USDA, EPA, DOT .... all they do is keep you safe ... from corporations!

Why are the roads safe to drive on? Hell, why do we get to drive for hours without stopping to pay private tolls on roads?

United State Department of Transportation .... which is making sure roads are designed for safety.

Why don't we choke to death like people in China? EPA ... which is making sure we have clean air.

USDA ... is a little behind in their work. For over a year, a private, job creating, legal person called a corporation has been killing Americans with salmonella.

A year. Link to story at Yahoo.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to a California chicken producer continues to sicken people more than a year after it started.

Despite the illnesses, producer Foster Farms has not initiated a recall, and the government has no apparent plans to shut it down.

The federal Centers for Disease Control says there were 50 new reported illnesses in the last two months, bringing to 574 the total number of cases in the outbreak. Most of the illnesses are in California.

574 cases of salmonella and no one has died? Make me believe it. " Bloodstream infections caused by nontyphoidal salmonellae in Africa were reported in 2012 to have a case fatality rate of 20–25%."

For this outbreak? "Thirty-seven percent of victims were hospitalized and 13 percent of the victims had developed blood infections, almost three times the normal rate."

In a letter from USDA to Foster Farms last October, the department said inspectors had documented "fecal material on carcasses" along with "poor sanitary dressing practices, insanitary food contact surfaces, insanitary nonfood contact surfaces and direct product contamination."

In January, USDA inspectors briefly closed a Foster Farms plant after finding cockroaches.

Yeah. No one has died from this version of corporate citizenship. That we know about.

Another gun death in Georgia

I'm not sure I can continue documenting gun stupidity. My empathy for the victim compels me to warn others.

Okay, so it is Memorial Day weekend. Father wants to spend some time with his son on a boating trip. But, ... dad has to bring a rifle with him. Just in case a wild hog wants to get shot and eaten.

Dad carries the loaded gun down to the boat. The gun goes off and kills the son .... like a wild hog.

Now how does Dad or anyone else in that family ever recover? I don't know.

But, we just passed another stupid gun law in this state called the I can carry my loaded gun anywhere, anytime. And, I dare the police to even ask me if I have a permit.

I'm sure the father of the dead boy was a responsible gun owner who made only one mistake ever with that rifle. Which wasn't just carrying a loaded gun. The mistake was killing his son.

Sad details of the real story here.

Drug dealers work for the NFL and pay no taxes

I have no clue on this headline. Who made that up?

Link

A group of retired NFL players says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the league, thirsty for profits, illegally supplied them with risky narcotics and other painkillers that numbed their injuries for games and led to medical complications ...

Not a big story in some ways. Employees are often subjected to unsafe working conditions. But, if you're one of the players living through Hell, it ain't funny.

Bush knew about Benghazi. Warned Obama. Cheney flew to Benghazi to lead rescue mission.

I love writing nonsense. Especially eye catching headlines. Since Benghazi remains the only important issue to our beloved Republican leaders, I thought I'd help them out with another Benghazi head line.

Yes, Bush knew about Benghazi. In a prepared statement, George admitted using Benghazi on his knees. "It burns at first, which means it's good. Then, the pain goes away."

Cheney did fly to Benghazi to lead a rescue mission. His trip was the first out of body experience for the ex-Vice President. I admire him for taking the trip at all. I just wish he had done it on the night of the attacks instead of Saturday night before appearing on the Sunday morning talk shows.

Timing, Dick. It's all in the timing.

In real news, Bush and Cheney were warned several times about terrorist threats to the United States in the run up to 9/11.

See link here. It's not from the Huffington blog. It's from a business source. Ouch!

Election results

Nope. I didn't vote. Could have. Didn't need to.

Craig Lutz and Ashley Bell will just have to take personal responsibility for failing. Again.

Can't blame me. Can't sue me. Can't slander me. Can't touch this!

Bell gets 15 percent of the vote on Primary Day. Doesn't win. Doesn't run second. Doesn't run third. Isn't in the money.

Maybe now he'll stop asking me for money to get him over the top. Whatever it means to 'get over the top.' Bell should have learned by now that he's not Herman Cain. As if anyone wants to be Herman Cain. Herman Cain is a loser. Bell does have that to share.

Is Bell done in politics? Best guess is No. His ego won't accept being just like the rest of us. Ego can be good. If you have a few other things to go with it like humility for a start. Wait. Doesn't humility negate ego?

Lutz ... sociopathic narcissistic personality with a Jesus complex. Perfect Republican. Should have won running against s candidate named, Buddy. If nothing else, Lutz was first on the ballot.

Here's what I've said to both these ... dudes. Clerks balance checkbooks. Leaders make things work.

So how long before the rest of Hall County GOP elitists have their personal face plant day?

Don't know. It's coming, tho.