@glitterbag,
glitterbag wrote:
Really???? Breathtaking level of self serving hypocrisy??? I find your airy dismissal of half the country and our allies as hypocrites or worse to be a serious character flaw. But, perhaps you actually are the smartest guy on campus. I hope that's ample satisfaction for you, because you are not a very enjoyable person to read when all you care to do is carp about how ridiculously stupid all the other members are compared to you.
I find it incredible that you want to believe there is a safe amount of lead that can be tolerated. I'll bet if you thought consuming minute amounts of lead would cause male infertility you would be leading the charge.
Calm yourself. Hypocrisy in various forms is ubiquitous, and most folks aren't even aware of their own contributions. I noted Blatham's obvious hypocrisy and his cynical (and often ill-informed) use of any material he can find to advance his political views here, and his very odd selective use of it in our country, but not his own. I made no mention of the intelligence, or lack of it in any other poster here. Those are entirely your own perceptions, possibly indicating some personal insecurities or something like that.
Most of the lead in our environment comes from its common use prior to 1970 in gasoline, paint, pipe fixtures, batteries, some mining & industrial operations and other like activities. Most of these sources have since been eliminated, though past applications remain in old homes and buildings etc. Today the chief new sources are in the lead acid batteries in nearly every automobile, computers, some decorative metals and some industrial processes. Contamination from buckshot is miniscule compared to these other, largely unregulated, sources, and its uptake pathways in wildernewss areas hardly threatening. Hence the absurdity of the regulation in question.
I made no assertion of any kind about tolerable lead levels, though I do have a fairly good understanding of the problem. Lead blood levels in our population have been declining for over 25 years and the declines continue. The absolutes you appear to be seeking are quite unattainable.
I made no claim or suggestion about my relative smarts : I rarely think about things that way, though clearly you do. I do believe the subjects at hand have important elements that are usually omitted from the highly political context in which they are exploited here by folks, like Blatham, who are far more interested in a political agenda than the topics themselves. Whether you enjoy reading my posts or not is your affair, not mine. I have six children and 18 grandchildren and am content the gene pool is secure.
