This Week in Bullshit

Here’s the thanks our troops get for looking death in the face for their country and government: Despite the fact that an estimated 40,000 of our currently active troops have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in addition to an estimated 150,000 past combat veterans, Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake says the concern over this condition has been “overblown.”  He basically implies that going to war is about as stressful as playing football.  I’m sure all of our veterans are relieved that such a knowledgable medical expert was appointed to this position.

In other astonishing-yet-strangely-not-surprising news, the Bush administration released a climate change assessment report on Thursday.  The verdict: global warming is real and some of it’s our own fault.  Wow, those guys are so smart!  This even in the shadow of a crazy NASA cover up conspiracy.  For the record, Bush owed us this report four years ago according to the Global Change Research Act, but four years ago he thought global warming was about as real as evolution.

In a recent press release, GE (the third largest corporation in the world) actually admitted that CO2 is a possible contributing factor to climate change – those guys are so smart too!  By the way, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt told Forbes magazine in 2005 that the company’s “Ecomagination” campaign is little more than a sales pitch. “It’s primarily that,” Immelt said. “In its essence it’s a way to sell more products and services.”  I know, so shocking.  This is the company that dumped 100,000+ tons of chemicals into the Housatonic and Hudson Rivers since 1947 and is the fourth-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, releasing more than 4 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air every year.  To find out they’re not really as “green” as their advertisements claim… scandelous!

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~ by doe333 on June 7, 2008.