Saturday Afternoon Open
Skipping down the road, whistling a happy tune, footloose and fancy free, not a care in the world, here’s your traditional Saturday afternoon open thread…
Skipping down the road, whistling a happy tune, footloose and fancy free, not a care in the world, here’s your traditional Saturday afternoon open thread…
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:14:27pm |
So swine flu must've been jealous of all the attention brid flu was getting
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:14:40pm |
Five bucks on #390.
/force of habit
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capitalist piglet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:15:29pm |
As a piglet, I personally apologize for all this swine flu business making the rounds. I'm sure Capitalist Pig will be along shortly to join me.
Oink.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:15:40pm |
re: #1 Fenway_Nation
So swine flu must've been jealous of all the attention brid flu was getting
"brid flu" ?
Wasn't that the Julia Roberts movie?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:16:30pm |
re: #5 capitalist piglet
As a piglet, I personally apologize for all this swine flu business making the rounds. I'm sure Capitalist Pig will be along shortly to join me.
Oink.
I'm bacon you up on that.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:16:57pm |
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:17:06pm |
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:17:07pm |
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Nevergiveup Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:17:19pm |
re: #1 Fenway_Nation
So swine flu must've been jealous of all the attention brid flu was getting
Maybe Beckett has the flu today?
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capitalist piglet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:17:28pm |
re: #8 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I'm bacon you up on that.
I can be ham-fisted, but I'm generally harmless.
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louminatti Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:18:24pm |
Hang in there, Charles. You are on the right side of these issues, they are wrong.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:18:37pm |
re: #6 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Julia Roberts? Wasn't she in that movie where she protrayed a hooker with a heart of gold?
Must've been a real stretch for her....
The 'Heart of Gold' part, at least.
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:19:43pm |
re: #8 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I'm bacon you up on that.
You trying out for the lead in Hamlet again?...:)
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:19:54pm |
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:20:23pm |
Rumors are that pig flu was a terrorist attack initiated when Obama was in Mexico last week.
/Seriously
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Dr. Shalit Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:20:24pm |
Charles -
By your mood stated above, I would think that your move is complete. Please advise.
-S-
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:20:37pm |
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Killian Bundy Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:20:39pm |
Boeing's Airborne Laser begins weapon flight tests
Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Friday it has begun flight tests of its Airborne Laser, designed to zap missiles soon after they are launched, with the full weapons system on the aircraft.
The aerospace and defense manufacturer said a functional check flight was completed on April 21 at Edwards Air Force Base in California with the beam and fire control systems and the high-energy laser onboard.
Gee, just in time to be part of the proposed defense budget cuts.
/they had fun, fun, fun until TOTUS took the funding away
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UncleRancher Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:21:02pm |
re: #15 Fenway_Nation
actor/actress -- Most of the job is pretending to be someone you are not.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:21:11pm |
re: #18 Killgore Trout
Rumors are that pig flu was a terrorist attack initiated when Obama was in Mexico last week.
/Seriously
Not surprising that that got started.
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Truck Monkey Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:21:32pm |
re: #5 capitalist piglet
As a piglet, I personally apologize for all this swine flu business making the rounds. I'm sure Capitalist Pig will be along shortly to join me.
Oink.
I'd like to apologize for the AIDS.
carry on.
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Nevergiveup Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:22:30pm |
re: #21 Killian Bundy
Boeing's Airborne Laser begins weapon flight tests
Gee, just in time to be part of the proposed defense budget cuts.
/they had fun, fun, fun until TOTUS took the funding away
Daddy took the funding ( t- Bird) away
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:22:37pm |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:22:52pm |
re: #13 capitalist piglet
I can be ham-fisted, but I'm generally harmless.
But since a "pig" pun-thread is starting, you're gonna wind up in hock.
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:22:53pm |
re: #18 Killgore Trout
Rumors are that pig flu was a terrorist attack initiated when Obama was in Mexico last week.
/Seriously
Huh? For real?
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FrogMarch Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:23:07pm |
"Former CIA director Porter Goss cannot believe the way members of Congress are pretending they don't remember briefings on enhanced interrogation. It's blatant political posturing — and it has hurt our national security:"
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]
"Nancy Pelosi being sworn in to lie about what she knew and when she forgot it..."
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:23:48pm |
re: #17 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Now let's proceed to rind up all the other variants.
A ham sandwich goes into a pub and says, "Barman I need a drink"; and the barman says "Sorry, we don't serve food here"
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:23:49pm |
re: #17 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Now let's proceed to rind up all the other variants.
Your cracklin me up.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:24:18pm |
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:24:26pm |
re: #27 pre-Boomer Marine brat
But since a "pig" pun-thread is starting, you're gonna wind up in hock.
When will you ever loin!
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:24:33pm |
re: #21 Killian Bundy
I was just listening to Bob Brinker. He was talking about a false story about all the banks failing the stress tests that caused the market crash on Monday. Do you know anything about that one?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:24:49pm |
re: #30 Dustyvet
A ham sandwich goes into a pub and says, "Barman I need a drink"; and the barman says "Sorry, we don't serve food here"
*rolls eyes, bangs head*
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:24:51pm |
re: #27 pre-Boomer Marine brat
But since a "pig" pun-thread is starting, you're gonna wind up in hock.
As ham sandwiches go, it was perfection. A thick slab of ham, a fresh bun, crisp lettuce and plenty of expensive, light brown, gourmet mustard. The corners of my jaw aching in anticipation, I carried it to the picnic table in our backyard, picked it up with both hands but was stopped by my wife suddenly at my side.
"Hold Johnny (our six-week-old son) while I get my sandwich," she said.
I had him balanced between my left elbow and shoulder and was reaching again for the ham sandwich when I noticed a streak of mustard on my fingers. I love mustard. I had no napkin. I licked it off. It was not mustard!
No man ever put a baby down faster. It was the first and only time I have sprinted with my tongue protruding. With a washcloth in each hand I did the sort of routine shoeshine boys do, only I did it on my tongue.
Later (after she stopped crying from laughing so hard) my wife said, "Now you know why they call that mustard 'Poupon.'"
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Truck Monkey Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:24:53pm |
re: #30 Dustyvet
A ham sandwich goes into a pub and says, "Barman I need a drink"; and the barman says "Sorry, we don't serve food here"
My question would then be. Did the sandwich ever get a drink?
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:25:07pm |
re: #28 MandyManners
Yeah, the nuts are really going overboard on this one.
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Dr. Shalit Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:25:21pm |
re: #29 FrogMarch
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]
"Nancy Pelosi being sworn in to lie about what she knew and when she forgot it..."
FrogMarch -
You mean when her "recollection" turns into Mellow Yellow Jello?
