RFK Jr is going to throw a HUGE tantrum...

[Archae]

California Close To End Vaccine Exemptions

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/california-close-end-vaccine-exemptions

[trumad]

1. You're about to get the "he's a great man" meme from the usual suspects.

[H2O Man]

11. He is a very good man.

I disagree with him on some issues. But he is the very best legal advocate for environmental issues, in this country.

[Archae]

12. He's "great" at making a total ass of himself.

One of the best physicists, decided he was an "expert" at nutrition.

He was a total ass also.

[randome]

2. Up is down with poor, misunderstood Junior. He lives in an alternate universe. Like in this pic.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[Prism]

3. I saw these lunatics on the news last night

So. Very. Enraging.

Screaming about parental choice. What about other parents' choice to not have their children contract easily preventable diseases?

And, if I understand the law correctly, all they're saying is that an unvaccinated child has to be homeschooled.

Well, there's your choice, bub.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. and they softened it

it was homeschooled alone, at home. Now they can form their own school and homeschool all the little we ones as a collective. They could even hire teachers.

[Cal Carpenter]

4. This isn't about RFK

This cult of personality thing detracts from talking about the actual issue/problem on this and most other issues. It gets more clicks, maybe. But it veils the bigger picture. It exacerbates team mentalities.

Not meaning to harsh on you in particular about this, but I find it very frustrating. Like in terms of the TPP, when we should be talking about historical outcomes of previous trade deals and the details (insofar as we can find them out) of this one, instead it is about Obama/Bernie/H Clinton/Warren/B Clinton/etc... Makes me wanna scream. I feel the same way about this. It isn't about RFK and his opinions, it is about public health, measurable outcomes, science....

Sigh.

[deutsey]

5. Agree

[Archae]

7. Bullshit.

“They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone. This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country.”

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. If you can directly connect the death threasts to Senator Pan

with Robert Kennedy I will be in your debt in advance.

[Buzz Clik]

6. He also opposed wind turbines 5 miles off Cape Cod.

I like a lot of his stuff, and hate a lot of his stuff.

[zappaman]

8. Is he afraid the blades will fly off

And sink ships a mile away?

[Buzz Clik]

9. He said they would be unsightly.

Of course, they would be invisible to anyone on shore, but ....

[Rex]

10. What exactly would be an excuse for a vaccine exemption?

Small pox rocks?

Never heard of such a thing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Under present law (and it already was tightened last year)

you can got a medical provider, not necessarily a doctor. They will give you a lecture about why vaccines are good, and you can still request an exception based on his noodle appendage and how opposed you are to it on religious grounds. Alternatively, you can go and tell the provider that your wee one does not need that needle until they grow up and can chose for himself or herself

It used to be that you needed to download the form and take it to school to be filed.

This law closes that small loophole.

And these charming folks have even issued death threats to Senator Pan...

We even posted a story yesterday, but since it is in a CALIFORNIA paper and not a national blog, I did not bother posting it here. Never mind we have been following this, including a couple demonstrations against the bill, I ran a cute photo out of one of them, but it really does not matter.

Hell, I talk from time to time with one of the co-sponsors of this regularly.

What should scare you is that my state would be joining ONLY VA and MI in having these "thought" common all over Latin America, standards. How third world of us.

[JI7]

13. Why do you hate the Kennedy's

[AngryAmish]

17. RKK jr rwgressed to the mean with a vengeance