$3.8 Billion OK'd For Bird Flu Readiness

I certainly hope it surpasses hurricane in the gulf readiness and terrorist attack readiness and strategy for illegally invaded and occupied under false pretenses Iraq readiness, though maybe this is all just another Repiglikkkan-Reichstag ploy to put troops on American streets and money in the pockets of Rummy and Frist and other "representatives" of conflict of interest the people, who stand to make enormous profit from this little appropriation.

So much tax payer money has been dispensed to Halliburton for no reason other than problems created by the GOP for them to profit by, Rummy must be getting damn jealous of Dick.

It'd be ultra convenient if the bird flu waited to arrive until next year at the time of mid term elections, especially since more and more states are jettisoning Diebold, The Repiglikkkan Friend (Vote Counting Machine) Then President Short pants could declare martial law during the election. I bet KKKarl Rove is working on that now.

Of course, there's always profit to be made by experimenting on the public with inadequately tested vaccines and other drug company formulas. Vioxx proves this. So does Prozac and a whole sling of others, so if nothing else there is this blackmail to consider, a blackmail made possible by the for profit health care system.

The bird flu plan also included controversial language shielding vaccine and drug manufacturers from lawsuits from people injured by their products during an epidemic. Republicans have long said the protections were a key incentive for vaccine makers to enter the risky U.S. market.

"You've got to be able to incentivize them," Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) told reporters.

because he certainly wouldn't do anything that didn't involved profit or some kind of gain to himself. Frist is such a horse's ass you better watch where you step when he speaks or you'll have serious stink on your shoe, possibly all the way up to your eyebrows.