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Ebola: the driving force behind the Axis of Evil

Thursday February 13, 2003 @ 12:23 PM (PST)

There’s a lot of talk these days about terrorists and evil dictators and biological warfare and nuclear weapons. The news media and the White House would have you believe that Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and North Korea (and possibly France) are, together, the world’s greatest evil. But they’re wrong. Osama, Saddam and North Korea are all working for an even greater evil. No, not Satan you fool.

Ebola.

Here now is a list of reasons why, in my opinion, Ebola should be added to George W. Bush’s Axis of Evil:

  1. President Bush has repeatedly said we must protect ourselves against “cold blooded killers”. Well, my friends, Ebola is a warm blooded killer, and we all know heat is more evil than cold.
  2. To date, Ebola has attacked over 1,600 people worldwide, killing 43% of those infected. That’s one World Trade Center tower right there.
  3. Ebola has a long history of attempting to smuggle itself into the US, and has succeeded several times, only to be thwarted by a nifty trick of our loyal friend, evolution, which rendered the invading virus harmless to humans.
  4. Ebola routinely slaughters entire villages in Africa, leaving bloody corpses lying in virus-ridden pools of their own vomit and feces and striking terror into the hearts of innocent peace-loving people everywhere. The virus doesn’t spare women or children, and in fact tends to kill them even more quickly, obviously a sign of its evil nature.
  5. Ebola has teamed up with mankind’s longtime arch-enemy, the monkey, using them as virus transport mechanisms. It’s obvious even to the casual observer that monkeys are bitter at having been left down a rung on the evolutionary ladder, and envision a world free of human scum, with a monkey in every tree.
  6. While we’re at it, monkeys should also be added to the Axis of Evil.

It’s clear that Ebola represents the greatest terrorist threat the free world has ever faced. As Americans, it is our responsibility to protect the world from this vile enemy by whatever means necessary. In short: we must nuke Africa. Only then will the peace-loving citizens of the world (minus Africa, that is) be truly free to live their lives without the omnipresent threat of terrorism looming over their heads.

Comments

A strikingly obvious, albeit unconventional, and definitely disgracefully overlooked solution to at least 80% of the world's famine problems. Nuking, and thus irreversibly evaporating Africa's gold mines would surely highlight the value of our Fort Knox stash-away in the International financial arena and bring an end to this silly economic crisis we're forced to put up with, these days. We would probably hit a good amount of stinky terrorists in the process, too. And there's not even any oil there, so I say start the carpet nuking!

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GreyStork
Friday February 14, 2003 @ 12:53 AM (PST)

Malaria could be another addition to your list of mass murders and thoroughly unpleasant beings who will not receive an invitation to be dinner guests at your next party. It kills 2-3 million people (worldwide) every year - no matter what the economic forcasters are predicting. Further evidence that Africa "has to go" ... 80-90% of deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Jen
Friday February 14, 2003 @ 06:44 PM (PST)

In recent news, 80 people are dead from Ebola in Congo.

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GreyStork
Saturday March 01, 2003 @ 04:37 PM (PST)

The National Cancer Institute has released a news bulletin describing trials in which the mortality of Ebola-infected mice were reduced by administering injections of cyanovirin-N - a protein, produced by cyano algae - a very common organism in our oceans.

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GreyStork
Wednesday March 05, 2003 @ 11:58 PM (PST)

Trying to wipe out the ebola virus is just like trying to eradicate ignorance. It’s an impossibility. It isn’t going to happen.

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 @ 07:54 PM (PST)

Oh yeah, props out to the Silent Whisper.

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 @ 07:55 PM (PST)

May fate bring us together my Whisper…farewell.

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 @ 07:56 PM (PST)
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