Probably as important as dandruff..

Today I commend our Senator Boxer on her amendment to stop the Gag Order. Senate Passes Boxer-Snowe Provision to Overturn the Global Gag Rule

I also thank her for bringing to attention and review EPA's CHEERS program. In the Senate Boxer said, “The idea that the Administration would pay parents to expose their children to toxins is absolutely reprehensible. Further the fact that EPA told parents there was no risk to participating in the study is unconscionable.”

The program has been suspended for further review.

So here's my take...
No, we don't want to pay parents to expose their children to toxins. BAD IDEA...

But, we do need to increase awareness of the dangers of toxins being used daily in US households. Reading the study's proposal, it looks like this could provide comsumer education and empirical feedback about the ramifications of the excessive amount of toxins we daily expose our children to... from RAID, Round-Up, Clorine, Ammonia, etc. I'll be watching....

And another great use for our tax dollars:

NEGROPONTE WANTS A $250 MILLION OFFICE

[This is already beginning to look less like a coordinator of intelligence and more like yet another intelligence agency]

WASHINGTON TIMES - The emergency supplemental-appropriations bill the Senate is expected to take up today includes a quarter-billion dollars to build a headquarters for the nation's new intelligence chief. . . The $82 billion supplemental request, sent to Congress last month, says the $250.3 million requested for the Intelligence Community Management Account will be used for a new facility to house the office of the director of national intelligence, the "expanded National Counterterrorism Center, and other intelligence community elements." John D. Negroponte, tapped by the president to be the intelligence chief, will begin work at offices in the White House compound. A transition team of more than 20 staff members had begun work in the temporary offices.


And Last Comment for the Day.. .because I have to get a life

From Josh Marshall (TalkingPointsmemo.com)

The Post says that the Bamboozlepalooza Tour "may be one of the most costly in memory, well into the millions of dollars, according to some rough, unofficial calculations." And even Republicans on the Hill seem to be getting concerned.

Remember, too, that that money comes into a whole different light when you see that Americans are being systematically excluded from these taxpayer-funded tour events on the basis of political ideology.