I wish I could take credit for this piece of cleverness, but alas I cannot. However it was forwarded to my email inbox uncredited, so it’s up to you to find the source if you can. It’s chock full of truisms and needs to be shared.

Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

This morning I received an email in my inbox informing me about a crazy law passed by our very own Congress (apparently in order to justify their single digit public approval rating.–I mean, why even try anymore, right?). The law is the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, and in spite of the fact that very little that happens in government surprises me even more, even I was shocked by the stupidity and incompetence of our 110th Congress in foisting this pot of crap stew on its citizens. Pheisty from the True North Blog wrote:

As of February 10, 2009, you will no longer be able to sell or buy children’s used clothing under the CPSIA. Not at the Goodwill, not at a consignment shop, not on eBay. Not even at a yard sale. If you do, you face a $100,000 fine and 5 years of imprisonment. That is, unless the seller can find a government-approved way to test the garments that won’t force them out of business.

And she referenced an LA Times article on the subject which I recommend you read but I’m not going to quote. I will however quote her commentary on how we got here, because I can’t say it better than she already said it,

And to those of you who thought that seatbelt and smoking ban legislation was a great idea, you’re getting what you asked for. You want government to take care of you, this is what you get. I’ve been preaching about the ’slippery slope’ for years, and people keep saying, “Oh, Joey. That’ll never happen. You’re exaggerating.”

Well? Did you ever think used children’s clothing would be banned from commerce?

Everyone of you–liberal and conservative–should be outraged. This isn’t about party politics, anymore. This is about a runaway government that seems intent on destroying our entire way of life under the ‘good intention’ of saving us from ourselves. So while everyone’s busy bickering back and forth over which party can ’save’ America, we–the common American citizens–are losing everything.

Those of you who have followed the few postings that I’ve made on my blog know and understand this about me. I’m not just someone who rants on my blog. I’m an activist. I believe in providing possible solutions and acting on those solutions, and not just complain about how bad things are. So the rest of this post is about what you can and SHOULD do to put a stop to this nonsense. I’ve also created a Facebook group (Americans Against The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008) and a Twitter account (stop_cpsia). You can also go to the website I created at www.tellyourneighbor.com for more information on what to do.

Civil disobedience is a time honored tradition in the face of tyranny. Without civil disobedience, blacks would still be confined to the back of the bus and would not have ever had the chance to be a President-elect. Without civil disobedience, who knows how long the Viet Nam war (originally called a police action when they first went in) would have continued. We must be willing to draw a line in the sand and say, “no sir, I will not comply.” We must be willing to spend a night or two in jail, face the firehose, endure the bruising from night sticks, the agony of pepper spray and the shock of the Taser. If we are not willing to stand against tyranny now and stare it down eyeball to eyeball, we will not like at all what we get next. Keep in mind that Germany was a democracy when Hitler was elected. The very same steps that Hitler took to turn Germany from Democracy to a Dictatorship are the very same steps that are being taken right now here on American soil. Do we want to wait until many of our friends and neighbors have been shipped off to concentration camps and burned in the incinerators before we say enough!!? Because if we wait that long, it will likely be too late.

I propose that from February 10th (the day the law goes into effect) until March 10th every freedom loving citizen of this great country sell at least one item of clothing daily in a public setting (Ebay, yard sale, in front of WalMart, wherever you can think of) to protest this law. Let’s be willing to face the $100,000 fine and 5 years jail time because I promise you that those who dare to run the gauntlet of bad publicity that would inevitably come from arresting parents of children who participate in this act of civil disobedience would suffer a backlash unlike any you’ve ever seen in this country since the Civil War. It’s very likely that some overzealous DA or other law enforcement arm might be stupid enough to initially enforce the law, but the resulting PR nightmare they experience would be tremendous and would eventuallycause the reversal of this particular piece of legislation post haste.

Is one month of civil disobedience enough? Well that depends on the response of those tasked with enforcing this onerous piece of legislation. Will they just let it go (like happened with all of the anti-illegal immigration laws which were passed), will they actively enforce it, or will they selectively enforce it against high profile individuals to make an example out of them in an effort to quell the civil disobedience? The stronger the enforcement, the longer the civil disobedience. So pass the word along. We hereby declare February 10th through March 10th the Anti Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 whereby we will engage in active disobedience to this law to preserve our businesses, our jobs and our lifestyles. Over 225 years ago, our forefathers declared that we have the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Any government law or regulation that is against that belongs in a Marxist society, not in the United States of America!