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1. #1
   On April 6th, 2011 at 2:18 pm, letget said:

   Defund the whole blooming epa stat! That agency has done major harm to our nation and needs to go.
   L

2. #2
   On April 6th, 2011 at 2:21 pm, Flyoverman said:

   That’s right, don’t limit the non-essential services. Do those things that are most hazrdous, disruptive and potentially dangerous.

   Public servants at their best. /sarc

3. #3
   On April 6th, 2011 at 2:24 pm, Regulus said:

   Defund the whole blooming epa stat!

   … and Department of Energy, and the Department of Education, and the Interior Department, and the Commerce Department…

   When the federal government inevitably goes bankrupt, all of these departments go extinct anyway – so why not get a head start now?

4. #4
   On April 6th, 2011 at 2:25 pm, Marshall_Will said:

   Instead – and I know you’re going to hate this – please ask the reporter to email you (not HQ) his/her request and then forward that request to us or, just email Brendan what the reporter is looking for.

   Adora Andy, Director of Public Employee Complicity

5. #5
   On April 6th, 2011 at 2:25 pm, TooMuchTime said:

   Once again, how can it be bad to shutdown the federal gov’t?

   ECONOMIC:
   § Permitting for companies that need EPA approvals before they can manufacture and market their products

   Oh, thank you most benevolent EPA! You are allowing me to manufacture and market my product. Without you, I would be lost in the capitalist wilderness. I tremble at the thought of operating a business without you.

   § Private sector partnerships that help develop new technologies and are the engine of new jobs (CRADA’s)

   PS – Can I have some more money?

6. #6
   On April 6th, 2011 at 2:27 pm, Hiraghm said:

   What happened to the new civility? Did you see how many times they talked about bullets in that email?

7. #7
   On April 6th, 2011 at 2:29 pm, Mister P said:

   Obama on TV again whining about those mean Republicans. Its his way or the highway. He even confused budgets, as he talked about what he proposed a few months ago, then went into the 33 billion in Democratic cut proposals (conveniently ignoring that it is only for 1 year).

   Now please tell me someone. Why is he called a great orator. I still haven’t seen it.

8. #8
   On April 6th, 2011 at 2:31 pm, Nick Shaw said:

   “Finalization of a health assessment for chromium-6 (hexavalent chromium) in drinking water” Are these people kidding us? They still don’t have the stats on chromium-6? How long ago was Roberts movie and the huge payouts? No wonder the government loses money!

9. #9
   On April 6th, 2011 at 2:35 pm, pmm156 said:

   Love the title “Deputy Associate Administrator” and isn’t their something un-nerving about it being called “HQ”. Is this Cobra Command? Or “HQ” out of sleazy spy novel?

10. #10
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:35 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Operation of the agency’s environmental crimes hotline – (this will limit EPA’s ability to respond to public reports of potential environmental violations)

    Guys.., if ever you’ve had a hankering to go out and commit an “environmental crime” this would be it! Enviro-pandemonium!

11. #11
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:38 pm, RTater said:

    “Guys.., if ever you’ve had a hankering to go out and commit an “environmental crime” this would be it! Enviro-pandemonium!”

    Earth-Firsters don’t need any encouragement.

12. #12
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:44 pm, John Deaux said:

    I was half expecting to see a bullet point explaining that puppy dogs and kittens would spontaneously explode.

13. #13
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:49 pm, Hangfire said:

    When I get home from work, I’m immediately ripping all the tags off of my mattress and pillows!

14. #14
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:49 pm, Hangfire said:

    When I get home from work, I’m immediately ripping all the tags off of my mattress and pillows!

15. #15
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:50 pm, Hangfire said:

    EPA employees are all lawyers that didn’t make the ACLU cut.

16. #16
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:54 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    All of this time the GOP leadership has been afraid that shutting down the government was going to scare voters. Turns out that it is their friends across the aisle who are afraid. Who gets blamed? Big government!

    Shut it down now. We have work to do fixing things.

