Klaatu barada nikto

Oh, sorry, wrong video.

That's the 1951 classic, 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'

We meant to post Vice President Joe Biden, speaking today on the 'Today Show', on how he would be handling the Swine Flu.

Biden: ‘Wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places’

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Well, the earth hasn't stood still, there isn't panic in the streets, but Biden is sure catching a lot of crap.

Vice president Joe Biden said today he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered as the swine flu outbreak spread to 16 states. His remarks quickly caused a stir, drawing a rebuke from New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and later leading the White House to apologize.

The uproar began when Biden appeared on NBC's "Today" show and said he would advise against riding the subway or taking commercial flights and implied schools should be shuttered amid confirmation of the first swine-flu relation death in the U.S.

"I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now," Biden said when Matt Lauer asked whether he would advise family members to use public transportation.

"I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to Mexico, it's you're in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway. "

The vice president also implied that schools should be closed as the threat of swine flu increases.

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About two hours after the interview, Biden's office issued a statement attempting to clarify the vice president's remarks.

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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs apologized for Biden's remarks, saying the vice president misspoke.

It's been said, that "Klaatu barada nikto", in Klaatu's native, intergalactic language, translates to;

"Biden Being Biden"

They're Here!

If this had happened in the USA, I suspect, we'd be in Day Three of a Right Wing Freak Show blizzard, on how conspicuous for this to occur, on the heels of Barack Obama being elected.

Can you say Alien Muslim?

No doubt, now that he has the White House, this blazing light was none other then the rest of the inhabitants of Obama's planet coming to colonize Earth .

Comment dit-on, la Commission canadienne du Area 51?

The buzz that has Canadian (and I suspect, scores around the world) sporting tented-type pants today, is the footage, caught by a police dash cam, of a blazing, bright, assumed meteor, streaking over the Western Canada skies

Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada 11/20/2008



Reports of meteor streaking across Prairies

A bright light lit up the sky around 5:30 MT Thursday evening in Western Canada, with people reporting sightings in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

People telephoned the CBC newsrooms in Edmonton and Calgary to talk about what they saw.

"It was a really big flash, lit up the sky, and there was this huge, flaming fireball falling from the sky," said Rowyn Windsor, 12, who lives on the Canadian Forces base in Cold Lake, Alta., about 350 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

We'll have to wait, and see, if any pieces or chunks of this alleged meteor is found.

And with this being a the Thanksgiving Holiday week, you can expect to see this story overplayed in the media, particularly, on local news outlets, completely with inane, "They're Here!" banter from the co-anchors, with silly clichés invoking movies from 'E.T.' to 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'.

Klaatu barada nikto!


Bonus "They're Here" Riffs

Meteor seemed really close, many western Canadians report

Meteor lights up Canada's skies

Witnesses: Large meteor streaks across Canada sky