Where is Common Sense?

“It’s a one quarter cent per ounce tax on Soda Pop, why shouldn’t I blow my brains out?!?”

Since a bunch of conservatives don’t know Colbert is mocking them (“Conservatives Think Colbert Is Serious“, Ohio State University study PDF),  let’s explain this clip:  Colbert is suggesting a Soda Tax might not be the end of Freedom as we know it.  Might even be a good idea:

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March 26, 2009

Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews.com)

Pharmaceutical pollution is out of control, polluting the waterways of our world to such a disturbing degree that now even the fish are carrying detectable levels of pharmaceuticals in their own bodies! A study conducted by Baylor University researcher Bryan Brooks, and published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, examined fish caught near Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, Philadelphia and Orlando, testing them for residues of pharmaceuticals. And what did the results show? That fish are contaminated with a chemical cocktail of prescription medications!

The research was funded by a $150,000 grant from the EPA, and it found the fish to be contaminated with:

• Seven different pharmaceuticals, including cholesterol drugs, blood pressure drugs, allergy drugs and psychiatric medications used to treat bipolar disorder and depression.

• Two different chemicals used as artificial fragrance in soaps.

These trace chemicals were found in fish near all of the sites tested… except for one: In order to establish a baseline reference of healthy, non-contaminated fish, researchers also caught fish in the Gila River Wilderness Area of New Mexico, which is far from any cities or developments. Care to guess what they found there? No pharmaceuticals contamination whatsoever.

It is quite clear from this research that pharmaceuticals have become a widespread source of chemical pollution that has permeated delicate aquatic ecosystems and now poses a serious threat to our environment.

Big Pharma pollutes the world

Big Pharma’s drugs pollute the world TWICE: First in the minds and bodies of those who take them, and then secondly in the rivers and oceans where toxic residues of the pharmaceuticals inevitably accumulate.

Remember this: Every pill of every pharmaceutical that is manufactured for Big Pharma eventually ends up in the environment! Probably at least half of them are just flushed down the toilet or washed down the drains, which remains standard practice at hospitals.

Strikingly, pharmaceuticals are not currently regulated by the EPA even though they pose a significant (and growing) risk to the environment. There is no question, for example, that pharmaceuticals are toxic to fish and aquatic mammals in much the same way they are toxic to humans.

Pill-pushing apologists, of course, claim that the trace levels of pharmaceutical found in the fish are so low that they are of no concern whatsoever. To that ridiculous standard of safety, I say, “Prove it!”

To date, there have been absolutely no safety tests conducted on the combinations of pharmaceuticals that are being found in public water supplies, waterways and oceans around the world. Anyone who says these chemicals are safe is merely taking a wild (and foolish) guess. They are also probably working for Big Pharma.

It is not the responsibility of environmentalists to prove that such chemicals are toxic to the environment. Rather, it is the duty of drug companies to prove their chemicals are SAFE for the environment! And that, by the way, cannot be done, because these drugs are, in reality, toxic to virtually all life forms, even at low doses….

No ice cream!

(AP) – May 20, 2009 / DUBLIN:

“A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland’s Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.

Nine years in the making, Wednesday’s 2,600-page report sides almost completely with the horrific reports of abuse from former students sent to more than 250 church-run, mostly residential institutions. But victims’ leaders said it didn’t go far enough — particularly because none of their abusers were identified by name.

The report concluded that church officials always shielded their orders’ pedophiles from arrest to protect their own reputations and, according to documents uncovered in the Vatican, knew that many pedophiles were serial attackers….”

CBC VIDEO Report

http://www.childabusecommission.ie

G.I.s Told to Bring Afghans to Jesus

Read More – www.military.com:  “U.S. Soldiers have been encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan’s predominantly Muslim population….”

Army Says it Confiscated Afghan Bibles – military.com:

“The U.S. military has confiscated Bibles that Christian U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan had apparently intended to give to local Muslims, a military spokesman has said….”

Bush’s “Crusade” statement

Rev. C. Welton Gaddy on the Bush Crusade

George Bush’s Holy Crusade in Iraq – KIKO’S HOUSE/August 20, 2007:

“..It does not matter if the president came to the view that God is America’s tailgunner in Iraq as his neoconservative coven planned the war or after it started going badly. I suspect the latter, because I also believe that while Bush may have God in his head and on his Teleprompter, there’s damned little of the spiritual in his heart. The man is flat out delusional when it comes to the place in a non-sectarian state that religion has, but he is delusional in a cynically pragmatic sort of way. (Thank you, Uncle Karl.)

We also know that Bush has curried favor with the right-wingnut Christianists whose agenda he tiresomely extols, although despite a lot of bravado and federal dough for faith-based programs, for the most part he has merely used this segment of his now miniscule political base for his own ends. (Ditto, Uncle Karl)….”

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Andrew Hendry (PC World) 03/28/2008 (Skip Ad top right):

“Muddy waters of fact and fiction meet as mysterious ‘dignitaries’ and out-of-context quoting bring video channel’s legitimacy into question….The Church of Scientology did not respond to questions as to why they did not include the names of such apparently distinguished interviewees in its videos, but said the Church stands by its Video Channel.”

Dogs are using tools!

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“The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.”

– Will Rogers, 1924