Given that a person like me could simply declare himself President of the United States, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by the ridiculous goings-on in government these days. And normally, I’m not, but what what continues to surprise me is that anyone actually believes that the government is looking out for their best interest.
Case In Point #1:
It happened for Marc Edwards, a lean, intense Virginia Tech environmental engineering professor. Drawing on what he called his own “world-class stubbornness,” he mounted a six-year campaign that succeeded last week in forcing the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to admit that it had misled the public about the risk of lead in the District’s drinking water.
The CDC, which is the nation’s principal public health agency, made the confession in a “Notice to Readers” published in an official weekly bulletin Friday. It came a day after a scathing House subcommittee report said the agency knowingly used flawed and incomplete data when it assured D.C. residents in 2004 that their health hadn’t been hurt by spikes in lead in the drinking water.
via Virginia Tech professor uncovered truth about lead in D.C. water.
Case In Point #2:
Rotavirus vaccines are commonly given to children, and this year’s batch of vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline and Merck are contaminated with a pig virus, the FDA recently discovered. So the FDA called a meeting to determine whether injecting a pig virus into the bodies of young children might be some sort of problem requiring a recall of the vaccines.
Can you guess what conclusion the agency reached? As reported by Reuters, the FDA concluded “…it was safe for doctors to resume giving patients Glaxo’s Rotarix and continue using Merck’s Rotateq. The agency said there was no evidence the contamination caused any harm…”
In other words, as long as they can bury the evidence and deny any link between vaccines and health problems — which has been the standard excuse of the FDA for decades — they can continue to claim the vaccines are safe enough to inject into little children.
via Pig virus contaminates rotavirus vaccines, but FDA says no problem
No one will care more about your health and well-being than you do. Unless, of course, you’re the sort of fat, lazy slob or genetically skinny minny or otherwise healthily-apathetic person who doesn’t care about your health, in which case at least one of your parents care more about you than you do.
However, excepting those exceptions, all the government really cares about is expanding its power over you and your life, and helping their partners in business from competition.
As an example of the government’ hands-on approach, Obama said that BP had wanted to drill a single “relief” well in an effort to eventually stop the leak in several months if all else failed. Instead, the administration insisted on two relief wells, Obama said.
Over and over, the president sought to counter criticism that the administration was giving too much leeway to BP PLC. “Make no mistake, BP is operating at our direction,” he said.
via Fixing oil spill my responsibility, Obama says – Yahoo! News.
Anyone suspect that, perhaps, this is part of the problem?
Well said, Representative McClintock. It is absolutely shameful that the head of such an abysmally corrupt and lawless country would come to a joint session of Congress, criticize our defending of our borders, and be cheered by any of the leaders of this nation.
And to those who say we must reform our immigration laws – I reply that we don’t need to reform them – we need to enforce them. Just as every other government does. Just as Mexico does.
Above all, this is a debate of, by and for the American people. If President Calderon wishes to participate in that debate, I invite him to obey our immigration laws, apply for citizenship, do what 600,000 LEGAL immigrants to our nation are doing right now, learn our history and our customs, and become an American. And then he will have every right to participate in that debate.
via Calif. Congressman Blasts Calderon’s Ariz. Comments and Dems for Applauding | NewsBusters.org.
