CHOOSE YOUR POISON!

The way things are going these days, we all seem to be in danger of poisoning ourselves to death. The only question is, will it be polonium 210 or e-coli? It seems you get both in restaurants of one kind or another, and all you have to do is decide whether you’ll get your e-coli in Taco Bell, or your Polonium 210 in a French Japanese restaurant. That’s not the kind of choice I think of when I dine out, how about you?

What on earth is up with the radiation poisoning? It started with one guy who was fighting against the Russian government and their dirty tactics, and ended up with people in several countries being affected, several airplanes, too, along with the Japanese restautant, a hotel, and some other places in London, Moscow, and another Scandanavian country who’s name I can’t remember now. The strange thing is, they told us this stuff is very rare, and you can’t just pick it up by touching something it’s been on, so how did all these places and people get loaded up with it?

And 69 people in the Northeast ate a meal at Taco Bell and ended up with e-coli poisoning, and they still don’t know how or from what. They thought it was the green onions that came from - of course - California, but now they know they weren’t the cause, but they’re not sure what was. What’s up with that? And now another restaurant, something called “Taco Jack’s” served it up with their food, too. I tell you, it’s not safe anywhere any more.

I know the reason so many food products are tainted by various food poisoning agents, tho. In the 70’s there were over 35,000 inspections of food products per year, but now, after massive cuts by Bush and Co., there are less than 3,500 per year! No wonder so much of our food supply is so easily passed on to us after being tainted with something or other. It doesn’t explain the polonium getting spread far and wide, but then, we’re far more likely to eat tainted food than come in contact with polonium 210. I think.

Why is it when they make budget cuts it’s always the things that cause the most problems for the little guys? Ok, so even the rich eat spinach at times, I guess, so saying it that way won’t work. How about, it’s always the things that hurt we, the people, most? That works. I honestly don’t know what these fools are thinking, other than the fact they want to get as much money to as many of their rich supporters as possible, no matter what it does to every one else. And I think it’s way past time to stop all this crap.

It was bad enough when Uncle Ronnie decided ketchup is a vegetable, but now we’ve got these pinheads thinking our food supply doesn’t need to be guarded against organisms that cause death and destruction to us and our children. It’s too much, I tell you. It’s time we got back to putting the needs of all the people ahead of those of the rich. After all, the rich really don’t need for anything except more money, so why worry about them at all? Let them fend for themselves. They will still come out on top.

I can’t help but wonder if those who were in charge of keeping polonium 210 out of the hands of the public were trained by the USDA inspectors from over here. I’m not sure, but whatever it is, having that stuff spreading all over the place does nothing to make me feel more secure. Maybe we should have invaded the nuclear caretakers of Russia instead of Iraq, since we certainly are in more danger from them than from Saddam Hussein. I wonder if we can have do-overs at this late date?