Dead babies are a bummer, but hey? You gotta crack eggs if you wanna make a righteous enviromentalist omelet, right? Forget “for the children,” this madness is continued for the birds….
via Ace, who asks (and explains) the reasoning behind the word games:
Why is the Washington Post so vague about what is meant by “numerous” deaths?
Because the deaths were/are being caused by an environmentlaist beloved by the left, whose crusade against DDT undeniably saved the lives of many birds… and just as undeniably took the lives of a half million or more human children every year.
It’s the same with the return of the TB scourge. Reporting the facts about why malaria and TB haven’t been eradicated will upset a politically correct applecart. Pointing out that illegal aliens are importing a disease that had pretty much been eradicated in the USA brands you a bigot who “fears brown people,” as Ace loves to say.
Why does the “Forbes” piece fail to name the congressman it mentions?
(It’s certainly not necessary to explain that a congressman that ADVOCATES reintroducing deadly, toxic pesticides to the ecosystem Americans must share is a rethug….this is a given.)
Disgraced neocon Tom DeLay never made any secret of the fact that his political career was in fact motivated by the fact that his profit margin as an exterminator was cut into by the banning of toxic poisons deemed detrimental to human life.
I won’t comment the content of AOS’s post (I don’t have enough time to explain it) but it’s pretty odd that Rachel Carson should be painted as the murderer of children by disease, when she herself was killed by some of the same toxic substances the right-wing corporatists intend to reintroduce.
I guess we should go to all the first responders and removal workers and explain to them that they must reattach all of the asbestos they’ve removed from school buildings, subway tunnels, etc., and explain to the rescuers with advanced respiratory airway disease that burning toxins and poisons imbedded in plastics are a GOOD thing.
TB has always been an issue in the inner city, where disproportionately high numbers of the disease have been monitored and tracked, particularly in communities where kids live and play, crowded in small, unclean, poorly-maintained spaces, like the Hispanics, the West Indians, the Chinese, the hasidics, etc. This is certainly not new….what IS new is the fact that the rightards and those powers that incite them now are seizing on the fact that it’s moving outside the ghetto, and therefore affecting THEM, and latching onto it as an anti-immigration talking point, much as wingnuts used AIDS to begin persecuting gays during the eighties.
I am firmly against illegal immigration and even believe a moratorium on legal immigration is in order. It’s right and correct to point out the rising prevalence of these diseases, but any solution to it would have to 1) first address the fact that TB rates among Americans have been rising, without anything substantive having been done about it, and that 2) tourists, Americans visiting other countries, business travelers, etc, all come into contact with these diseases and then come home to America as well.
If the Republicans have allowed security to deterioriate to the point that we have completely open, unrestricted national borders, what makes anyone think they could do a better job of controlling INVISIBLE biological hordes?
If the Republicans are incapable of winning “A WAR ON TERROR”, what makes anyone think they are capable of winning a war against disease in their own backyard? Especially, when they take a laissez-faire attitude toward health and environmental concerns in the first place?
If the Republicans’ enduring legacy in securing airports and travel facilities from “terror” is to make passengers remove their shoes for the purposes of detecting explosives, and then use xray machines that CANNOT detect these explosives (these operations overseen entirely by the same minimum-wage caliber employees you buy your “Extra Value Meal” at McDonalds from), why would anyone trust them to operate diagnostic medical equipment properly, and make sound judgements based on their analysis, at these same points of entry?