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2009-04-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Steve White 2009-04-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Travel to Messico discouraged... but as always, the borders remain fully open for northbound ~~voters~~ traffic.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-28 07:13|| 2009-04-28 07:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Not if Jan Napoleontini makes good on her promise to cure any Mexican who makes it to/across the border claiming illness.

(I think that is what she said last night, she's such an idiot talker it was difficult to get exactly what she said; saw it on a PBS news program so if I misheard her please correct me)

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-04-28 10:41|| 2009-04-28 10:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Some society.

We have a mom stick a plastic knife into her elementary school kid's birthday cake in their lunch and the kid will get expelled by school administrators under a 'zero tolerance' policy.
How many people have died from such a 'weapon'?

We have governmental bureaucrats both internationally and nationally who shrug their shoulders and say there's nothing that can be done to make life more secure from these contagions.
How many people die every year from various flu strains?

We need to move the principals out of the local schools and into DHS and PHS, and move the bureaucrats into the principal offices in the schools.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-28 11:50|| 2009-04-28 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I heard she siad something about 'no need to close the mexican border'.

Of course left unsaid is that we can't close the border even if we needed to - thanks to her, Bush and company.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-04-28 11:50|| 2009-04-28 11:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Give us your tuberculosis, your swine flu infected masses.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2009-04-28 11:58|| 2009-04-28 11:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Some interesting parallels between pandemic flu and terrorism. In particular, when only a few individuals are involved (flu infected or active terrorists) the problem can be contained. However, because the resources required for containment are disproportionate (especially when taking a law enforcement approach to terrorism) then a small increase in individuals, either infected or involved in terrorism, outstrips the resources available for containment.

Mexico is well past the possibility of containing this flu outbreak and several countries, including the UK, are past the point terrorism can be contained.

Posted by Phil_B 2009-04-28 19:39|| 2009-04-28 19:39|| Front Page Top

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