-S-
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:25:25pm |
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brookly red Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:25:39pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:25:43pm |
re: #28 MandyManners
Huh? For real?
Talk about your six degrees of separation, huh?
"So what's the plan?"
"Here's what we do. POTUS is going south of the border, see? So what we do is we spread this weird influenza variant and let it follow him back to the states."
"Will he catch it?"
"No, we're gonna infect some Mexicans and Americans travelling there. Now, it's true that it's no more infectious or dangerous than any other variant of influenza, but it'll be different this time, because WE set it loose, see?"
"No, I don't see."
"Neither do I, but it's a plan, and we're sticking with it."
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UncleRancher Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:25:53pm |
Hey, boneless pork ribs $1.30/lb at the store today. Guess what we're havin' for dinner. Boil 1 hour, broil to light brown, serve with your favorite sauce.
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Truck Monkey Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:26:05pm |
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BaseballMom57 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:26:30pm |
Good afternoon, Lizards!
I just received my Royal Cuisine of Upper Lizardia cookbook! The cover is even better "in person"! Jaunte is a true artist!
I immediately went to the ROFLMAO section, and I have been laughing so much, I needed my inhaler!
I am going to the grocery store this afternoon, and will purchase the necessary items to make a few of the recipes this week!
I am looking forward to the next edition!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:26:42pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:26:45pm |
re: #21 Killian Bundy
Boeing's Airborne Laser begins weapon flight tests
Gee, just in time to be part of the proposed defense budget cuts.
/they had fun, fun, fun until TOTUS took the funding away
If the US doesn't want it, I suggest selling it to Israel.
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:27:42pm |
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UberInfidel67 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:27:45pm |
So...I was at the in-laws yesterday. Woman comes up and says she is from the Census. My other half started talking to her about the street address. I, being a smartass, had to chime in: "So, do you work for the Census Bureau or ACORN?" She looks at me and stammers, "I am just mapping the streets, it is for the Census." i said "I understand, I am just curious as to who will be using any information given to you and how it will be used. Seeing as how the Obama administration wants to take over the census, I am just a little nervous." Needless to say, everyone on the porch with me turned their heads and tried not to LOL.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:28:06pm |
re: #43 UncleRancher
I usually buy a whole boneless pork loin. They'll cut it into chops for you for free. It's a great bargain. you'll get about 17-20 nice thick chops for about $15.
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:28:36pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:28:54pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:29:03pm |
re: #53 MandyManners
Which kind of nuts?
Beer nuts? Those toasted/parched corn things? I love those!
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:29:12pm |
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:29:37pm |
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UncleRancher Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:29:51pm |
Lardy, lardy lardy. I don't know if I can stand this.
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:29:55pm |
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:30:32pm |
re: #42 Guanxi88
Talk about your six degrees of separation, huh?
"So what's the plan?"
"Here's what we do. POTUS is going south of the border, see? So what we do is we spread this weird influenza variant and let it follow him back to the states."
"Will he catch it?"
"No, we're gonna infect some Mexicans and Americans travelling there. Now, it's true that it's no more infectious or dangerous than any other variant of influenza, but it'll be different this time, because WE set it loose, see?"
"No, I don't see."
"Neither do I, but it's a plan, and we're sticking with it."
Sounds like something Lucy and Ethel would invent.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:30:36pm |
Wow.
Being sold at the website of the main organizer of the Pro Koln meeting, Manfred Rouhs:
[Link: 1.nation24.de...]
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Nevergiveup Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:30:37pm |
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Nevergiveup Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:31:22pm |
re: #61 Charles
Wow.
Being sold at the website of the main organizer of the Pro Koln meeting, Manfred Rouhs:
[Link: 1.nation24.de...]
Nazi yutes? Nice. real nice?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:31:32pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:32:15pm |
re: #60 MandyManners
Sounds like something Lucy and Ethel would invent.
Or that elaborate joke where the little kid seeks to catch and propagate a venereal disease in order to take revenge on the mailman, who stepped on his frog, or something like that.
That, or maybe one of those needlessly elaborate "slide a drop of poison down a thread while he sleeps" plots from a James Bond movie
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:32:16pm |
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reine.de.tout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:32:36pm |
re: #45 BaseballMom57
Good afternoon, Lizards!
I just received my Royal Cuisine of Upper Lizardia cookbook! The cover is even better "in person"! Jaunte is a true artist!
I immediately went to the ROFLMAO section, and I have been laughing so much, I needed my inhaler!
I am going to the grocery store this afternoon, and will purchase the necessary items to make a few of the recipes this week!
I am looking forward to the next edition!
Glad you like it!
SPEAKING OF VOLUME 2:
Click my nic for an update.
I have set a deadline of June 30th for submissions for Volume 2.
I only have 1 "gardening" item and need some more (cough-Killgore-cough)
FlakMusic and Jaunte are in conversations right now about the design of Volume 2, and I think it will be even better than Volume 1, since we aren't in the same time "crunch" we felt we were in with Volume 1.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:32:50pm |
re: #44 Truck Monkey
Don't make me smack you in the chops....
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:33:05pm |
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:33:08pm |
Wee Hughie was dying.
Tenderly, his wife Maggie knelt by his bedside and asked, "Anything I can get you, Hughie?"
"No" He replied.
"You must have a last wish, Hughie?" asked his wife.
Faintly, came the answer. . . "A wee bit of of that boiled ham over yonder would be nice"
"Ach, man... you can't have that" said Maggie, "You know it's for the your funeral".
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Irish Rose Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:33:09pm |
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Zip-A-Dee-A
My oh my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine heading my way
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Zip-A-Dee-A
Mister bluebird on my shoulder
It's the truth
It's actual
Everything is satisfactual
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Zip-A-Dee-A
Wonderful feeling
Wonderful day
Yeah
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brookly red Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:33:28pm |
re: #37 Truck Monkey
My question would then be. Did the sandwich ever get a drink?
capicola, w/a twist...
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:33:52pm |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:33:56pm |
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Charles Johnson Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:33:58pm |
And this, also at Manfred Rouhs' website: a book by the son of Rudolf Hess.
[Link: translate.google.com...]
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:34:08pm |
Here's an interesting question for the lizards out there. When Odysseus returns home again, he meets and teams up with a swineherd, whom Homer lauds in the most insanely over-the-top manner.
Do you think that the withdrawal of the gods from the Classical world necessarily leads to a greater kinship between people and swine, and kingship and swineherding? Inquiring Straussians want to know!
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:34:47pm |
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:34:52pm |
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Killian Bundy Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:35:04pm |
re: #34 Killgore Trout
I was just listening to Bob Brinker. He was talking about a false story about all the banks failing the stress tests that caused the market crash on Monday. Do you know anything about that one?
