Posted on 03/03/2009 2:02:38 PM PST by neverdem
President Obama drew rave reviews for his unorthodox selection of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as the nation's surgeon general. Not only is Dr. Gupta an accomplished neurosurgeon, but as CNN's in-house doc he has also proven himself a bona fide celebrity. People magazine tagged him as one of 2003's "Sexiest Men Alive," and the swooning that met Obama's announcement suggests...
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TAKING THE IDEA mainstream has brought its share of problems, though. The Los Angeles Times profiled a mechanic last year who has converted his fleet of vehicles to be fueled by fryer grease from a local chowder house. Then Sacramento called, not to praise him for his green efforts but to bust him. Apparently he had failed to get his state "diesel fuel supplier's license" and wasn't paying the required 18-cent per gallon tax on the fuel he burned. Oh, and he faced further trouble from California's Meat and Poultry Inspection Branch for removing grease without a license. Then there was his missing permit from the Air Resources Board allowing him to burn fat, not to mention that he didn't have liability insurance to cover potential spills.
Don't just pity the poor mechanic. The state's green governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, faced a similar conundrum. Trying to set a good eco-example, the Governator has made a point of powering his Hummer on cooking oil from Costco. He wasn't paying taxes or complying with the regs either. Several states exempt small-time drivers who run on kitchen grease from paying taxes, as well as from needing to jump through the regulatory hoops that were designed to apply to large-haul handlers of fuel or animal by-products. Given California's budget fiasco (the governor has asked Washington for its own bailout), it's unlikely Sacramento will loosen its requirements anytime soon. Despite this hurdle (the largest concentration of...
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Amen.
Hopefully Gupta will insist on distributing free condoms to high school students and encourage masturbation classes, like the last Dem Surgeon General progue.
( Sarc.)
Remember pearls of wisdom such as: "safer guns and safer bullets" and "we're all gonna die .. from sumpin' .. someday."
What in the world. What - Obama has a crush on this guy or something?
Gupta on Obama's candle Stick
What a load.
I can see him going to Hollywood to make films for distributon to the non elitist masses who do not work for government.
" This is Surgeon General Gupta with todays Gupta Advice on Teenage Dating."
I am sure he will look good in the uniform.
That is all that is required, along with spending billions for mesmerizing the masses with propaganda. That is why he was selected.
And they think that we are supposed to believe that schtick. Insult to the intelligence.
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