tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post7887474091467368740..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: This Just In From Hillary's Think TankKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-16002308692832598042016-05-09T09:40:05.347-04:002016-05-09T09:40:05.347-04:00“This is a great country, in no small part because...“This is a great country, in no small part because it is the best country ever devised in which to be a public crank. Never has a nation so dedicated itself to the proposition that not only should people hold nutty ideas, but they should cultivate them, treasure them, shine them up, and put them right up there on the mantelpiece. This is still the best country ever in which to peddle complete public lunacy. In fact, it’s the only country to enshrine that right in its founding documents.”<br /><br />― Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free <br /><br /><br /><br />Excerpt from Socrates' excellent comment to Krugman's latest, The Making of an ignoramus.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-35567609904465887022016-05-09T08:16:35.921-04:002016-05-09T08:16:35.921-04:00Not to get too picayune but even soap and water tu...Not to get too picayune but even soap and water turns your hands to sandpaper-- or worse. I've had hands that were constantly sore in the winter- red, broken skin, itchy. And it seems many facilities still have not gotten the memo on triclosan. The hand sanitizers actually helped, giving me a break from the soap and water. Katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-7336814580252096882016-05-08T23:19:10.413-04:002016-05-08T23:19:10.413-04:00Subject: Clinton’s wonky policies of fine-grained ...Subject: Clinton’s wonky policies of fine-grained complexity contrast with rivals’ grandiose ideas from The Washington Post<br /><br />http://wpo.st/krqY1 <br /><br /><br /><br />Interesting.<br /> Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-28449795172872337482016-05-08T13:53:50.313-04:002016-05-08T13:53:50.313-04:00Kat.
Thanks for the clarification. I have revised...<br /><br />Kat.<br /><br />Thanks for the clarification. I have revised my piece to reflect this.<br /><br /> Purell doesn't contain triclosan, but as you say anti bacterial soaps and some hand sanitizers still do. This additive which is banned in Europe. Theoretically, the proposed TTIP "trade deal" would allow American companies to sue over this in investor state tribunals. <br /><br />The very frequent use of hand sanitizers is probably necessary for health care workers, who have to especially careful about transmitting disease from patient to patient. They don't kill norovirus, though, which is the cause of many stomach bugs.<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/germophobia-superbug-hygiene-<br />soap-bacteria<br /><br />http://time.com/96112/why-im-breaking-up-with-hand-sanitizer/Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-86158319631886004642016-05-08T13:29:02.404-04:002016-05-08T13:29:02.404-04:00uh.. hand sanitizers are alcohol based. They are n...uh.. hand sanitizers are alcohol based. They are not toxic. They are useful if you have to wash your hands all the time. Triclosan is the stuff in antibacterial soaps. That is bad stuff.Katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-18077536543767076382016-05-08T10:04:40.725-04:002016-05-08T10:04:40.725-04:00Perfumes of high fragrance are so Louis XIV. We&#...Perfumes of high fragrance are so Louis XIV. We've come around to the view that no-smell smells in a can put out by big corps serve us best and provide industrial solutions for modern living. And yet the perfume or the zero scent is only a cover up. We need something more radical than the products mentioned by Karen. We must recognize that the root of the problem is people.<br /><br />The problem with society is that it brings us together. And we see every day that overfriendly contact with others, sometimes taking us down to the low road of love, spells the death knell of individualism and the American Way.<br /><br />Separation by class is one way to begin. Over in the mother country, look at how much healthier and happier the Earl of Downton's family is compared to the downstairs crowd. The butler, like our president, works around the clock to keep the classes apart but mutually supportive. Disparity is the new way to maintain class spirit.<br /><br />Take note at how the European Union is devolving. Immigrants bring germs. Hence, ethnically aware leaders are putting an end to open borders, the risky fad of no borders giving way once again to the wisdom of customs agents guarding tight borders. We are forced to touch money every day. Big currencies like the euro are touched by so many people, whereas a local currency, like the franc or the pound, or especially the mark, are only touched by one's own people. This is healthy. Small is beautiful, and think local, buy local, as the odor-free and natty yuppies used to say.<br /><br />War is, by far, the best way to wipe out bipedal fomites along with their ever-present contaminates. In times of peace, snipers and drones are excellent means of surgically removing the sources of our worst fears without getting too close physically.<br /><br />As the most dependable cleansers, nuclear-tipped missiles work best of all, of course; and Hillary, of all the presidential candidates, appears the least reluctant to employ them to protect our American Way of Life. The man she looks up to, Obama, along with the Congress, have recently set aside one trillion dollars to update our entire nuclear arsenal over the next ten years. This is not another make work program in your congressional district. No doubt about it, nukes scrub clean.<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/us-ramping-up-major-renewal-in-nuclear-arms.html?_r=0<br /><br />More than half a century ago, JFK launched the program that put a man on the moon within a decade. In this new century, Americans can stay confident. BO, Hill and the Congress have just launched a ten-year plan to rid our world of undesirable life.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-20442458609205617372016-05-07T22:29:02.708-04:002016-05-07T22:29:02.708-04:00Does this mean she's going to get her Southern...Does this mean she's going to get her Southern accent back?<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06856160423100846727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-26137534832826398812016-05-07T16:34:41.873-04:002016-05-07T16:34:41.873-04:00If we're lucky maybe those hot peppers will do... If we're lucky maybe those hot peppers will do her in.Pearlnoreply@blogger.com