Jon Stewart, the Food Safety Bill, and a Raving Freakazoid
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brookly red Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:17:23pm |
Sigh… food safety. aka The ability to afford food.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:23:27pm |
Yes, Glenn. You’ve figured it out. It is a mere skip, hop and a jump from the FDA being able to recall tainted food to the American Holodomor.
DAMN, this man is smart.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:25:41pm |
Somebody needs to go back and ready “The Jungle” one more time.
Not me. I’m having sausage tonight.
Kielbasa and potatoes, if you must now.
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brookly red Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:27:06pm |
who here has not eaten Spaghetti O from the can?
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:27:23pm |
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Blue Point Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:27:49pm |
Jon Stewart makes more sense than an entire political party along with an entire TV network. Glenn Beck is his own planet, deep in space, with many unknown satellites revolving around the dense mass surrounding the vast emptiness of the interior.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:32:18pm |
I’m intrigued by the way Teddy Roosevelt, God love him, has become a villain to Beck.
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Four More Tears Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:35:03pm |
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aagcobb Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:37:16pm |
Just shows how inefficient government is. The FDA has been trying to starve us for 100 years, and we’re fatter than ever!
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:38:40pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:39:06pm |
re: #13 aagcobb
Just shows how inefficient government is. The FDA has been trying to starve us for 100 years, and we’re fatter than ever!
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I’m sure a private company could have starved the whole country in five years flat.
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Spocomptonite Thu, Dec 2, 2010 5:57:12pm |
re: #15 SanFranciscoZionist
I’m sure a private company could have starved the whole country in five years flat.
The “Free Market capitalism unfettered by Government Tyranny” (read: anarchy) in Somalia is very successful at this everyday.
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reidr Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:08:51pm |
At what point do Beck’s viewers say, “Whoa, whoa, this mofo’s crazy….”
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Jdorfma4 Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:11:53pm |
re: #17 reidr
Sadly, never. Instead they say “This man is so smart. Obama scary! Must vote Foxublican!”
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aagcobb Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:12:34pm |
re: #17 reidr
At what point do Beck’s viewers say, “Whoa, whoa, this mofo’s crazy…”
That’s like asking how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop. If you live in Beckland, there are whole new territories of crazy yet to be explored.
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SpaceJesus Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:14:20pm |
Huh. I wonder if there is any American in history that Beck considers to not be a “progressive.”
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reidr Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:14:27pm |
re: #18 Jdorfma4
Sadly, never. Instead they say “This man is so smart. Obama scary! Must vote Foxublican!”
So far, you’re right, but I assume there are lines past which some of them must start to wonder. We are talking about millions of people here.
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reidr Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:15:07pm |
re: #19 aagcobb
That’s like asking how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop. If you live in Beckland, there are whole new territories of crazy yet to be explored.
I find that to be a disturbing analogy, however apt.
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reidr Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:17:57pm |
re: #20 SpaceJesus
Huh. I wonder if there is any American in history that Beck considers to not be a “progressive.”
Joseph McCarthy?
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Jdorfma4 Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:18:56pm |
re: #21 reidr
I wonder if the Foxublicans and Beckers are a new breed of crazy or if, as a nation, we’ve always been this stupid. I feel like our average civil intelligence is in actual, not perceived, decline.
I hope I’m wrong, but daily interaction with Texans has made me too bitter.
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Jdorfma4 Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:19:21pm |
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Fozzie Bear Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:23:48pm |
re: #21 reidr
So far, you’re right, but I assume there are lines past which some of them must start to wonder. We are talking about millions of people here.
They only believe the things they already believe due to skillful use of propaganda. There isn’t a line past which you can’t take an audience once you have inoculated them against other points of view by convincing them that they have so many enemies.
The world has never seen more skillful use of propaganda than exists on the American right today. The content only seems ridiculous from the outside.
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jaunte Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:25:48pm |
re: #24 Jdorfma4
I wonder if the Foxublicans and Beckers are a new breed of crazy or if, as a nation, we’ve always been this stupid.
A letter from Mark Twain to a patent medicine salesman:
“The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link.”[Link: www.lettersofnote.com…]
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Gus Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:36:33pm |
When you’re dealing with millions of Americans consuming potential harmful food, regulation of these foods by the FDA and the USDA is a moral imperative and a critical element in preventing the death and injury of American citizens.
Here is a case in which Stephanie Smith was left paralyzed after consuming an e-coli tainted hamburger:
Health: Tainted Meat - nytimes.com/video
This of course fall more under the scrutiny of the USDA. It’s important that both the USDA and the FDA increase the number of inspectors in the field.
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Fozzie Bear Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:37:56pm |
re: #29 Gus 802
Clearly, you just want to spend more of my hard earned dollars on pansy things like public heath. Let the invisible hand of the market fix food supply issues! /
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Gus Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:38:23pm |
The Burger That Shattered Her Life
By MICHAEL MOSS
Published: October 3, 2009
Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that first day, and she finished her classes.
Then her diarrhea turned bloody. Her kidneys shut down. Seizures knocked her unconscious. The convulsions grew so relentless that doctors had to put her in a coma for nine weeks. When she emerged, she could no longer walk. The affliction had ravaged her nervous system and left her paralyzed.
Ms. Smith, 22, was found to have a severe form of food-borne illness caused by E. coli, which Minnesota officials traced to the hamburger that her mother had grilled for their Sunday dinner in early fall 2007.
“I ask myself every day, ‘Why me?’ and ‘Why from a hamburger?’ ”Ms. Smith said. In the simplest terms, she ran out of luck in a food-safety game of chance whose rules and risks are not widely known.
Continues.
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Gus Thu, Dec 2, 2010 6:40:30pm |
re: #30 Fozzie Bear
Clearly, you just want to spend more of my hard earned dollars on pansy things like public heath. Let the invisible hand of the market fix food supply issues! /
Yeah. Who the heck needs the FDA and USDA when you’re dealing with a population of 307,006,550 people. Surely if 10,000 people die from food poisoning that particular food company will go out of business as consumers respond.
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jaunte Thu, Dec 2, 2010 7:08:11pm |
re: #31 Gus 802
The frozen hamburgers that the Smiths ate, which were made by the food giant Cargill, were labeled “American Chef’s Selection Angus Beef Patties.” Yet confidential grinding logs and other Cargill records show that the hamburgers were made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmings and a mash-like product derived from scraps that were ground together at a plant in Wisconsin. The ingredients came from slaughterhouses in Nebraska, Texas and Uruguay, and from a South Dakota company that processes fatty trimmings and treats them with ammonia to kill bacteria.
Using a combination of sources — a practice followed by most large producers of fresh and packaged hamburger — allowed Cargill to spend about 25 percent less than it would have for cuts of whole meat.
Yummy cost cuttings.
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harrogate Thu, Dec 2, 2010 7:29:45pm |
Sometimes I really fear they will soon be successful in dismantling the modern state.
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Crimsonfisted Fri, Dec 3, 2010 6:39:10am |
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funky chicken Fri, Dec 3, 2010 9:47:58am |
re: #11 SanFranciscoZionist
I’m intrigued by the way Teddy Roosevelt, God love him, has become a villain to Beck.
Bizarre, isn’t it? When do you think Beck will air some crazy show saying TR set up the National Park Service to help FEMA build reeducation camps?
Progressivism.
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mojo9 Fri, Dec 3, 2010 10:42:09am |
re: #6 brookly red
never eaten them. spagetti from a can is just wrong.
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