Look, both of these guys must toe the line of what their corporate overlords say or they’re looking for work. Just remember that they’re pretty boy announcers who got where they are by their visuals, not by their analysis. They’ll say anything on air they’re told, because they’re scared witless. Of course, they were witless before they were scared too.

It totally pisses me off when Stewart does this. Looks to me like a cozy arrnagment between the networks with the goal of coolness by association…………STEWART, STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Republicans give guns to terrorists!

Karl Rove will be featured at a GOP fundraising tomorrow in Punta Gorda. (I read it’s a $100/person event – sort of small potatoes for the Haves.) Nearly everyone south of Tampa knows about this. We have a lot of Peace events every weekend and I’m hoping a large crowd can still make it to “greet” Karl.

PBS is erratic for me too. My affiliate is in Tampa. Many of those Must See shows get bumped for fundraisers. Others near me get their PBS from Fort Myers and do not have the bump as often as Tampa.

In order to get a fair hearing from Brian Williams, the Dem candidates would each have to mail their positions (in the form of a multimedia manifesto) to the NBC studio, then go on a murderous rampage.

Well, it’s working for George Bush.

Mad Cow is caused by a protein called prion. It’s an unusual mechanism, not viral or bacterial but nevertheless organic.

It’s not linked to heavy metals or radio-activity. It is spread to humans when one eats spinal or brain tissue of an infected animal or person.

jackie @ 152

Off topic again, sorry….

April 25, 2007
Toxic Fertilizer linked to Mad Cow Disease?
About three years ago the LA Times published an Associated Press article “Toxic Waste Used as Fertilizer on Farms Reported”.

The article stated that in Seattle, toxic heavy metals, chemicals and radioactive wastes are being recycled as fertilizer and spread over farmers’ field nationwide–and there is no federal law requiring that they be listed as ingredients.

The issue came to light in the central Washington town of Quincy, population 4,000, when Mayor Patty Martin led an investigation by local farmers concerned about poor yields and sickly cattle [see WA Free Press “Poisoning Ourselves: Toxic waste in fertilizer” Mar 2003 –Ed]. Unfortunately, at this time the use of industrial waste as fertilizer ingredient was a growing national phenomenon.

At that same time in Gore, Oklahoma, a uranium-processing plant got rid of low-level radioactive waste by licensing it as liquid fertilizer and spraying it over 9,000 acres if grazing land. And at Camas, Washington, lead-laced waste from a pulp mill was hauled to farms and spread over crops destined for livestock feed. While in Moxee City, Washington, dark powder from two Oregon steel mills was poured from rail cars into silos at Bay Zinc Co. under a federal hazardous waste storage permit. Then it was emptied from the silos for use as fertilizer. The exact same material.

The Federal and State Governments encouraged this kind of recycling, which saved money for big industry and conserved space in hazardous- waste landfills. However, the substances found in recycled fertilizers included cadmium, lead, arsenic, radioactive materials and dioxins. The wastes came from incineration of medical and municipal wastes, and from heavy industries.

Because I happen to run the newest state permitted medical waste treatment plant in California, and am acutely aware of the hazards of treating such waste, I ask: Why isn’t this recycled fertilizer brought up now in the case of Mad Cow Disease. Why did are Federal and State Government allow such contamination and why did the farmers do this to their own land? Who is covering this up? Who benefited from this travesty? Who approved this in the first place? And why isn’t anything being done to those who allowed this to happen to our nation’s heartland?

I for one want answers. And I want those responsible for this to be brought to justice. They deliberately poisoned our nations food chain for profit, and should be punished as traitors to the American people.

Karl Niemiec, Director of Media Services, Sanitec West, CA

I’m perfectly happy to let NBC parade around a man who’s main credentials are his ability to read from a teleprompter and possessing the looks of a ball-less Ken Doll. Yum.

We can’t take these people serious anymore – time to mock them what they are; shallow, out-of-touch hypocrites.

dakeine01: I think you won :))

EPU’d but I’ll end with how my mother stopped the Dog Squadders to stop trying to ban Pl*yboy. They’d been trying for most of my freshman and sophmore years to ban it as improper for “young, impressionable male minds.” They brought it up once again at a faculty meeting and she got fed up. She stood up said, “My sons read Playboy (I have an older brother who was in his 20s and the AF at this time).
I read Playboy. I look at the pictures. I get jealous.” The proposal to ban Playboy magazine went down to a resounding defeat and was never raised again while she was the librarian.