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k2o4 United States. Apr 28 2009 18:35. Posts 4803

Well it seems like my fears of The Stand becoming real and giving me a reason to move back to Boulder and get free rent are becoming more and more ridiculous. Damn you logic for proving that my fears are stupid!

Anyway, found some fun clips on the swine flu scare fest. Daily show did it well:

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And a fun short youtube vid on "Why NOT to Worry About Swine Flu":

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The funny political fallout of this is that in the GOP's crusade to slash the stimulus cause of "wasteful spending" (which I am against, but often the GOP's idea of wasteful spending is very different than mine as they think everything is wasteful), they actually cut out money to prepare america to deal with a flu pandemic. That's right, Obama wanted to use money to prepare in case something like the swine flu happened and the GOP called it wasteful spending and fought to have it removed. And what are they saying now? "We didn't know swine flu was going to happen!" Duh. Neither did Obama. But he was being PREPARED. It's kind of like having a flashlight and extra batteries laying around the house. It's an extra cost up front but in the long run it's well worth it for when the power goes out.

Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele defended GOP opposition to pandemic preparedness funding in the stimulus bill in an interview with CNN Tuesday, saying the party had no way of knowing that such a threat might actually materialize. "Did we know this at the time of the vote?" Steele asked. "Don't come back and make this link six months after the fact ... we don't know what tomorrow holds." He added, "I'm not going to sit here and accept that connection."

Call me crazy, but I like the idea of the Gov being prepared to deal with things like hurricanes, tornadoes, and huge disease outbreaks. To me that's one of the main reasons we have a government.

Anywho, Colorado is yet to have a confirmed case so I feel pretty good about my chances of surviving this apocalypse. haha

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MayZerG United Kingdom. Apr 28 2009 20:28. Posts 2123

The apocalypse aint for another 3 years bro .

Dont worry haha.

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Svenman87 United States. Apr 28 2009 20:38. Posts 4636

I'm going to get swine flu, overcome it and make millions off those fucking wristbands like Lance Armstrongs

Mine will say "Nothing to Swine about"

k2o4 United States. Apr 28 2009 21:24. Posts 4803

hahahaha, nice svenman

Oh you mean 2012 right mayzerg? man, so many impending ends of the world, I dunno what to do!

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lachlan Australia. Apr 28 2009 23:53. Posts 6991

LOL svenman!!

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Highcard Canada. Apr 29 2009 03:25. Posts 5428

the links are messed up

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k2o4 United States. Apr 29 2009 16:24. Posts 4803

On April 29 2009 02:25 Highcard wrote:
the links are messed up

oh yeah, you gotta view it on the main blog page otherwise videos don't work. some sorta funky LP shit.

http://newb.liquidpoker.net/

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