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April 15, 2009
Big Government Now Going After Pets
Proving that there is nothing (other than subservience and parasitism) that the government won't try to regulate out of existence, bureaucrats are now going after the practice of owning pets. While it waits for the gargantuan spending it has set in motion to sink the economy, Congress busies itself by once again reaching into your personal life with H.R. 669 — aka The Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act — a bill that could make many common pets illegal.
The idea is to ban animals and even plants that are not native to the USA. To save space, bureaucrats are listing what species are allowed, rather than all those that will be forbidden.
I'm guessing Comrade Obama's Portuguese water dog will get an exception, but your tropical fish, exotic bird, boa, or even hamster might not be so lucky.
On a tip from John L. Hat tip: My Planted Tank Adventures.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 15, 2009 7:40 AM
Comments
Obama should have named his dog "Chappy" (Chappaquiddick) in honor of Ted Kennedy who gave him the Portjewgeez WATER dog.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 15, 2009 7:47 AM
As I have said before, they will get my Japanese Maple Trees when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
They can have the Chinese tallow tree, the privet, the rough bedstraw, the Asian Tiger Mosquitoes,...all of the other invaders...Oh, leave the Japanese honey suckle, it smells nice. And they can take most of the English Ivy, too.
Posted by: on-the-rocks at April 15, 2009 8:07 AM
Okay, so now there's 102 Freedoms the Progressive Left doesn't want you to have.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at April 15, 2009 8:10 AM
Another good name for the mutt, "Mary Joe" - its metrosexual.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 15, 2009 8:19 AM
Have you heard about the nambdy pambdy jerk CASS SUNSTEIN that obaa want to head the DEPT OF EDUCATION this jerk thinks animals should be allwed to sue and hunting is immoral becuase sunstein is as stupid as the rest of obamas cabnet of crinimals
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at April 15, 2009 8:38 AM
If this passes, the environment will be destroyed in a matter of weeks, as everyone owning an exotic pet will release them in the sewers, in the forest or in the street.
AC
Posted by: AC at April 15, 2009 11:35 AM
HYUK,HYUK,HYUK SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK MOONBATS SHOULD BE #1 ON THAT LIST THEY ARE A DRUDFUL BUNCH OF PESTS SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK HYUK,HYU,HYUK.
Posted by: Flu-Bird at April 15, 2009 11:57 AM
Look who's sponsoring it!
Barney Frank's afraid of Hamsters!
Http://righteousrantings.blogspot.com (see "Example of Legislative Idiocyacy")
Posted by: Evil Monk at April 15, 2009 3:55 PM
Will I have to set my asian slaves free?
Posted by: czuch at April 15, 2009 4:00 PM
Horses were brought to the USA by the white devils. The noble natives did not know these strange, alien, nonnative species before that time as they had all become extinct sometime around the ice age.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at April 15, 2009 6:06 PM
BURNING HOT: Yeah, hunted to extinction by those "noble natives".
Posted by: MG at April 15, 2009 11:42 PM
Look who's sponsoring it!Barney Frank's afraid of Hamsters!
But where does he stand on gerbils?
Posted by: ccs at April 16, 2009 9:13 AM
