“I am insulted that local TV news crews are now calling this kind of storm a haboob,” Don Yonts, a resident of Gilbert, Ariz., wrote to The Arizona Republic after a particularly fierce, mile-high dust storm swept through the state on July 5. “How do they think our soldiers feel coming back to Arizona and hearing some Middle Eastern term?”

These are examples of rallying cries for nonsense.

I can't make hide nor hair out of what your real point is above

Feel free to think that it was the vaccinations that kept people healthy during the swine flu epidemic. But, too bad for you this vaccine came out after the epidemic had past. Look it up.

It was very overblown and the fix was simple if it was even needed. But, it was so hyped that it literally had Boards and Govt. agencies scrambling to prove they would not be effected or at the very least had precautions set in place.

The statement calls for sharp deficit reductions “in all countries except those under a programme” to take place “by 2013 at the latest.” Since those countries “under a programme” are being forced into drastic fiscal austerity, this amounts to a plan to have all of Europe slash spending at the same time. And there is nothing in the European data suggesting that the private sector will be ready to take up the slack in less than two years.

For those who know their 1930s history, this is all too familiar. If either of the current debt negotiations fails, we could be about to replay 1931, the global banking collapse that made the Great Depression great. But, if the negotiations succeed, we will be set to replay the great mistake of 1937: the premature turn to fiscal contraction that derailed economic recovery and ensured that the Depression would last until World War II finally provided the boost the economy needed.