Another one?

[Gaspar]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smallpox-20111113,0,4293298.story
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/24/experimental-smallpox-drug-test.aspx
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43384743

Over the objections of federal contract negotiators, competitors and scientists, the Obama administration approved a lucrative $433 million no-bid deal for Siga pharmacuticals in May.  Siga makes an experimental anti-viral drug to treat smallpox.  The drug currently has no market, and it's efficacy can not be evaluated.

How could this happen?

Siga is owned by Ronald Perelman political bundler for President Obama and the DNC.  On Siga's board is President Obama's old friend Andy Stern, head of the SEIU responsible for funneling over $60 million in members dues into DNC coffers during his campaign. He knows nothing of pharmacudicals or bio-ware, and it turns out he was simply paid 35,000 stock options to sit on the company's board and work with the president on securing the contract.  Why did Perelman choose Stern over other Obama buddies? The Huffington Post says Stern has a cozy relationship with Perelman, who's the 64th richest person in the world (estimated net worth: $12 billion). As president of SEIU, Stern reportedly cut a sweetheart labor deal with Perelman, who owned a giant security firm called AlliedBarton.  In September 2006, the SEIU surprised the labor movement by agreeing not to organize 10,000 security guards working for AlliedBarton, in exchange for "organizing opportunities elsewhere."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/07/andy-sterns-new-gig-biowa_n_753207.html

Siga is now under investigation for insider trading and political profiteering, and of course $433 million dollars is floating around somewhere, and we have a drug with no real purpose.

It will be fun to watch this one ripen.

[Conan71]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smallpox-20111113,0,4293298.story
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/24/experimental-smallpox-drug-test.aspx
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43384743

Over the objections of federal contract negotiators, competitors and scientists, the Obama administration approved a lucrative $433 million no-bid deal for Siga pharmacuticals in May.  Siga makes an experimental anti-viral drug to treat smallpox.  The drug currently has no market, and it's efficacy can not be evaluated.

How could this happen?

Siga is owned by Ronald Perelman political bundler for President Obama and the DNC.  On Siga's board is President Obama's old friend Andy Stern, head of the SEIU responsible for funneling over $60 million in members dues into DNC coffers during his campaign. He knows nothing of pharmacudicals or bio-ware, and it turns out he was simply paid 35,000 stock options to sit on the company's board and work with the president on securing the contract.  Why did Perelman choose Stern over other Obama buddies? The Huffington Post says Stern has a cozy relationship with Perelman, who's the 64th richest person in the world (estimated net worth: $12 billion). As president of SEIU, Stern reportedly cut a sweetheart labor deal with Perelman, who owned a giant security firm called AlliedBarton.  In September 2006, the SEIU surprised the labor movement by agreeing not to organize 10,000 security guards working for AlliedBarton, in exchange for "organizing opportunities elsewhere."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/07/andy-sterns-new-gig-biowa_n_753207.html

Siga is now under investigation for insider trading and political profiteering, and of course $433 million dollars is floating around somewhere, and we have a drug with no real purpose.

It will be fun to watch this one ripen.

And let's not forget that President Obama has continued the tradition of no-bid contracts to Halliburton before some dolt chimes in like a mina bird: "Halliburton! Halliburton! Halliburton!"

The waste and mistakes of the Bush administration should never be the basis for more of the same and even worse.

[Gaspar]

And let's not forget that President Obama has continued the tradition of no-bid contracts to Halliburton before some dolt chimes in like a mina bird: "Halliburton! Halliburton! Halliburton!"

The waste and mistakes of the Bush administration should never be the basis for more of the same and even worse.

There is no shame in it any more.  No attempt to hide it.  President Obama brandishes it like a medal.  It's almost like he's trying to advertise "Pay, and we'll play! That's how I roll."

[dbacks fan]

I have plans for a triple resonating, high index, low frequency, quasi-pseudo digital analog, non-adjustable adjustment that my just fix nothing, think I could get funding for it? And yes, I'm going through the patent process for it using the plans I got from a copyrighted drawing in an old issue of Popular Mechanics.

[Conan71]

I have plans for a triple resonating, high index, low frequency, quasi-pseudo digital analog, non-adjustable adjustment that my just fix nothing, think I could get funding for it? And yes, I'm going through the patent process for it using the plans I got from a copyrighted drawing in an old issue of Popular Mechanics.

Call Uncle George.  I hear he can get an audience at the WH.

[nathanm]

Does anyone else make a smallpox treatment, or are you just fanning the flames of your own stupidity again?

(Hint: We aren't the only country with a few vials of smallpox hanging around, just in case. Some of them are not terribly friendly toward us)