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April's Lowdown
The great American medicine show, a spectacle of deceit, manipulation, and flimflammery
Butterflies waft across a beautiful field of spring flowers. A delightful young family bicycles joyously down a country lane. A couple on a park bench leans sensually into each other. A 40-something woman's face radiates with both perfect beauty and internal happiness. "All's right with the world," is the message... as long as you've taken your dosages of Lunesta, Celebrex, Cialis, and Botox.
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Code orange absurdities
While federal, state, and local budgets are so tight that even basic public services are being slashed, America was put on "Code Orange Alert? during the holidays, providing a show of armed force across the land. But does any of it actually make us safer?
1. There were media shots of Coast Guard officers patrolling New York Harbor, armed with automatic rifles and scanning the water, pre- pared to shoot... what exactly?
2. At Houston's intercontinental airport, there was a new patrol of four armed guys in cowboy hats riding horseback around and around the airport's perimeter fences, apparently to catch... what exactly?
3. The FBI issued a nationwide alert to 18,000 police units warning them to be on watch for "people carrying almanacs.? Yes! The agency's bulletin breathlessly noted that terrorists might use the Old Farmers Almanac, World Almanac, or whatever "to assist with target selection and pre-operational planning.? This is supposed to make us feel safer?
Code Orange has become a green light for pouring tax money into police bureaucracies.