H1N1 "Emergency"

Unfortunately, we think Shaved called this one 100% accurately:

• President Obama declares the SWINE FLU a national emergency - To get the public's attention off all his failures.... EVERYBODY, LOOK OVER HERE INSTEAD! SWINE FLU IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY! Even though more people will die fire ant bites than the swine flu.

It's almost like he took lessons from Shortshanks in the art of distraction. Oh wait, he did.

• The clinics are set up at six City College locations, and health officials are cautioning that the supply is more limited than they had hoped and that it would be reserved only for high-risk population groups.

  Each site has about 1,500 doses and officials will start turning away people once they reach that number.

  At the West Side Technical Institute, 2800 S. Western Ave., the line numbered more than 600 at 9:30 a.m. People inside the gymnasium were filling out paperwork as a woman in an orange vest called out numbers in English and Spanish.

So about 9,000 doses for a city of 2 million? And they aren't even screening for the weak, infirm, juvenile or high risk. They're just giving them out on a "first-come, first-serve" basis. Someone said Daley got his? Thank goodness he's safe!