Dangerous Targets

[jimbo728]

Today I bought a pack of paper targets at my LGS.
When I got home I noticed a little sticker on the back
warning that in California, these targets contain chemicals that were known to cause cancer and or birth defects or other reproductive harm.
Mmmmm. You can guess what I think about this one.
Jim

 

[rwsmith]

In CA.....

...everything causes cancer or some ill effect that companies can be sued for.

 

[BUFF]

I'll make a note to myself: "Dear self, don't eat paper targets. Respectfully, self."

 

[Snapping Twig]

They did the same thing with paints and insecticides and lead, etc.

Can't get the good Rustoleum anymore. Can't sell youth motorcycles either - lead in the batteries.

Just don't eat the battery...

 

[Wise_A]

California causes cancer and birth defects.

 

[steelslaver]

After observing the thinking of the state voters and their representatives it has been found that California causes mental disorders.

 

[Longhorn1986]

To paraphrase an old adage "There are too many stupid people in the world. I'm not saying we should kill them all or anything. Just take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself."

 

[Kronos]

Hell I got a rear view mirror for an ATV once that had that on the box....I opined that if you could do anything like I'm thinking with a hunk of metal like that then cancer should be the least of your worries!

Same as when I buy chocolate milk and it has this earth shattering warning:"Contains milk" um...yes,yes it does any other obvious thing I need to know sweet cheeks?

 

[OFT II]

Don't worry. You live in New Hampshire.

 

[federali]

It is understandable why the state of California is known as the land of fruits, nuts and flakes.

 

[steelslaver]

I will gladly sell any interest I have in California. Anybody with a nickels worth of brains can have it. Of course that precludes anyone in their state legislature from buying.


A while back I read where some were proposing to split the state up into several smaller states. What became of that good idea?
Lets try some ideas on this
1 LA state or the State of Gridlock as a Big Sky resident I would recommend them the Grey Sky state
2 San Fransisco state or the State of Perversion, the Rainbow state
3 San Diego state or possibly New Tijuana, the Sunbaked state
4 Sacramento state or the State of Disaster know as the Blue Sky state
5. How about a Silicon State

The rest could be become the state of Reality!

 

[Tom S.]

There has been a movement afoot to divide the state of California into two states: Northern California and Southern California. I know if I lived there, I'd support it.

 

[blues7]

Today I bought a pack of paper targets at my LGS.
When I got home I noticed a little sticker on the back
warning that in California, these targets contain chemicals that were known to cause cancer and or birth defects or other reproductive harm.
Mmmmm. You can guess what I think about this one.
Jim

Best to shoot it and put it out of its misery before it spreads...

California...

 

[Sconnie]

Oh the horror! And can you imagine the hazmat team that has to come to dispose of the target after you have added lead residue...

 

[surveyor_nm]

As Paul Harvey said occasionally on the cancer tests..."They're starting to have their doubts about oxygen".

 

[wbraswell]

There has been a movement afoot to divide the state of California into two states: Northern California and Southern California. I know if I lived there, I'd support it.

Good Lord, where would you draw the line? I think I'd make it East and West.

 

[Mule Packer]

There has been a movement afoot to divide the state of California into two states: Northern California and Southern California. I know if I lived there, I'd support it.

Actually, that almost happened. Humboldt county, Del Norte county, Shasta county, Trinity county, Siskiyou county, and Modoc county, (if I remember correctly) planned on breaking away from the state of California in 1941.

There was even an armed movement when traffic was stopped along Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, by armed guards handing out copies of their Proclamation of Independence. Yreka was determined to be the provisional capital.

Southern California laughed at the idea, claiming that the rural counties would never be able to succeed financially because all of the industry was located in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, etc.

The rural counties responded by essentially saying, "We'd be very financially successful. We'd just sell you the water you've been taking from us for all these years." (Note: Northern California gets anywhere from 36 inches to 42 inches of water per year. Currently, the metropolitan areas in the south take all of that water for their swimming pools, golf courses, etc.)

Anyway, to make a long story even longer, the whole thing got "shot in the trowel," so to speak, because on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was bombed and those in favor of splitting the state focused their attention on the war effort which crippled the movement.

The bill was introduced to the state legislature again in 1992, but the bill died in committee. Currently, there are still several groups trying to get the rural counties of California to separate from the rest of the state, simply because the big cities are extremely liberal, whereas the rural counties are fairly conservative. But, unfortunately, the big cities carry the votes. If the split ever does happen, you can bet the ranch that all political correctness will go out the window and the state of Jefferson will become a "must issue" state instead of a "may issue" state.

