FC: Y2K nutter runs for the U.S. Senate, literally turns blue

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

A photo of Stan Jones taken back when he had normal skin color:
http://www.mtlp.org/jones/home.htm

Colloidal silver was popular among Y2K enthusiasts (and on groups like 
misc.survivalism) as a general cure-all. It's been touted as a cure for 
AIDS (http://www.colloidal-silver.com/article7.htm), cancer, warts, bad 
breath, herpes, and even head lice. And, of course, if you had more silver 
than you could eat, you could spend it -- when the federal fiat currency 
regime collapsed after all the bank runs. See:
http://www.colloidal-silver.com/uses.htm

-Declan

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From: George () Orwellian Org
Subject: Y2K Nutter Turns Blue!
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:15:24 -0400

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/offbeat.blue.candidate/index.html
#
#    Senate candidate blue -- literally
#
#    GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) --Montana's Libertarian candidate for
#    Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he
#    believed would protect him from disease.
#
#    Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college
#    instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for
#    fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.
#
#    He made his own concoction by electrically charging a couple
#    of silver wires in a glass of water.
#
#    His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago.
[...] 




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