Why Water Fluoridation? Follow the Money.

Anyone with any awareness greater than that of a slug knows that the fluoride compound added to public drinking water supplies is a toxic waste. They know that the fluoride added to toothpaste is more than sufficient to protect teeth.

But, the reason it should be added to public drinking water supplies, the proponents say, is "for the children (sob, sniffle, snuffle)". I have two things to say to that:

1) "F" the children.
2) They're already getting fluoride in their toothpaste. (In fact, there is a warning to parents on toothpaste packages NOT to let their spawn swallow the toothpaste because of the fluoride content.)

I, for one, nearly puke every time the old "for the children" bromide is trotted out for every "boo-hoo" cause and/or as justification for more government meddling.

No, THE REAL REASON for fluoridating the water supplies is MONEY.

The fluoride compound is a toxic waste compound resulting from various mining and manufacturing processes. To dispose of that waste properly -- safely -- to prevent even more environmental pollution -- COSTS the companies MONEY.

How sweet, for them, that they discovered (maybe financed??) some bogus medical reports touting the benefits of adding that toxic fluoride waste to the public drinking water supplies.

Their next step was to get various local officials onto their (secret) payrolls to get their "product" added to the water supplies. And to get the municipalities to actually PAY for it.

Voilá, a burdensome expense has now become a nice profit center.

Another source of income for the public officials green-lighting fluoridation of the public water supplies is that from the various companies manufacturing water treatment and adulteration equipment.

Assignment for some enterprising investigative reporters in MAJOR media:
FOLLOW THE MONEY. (Oh, I forgot, the major media are also on the take. Never mind.)

For more about the dangers of fluoridation, see the Fluoride Action Network.
http://www.fluoridealert.org/

Apologies for Youth Violence Has to Stop

Oscar de la Torre, Founder Pico Youth and Family Center, goes "boo-hoo" again (Santa Monica Daily Press, 2007 June 20, p.4):

Youth violence exists where hopelessness and despair run rampant. Youth who are struggling through poverty, single-parent families, addiction, family conflicts, early incarceration and low academic achievement are all high-risk candidates for destructive behavior. Yes, it all starts in the home, but we cannot ignore the fact that it ends in the streets.

Actually, it starts way before the home - it starts with religion and government.

Churches, especially the one for one of the major "at risk" ethnicity's, are opposed to family planning, birth control and, especially, abortion.

Governments subsidize uncontrolled breeding through tax deductions, welfare, medical care, "public schooling", etc.

Youth violence could be drastically reduced within a generation. There is a solution, but few even want that solution even mentioned, much less considered - being that it is so extremely politically incorrect. That solution is spaying and neutering, just like you do cats and dogs, which also hump with no thought of reproductive consequences.

Santa Monica "Planning" Doomed to Failure

Housing and other developmental planning is doomed to failure. The simple reason is population increase. Not addressing that is like ignoring a fart in an elevator.

The latest proposed boondoggle is the proposed "revitalized Civic Center" area. This is just like tearing down the engines of the Titanic to make more deck chairs. But, "We want to bring life to this area", according to some doofus Santa Monica housing bureaurat.

"The Village" in the Civic Center area is proposed to have 325 units of "affordable" housing. That means accommodations for how many? 600, 1000 people? (Or 2000? if you cater to illegals and their litters of spawn?) That will take hundreds of millions of dollars. And how long will that relieve any housing pressure? Seems to me it won't take very long to pump out yet more litters of budding crack hos, car-jackers, and gang-bangers. Where are you going to stack them?