WOW!!! You have to see this!!!

[ray of light]

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/2877

[bloom]

1. They could have included this as well

It's not a war - but the same idea...

"In January Condoleezza Rice sparked a small controversy by describing the tsunami as "a wonderful opportunity" that "has paid great dividends for us."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050502/klein

[nine23]

3. Add Tony Blair and the London tube bombings as well...

[ray of light]

5. They like to have opportunities to

get their "dividents".

Problem is: it's always someone else who has to pay their dividends.

[RevCheesehead]

2. I agree that there is opportunity there for good to happen...

However, I am uncomfortable with calling it "a fantastic opportunity." In the face of so much death and distruction, it just sounds crass to me.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Katrina, NOLA is a Fantastic Opportunity to get rid of BUSHCO as

grossly incompetents....

4 days late and a dollar short....

[Kailassa]

6. bird-flu "opportunity"

http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/if-the-chickens-come-home-to-roost-133/2005/09/11/1126377202189.html

It has been nearly a century since a pandemic - the Spanish flu - killed tens of millions of people. Now, health experts warn that another influenza pandemic, this time involving the H5N1 variant of bird flu, is in the offing.
"If the expected pandemic is as bad as the Spanish flu, more than 50 million deaths could be recorded worldwide, even if a successful vaccine is developed, experts warn. ...
"Certainly, there would be winners - such as funeral homes and other death-related businesses, some drug companies and private medical establishments - but they would be relatively few in number and relatively small in the economic scheme of things." ...
"For sure we would see an excess supply of housing," Cooper says, discussing the results of her research. Many companies would not be able to withstand the slump on their operations, resulting in widespread corporate collapse. ...
"For those who survive, for those who have cash ready, there would be enormous opportunity to buy stocks and real assets, particularly real estate, at very, very low prices. The same thing happened at the end of the Depression." ... "

As there has yet been no case of human to human transmission, why are authorities so certain it will happen? Unless ...

One thing we can be sure of, certain people will be poised to take immediate advantage of it, if it does happen.