RFK Jr. tapped to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. A powerful post which oversees the CDC and the FDA. Cross-pollination or people who were once in Big Pharma now working for the FDA a big issue for Kennedy. Also don't expect any massively expedited vaccines on the market without long-range safety data first. Operation Warp Speed belongs on Star Trek. Dunno about the raw milk.
An interesting and eclectic Cabinet.
And the upside is?
ReplyDeleteMore transparency. You won't have people who used to work for Big Pharma now working at the FDA. Conflict of interest. You don't bring new vaccines to market without long-term safety data backing them up. Things like that unless you're a fan of the status quo.
ReplyDeleteLook RFK Jr. is too health fringey for my taste but he might do some good. I still like McDonald's.
Thing about the FDA is like now they wanna pull some cold meds that have a certain ingredient. You always hear about stuff like that with the FDA. Practically years go by and they realize now there might be some issue? They're supposed to be our last bulwark.
ReplyDeletecan we expect $$$$ in vested in brain worms?
ReplyDeleteMaybe.
ReplyDeleteAs long as he stays away from the Christian Brothers and McDonald's.
ReplyDeleteMy choice for H & H would have been Ronald McDonald and Sherlock Holmes at Homeland Security, although even he cannot find Jimmy Hoffa.
DeleteHoffa. The eternal mystery.
DeleteAnother vet visit for Mikey. Another blood panel, distemper + other shots. He gained a pound, looks good. $$$$, but I got a nice pill cutter for $2.85. Saw where RFKJR is going to lower drug prices. They have been trying that for years, dunno.
ReplyDeleteGood luck Mikey. He's in good hands.
ReplyDeleteYoung lady vet with two kids and a dog. She seems very good with cats. While he was in the exam room I sat in the waiting room between a labradoodle and a rat terrier, reading kids animal books. Whole lot of dog sniffing going on below my knees.
ReplyDeleteRemember those Little Golden Books? Had them growing up. The series has changed. Now they got Beyonce and Harry Styles titles. I liked it better when they stuck with lizards and frogs.
ReplyDeleteYep. My kids liked made up stories at bedtime. Like Brother and Sister make a hot air balloon and float across the country (naming state capitals of course) or primitive cavemen taming a friendly sabre tooth
ReplyDeletetiger. Kids have imagination - gotta feed it
Waiting for the Little Golden Book about Diddy.
ReplyDelete'Daddy Diddy Really Likes Kiddies' You won't find it in an Idaho library!
ReplyDeleteSitting in the library the other day and the thought occurred the VAST majority of books in the library probably never get taken out for all the brouhaha we hear.
ReplyDeleteYou should check out a few of the most tedious and boring.
DeleteMake a librarian's day.
Authors I never heard of. Books I never heard of. Yeah bring an armload to circulation.
DeleteThe Mrs. goes downtown to the library every two weeks. Mostly dime novel fiction, although one in awhile she surprises me with "Are you familiar with the western naturalist Bernard de Voto"? "Sure, why" "Did you know his wife had his ashes scattered in a cedar grove deep in the Bitter Root Mts.?" "Yeah'. "OK, back to fiction".
ReplyDeleteI used to think it was hard to get published. Judging by all the books on the shelves I think you have to be able to put a sentence together.
ReplyDeleteThat Da Vinci Code guy had a wild imagination. Back awhile i read Steven Colbert's "I'm an America and so Can You', which wasn't as good as he is on TV. If you run across Garrison Keillor's "Lake Wobegon Days' in the stacks, take it home. About a little town, mostly Norwegians and small business people. The town itself isn't on the Minnesota map because when the state map was finished in 1898, they accidentally left that county out. Only tourists they got
ReplyDeletewere people who got lost traveling between Minneapolis and Fargo.
I had to chuckle at every page. Went good with pipe and CB.
I had a nice road Atlas a few years back until the cat threw up on it.
ReplyDeleteWhen did RFK Jr move up from weird Democrat to GOP health expert?
ReplyDeleteHe got a law degree, but failed the NY Bar exam. Personally, I would not hire or work for him, so what's the deal?
It's an odd combo that doesn't make full sense to me. Trump started Operation Warp Speed and RFK Jr's an anti-vaxxer. Trump likes McDonald's and RFK Jr. says it's poison. Trump said he disagrees with him on environmental issues. Jr. decided to board the Trump train. It's one thing to be polite but why did he promise him a post? I think Trump thought he could help him win but knows he may not get confirmed. Is there a minor conspiracy here?
ReplyDeleteI might be coming at this from a different angle than you. His going after junk food gives off a big government vibe to me.
ReplyDeleteGood observation - from most angles, he's unconventional. But I wouldn't eat at his house.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather take my chances with Cap'n Crunch.
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