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things i learned reading the actual paper news today

144 people worldwide have died from swine flu.

every year, 500,000 people die from regular influenza.

i don’t mean to say that we shouldn’t cut a new flu virus off from spreading ASAP, but all this media etc seems a bit overdone given these numbers.

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first i read this and thought: hm.  how do i feel about a blogger being arrested because he ranted about taking up arms? seems like you should be able to rant all you want in a free-speech country.

then i read this about the white supremacist who just walked in the Holocaust Museum and shot a guard after ranting all over the internet about ‘blacks and jews’, and that changed my mind.

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400,000 people die every year from tobacco-related diseases, according to government figures

do you know Obama is a smoker?

i support the new tobacco law. i think it’s smart that Phillip Morris supports it too. fighting against regulations involving public health and/or the environment does not make you competitive. just ask GM.

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