No, didn't hear that. Monday's volume was pretty low so there wasn't any panic or anything.
All 19 banks will "pass" the farce stress test. There's going to be a lot of criminal insider trading during the results "blackout". Since the banks already know the "results" it's also a violation of securities law that they're being forced to withhold this information from their shareholders.
/On May 4th they're going to announce that all the banks *bull[expletive deleted]* need additional capital and that's about all the detail anyone's going to get
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:35:04pm |
re: #61 Charles
Wow.
Being sold at the website of the main organizer of the Pro Koln meeting, Manfred Rouhs:
[Link: 1.nation24.de...]
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Charles Johnson Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:35:17pm |
Translated version of the Hitler Youth book:
[Link: 1.nation24.de...]
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:35:39pm |
re: #61 Charles
Wow.
Being sold at the website of the main organizer of the Pro Koln meeting, Manfred Rouhs:
[Link: 1.nation24.de...]
Good find. Pointing it out oughta' drive them crazy.
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:35:59pm |
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FrogMarch Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:36:20pm |
re: #39 Dr. Shalit
FrogMarch -
You mean when her "recollection" turns into Mellow Yellow Jello?
-S-
Her recollection turns to lies.
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:36:22pm |
re: #75 pre-Boomer Marine brat
But will your legal *chop*stick?
You do know that Custer got Souixed?
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:36:40pm |
re: #83 Charles
Disappearing from the website in 5...4...3...
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Nevergiveup Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:37:14pm |
re: #83 Charles
Translated version of the Hitler Youth book:
[Link: 1.nation24.de...]
Be ever vigilant!
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:37:23pm |
re: #61 Charles
I would think that most of that stuff would be illegal in Germany. Not sure how the laws on Nazi era stuff work over there.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:37:28pm |
re: #87 Dustyvet
You do know that Custer got Souixed?
hey, I'm a full-blooded Schmohawk, of the SoSueMe band; we resent these cheap jabs at our heritage.
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Irish Rose Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:37:43pm |
re: #77 Guanxi88
Here's an interesting question for the lizards out there. When Odysseus returns home again, he meets and teams up with a swineherd, whom Homer lauds in the most insanely over-the-top manner.
Do you think that the withdrawal of the gods from the Classical world necessarily leads to a greater kinship between people and swine, and kingship and swineherding? Inquiring Straussians want to know!
re: #61 Charles
Wow.
*snip*
Being sold at the website of the main organizer of the Pro Koln meeting, Manfred Rouhs:
[Link: 1.nation24.de...]
The Irish worship their pigs.
Jesus, not so much... sent a demon into a herd of swine and sent them over a cliff as I recall.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:38:21pm |
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Irish Rose Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:38:30pm |
I really have to learn to disable "auto" before I start quoting.
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:39:47pm |
re: #94 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Would you be upset if there was a fungus amongus?
I do have my morels.
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Sharmuta Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:40:10pm |
If *I didn't know any better*, I'd think manfred rouhs lied to robert spencer about being a nazi.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:40:54pm |
re: #96 DEZes
I do have my morels.
uh ... all out on that meme, I'm gonna hafta root around for another one
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:41:07pm |
"Our last sheriff was a good organizer. Yellow clear through, but a good organizer"
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Charles Johnson Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:41:09pm |
Manfred Rouhs is the editor of nation24.de, the site that sells Nazi books and paraphernalia:
[Link: 209.85.173.132...]
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:42:33pm |
re: #99 pre-Boomer Marine brat
uh ... all out on that meme, I'm gonna hafta root around for another one
Well dont bolete.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:42:37pm |
re: #68 reine.de.tout
I only have 1 "gardening" item and need some more (cough-Killgore-cough)
Working on it, as we speak.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:42:49pm |
re: #77 Guanxi88
Here's an interesting question for the lizards out there. When Odysseus returns home again, he meets and teams up with a swineherd, whom Homer lauds in the most insanely over-the-top manner.
Do you think that the withdrawal of the gods from the Classical world necessarily leads to a greater kinship between people and swine, and kingship and swineherding? Inquiring Straussians want to know!
I mean, Euameus is the ONLY person addressed directly, in the second person, in the whole of the epic. It's weird, and I can't help thinking it's intentional.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:43:29pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:43:43pm |
re: #104 Guanxi88
I mean, Euameus is the ONLY person addressed directly, in the second person, in the whole of the epic. It's weird, and I can't help thinking it's intentional.
(can you see why my wife has such a hard time making small-talk with me over dinner?)
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UberInfidel67 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:44:43pm |
*OT
Bye-bye Filly Phlyers
hahahahahahahaha
Let's go PENS!
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BaseballMom57 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:45:02pm |
re: #68 reine.de.tout
I think it needs a "Lizard Cocktails" section. The page for the section can be that great lizard drawing that used to grace the entrance to the Lizard Lounge. What do you think? Maybe for #3?
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:45:49pm |
re: #105 pre-Boomer Marine brat
*grin*
I surrender -- you're going over my head!
I was gonna have to google for more names. ;)
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:46:40pm |
re: #110 DEZes
I was gonna have to google for more names. ;)
No more puns intended, I think we're pigged out!
*chuckle*
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:46:46pm |
re: #90 Killgore Trout
I would think that most of that stuff would be illegal in Germany. Not sure how the laws on Nazi era stuff work over there.
It is illegal to display or sell Nazi symbols. (Specifically anything showing the swastika.) I'm not sure about books.
Similar laws re the hakenkreuzer exist in several other Western European countries. One odd side effect of this is that model kits of WWII Luftwaffe aircraft, AFVs, etc., may not have the "twisted cross" on their boxart, or on the decal sheets that come with the kit.
Fortunately, several American "aftermarket" decal makers, notably SuperScale, make sheets of nothing but such markings in various sizes. (Before anyone freaks, they also make sheets of nothing but Japanese Hinomarus, RAF roundels, U.S. stars and "stars and bars", etc.)
This isn't a recent "P.C." thing, either. I started buying aftermarket sheets of the crooked crosses made in England by HisAirDec about the time I started building WWII airplane models seriously. Which was when I was still in junior high.
cheers
eon
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reine.de.tout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:48:02pm |
re: #108 BaseballMom57
I think it needs a "Lizard Cocktails" section. The page for the section can be that great lizard drawing that used to grace the entrance to the Lizard Lounge. What do you think? Maybe for #3?
Sure!
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quickjustice Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:48:08pm |
As a bankruptcy lawyer, I've been bothered by the news that the U.S. Treasury Department is putting Chrysler Corporation into bankruptcy. The bankruptcy reorganization statute is written assuming conventional corporate governance, with management supervised by a board of directors representing the shareholders who have voted them in. It's also written assuming that the government may become involved as a creditor owed taxes, for example, but never as management.
