Walmart's Lead Laced Baby Bibs and Contaminated Pet Food Connection

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Thursday May 17, 2007 · 9:57 AM PDT

2007/05/17 · 09:57

What do melamine contaminated pet food and lead laced baby bibs have in common? Both are manufactured in a country that is one of the largest poorly regulated importers to the US market. That would be China.

Walmart has announced a recall of baby bibs containing lead levels that are 16 times greater than allowed in paint. The bids, sold by Walmart, are made by Hamco Inc., located in Lousiana. Crown Crafts, Inc., a client of Haliburton Investor Relations, distributes the bibs.

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Friday May 11, 2007 · 6:30 AM PDT

2007/05/11 · 06:30

Earlier this semester a talk by former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card at UMASS, Amherst was met by protest. Many at UMASS hoped that was the last we'd see of one of the propagandists of the Iraq War. No such luck.
Recently we learned that Andrew Card will be appearing at the 2007 UMASS, Amherst Graduate School Commencement to receive an Honorary Degree. That's has angered many students, staff and faculty at the campus.

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Tuesday January 09, 2007 · 6:39 AM PST

2007/01/09 · 06:39

Today's release of the latest Gallup poll runs with the headline that only 36% of Americans support the decider's plans to escalate the conflict in Iraq. That number, as you'll see and as the title of this post suggests, is misleading.

But the poll included a separate question that summarized a possible "surge" announcement, and found that 36% support the idea of such an increase, while 61% oppose it.

This number, while still low, will be the number trumpeted by the right and it will most likely make the headlines in both print and electronic media. This number however is not the number that really expresses the dismal lack of support for Bush's misquided policy.

Poll

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What should we do about the war in Iraq?

183 votes Vote Now!

What should we do about the war in Iraq?

Escalate the number of troops to 20,000 to 30,000.

0 votes

Brings the troops home over a 12 month period.

47 votes

Bring the troops home over an indefinite time period.

7 votes

Start bringing them home today.

129 votes

Star Wars: Bush launches new global arms race.

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Wednesday October 18, 2006 · 8:44 AM PDT

2006/10/18 · 08:44

The Washington Post has a very frightening article on Bush's new space-based defense policy. It is already well known that Bush and the DOD have been planning to develop spaced based defensive capabilities. What saddens and angers me is that Bush leaves no room for avoiding the next global arms race.

The Clinton policy also said that the United States would develop and operate "space control capabilities to ensure freedom of action in space" only when such steps would be "consistent with treaty obligations." The Bush policy accepts current international agreements but states: "The United States will oppose the development of new legal regimes or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit U.S. access to or use of space."

Instead of putting our energies into avoiding this next arms race, the Bush administration will actively seek to prevent any treaties that would limit this next level of human folly.
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FDA Scientists pressured to ignore science and safety

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Friday July 21, 2006 · 4:37 AM PDT

2006/07/21 · 04:37

Scientists working for Federal agencies asked to alter their findings to support the adminstration's and industry's views . Scientists fearful of speaking out because they feel their jobs are in danger. We've seen it at NOAA, at the FWS, and numerous other federal agencies whose mission is to use science in the service of the public good. On Thursday the Union of Concerned Scientists published its report on inappropriate interference with science at the Food and Drug Administration.

Among the key findings:

Of the 997 FDA scientists who responded to the survey, nearly one-fifth (18.4 percent) said that they "have been asked, for non-scientific reasons, to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information or their conclusions in a FDA scientific document."

Forty percent of respondents fear retaliation for voicing safety concerns in public. This fear, scientists say, combines with other pressures to compromise the agency's ability to protect public health and safety.

More than a third of the respondents did not feel they could express safety concerns even inside the agency.

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Monday May 15, 2006 · 3:05 PM PDT

2006/05/15 · 15:05

In a decision hinging on the definition of the word "discharge", the Supreme Court handed down a decision that upholds a state's right to regulate water bodies within its boundaries.

NYTimes The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that states have broad authority to regulate their streams under the federal Clean Water Act, even in situations that do not involve control of "pollution" in the strict sense of the word.
The justices ruled in favor of the Maine Board of Environmental Protection and against the S.D. Warren Company, owner of five hydroelectric dams along the Presumpscot River that provide power for a company paper mill.

