Okay, I'll pick a fight: Bird Flu

[Roger in Kensington]

Do y'all remember last spring when I pooh-poohed the hype about the so-called impending bird flu epidemic? And do you remember how I was shot down?

Well, did you get bird flu? Was there a bird flu epidemic? Or did it simply pass into the memory hole? Hmmmm?

Yes, it might have been a problem. Yes, it might have been serious. Yes, it might have been Armageddon.

But it wasn't.

If you sold your stock thinking that the end was near, I thank you because I profited.

Lesson: Don't believe the hype.

Paul Ehrlich predicted in 1968 that we would all be dead by 2000 because of overpopulation. Didn't happen. But he made a lot of money selling that bunk.

William and Paul Paddock predicted in 1970 that there would be a world-wide famine by 1975 because of overpopulation and that we would all be dead. Didn't happen, but they made a lot of money selling that bunk.

Al Gore says that we will all be dead in less than 10 years because of global warming (for which he says smoking is a major cause). And he is making a lot of money selling this bunk.

Don't believe the hype.

Please: Understand that the typical anchor person on the evening news has the education of a cumquat. When they predict impending catastrophe, they have no more idea of what they are talking about than the kid who delivers your morning paper, maybe even less.

Paul Ehrlich's speciality was butterflies. He had no expertise about anything else. The Paddock brothers were simply wrong.

And Al Gore is, quite frankly, nuts. JPN.

Get married. Have children. Be happy. Don't believe the calamatarians. There is a future. Your kids will have that future. You win. Those who don't have kids have no future. They lose.

Be a winner.

The future belongs to those who are alive to live it.

As for bird flu, the proof is that you are reading this and there has been no epidemic.

But if you want to sell your stock, I'l be more than happy to profit by it.

P.S. Al Gore is a weenie. IMHO.

[wolfdogs]

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[Christopherrr]

We by into the media hype...this love and feast on things that might cause the world to end; or bring about cranage. That's how they get ratings and that's how people capitalize and make money. Me personally, I just enjoy the amount of attention these people get...they amuse me.

But didn't Al Gore invent the internet? He's gotta know what's he's talking about if he did...he's a genius.

[MarkFL]

naysayers have been naysaying that humanity is "circling the drain" for as long as there have been humans.

seems a certain percentage of the population will always think the end is nigh.

the media does seem to like to take that and whip it into as much as they can.

[Blevyou know]

He got it!

[formula_gramps]

Roger, when you get to be my age, you'll find that you believe less than 10% of what passes for "common knowledge". Your example of bird flu is only the most recent. Remember all the crap about Y2K? Planes where going to fall out of the sky, power grids were going to shut down, etc. All because of inadequacies in the old software that controlled many aspects of our day to day lives, but was never meant to be in use unaltered, during the approach of the milleneum.

Well, I WROTE some of that software, and so was intimately familiar with the problems but kept telling anyone who would listen back then, that this was a bunch of bull.

The media in this country loves to scare the **** out of everyone. It's why up here in New England when there's a snowstorm in the forecast, the media wheels out their "Storm Desks" and proceeds to scare the crap out of all the white-knuckle crowd. It's like it's the end of the world. Every moron needs to run out to the super market and buy up all the bread, milk, spring water, and batteries, because Lord knows we may NEVER have that stuff again!

Agree with your analysis of Al Gore. I remember when he ran in the Dem primary against Dukakis many years ago. Back then he was a somewhat conservative Southern Blue Dog Democrat, and I thought he had lots of promise. Lately it seems like he's just lost his mind.

Anyone who has the time and patience to explore alternative views on global warming can find them, but it takes persistance because the media has already made up their minds about the issue. I love the eco-moonbats who are now running around saying "the debate is over"......Really? When was the debate? I must have missed it...LOL.

All the best,

Gramps

[wood]

So did he, HAHAHA