Until recently, Americans uniformly accepted the science behind vaccinating their dogs and cats against diseases like rabies that could potentially kill not only the pets themselves, but any of the people they bit or scratched.
That was before the Trump administration came along with its Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is known for his aggressively anti-science perspective on all this.
Here is the story in The New York Times, Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too, of a woman (pictured above), just four years out of vet school, who has a practice that is seriously threated by this kind of ignorance. From the article: “I actually had someone scream and yell at us and storm out because we required rabies vaccines for her cats,” Dr. McGuire said, adding that the owner had accused her of trying to “kill her cats with vaccines.”
Insofar as the Constitution clearly assigns the states the responsibility to regulate and conduct elections, what Trump wants so desperately to do will require a significant re-write of the document that (most) Americans hold sacred.
Shall We Re-Write the U.S. Constitution Before the Midterms?
Maybe a single day will pass sometime in America’s future during which Trump or one of his moron cabinet members will refrain from making some idiotic remark like the one at left.
Our founding fathers couldn’t have been more clear that the United States was not established as a Christian nation. (See below.)
These people (Big Oil PR teams?) write:
Celebrate the many benefits of increasing CO2! Deserts are shrinking. Forests are expanding. Increasing crop productivity is outpacing population growth. We love CO2 and so should you.
In truth, increasing levels of CO2 are not helping plants grow. Plants use as much carbon dioxide as they need, and no more. Similarly, healthy people do not benefit from higher concentrations of oxygen.
We live in world of misinformation, in which, if lies are repeated with enough frequency, they are accepted by the common American.
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