Are plastic bottles dangerous?
By LISA STIFFLER . P-I REPORTER

Just a week after a group of 38 scientists concluded in a peer-reviewed journal that the chemical, called bisphenol A, poses a significant risk, a government-appointed panel Wednesday disagreed.
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reeeeeeally… imagine that…

and more:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&q=clear+plastic+bottles%2C+health&btnG=Search
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yes, i remember sending information to my daughter recently about health hazards and clear plastic bottles and containers…
the story dealt with baby bottles (!!!) but included pop bottles etc…

uuugh…

Comment by Jake D. — September 5, 2007 @ 11:59 am

I’ll be glad to educate you on what exactly Clinton did regarding terrorism. It may take a little time, but feel free to check back here over the next few days. You could find this info easily on the Google, if you so desired, but it would blow a hole in your “Clinton did nothing” B.S.

For starters, the Republican ass-clowns in Congress during Clinton’s term didn’t exactly take terrorism seriously. Excerpt from CNN.com’s archives, posted July 30, 1996, below. Oh, you’ll notice the part about Clinton wanting to expand wiretapping, and how Hatch rebuffed him. At least Clinton sought the approval of Congress, instead of what Bush did, which was to tell 8 members what his intentions were and then swear them to secrecy and then proceed with breaking the law. No…Hatch and other Repubs didn’t want to expand wiretapping, but when Bush does it illegally, he gets a free pass.

Republican leaders earlier met with White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta for about an hour in response to the president’s call for “the very best ideas” for fighting terrorism.

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, said it is a mistake if Congress leaves town without addressing anti-terrorism legislation. Daschle is expected to hold a special meeting on the matter Wednesday with Congressional leaders.

That’s just not true.

Jake D.: “For the record, I will admit that Bush didn’t do anything to fight terrorists for the first nine months he was in office. Clinton was in office for 96 months.”

Barton Gellman in the Washington Post put it best, “By any measure available, Bill Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him” and was the “first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort”.

Jake D.: “I have no King but Jesus!!!”

That’s not surprising.

For many good reasons. I hope the innocent blood he spilled trickles down to hell and drowns him in a second death.

Katy, also this: don’t have a link on it (will have to investigate when I have more time), but my Mom was telling me a few weeks ago that she heard that if bottled water is left in places where it can get very hot (say, in a car on a hot summer day) and the temperature of the bottles gets too hot, it can somehow cause cancer-causing chemicals to leach from the bottles into the water. If true, makes you also wonder about the plastic containers from companies such as Glad and Ziplock that are microwave “safe.” If heat can cause the problems with water in plastic containers, what does that say about the other types of plastic containers?

Which means if Clinton didn’t do anything, then neither did Bush.

Popcorn supplier to drop toxic chemical
Consumer’s lung disease may be linked to flavoring

ConAgra, the world’s largest supplier of the 3 billion bags of microwave popcorn sold each year, said Tuesday that it will eliminate the use of a controversial chemical butter flavoring linked to severe lung disease in workers from its Act II and Orville Redenbacher products.
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and THIS information, at the end of the story:

HOW DIACETYL HARMS PEOPLE

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/330230_popcorn05.html?source=mypi

jeezus h….
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Bush: “Up yours, Australia!”

Howard: “Yes! Up yours! Oh, wait…”

Comment by James Saville Row — September 5, 2007 @ 10:15 am

Which, I may remind viewers, is exactly what George Bush the candidate said in 2000. And spare me the “9/11 changed everything” shit. Terrorist acts against America were happening worldwide long before Bush came on the scene, including several attacks on American soil by foreign terrorists and one home-grown terrorist, and an attack on a U.S. warship. Bush didn’t give a damn about fighting terrorists before he became president, and he didn’t give a damn about fighting them after he became president (see PDB 8/6/2000; see Cheney advised to form terrorism task force that never met; see Bush administration not having a cabinet level meeting addressing terrorism until several days prior to 9/11; see Bush sitting for 7 minutes in a classroom with a dumb look on his face as America was being attacked).

Comment by Jake D. — September 5, 2007 @ 10:10 am

Jake, dear, the “attack” wasn’t successful. Therefore it was not “another 9/11 attack on the U.S.”

Comment by Jake D. — September 5, 2007 @ 9:57 am

There were plenty of Clinton haters, too. So shut up, as your post makes no contribution to anything.

Then another student, William Sleastor, 16, asked Mr. McCain what he planned to do about “L.G.B.T. rights.” When Mr. McCain looked puzzled, the student explained that the initials stand for “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.”

“I had not heard that phrase before,” Mr. McCain said.