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Bill Gates Begins "Nefarious World Domination Plot, Phase One", BBC Buries Lede
by DF 2/5/2009 - 7:12 pm
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From the Eccentric_Billionaire++ department:
The 2009 TED talks are going on this week. Apparently, during his talk on fighting malaria, Bill Gates unleashed a jar full of mosquitoes genetically engineered to implant nano-bots in their victims. Gates laughed maniacally and revealed the details of his plot, phase one of which involves the nano-bots infecting their hosts with a fanatical devotion to Windows Vista.
J/K! As the BBC reports, Gates told his audience that there's no reason only poor people should have to get malaria. Thankfully, Gates' mosquitoes were pre-screened for malaria. TED curator Chris Anderson handed news agencies the lede on a silver platter:
TED curator Chris Anderson quipped that when a video of the talk is posted on its website it would be headlined "Gates releases more bugs into the world."
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What I learned as a liberal talking head on Fox News
The author claims to have discovered that right-wingers are decent, pleasant, intelligent people. Someone will have to convince me that the same applies to left-wingers....
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I guess it is time to saddle-up another goat for the GOP 2016 rodeo.
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