Posted on 11/19/2004 10:30:49 AM PST by Mo1
Thanks SL you are a treasure!
I really love the power of the internet!
Coool .. seem I don't need to worry about boycots this christmas since all the stores I bought items from are Red State Stores
Us good??
That could be debatable .. depending on the topic of discussion .. *L*
So far I've spent a lazy day doing laundry .. I still haven't gotten up the nerve to head out to the mall
I REALLY don't want to go :0(
LOL.
When the kids were little and we had gobs of shopping, we used to go at dinnertime and the mall was pretty quiet. Around 6:00. Don't know if that holds true for your mall.
Also I'm old enough that this was before there were many food courts in malls. So people had to eat elsewhere which freed up the mall space.
Everyone I sent that blue/red link to loved it! That was so great to get this morning. Except I'm afraid some of us, including my hardcore Repub neighbors, can't give up our Starbucks or Trader Joe's.
The malls around here stay open till 11:00/30 and I've found the best time to go is between 9pm and closing
All the nuts are usually at home around that time
I hear that. I'm going to have to eventually go to Walmart. I need to get some tape and some more wrapping paper, bird feed and a few groceries. I had to go out this morning and buy mattresses. I have a bunk bed in the spare bedroom, queen size bottom and regular size top, but no mattresses. I figured Tyler and Dawn would want to share a room, even though they wouldn't have to. He doesn't get to see nearly enough of her either. Anyway, I got that done and got a tree. That's all getting delivered later this afternoon. I called Hastings. They have 4 LOTR gift sets coming in on Tuesday and I can go reserve it with a $5 deposit, so I should have that covered. I think I can skip the mall, unless Dawn takes a notion that she wants to go while she's here. We will be in Little Rock again the Tuesday before Christmas.
I don't think Cheri could give up Trader Joe's either. Sounds like she goes there a lot. I don't even really know what it is. Obviously, we don't have one of those either.
By the way, Cheri. I may have to take you up on that offer, if it's convenient. I haven't seen any decent sized packages of Macadamias here, and raw Macadamias are hard to find anyway....at least here they are. They probably have them in Fayetteville, but I don't expect to be over there before Christmas.
Made it to Sam'sClub and back: the parking lot was full, but all the shoppers were more like lookers, and I breezed right out with my goodies.
Last week at CostCo they were demo-ing some absolutely to die for chocolate covered macadamia candies: I was strong and resisted.
Libby, I have a recipe for White Chocolate Macadamia nut cookies.. Why do you use raw nuts? I don't think I've ever seen them.
I'm here!
What's up?
What's Darks been up to?
The rabbit was out chomping away on the down river run, back in it's hidy hole coming back....
......Westy......
I've tried them with raw nuts and roasted. The raw are SO much better.
What HASN'T he been up to. He's been out haunting people's dreams again, I hear.
I went out to Chili's with one of my co-workers. Me and her gets along real good. And she likes blue thingies too. They have really strong blue thingies....and big. I drank 2 of them. It's a wonder I can stand up. I don't remember the last time I was this drunk ummm....tipsy. ....and I'm not even gonna say how many times it took for me to get this post right, without typos. ROTFL!
Good yob!
Happy hunting.
Well, I'm safe for the moment. But I may yet have to venture back out tonight.
The origins of the Food and Drug Administration can be traced back to 1862
FDA's Origins and Functions
The origins of the Food and Drug Administration can be traced back to 1862, when President Lincoln appointed chemist Charles M. Wetherill to head the Chemical Division in the new U. S. Department of Agriculture. In the following decade Wetherill's successor as chief chemist of the USDA, Peter Collier, began working on the ubiquitous problem of food adulteration. Harvey W. Wiley replaced Collier in 1883, leading the division as it grew into the Bureau of Chemistry in 1901. The bureau was charged to enforce the first comprehensive federal statute of its kind, the Federal Food and Drugs Act, when that law was passed in 1906.
In 1927 Congress authorized the formation of the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration from the regulatory wing of the Bureau of Chemistry; the name of the agency was shortened to the Food and Drug Administration in 1930. FDA left the Department of Agriculture in 1940 for the Federal Security Agency, which was created a year earlier. In 1953 FDA joined the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare after Congress established that department to assume certain functions of FSA. In 1968 the agency became part of the Public Health Service within HEW. When the education function was removed from HEW to create a separate department, HEW became the Department of Health and Human Services in 1980.
FDA's responsibilities derive from statutes that date back to the early twentieth century. Harvey Wiley fought long and hard to unify disparate interest groups behind a federal law to deal with serious problems in the food and drug supply. Through Wiley's crusading, the support of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the work of muckraking journalists, the efforts of state and local food and drug officials, cooperation from the American Medical Association and the American Pharmaceutical Association, and the impact of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, a novel depicting the filth of the meat packing industry, Congress approved one of the landmarks of Progressive era legislation in 1906, the Food and Drugs Act. Among other provisions, this law charged the Bureau of Chemistry to control--albeit to a lesser extent than Wiley and others had hoped--adulterated and misbranded drugs and food in interstate commerce.
FDA initiated a movement to replace the problematical aspects of the 1906 act during the nascent New Deal. Again, the support of women's groups, journalists, and others was important to the final passage of a bill, as was the repercussion from a toxic preparation of the wonder drug, sulfanilamide. So-called Elixir Sulfanilamide employed an untested solvent for the drug, diethylene glycol, and eventually it killed over a hundred people, most of whom were children. The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which remains the basic law we have today, featured many provisions lacking in the 1906 Act. For example, it mandated that all new drugs be proved safe before marketing, therapeutic devices and cosmetics become subject to regulation, and standards of identity and quality be instituted for foods. The law also formalized FDA's ability to conduct factory inspections.
Over the following decades numerous amendments and other acts broadened FDA's responsibilities considerably. These include a mandate for agency testing of insulin and antibiotics; regulation of chemical pesticides and food and color additives; distinction between prescription and nonprescription medications; regulation of drug efficacy; ensuring of good manufacturing practices; control of prescription drug advertising; regulation of therapeutic agents of biological origin; and oversight of nutrition labeling. The realities of enforcing such broad statutes requires FDA's interaction with a variety of political, economic, and social interests. Today, as in the past, FDA strives above all else to safeguard the health and well being of the American people.
Selected Federal Food, Drug, Cosmetic, and Device Laws
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