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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease .

Why?

Because it would be too expensive...

The Agriculture Department tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows.

Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive test, too.

The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry.

In plain english - if all cows were tested some would turn up positive. And our government would rather have a few mad cows go through then have the meat industry suffer from people buying less meat because they were cautious.

"Our" in this case is clearly not the public, since to this administration income is much more valuable than health and safety.

Hey bitch, this is a message to you:

If you don't like Harry Potter, then don't read it. Further if you think it's a bad influence on your children, then use your own parental authority to deprive them while you can. But to think you can force an entire school system to remove the books because you have the retarded idea that a work of fiction can influence a child regarding witchcraft, well, clearly you never should have reproduced in the first place.

Better yet, why not get a good grasp of the english language yourself before you try and convince others that you're not just an attention-grabbing, bible whore?

''I maybe need a whole new case from the ground up,'' Mallory said. The woman, who said two of her four children attend public schools in the county, was not represented by an attorney at the hearing.
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At Tuesday's hearing, Mallory argued in part that witchcraft is a religion practiced by some people and, therefore, the books should be banned because reading them in school violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

No retard, you don't need a new case, you need a new hobby - one that insulates intelligent, thinking people from douche bags like yourself.

One has to wonder why exactly the vice president is so afraid of the public knowing who he talks to and who comes to visit. Logs detailing the comings and goings of visitors to the vice president were destroyed. And there's no coincidence that the visitor log for vice president's residence was secretly added to the list of documents protected as "presidential records" at exactly the same time the whole Abramoff scandal broke, but the question remains... what's there to hide?

Apparently something important, embarrassing or illegal enough not to want people to know.

So the public elected him, but we're not entitled to know what he actually does.