Obama, and federal bureaucrats

Lunatic


By Dr. Gerald Stephens
Saturday, February 12, 2011

The word has ancient linguistic roots as a noun describing an insane person - luaticus (L), lunatik (Middle English), lunatique (Old French). Its continued use for classifying the insane persisted until the mid nineteen century when progressive psychiatric schools abetted by liberal intelligentsia , and other profound thinkers of the gentler, kinder socialist forces morphed it into a politically correct less critical manor of describing the insane, ‘psychologically disturbed’. More contemporary understandings and use are ascribed to other noun forms, that is, Obama, and federal bureaucrat.

The U.S Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory functions began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Foods and Drugs Act . Harvey Washington Willy, Chief Chemist of the Bureau of Chemistry of the existing Department of Agriculture championed the 1906 law for a greater Federal government role, “ providing basic elements of protection that consumers had never knownâ€