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Deadly new viruses? Hugh Hewitt warns of home-grown plagues in America [FR mentioned]
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| Tuesday, July 9, 2003
| Hugh Hewitt
Posted on 07/08/2003 11:53:24 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
The movie "28 Days Later" is in theaters presently, and it's pretty creepy. A rabies-like virus gets loose in London and the results aren't pretty. The film is definitely not for the squeamish, and fully deserves its "R" rating.
As I watched, however, I alternated between the standard critique of sci-fi /horror movies' decision-making ("Don't drive into the tunnel, you dummy!") and some flights into fancy about the various viruses that could get loose here in the United States.
After all, England's an island and can be quarantined, but if some of our home-grown viruses jump borders, we'd all be toast. Just think about the consequences of a rapid spread of:
- The California Virus: The infected spend, and spend, and spend and never stop spending until bankruptcy overtakes them and all credit cards are cancelled.
- The Gray Davis Virus: The infected stare blankly into middle space for five years and then curl up under the nearest desk.
- The Carville Virus: We have all seen the effects of the Carville virus, and it isn't pretty.
- The Dowd Virus: Usually misdiagnosed as simple neurosis in its early stages, the infected displays dramatic increases in bitter and asocial behavior, accompanied by screeching.
- The Hillary Virus: The infected assert as fact statements which ordinary individuals know to be false, and are rendered oblivious to the obvious about those closest to them.
- The Lileks Virus: Best viewed at a distance at www.lileks.com, the infected collect garage cans full of memorabilia from the '30s and '40s. Second stage is marked by the collection of cats.
- The Free Republic Virus: Also best viewed in person at www.freerepublic.com, the infected spend scores of hours a week in front of computer screens, often laughing with abandon when not typing maniacally.
- The Dean Virus: The infected display periods of pugnacious arrogance punctuated by unctuousness and appeals for financial support.
- The Kucinich Virus: Too awful to describe outside of professional circles.
- The Jennings Virus: The infected develop a perpetual sneer that grows more pronounced whenever President George Bush is discussed.
- The Kerry Virus: The infected are utterly humorless, are aware that they are utterly humorless, and believe utter humorlessness to be a virtue.
- The Gephardt Virus: The infected display symptoms of fatigue and apathy as they go through the motions of their jobs.
- The Raines Virus: The infected suddenly collapse. Easily confused with the Donahue virus, where the infected collapse slowly, over a period of months.
- The Edwards Virus: The infected display progressive invisibility that is apparent to all but themselves.
- The Los Angeles Times Virus: The infected lose all ability to communicate except out of the left side of their mouths.
The list goes on, of course, with even more horrific viruses that seem likely to fade from our sight soon, like the Rather Virus and the Byrd Virus. The worst virus of all, however the Bill Virus remains abroad and uncontained.
The good news is that there are competing viruses, which do the carrier good. The most important is the W Virus: Those lucky enough to catch it just get stronger and stronger.
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posted on
07/08/2003 11:53:57 PM PDT
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To: xm177e2; mercy; Wait4Truth; hole_n_one; GretchenEE; Clinton's a rapist; buffyt; ladyinred; Angel; ..
Hugh Hewitt MEGA PING!!
To: JohnHuang2
I've seen a version of this in e-mails, as I vaguely remember ( I don't have it anymore) the e-mail was much funnier, this is a very watered down PC version.
To: JohnHuang2
The Free Republic Virus: Also best viewed in person at www.freerepublic.com, the infected spend scores of hours a week in front of computer screens, often laughing with abandon when not typing maniacally.Well, that's all true ..... but I sure wish he hadn't lumped us in with all those evil characters ..... ;-)
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posted on
07/08/2003 11:58:40 PM PDT
by
kayak
(Do not bet against the success of freedom. - GWB 5/9/03)
To: kayak
LOL ;-)
To: JohnHuang2
See! There you go with the "laughing with abandon" part.
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posted on
07/09/2003 12:01:19 AM PDT
by
kayak
(Do not bet against the success of freedom. - GWB 5/9/03)
To: kayak
How true! hehe ;-)
To: JohnHuang2
The Free Republic Virus: Also best viewed in person at www.freerepublic.com, the infected spend scores of hours a week in front of computer screens, often laughing with abandon when not typing maniacally. Looks like I've got that bug. Never felt better.