Labor is the employees who work for the corporation. They also may be creditors if their salaries aren't paid, for example, or their pension plans are rejected, but they don't get special treatment beyond what the statute itself provides.
What's happened in the Chrysler case is that the government now is management, and the government is exercising management's discretionary powers within Chapter 11 to determine how labor is treated, and whether a merger with Fiat is desirable, among other things. Discretion is important, because management traditionally exercises discretion to benefit the corporation, and eventually, the shareholders. They have a fiduciary duty to do so under the law. That's all been hot-wired here by the Obama Adminstration's Treasury Department to get an outcome the statute never contemplated.
It's not just a change in degree. It's a fundamental change in kind, in corporate governance itself, and in the property rights and priorities created by the statute. Business expectations are created by laws. Risks are calculated, in part, by laws. And Treasury has completely distorted all these expectations without blinking an eye. In economic terms, this sort of government meddling in the affairs of large corporations to create winners and losers is "fascist", but it's also the destruction of long-settled expectations based upon the rule of law. It may well be unconstitutional.
And we're backing into this profound shift to fascist government intervention without debate, without reflection, justified by an alleged "emergency" crisis, and to protect a favored special interest, the labor unions in a way the law, and the fiduciary duties to shareholders and creditors it creates, never contemplated.
The laws of economics will govern the eventual failure of these strategies, and they've never before succeeded. It's as if our federal government is intent on deliberate employing economic strategies that are doomed in a futile effort to protect special interests. Another word for that is "suicide".
Chrysler asked for this government bailout, so its managers and labor unions also share the blame for the current situation. But the existence of flawed capitalists don't mean that capitalism itself is flawed. Look for litigation over these strategies after they've all failed.
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:49:20pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:49:41pm |
Can't skip. Whistling? Eh. Didn't like the movie "Footloose". My fancy is free. Can I wade in?
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:49:43pm |
re: #111 pre-Boomer Marine brat
No more puns intended, I think we're pigged out!
*chuckle*
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:50:18pm |
re: #81 Killian Bundy
There's going to be a lot of criminal insider trading during the results "blackout". Since the banks already know the "results" it's also a violation of securities law that they're being forced to withhold this information from their shareholders.
I was thinking the same thing. There are also going to be a lot of leaks and misinformation as people try to manipulate the market.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:50:46pm |
I would think a genuine history of the Hitler youth would be okay, especially if it included the way they were used and duped. In fact, such a history might just be a good idea to have kids read it so they can see what a trap looks like.
(The book linked by Charles is not that. It's their marches and songs.)
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:51:18pm |
re: #107 UberInfidel67
Nevemind that....ya gotta wonder if San Jose is even gonna make it out of the 1st round after winning the President's trophy....
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:51:33pm |
re: #111 pre-Boomer Marine brat
No more puns intended, I think we're pigged out!
*chuckle*
How long before someone comes to the thread and swines about the content.
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Sharmuta Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:51:58pm |
I'm reposting this because my earlier links were flawed:
Citizens' movement per Cologne (Pro-Koln)
The association was launched on 5 June 1996 in Cologne-Dünnwald as an offshoot of the German League for People and Homeland (DLVH) by former members of the Republican Party was founded. Among the founding members include the publisher Manfred Rouhs and Attorney Markus Beisicht. Together with other former members of REP, including Harald Neubauer and Karl Richter, were Rouhs and Beisicht already in the founding of the DLVH been involved in the 1991 to 1993 in the Group's strength in the Cologne city council was represented.
I would think "German League for People and Homeland" would be enough of a give away as to what sort of political party DLVH is, but just in case:
The DLVH was founded in 1991 as a party. Prominent was a founding member of the former NPD federal chairman Martin Mussgnug.
Note this about the DLVH's founder:
The father of Martin Mussgnug was Hans Mussgnug, 1944-1945 extrabudgetary Professor of Surgery at the University of Heidelberg, Nazi Party member from 1937 and leader of the squad Saturday.
And I'm supposed to take rouhs at his jihad watch published word he's not related to these people? Suuuure.
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summergurl Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:52:24pm |
New headline on Drudge regarding the swine flu;
BO Greeted By Man Who Died Days Later
If we can't control swine flu we are going to be able to control climate change? //
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:52:43pm |
re: #122 DEZes
How long before someone comes to the thread and swines about the content.
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UncleRancher Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:52:49pm |
re: #122 DEZes
How long before someone comes to the thread and swines about the content.
's OK as long as it's not the head cheese.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:53:07pm |
re: #124 summergurl
New headline on Drudge regarding the swine flu;
BO Greeted By Man Who Died Days LaterIf we can't control swine flu we are going to be able to control climate change? //
Too bad Barry didn't hold one of his tent-revival/healing sessions, huh?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:54:08pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:54:19pm |
Back to pigs?
I heard a song in which a religious pig sings:
"I'm bacon the Lard to take me like I ham"
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:54:28pm |
re: #114 quickjustice
My next door neighbor is a Justice Department Attorney in the Bankruptcy division (I guess what that's called)...smart as a tack and left as a... a... a... thing without a right side.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:55:21pm |
re: #129 Kosh's Shadow
Back to pigs?
I heard a song in which a religious pig sings:
"I'm bacon the Lard to take me like I ham"
(Eyes glaze over)
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:55:44pm |
re: #129 Kosh's Shadow
Back to pigs?
I heard a song in which a religious pig sings:
"I'm bacon the Lard to take me like I ham"
"Just as I ham, without one plea"
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:55:59pm |
re: #129 Kosh's Shadow
Back to pigs?
I heard a song in which a religious pig sings:
"I'm bacon the Lard to take me like I ham"
This whole flu thing is in no way funny.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:56:45pm |
I'm pretty immune to panic these days. I'm pretty burned out on all the overblown stories bloating around. Pig Flu has me a little nervous.
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:56:53pm |
re: #120 EmmmieG
I would think a genuine history of the Hitler youth would be okay, especially if it included the way they were used and duped. In fact, such a history might just be a good idea to have kids read it so they can see what a trap looks like.
(The book linked by Charles is not that. It's their marches and songs.)
Probably the most authoritative book on the subject, and also oddly enough one of the least expensive, is Hitler Youth; The Duped Generation by Prof. H. W. Koch, from the old Ballantine Illustrated History of the Violent Century series, published in 1972. Professor Koch was at the time Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York. He was also a former member of the Hitlerjugend himself, so he spoke with some authority on exactly what the organization did to German children, why, and how it did it.
cheers
eon
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:57:20pm |
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UberInfidel67 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:58:22pm |
re: #121 Fenway_Nation
I find hockey boring...like golf. I only watched this game because my son is a big fan, plus a Stanley Cup would go good with that Super Bowl trophy we just got. That being said... What is the Presidents Cup?