17. #17
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:54 pm, letget said:

    Hangfire#15,
    Speaking of aclu, you won’t believe what they are up to now! Can’t wait to see how bho will take over this ‘business’!

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42440533/ns/health-womens_health/
    L

18. #18
    On April 6th, 2011 at 2:54 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Unsure where this would be On-Thread.., but welcome nonetheless!

    http://www.advisorone.com/article/senate-votes-repeal-1099-reporting-requirement?t=income-planning#

    Repealing Obamacare one embarrassing defeat at a time. Another $22 bil. ‘windfall’ down the cr@pper.

    “That part of the law required all employers to file separate 1099 forms with the IRS beginning in 2012 for any payments to vendors in excess of $600, not just to independent contractors.”

19. #19
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:00 pm, Rjulio said:

    Exterminate the whole bunch of leeches. The country will never recover until the military decides that it’s time to take over.

20. #20
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:04 pm, rambler said:

    Clearly, this is a gov that has no intention of working for us. It is in the business of protecting itself from us. If they didn’t need our money to fund the cancer they have become, we would have been eliminated long ago. Shut it all down so we can have a clearer look at what we really need the gov to do. We don’t have to worry about border security since the gov can’t be bothered doing that. Can we get rid of the TSA during the shut down? Make sure all you gov employees shut off the lights before you leave on Friday.

21. #21
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:04 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    As we receive your requests, we will work to see what can be spun at this point and then offer you instructions on how best to lie to that reporter.
    At this point, regions should continue to be point on the local/regional press questions, so do not refer reporters to HQ at this time.
    Thanks Everyone!
    Adora

    Adora (The Explorer) Andy
    Deputy Associate Administrator (Do nothing job)
    U.S. Environmental Projection Agency
    Office of Extamarital Affairs and Environmental Ejaculation

22. #22
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:05 pm, walterc said:

    #17 letget. I don’t think incorporating a uterus is going to shield anyone from obamacare. Not sure about a scrotum, but I’m guessing it will end the same way.

    I can’t think of a single disadvantage to shutting down the gov’t. I didn’t read all of it, but did they mention the lack of hazmat teams for when I break one of those curly light bulbs?

23. #23
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:11 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Rogue Cheddar said:
    Office of Extamarital Affairs and Environmental Ejaculation

    A Scream! Just waiting for OK_Loyalist to chime in w/ Frank Zappa’s interpretation of where ‘Adora’ would fit in his lyrics?

24. #24
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:12 pm, Lindsay said:

    This is so shocking, and what I fear every waking minute:
    All federal efforts that protect children from lead paint poisoning

    This is like worrying about contrails and the poison we are breathing. What will happen to that? And crop circles?

25. #25
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:17 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    EPA employees are all lawyers that didn’t make the ACLU cut.

    In truth, they are ACLU operatives, fifth columnists, plants, subversives, etc…essentially doing the lefts bidding from inside government agencies and departments to further the lefts aims.

26. #26
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:17 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    rambler said:
    If they didn’t need our money to fund the cancer they have become, we would have been eliminated long ago.

    Dude that is a scary thought. Might well be what we’re experiencing as we speak? Let’s see, assumed complicity from subordinates? Check! Lie to Press. Check! Lie to the very Public that pays our salaries. Check!

    Do those strike you as the words of an individual that fears the ‘rath’ of the tax paying public? God love the whistleblower, probably holding an inquisition to ‘out’ them already underway.

27. #27
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:18 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:12 pm, Lindsay said:
    This is so shocking, and what I fear every waking minute:
    All federal efforts that protect children from lead paint poisoning

    Parent: Shut up and eat your lead paint chips!
    Child: But I wanna Happy Meal!
    Parent: Well you can’t have one!

28. #28
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:20 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Obama to GOP “Getting your way is not how it works!”

    “At a time when you are struggling to pay your bills and meet your responsibilities, the least we can do to meet our responsibilities to produce a budget. That is not to much to ask for. That is what the American people expect of us, that’s what they deserve. You want everybody to act like adult, quit playing games and realize it is not my way or the highway,”

    Okay then. Now where did you Democrats put that 2011 budget again?

