Every year around this time the medio starts to blow up outbreaks that happen all the time. This e-coli bullshit is nothing out of the ordinary but its like they try to scare people during the summer of each year. Now they are saying e-coli is being traced back to dirty bathing water and say it can grow in any stagnant water (lakes, pools etc)

6/7/2011 11:55:05 PM

To be fair, the European one was a pretty nasty strain, worse than the typical e-coli outbreak. The Germans didn't help the situation either by blaming other nations for the contamination when it happened in one of their own greenhouses.

6/8/2011 12:55:16 AM

I thought this was going to be another global warming thread. The title definitely fits

6/8/2011 8:35:57 AM

$4 a gallon?

6/8/2011 8:37:05 AM

can we use this thread to talk about the growing republican movement to rise up against the non-existent threat of sharia law in our country?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20019405-503544.html
Fears of Sharia Law in America Grow Among Conservatives

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"he rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in America has brought with it a wave of largely-unsubstantiated suggestions from conservative media commentators and politicians that America is at risk of falling under the sway of Sharia law. First, a definition: Sharia law is strict Islamic law. It is designed to guide devout Muslims in their personal and professional dealings, and has been used by the Taliban and others to justify limits on women's rights and harsh punishments, including amputation and stoning. (It is open to interpretation, however; here's a helpful backgrounder from the Council on Foreign Relations.) Last week, Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle invoked Sharia law when asked about "Muslims wanting to take over the United States." "They are building mosques all over the place," the questioner told Angle. "They want to build one near [ground zero]. And they seem to be getting their way. On a TV program just last night I saw that they are taking over a city in Michigan." After stating that the "militant terrorist situation" in question "isn't a widespread thing," Angle said this: "First of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under Constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States." "It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States," she added. The statement drew a rebuke from Dearborn Mayor Jack O' Reilly, who said Angle "doesn't know what she's talking about." (As for Frankford, it reportedly doesn't exist, but is a former town annexed into Dallas 35 years ago.) The Dearborn claim may have been grounded in the arrest of four Christian evangelists for disorderly conduct at an Arab cultural festival in June, which some conservatives took as evidence that Sharia law had come to Michigan. The notion that Sharia law is coming to America has been percolating in the conservative media for a while. Fox News' Sean Hannity suggested the arrest of the Christian missionaries in Dearborn reflected the possibility that "Sharia law is taking over in Dearborn," as did Fox News' Brian Kilmeade, who interviewed one of the men who was arrested. ..."

6/8/2011 8:41:11 AM

If they're trying to solve an non-existent problem explain to me how it would affect you at all?

6/8/2011 8:44:43 AM

The media is run by Jews. Jews!

6/8/2011 9:04:16 AM

Seems like scare tactics happen every day, not just in summer. It's how 24-hour news networks fill their schedule and still get viewers.

This widespread misperception of Sharia Law in America is really disappointing. I feel ashamed to have the same number of chromosomes as these idiots.

6/8/2011 9:11:50 AM

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"If they're trying to solve an non-existent problem explain to me how it would affect you at all?"

well i'm happy to expand later, but to begin, surely you can see how this is bad for muslim-american's, right? or do you not see how this type of shit will just strengthen general anti-muslim sentiment.

6/8/2011 9:17:19 AM

They backtraced it!

6/8/2011 4:25:12 PM

Seems like, that if nobody's practicing sharia law in the US, and lawmakers pass a law making it difficult for sharia law to be implemented...well to me it looks like nobody's really inconvenienced.

6/8/2011 4:44:20 PM

well apparently you're the type of retarded that causes a lot of problems in this country

6/8/2011 5:25:48 PM

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"well apparently you're the type of retarded that causes a lot of problems in this country"

In before the edit?

6/8/2011 5:43:44 PM

nah i'm good

6/8/2011 5:56:36 PM

SHARK ALERT!

6/8/2011 6:17:08 PM

OH SHIIII...

6/8/2011 6:43:38 PM

http://www.unathleticmag.com/2011/06/07/scare-tactics-babysitter-prank-is-amazing/

6/8/2011 9:09:12 PM

thanks for saving me the trouble of having to make you look stupid.

6/9/2011 12:28:31 PM

You know we shine every summer
We grind every summer
and this is how we spend money

6/9/2011 12:53:54 PM