Throwing The Baby Out With The Bath Water

For those of my readers that don’t really know me, I’ll just be real blunt here.

I consider myself to be a blanking (fill in your own curse word) Rocket Scientist compared to most of the so called “experts” that form our national policy, write our laws, and whose opinions are thrown at the public through main stream news stories on a daily basis.

I wasn’t always the most dedicated student, but I did manage to get a degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology after a stint at Georgia Tech and a number of years of night school at Southern Tech after I made the mistake of getting married and buying a house—thereby having to actually work for a living prior to finishing my degree.

I can fix almost anything you got that breaks and the things I don’t actually fix I can do research and understand how they work—I just choose to not spend the time learning the intricate details of things like magneto hydrodynamics and plasma field generation because at the ripe old age of 45 the economic cost versus benefit curve is not to my liking

The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are both egregious examples of how government and politics can emasculate an organization’s ability to actually accomplish anything involving any real science. Both organizations have been systematically invaded by hoards of over-educated, panty waist, bed wetting, leftist, liberal morons, many of them outright communists, whom use the organizations to attack America in general and our system of capitalism specifically.

If you ask the CDC, no American should ever be allowed to own a gun. What a bunch of idiot doctors and so-called scientists. But the CDC’s ineptness isn’t really my point this afternoon.

My head is spinning around about this Associated Press story about the EPA, aptly filed under the title of politics, not science.

EPA Cancels Controversial Pesticide Study

“The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday canceled a controversial study using children to measure the effect of pesticides after Democrats said they would block Senate confirmation of the agency's new head.

Stephen Johnson, as EPA's acting administrator, ordered an end to the planned study, a reversal from the agency's position just a day earlier when it said it would await the advice of outside scientific experts.

The aim of the study, Johnson said, was to fill data gaps on children's exposure to household pesticides and chemicals. He suspended it last November after ethical questions were raised by scientists within EPA and by environmentalists.

Over the study's two years, EPA had planned to give $970 plus a camcorder and children's clothes to each of the families of 60 children in Duval County, Fla., in what critics of the study noted was a low-income minority neighborhood….

(The) EPA also had agreed to accept $2 million for the $9 million "Children's Health Environmental Exposure Research Study" from the American Chemistry Council, a trade group that represents chemical makers.

"I have concluded that the study cannot go forward, regardless of the outcome of the independent review. EPA must conduct quality, credible research in an atmosphere absent of gross misrepresentation and controversy," Johnson said Friday. "I am committed to ensuring that EPA's research is based on sound science with the highest ethical standards."

Sen. Barbara Boxer (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., had joined with Sen. Bill Nelson (news, bio, voting record), D-Fla., in demanding the study's cancellation as a condition for confirming Johnson's nomination by President Bush.

Now think about this with me for just a minute. In spite of what the title says, do you really believe that the EPA and the American Chemical Council were planning on running down to south Florida and injecting black and Mexican children with DDT and Chlordane? Were they going to replace the parents table salt with Amdro Fire ant poison and sit back to see what happened?

Not no, but HELL NO….THEY WEREN’T GOING TO DO ANY SUCH THING.

The EPA was simply going to spend two years looking at the household chemicals already being used by these teenaged and other underprivileged minority parents in their homes in an effort to determine what effects, if any, they had on the kids.

It seems that Barbra Boxer and Bill Nelson are playing their normal partisan, bullshit games with confirmation of President Bush’s nominees, and they’re tossing in a liberal (excuse the pun) dose of political correctness for good measure.

What kills me is that the AP idiot reporters don’t have the guts or the ability to actually tell you what I just told you—that the EPA wasn’t going to poison kids. If the EPA was going to test mainly white kids on Sea Island, GA or in Beverly Hills, CA I suppose that the CHEERS study would have been OK, but studying minority children that already are disproportionately injured by home environmental risks is a no-no?

And here is the final thing that really got my blood boiling in this story:

Johnson, an EPA employee for a quarter-century and the first person with a science background to be nominated to lead the agency, has been acting administrator since Mike Leavitt left the agency in January to become secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. He was nominated in March.

You with me here?

STEPHEN JOHNSON IS THE FIRST PERSON WITH A SCIENCE BACKGROUND TO BE NOMINATED TO LEAD THE EPA……EVER.

Does that make any sense whatsoever?

What I want to know is--who the hell has been running the EPA the past 25 years, pastry chefs and wallpaper hangers? AHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh GOD help us all…

I’ve got to go to the pool now and cool off..