wrong but I looked in vain to find where he said that the millions of left wing pukes and their stupid claims that poverty causes crime were wrong.
Guess that's what he means when he says it's not a partisan thing, just common sense.

One our Army's earliest triumphs was escorting the Redcoats into Concord with fife and drum.

Well, I had a Sam Adams lately, and it tasted like Gage's Grenadiers had been put through the hops, the skips, and the jumps back to Charleston.
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Deh!

One 'of' our....
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rse

Ah, Kim, just finished looking through nas's "A National Strategy for Advanced Climate Modelling."

It's the models, not reality that prevail.

Need to set up more funding.

Need to bribe all in computer science or weather tracks into this "well-paid career paths."

Need to aspire to centennial modelling.

Might as well hit that cliff. We are building huge infrastructures all over the place committed to implementing pure fantasies.

Power and money.

Another Bob

matt: Ditto the auto industry. All auto electronics must be lead-free.

Given that industry makes 'em by the hundreds-of-thousands, I'm pretty sure the supplier's quality people would know if tin solders were an issue. Their PPMs seem to indicate they aren't.

Jim Miller

When I have seen those studies on lead, I have always wondered whether they had controlled for everything they should have controlled for, since living in lead-painted houses, and near freeways have to be correlated with lots of other things. (For instance, being without a father in the home.)

Or if they had looked at some of the special cases.

For instance, he doesn't mention one of the first things I'd do, if I were studying the problem -- look at lead miners, their families, and lead mining towns. Fifty years ago, some of those people must have been exposed to very high levels of lead.

There are also any number of veterans who were shot with lead bullets, some of which were not be removed completely.

And he neglects what I think must be part of the explanation: As crime began rising in the 1960s, the chances of significant punishment was falling; as those chances rose again the the 1980s, crime began to fall again.

Rick Ballard

Ignatz,

If you're interested in wild flights of correlation, read the Nevin's link. I'm rather surprised he didn't do a lead/climate change study to cap it off.

RichatUF

Airbus went to all lead free electronics on the A-380 and a lot of us in the electronics industry really don't like flying that model for that reason.

RoHS. In y previous job it was a pain in the ass.

kim-

lol. I had two;) Celebrating going home-finally.

RichatUF

Jim-

I see a grant in your furure.

Jim Miller

Speaking of crime, some studies (mostly by economists) find that the death penalty deters somewhere between 5 and 15 murders per execution.

I am inclined to believe those results (as is Gary Becker, who knows way more about the methodology than I do), but will admit that the very range of the results should make us uncertain about the generalization.

Would Drum accept those results, see them as interesting but unproven, or just dismiss them?

Jim Miller

RichatUF - Not if I don't learn to proof my applications. As most of you must have guessed, that "the the" should be "in the". (And I did use the preview.)

RichatUF

blame the cat...or the beer (burp).

Clarice

I recall reading some time ago that the soil in Japan (urban areas I assume) was more heavily contaminated by heavy metals than the soil in the US) and though they did not apply the expensive remediation procedures we require there was very little lead in their bodies. The reason is they remove their shoes before entering their homes and regularly wash their hands when entering and before eating.

Perhaps we ought to have a federal hand washing and outside shoe box cadre.

Jim Miller

I could blame the half glass of Charles Shaw Merlot. Which isn't bad for a wine that costs $2.50 a bottle here in Washington state.

narciso

Wait there's even more to Nevins;

http://www.ricknevin.com/Energy_Efficiency.html

narciso

And some of his hisruptcy;


http://www.ricknevin.com/research.html

narciso

I'm sure when Bush won, he told Obama the right thing, right;


http://www.therightscoop.com/wolf-blitzer-to-ted-cruz-you-cant-be-overly-idealistic-you-have-to-compromise-because-obama-won/

Captain Hate

Remember when Clinton signed an executive order requiring arsenic levels in water BELOW the natural levels in some areas? That's where the lead scare is going.

Didn't Mr Clot sign that on the way out the door to make it rough for GWB to be in compliance and give the greens something to whine about?

Do any of these sooper jeenyusses realize that lead, like arsenic, is an element and, lacking a huge breakthrough in alchemy, can't be changed into anything different (it can be combined with something to make a compound although lead is pretty inert).

