HHS Thompson offers up our food supply to terrorists

[rainbow4321]

Thanks, ASSwipe. And then take a look at who could replace him! WTF?? I had to keep looking at this article before I posted it cuz it is SO scary I thought maybe it was a spoof news article...no such luck, it looks pretty damn real:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041203/D86OD2TG1.html


WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned Friday, warning of a potential global outbreak of the flu and health-related terror attacks. "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," he said.

Thompson, the eighth member of Bush's 15-person Cabinet to resign since the Nov. 2 election, said he tried to leave office a year ago, but stayed through Bush's re-election campaign at the request of the White House.

As for Thompson's successor, the secretary had not yet stepped before the microphones when officials said Mark McClellan, the Medicare chief and brother of White House press secretary Scott McClellan, was Bush's likely choice to take over the sprawling HHS bureaucracy.

Thompson said McClellan would make "a great secretary." But he also dropped the names of several other potential candidates, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

[thecrow]

1. Nothing like keeping it in the "family"

OMG!! WTF!!!

[rainbow4321]

2. Tomorrow we will probably hear.....

one of those "our food system is safe" comments..kind of like when shrub did the "we can't win the war on terror" and then within 24 hrs when he saw the shit hitting the fan it became "we CAN win the war on terror".
Maybe this food supply comment was a parting shot from TT to the shrub regime? If was just him making an "oops", he will probably be brought back into line shortly by the regime.

And of course none of the reporters there probably questioned his comment about the food safety?

[rainbow4321]

5. Speaking of keeping it in the family..

McClellans are the sons of Texas politician..Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn..sorry, had to fit all of her names in there..
SHE did the following:

She dissed my religion--UU. Tried to have it not recognized by the state...then she backed down after the media got a hold of it..and the state lawyers wouldn't back her up.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/8692961.htm


AUSTIN - Unitarian Universalists have for decades presided over births, marriages and memorials. The church operates in every state, with more than 5,000 members in Texas alone.

But according to the office of Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, a Denison Unitarian church isn't really a religious organization -- at least for tax purposes. Its reasoning: the organization "does not have one system of belief."

Never before -- not in this state or any other -- has a government agency denied Unitarians tax-exempt status because of the group's religious philosophy, church officials say. Strayhorn's ruling clearly infringes upon religious liberties, said Dan Althoff, board president for the Denison congregation that was rejected for tax exemption by the comptroller's office. "I was surprised -- surprised and shocked -- because the Unitarian church in the United States has a very long history," said Althoff, who notes that father-and-son presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams were both Unitarians.

Since Strayhorn took over in January 1999, the comptroller's office has denied religious tax-exempt status to 17 groups and granted them to more than 1,000, according to records obtained by the Star-Telegram. Although there are exceptions, the lion's share of approvals have gone to groups that appear to have relatively traditional faiths, records show.
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Over on the TX board there is a thread about her possibly running for gov of TX:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=180&topic_id=7423#7457



edited for typo

[AmyCrat]

3. Give us Flu in our Food (or something worse) While we Have no Vaccines

Smooth move brainiac.

[YellowDoginthehouse]

4. I saw that-thanks for the tip, Thompson, you a$%!ole n/t

n/t

[Karenina]

6. The food supply in the U.S.

is ALREADY contaminated, brought to you by *corporate predators.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Keep the peons afraid, keep them very afraid.......

They have that technique down to a fine science.....

[rodeodance]

8. so was afraid to speak up while working for Bush?--

Did he ever raise these concerns while in office? Will we ever know?
Why now? just to instill fear? Maybe--but maybe he and Bush had a falling out. Tommy T. is a man who likes to be charge!!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

10. He never wanted to be Sec of Health & Human Services

He practically begged to be Sec of Transportation. Remember in 2000 he promised the bush that he would get Wisconsin's votes for him, but Wisconsin went for Gore by a slim margin (all these absurdly slim margins lately...). Tommy waited a long time for Bush to give him a spot on the Cabinet, so for awhile it looked as if he might not get any appointment. Now that we know what we do about electronic vote tampering I've wondered was Tommy's pledge to get Wisconsin's votes more than just rhetoric? We see what Diebold did for * in Ohio this year, after making a similar promise. Was Bush PO'd that Thompson didn't pull more strings for him? Who knows, but Tommy has been pouty and sulky looking for the past 4 years

[Straight Shooter]

13. FEAR: That's the hidden agenda right there, hiding in plain sight

Of course the terrorists are already damn well aware of our vulnerable food supply, needless to mention water.

This is merely a ploy so the hopeless "victims" of this administration will continue to cling to that moral leper bush, while he in turn spreads his infection of fear and corruption and paranoia amongst his faithful followers.

I'm willing to bet that if there is a contamination of our food or water supply, it will be an inside job. Perhaps one of bush's minions will release into the food supply a genetically modified product created with a biohazardous gene which would afflict a certain susceptible segment of the population.

I'm just sayin'

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. They have used the "Fear Card" all along. Problem, Reaction, Solution.

How do the very few keep the much larger populace under control?

Fear is a Primal Instinct.

Those in a position of power will create a Problem. This Problem has to be big enough to instill Fear amongst the people. Then, the very ones that created the Problem in the first place, will enflame the public's Reaction even more. Finally, the manipulators who have created the Problem, offer the Solution. This Solution is often greater control over those masses, citing that those contols (ie Patriot Act), will assist in protecting all.

Problem, Reaction and Solution has been used throughout time immemorial.

[coreystone]

9. Any more vulnerabilities that "Tommy" would care to expose!!!

"For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," he said. (Tommy Thompson)

??????????????????


:crazy:

[Horse with no Name]

11. As a person in the medical field

I have wondered what happened to the batch of flu vaccine that we lost in its final stages. I also knew our government would never tell us of a real threat if they could keep it hidden, especially in an election year.
I have often (underneath the cover of a tin foil hat) thought the contamination of the vaccine was an act of terrorism that we were never made aware of.
We keep hearing experts warn of a flu pandemic. Last year was one of the worst flu seasons in history. In Texas, hundreds of schools were shut down because of flu epidemics. When flu vaccine was thought to be in ample supply this year...everyone was warned repeatedly to get flu shots, regardless of if you ever did it before. When the shortage occurred, it was like all those warnings had never existed. The sugar coated media coverage began and the real threat to our country from a pandemic was literally buried.
Maybe Tommy knows something that we do not. Wouldn't it be nice if he would share his information with us. Can someone email him a tin foil hat?

[coreystone]

12. Heck! I'm still wondering where those "anthax" terrorists went to..

from the fall of 2001!!!!!!!!!!!!



:eyes:

[brindis_desala]

15. Maybe it was a heads up to the thinking public

You'd think by now even the repugs would have caught on: 9-11, no evidence presented, 0 convictions: anthrax, no leads, no suspects,
0 convictions: Osama of the thousand faces: Zarqawi the Invisible...
Christ, are the repugs really this stupid?

[rainbow4321]

16. Right on time...

Thought it would hit the news today....looks like TT got his hand slapped


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBAUY17C2E.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush played down on Saturday a stark warning from his resigning health chief that the nation's food supply is largely unprotected from terror attack.
Bush said that the government is doing what it can to safeguard the public from threats, but much work remains.

"We're a large country, with all kinds of avenues where somebody could inflict harm," said Bush, asked about the issue after an Oval Office meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. "We've made a lot of progress in protecting our country, and there's more work to be done, and this administration is committed to doing it."

[righteous1]

17. Da#n stupid comment, I have no idea what the man was thinking

but after hearing that i am glad to see him go