...though I think I've got a different strain of the virus. I laugh maniacally and type with abandon. Scares the bejeezus out of the people next door.
-Jay
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posted on
07/09/2003 2:36:28 AM PDT
by
Jay D. Dyson
(Liberty * Liberalism = Constant)
To: JohnHuang2
Omega Man redeux?
There's nothing new under the sun.
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posted on
07/09/2003 2:36:42 AM PDT
by
The Duke
To: JohnHuang2
often laughing with abandon when not typing maniacally.
I do not type maniacally. I type slowly....methodically with many stops for my best friend the spell cheker.
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posted on
07/09/2003 5:00:26 AM PDT
by
Valin
(America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.)
To: JohnHuang2
"Don't drive into the tunnel, you dummy!" Ever since first reading Stephen King's The Stand many years ago, I've not been able to drive through a tunnel without remembering Larry Underwood's underground trek from Manhattan to New Jersey. Shudder.
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posted on
07/09/2003 6:23:22 AM PDT
by
MrConfettiMan
(Brain tumor survivor since August 19, 2001. Striving, thriving and surviving each and every day.)
To: JohnHuang2
The Free Republic Virus: Also best viewed in person at www.freerepublic.com, the infected spend scores of hours a week in front of computer screens, often laughing with abandon when not typing maniacally.
To: doug from upland; ALOHA RONNIE; DLfromthedesert; PatiPie; flamefront; onyx; SMEDLEYBUTLER; Irma; ...
"...The Free Republic Virus: Also best viewed in person at www.freerepublic.com, the infected spend scores of hours a week in front of computer screens, often laughing with abandon when not typing maniacally..." - Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt PING! .
If you listen to Hugh Hewitt, or read his WND commentaries,
this PING list is for YOU!
Please post your comments, and BUMP!
(If you want OFF - or ON - my "Hugh Hewitt PING list" - please let me know)
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posted on
07/09/2003 9:19:12 AM PDT
by
RonDog
To: RonDog
Hugh knows we're a good part of his audience!
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posted on
07/09/2003 10:18:12 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Name an honest democrat? I can't either!)
To: JohnHuang2
LOL!!
To: JohnHuang2
The Free Republic Virus: Also best viewed in person at www.freerepublic.com, the infected spend scores of hours a week in front of computer screens, often laughing with abandon when not typing maniacally. But that's only the onset stage. Sometime after that (the period is indeterminate) the infected feels an urge to go demonstrate, usually in the company of other sufferers, in a condition known as "FReeping." This condition is thought to be terminal; as yet none have recovered from it.
To: JohnHuang2
It's free publicity as they as they spell the name correctly... plenty of folks out there looking for a nice right-wing hobby ;-)
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posted on
07/09/2003 12:50:49 PM PDT
by
Tamzee
(Peace is the prerogative of the victorious, not the vanquished.... Churchill)
To: RonDog
please add me to your ping list kind sir. im back to typing maniacally and i always laugh with abandon.........
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:00:17 PM PDT
by
suzyq5558
(God bless America ,land that i love.)
To: Clint Williams
But that's only the onset stage. Sometime after that (the period is indeterminate) the infected feels an urge to go demonstrate, usually in the company of other sufferers, in a condition known as "FReeping." This condition is thought to be terminal; as yet none have recovered from it.
LOL!
See also, from The Weekly Standard:
June 23, 2003
Volume 08, Number 40
Hillary Goes to Wal-Mart
The latest skirmish in the Clinton wars.
by Matt Labash - senior writer at The Weekly Standard.
"...The Wal-Mart parking lot is shaping up to resemble an old-school gang fight. Except instead of knives and chains, the combatants use placards and really weak song parodies... ...The Hillaryites' tormentors are the Freepers, a fierce, warlike tribe from the Free Republic organization--a fire-breathing conservative band of Internet brothers who often call each other by their screen names, even in person..." - Matt Labash
CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:34:32 PM PDT
by
RonDog
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