Ho Ho Ho! Elmo, Pres of the USA, kills child cancer research as his maid, Adolf Orange, chants Drill Baby Drill (studies show cancer linked to nearby oil and gas activity).

@DrEricDing:

ELIMINATED—$190 million for pediatric cancer research (over 8 years) has now been cut by de facto President Elon Musk.

@beansprouts_mom:

Just evil.

Santy Claus December 24, 2024

2024 Rob Rogers Christmas cartoon: Elon Musk green and ugly like the Grinch, taking away funding for child cancer research, with apologies to Dr. Seuss.

Trump and Musk’s Cruelty Put Scrooge and Marley to Shame, The president-elect and his un-elected mega-billionaire buddy have gone full Dickensian in their attempts to make greed great again by John Nichols, Dec 25, 2024, The Nation

… Neither of these misanthropes has the popular mandate that they now claim for assaulting the interests of the poor, the vulnerable, the ailing, and the elderly.

As this year’s Christmastide approached, however, Trump and Musk combined forces to tank a budget resolution that, among its many noble initiatives, contained funding to fight childhood cancer, with the duo arguing that the resolution contained “unnecessary spending.” That more-Scrooge-than-Scrooge intervention stirred a firestorm over the callous cruelty of the men who, because of the un-elected mega-billionaire’s mounting influence, are now referred to as “President Musk” and “Vice President Trump.”

The attempted abandonment by Musk and Trump of the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0 was quickly reversed by a bipartisan coalition in the Senate. But the continuing-resolution fiasco was not the only Dickensian measure promulgated by Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency sidekick, Vivek Ramaswamy. These privileged charlatans are now, with encouragement from a growing number of Republicans in Congress, openly entertaining the prospect of making “entitlement cuts” that could shred the social safety net and, many fear, clear the way for the Republican right to realize its historic goal of privatizing Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.If Musk and Putin continue interfering with disinformation and lies and the Picklehead gets into power in Canada, they’ll order that our social safety nets are burned also and the money from them given to the mega rich in more freebies, gifts, subsidies and tax cuts. No more public health care, no more cancer or water research as fracs grow monstrous; no more public education (its funding stolen to give to rich religious charter schools); no more OAS, GIS, or CPP; tolls on roads and highways everywhere (the rich pals of Elmo et al will be given infinite tokens to travel free); and no more child benefits except for rich Canadians.

The headlines tell the story of how the proponents of a promise to “make America great again” have defined “again” as sometime in the winter of 1843. As a Rolling Stone headline announces, “Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare.” …

Refer also to:

Pennsylvania: Greene County leads state in child cancer admissions

Another study: Preliminary Results Find Increased Cancer, Health Risks From Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater, Especially For Children; Arsenic, lead, manganese, nickel, hexavalent chromium in road dust contaminated by wastewater

Sending your child to school to get cancer? Colorado State air monitoring finds elevated benzene, exceeding federal short-term health guideline, at Greeley School, near Extraction Oil & Gas frac site

Ewing’s sarcoma takes another child in a frac field: “It’s the price you pay for deep love. It hurts.” Randy Stephen’s last wishes are being fulfilled: that his family help other families going through battles with childhood cancer.

New peer-reviewed, published study by Lisa McKenzie et al, U Colorado School of Public Health: Childhood cancer linked to nearby oil and gas activity; People ages 5-24 diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia more likely to live in areas with a high concentration of oil and gas activity

Environmental causes of childhood cancers ‘grossly underestimated.’ In Canada, toxic chemicals used by oil and gas industry are exempt under CEPA (1999)

Pennsylvania Study Links Fracking to Health Hazards in Fetuses, Infants, Young Children: 35.1% more cancer in children ages zero to four in heavily frac’d counties. Compare to AER’s belittling, dismissive health study in the Lochend

Merry Frackmas December 5, 2011

Frac Company Trican Donates $5 Million to Fight Childhood CancerTrican is the criminal frac’er that illegally frac’d repeatedly intentionally into Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers for Encana/Ovintiv, enabled by politicians, Alberta “Research” Council (now Alberta Innovates), AER and Alberta Environment.

Trican frac’ing for Encana/Ovintiv above the base of groundwater protection near my home during the regulator’s community-wide drinking water contamination investigation after the companies had illegally repeatedly frac’d and contaminated our drinking water aquifers.

Frac’ers are never satisfied, they frac you again and again and again and again, and refrac you again and again and again and again. “Regulators” let Encana frac and refrac hundreds more shallow gas wells into fresh water zones around Rosebud after the company had illegally contaminated the community’s drinking water supply.

Life-threatening drinking water contamination after illegal fracs led by CEO Gwyn Morgan? Get your charter rights violated by AER instead of the “regulator” regulating the frac’ers? Who cares? No authority in Canada while judges lie to defame you.

And your own lawyers betray you and also lie about you because you won’t settle ‘n gag like a nice silent obedient bending-over-to be-raped litigant.