[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Where Are the Bodies?

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Where Are the Bodies?
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1239763614.shtml


   [1]North Star Beef of Buffalo, Minnesota is closing, putting 200
   people out of work. As the Minneapolis Star Tribune article notes, the
   owner has had a string of bad luck, the latest issue being "high"
   arsenic levels in the ground water. He couldn't afford the remediation
   investment, not in this economy.
   You may remember that President Clinton ordered this as a Parthian
   shot leaving the White House in 2001. The old standard of 50 parts per
   billion (ppb) was lowered to 10 ppb, effective 2006. Rather than do
   the right thing, President George W. Bush let it stand. Some say it
   was a political trick, to make "W" look bad by repealing it.
   A quick web surf suggests that the old 50 ppb standard is still
   workable, that reducing the level doesn't produce any measurable
   results. There are no bodies stacking up at the morgue. There never
   were. There never would have been. And yet, this is an important
   action? Where are the bodies?
   Sounds like second smoke, where again, there are no bodies and no
   death certificates citing it as even a contributing cause of death.
   Not even from the 1950's, when half the population smoked cigarettes,
   at home, in the car, in restaurants, even at most workplaces.

References

   1. http://www.startribune.com/business/43009212.html