An Aging Trans Woman

Prepackaged salads may contain E. coli (snopes.com)

On 14 September 2006, the FDA issued another national alert about e. coli and ready-to-eat produce. Bagged fresh spinach is suspected in the September 2006 outbreak that has so far resulted in one death (in Wisconsin) and sickened a further fifty people (eight of them seriously) in eight states (Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wisconsin).

Read the entire item. It’s not just the current spinach outbreak. The first such outbreak was October 2005, and was related to packaged salad greens with lettuce. And the FDA still has no idea how E. coli is getting into packaged salad greens.

From the latest alert: Continue reading →

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Former Texas governor Ann Richards dies

AUSTIN, Texas – Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73.

She died at home surrounded by her family, the spokeswoman said. Richards was found to have esophageal cancer in March and underwent chemotherapy treatments.

The silver-haired, silver-tongued Richards said she entered politics to help others — especially women and minorities who were often ignored by Texas’ male-dominated establishment.

“I did not want my tombstone to read, ‘She kept a really clean house.’ I think I’d like them to remember me by saying, ‘She opened government to everyone,'” Richards said shortly before leaving office in January 1995.

Goodbye, dear lady. You will be missed.

More at the link above.

. . . “Don’t let Osama Bin Laden tell you how to vote.”

. . . Look at this short speech segment that’s possible: “My opponent has said that Osama Bin Laden wants to destroy America. My opponent wants you to be very scared. He says that’s why you should vote for him. Well, I say to the people here in [insert podunk town, USA], ‘Don’t let Osama Bin Laden tell you how to vote.'”

One simple message, Democrats. One that’ll echo in people’s ears as they go to the polls where they can see the act of voting as an act of defiance, of Bin Laden, of Bush.

Advice To Democrats: One Talking Point To Rule Them All

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