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Convicted murderer Scott Peterson has a web site sponsored by the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty.

And I suppose he will have a blog and a blogroll for death row inmates.

What a moron.

HT SoCal Law Blog

Daily Pundit has Smell that Fragrance.

The California Nurses Association has a THING for California Governor Arnold Swarzenegger.

In fact, they like him soooo much they have created this blog to defeat his reform agenda.

If that is not enough for you they have this website, too.

The California Nurses Association website is here.

Wonder what the hospital and physicians who employ these folks think?

Flap thinks they are probably supporting Arnold.

Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Nurses Association, nurses

HT: California Insider Blog

Welcome Hugh Hewitt Readers.

Michelle Malkin has the continuing FLAP about Air America radio, THE AIR AMERICA LOOPHOLE.

Blogger Leon H. takes a hard look at Air America’s latest explanation for the public funding mess involving NYC non-profits. Writes Leon:

There are a couple of other rather large glaring holes in this statement. If Gloria Wise went under, was that due to the fact that they were short about half a million in cash? If so, it more or less leads you to believe that the money has not been “actually repaid” but is still in “agreed to be repaid” land.

Second, given that Gloria Wise is now closed, how will the money now be repaid? Isn’t this a handy loophole for Air America to jump through? “Gosh, we’d really like to repay them – in fact, we agreed to repay them, but due to some unforseen circumstance, they went under. Weird. Oh well, nothing to be done now.”

Unless I am missing something in this statement, that is exactly the position Air America is currently taking: we agreed to repay this months ago, but Gloria Wise doesn’t exist anymore…

Also raising eyebrows: that bizarre summer camp compensation arrangement noted at the end of Air America’s statement.

Fishier and fishier.

Janeane? Al? Anyone? Anyone?

Mark in Mexico has a great round-up:

Some others following the money:
The Captain – pay the money back!
Macsmind – Stealing from poor kids?
Danny Carlton – Air America has taken to embezzlement.
Venomous Kate – it’s not just the programming that stinks.
Michelle Malkin with LOTS more detail
Isn’t it rich? – Outrage, anyone?
BizzyBlog – Wonders if the liberal network will even be around six months from now.
ItsAPundit
Interested-Participant – Air America possibly in the cross hairs of an embarrassing scandal.
Basil’s Blog – Breakfast Special
The Pirate’s Cove – How low can you go?
Two Babes and a Brain – Sorry kids, guess you’ll have to make due with deflated soccer balls.
Decision ’08 – Sure looks like Air America benefitted from diverted funds intended for inner-city youth.
Mrs. Greyhawk – Why isn’t the NYT covering this scandal?
Cannuckistan Chronicles – …if you’re “Air America”, you hijack funding that was supposed to go toward inner city kids.
JunkYardBlog – Stealing from the poor to make themselves rich?
Red State Rant – out of the mouths of babes.
The Llama Butchers – Al Franken is a big fat thief.
Ace of Spades HQ – Are you kidding me?
Commonwealth Conservative – Air America stealing from poor kids?
Jeff the Babtist – Answer to Air America’s funding problems – fraud.
Say Anything – Air America could be in big trouble.
Almost Daily – There’s a stink in the Air America
Independent Sources – Air America’s Failings No Longer Funny
Literal Barrage – Al Franken Is A Big, Fat Liar Who Steals From Poor Kids And Old People
Jeff Gannon – Liberal radio more important than inner-city kids’ programs?
Michelle Malkin, Double Toothpicks,

And finally Hugh Hewitt takes note that the MSM has finally picked up the story. And there is no mention of the diversion of funds on Al Franken’s blog.

And Flap wonders why…….

Technorati Tags: Air America, Al Franken, New York City, Evan Cohen, theft

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved a bill that would limit access to common cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, an ingredient that can be used to make the highly addictive drug methamphetamine.

The committee sent the bipartisan “Combat Meth Act of 2005″ to the full Senate on a voice vote. A similar bill in the House of Representatives introduced by Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo has been referred to a subcommittee for consideration.

Flap had reported previously, Combat Methamphetamine Act: Senate Judiciary Committe to Hear Bill.

And the bill was stripped of language that would restrict the states from passing stricter measures to combat this scourage.

Drug makers and store chains had supported the bill in part because it would create a single, nationwide standard for cold medicine sales. But the bill’s chief sponsors, Sens. Jim Talent, R-Mo., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said they ultimately had to side with states that wanted to be tougher than the federal law.

“I respect businesses that feel they haven’t done anything wrong,” Talent said at a Capitol Hill news conference. “But there’s no other choice if we’re going to stop meth cooks.”

Thanks and Kudos to the Senate Judiciary Committee for not watering down this bill.

Talent and Feinstein said they hoped the full Senate could pass their bill shortly after Labor Day, and they said administration officials had expressed support. But the bill still could face stiff opposition from industry at any point in the process.

Mary Ann Wagner, a regulatory expert with the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, said her group had not yet taken a position on the revised bill but said that members were “initially very disappointed.”

Meanwhile, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, which represents manufacturers, definitely will oppose the amended bill, said Elizabeth Assey, a spokeswoman.

“We favor placing these products behind the counter,” she said. “We think that that is a better solution than requiring a doctor’s visit and a prescription for consumers who genuinely need these medicines.”

But Feinstein said she thought momentum was on her side. Rather than fight new restrictions on cold products containing pseudoephedrine, drug makers more likely would begin using substitutes that cannot be converted to meth.

Pfizer already has introduced Sudafed PE, which uses phenylephrine instead of pseudoephedrine. Phenylephrine cannot be converted to meth in home labs. Some retail chains also have asked manufacturers of their generic cold medicines to switch to phenylephrine.

“It’s a clear signal to the pharmaceutical industry to begin producing cold medicines without the precursor chemicals that can be easily removed from these pills and made into methamphetamine,” Feinstein said.

“I think the time has really come for the industry to listen and understand that there is a big problem out there from these cold medicines.”

Indeed and we will be watching the drug manufacturers for any lobbying attempt to change this Act. This could have been stopped a number of years ago if they had cooperated.

So, Flap asks them to take a look at the graphics above and below and ask themselves why they cannot supply cold medicines that do not lead to production of methamphetamine?

More later on bills in the House to combat international methamphetamine.

Do you suffer from Blog Depression?

Well, do you punk?

HT Medgadget

BBC news reports that Britain’s National Health Service is due a shake-up, Shake-up of NHS dentistry planned.

Seems like the same old socialism to Flap.

And the Labor government wonders why so many dentists in the UK have gone private and opted out of the NHS?

Not a clue.