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Katrina hits New Orleans. That's terrible. The United Kingdom wants to help the United States. They send 350,000 packaged meals to the evacuees to help them out.¹ That's nice. The United States puts those meals in quarantine. That's bad, but why? It turns out that British beef is often known to contain a disease known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (but you know it better as mad cow), and the United States doesn't want people to get sick from eating the beef. Okay, that's understandable. Since the goal is not to get people infected with some disease, it makes since to give these meals to people that aren't people. The United States is trying to hand these meals off to citizens in third-world countries where the people inhabiting them are worthless and insignificant enough to get bad beef because Americans are worthful and significant. So far, no nation has taken the United States up on that offer. I wonder why.

By the way, I finally finished The Clash Of Civilizaitons. I'll be chalking the book report this weekend.

1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4344168.stm