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by Hittokiri_korru from The Hidden Villiage

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Irony
Dec 2, 2007 | 9:22 PM
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With all the worry about led toys and protecting children I must point out a simple irony. Kids use led pencils, something that need at a place they must go to, school. I don't know if their is some impurity that makes pencil led safe or something of that nature. Figured I would just point that out.
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girlscout read my blog view my photos
Dec 3, 2007 | 7:29 AM

"Lead" pencils do not actually have lead in them. (Can't remember exactly what the penicil is - possibly graphite?) I'm sure someone out there knows the answer to this. If there was any lead in pencils, it used to be in the yellow paint on the OUTSIDE of the pencil, but I think they stopped using that kind of paint decades ago.
JBBV
Dec 3, 2007 | 7:51 AM

The actual composition of pencil "lead" is differing degrees of graphite, clay and wax, depending on desired hardness. Really don't know why the called it "lead"?
TheShadowKnows read my blog view my photos
Dec 3, 2007 | 8:59 AM

Yup, pencil "lead" is actually graphite.
Ellak read my blog view my photos
Dec 3, 2007 | 2:43 PM

Coke No longer has cocain in it either
gorbash81 read my blog view my photos
Dec 3, 2007 | 8:12 PM

"With all the worry about led toys and protecting children"-HHK

As if people who are concerned about lead poisoning are being "overprotective"!

Libertarianism is a trully bizaree political ideology, because a land without a certain amount of regulations and law enforcement is a land of chaos, environmental disaster, crime, and other social ills.

The irony of libertarianism is that the more regulations are phased out, and the more laws and government agencies are undermined- the more chaos is created, which in turn requires a new set of regulations, laws, and government agencies to deal with them.
quarryshark read my blog view my photos
Dec 3, 2007 | 8:40 PM

Geez, Gorebash. Its great that you can follow a subject line.

As for the lead....
Even if pencils were still made of lead, children of the age that use them, generally do not eat or chew on them. The same cannot be said of infants and toddlers. Toys with lead paint should be obsolete and for sure banned in this country.
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I am 19 years old, a raised Catholic but Agnostic and I work at a bowling ally as a pinchaser (also known as a pin monkey). My hobbies include reading manga, playing chess in which my ELO rating is 1135, watching anime, messing with technology although my internet slang vocabulary is rather poor, and I am a 4th Kyu (green Belt) in Traditional Chinese Kenpo where I am also participating in Shoot-fighting. I intend to teach Karate for a living. I'm not the kind of person to boycott, protest or march because of something, whether or not I believe in it. However I would like to note that I have been boycotting McDonald's since August 2007, I intend to continue until they offer the regular menu at all hours. My website is http://jinchu.weebly.com/

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