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Colorado Clorox

I understand that Clorox samples were given to children in Colorado.
Children at Coal Creek Canyon K-8 in Golden were given samples and encouraged to bring them home to their parents.
I understand that your direct marketing department sent samples to the teachers with a letter telling them to give the samples to the parents.
What were you trying to do by entering the school system in order to market your product?
Do you think it is right that a Clorox spokeswoman put the blame on the teachers for the fact that children were given clorox cleaning wipes heavily impregnated with chlorine?
Why are you sending these items to school teachers?
Are you aware of the crisis in our nations schools as we all, as Americans, try to clean up the educational mess that has led to the loss of American jobs and the possible crippling of our economy?
Is Clorox such a dirty company that they have to peddle their goods to a captive audience?
What would happen if Clorox sent samples to hospitals and left a box next to each wounded and diseased person so that they could give the samples to family members?
How about prisons? Will Clorox be sending samples to prisoners so that the prisoners could then pass the samples on to visitors or perhaps their victims?
The schools in the Jefferson County School District are in trouble as it is. Ideas abound about selling advertising space and special deals with candy and soft drink manufacturers - the education of our children is being put secondary to the profit motive.
Clorox had no right to do what it did. I think it would be appropriate for the Jefferson County School District to switch to another cleaning solution.
The Jefferson County School District board and PTA need to be put on notice as well. What exactly happened in this case?
Will Clorox now leave our children alone or will the company continue to harass schoolteachers and our children?
I believe Dr. Cindy Stevenson, the Superintendent of the Jefferson County School System in Colorado needs to step down.
Clorox needs to take a step back away from our children.
The United States of America is spending billions of dollars a year to educate our children - not turn them into delivery boys for the Clorox company.
Some of the younger children wiped their faces with the material that they were given.
There is no apology that can make up for this.
This was no mistake that can be passed over and forgotten.
Where does Colorado stand in relation to its children and schools? Can anyone send anything they want to a school and have it handed out? If a company like Clorox does not respect school property then it is no surprise that drugs and mayhem dog our children’s school days and police must stand guard in the hallways.
For shame, Colorado, for shame.

America is Rich

America is rich we are told.
When you look at it though and put New York or Houston next to Montreal, Paris, Berlin or Rome it becomes obvious that the words slum and city have two different meanings for a reason.
Why argue they are richer because a few freaks in New York or Houston earn enough to move out and get away to somewhere else?
Our nation continues to bow to the privileged rich and let them continue to flood our nation with cheap Communist Chinese goods and to destroy our jobs and economic fortune while they go prancing around the world boasting about things that are just not true.
How are the streets in your neighborhood? Are you willing to let your water and sewer pipes deteriorate? Are you willing to turn over your town and your future to drug dealers and corrupt law enforcement agencies? Are you content that your public schools are being run for profit by a bunch of organized bureaucrats or religious fanatics?
What are you paying taxes for?
Have you seen what sort of laws are being sponsored by your Representative or your Senator? They are ridiculous and many of them are meaningless.
Did you realize that this week they are attacking towns on the Syrian-Iraq border and last week they were attacking towns on the Iraq-Afghanistan border? Each week they trade sides.
This is your nation – it’s your responsibility.
Are you going to take part or just stand back and watch?

Lack of Experience Kills

I had to read it twice.
A government employee who works in public affairs at Fort Campbell, Kentucky was talking about how she felt about Americans honoring her husband.
Sherry Orlando is a spokeswoman at Fort Campbell, Ky., and she doesn't want her husband, who was killed in Iraq in 2003, to be used "for someone's political agenda."
I guess once is enough.
Between her pay in United States Army Public Affairs, the bounty she got for his death in Iraq and the paychecks she will receive for the rest of her natural life Sherry Orlando has used her husband politically enough for 3 lifetimes.
She had this to say, "Being in the military ... was who he was. It wasn't just a job. He supported what he did and I support that as well."
Her husband had been a Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Police but ended up in a combat situation. He had started his lifelong career in the US Army as an enlisted man and moved his way up to command.
His recklessness in Iraq is attested to by his fellow soldiers who thought it was valor. The policeman rushed into every incident he could. Instead of remaining in command and control as an officer should he rushed ahead. It is said that oftentimes his reckless actions led to the deaths of innocent Iraqis and unprepared soldiers under his command.
Did his lack of expertise led to the death of honorable soldiers fighting a dishonorable war?

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A Modern Republican

For all of those conservative businessmen sitting out there with the confused democrats that just can’t seem to put a finger on why the Republican party has wandered away from its roots and taken up evenings and Sundays with radical preachers and visionaries intent on conquering the world all they need to do is take a look at history.
The Republican Part is merely returning to its roots. It was originally founded by socialists who mooned over Karl Marx.
In 1854 Alvan Bovay formed a new party. They called themselves Republicans as Bovay believed it suggested equality.
The party platform pledged equality for all workers.
The slogan ``Free soil, free speech, free men.'' came from them. They actually tried to force big banks to stop foreclosure actions against small farmers. The Republicans are trying that today and you can participate by going to Farm-Aid.
We can see the perversion of the ‘modern’ Republican party in their insistence on putting up stone idols engraved with the 10 commandments in every state capitol in the nation as well as in their insistence on amendments that praise the family and invite ever more control over the family by invasive government forces.
The ‘modern’ Republican party has been taken over by a euphoric band of do-gooders intent on spreading their brand of enthusiastic religion and government into every aspect of our lives. Their utopian ideals span control of the financial markets to control of reproduction and tax reform that amounts to socialism.
Why continue?

Remember Miss Miller?

Judith Miller retired with good pay from the New York Times.
She has been made famous recently by being jailed for not revealing who told her that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent.
That’s not all she did for the newspaper.
She won a Pulitzer prize in 2001 for reporting on global terrorism.
Apparently a lot of the material she produced was based on incorrect information.
It seems like she fooled her editor.
Media that had come to rely on the newspaper repeated and amplified what this one apparently irresponsible reporter wrote.
The result stares us in the face. Over 2,000 Americans dead in Iraq along with tens of thousands wounded and mutilated. Osama Bin Laden is still missing and oil companies tied to his family continue to prosper.
Miller wasn’t the first to fool the New York Times.
In 1874 the New York Herald ran a hoax article they hoped would spur improvements in the Central Park Zoo. The Herald reported several animals escaped and rampaged through Manhattan injuring more than two hundred and killing forty-nine.
The story goes that New York Times editor George Williams complained to the police because they tipped off the Herald but didn’t tell him.
As for politicians whining about the power of the press I think this story is a good example of how weak it can be. It was over 120 years before any improvements were made to the Central Park Zoo.
How long will American forces have to stay in Iraq?