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Fox broadcasting has declined President Obama's request to air his 100 days speech in prime time.  The network is running an episode of the drama "Lie to Me" on Wednesday night instead of Obama's  "100 days".

That's delicious.

On The Other Hand...

One step which might help to contain the Mexican flu would involve securing our borders.  Naturally, Napalitano is dead-set against it.  "We're already doing passive surveillance at the border," Napolitano said.

We love "passive".

Dial It Back

1976: President Gerald Ford orders a nationwide vaccination program to prevent a swine-flu epidemic.

Ford was acting on the advice of medical experts, who believed they were dealing with a virus potentially as deadly as the one that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.

Mass vaccinations started in October, but within weeks reports started coming in of people developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease, right after taking the shot. Within two months, 500 people were affected, and more than 30 died. Amid a rising uproar and growing public reluctance to risk the shot, federal officials abruptly canceled the program Dec. 16.

Bear in mind that mainstream media are in a feeding frenzy, and their motto is "If it bleeds, it leads".  Remember that the main vector for disease lies literally in your hands.  So wash them.

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

When Patrick Henshaw's son became sick last Friday, little did he know that the 18-year-old had acquired a potentially deadly disease that made its way across the U.S.-Mexico border -- the swine flu.

The disease made its way across the border.  Really?  The disease just packed its little bags and decided to head North?  It's not about border control, nor enforcement of immigration laws.  Illegal aliens aren't really an issue.

Miss California

She's been hammered for answering a question honestly.  There was a time in this country when honesty was valued.  Clearly, that's not the case any longer.  If we valued honesty, we'd have to ask why a homosexual man is judging a women's beauty contest.  But of course, we can't do that, because "political correctness" has somehow become more important than pure honesty.

Really, is there anything so horrible as somebody who actually responds to a question with honesty?  What is our country coming to, when such acts can be tolerated?

Ol' Perez Hilton was shocked, frustrated, and disappointed in her honest answer to his question.  Because that is not the kind of woman that he wants to be Miss USA.

Excuse me, Perez - but you are an avowed and very vocal homosexual, there is no kind of woman that you'd want.  You had no business in the competition, other than to advance your agenda.  And quite frankly, your agenda has no place in such a competition.

I hate to have to break the news to you, sonny, but calling her a "bitch" for expressing an honest answer to your question doesn't really work in your favor.

Living In Fear

Environmeddlists have apparently branched out.  It's all about the kids.  You have to abuse them early, and often.

You can't tell a bunch of unsophisticated little kids that the earth is dying and not expect them to descend into terror.

They're just dumb enough that they trust you and people like you.

That's what the message of the modern eco-terrorist such as Gore and Suzuki is all about.

To scare us all into dismantling the global economy.

The fact that it's all an overblown lie and that even if the world does warm up a bit, it won't be the first time and it won't cause environmental horror and might even save a bunch of human lives, is all beside the point.

All the poor little kid hears is the adults in his life telling him the world is going to end.

Accused

That's all it takes in the fundamentalist world of the Religion Of Peace™.  Trial?  Who needs trial?  It is sufficient that you are accused.

Swine Flu & You

You may be one of those folks who're just all fine with illegal aliens.  You may view folks who want them halted and repatriated as inveterate racists.  Many who share such beliefs, after all, see no difference between legal immigration and illegals, and they see the "poor illegals" as folks who are, in the infamous words of George W. Bush, "only here to do the jobs that Americans won't do".  You know, like delivering drugs to Wal-Mart.  No wonder they're the low-price leader!

Leaving that aside, for the moment, it remains that there are a number of critically important differences between legal immigrants and illegal aliens; paramount among which is that legal immigrants are demonstrably healthy, while illegal aliens undergo no health checks and in many cases bring illness across the border as well as their illegal backsides.  Is this really a problem?

Mexico is contending with an outbreak of swine flu, suspected in the deaths of dozens of people and sickening perhaps 1,000. In the United States, at least eight cases have been confirmed with the infection, all of them in California and Texas.  How do you suppose that swine flu just happened to show up in the two border states?  And what's a little flu among friends?  How bad can it be?

In Mexico, it's bad enough that they're closing schools.  All public events in Mexico City have been cancelled.  This strain has "pandemic potential," the World Health Organizationchief said Saturday - but some fear it may be too late to contain the outbreak.  WHO is meeting to consider whether to declare an international public health emergency - a step that could lead to travel advisories, trade restrictions and border closures.

Border closures?  What a concept!

Oregon Funnies

Beaveron's all set to try "urban renewal" on a parcel of land that they and Metro own, right on the highly-successful Beaverton Round  (next to light rail and the Beaverton Transit Center).  The Round developers twice went bankrupt, despite massive infusions of tax subsidies.  The land abutting it remains undeveloped, as the last developer to try to make a go of it also went bankrupt.

Beaverton is studying urban renewal for its downtown -- and the Round at Beaverton Central may be ground zero. Mayor Denny Doyle said he thinks the Round and the vacant Westgate Theatre site, owned by the city and regional government Metro, are prime spots to encourage private redevelopment through publicly funded infrastructure improvements.

That's the ticket! Throw yet more millions of tax dollars into the wasteland!  Yes, "It makes sense," Mayor Denny Doyle says, as he tromps around the desolate area.  Oddly, the "planners" uniformly tell you that light rail drives development.  Yet this area's been within spitting distance of light rail since the line opened over a decade ago.  You've been fed a lie, and the politicians and "planners" continue to serve it up to you.  As has been the case time and again, developers stay away in droves unless sufficient tax dollars get dumped into their pockets.  Light rail clearly does not drive development; only massive tax dollar subsidies do.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...the Oregon legislature plans to establish a new government agency: Oregon Health Authority. 

The authority would assume many of the traditional Department of Human Services duties related to health care while also being given the task of collecting statewide data about the subject. The goal there is to reduce the cost of health care by understanding it better.

The authority eventually would manage a state health insurance exchange program, work to combine state purchasing power and oversee Oregon's health care agenda.

"It provides much more accountability and responsibility to do some work," said Rep. Mitch Greenlick, a Portland Democrat who leads the committee and helped craft the bill.

Well, sure.  Leave it to Democrats to create more governmental bureaucracy in the midst of a huge recession.  Government, after all, is the only sector in Oregon that is adding jobs.  Hey, they told you they'd create more jobs.  They just didn't mention where.

Sustainability.

It's the hot new buzzword, incorporated everywhere.  What does it mean?  The word is tossed about with gay abandon, but few seem to consider the actual definition of the term.  In point of fact, by definition, the term describes a requirement to maintain existing conditions.  Quite obviously, this means that advancement or progress are inherently proscribed.

The concept of progress is clearly rooted in directional transformation; in other words, change.  Change is antithical to sustainability, and nowhere in the world is the disconnect more clearly illustrated than in present-day USA - where many bleat about the beauty of sustainability, yet voted for a Presidential candidate who ran on a platform of change.

As noted in History of the Idea of Progress, the concept involves advancement from a condition of deprivation, ignorance, and insecurity toward the amelioration of these conditions.  Such advancement, or change, or progress (take your pick; they all mean the same thing) is largely incompatible with the concept of maintenance, or sustainability.

The utopian ideal of sustainability, a mantra that is continually repeated today, is in fact little more than a call for the extinction of humans - although, curiously, those who call most loudly for "sustainability" generally do not themselves commit the ultimate act in support of their professed belief: as a rule, they don't commit suicide; instead, they pursue avenues by which to direct the behavior of less enlightened people.  That would be you.

They love the planet.  You're a pest.