30 Jan 2009
Irony, Indeed

I can add nothing except directions: Irony.

19:19 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

Pay cap proposed for Wall Street 'idiots'

What amazed me about this was Giuliani defending them:

"If you somehow take that bonus out of the economy, it really will create unemployment," he said on CNN's "American Morning." "It means less spending in restaurants, less spending in department stores, so everything has an impact."

OK, Rudy, so why is it OK to limit how government dole money is spent by welfare recipients but not investment banks? Wouldn't restaurant spending by welfare mothers at MacDonalds help maintain full employment as much as Richie Rich blowing his bonus at Chez Jean?

If you seek the genesis of class warfare, look no further.

One day after President Barack Obama ripped Wall Street executives for their "shameful" decision to hand out $18 billion in bonuses in 2008, Congress may finally have had enough.

(link) [CNN.com]

19:13 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

FDA panel recommends ban on the painkiller Darvon

My mom's taken Darvocet since the accident (1992). It's been the only painkiller that actually works for her - and she's 85 now. What do you suppose her doc will suggest as an alternative? Oxycontin?

This is the agency that whisked Vioxx through, yet it's been suggested many times that aspirin couldn't get approved today. Morons.

AP - Government advisers are recommending a ban on Darvon, a painkiller that's been around for 50 years. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 14-12 Friday to recommend withdrawing Darvon after a hearing on its risks and benefits. The drug was first approved in 1957, when there were few alternatives for pain except aspirin and powerful narcotics.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

18:49 /Politics | 1 comment | permanent link