Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Sam
We're not fishing Tuna from local streams, we fish them mostly from the South Pacific ocean. It's a world wide issue. On 8/2/05, Gruss Gott wrote: > The point here is our national food supply has been poisoned - that's > not a small issue. I would expect the President to be very concerned > that

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Matthew wrote: > For what I understand about Sarbanes-Oxley (which isn't much), I agree. > However, it is understood that the CEO does not have his finger on every > button. Richard Scrushy just got off, didn't he? > The point here is our national food supply has been poisoned - that's not a s

RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: William Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:02 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna > > > That's like expecting the CEO of a company to walk > > though the buil

RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Matthew Small
TED] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:02 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna > That's like expecting the CEO of a company to walk > though the building looking for dirty corners so he can tell the janitors to > get a mop to clean it. This is exact effect of Sarb

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > Isn't that what the new energy bill is doing? > All of that is buraucratic speak for, "we're getting filthy rich off of tax payers! Wee!" "Um, yes, I, ah, um, need a million no! A BILLION dollars for, ah, um, coal ... ah ... related ... um ... research and other stuff a

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread William Bowen
> That's like expecting the CEO of a company to walk > though the building looking for dirty corners so he can tell the janitors to > get a mop to clean it. This is exact effect of Sarbanes-Oxley. CEOs _are_ being held accountable. The President should be, too. And _YES_ that applied to Clinton w

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
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RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread SStewart
sheep carcass... and thus the Pipes were born" the Scottish Rogues -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 04:16 pm To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna Importance: Low Just to throw my two bits of

RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Ian Skinner
code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning -Original Message- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:06 PM To: CF-Community ....Subject: Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna Cause I am a complete nerd... Crustacean is a

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Sam
Isn't that what the new energy bill is doing? http://www.mineweb.net/sections/energy/468127.htm The bill also authorizes a three-year $1.1 billion program specifically intended for coal and coal-related research and development. It establishes a $90-million, 10-year carbon capture R&D program for

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
Cause I am a complete nerd... Crustacean is a class/subphylum of arthropods (insects, spiders, crustaceans) Mullusks are a phylum, with classes including bivalves (oysters, clams) and cephalopods (octopi) On 8/2/05, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well silly me :) > I thought crustacean was just

RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 3:36 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna > > Gruss, I thought you were for small government. > > Really, how can you expect the

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Sam
Well silly me :) I thought crustacean was just another word for shellfish. On 8/2/05, Jerry Johnson wrote: > Um > > All but the perch are invertabrates, but not crustaceans. > > Scallops, clams, oysters (and octopi) are mollusks > Lobsters and crab are crustaceans > ~~~

RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread SStewart
" You absolutely cannot say that this governments environmental policy has not been directly shaped by the president. And you cannot say that the current policies aren't directly affecting the mercury levels. Can you? He made an issue of the Terri Schiavo case. If he has the time and compassion fo

RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Matthew Small
Then you should be scolding the FDA rather than the President. Matthew Small -Original Message- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 3:48 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna > Matthew wrote: > Really, how can you

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Matthew wrote: > Really, how can you expect the President (any of them) to make an issue of > Tuna mercury levels? I don't understand your point. One of the things the Federal gov't is responsible for is national security. How are toxins in our food chain not a national security issue? I'm n

RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 3:33 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna > > Um > > All but the perch are invertabrates, but not crustaceans. > > Sca

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
No, but he overrode policies set by previous administrations, he choose cabinet posts that oversee such things, he bent over backwards to give the energy industry anything it wanted (including letting them write their own rules) and generally set a tone that made it clear he would back the interes

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Sam
OK, I agree. On 8/2/05, Gruss Gott wrote: > I'm not blaming Mr. Bush for causing it, I'm blaming him for not doing > anything about it. And it's not limited to any one toxin - If our > food supply is being compromised then we should be taking steps to fix > that. > ~~

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > OK, your getting too far out there. You must not understand my point which is: Our food chain has had poison(s) introduced. Yet average Americans and our government don't seem to care. Would we take the same attitude if Al Quaeda had introduced the toxin? I don't think we would

RE: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Matthew Small
ity Subject: Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna > Sam wrote: > You're the one that made this political > That's true. However, I didn't make it political I just piled on, but you're right. > My point is the toxins in Americans has gone down not up. You picked > o

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
Um All but the perch are invertabrates, but not crustaceans. Scallops, clams, oysters (and octopi) are mollusks Lobsters and crab are crustaceans On 8/2/05, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hehehe > > I was referring to his list: > "Scallops, clams, oysters, lobsters, crab, perch, anything.

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Kevin wrote: > Gruss, who was President in 1998 when the FDA decided to top testing > mercury levels in tuna in order to save money? > As I originally said, we should blame everyone who had a hand in it. If Mr. Clinton did, then he should be held accountable. But blame is not productive. Mr.

