David Corn is such a bafoon. Everyone knows it is HHS and the Obama administration who LOVE the Swine Flu. They love it so much that they are withholding the vaccines via their screw-ups until it is too late for them to be of use to us. Yet, they INSIST on managing our entire healthcare system?

DAVE, once again, you are barking up the WRONG TREE.

Discredited "global warming?" Which numbskull discredited it? How does anyone discredit reality?(Hey, its cold today so global warming is just a joke.)

The chamber of commerce is against anything that might benefit this nation and world if it in any way has an impact on the profits of its members. Human beings be damned, they can easily be replaced, new ones are coming along all the time. Profits must be kept up no matter who might be infected by sick employees coming in and sharing their illness. Hell, the boss does not eat with the low ranks and the customers most likely will blame someone else.

Kalpal,

Listen, dolt, the entire Al Gore/U.N. Global Warming theory was based on increased Co2 causing corresponding increases in temperature. It has been CONCLUSIVELY proven not to be the case. Co2 has continued to rise, and temps haven't. There is plenty of scientific evidence to back this up, so why don't you look some of this up for your self, and stop letting fools like Gore do your thinking for you.

While you're at it, why don't you read this:

Stagnating Temperatures
Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
By Gerald Traufetter

Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.
At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average.
Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.
Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations.
Reached a Plateau
The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."
Even though the temperature standstill probably has no effect on the long-term warming trend, it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models, and it is also a political issue. For months, climate change skeptics have been gloating over the findings on their Internet forums. This has prompted many a climatologist to treat the temperature data in public with a sense of shame, thereby damaging their own credibility.
"It cannot be denied that this is one of the hottest issues in the scientific community," says Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. "We don't really know why this stagnation is taking place at this point."
Just a few weeks ago, Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research added more fuel to the fire with its latest calculations of global average temperatures. According to the Hadley figures, the world grew warmer by 0.07 degrees Celsius from 1999 to 2008 and not by the 0.2 degrees Celsius assumed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And, say the British experts, when their figure is adjusted for two naturally occurring climate phenomena, El Niño and La Niña, the resulting temperature trend is reduced to 0.0 degrees Celsius -- in other words, a standstill.
The differences among individual regions of the world are considerable. In the Arctic, for example, temperatures rose by almost three degrees Celsius, which led to a dramatic melting of sea ice. At the same time, temperatures declined in large areas of North America, the western Pacific and the Arabian Peninsula. Europe, including Germany, remains slightly in positive warming territory.
Mixed Messages
But a few scientists simply refuse to believe the British calculations. "Warming has continued in the last few years," says Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). However, Rahmstorf is more or less alone in his view. Hamburg Max Planck Institute scientist Jochem Marotzke, on the other hand, says: "I hardly know any colleagues who would deny that it hasn't gotten warmer in recent years."
The controversy sends confusing and mixed messages to the lay public. Why is there such a vigorous debate over climate change, even though it isn't getting warmer at the moment? And how can it be that scientists cannot even arrive at a consensus on changes in temperatures, even though temperatures are constantly being measured?
The global temperature-monitoring network consists of 517 weather stations. But each reading is only a tiny dot on the big world map, and it has to be extrapolated to the entire region with the help of supercomputers. Besides, there are still many blind spots, the largest being the Arctic, where there are only about 20 measuring stations to cover a vast area. Climatologists refer to the problem as the "Arctic hole."
The scientists at the Hadley Center simply used the global average value for the hole, ignoring the fact that it has become significantly warmer in the Arctic, says Rahmstorf. But a NASA team from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, which does make the kinds of adjustments for the Arctic data that Rahmstorf believes are necessary, arrives at a flat temperature curve for the last five years that is similar to that of their British colleagues.
Marotzke and Leibniz Institute meteorologist Mojib Latif are even convinced that the fuzzy computing done by Rahmstorf is counterproductive. "We have to explain to the public that greenhouse gases will not cause temperatures to keep rising from one record temperature to the next, but that they are still subject to natural fluctuations," says Latif. For this reason, he adds, it is dangerous to cite individual weather-related occurrences, such as a drought in Mali or a hurricane, as proof positive that climate change is already fully underway.
"Perhaps we suggested too strongly in the past that the development will continue going up along a simple, straight line. In reality, phases of stagnation or even cooling are completely normal," says Latif.

Stella, lets keep in mind it was the Repubs who voted to cut flu funding from the stimulus package in April... Just thought you might like to know who you should be blaming. But then again, that's not as fun as a conspiracy theory, is it. Moron.

This is really helping the discussion - thanks so much for your input. I really understand the issue now.

careful Clay; the black helicopters are on their way and might get their before the guys in the white suits do.

Seriously, THIS is your argument. Has anyone proven that 9/11 WAS an inside job? That would be no. Is there even evidence of it? That would be no, too. And on what planet do we give credibility to judges who fault individuals for natural disasters? You don't suppose this 'judge' was a Dem, do you? Ask the folks in NOLA and LA who was at fault; there is a reason they changed governors.

The rest of your argument is just plain foolish. The vaccine is a govt-provided thing. How exactly would business stop it from coming in? Seeing as how this vaccine is virtually untested, what makes you think everyone should take it anyway? What about those who choose to opt out?

I am sorry your meds ran out; Obamacare will no doubt help.

Clay, the court did not find the Bush Administration guilty of anything. A federal judge in New Orleans has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding from Katrina.

Bet you see shadows in your window at night ! Better get back on your meds !

Maybe your company does but mine doesn't. Seeing as I only make $500 per week before taxes taking a day off because I am sick is not really an option now is it?

Not ALL companies. One third don't, which you would realize if you actually READ the article, you moron.