Nord leaves country on biggest shopping day.
By on Nov 23rd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Nord leaves country on biggest shopping day.
As Americans head to the mall today on “Black Friday,” the biggest shopping day of the year, they face worries about the millions of Chinese-made toys that have been recalled in recent months. But Nancy Nord, acting chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, won’t be around to allay shoppers’ fears, as she is traveling in Japan on a trip paid for by the Japanese government. Earlier this month, the Post recently revealed that Nord has taken nearly 30 trips paid for by industries the CPSC is charged with regulating.
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This is a boring thread, so let’s make it into a ThinkFast thread. I’ll start:
Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request
Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause
Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers.
In some cases, judges have granted the requests without requiring the government to demonstrate that there is probable cause to believe that a crime is taking place or that the inquiry will yield evidence of a crime. Privacy advocates fear such a practice may expose average Americans to a new level of government scrutiny of their daily lives.
That’s what happens when you start down the slippery slope Bush has pushed us on to. It’s a very short jump from gathering data looking for terrorists without probable cause to gathering data on people in this country without probable cause. What have we done to this once great country?
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 pmIt’s difficult to see the truth when you are in it. Do you suppose 50 or 100 years from now Americans will look back and wonder what the hell was going on and why we let all this happen?
I don’t know. I do what I can, yet it’s not enough. There aren’t enough of us willing to learn, think, act…
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:21 pmI wouldn’t be bothered a bit if this Nord person were to resign her position and stay in China or Japan for the rest of her days.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:22 pmMy take is that in fifty years our grandkids will be pissing on our graves for letting this happen, and their piss will evaporate in ten seconds in the 130 degree heat.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:25 pmFederal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers. -BB
It would be easier to give each suspect a cow..after all, we can track a cows from birth, to farm, to stall, to processing plant, to store.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:26 pmLeaded toys and Laissez Faire Capitalism.
Bad for Americans great for Communism.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:33 pmWe should give kids frogs and firecrackers. That way they will grow up well rounded and compassionate peace loving beings.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 pmSaw an older episode of Frontline last night about China, Tiananmen Square and Google, Yahoo, Cisco’s involvement there. Very depressing.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:40 pm“won’t be around to allay shoppers’ fears”
WTF – is she supposed to man the phones?
This is a stupid non-story.
And I sure fu**in’ hope she takes a lot of trips – it’s part of her job to go investigate/expose problems.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:57 pm“Non-story”? This is highly relevant: “Earlier this month, the Post recently revealed that Nord has taken nearly 30 trips paid for by industries the CPSC is charged with regulating. ”
If she’s traveling on their dime, she’s hardly likely to “investigate/ expose problems.” And, based on her track record, she’s more likely to do just the opposite: fiddle the system to assure that any problems are swept under the rug.
Under this administration, “regulation” of industry is a bad joke, and Nord is a perfect example.
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:04 pmHey DaveRywall,
If you seriously believe that what’s-her-face is actually investigating / exposing problems on her trip to Japan, then I have some real estate on Pluto (once a planet) I wanna talk to you about. Good grief, herd-bound, naive, kool-aid drinking, lemming/sheep of the dark-side never cease to amaze me.
If what you say is true, then how come all her prior trips … at least SOME I assume were to China, have not only F-A-I-L-E-D to “expose” any of the recent rash of problems??? It is a FACT that U.S. consumers have brought to U.S. corporations all the evidence of the latest rounds of problems, and NOT the CPSC. And, those U.S. corporations have had to do most of the heavy lifting WITHOUT much action by the CPSC, even after-the-problems have been highlighted by consumers. Ms Nord is stamped from the same incompetent mold as Micheal Brown … political appointees AND their hired minions, of corrupt and ineffective political administrations such as BushCo are even more incompetent (if that’s possible) than the administrations who employ them. Bush=worst president in the history of the planet, bar none. A bumbling idiot of the first order.
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:17 pmAt least she isn’t shoe shopping like a maniac at Ferragamo’s with Condi today.
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:26 pmWhat? Only Thirty (30)! What a poor excuse for a bushco arsekisser! She won’t get a “Heckuvajob, Nordy.”
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:27 pmAnd I sure fu**in’ hope she takes a lot of trips – it’s part of her job to go investigate/expose problems.
Comment by DaveRywall
I guess you aren’t very up on the news. Ms. Nord wants us to stop investigating things like lead in toys. And tell me how Ms. Nord will be objective in her “investigating to expose problems” when her trips are paid for by the people she is supposedly investigating.
Another very lame troll. Where are they getting these guys?
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:32 pmAnother very lame troll. Where are they getting these guys?
Comment by bilbobaggins — November 23, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
This is the second-string troll team, in while Mr. P and the others are on vacation. It’s kind of like the last week of baseball season when all the guys called up from the minors get to play a few games.
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:50 pmI’m glad the Bush admin has done the American people the favor of rounding up all the most insane psychopaths in the country. It will be so much easier to commit them to institutions come 2008.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:02 pmHow many Congresspersons are actually members of A*P*C? Waxman is a member!!!
which ones were half the House and Senate at the AIPAC meeting?
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we can already count Pelosi and Stoyer and all those who respond to AIPAC’s strong arm over the health and best interests of the United States and its citizens — whose interests they are supposed to represent.
Couple of links for you– Waxman is AIPAC member
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/9/11226/2103
That Waxman would belong to an organization that holds John Hagee in high-esteem, ought to tell us all we need to know about his sympathies.
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Waxman, Rahm Emanuel, Barney Frank… And more. Reading all the co-signers and realizing that they were some of the people I thought were truly interested in what’s best for America is what’s depressing.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:14 pmHey, DaveRyWall, I sincerely and truely hope your kids don’t consume poisons that were on or a part of some foreign product that this amoral Nord character allowed into this country. The trips are not research projects, but gifts for allowing their products into the country without being checked. My only wish is that she commits some crime there, and that when incarcerated, she gets done to her what she and her WH friends have been doing to the country for the past 6+ years.
November 23rd, 2007 at 4:47 pmFrom Nov. 20, the Japanese government started fingerprinting, photographing, and interviewing all foreigners over 16 entering the country, except those with diplomat passports,”special” permanent residents (meaning Koreans and Taiwanese and their families/descendents living in Japan from the days when their countries were colonized by it), and those with invitations from governmental ministries/agencies. Unfortunately, the last exemption probably applies to Nord, so she won’t have to endure lining up at the airport for 90 minutes or so waiting to get fingerprinted, mugshot taken, and interviewed as a potential terrorist.
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:00 pmYes, I know that the US started fingerprinting foreign visitors first, but it exempts permanent residents with green cards. Japan is now fingerprinting and taking mugshots of foreigners with ordinary permanent residence.
Dumb Question: In all the junkets that Nord took, what percentage of time was spent in a hot dusty factory and what percentage of time was spent in a 5 star hotel, eating ritzy food, shopping, seeing the sights, etc. ???
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:07 pmDumb Question: In all the junkets that Nord took, what percentage of time was spent in a hot dusty factory and what percentage of time was spent in a 5 star hotel, eating ritzy food, shopping, seeing the sights, etc. ???
Comment by MapleStreet
Not a dumb question at all, Maple!
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:17 pmIs she also receiving a speaking fee while on these junkets? Frankly I would have expected this activity to be out-right illegal. It is certainly a giant conflict of interest. But then with this crowd, what is more corruption?
For the most corrupt administration in history, not much I suppose.
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:04 pm