1. JC Penney sold coats with dog hair.
MSNBC News: J.C. Penney Co. removed some fur-trimmed coats from its racks around Christmas after animal-rights activists objected that the fur came from wild dogs in China.Last week, the department-store company put the coats back on the racks — but only after directing employees to use marker pens to blot out the line on the label that identified the trim as raccoon fur....
They've put profit above ethics, I won't be buying anything at Penney's.
2. Comic Rich Little will be at the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner. According to Raw Story, Little has been told not to "bash" the President or mention Bush's war in Iraq. Freedom of speech has obviously died with this group of journalists. Now we know why some of the correspondents don't have the ba**s to ask tough questions --- they don't want to 'offend' the president.
Do you know what offends me? These journalists and their pandering to this White House offend me. A war pushed by this administration based on lies, offends me. Our young men and women dying and being maimed in Iraq shocks me. The fact that this president wants to send more troops to Iraq to save face, offends me.
3. Consumer Reports messed up their research on the safety of infant car seats and now has withdrawn its report.
Consumer Reports was forced on Thursday to retract a report on infant car seats after the federal government said test crashes on the seats were conducted at drastically higher speeds than the magazine had claimed.
The revelation amounts to an embarrassment for the trusted consumer guide, and a relief to parents frightened after the original report came out....
I lost confidence in Consumer Reports when they gave a high rating to a certain car a few years ago. Unfortunately, I followed their advice. It was the worst car I ever owned.
4. Why would Deborah Pryce vote against HR 6?
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000555/ -To reduce our Nation's dependency on foreign oil by investing in clean, renewable, and alternative energy resources, promoting new emerging energy technologies, developing greater efficiency, and creating a Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve to invest in alternative energy, and for other purposes.
It must be that Pryce has learned to enjoy all those contributions from oil companies and their lobbyists.
5. The Taft administration really left a financial mess in the Ohio government. (Must have been because of the GOP political appointee who was paid $49/hr to assemble pamphlets during Taft's administration.)
Toledo Blade: Gov. Ted Strickland yesterday dampened expectations that his first budget proposal will contain major new spending, saying spending projections left behind by his predecessor were too optimistic.
