You might remember Michael Crichton's fiction novel "The Andromeda Strain" about the epidemic spread of a deadly virus. My memory of the book was (spoiler alert) it ended with the self-destruct mechanism of the compound where the scientists and laboratories were was canceled with forty five seconds remaining. In typical Hollywood fashion, the subsequent movie (1971) opted for a mere eight seconds to spare before the labs would have been blown up, spreading the disease they'd finally contained.
Then you probably recall the movie "Outbreak" (1995) with an all-star cast, including Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Renee Russo, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Donald Sutherland. The plot is characterized on the Internet movie database this way: "Extreme measures are necessary to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus. But how extreme, exactly?"
In 2008, "Andromeda Strain" was released as a TV mini-series, with this description: "A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped."
Not that any of these should be considered machinations by Hollywood to incubate fear into the public for subsequent flu virus outbreaks...
But if it isn't enough for you to see the results of a web search for "truth flu shot" or "swine flu hoax", this eight minute video should give you good reason that the fear mongering and panic seeding is absolutely intentional.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pWGJYwraMk&feature=player_embedded
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A Victory - There Really Are People with Integrity!
Saw this on Drudge Report earlier today, and then again in a newsletter I get...
Planned Parenthood leader resigns after watching ultrasound of abortion procedure. It is one of my daily prayers that God would put an end to abortion in this country, an abominable practice we tolerate, yet still ask for His blessings. If that isn't evidence of a MERCIFUL God, I don't know what is. But as Thomas Jefferson once said, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever."
(Incidentally, the Susan G. Komen Foundation which claims to fight breast cancer is a major contributor to Planned Parenthood - if you support Komen and oppose abortion, you may want to re-think your position.)
Be encouraged.
Planned Parenthood leader resigns after watching ultrasound of abortion procedure. It is one of my daily prayers that God would put an end to abortion in this country, an abominable practice we tolerate, yet still ask for His blessings. If that isn't evidence of a MERCIFUL God, I don't know what is. But as Thomas Jefferson once said, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever."
(Incidentally, the Susan G. Komen Foundation which claims to fight breast cancer is a major contributor to Planned Parenthood - if you support Komen and oppose abortion, you may want to re-think your position.)
Be encouraged.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Chocolate & Vanilla, your only choices
Imagine going to Baskin & Robbins, or Bresslers, or any of those other ice cream parlors whose trademark is a bewildering variety of flavors, and being told that chocolate & vanilla are the only flavors available.
"But I had raspberry swirl just last week!" you meekly protest, seeing dozens of buckets of other flavors under the glass.
"That was last week, that's no longer a flavor", comes the flat response.
"What about all these other flavors I'm looking at in front of me?"
"Chocolate, or vanilla", the worker says, unmoved by your growing disbelief that those are the only choices you're being given. You know good & well that there are other flavors, but the question is posed as if it were as cut & dried as "regular or decaf".
This is pretty much how the American public is manipulated into accepting things they would normally reject, and do so vehemently. The difference is that chocolate & vanilla may be both quite acceptable to you, even though you'd rather have something else.
But now we have either government run health care (the option you're supposed to accept), or the continued health care crisis (which the media & government have helped to create), "unbridled corporate greed" (a mantra of socialists), etc.
Joe Galloway, in his otherwise respectable article entitled "Hope for change gives way to 'No, We Can't'", says that the proposed health care bill would "include a public option...to provide competition for insurance companies and a negotiating lever to lower the price of pharmaceuticals."
First, when has the government ever fostered competition in the private sector? Second, the best way government can encourage competition (they can't actually provide it) is to reduce the burdensome regulation that prevents smaller companies from having any chance in the marketplace, effectively squeezing them out.
I haven't read the health care bill, nor do I intend to. I have, however, read the Constitution, and see no justification for the government being involved in any way in health care.
"But I had raspberry swirl just last week!" you meekly protest, seeing dozens of buckets of other flavors under the glass.
"That was last week, that's no longer a flavor", comes the flat response.
"What about all these other flavors I'm looking at in front of me?"
"Chocolate, or vanilla", the worker says, unmoved by your growing disbelief that those are the only choices you're being given. You know good & well that there are other flavors, but the question is posed as if it were as cut & dried as "regular or decaf".
This is pretty much how the American public is manipulated into accepting things they would normally reject, and do so vehemently. The difference is that chocolate & vanilla may be both quite acceptable to you, even though you'd rather have something else.
But now we have either government run health care (the option you're supposed to accept), or the continued health care crisis (which the media & government have helped to create), "unbridled corporate greed" (a mantra of socialists), etc.
Joe Galloway, in his otherwise respectable article entitled "Hope for change gives way to 'No, We Can't'", says that the proposed health care bill would "include a public option...to provide competition for insurance companies and a negotiating lever to lower the price of pharmaceuticals."
First, when has the government ever fostered competition in the private sector? Second, the best way government can encourage competition (they can't actually provide it) is to reduce the burdensome regulation that prevents smaller companies from having any chance in the marketplace, effectively squeezing them out.
I haven't read the health care bill, nor do I intend to. I have, however, read the Constitution, and see no justification for the government being involved in any way in health care.
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