votevets counter the drug addict's noise

Mr drug addict who never wore a uniform has decreed that is you disagree with him and are a soldier - you are a "phony" soldier
and the wingnuts are gleeful about this new phrase he uses.....

Shame on all of them

Here is a votevets ad that says it better than I do....

Science? Not from this administration

Another in the long line of "my way - the mad king george way" - even about science - you know the area we used to say the USA was good at.

Well apparently science is not good anymore if it conflicts with a corporate bottom line!!

From an op-ed in the L.A. Times ...

What science the Bush administration chooses to stifle or promote seems to be a matter of politics and economics. According to a recent story in the Washington Post, the multibillion-dollar baby formula industry pressured the Department of Health and Human Services to weaken a 2004 public-service campaign promoting breast-feeding -- and it worked, even though the science supported the other side.

Numerous studies suggest that breast milk protects infants from developing certain illnesses and that formula-feeding increases their health risks.

The ad campaign was designed to drive home that point. Now the health of millions of infants is at risk because mothers don't have the scientific knowledge the ads would have conveyed to make an informed choice between breast- or formula-feeding.

According to the Post, a recent report by an agency within the Health and Human Services Department makes the same point as the canceled ads but has also been downplayed by the government because of pressure from the formula industry.

Full article http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-orent30sep30,1,5921620.story

As a Developmental Psychologist who advocates "real" science and breast feeding for optimal development in infants - this is sickening!

Don't children count anymore? Rhetorical question - of course they don't...they don't vote!

If you are in D.C. on October 2 - you might be interested

SCREEN JUSTICE 2007-8

FILM AND DISCUSSION SERIES

Tuesday October 2

David A Clarke School of, Law, Bldg 39, Room 201

5:30-6:15pm Reception; 6:15-7:15 Screening; 7:15-7:45 Q&A

Red Line Metro to Van Ness/UDC Station

Enter between buildings 38 & 39 on Connecticut Avenue

For more information: 202.274.7400

Louis Brandeis: The People’s Attorney (2007)

Justice Louis D. Brandeis was universally regarded as one of the great champions of liberty, progress, and justice. A ferocious litigator with a deep sense of social justice, Brandeis was a pioneer. This film deftly weaves his complex personal life, his character and his achievements together to make a rich tapestry of a giant of US legal history.

Q&A with John Brittain, Chief Counsel and Senior Deputy Director for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Professor Brittain has a background of thirty-five years in the legal profession including twenty-eight years in legal education with substantial experience in public interest litigation. He was President of the National Lawyers Guild (1991-93) and is a past member of the National Board of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a long time member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers and the National Bar Association.

Another recall - beef this time

From the New York Times

Beef Recall for E. Coli Is Expanded
ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: September 30, 2007

A meat company yesterday issued a nationwide recall for 21.7 million pounds of ground beef products after reports of up to 25 cases of illness caused by suspected E. coli bacteria in eight states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, federal officials reported.
The recall, by the Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, N.J., covers a wide range of frozen hamburger patties and other products manufactured over the last year and bearing a “sell by” date or “best used by” date between last Tuesday and Sept. 25, 2008, along with the United States Department of Agriculture designation EST 9748.

Full article HERE

What are the Democrats afraid of?

I am baffled. What scares the Democrats, in both houses of congress, so much that vote with the repugs to condemn free speech in the form of an AD! Are they afraid of losing an election? of not staying in the power house that is D.C.?

From my point of view if you vote with the repugs - you ARE a repug! And I hope your constituents find a REAL democrat to face you in the next primary.