forget the filthy birds, try commen sense.

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Friday October 07, 2005 · 8:49 PM PDT

2005/10/07 · 20:49

The Avian Flu, H5N1 strain, has been around since 1997. I heard about it two or three years ago, SARS was the big concern at the time. However, Today is the day that the Avian Flu has come into our lives at full force thanks to the media. Lets just look at this rationally, there is no need to scare everyone. Currently there are just a few ASIAN countries in which there have been outbreaks of human infractions of the avian flu H5N1 strain, the survival rate is low because there is no immune protection for humans, (as it is a bird flu), but with that said, our current risk remains LOW. To have a true crisis unfold the avian flu would have to jump from human to human, which it has never done. It needs to mutate before that can happen, and luckily, so far this strain , H5N1, has been very slow at mutating. Read More

War At Any Cost

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Saturday October 01, 2005 · 8:51 PM PDT

2005/10/01 · 20:51

Since the iraq war started Iraq has lost more than twenty-six thousand innocent people. America has lost almost 2000 soldiers. Our news media does not think much about these lives lost, when was the last time you heard anderson cooper, or bill o'reilly drop the amount of iraqis killed? These people did not call on america to free them, at any amount of life lost. We have NO plan to leave this country, NO plan to save more innocent people from dying, and absolutly NO plan to bring our troops back home. Read More

the need for an "automatic trigger"

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Wednesday September 28, 2005 · 9:10 PM PDT

2005/09/28 · 21:10

Since the start of hurricane katrina bush has been mentioning the military taking a larger role in responding to catastrophic events. Bushco is on the hunt for congress to repeal a law from 1878, the Posse Comitatus Act. This law prohibits the use of federal troops in domestic law enforcement. It bans the army, navy, air force, and marines from participating in police type activity on US soil. Read More

step away from the freedom fry

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Tuesday September 27, 2005 · 4:31 PM PDT

2005/09/27 · 16:31

We rely on the F.D.A. to tell us what is safe and clean, to eat and drink,their standards are questionable. Earlier this week the nyt reported on french fries. Apparently fries, and potato chips, (baked or fried) "are loaded with a chemical called acrylamide, which has been known to cause cancer in lab rats". It turns out in 2002 the world health organization, (WHO) called an emergency panel to look into the potential health risks of acrylamide, the chemical may be created when you heat starchy foods at high temperatures (it is also used in the manufacturing of plastics!). Read More

if no one reports it, did it even happen?

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Monday September 26, 2005 · 12:06 AM PDT

2005/09/26 · 00:06

I cant understand why an event so huge, in the nations capital, wouldn't get, so much as a sentence on the news saturday. Cspan estimates 500000 people marched in DC on Saturday, protesting the war in iraq. not a word was spoken about this (half a million people anti war march), on the news. not a peep! Bush rushed into austin early this afternoon, while the protesting in washington began. signs read, "bush lied, thousands died", and "impeach bush", but bushco was off to rescue the hurricane ravaged refineries.
saturday morning at five am thousands of people went to amtrak stations along the east coast, including penn station,to get on an amtrak train to washington dc to march with those 500000 other people to stop the iraq war, but they were stopped. amtrak let them sit and wait, they missed the protest. thirteen Amtrak commuter trains either were delayed or canceled because of an electrical outage. Read More

HURRICANE KAT-RITA

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Friday September 23, 2005 · 12:19 PM PDT

2005/09/23 · 12:19

Is it just me? Does'nt it seem odd to you how similar these two hurricanes are?

Where is the interest in the fact that these two storms have been very close together in timing, in size, in formation, where they formed and in path. This one is headed right for oil refineries, just as katrina was.

If some economists thought that katrina alone could trigger a reccession, than what will a second hurricane, of this force, do now? There are over 200000 people jobless because of katrina, plus jobless claims rose to the highest levels in two years, this all before rita, and these numbers are just claims, they exclude the people who are out of work and are unable to make claims.

With the cost of Iraq and Katrina, what will the bill add up to when rita gets added in? Will it be as if we were fighting three wars? It seems to me that these storms are going to make some rich people even wealthier, leaving most americans caught in the struggle to make ends meet.

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katrinas payoff

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Thursday September 15, 2005 · 5:33 PM PDT

2005/09/15 · 17:33

In a couple of hours bush will be hitting the networks. I am slightly interested to see this one sided affair. His speech, according to the AP will have no audience, and no one around to disagree with him as usual. Scott mclellan said bushs speech will focus on "the way forward" , and jump-starting the reconstruction. REBUILD RENEW REBUILD SPEND SPEND SPEND! This will be more expensive than Iraq has been over three years, according to congressional officials. hes tossing billions around, into a terrific funnel that empties into his pockets (and pockets of friends). Republicans said "Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort." This is like spitting on those "outing a cia covert agent" allegations. This is them doing whatever the hell they want. The contracts and the money are blatently on their way to haliburton, Fluor, the shaw group and other republican linked corps. New orleans will become a rebuilt city lacking the heart that made it great, instead it will become a corporate playground. Read More

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