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:58:23pm |
re: #133 Walter L. Newton
This whole flu thing is in no way funny.
Who says it's funny at all? At this stage, though, it's too early to tell what, if anything, it is.
I mean, is Mexico over-reacting, or is their public health infrastructure so fragile that these elaborate measures are necessary to keep it from sweeping through their population, or is it really THAT dangerous?
Stateside authorities don't seem alarmed, which could be because it's too early to know, or they don't want to spread panic, or because a comparatively modern health care system can be expected to handle it.
Pig puns don't diminish the situation; rather, they're just us whistling to a tune we heard as we walked down the street.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:58:30pm |
re: #134 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Charles,
After thought, I'd appreciate it if you'd delete my #134.
It's not in good taste.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:58:33pm |
re: #135 Killgore Trout
I'm pretty immune to panic these days. I'm pretty burned out on all the overblown stories bloating around. Pig Flu has me a little nervous.
Well it should. My ex wife works on a CDC program tracking aids and TB in immigrants, and there are some horror stories I can tell you. This was not unexpected, but probably, as these things go, the medical profession is slow in reacting.
It's not going to be good, not in the least.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:59:02pm |
NBC broke in to the hockey game to report an outbreak at a Catholic School in New York- but were emphasising that this strain was treatable......
Not to get all doom and gloom, but how much longer until a drug-resistant strain pops up?
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:59:11pm |
re: #139 Guanxi88
Who says it's funny at all? At this stage, though, it's too early to tell what, if anything, it is.
I mean, is Mexico over-reacting, or is their public health infrastructure so fragile that these elaborate measures are necessary to keep it from sweeping through their population, or is it really THAT dangerous?
Stateside authorities don't seem alarmed, which could be because it's too early to know, or they don't want to spread panic, or because a comparatively modern health care system can be expected to handle it.
Pig puns don't diminish the situation; rather, they're just us whistling to a tune we heard as we walked down the street.
(I'll repeat myself here)
My ex wife works on a CDC program tracking aids and TB in immigrants, and there are some horror stories I can tell you. This was not unexpected, but probably, as these things go, the medical profession is slow in reacting.
It's not going to be good, not in the least.
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:59:52pm |
re: #133 Walter L. Newton
This whole flu thing is in no way funny.
Agreed. Yesterday someone mentioned that CDC had two briefings in one day on it, which the poster likened to CDC needing to change their undies.
This morning, the director of WHO flew back to Geneva from a conference on AIDS in South Africa due to the outbreak- while the conference was still in the "opening addresses" stage. That's the equivalent of WHO pissing themselves.
cheers
eon
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UberInfidel67 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:59:57pm |
re: #138 UberInfidel67
I find hockey boring...like golf. I only watched this game because my son is a big fan, plus a Stanley Cup would go good with that Super Bowl trophy we just got. That being said... What is the Presidents Cup?
Er, Presidents trophy.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 2:59:57pm |
re: #138 UberInfidel67
Team that has the best regular-season record.....
Doesn't mean a damn thing if you can't get out of the 1st round.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:00:07pm |
re: #141 Walter L. Newton
Well it should. My ex wife works on a CDC program tracking aids and TB in immigrants, and there are some horror stories I can tell you. This was not unexpected, but probably, as these things go, the medical profession is slow in reacting.
It's not going to be good, not in the least.
here I am in Texas; TB we know all too well; freakin' BED-BUGS all over the place, and, in short, everything that a first-world nation can only get from the third-world.
Respiratory diseases are more or less endemic in certain south-of-the-border locales, and "recent arrivals" are known vectors.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:01:00pm |
re: #144 eon
Agreed. Yesterday someone mentioned that CDC had two briefings in one day on it, which the poster likened to CDC needing to change their undies.
This morning, the director of WHO flew back to Geneva from a conference on AIDS in South Africa due to the outbreak- while the conference was still in the "opening addresses" stage. That's the equivalent of WHO pissing themselves.
cheers
eon
See my comment above about my ex-wife. She has spent 13 years running a CDC research program here in Colorado. Two meetings in one day, not good.
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:01:21pm |
re: #141 Walter L. Newton
Well it should. My ex wife works on a CDC program tracking aids and TB in immigrants, and there are some horror stories I can tell you. This was not unexpected, but probably, as these things go, the medical profession is slow in reacting.
It's not going to be good, not in the least.
Do we have the good sense to use the quarantine again?
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:01:22pm |
re: #143 Walter L. Newton
(I'll repeat myself here)
My ex wife works on a CDC program tracking aids and TB in immigrants, and there are some horror stories I can tell you. This was not unexpected, but probably, as these things go, the medical profession is slow in reacting.
It's not going to be good, not in the least.
I agree ,it could be something big, but who can say at this point? No point in wigging out, as we did with the whole West Nile and SARS things.
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itellu3times Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:02:01pm |
re: #135 Killgore Trout
I'm pretty immune to panic these days. I'm pretty burned out on all the overblown stories bloating around. Pig Flu has me a little nervous.
I'm still waiting for a clearer scientific analysis. Anyway, I suspect the bad parts have already been around the world a couple of times before the CDC gets wind of it. The 1918 pandemic was perhaps a one-time thing, and a dozen factors today say it's unlikely to occur again, no more likely than a widespread outbreak of the bubonic plague.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:02:08pm |
re: #139 Guanxi88
Mexico's probably (over)reacting on the side of caution because their health-care infrastructure is so fragile...
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UberInfidel67 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:02:11pm |
re: #146 Fenway_Nation
Thank you...now your comment makes sense to me. I am more of a football kinda girl..not hockey : )
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alegrias Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:02:18pm |
re: #136 eon
Probably the most authoritative book on the subject, and also oddly enough one of the least expensive, is Hitler Youth; The Duped Generation by Prof. H. W. Koch, from the old Ballantine Illustrated History of the Violent Century series, published in 1972. Professor Koch was at the time Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York. He was also a former member of the Hitlerjugend himself, so he spoke with some authority on exactly what the organization did to German children, why, and how it did it.
cheers
eon
* * * *
Did German kids have a choice about joining this any more than Soviet kids had to join the young Oktobrists or young Cubans have to join Fidel's juventud revolucionaria?
In a dictatorship, do poor or any income parents really have a choice over what happens to their children if the government raises tells you what you must do?
Is there such a thing as religious objectors, or conscientious objectors, in a totalitarian country?
I remember Russians called "refuseniks".
