Posted on 01/25/2007 4:19:18 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Walk on it, mow it, play football on it. I'm just hoping you're consistently paranoid.
"You know, we've been through this with Clinton and, you know, we moved on," said Dorene "Dee Dee" D'Adamo-Moosekian, Condit's staff counsel, in an exclusive interview.
"Clinton did a lot of good things for the country," she added, just as Condit has done "wonderful public-policy stuff."
D'Adamo-Moosekian has worked for the California Democrat since 1985, when he was a California state assemblyman. She handles legal issues for him out of his Modesto, Calif., office.
Not a Joke.
One cannot judge a cleaning process by what is used. Hey you could DROWN in water.
Maybe you should read the article.
Both are considered carcinogens.
Duh. Let me see. Which is MORE in contact with my skin on a CONSISTANT basis? Grass or my clothing?
Can you try to make your arguments MORE rational?
No, that was trichloroethane, which was the degreaser of choice until baned in the 60's, and it's a nasty chemical...
Where is this stated? the cleaning Bible?
Seriously. Wouldn't you prefer your clothes were cleaned by the least poisonous substance available, not the worst?
You wear them everyday!
I'm sorry, but you wearing only clothes that had been dry cleaned before you saw this article?
And what is your evidence that wearing clothes that had been dry-cleaned in this chemical poses any danger?
Let's see who is rational.
Who said ban all things that can poison drinking water? I related how a single dry cleaner poisoned the drinking water of an entire community. Permanently. I don't accept that gladly. And for you guys who are so opposed to government regulation, which includes me, the result was that all those individuals who were providing their own water are now on city water, provided by government. Regulated by the government.
Although the incident happened ten years ago or more, I understand that the chemical continues to work its way through the water table, poisoning more wells, miles from the original incident, as it goes. I know that dry cleaning is a convenience, but the chemicals they use are not exactly innocuous.
Give me a major break.
If you really consider this a rational argument then lets see you eat some perchloroethylene.
There's no real comparison here.
It seems to me that governing behavior regarding hazardous materials makes more sense than banning the substance entirely if it provides a benefit when handled properly.
Otherwise, we should ban automobiles. Compare the deathrates from them vs. dry cleaning chemicals.
Silly, what's in the finished product and at what concentration is what matters. I told you that you could drown in water or poison yourself with laundry detergents.
And in celery, turnips, radishes, and carrots.
No, actually the laundromat does my clothes for me. They are rarely dry cleaned.
I never liked the chemical smell lingering on dry cleaned clothes.
And what is your evidence that wearing clothes that had been dry-cleaned in this chemical poses any danger?
Let's see who is rational.
Did you read the MSDS sheet on this chemical?
Let me refresh your memory;
Toxicology
Skin and eye irritant. Harmful if inhaled or ingested and in contact with skin. This chemical has been reported to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
"in contact with skin"
And you're asking me if I think wearing clothes cleaned in it can be harmeful?
Other, possibly even more toxic chemicals could take the place of perchloroethylene. Same song as designer drugs, only different verse.
It is a truism in toxicology that "only the dose makes the poison."
Hey! Jorge!! People who've eaten carrots have died before their time!!!
Right now I'm thinking "would it really be a bad thing if Kim Jong Ill tookout the left coast ?"
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