Friday, November 09, 2007

GOP Love Beads

"How ya feeling, Condi...huh-huh..."

Rethuglican family values--date rape drugs in children's toys. But hey, the market will correct itself--right?

Seven more U.S. children were sickened after ingesting Chinese-made toy beads that were recalled earlier this week because of a toxic chemical coating, the government said Friday.

The reports of the sickened children, six of whom were hospitalized, came from at least five states: Texas, Delaware, New Hampshire, Illinois and Utah, according to a spokeswoman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The agency recalled the Spin Master Aqua Dots toy Wednesday after two children were knocked unconscious, and then hospitalized, by eating beads covered with a chemical that metabolizes into the compound gamma hydroxy butyrate -- the so-called date-rape drug.

The compound can induce unconsciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.

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