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Last month the Washington Post quoted documents from a chemical-safety organization alleging that executives of the Monsanto Company actively hid the danger posed to residents of Anniston, Alabama, during the 15 years the company routinely dumped millions of pounds of deadly PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills and local rivers. The company’s own research found the pollution so deadly that fish in the rivers died bloody deaths ten seconds after initial exposure. Monsanto no longer produces the chemicals but does make genetically engineered food, which, it assures consumers and the government, is totally safe for human consumption.
Booked last month for aggravated assault and burglary in Salt Lake City: Mr. Joe Snot….Arrested for robbery last November in Ottawa, Ontario: Mr. Emmanuel Innocent….Sentenced to 60 years for murder in Washington, D.C., last December: Gene Satan Downing….Mr. Montea Mitchell, sentenced to 70 years in prison last December for an armed carjacking in Kansas City, Missouri, was originally named Murder Mitchell, because an uncle was murdered around the time of his birth. Social workers later had his name legally changed.
Last month in Willard, Kentucky, 32-year-old Bob Bowling shot himself in the thigh while practicing his draw on a snowman….On New Year’s Day in McVeytown, Pennsylvania, Paul D. Dimoff was accidentally shot in the chest by a shotgun he’d rigged as a booby trap for burglars….And last September, 25-year-old Juan Manuel Lopez of Saint George, Utah, tried to impress a would-be girlfriend by firing his gun at the floor of her apartment and accidentally shot himself in the foot.
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