10/26/09 Nightly Roundup

• "Blue-Chip" (hah) stocks took a hit while the US dollar index got a temporary boost.
• Is there going to be a shortage of swine flu vaccinations?
• An old South Park Episode can teach us about the validity of so-called "hate crime," laws says Anthony Gregory.
• The military is waging a "war" against Obama, says Seymour Hersh.
• Considering his war escalation and current violations of civil liberties, why the bellyaching?
• Regardless, though the supposedly conservative military considers the prez insufficiently belligerent, what exactly is "conservative" about these sort of costs?

Good News: H1N1 Vaccination Program is Coming!

I subscribed to the White House email list back in January when President Obama presented his Change.gov website to field "tough" questions from the public.  Today, whitehouse.gov has released an important email concerning the H1N1 Swine Flu sent by John O. Brennon, Homeland Security advisor.  Here it is:

As the President's advisor on Homeland Security, I am passing along the following message from Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, who are leading the efforts to prepare our Nation for the coming flu season.

Fellow Americans,

This spring we were confronted with an outbreak of a troubling flu virus called 2009-H1N1. As the fall flu season approaches, it is critical that we reinvigorate our preparedness efforts across the country in order to mitigate the effects of this virus on our communities.

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Fear Is Power

"It doesn't make sense though," my fairly apolitical friend said to me this morning. "Why would Obama want to hurt the economy by instilling fear into the people of the US?" Last night, I got into a debate with this friend about the government's overreaction to the swine flu incidents.
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