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:03:16pm |
re: #153 Fenway_Nation
Mexico's probably (over)reacting on the side of caution because their health-care infrastructure is so fragile...
See, that could well be a factor. Flu slays its thousands every year in this country; in a poor nation, I shudder to think of the stats.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:03:32pm |
re: #147 Guanxi88
here I am in Texas; TB we know all too well; freakin' BED-BUGS all over the place, and, in short, everything that a first-world nation can only get from the third-world.
Respiratory diseases are more or less endemic in certain south-of-the-border locales, and "recent arrivals" are known vectors.
Bed bugs have become a problem in Colorado, a place where you never see your standard house bugs at all. Roaches are almost non-existent here. Crickets, grasshoppers, water bugs, barely none.
But beg bugs, becoming a problem. My apartment manager say a number of alerts have gone out in the apartment managers trade journals.
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:03:48pm |
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:04:28pm |
I'm out of here again. I just stopped by the apartment to take a quick break from work, got to get back to the theatre. Chow.
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Irish Rose Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:04:33pm |
Charles, Baron has a new rant up about your recent post over at GoV.
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BlueCanuck Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:04:56pm |
re: #152 itellu3times
Big difference between 1918 and now with pandemics is air travel. Get a bug with a few days incubation rate and *BANG*, multiple pockets of infection. The swine flu is a little thing to be worried about, so far it's best to keep a cool head here.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:05:01pm |
re: #148 Walter L. Newton
Two meetings in one day, not good.
perhaps the current "crisis" zeitgeist and the 24 hour news and constant, obsessive updating people seek in the information age plays some part. maybe the desire is there to be seen doing something.
Then again, it could be a case of due caution; it may even be they know more about it than we do at this point; too early to tell.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:05:09pm |
re: #159 Walter L. Newton
I'm out of here again. I just stopped by the apartment to take a quick break from work, got to get back to the theatre. Chow.
Break a leg.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:05:42pm |
This is not funny at all. But every time I see "WHO" in a headline such as "WHO declares international concern", I think, "What? Who declares?" Then I think, "Oh, yeah, the World Health Organization." Then I start thinking of Abbott and Costello.
Then I start to laugh. That make me weird?
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Wide Right Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:06:07pm |
re: #146 Fenway_Nation
Ouch, that one hurt. And all this time we've been worried about Detroit.
Been tough being a Sharks fan, believe me.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:06:12pm |
re: #154 UberInfidel67
Fair enough....just remember; no pouting when the Stanley Cup returns to the Hub of Hockey, where it truly belongs..
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:06:36pm |
re: #157 Walter L. Newton
Bed bugs have become a problem in Colorado, a place where you never see your standard house bugs at all. Roaches are almost non-existent here. Crickets, grasshoppers, water bugs, barely none.
But beg bugs, becoming a problem. My apartment manager say a number of alerts have gone out in the apartment managers trade journals.
Yeah, bed bugs were more or less stamped out some time ago, and yet, here they are again, moving slowly (but not slowly enough!) from the border towns to the north. Clothing and bedding from other nations sometimes enters, like its owners, without declaration or inspection, if you dig.
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UberInfidel67 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:06:40pm |
re: #149 debutaunt
And violate someones civil right to pass the disease on? Are you nuts?////
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:07:16pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:07:22pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:07:40pm |
re: #169 UberInfidel67
And violate someones civil right to pass the disease on? Are you nuts?////
I recall some sort of court hearing was required to get a Ugandan (or was he congolese) chap here in the states to finish his freakin' TB treatment, and stop walking around spreading his condition.
TB is no joke, and these new strains spread like mad.
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:07:55pm |
re: #169 UberInfidel67
And violate someones civil right to pass the disease on? Are you nuts?////
I'm just so silly.
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:07:55pm |
Tried to check out Ms. Geller's site - my overly cautious Vista protection gear crashed me out of it.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:07:59pm |
re: #171 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Deflector shields up, Captain.
If charles is cloaked, then he means to attack.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:08:29pm |
Title: "Caught lying?'
Hey douche nozzle, it looks like despite all your protestations you got
caught lying. Good God what an ass-hat you are.Peace out douche,
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:08:41pm |
re: #167 Charles
Hate mail really coming in now ...
To quote freely from up top:
Skipping down the road, whistles a crappy loon
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:08:59pm |
re: #175 Catttt
Her site is a mess of bad code and bad design. The content stinks too.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:09:12pm |
re: #173 Fenway_Nation
Swine flu anti-vaxers?
Funny you ask; I'm listening to Alex Jones streaming just now, and sure enough, he's going on about it as being another ploy to get us to take poisonous vaccines to thin our population so the illuminati can take over. Some caller disagree, and think it could be a pre-text for states of emergency and martial law, and Alex is generous enough to concede there might be something to it.
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:09:24pm |
re: #155 alegrias
* * * *
Did German kids have a choice about joining this any more than Soviet kids had to join the young Oktobrists or young Cubans have to join Fidel's juventud revolucionaria?In a dictatorship, do poor or any income parents really have a choice over what happens to their children if the government raises tells you what you must do?
Is there such a thing as religious objectors, or conscientious objectors, in a totalitarian country?
I remember Russians called "refuseniks".
In order;
It was originally voluntary. It became compulsory after Hitler became Reichschancellor.
Yes, there can be "conscientious objectors". They tend to end up in camps alongside other people the regime' doesn't approve of.
As for "refuseniks", the USSR had several ways of dealing with them, ranging from "internal exile" in "closed cities" like Gorky, to the gulags for the more "dangerous" (to the regime', that is) individuals. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote an entire book on that subject, The Gulag Archipelago, based on (very painful) personal experience.
cheers
eon
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:09:34pm |
re: #172 Guanxi88
I recall some sort of court hearing was required to get a Ugandan (or was he congolese) chap here in the states to finish his freakin' TB treatment, and stop walking around spreading his condition.
TB is no joke, and these new strains spread like mad.
At some point, we stopped any attempts at prevention. Crazy.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:09:35pm |
re: #178 Charles
You have an ass hat? How do you wear an ass hat?
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Charles Johnson Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:09:42pm |
Title: "botched smear jobs"
Next time you decide to fix up Geller and Spencer, try to be a bit more
professional. E.g. your Bleisicht and De Winter photo shop job. ( a )
get the lighting right and ( b ) dont fake in a background of an Antifa
demo. Anti Fascistiche Aktion, a tad to the left grouping, is profoundly
offended !
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BlueCanuck Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:10:07pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:10:57pm |
re: #183 debutaunt
At some point, we stopped any attempts at prevention. Crazy.
I think we all know why, but no one dares to say it out loud.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:11:13pm |
Title: "Your abject cowardice and paranoia..."
