Was it a Threat?

...Do you know who the greeters were Thursday, April 13 at Swan Valley High School where Linda Birnbaum spoke? There was a guy wearing skull & crossbones T-shirt and a rather somber woman wearing a grey-striped dress (or blouse). Frank was talking with them as I headed toward the door that night so I spoke briefly with the woman before we left. She told me I should not 'brag about my good health in public.' It sounded like a threat to me.

Good gosh... why shouldn't I brag about my health? Some of us are genetically healthy; some aren't... and there are still more of the healthy variety... even (or should I say especially) in the Tittabawassee River floodplain.

Now to the real purpose of this blog...

• About 50 Dow retirees were told there will be No Answers Soon at a retiree meeting Thursday afternoon.
• The last of the four meetings for invited guests took place Thursday night in Bay City. Jeff Kart, environmental reporter for the Bay City Times reports: Call goes out for public input at dioxin meeting. Only 15 people showed up from the invitation list, which says something about how much the general population is really worried about the whole dioxin debacle... not much I think. However, according to the article, there were about 70 attendees in the audience! Lone Tree's Terry Miller talked Dow and DEQ into allowing questions from the general audience.
• TV12's Matt Franklin was there and you can see that report (for a limited time) HERE.
• One more item of interest, Ken Patrick reports in Paper Age, asking the question, 'Were we bamboozled by environmentalists?' Ya' gotta read it! It's just another example of environmentalists creating a pocket of unemployment with their special expertise in fear-mongering!
  
  Governor Granholm should pay attention to the economic damage caused by environmentalist extremists everywhere, since Michigan is running dead last as far as jobs are concerned. All the while she is running around passing out million dollar checks to 'improve' urban areas that just continue going downhill. Jennifer, it doesn't matter that you want to 'create' jobs yourself. You are killing more jobs than you could possibly create in Michigan. It's time to turn your eyes and ears from environmentalists and toward the real job-creating industries. Michigan already has too many on the payroll. But that's another story; another time and place.