Christmas Card to Michael Moore

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I am so broke right now, but I'm still tempted to send Michael Moore this Christmas card.

Although it's not like I have any witty messages. Can anyone think of something perfectly scathing under 100 characters?

Hat tip to Tim Blair

poisoned!

[maidenjedi]

BLOODY HELL.

Yushchenko's illness caused by dioxin poisoning.

VIENNA (Reuters) - The man who hopes to become Ukraine’s next president was the victim of poisoning by dioxin — a toxic chemical that can easily be administered in soup containing cream, Austrian doctors said on Saturday.

Viktor Yushchenko, who faces Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich later this month in a re-run of November’s rigged presidential election, long alleged he was poisoned as part of a plot to kill him.

His illness kept him out of the early stages of the election campaign in the former Soviet republic and left his face bloated and pock-marked. “There is no doubt,” Dr Michael Zimpfer, president of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic where Yushchenko is being treated, told a news conference.“ There were high concentrations of dioxin, most likely orally administered.”

He said the dioxin poisoning had been confirmed on Saturday by a laboratory in Amsterdam, which had analyzed a blood sample.

At first Zimpfer declined to comment on whether the dioxin could have been due to accidental poisoning or contamination and said it was a question for the Ukrainian authorities.

But later he said the hospital believed it had been a deliberate act of poisoning.