Too good of a story not to post:
"Man's TV Triggers Satellite Rescue System, FCC Investigates"
What is it with people and this flu vaccine? It's only at most 70% effective according to the CDC, and will do absolutely nothing to protect against any new strain that popped up in the last few months since production started. And factor into this whole mess the number of people who become ill because of the shot... This is what they're calling a "public health crisis?" And do you think it's any coincidence that the only place you can seem to get these flu shots is Wal-Mart? Of course not. If Wal-Mart spent half of what they stand to make off paranoid Americans they could probably vaccinate the entire country of Malawi against Typhiod. A vaccine that does work, and is needed. Not some panacea against a week-long fever.
Trust me, he makes way more sense in the original French, where it's OK to have sentences that are four pages long.
Read the BBC Obit.
For anyone expecting a response to the debate tonight, here's this.
And Wangari Maathai is way cool. Take that Mr. "three million wetlands." What? And Silvio Berlo....? If you can't remember how to pronounce our "allies" names, I don't think they're going to be around much longer.
"America is in trouble today not because her people have failed, but because her leaders have failed.
When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down ... in a war ... with no end in sight;
When the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy;
When the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness;
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And when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration – then it's time for new leadership in the United States of America."*
Any guesses?
Yep, that's right, Richard M. Nixon, during his first campaign for president in 1968.
So it's OK that Nixon (a Republican, remember) ran on a platform that criticizes the course of a war his rival was waging, but for some made up reason it's not OK for Kerry to do the same to Bush?
I'm sorry, but the blatant hypocracy of the Bush-camp commentators finally got to me last night and I had to look that up. I know Nixon isn't really the golden boy of the GOP, but still, it was their platform, they ran with it, and guess what? They won.
Sorry to be breaking the silence with a bitch-rant like that, but I think Aaron's tired of me screaming at the TV, and I had to get it out.
* The Memoirs of Richard M. Nixon, ©1978 Grosset & Dunlap. pp. 314-315.