Thanks for the Job, Mr. Rumsfeld

Townhall.com ^ | January 4, 2013 | John Ransom

[BBB333]

Aspartame becomes a poison when it reaches 85 degrees F or higher.

The human body is 98.6 degrees F.

Don’t put poison into your body.

Shame on Mr. Rumsfeld for getting this passed the FDA.

[raybbr]

Aspartame becomes a poison when it reaches 85 degrees F or higher. The human body is 98.6 degrees F.

Are you a biologist are did you sleep at a cardboard box last night?

[tomkat]

Thanks John .. interesting read.

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Tomatoes are poisonous too, but they're still mighty yummy w/bacon & lettuce !

[T-Bird45]

An important point Ransom doesn’t address is whether today’s high school student could have that same job of driving a hotel van on the airport run. I think the answer is clearly NO and big government Pubbies, like Rumsfeld, are part of the reason why a similarly-situated teenager would not have that job. The times Ransom recalls were the Carter years and “normal” was becoming a fading memory with only a brief and spotty respite under Reagan.

Ransom’s best point in the column is the one about companies repatriating money held overseas for tax avoidance purposes. Removing that block could be the kickstart needed in the same way Searle had to do that.

[FairWitness]

I started work at G.D. Searle in early 1975 as a “research investigator” looking for new screening models for potential new drugs. At the time the joke was that the best way to hurt our competition was to “let them steal our best ideas”. The FDA hit us very soon after I was hired and I had to move from “pioneering research” to drug development to stay employed. I too thank Mr. Rumsfeld for keeping the core pharmaceutical company together. One of the things he did to get to know the company and improve moral was to invite groups of around 20 “exempt” employees to his house to “get to know us”. He and his wife were very gracious hosts and seemed to actually like mingling, unlike several of his sucessors. Again, thank you Mr. Rumsfeld.

[BBB333]

Just do a search.

Some here on this forum do not understand the perils of ingesting aspartame.

I posted for them.

You should keep drinking from your lead flagons - I don’t give a sh!t.

[FairWitness]

B.S. I headed an "aspartame defense team" which looked at all of the detectable by-product of aspartame degradation. Among other things, we showed that aspartylphenylalanine (core of aspartame) is a natural product of protein metabolism in the human body, not something unnatural. The Searle toxicology/pathology dept. fed rats and mice incredible overdoses of aspartame and the major degradation products with no significant problems.

[BBB333]

I do not trust a Searle employee or department regarding the toxicity of aspartame.

Nor do I trust a Monsanto employee or department regarding the ‘safety’ of Round-up-ready corn or other GMO’s.

Nor do I trust that Hillary will get to the bottom of the Benghazi attack.

Nor do I believe that I can keep my Doctor if I like him.

My opinion: do your research.

I stay away from aspartame and GMO’s.

[rlmorel]

After reading the posts, I vote cardboard box.

[raybbr]

After reading the posts, I vote cardboard box.

LOL

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[T-Bird45]

Couldn’t be cardboard box — it’s too early for the library to be open on Saturday morning to use the computers.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Have you checked under your bed ?

[FairWitness]

Just keep in mind that the plural of anecdote is not “data”. Searle tried to recruit enough people with complaints to do controlled studies, but there were never enough to design a statistically valid , double-blind study. So if it gives you a headache don’t use it, but there is no scientific basis to call it a poison.

[Kirkwood]

What brand of tin foil do you use for your hat?

[Theodore R.]

As a U.S. representative, Rumsfeld was on the left. Wasn’t he replaced in a special election by Phil Crane, who was very conservative but had personal problems? IL has given us very few good people, Phyllis Schafly being an exception, and the people there twice defeated her for Congress. She had to overcome the people of IL; so she moved back to her native MO, some improvement.

[MattinNJ]

I don’t want to step into the middle of your argument, but I offer this up. I have been drinking inhuman quantities of Diet Coke for well over 20 years. I am fine. Admittedly, I am not a large enough sample size to base any conclusions on. However, if aspartame was a deadly poison I would be long gone. I am cutting way back, exercising more etc...as I realize I am hitting the big 50. I have slowly but surely increased Diet Coke with water, but not because of any mutations or side effects. I do notice I am less edgy but that is probably because of the decrease in caffeine. Just thought I would offer that up. Happy New Years.

[JeanLM]

You can’t distrust everything.

GMO foods are what all grains and most vegetables are. Original potatoes were inedible poison. Tomatoes too. Corn , peppers, wheat soy beans, rice; all were modifies by man. The Monsanto and DuPont and Dow innovation was to modify seeds in a shorter time frame with science. That is already changing the world and its food supply.

I guess you don’t trust applied science.

Lying politicians should generate mistrust. Practical scientific successes, just because they are engineered by a big corporation, should be judged by results.

[Moonman62]

Rumsfeld is 5'7" according to Wiki. I would have guessed that he is much taller.

[thirst4truth]

Favorite quote:

... there are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld