Flesh-eating Incidents Increasing - Act Now

[sonoran]

There is a new petition on the White House website We the People - Your Voice in Our Government, calling upon the President to "release a plan for dealing with the inevitable zombie apocalypse."

That this planning is necessary is made clear by such troubling questions as:

If President Obama turns into a zombie, will Joe Biden become president, or will Zombie Obama still be president?

If the petition gets 25,000 signatures by July 4th, the Administration will have to respond. I may be jaded, but I see a job creation angle here.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition...paign=shorturl

[waugh]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta) has already published advice about citizen preparedness for the zombie apocalypse.

[sea]

Guess to have some movide fans at the white house, they watched too many Resident Evil's...
1st of April has passed by 2 months, and the page looks almost serious, but reading such a petition sounds like beeing in a bad movie.

[RHamel]

There is one thing to consider here. Brad Pitt's new movie is coming out about Zombie's, and Hollywood has been known to do everything it can to promote these things. Sorry, I'm just naturally a cynic about this stuff.

[sonoran]

Originally Posted by RHamel

There is one thing to consider here. Brad Pitt's new movie is coming out about Zombie's, and Hollywood has been known to do everything it can to promote these things. Sorry, I'm just naturally a cynic about this stuff.

The petition was started by a New York magazine blogger: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06...ite-house.html

Although I will never be the one to rule out the possibility of a wider conspiracy...

[Dan]

Methinks Bob Hope had this one covered long ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4iDN...eature=related

Or ... in order to be an equal opportunity offender ... the video version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIpI...eature=related

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[billybob linux]

According to this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8631815.stm

From the 2010 Election:

If you're concerned about the rights of zombies, there is the Cure (Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality) Party, which has among other "undeadly serious" campaign messages: "Zombies, like students, are people too. Let's fight for their rights to politically party."

And this:

Its manifesto, published on the party's website, includes:

• Give the undead equal rights to the living

• Make cemeteries more comfortable for their inhabitants

• Implement a robust social integration programme for the undead, curing society of its prejudices

• Increase the minimum statutory retirement age to beyond death

• Permit marriages of the living and the undead

It is standing in four constituencies - Hitchin & Harpenden, Twickenham, Doncaster Central and Brighton Pavilion - which it says is "literally a start. And it means we can comfortably share a table at the Houses of Commons".

Interestingly, from the same article,one of the pledges from Captain Beany of the New Millenium Bean Party
is:

• Public officials who are convicted of abuse of office to have their pictures printed on toilet roll packaging.

[AndrewSerk]

Originally Posted by Dan

Methinks Bob Hope had this one covered long ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4iDN...eature=related

Or ... in order to be an equal opportunity offender ... the video version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIpI...eature=related

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Ha, Those advertisements make me want a Chesterfield fag! and I quite smoking years ago.