Heck! What am I saying? After having lived in Humboldt county for 30 years, I can tell you right now that most of the good ol' boys up there carry either a rifle or shotgun in the back of their pickups already in spite of what the governor says. (But we'll keep that between "us and the fence post," so to speak.)

Here's a picture of the proposed state flag for the state of Jefferson.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

I kinda figured a dangerous target was one that was shooting back at you...

 

[the ringo kid]

It is understandable why the state of California is known as the land of fruits, nuts and flakes.

Ill never eat another box full of "Nut-n-Honey" again after this.

 

[the ringo kid]

Actually, that almost happened. Humboldt county, Del Norte county, Shasta county, Trinity county, Siskiyou county, and Modoc county, (if I remember correctly) planned on breaking away from the state of California in 1941.

There was even an armed movement when traffic was stopped along Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, by armed guards handing out copies of their Proclamation of Independence. Yreka was determined to be the provisional capital.

Southern California laughed at the idea, claiming that the rural counties would never be able to succeed financially because all of the industry was located in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, etc.

The rural counties responded by essentially saying, "We'd be very financially successful. We'd just sell you the water you've been taking from us for all these years." (Note: Northern California gets anywhere from 36 inches to 42 inches of water per year. Currently, the metropolitan areas in the south take all of that water for their swimming pools, golf courses, etc.)

Anyway, to make a long story even longer, the whole thing got "shot in the trowel," so to speak, because on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was bombed and those in favor of splitting the state focused their attention on the war effort which crippled the movement.

The bill was introduced to the state legislature again in 1992, but the bill died in committee. Currently, there are still several groups trying to get the rural counties of California to separate from the rest of the state, simply because the big cities are extremely liberal, whereas the rural counties are fairly conservative. But, unfortunately, the big cities carry the votes. If the split ever does happen, you can bet the ranch that all political correctness will go out the window and the state of Jefferson will become a "must issue" state instead of a "may issue" state.

Heck! What am I saying? After having lived in Humboldt county for 30 years, I can tell you right now that most of the good ol' boys up there carry either a rifle or shotgun in the back of their pickups already.

Here's a picture of the proposed state flag for the state of Jefferson.

I thought that Gold County actually did leave the state a few years ago? If memory serves? its the one butting next to Oregon.

 

[DavidWJ]

There has been a movement afoot to divide the state of California into two states: Northern California and Southern California. I know if I lived there, I'd support it.

Northern CA and Southern Oregon have NO representation in their state governments. Very conservative, they want to create The State of Jefferson using the legal process. Unfortunately, it can't happen peacefully with the current legislatures.

What I don't quite get is why Central CA doesn't join the movement to secede, they have it just as bad as us. They've been denied water for farming, diverted to the cities, and most of the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley is now a dustbowl.

Except for the Southern and Central coasts of CA, the rest of the state is conservative. I know this is hard to believe, but there are so many people in the cities living off the "government" and voting socialist that we have no chance of our conservative voices of reason being heard.

 

[walkin jack]

Never eat or drink ANYTHING and never breath or touch anything without gloves. You'll be fine.....

 

[Rustyt1953]

Now you tell me.

 

[steelslaver]

If all the people worried about this kind of stuff would move into concrete block houses with heavily padded walls and had their nutritionally correct meals delivered through a slot in the door they would feel safe and I would be happier too.

 

[arjay]

Sticking around long enough will also give you cancer [emoji57]

 

[Ron M.]

More insanity...

Jim Eason, who was a regular "conservative" broadcaster on KGO radio in San Francisco in the 1980's, commented he bought some wax sticks to kill rodents. They contained Warfarin, which thinned the blood to kill the rats. On his latest purchase of the same product, he noticed that the wax was no longer red, but white, so he contacted the company, asking why. He was told that the dye used in the red wax was observed to cause cancer in laboratory rats, so it was banned...I remember that to this day.

 

[soFlaNative]

I guess one could develop a case of lead poisoning plastering one on their back...

 

[Longhorn1986]

Dear California,

Please quit sending your idiots to Texas. I'm running low on ammo......

 

[JayFramer]

On bag of peanuts:

CONTAINS: PEANUTS

 

[BUFF]

The late Mike Royko, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, once wrote that California should be made it's own country with a wall built around it. Put psychiatrists at the gates. We could have trade with them, buy their wine and sell them straitjackets.

Funniest liberal to ever man a typewriter.