Just in time for the third debate

my main comment on the last one ... from the leader of the only superpower, in reference to imported drugs from Canada:

...it looks like it's from Canada, and it might be from a third world.

I'm going to try to tone down my disgust here and take this step by step. A third world? Are you referring to some third planet out there? What about the second other world ... is that where Cheney's bunker is hidden? Additionally, "Third World" isn't not very pc international politico-speak, Mr. Pre-emptive Striker. We don't refer to countries with lesser economic status than our own numerically anymore, we use "developed" and "developing".

Then there's the issue of what, exactly, is so wrong with Canadian drugs aside from the lower price. Canadians take these drugs every day without unusual side effects, they don't come to us via Sierra Leone or even Mexico, and there are thousands of Americans riding buses to Canada to have their prescriptions filled every weekend already. All we need is for one of these buses to get into an accident, and we can blame the Republicans for not just bringing the drugs to seniors' porches. "Forced to board dangerous public buses in the wee small hours and travel hundreds of miles to get their Celebrex ..." I can hear the local newsies now. We're getting used to Americans helping themselves to whatever Canada had that they've killed off (wildlife), run out of (water) or can't afford due to the power of drug companies.

Tonight should be a blast.