After refraining from swimming in the filth your website has become, I
decided to see if you had the BALLS to admit that your insane zeal to
libel your betters you have retailed a fauxtography smear of your own.Nope -- no balls -- no brain -- no integrity -- no sense. You are
garbage.
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:11:46pm |
re: #176 Guanxi88
If charles is cloaked, then he means to attack.
If Charles is cloaked, then he's a Klingon.
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:12:00pm |
re: #185 Charles
Title: "botched smear jobs"
It didnt take long for the imbeciles to decide you faked the photo.
I sometimes wonder why you keep going, but I have to respect you for it.
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:12:04pm |
re: #181 Guanxi88
Funny you ask; I'm listening to Alex Jones streaming just now, and sure enough, he's going on about it as being another ploy to get us to take poisonous vaccines to thin our population so the illuminati can take over. Some caller disagree, and think it could be a pre-text for states of emergency and martial law, and Alex is generous enough to concede there might be something to it.
The prepared answer for after all hell breaks loose - - Well we certainly didn't mean for THIS to happen.
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UberInfidel67 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:12:12pm |
re: #172 Guanxi88
I know it is no joke. My Father and Sister are both carriers...well not really him since he has passed away. I remember our family being semi-quarantined back in the 70s. Public safety of millions is more important than the perceived "rights" of one individual IMO
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:12:15pm |
re: #190 Catttt
If Charles is cloaked, then he's a Klingon.
An upding and three points for catching the reference!
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BlueCanuck Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:13:01pm |
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:13:18pm |
re: #178 Charles
Title: "Caught lying?'
I've noticed that the more extreme tinfoil-hat wearers and Move.Organisms tend to be very fond of that "peace out" thing.
It is almost as annoying as being called "dude" by somebody whose every fifth word is "y'know".
cheers
eon
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capitalist piglet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:13:19pm |
re: #191 DEZes
It didnt take long for the imbeciles to decide you faked the photo.
I sometimes wonder why you keep going, but I have to respect you for it.
It is apparent that there are few, if any, critical thinkers among these people.
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yochanan Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:13:22pm |
re: #167 Charles
hate mail means you have hit the bull's eye.
are they sending you bull shit or bulkshit charles?
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:13:29pm |
re: #178 Charles
What an asshole! He stole my 'douchenozzle' phrase....and spacing it so that 'douche' and 'nozzle' are two seperate words don't count!
Of course, I 'borrowed' that particular phrase from a Red Sox message board awhile back.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:14:10pm |
There's just one after another of these. At least a dozen in the past hour.
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yochanan Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:14:29pm |
re: #194 Guanxi88
was that before or after the klingons joined the federation?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:14:33pm |
re: #185 Charles
Title: "botched smear jobs"
Too bad he/she/it didn't mispell that first word.
/the only word in the French language which I like
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:14:57pm |
re: #197 capitalist piglet
It is apparent that there are few, if any, critical thinkers among these people.
Like I would argue that point. ;)
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itellu3times Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:14:57pm |
re: #161 BlueCanuck
Big difference between 1918 and now with pandemics is air travel. Get a bug with a few days incubation rate and *BANG*, multiple pockets of infection. The swine flu is a little thing to be worried about, so far it's best to keep a cool head here.
Sure, but that's just the thing I'm counting on to protect us!
Flu virus is always with us, mutating and spreading, looking for that great new killer combo. That same transportation system makes us pretty much homogenous with exposure to all the precursors. I'd say that makes it an order of magnitude harder for the mutations to really surprise us.
/all my wild speculations, of course
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:15:40pm |
re: #201 yochanan
was that before or after the klingons joined the federation?
I'm not sure; I seem to recall it from one of the movies. I never really got into the ST mythos.
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:16:28pm |
re: #181 Guanxi88
Funny you ask; I'm listening to Alex Jones streaming just now, and sure enough, he's going on about it as being another ploy to get us to take poisonous vaccines to thin our population so the illuminati can take over. Some caller disagree, and think it could be a pre-text for states of emergency and martial law, and Alex is generous enough to concede there might be something to it.
And I'm generous enough to concede that Alex Jones and his listeners may just have their heads up their fundaments.
Of course, it could be worse. Some of the flightier types are probably already playing "Don't Fear The Reaper" on their iPods.
cheers
eon
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:16:32pm |
re: #187 BlueCanuck
Toronto or Montreal?
/haven't been paying attention at all. :)
If you were playing Jeopardy! and the question was 'name two Eastern Conference teams that failed to make the 2009 playoffs' that answer would've been dead -on, Blue.
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:16:52pm |
re: #178 Charles
I just love that "peace out" language.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:16:52pm |
re: #199 Fenway_Nation
Heard a new one today, "kipweasel". Taqyia2Me's word. I loved it.
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itellu3times Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:17:27pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:17:39pm |
re: #208 eon
"fundament" - a word one doesn't hear nearly often enough.
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yochanan Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:17:41pm |
re: #208 eon
get your shots, and maybe the kooks will not get theirs
it could be a way to thin the herd a win win i would say.
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:17:52pm |
re: #181 Guanxi88
Funny you ask; I'm listening to Alex Jones streaming just now, and sure enough, he's going on about it as being another ploy to get us to take poisonous vaccines to thin our population so the illuminati can take over. Some caller disagree, and think it could be a pre-text for states of emergency and martial law, and Alex is generous enough to concede there might be something to it.
I wonder if Judge Napolitano knows what Jones is spewing.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:18:36pm |
re: #216 yochanan
i peace out on there moustache
I thought it was the other one, and on the beard? (One of the greatest insults ever!)
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:18:59pm |
Good evening, Lizards.
Serious question: do any of you know the incubation period for swine flu, or whatever the period between exposure and the onset of symptoms is called?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:19:09pm |
re: #215 MandyManners
Honestly? I don't think so. He's a pretty level headed guy. Don't think his "peeps" have been very well vetted lately.
Just my opinion.
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:19:12pm |
re: #206 Guanxi88
I'm not sure; I seem to recall it from one of the movies. I never really got into the ST mythos.
Its from the movie the Final Frontier, ST V.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:19:47pm |
re: #213 Guanxi88
"fundament" - a word one doesn't hear nearly often enough.
I didn't know that was a word. Really, really like it though.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:20:19pm |
re: #217 Guanxi88
I thought it was the other one, and on the beard? (One of the greatest insults ever!)
I shot turkish coffee right out my nose, ala Beavis, the first time I heard my buddy Erkan say it.
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:20:53pm |
re: #218 goddessoftheclassroom
Good evening, Lizards.
Serious question: do any of you know the incubation period for swine flu, or whatever the period between exposure and the onset of symptoms is called?
