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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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From: ManyMoose4/30/2010 9:26:45 PM
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Well, I finally got busted for baking sourdough bread on a fire made from 30% pine cones and 70% firewood from the same trees. The fire department officers were very friendly and professional and stated they did not necessarily agree with the law they were forced to enforce.

Pine cones, you see, are yard debris. Firewood is, well, firewood. Even if they come from the same trees.

It is unlawful to have a recreational or cooking fire when pine cones are used as fuel instead of loading them up on a truck and hauling them to the taxpayer funded chipper where convicts run them through and they are trucked several hundred miles to be used as hog fuel, where they emit the same amount of air pollution that they do when I bake sourdough bread on them.

You must use firewood for a recreational fire. The officers provided me with a list of materials that were unlawful to burn in a recreational fire, and pine cones were not on the list.

The fire department officers were very apologetic that they had to enforce a law that the EPA couldn't enforce because it had only one agent for an ungodly large territory.

I told them I would not put any more pine cones on the fire, and they did not force me to put it out, as I was splitting firewood and it was obvious I had no motive other than to bake sourdough bread with my camp fire, which otherwise met all the requirements for a recreational fire.
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