We have always been joking about the US needing oil more than it needs a northern neighbor. But what if it really did happen? Well it seems both sides already had a plan for many years.
http://www.glasnost.de/hist/usa/1935invasion.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Color-coded_War_Plans...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/health/27pig.html?hp&ex=1143522000&en=8009b86a17202439&ei=5094&partner=homepage
"A group of university researchers said yesterday that they had created what sounds like a nutritional holy grail: cloned pigs that make their own omega-3 fatty acids, potentially...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-03-24T054928Z_01_L23188090_RTRUKOC_0_US-SYNDROME.xml
"LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors called on Friday for more research into a very rare, poorly understood syndrome that is the opposite of the most common sexual complaint...
http://news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=157598
"SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Tom Green County commissioners gave extra preparation time Saturday to a group proposing a faith-based prison in San Angelo."
http://fs4.deviantart.com/i/2004/217/a/2/Death_and_Taxes_____.jpg
WARNING: this is a massive image and may take a while with dial up
here is a smaller version
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/06/beer_effects/
Beer can make you smarter, fight cancer, help prevent heart disease, and help ugly people get laid. What on Earth could be better? :toast:
"An elementary school with 246 students and seven teachers was
covered by the mud. One policeman watched helplessly as the school
housing his wife and four children was submerged "in seconds," Lerias
said"...
"Violent media and video games are the largest single threat to modern civilization."
Aside from disease, war, famine, and political corruption (aka the bush administration)
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,69851,00.html