04 Jun 2007
No Voluntary Mad Cow Testing

This is the real face of our government's vaunted "consumer protection" efforts. Do I really need to comment further?

The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

(link) [International Herald Tribune]

07:03 /Agriculture | 0 comments | permanent link

'Piggybacking' roils credit industry

Unbelievably creative. Unbelievably shady. It's real hard for me to feel anything resembling sorry for credit card and mortgage companies, but this really is beyond the pale.

AP - Only a low credit score stood between Alipio Estruch and a mortgage to buy a $449,000 Spanish-style house in Weston, Fla., a few miles west of Fort Lauderdale.


(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

07:01 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link