I posted a different article about this, but here is another one that has new information regarding the incident:
Student Claims He Drank Own Urine After Being Forgotten In Holding Cell For 5 Days
From the article:
And just a little more:
Nicely done. Speak truth to power. Get it, lady.
Right on. That politician walked right into that one. One could easily replace Al-Qaeda with the United States, in that context, without a distortion of the facts. Well done by that lady by noticing as much (unless, it was planned which is likely) and for staying calm, and continuing her argument as well, while being taken away.
I can’t agree with Code Pink on everything, but I definitely respect their moral consistency on the issue of war and their all-round moxy.
Clayton -
Woah! I didn’t notice until you mentioned Code Pink- but that’s the same woman that danced at the Jefferson Memorial with Adam Kokesh and friends:
The Hayek Prophecies Trailer
Ron Paul Humiliates Clueless Statists [1-27-09]
Paul’s great in this one. What’s funny about this one is how he gets hounded as usual, but this time it’s from someone actually on his side. Ratigan agrees with him and is sympathetic to his viewpoint, but is clueless as to the implications and the logical prescriptions of Paul’s explanation of the situation…so he ends up almost treating him hostilely because he’s so desperate for the answer. “We live in the real world. How do we get to your utopia? How? HOW?” Paul keeps giving him the answer but it’s just not good enough for him because he doesn’t understand it and it sounds more complex and un-do-able than what he wants to hear.
I do love the way the old guy admits 90% of what Paul’s talking about is over his head though.
Brian Doherty on Ron Paul’s Revolution
The Right to be Forgotten - interesting piece on privacy laws and the “right to be forgotten” from social networking sites, etc. Works well since I’m thinking of deleting and then making another FB page, I don’t like how the timeline has archived all that information in a more searchable manner.
[view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msHJLwYWX30&feature=relmfu]
[view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hioSFBCYZUI&feature=relmfu]
Um, this is the low content thread, right?
It’s hard to not like this guy.
Governor Christie: This Is A Fight I Really Want
Yeah Chris Christie is great.
He’s also getting to be morbidly obese from the looks of the things.
“Getting to be”?
He made fun of his opponant during the campaign for not making fun of his weight.
I worry for the guy, being that fat can be a serious health risk. Hope he finds a good nutritionist or something.
Jeffrey Tucker on why Government Hates your Lawn!
Third-deadliest U.S. food outbreak was preventable, experts say
Washington (CNN) – On a sunny morning early last September, Susanna Gaxiola fed her husband a healthy breakfast of fresh cantaloupe in their Albuquerque, New Mexico, home. Her husband, Rene, a Pentecostal pastor and minister, had been fighting a rare blood cancer and he was eating fresh cantaloupe and other fruit daily.
Around the same time, Paul Schwarz ate fresh cantaloupe in his home in Independence, Missouri. Though 92 years old, Schwarz was still active and healthy, and ate fresh fruit often. And Dr. Mike Hauser, a podiatrist, also ate fresh cantaloupe with his family in Monument, Colorado. Hauser, 68, had been fighting myeloma, a blood cancer, but he was recovering well, even planning a bow-hunting trip in the mountains.
Within days or weeks of eating the cantaloupe, all three men became horribly sick, and all eventually died painful deaths. Their deaths were directly caused by the cantaloupe, which was contaminated with the deadly bacteria Listeria, according to health officials.
After a months-long investigation surrounding the outbreak, CNN has found serious gaps in the federal food safety net meant to protect American consumers of fresh produce, a system that results in few or no government inspections of farms and with only voluntary guidelines of how fresh produce can be kept safe. […]
The article goes on to place blame on lax private certification services (oddly, from the mouth of other private firms as authorities on the subject), low funding for the FDA, claim that the disaster was preventable and naturally mock the capitalist solutions available. The result of the infestation is 30 dead, and 110 people made ill from ingesting Listeria.
First, the FDA has had increased funding for the last few years, its budget increasing by millions if not billions each time; the money’s there if they need it. This presence of an agency which has a monopoly on forced inspections understandably reduces the incentive to provide inspection services. Further, there are concerns that the outbreak was caused by pollution from another firm- is this not an indictment of the federal government’s capacity for protecting property rights? Nope! This could very well fall within society’s optimal quantity of pollution for all we know- I wonder what society’s optimal quantity of theft, rape, and murder falls? I’ll have to return to this when I find where MSBTheft=MSCTheft.
When’s the last time something like this has happened? Did it kill as many as the FDA does regularly? Consider this: beta blockers are reputed -from the FDA itself if I recally correctly- to prevent 250,000 deaths each year from occuring after heart surgeries. It takes about 10-15 years for the FDA to approve a drug for sale in the United States. We do the math and we find that, based on the FDA’s own estimates (assuming that they are), the FDA killed anywhere from 2.5-3.75 million people in ten years, at least (this estimate is only for beta-blockers, which are surely not the only drugs being inspected -and withheld from sick patients- by the FDA). This is systematic murder.
It’s very easy for critics to have 20/20 vision in hindsight; it’s a fatal conceit for critics to deduce, from this, that we have 20/20 vision in foresight.
ARREST MADE IN BLACK-MOB ATTACK ON WHITES
Rand Paul Launches Campaign to End the TSA
UCSD student’s 5-day ordeal in DEA jail sparks outrage, anger [has some new information, not much though]# House committee mulls Holder contempt resolution
And for fun:
Note that the government also prevented a private company from testing all of its meat for mad cow disease.