dagblog - Comments for "Your (Canadian) Tax Dollars at Work or When Zombies Attack" http://dagblog.com/potpourri/your-canadian-tax-dollars-work-or-when-zombies-attack-859 Comments for "Your (Canadian) Tax Dollars at Work or When Zombies Attack" en Barney Frank doesn't need http://dagblog.com/comment/7910#comment-7910 <a id="comment-7910"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/7908#comment-7908">Wired covered this as well</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Barney Frank doesn't need nunchucks or guns to kill zombies. Just a good, old fashioned "WTF is your problem." The woman looks utterly humiliated, as she should.</p> <p>Watch: <a href="http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=3230837&amp;ref=fpblg">http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=3230837&amp;ref=fpblg</a></p></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:14:00 +0000 Orlando comment 7910 at http://dagblog.com On the bright side, at least http://dagblog.com/comment/7909#comment-7909 <a id="comment-7909"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/potpourri/your-canadian-tax-dollars-work-or-when-zombies-attack-859">Your (Canadian) Tax Dollars at Work or When Zombies Attack</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>On the bright side, at least they weren't using <i>real</i> dollars.</p></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:51:06 +0000 Nebton comment 7909 at http://dagblog.com Wired covered this as well http://dagblog.com/comment/7908#comment-7908 <a id="comment-7908"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/potpourri/your-canadian-tax-dollars-work-or-when-zombies-attack-859">Your (Canadian) Tax Dollars at Work or When Zombies Attack</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/zombies/">Wired covered this as well</a> and, especially after having attending a "town hall meeting" last night, I've been itching to use this quote:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Clearly, this is an unlikely scenario if taken literally,” they wrote. “But possible real-life applications may include <b>allegiance to political parties</b>, or diseases with a dormant infection.”</p> </blockquote> <p>I now have a working theory.</p></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:44:00 +0000 DF comment 7908 at http://dagblog.com Why stop at studying the http://dagblog.com/comment/7904#comment-7904 <a id="comment-7904"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/potpourri/your-canadian-tax-dollars-work-or-when-zombies-attack-859">Your (Canadian) Tax Dollars at Work or When Zombies Attack</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Why stop at studying the effect of imaginary zombies?  What about zombies that happen to be imaginary themselves, i.e. superheros?  Stan Lee was way ahead of the curve on this one:<img height="467" width="413" src="http://quincylawrence.com/comics/marvel_zombies_army_of_darkness_01.jpg" /></p></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:13:05 +0000 Larry Jankens comment 7904 at http://dagblog.com Nunchuks are also effective. http://dagblog.com/comment/7903#comment-7903 <a id="comment-7903"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/7901#comment-7901">If you&#039;d actually read the</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Nunchuks are also effective. They work on regular Canadians as well. Unfortunately, New York state's nunchuk ban has resulted in an influx of French-speaking Canadian zombies, who have been taking jobs away from hardworking Mexicans.</p></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:13:00 +0000 Michael Wolraich comment 7903 at http://dagblog.com If you'd actually read the http://dagblog.com/comment/7901#comment-7901 <a id="comment-7901"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/7892#comment-7892">Up here, not only do you get</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>If you'd actually read the report, you'd realize that guns are not the answer. Machetes are. You need to decapitate the zombies to be truly sure they're dead.</p> <p>P.S. If you outlaw machetes, only outlaws will have machetes.</p></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:09:19 +0000 Nebton comment 7901 at http://dagblog.com Up here, not only do you get http://dagblog.com/comment/7892#comment-7892 <a id="comment-7892"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/potpourri/your-canadian-tax-dollars-work-or-when-zombies-attack-859">Your (Canadian) Tax Dollars at Work or When Zombies Attack</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Up here, not only do you get free treatment if bitten by a zombie, so does the zombie. And if your doctor writes a note attesting you're infected with zombieism, you get two weeks' paid leave from work. A really understanding doctor will write you a prescription for medicinal marijuana.</p> <p>Sweet. Now if only they let us openly carry guns. I guess you can't have everything.</p></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:08:17 +0000 acanuck comment 7892 at http://dagblog.com