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ixtow wrote:
I am a bit surprised by how many of the flaming left wackos I've met were even taken aback by the statement that H1N1 is a 'pandemic.' If h1n1 is so terrible and dangerous, what of AIDS and Cancer?
AIDS or GRID as it was known in the day was never declared a pandemic due to successful gay rights lobbying and Surgon General C. Edward Koop knuckled under to pressure.
Politics gave us AIDS, and now politics are going to take away our rights of gun ownership and freedom of speech if we cannot shut down this assault by the Obama administration.
alexcabbie wrote:
We did have smallpox, whooping cough and tetanus vaccines, also polio vaccine. And these were loaded with Thimerosal which supposedly produces autism although why now and not in my day I don't know. Barney Frank would like to get as many shots in the butt as us kids did back in the day
Yeah, and we didn't have ADD/HDD either, they were just overactive and at recess were usually found running laps to help settle them down in class. And it worked, too.
We also didn't have school shootings, and bullies were even given swats at school. And if that didn't work, the parents were called in to the Principal's office. Which usually meant more corporal punishment at home and staying after school to write ad naseum, "I will not be mean to xxx," or a verse about kindness.
It took only one swat at the teacher's desk in first grade for me to get the point. And I never had to write verses but one time in third grade when I didn't learn my times table for that week, and only during recess.
I did have to complain to my daughter's middle school principal about a young male teacher participating in popular students harrassing my daughter in class which involved an explicit drawing of a sex act. His contract was not renewed the next year.
PC correctness contributed a great deal to get this country at the point we are today, and as I remember it, most of this crap started in California in the 1960's and 1970's with a major faction coming from the east coast, too.