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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 12:13 PM
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Happy Doomsday to You!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032301783_pf.html
Happy Doomsday to You!

By Dana Milbank
Friday, March 24, 2006; A02

Washington was about one horseman short of an apocalypse yesterday.

It began with a breakfast meeting in a Senate office building where, over fruit salad and bagels, government and academic experts discussed the coming avian flu pandemic. "Currently it has a fatality rate of 56 percent," reported Nancy Cox, flu expert with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "An increasing number of countries have reported human cases. The severe cases are really quite severe."

Pointing to slides of some nasty chest X-rays, she added: "Death from this particular pathogen is not a pleasant death."

Next: the mid-morning news conference on mad cow disease at the National Press Club. There, a beef producer explained why he is suing the government for not letting him test his cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, an "invariably fatal, progressive, incurable, neurodegenerative disease" that can be transmitted to people. The feds say the testing is unnecessary, but the rancher, John Stewart, warned that "BSE is not understood enough today to really come to scientific conclusions."

For those who still had an appetite, there was a luncheon meeting of the National Economists Club at the Chinatown Garden restaurant on H Street, where Congressional Budget Office economist Bob Shackleton was explaining the "high-end" global-warming projections, which have Earth's temperature growing by five degrees Celsius -- nine degrees Fahrenheit -- this century.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 12:22 PM
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1. How can the government prevent the farmer from testing his
own cattle, his property....What the hell is that about?
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 12:23 PM
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2. Simple - it would cost IBP & Cargill money - therefore, no testing
Edited on Fri Mar-24-06 12:39 PM by hatrack
And that's how a bill becomes a law!!

:puke:
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 12:25 PM
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3. Sure explains the hurry to steal everything
;)
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 12:37 PM
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4. link gets message of "server error" anyone else with problems?? HELP nt
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:39 PM
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6. Here, this link works
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:55 PM
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7. Thank You - link worked fine - Full of good news right? Take your .....
......choice between mad cow, bird flu, or drastic change in climate patterns. I know some people will call this "tinfoilhat: stuff but I'm one who believe at least 80% of it.

I made a major 1,000 move about 4 years ago because of the affects climate changes (sun, heat) in my previous home was having on my health.
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megatherium Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 01:09 PM
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5. "I have a bad feeling about this," as Hans Solo would say. nt
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Porcupine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 05:43 PM
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8. Hey, they forgot the Peak Oil Die Off!!!
http://dieoff.org/

There's nothing like a nice malthusion population overshoot to ruin your whole century. The first stages of the Die Off are already nibbling at the Third World and Eastern Europe. We're next folks. Remember what Russia did to the Ukraine and Europe this winter playing games with the gas supply. Well every winter after this it WILL be worse.

Happy Doomsday!!
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:58 PM
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9. mary sunshine day...and the list goes on and on
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