shooting fish in a barrel and unattended camera equipment
Today I learned that the government is moving people out of the FEMA trailers that they admitted will kill you. Toys of all kinds and microwave popcorn will kill you, too. This announcing things will kill you shtick is getting too easy.
The thing is that with the formaldehydey trailers, the government seems to be primarily concerned about getting sued* for giving people cancer. I don't have any proof, but I would expect more people to develop chemical sensitivities much sooner than cancer. Since the government has taken years to sort of identify Gulf War Syndrome, I would expect they could fail to recognize FEMA Trailer Syndrome equally well, so it's not clear to me that they have anything to worry about.
In other news, it appears that meerkats are surprisingly good photographers. If you need confirmation, the Times covered it, too, but without the pictures.
* Since the miners' families near the New Mexico border aren't doing too well with their trailers, either, I would expect trailer manufacturers to be worried about being sued instead of the government, except that we have this government.
The thing is that with the formaldehydey trailers, the government seems to be primarily concerned about getting sued* for giving people cancer. I don't have any proof, but I would expect more people to develop chemical sensitivities much sooner than cancer. Since the government has taken years to sort of identify Gulf War Syndrome, I would expect they could fail to recognize FEMA Trailer Syndrome equally well, so it's not clear to me that they have anything to worry about.
In other news, it appears that meerkats are surprisingly good photographers. If you need confirmation, the Times covered it, too, but without the pictures.
* Since the miners' families near the New Mexico border aren't doing too well with their trailers, either, I would expect trailer manufacturers to be worried about being sued instead of the government, except that we have this government.
posted by missmolly at 2:55 PM
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The picture on the popcorn link shows some of our local popcorn! It's not the prepackaged microwave stuff though -- it's kernels in a plastic glove ('cause it's "Finger Lakes" popcorn).
I saw that, but besides wondering why it was packaged like that, I didn't give it much thought.
Famous enough to be pictured next to an article about how microwave popcorn will kill you -- what an honor.
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