1900 Days And Counting

I KNOW THE DRIVE BYS NOT JUST LIKE THE BACK OF MY HAND, BUT MY ENTIRE SKINNY GLORIOUS NAKED BODY.

All through the Bush years we heard the whole idea of WMD's lampooned and ridiculed. If WMDs did not exist as the Drive Bys claimed, how could they possibly fall into the hands of terrorists ? Now with their boy Hussein in power, WMDs is all we are going to hear about and in no small part to prepare the public for a likely attack that will happen under his watch. The DriveBys are so predictable and so Pathetic. I am glad the Dinosaur media is headed toward extinction. Good riddance, DriveBys !

Such beautiful propaganda - by the way - how's the independent investigation of the events of 9/11 coming?

One additional point I would like to offer to the conversation is that fact that it is now quite feasible to create pathogens that are sub genome specific. In simpler terms diseases that are design to attack certain characteristics or traits within individuals in a group.

Soon enough I suspect diseases shall be built that will attack only those individuals with certain genetic traits.

So if one were able to identify genetic makers in a sub section of society that in combination were exclusive, then it would be possible to attack them and only them biologically.

Imagine a bug designed to kill only left handed lesbian Eskimos. Seems farfetched, but it is in fact quite probable.

Gonna be a hell of a century!

I am deeply concerned by the lack of knowledge in this area and how it permits people to be manipulated.

Bio weapons are easy to culture and disseminate with little more than a home beer brewing kit from K Mart and the desire to harm others, but their use as a weapon of limited mass destruction is impractical.

If the particular agent is localized and not communicable like a toxin, it might be effective as an area denial weapon, but if the agent is both contagious and deadly it would be counterproductive because its primary victims would be those who propagated it. Places with high population density and low medical infrastructure like China or Palestine would be in deep trouble quickly.

For example, if an enhanced Small Pox, Ebola or any hemorrhagic fever were to erupt in lower Manhattan, before it was even on the news it would be on the ground and spreading all over the world. Without an extensive inoculation program and enormous medical stock piles the society that unleashed it would be just as devastated as the targets. In fact western societies would actually be the best able to endure it, while third world countries would be wiped out.

The short term threat is and always has been chemical weapons. As Bhopal and Auschwitz have shown us, the most efficient and cost effective means of killing is chemical in nature. Bio weapons are at best a crap shoot, and quite often suicide.

What a bunch of fearmongering crap.

Over 200,000 people die in the world every day. But the news media doesn't make their money reporting it. Until Americans, who are not used to terrorism in their country, get a more realistic grasp on the relative threats of all kinds, we will continue to bankrupt ourselves over it. And that is in addition to getting even more people killed in the resulting military operations than in the original attack. It makes sense only if you earn your livelihood at it.

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LOL are you kidding? Cures for diseases are not a priority ... cures would mean the death of big-pharm's profits. Think of the billions and billions of dollars these chemical producing giants would lose if there were no demand / no marketability for their SYMPTOM treating products. No, I'm afraid that our vulnerability to pathogens and other diseases lies solely on the shoulders of big-pharm ... they are the worst of all.

I'm more worried about a pandemic flu or other contagious illness. Why don't we have a cure yet for the common cold for starters? Then maybe we'd have some hope for antidotes to the others.

I couldn't agree more with the last three posting. Please spend as much time trying to fix our image as you do do filling use with your doom and gloom. Our big daddy complex really drive the rest of the world crazy. Thanks George.