Feds Raise Hackles Over 5-Hour Energy Drink( Say it ain't so!! )

Weekly Standard ^ | 12:55 PM, Dec 13, 2012 | ALEXANDER KAZAM

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The FDA is raising hackles over the equivalent of an espresso shot in a bottle: the popular 5-Hour Energy drink that has billions of dollars in sales over the past decade. 5 hour

The hubbub over 5-Hour Energy, which has some fans stockpiling 12-packs of the bottles in anticipation of a possible ban, was sparked by an article in the New York Times claiming that 5-Hour Energy has been “linked” to 13 deaths reported to the FDA in the past four years.

In truth, millions of bottles of 5-Hour Energy are consumed every week, and there is no evidence whatsoever of a causal connection. But anything printed in the Times is considered news, no matter how absurd the premise, and numerous major news outlet have run with their own version of the story. Even the Onion got in on the action, with a story titled, “5-Hour Energy CEO: Deaths Just Collateral Damage In War On That 2:30 Feeling.”

[lafroste]

The stuff tasted horrible, but it worked.

This stuff is great for hangovers. My personal sure fire cure for a nasty hangover is:

1: 5-hour energy (just one)

2: One pint of chocolate milk, and

3: One motrin.

In half an hour you feel right as rain.

[Fast Moving Angel]

How many people have consumed water in some form or fashion and die within 24 hours.

No, no, not the dreaded dihydrogen monoxide!! ;-)

[TChris]

Standard Book of Federal Power-Grabs

Page 725

1) Identify or invent a "crisis", big or small

2) Bravely offer to "solve" this "crisis" with a small, necessary increase of government power and oversight, along with the requisite increase in budget and employees

3) Pat yourself on the back and declare the "crisis" to be "solved", because the goverment "did something"

4) Rinse

5) Repeat

...

Fast-forward decades into the future and revel in your limitless power:

o Government control of shower head flow and toilet flush quantity

o Government control of every single "inalienable" right, abridging what "shall not be abridged" and infringing on that which "shall not be infringed"

o Government control over nearly every aspect of automobile manufacturing and operation

o Government control of your use of your private property

o Government control of not only what you are allowed to do to your neighbor, but just how much you are allowed to risk possible harm to YOURSELF

[steve86]

had seen the B-12 "microdots" on the shelf at WM

Waste Management, Inc?

[JoeProBono]