Florida County Votes to Remove Fluoride From Drinking Water

[Uncle Wig]

Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=Uncle Wig]
More proof that the "Tea Party" is composed largely of cretins.

You immediately assume that the Tea Party is behind this.
Yeah well, since the article pretty much said that the tea party was behind it...

I propose, because water is toxic when ingested in excessive quantities, that Pinellas County simply remove water from the Pinellas County water supply. Problem solved!

[kj]

Whoa, I guess the Tea Party and the Birchers had/have more global influence than I realized:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/...opposition

kj.

[cbelt3]

"I guess when you educate a crazy person, you get an educated crazy person. kj."

This is AWESOME !

And very, very true.

[SDGuy]

Uncle Wig wrote:
...Yeah well, since the article pretty much said that the tea party was behind it...

Remember, if you read it on the IntarWeb, it must be true!!

Edit: I guess you missed this part of the article:
"Judson Phillips, a founder of the Tea Party Nation, says the issue has not been widely discussed at the national level and he doesn't know the activists who pushed for the ban in Florida. "It's not a hot-button Tea Party issue," he says."

[Uncle Wig]

SDGuy wrote:
[quote=Uncle Wig]
...Yeah well, since the article pretty much said that the tea party was behind it...

Remember, if you read it on the IntarWeb, it must be true!!

Edit: I guess you missed this part of the article:
"Judson Phillips, a founder of the Tea Party Nation, says the issue has not been widely discussed at the national level and he doesn't know the activists who pushed for the ban in Florida. "It's not a hot-button Tea Party issue," he says."
I didn't miss that part. The "Tea Party" prides itself in being grass-roots and not having a national leader or a hierarchical organization. So, if a county-level issue is "hijacked" by those who consider themselves "Tea Party" members, then the "Tea Party" was behind it.

[Kiva]

RgrF wrote:
[quote=kj]
Well, it's technically true. Of course, caffeine is toxic too, as are a lot of things we consume all the time. I like my teeth and bones, so fluoride's cool with me, though. I don't think it's particularly a Tea Party thing though. My high school chemistry teacher told me fluoride was "industrial waste" in the eighties, so the controversy has been around for a while. kj.

It was a John Birch platform back in the sixties. People were led to believe that this societal effort to strengthen teeth in children was a Communist/Socialist plot. Many believed it so, just as their descendants believe almost anything the far right offers them.

John Birchers were once considered so far off the compass as to be a joke (they accused Eisenhower of being Communist), today their progeny rule Republican policy, such as it is. Pure and undeniable evidence of the failure of our educational system.

I blame Pops.
this really needs to be made common knowledge. People don't understand from whence these loonies came...

[kj]

After looking around a bit, I think it becomes pretty obvious it's not really a product of the Birchers. They were opportunistic, and used the whole idea to further their agenda, but as I posted, the same controversy is going on in europe, and includes the looney right and left currently in the U.S. Isn't that usually how it works? The politicians change their "values" to match ones already in existence, rather than having original opinions themselves. The fact a politician champions some issue doesn't mean it came from them. kj.

[RgrF]

Being part of a political platform does not imply origination, it does imply endorsement. I thought you were smarter than to confuse the ideas kj. Sorry if I granted you analytical abilities you obviously don't have.

[Mac1337]

Kiva wrote:

this really needs to be made common knowledge. People don't understand from whence these loonies came...

Whence? Which neck of the woods are you from?

[OWC Jamie]

RgrF wrote:
Being part of a political platform does not imply origination, it does imply endorsement. I thought you were smarter than to confuse the ideas kj. Sorry if I granted you analytical abilities you obviously don't have.

Is that what you are calling those now ?

We used to call that darts.