29. #29
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:20 pm, RedDog said:

    Finalization of a health assessment for chromium-6

    They do love the Erin Brockovich gambit.

30. #30
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:24 pm, NotTheMama said:

    I’m excited. This means non-essential people will be furloughed. Military should not be non-essential.

    What’s left will trim the size of Gubmnt and perhaps it should stay that way. If I were ‘non-essential’ I would have been looking for a real job long ago.

31. #31
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:26 pm, Hangfire said:

    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:00 pm, Rjulio said:
    Exterminate the whole bunch of leeches. The country will never recover until the military decides that it’s time to take over.

    Too late.

    The only way to become a General or Admiral these days is to be a believer:

    Gays welcome in the military
    Diversity is our strongest asset
    We’ll pay for your Liberal college education
    Not enough minority or female officers
    Women should be able to serve on submarines
    Let’s tell our enemy the ROE

32. #32
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:30 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    but did they mention the lack of hazmat teams for when I break one of those curly light bulbs?

    Let the leftist green movement agenda through the use of EPA regs get its way and in a couple of years it won’t matter….you’ll count yourself lucky to be able to afford to even a few curly lightbulbs you’ll be allotted to purchase by legal quota, and electric power will be too expensive to use for much more than a few minutes a day, during the brief periods between the chronic blackouts when electric power will be available for public consumption.

    Oh, and there will be a substantial envioronmntal fine charged to you along with mandatory public service for being so careless as to allow one of these hazardous bulbs to break while in your possesion.

33. #33
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:40 pm, drbulb said:

    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:04 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    As we receive your requests, we will work to see what can be spun at this point and then offer you instructions on how best to lie to that reporter.
    At this point, regions should continue to be point on the local/regional press questions, so do not refer reporters to HQ at this time.
    Thanks Everyone!
    Adora

    Adora (The Explorer) Andy
    Deputy Associate Administrator (Do nothing HIGH PAYING job)
    U.S. Environmental Projection Agency
    Office of Extamarital Affairs and Environmental Ejaculation

    Just one addition…

34. #34
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:44 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Parent: Shut up and eat your lead paint chips!
    Child: But I wanna Happy Meal!
    Parent: Well you can’t have one!

    I am so… loving this. Please, yes, more enviro-fear mongering. Please! Mas, mas.

    Must admit, while in Boise in ’09 ( temp. duty ) they aren’t big on bottle deposits. Kind of surprised at all those cans and bottles in the dumpster?

    And of course we all know what an unlivable cesspool of ‘filth’ Idaho is! Geez, it just didn’t seem to matter a lick? Great work EPA btw guys.

35. #35
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:50 pm, BK said:

    Shut down the Evironmentalist Protection Racket Agency.

36. #36
    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:51 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Office of Extamarital Affairs and Environmental Ejaculation

    Krakatoa!

37. #37
    On April 6th, 2011 at 4:02 pm, rightisright said:

    DEFUND THE EPA, worthless, lyin’ bastards they are.

    Don’t forget there is a communist living in the White House.

38. #38
    On April 6th, 2011 at 4:03 pm, rightisright said:

    oh yeah, and SHUT DOWN THE GIVERMENT!

39. #39
    On April 6th, 2011 at 4:23 pm, jsr said:

    “Finalization of a health assessment for chromium-6 (hexavalent chromium) in drinking water”

    Well, that will keep me up at night. I’ve been waiting for that assessment and would like to finally be able to drink water without worrying if it’s chromium-6 level is harmful or not.

40. #40
    On April 6th, 2011 at 4:50 pm, Rorschach said:

    Uh, isn’t it illegal for federal employees to take part in political activities during work hours or to use federal services (email) for such activities? Not that something being illegal has ever stopped the Obama Admin or anything…

41. #41
    On April 6th, 2011 at 5:01 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Uh, isn’t it illegal for federal employees to take part in political activities during work hours or to use federal services (email) for such activities?

