George W. Bush’s parting gifts to the American people include increased poison for babies

Chalk this one up to youthful ignorance.  In the year 2000, I was working as a systems analyst for one of the local casinos in St. Louis.  One of my co-workers was admittedly gay.  Without going too much in to detail, he was very down and dejected after the election.  Me, being the smug, politically ignorant, and immature tech guy that I was (and maybe still am) said, “Ah.  Don’t worry about it.  If he does a bad job, we will just elect someone else in four years.  How bad can it be?”

Oh how I have lived to regret those words!  I believe that whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, you have to believe that George W. Bush has been a nightmare for America, Americans, and the rest of Earth.  He is a prime example of what happens when a society places anti-intellectualism above competence and intellectual curiosity.

So, you have to wonder what his parting gifts to this country will be.  Here is one of the worse, and according to this article from Wired, it could take years to reverse.

Feds Set to Eliminate Water Regulations for Neurotoxin | Wired Science from Wired.com

“If you used the human studies from the CDC, then you would be forced to regulate it, because we know there are health effects at current levels of exposure,” said Jacobs.

Benjamin Blount, co-author of the CDC’s study, would not comment on the EPA’s decision, but said that infants — who consume, proportional to their body weight, about six times more water than adults — “are thought to have a higher dose than at any other life stage.”

The EPA declined to comment on why they used a model rather than the CDC’s data in deciding that regulating perchlorate would not provide “a meaningful opportunity for health risk reduction for persons served by public water systems.”

Obama $30,000 ring story is probably not true - Ben Smith

According to Ben Smith’s blog on Politico.com, the Obama ring story is probably not true.

Obama aide denies ring story - Politico.com

The communications for Obama’s transition, Dan Pfeiffer, flatly denied a Daily Mail report that Obama is buying an exotic $30,000 ring to thank his wife “for her support during the election.”

The report is sourced to an anonymous spokesman for the manufacturer of the rhodium ring, who is quoted claiming, “Our agent in the United States was asked by Mr. Barack Obama about the ring because he wants it as a thank-you gift for his wife, Michelle, for her support the last two years.”

The spokesman is not named in the story, and there seems to be no other evidence for the claim….

That being said, who cares if it is true.  Barack Obama has no problem with people being wealthy and has a history of statements that he supports common sense capitalism and personal accomplishment.  I don’t remember Obama ever saying anything at all about people not being able to have and buy nice things for themselves, and working hard to get those things.  When did he ever say otherwise?

His politics is that the system should be protected that allows all people the opportunity to succeed and to have personal accomplishments.

On the contrary, the reason why Palin got hammered for her clothes purchases is because, unlike Obama, she was being hypocritical in her statements about Obama being an elitist, and her being the plain and simple girl from Alaska.  It was all a big show and she got called on it.

Another example would be Senator Craig soliciting gay sexual favors in the bathroom.  People on the left didn’t care that he was gay, they made a bid deal about it because of the hypocrisy of the things he had professed about gay people, just like Reverend Haggard.

I don’t see anything hypocritical about Obama buying fancy jewelry for his wife unless anyone has heard him say something that I missed.