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06 Dec 2006, 12:22 am

I won't say anything to this

http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/20 ... /154627/47


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06 Dec 2006, 12:29 am

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For more information about Autism you can visit Combat Autism or the folks at Autism Speaks

There's your proof of the side Autism Speaks is on right there.

Our situation is getting worse, isn't it?


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06 Dec 2006, 1:58 am

By 'combating autism' they don't mean aspergers.



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06 Dec 2006, 5:47 am

Seigneur wrote:
By 'combating autism' they don't mean aspergers.


It's more correct to say they don't just mean Asperger's.


I think this is a job for Mr Cyberman.

This Bill will perish under maximum deletion. Delete. Delete! DELETE!


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06 Dec 2006, 7:23 am

Seigneur wrote:
By 'combating autism' they don't mean aspergers.
if they get pre-natal testing figured out they'd mean everyone.


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06 Dec 2006, 7:25 am

I don't trust the source. Looks a little wacky.


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06 Dec 2006, 2:01 pm

I don't think it's real ere.



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06 Dec 2006, 4:25 pm

It's real

Here's where I found the story

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/12/0 ... ssed-soon/


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06 Dec 2006, 6:39 pm

Gamester wrote:
I don't think it's real ere.


It's real.

Those Newsweek articles I posted last week mentioned the bill, and talked about Barton holding it up with the usual political BS. Newsweek is pretty reputable, too, so it's not like some fringe group is putting that stuff on their website and spinning it.



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06 Dec 2006, 6:44 pm

KBABZ wrote:

Our situation is getting worse, isn't it?


Meh..... So we're going to be fighting America in the War On Autism.

If it goes as well as the War on Drugs, War on Terror, and War in Iraq, I'd say our situation is looking pretty good.



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06 Dec 2006, 7:14 pm

janicka wrote:
KBABZ wrote:

Our situation is getting worse, isn't it?


Meh..... So we're going to be fighting America in the War On Autism.

If it goes as well as the War on Drugs, War on Terror, and War in Iraq, I'd say our situation is looking pretty good.

You're right!

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06 Dec 2006, 11:42 pm

janicka wrote:
If it goes as well as the War on Drugs, War on Terror, and War in Iraq, I'd say our situation is looking pretty good.


Or, in the case of the War on Hunger, they will simply start calling us something new and claim they solved the original problem.


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07 Dec 2006, 12:49 am

Catalyst wrote:
janicka wrote:
If it goes as well as the War on Drugs, War on Terror, and War in Iraq, I'd say our situation is looking pretty good.


Or, in the case of the War on Hunger, they will simply start calling us something new and claim they solved the original problem.

I'd rather that happened than them actually curing it, in my opinion. I'd take a name change over a cure anyday.


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07 Dec 2006, 1:12 am

Raph522 wrote:
Seigneur wrote:
By 'combating autism' they don't mean aspergers.
if they get pre-natal testing figured out they'd mean everyone.


Fabulous, that way we can forget the possibility of any future Einstein's. But I'm sure they're not thinking of people like Albert Einstein and Bill Gate's or what not.


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07 Dec 2006, 2:54 am

Let's start a new "Cure Normalacy Now!" organization. I think there used to be one but it died. This would help us greatly. We have to fight back. We need media and a leader.


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09 Dec 2006, 9:50 am

Flagg wrote:
Let's start a new "Cure Normalacy Now!" organization. I think there used to be one but it died. This would help us greatly. We have to fight back. We need media and a leader.



An organsiton dedicated to curing normalacy .... An organsiton dedicated to curing normalacy .......An organsiton dedicated to curing normalacy ..........An organsiton dedicated to curing normalacy


Yeh, we also need a name.

CANT, neurotypicality speaks, Bill Gates = doom or hope?, FANT, DANT?


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