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Deaths from allergic reactions to the blood thinner heparin have risen to 62, up from 19 a month ago. This news, disturbing to just about everybody, was reported widely yesterday, and did not go unnoticed in the one sector that might find it reason for a bit of grim good cheer. This would be, of course, a newsletter aimed at personal injury attorneys, Personal Injury Lawyer America, a publication from the law firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. This goes to prove, I guess, that there is a silver lining for somebody inside of everybody else's black cloud.

The active ingredient in heparin is derived from the inside of pig intestines, and is produced mostly in...

You guess where, given the situation as it now stands, with the global supply of this drug now possibly contaminated.

If you guessed China, you win a year's supply of expired cheese food. Let's look at where things stand in that regard:

* poisoned toothpaste
* poisoned toys
* poisoned pet food
* purloined movies, music, etc.
* bad air and water
* censorship of the arts and journalism
* Darfur
* Tibet

All that and the Olympics, too. I've heard it said recently that we are no longer in the American century, that the next 100 years will in fact belong to China. I suppose that's good news for somebody. Other than lawyers, I mean.

Comments

[joebaggadonuts]

You don't understand. After the Medtronic lawsuit where they were exempted from suit for a defective catheter that killed a man, and now the Supremes are hearing one from Johnson and Johnson for some other federally regulated substance that has gone wrong, so long as the federal regulators gave their approval, THERE IS NO MONEY GOING TO CHANGE HANDS REGARDLESS OF THE NEGLIGENCE OR EVEN INTENTIONAL DISREGARD OF FACTS LEADING TO FAILED PRODUCTS.

Think about that for a minute. The federal regulators preempt state laws protecting citizens. The Supreme Court says that to ensure supremacy of the federal laws states have no right to protect their citizens through their courts.

W. T. F.

And you thought lawyers were the bad guys.

[ordinaryguy]

it all started with the "walmarting" of america