Wait a minute... where do you live Pulits? in the US?

wait why are you worried about drugs being legal?

I live in Mexico City.

And the whole deal about the new approved laws goes more or less like this: since ever, Mexico has had a huge war against narcotraffic. Picture this: there are parts in the country when the government has no power, and the military is actually controlled by drug dealers, possible against flawed and corrupt police agents and military commanders and such.

Kind of weird, but Mexico being the 11th economy in the world, is really fucked in some parts.

Back to the drugs and influenza: Legalizing drugs would solve the problem against narcotraffic to some degree. Personally, I'm in favor of the legalization of drugs, that way at least you have a perfect control of who is using it and how much. Thing is, society, being so surreal and sometimes hypocrite, would never accept this. The military (the "good part" that is still there) have been strongly against the legalization of drugs, mainly because soldiers die every day fighting drug cartels and whatever.

Back to policemen being dressed as civilians. In other countries, that works perfectly. Here, tough, I doubt it. Police are many times related to crime, in the way that it's public police or sometimes private the ones doing the crimes, or the ones handing information to criminals. So, if you now give them the chance to we armed and dressed up as civilians, it's the perfect measure to produce more crime, not stop it.

I don't know how much the government is involved in this whole influenza thing, after all the people behind it are just people, sometimes corrupt. After halting the economy, a debt-free country (which took 20 years) is now again in debt with the IMF (again, something the society would have never approved). Why so many deaths in Mexico? After all, it's a flu and deaths have been reported just here. Maybe it's fault of the public health care, or any other reason. It's kind of fishy, I know the public health care here isn't the best one around, but it's not bad at all, it just sucks in some rural parts of the country.

Thing is, the government took this as a their perfect opportunity to approved laws people otherwise would have rioted against. 

Canada now has its first very serious case of swine flu. I only heard this on the news briefly but what I got was that it's a young girl and I believe she's in Edmonton but I might have misheard.

They said it might mutate

Well, things are back to normal here. :-)

it is starting to reach Argentina now

yeah and we've had a few more cases here. and someone else died in new york.

i thought...it was over...

so swine flu was found at my old school where my mum works now, it is closed for 2 weeks to clean it up.

same at a school 15 blocks from home.

this is because I live in an area WHERE PEOPLE TRAVEL TO PLACES, like disney world

definitely got tested for this yesterday. you stick a long ass qtip in your nose and spin it around.

it sucks!

Mr. Brain Drill can't handle a little q-tip?

what the fuck is that thing in your sig

that thing is frightening