    Well, technically, yes, but remember they are doing this for a greater purpose that transcends such trifling legalities.

42. #42
    On April 6th, 2011 at 6:23 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Some liberal commenting on a FOX show the other day said that a shut-down would mean SS checks would not go out. NO ONE corrected that lie. If even the conservatives won’t call them on their lies, what chance do we have???

43. #43
    On April 6th, 2011 at 7:22 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:11 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Rogue Cheddar said:
    Office of Extamarital Affairs and Environmental Ejaculation

    A Scream! Just waiting for OK_Loyalist to chime in w/ Frank Zappa’s interpretation of where ‘Adora’ would fit in his lyrics?

    Straight from ‘Dinah Moe Hum’ …

    Kiss my aura…dora…
    M-m-m…its real angora
    Would yall like some more-a?
    Right here on the flora?

44. #44
    On April 6th, 2011 at 7:49 pm, SgtSchultz said:

    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:11 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Rogue Cheddar said:

    Office of Extamarital Affairs and Environmental Ejaculation

    A Scream! Just waiting for OK_Loyalist to chime in w/ Frank Zappa’s interpretation of where ‘Adora’ would fit in his lyrics?

    He sounds more like the Central Scrutinizer to me.

45. #45
    On April 6th, 2011 at 8:39 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    Mark Levin is reading this (Michelle’s) article on-air tonight.

    Audio will be posted here later this evening for any one interested.

46. #46
    On April 6th, 2011 at 8:41 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    Darn it, forgot…. around 1:30 into show. Remember no commercials so time needs to be adjusted accordingly.

47. #47
    On April 6th, 2011 at 9:17 pm, ChapBix said:

    #7, On April 6th, 2011 at 2:29 pm, Mister P said:

    From prior to his election to afterward, I also have not seen that supposed great oratorical prowess that the lamestream media keeps talking about. Take away TOTUS and he is a bumbling, stumbling and talking empty suit. Read the transcript from Bill O’Reilly’s first interview with him and was unimpressed with Obambi.

48. #48
    On April 6th, 2011 at 9:30 pm, ChapBix said:

    #32
    

    On April 6th, 2011 at 3:30 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    “you’ll count yourself lucky to be able to afford to even a few curly lightbulbs you’ll be allotted to purchase by legal quota lottery,”

    How does that look?

49. #49
    On April 7th, 2011 at 8:12 am, Captain Blasto said:

    Chromium 6
    My wife works in a water quality lab for a water company. This came out of the blue from some environmental activist group that ran their own collections.
    The problem is that there are only two labs in the whole country who can test for chromium 6.And it’s a very expensive test.
    I wonder which lab sponsors these parasites.
    Also, their samples have no chain of custody, no methodology , a very little documentation. They just targeted the larger water companies for their extortion and ran straight to the media with their scary stories.
    And the EPA is complicit in the whole scam.
    Why can’t we just pass budgets one agency at a time. This one gets funded. This one gets zero. Let them Dems vote against a funding for an agency just because other agencies aren’t included and see who gets blamed for shutting things down.

50. #50
    On April 8th, 2011 at 12:01 am, OK_Loyalist said:

    On April 7th, 2011 at 8:12 am, Captain Blasto said:

    Chromium 6
    My wife works in a water quality lab for a water company. This came out of the blue from some environmental activist group that ran their own collections.
    The problem is that there are only two labs in the whole country who can test for chromium 6.And it’s a very expensive test.

    I’m not looking to pick a fight, but I have to respectfully disagree with this part of your post.

    A job I had in my past was as a salesman for an industrial chemical and cleaning compound manufacturer that specialized in the metal finishing industry.

    For 30 plus years small businesses to large corporations have been testing for Cr-6 by simple titration methods in their effluent waste waters.

    Larger facilities with larger labs can even test with in house burn analysis equipment etc.

    So I’m not sure what you refer to when saying only 2 labs.

    Do I think the EPA needs throttled? … h3ll yes.