That's right, all of the Justice's ruled in favor of the State's environmental board. Read More

Hundreds of Migratory Birds Slaughtered in MA

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Saturday May 13, 2006 · 10:03 AM PDT

2006/05/13 · 10:03

I'm feeling sick to my stomach this morning. My property is bordered on one side by a stream that flows down into the Connecticut River. Everyday I watch birds (herons, kingfishers, and occasionally ospreys and bald eagles) fly over my yard towards the two upstream fish hatcheries where they try to get an easy meal. One of those hatcheries is a state owned facility that protects its stock of trout with netting. The other is a privately owned facility whose owners chose to spend their money on bullets instead.

This morning's local paper carried a very disturbing article about the slaughter of hundreds of protected migratory birds at this private fish hatchery.

Recorder Federal authorities have charged two area men with killing hundreds of blue herons, a bald eagle and other protected migratory birds at a commercial trout hatchery in Sunderland [MA].

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Tuesday December 20, 2005 · 11:37 AM PST

2005/12/20 · 11:37

The rethuglican's are at it yet again. Disregarding long established Senate Traditions, Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) has introduced a bill to overturn endangered species protections in the Senate Finance Committee intead of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee where it would have had a difficult time making it to the full Senate.

Last September, Pombo's Anti-Endangered Spieces Bill was passed in the House. Pombo's Billed coupled with Crapo's would mean that species protections as we have known them since the early '70's would effectively come to an end.

For more background on republican's efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act read the following diaries:

Pelosi Satement in Support of ESA
Repubs ramming Anti-Endangered Species Bill through House
House Committee attacks Endangered Species Protection Read More

Making Bigotry Backfire

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Thursday December 15, 2005 · 8:25 AM PST

2005/12/15 · 08:25

I am sick and tired of the Dobson's AFA attacks on women, gays, and children (support of corporal punishment). I need to strike back. I hope you will join me in this little ploy to turn their efforts against them.

They have compiled a list of Pro-Gay companies and asked their members to avoid supporting these companies.

AFA's List of Pro-Gay Companies

Please contact some of these companies and thank them for supporting tolerance.

Then contact the AFA at AFA Contact and thank them for ID'ing companies that you can support for supporting tolerance.

Insurers debate limiting Katrina coverage.

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Friday September 09, 2005 · 6:53 PM PDT

2005/09/09 · 18:53

Like after 9/11, insurers are considering limiting payout to Katrina victims only for damage caused by wind and rain during the storm. They would exclude coverage for the flooding that occurred after the storm passed.

AP Insurers are potentially facing billions of dollars in losses from Hurricane Katrina claims, and battle lines have begun forming as carriers argue they aren't responsible for flooding excluded from standard homeowners policies.

The majority of homes in areas slammed by the hurricane have policies that cover wind and rain damage, but relatively few had extra insurance to cover flooding. Insurers are posturing to limit the amount of damages by saying massive flooding in storm-ravaged New Orleans is a separate event from the hurricane itself.

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Wednesday August 17, 2005 · 7:34 AM PDT

2005/08/17 · 07:34

The Internet has become one of the forces driving the extinction of endangered species. A report released by The International Fund for Animal Welfare has found that the Internet trade in endangered species is flourishing and poses a significant threat to many species.

Bloomberg Traders are using the Internet to sell thousands of products from endangered wildlife species, including live animals, ivory, tortoiseshell and stuffed creatures, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said.

The trade in products made from some of the world's most endangered species, and in the animals themselves, has ``devastating implications for both wildlife conservation and animal welfare,'' yet not all sellers may be aware their activities are illegal, the group based in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, said today in a report on its Web site.

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Saturday August 06, 2005 · 1:26 PM PDT

2005/08/06 · 13:26

Tierney over at the New York Times has provided us with another example of his 'head in the sand" opinions on the predicted effects of global warming. This time he's suggesting that global warming will be good for Polar Bears.

First he presents us with one piece of information about Polar Bear population trends.

NYT This is not an isolated trend. Although the bears seem to be hurting in some places, like the Hudson Bay region south of here, their numbers have increased worldwide. In Canada, home to most of the world's polar bears, the population has risen by more than 20 percent in the past decade.

The chief reason for the rise is probably restrictions on hunting (for which conservationists deserve credit). In this village of fewer than 200 residents, Mr. Kalluk and the other hunters are limited each year to three dozen bears, which they allocate by drawing names out of a hat.

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Hundreds of Migratory Birds Slaughtered in MA

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Making Bigotry Backfire

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For Sale: Siberian Tiger, 2 years-old, $70,000.

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