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jim Campbell
Well, gosh, I hadn't thought of it that way. In fact, I'd ventu - Jim Kevin Graeme wrote: >Wasn't that when the sleestacks were doing some genetic tinkering and >accidentally grabbed the homosapiens test tube instead of the dinosaur >one for brain improvement

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Sam
OK, your getting too far out there. Someone queue up the twilight zone theme song :) On 8/2/05, Gruss Gott wrote: > Let's us an analogy: let's say we got word that Al Quaeda had > introduced industrial pollution into our food chain. Would we say, > "oh well, what can one person do?" > ~

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > You're the one that made this political > That's true. However, I didn't make it political I just piled on, but you're right. > My point is the toxins in Americans has gone down not up. You picked > one kid that over did the tuna and blamed the Bush admin. > The farm-raised fish

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Kevin Graeme
Wasn't that when the sleestacks were doing some genetic tinkering and accidentally grabbed the homosapiens test tube instead of the dinosaur one for brain improvement? On 8/2/05, Jim Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A common mistake. "Crustacean" is the geologic period when dinosaurs > were

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Sam
hehehe I was referring to his list: "Scallops, clams, oysters, lobsters, crab, perch, anything." All are except the perch, which is nasty anyway. On 8/2/05, Jerry Johnson wrote: > Do you think that tuna is a crustacean? > > On 8/2/05, Sam wrote: > > I read in an old book that you should avoid cr

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
True, but... "The Clinton administration proposed reducing mercury emissions in power plants by 90 percent by 2008. But, thinking he knew better, Bush has decided to slow that wagon down and instead is proposing to reduce those emissions by 70 percent by 2018" Sacramento Bee: For five years, hea

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jim Campbell
A common mistake. "Crustacean" is the geologic period when dinosaurs were created and walked the earth with primitive man. - Jim Jerry Johnson wrote: >Do you think that tuna is a crustacean? > >On 8/2/05, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I read in an old book that you should avoid crusta

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Kevin Graeme
Gruss, who was President in 1998 when the FDA decided to top testing mercury levels in tuna in order to save money? -Kevin On 8/2/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not just canned fish that has the problem, it's anything that > lives in water! ANYTHING! Scallops, clams, oysters,

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Brian wrote: > Ok, logic tells me that i'm probably not going to die from eating tuna fish, > and that this problem probably goes so far beyond one man, that "holding him > accountable" seems like an exercise in futility that would do little to > address the root cause of the problem. > As Pres

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
Do you think that tuna is a crustacean? On 8/2/05, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read in an old book that you should avoid crustaceans anyway :) ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket app

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Sam
You're the one that made this political "Mr. Bush and his Republican friends also felt ... And if you still don't think so, why just eat some tuna sushi and you'll be blissfully ignorant to the Republican hand digging into your wallet." I read in an old book that you should avoid crustacean

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread G
> It's not just canned fish that has the problem, it's anything that > lives in water! ANYTHING! Scallops, clams, oysters, lobsters, crab, > perch, anything. And it's not just if it's canned, the mercury is in > any part of any creature that lives in the water. Meaning tuna > steaks, sushi, Sub

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > Now instead of thinking that Bush is being rapidly poisoning the > country, lets talk about the good. > It's not just canned fish that has the problem, it's anything that lives in water! ANYTHING! Scallops, clams, oysters, lobsters, crab, perch, anything. And it's not just if it

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Sam
Ooops, thanks for the correction :) On 8/2/05, Jim Campbell wrote: > I agree with you - eating massive amounts of canned anything will get > you sick - I had a friend in college who actually got scurvy from a > similar diet. Although, not mercury poisoning. > > Anyway, I did want to point out th

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jim Campbell
I agree with you - eating massive amounts of canned anything will get you sick - I had a friend in college who actually got scurvy from a similar diet. Although, not mercury poisoning. Anyway, I did want to point out that cooking food at 2,000 degrees has, along with nutritional loss, also has

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Sam
This is just too funny. Did you hear about the kid that died from drinking two gallons of water in an hour? We should blame Bush for not ordering the FDA to put warning labels an all faucets. Now first rule of thumb, if it's sold in a can it's not that healthy! In order to can food it needs to be

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Jerry wrote: > Well, fortunately, the Bush administration thinks it is perfectly > fine. Mr. Bush and his Republican friends also felt there was a big shortage of subsidizing energy producers but, by golly, the new energy bill sure takes care of that! Now keep in mind that while these subsidies

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
Well, fortunately, the Bush administration thinks it is perfectly fine. You wouldn't want the power industry to lose profits (record profits mind you) by having to meet the actual regulations, would you? Also fortunately, there is a new Supreme Court nominee who believes that the Fed gov has no bu

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Gel wrote: > Umm..hello.. This is INSANE! > Why are they still on the shelves if they are contaminated??? > Not to metion the fact that a toxic substance has gotten into our food chain and nobody seems to think this is a big deal. Although maybe that's a benefit of industrial pollution: it wig

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
Powerful lobby? On 8/2/05, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Umm..hello.. > This is INSANE! > Why are they still on the shelves if they are contaminated??? ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Tic

Re: Hope You Don't Like Tuna

2005-08-02 Thread Vivec
Umm..hello.. This is INSANE! Why are they still on the shelves if they are contaminated??? On 8/1/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mercury and Tuna: U.S. Advice Leaves Lots of Questions > Balancing Interests, Agencies Issue Guidance at Odds With EPA Risk Assessment > A Schoolboy's Sudde