the secretary of the treasury is timothy geithner.

obama wants to close the loopholes in the tax plan. perhaps he should start with simply getting his cabinet members to pay their taxes. heh.

-- fun facts about flu --
from the cdc's website - «Each flu season is unique, but it is estimated that, on average, approximately 5% to 20% of U.S. residents get the flu, and more than 200,000 persons are hospitalized for flu-related complications each year. About 36,000 Americans die on average per year from the complications of flu.» compare those numbers to the swine flu ¡PaNdEmIc! - 279 cases. eh? what? that's right: 279 total cases of the swine flu in the good ol' u-s-of-a. there are 306,354,917 residents in the united states. 15,317,745 is 5%. at least 15,317,745 people get the flu every year. 15 MILLION people. compare that to 279 and you will find that 15,317,745 is greater than 279. thusly, i hereby declare the media has blown this swine flu thing out of proportion. check back next week to see if the numbers have changed.
-- ulf tuoba stcaf nuf --

forget the swine flu - here's something real to worry about -- from time magazine's website - «The prospect of turmoil in Pakistan sends shivers up the spines of those U.S. officials charged with keeping tabs on foreign nuclear weapons. Pakistan is thought to possess about 100 — the U.S. isn't sure of the total, and may not know where all of them are. Still, if Pakistan collapses, the U.S. military is primed to enter the country and secure as many of those weapons as it can, according to U.S. officials.» um... don't know how many? maybe 100? primed to secure as many as it can? how about primed to secure all?? or, how about pakistan shouldn't be having these things at all. a volatile environment like that, with the taliban knocking on the door, itching to get at those nukes to blow up india and whoever else they can?

i'm telling you the flu thing being blown out of proportion by the media to distract us from the real blowing up going on in pakistan.