By GottaLaff
President Obama declared a national emergency Saturday to deal with the "rapid increase in illness" from the H1N1 influenza virus.The move allows the Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements" in order to help health care facilities enact emergency plans to deal with the "pandemic."
Or we could just cough into our elbows.
By GottaLaff
First Lady Michelle never disappoints:
"Then I would go back to sleep and ask him how it turned out when I woke up the next morning."The real question is, what would Bo do?
By GottaLaff
I've been meaning to write about this for days. This is important and very disturbing:
Army combat unit to deploy within U.S. --Use of active-duty military as a domestic police force has been severely limited since passage of the Posse Comitatus Act following the Civil War. 03 Oct 2008 The United States military's Northern Command is dedicating a combat infantry team to deal with catastrophes in the U.S., including terrorist attacks and "natural" disasters. The 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, which was first into Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003, started its controversial assignment Wednesday. The First Raiders will spend 2009 as the first active-duty military unit attached to the U.S. Northern Command since it was created. The unit has been training with equipment generally used in law enforcement, including beanbag bullets, Tasers, spike strips and roadblocks. That kind of training seems a bit out of line for the unit's designated role as Northern Command's CCMRF (Sea Smurf), or CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force. CBRNE stands for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive incidents.Thom Hartmann has been all over this. His tin foil hat is firmly on, receiving messages about Bush using the military to enforce martial law during [fill in a Bush/Cheney-concocted national emergency here], therefore preventing election 2008.
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