RichatUF

1. Yes. And predictibly, a bunch of ecokook groups had kids in ads about "arsenic in the water".

2. It makes for really colorful paints;) But sure the group that put this press release out wants to turn it into gold.

narciso

You weren't kidding, Jim, or Rick,


http://www.ricknevin.com/uploads/Exerpt_-_Correlation__Causation__Consistency__and_.pdf

Clarice

What I also recall is that the congenitally tongue tied Bush administration never bothered to make the point about arsenic levels at least not clearly enough to matter.

narciso

Maybe there is something to this lead thing after all;

http://theothermccain.com/2013/01/03/joe-biden-class-act/

Rob Crawford
Need to bribe all in computer science or weather tracks into this "well-paid career paths."

Heh. They're demanding CS people because the Climategate leaks showed their software is crap.

Of course, their "models" are crap, too, so...

Rob Crawford
There are also any number of veterans who were shot with lead bullets, some of which were not be removed completely.

I'm not a doctor, but I understand the body wraps foreign objects in scar tissue, and sometimes bone. And, as mentioned above, once the outer surface of the lead oxidizes, it's got its own protection.

narciso

That was Abbott where's Costello of the RT set;

http://freebeacon.com/hagel-nabs-coveted-911-truther-endorsement/

Captain Hate

What I also recall is that the congenitally tongue tied Bush administration never bothered to make the point about arsenic levels at least not clearly enough to matter.

Why is it only Karen Hughes understood the importance of explaining things to the public?

narciso

Did you catch the new episode of POI, Captain?

Captain Hate

Yes I did, narc; looks like Reese has his work cut out for him next week.

RichatUF

Maybe there is something to this lead thing after all...

An explaination for the rampant criminality on Capitol Hill.

Oregon has this game well in hand.

Captain Hate

Dammit, I hate the Ducks. Oh well, they aren't playing for #1

fdcol63

CH, don't forget Tony Snow. Man, I miss him.

Captain Hate

I was thinking of including Tony except that was his job; one that he did much better than McClellan for sure. I also miss him on FNS.

narciso

He did make it seem so easy, it helped that he came from journalism, like the late Tony Blankley
as well,

Captain Hate

I'd forgotten Blankley was dead; he was the only thing that made the McLaughlin group tolerable when I could still endure gasbag John.

narciso

Sometimes I wish I didn't remember things so well, Captain, in the LUN, 'something completely
different'

narciso

And a corrective, I knew that a film underwritten by Dubai and written by Boal and Bigelow would throw some curve balls;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-cia-veteran-on-what-zero-dark-thirty-gets-wrong-about-the-bin-laden-manhunt/2013/01/03/4a76f1b8-52cc-11e2-a613-ec8d394535c6_story_1.html

Captain Hate

Ha! I saw that yesterday. Glad she's able to capitalize on something that makes it seem like she's having fun while competing at a high level. Isn't that what sports are supposed to be about?

narciso

The problem is even more widespread then I thought;


http://twitchy.com/2013/01/02/mr-not-so-brightside-sen-durbin-lauds-young-rock-group-the-killers-from-senate-floor/

narciso

You'll be surprised Captain, that Gov. 'Jiffy Lube' the other beauty contestant is out at Current, since 'the Flame' bought it.

Manuel Transmission

When I was in college, we did a fundraiser for our rifle team by cleaning out the sand traps behind the target area. (This was in the basement of the old stadium.) Anyway, a weekend of breathing lead dust while sifting for bullets gave me the worst headache I've ever had in my life. Respirators? we don't need no steenkin respirators.

Looking back on it, I probably injested 10k-100k the maximum recommended daily (lifetime?) allowance.

Somehow, after that, the idea that some inner city brat chewed off the paint on his crib and got stupid seemed preposterous.

peter

I work in the field of defense of personal injury lawsuits. The whole lead paint scam is a huge moneymaker for trial attorneys, who have a cadre of "experts" who cut and paste their reports for each welfare recipient plaintiff who then sue their government assisted slumlord, who then has their insurance company settle the cases because the jury pool is composed of welfare recipients, municipal workers and liberals. Great for everybody. A true slice of Obama's America.

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