Are you still sick?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:20:58pm |
re: #218 goddessoftheclassroom
Good evening, Lizards.
Serious question: do any of you know the incubation period for swine flu, or whatever the period between exposure and the onset of symptoms is called?
Good evening and MWAH!
/dialing down, respecting your pertinant question
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reine.de.tout Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:21:29pm |
re: #218 goddessoftheclassroom
Good evening, Lizards.
Serious question: do any of you know the incubation period for swine flu, or whatever the period between exposure and the onset of symptoms is called?
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capitalist piglet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:22:13pm |
re: #210 MandyManners
I just love that "peace out" language.
Me too, especially when it's preceded by degrading and thoroughly base name-calling. Doesn't get much better.
I give it an 82 on the hate mail scale.
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Taqyia2Me Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:22:28pm |
Keep Up The Good Work, Charles!
Based on the emails you're receiving, they're not taking kindly to being exposed as all that is loathsome in this world.
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BlueCanuck Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:23:29pm |
re: #209 Fenway_Nation
As I said. I didn't pay attention. But Lord Stanley's shaving mug lives here in Toronto. So we always have it. ;)
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:23:54pm |
re: #227 Taqyia2Me
Keep Up The Good Work, Charles!
Based on the emails you're receiving, they're not taking kindly to being exposed as all that is loathsome in this world.
Forcing scum buckets to take a good look in the mirror doesn't seem to bring out the best in them.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:23:54pm |
re: #218 goddessoftheclassroom
Good evening, Lizards.
Serious question: do any of you know the incubation period for swine flu, or whatever the period between exposure and the onset of symptoms is called?
All the Chinese practitioners I know have stocked up on their anti-viral formulas. They've already dosed me up with one, and they're insisting I insufflate (another great word!) this one herbal formula. Supposed to keep back heat and damp, and reduce possibility of viral infection, etc. Some evidence to suggest, at least in the case of SARS and other flu outbreaks, that these formulas work, but I hate sniffing this brown powder (it burns! it burns!) every couple of hours.
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capitalist piglet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:24:01pm |
re: #218 goddessoftheclassroom
Good evening, Lizards.
Serious question: do any of you know the incubation period for swine flu, or whatever the period between exposure and the onset of symptoms is called?
I'm seeing unknown, but thought to be one to seven days in my search for the information.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:24:14pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:24:33pm |
re: #229 goddessoftheclassroom
No, just allergies, thank goodness!
Pe Min Kan Wan; you want a TCM herbalist to get you Pe Min Kan Wan; Plum Flower brand, for preference.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:24:36pm |
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BlueCanuck Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:24:40pm |
re: #220 DEZes
Its from the movie the Final Frontier, ST V.
No, it's from Nemesis and it was Picard quoting the line.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:25:36pm |
re: #229 goddessoftheclassroom
No, just allergies, thank goodness!
{goddess} I'm glad it's "only" allergies which are dogging you.
/*crawling under the desk*
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:25:39pm |
re: #236 BlueCanuck
No, it's from Nemesis and it was Picard quoting the line.
Ill have to disagree, I have movies one thru six.
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yochanan Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:25:52pm |
of course stanley's cup should be in one of the 6 founding cities
go blackhawks
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itellu3times Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:26:38pm |
re: #239 yochanan
of course stanley's cup should be in one of the 6 founding cities
go blackhawks
all hockey should be in one of the 6 founding cities, or other points further north.
/los angeles basketball fan
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:27:05pm |
re: #231 Guanxi88
All the Chinese practitioners I know have stocked up on their anti-viral formulas. They've already dosed me up with one, and they're insisting I insufflate (another great word!) this one herbal formula. Supposed to keep back heat and damp, and reduce possibility of viral infection, etc. Some evidence to suggest, at least in the case of SARS and other flu outbreaks, that these formulas work, but I hate sniffing this brown powder (it burns! it burns!) every couple of hours.
Uh huh - you cocaine addicts are always making stuff up.
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:27:57pm |
re: #201 yochanan
was that before or after the klingons joined the federation?
Did they join? They ended the cold war with the Khitomer Accords in 2311, but I don't think they have ever been in the Federation. They're just not joiners. :D
The Treaty of Algeron was signed with the Romulans in 2267, and the Feds agreed there not to do cloaking.
The real reason, I think, is Gene Roddenberry thought cloaking was sneaky and a bad-guy thing to do.
Not that I CARE about Star Trek of anything...../I need to rehang my holographic print of the Enterprise.....
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BlueCanuck Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:28:00pm |
re: #238 DEZes
Gah, yes you are right. Had my head up my ass again. Was thinking about something trek related that I had just read. :p
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yochanan Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:28:12pm |
re: #217 Guanxi88
it was 'I fart on your mothers moustache' and it was if i am not mistaken a Kuwaiti talking to saddam's henchmen.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:28:28pm |
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:29:06pm |
re: #243 BlueCanuck
Gah, yes you are right. Had my head up my ass again. Was thinking about something trek related that I had just read. :p
No worries.
Have an upding.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:29:20pm |
re: #241 debutaunt
Uh huh - you cocaine addicts are always making stuff up.
It's what I feel like; gotta do it on the sly, just so people don't see me sniffing some powder. Gave me a nice little snuff bottle (agate, not jade, but still nice) with a stopper and attached spoon. Two little piles, one up each nostril, every 4 or 5 hours.
First time I did it, I hacked, sneezed, coughed. Doctor said, "Do you taste anything?" Yes, it tastes like dirt and honey.
"Okay, you sniffed too hard. You want it to go up there and stay, not go down the back of your throat."
Ugh!
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Irish Rose Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:29:49pm |
re: #200 Charles
There's just one after another of these. At least a dozen in the past hour.
All coming from the same handful of sources, would be my guess.
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:30:37pm |
re: #247 UberInfidel67
Trekkie nerd! lol
And I do need to find someone to put together this Enterprise model for me.....(I'm bad at anything that requires glue).
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:30:49pm |
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UberInfidel67 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:31:19pm |
re: #251 Catttt
Sorry but I would probably glue my fingers together : (
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:31:26pm |
re: #244 yochanan
it was 'I fart on your mothers moustache' and it was if i am not mistaken a Kuwaiti talking to saddam's henchmen.
Erkan, in speaking of someone or other I was asking him about, said, "Never heard of him. I sh*t on his beard." Just like that.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:31:47pm |
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:32:08pm |
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capitalist piglet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:32:10pm |
Speaking of Klingons: Best Frasier scene evah:
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:32:13pm |
re: #256 UberInfidel67
Sorry but I would probably glue my fingers together : (
I once got glue on a contact lens, while I was wearing it. Glue and I are not good friends.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:32:53pm |
re: #255 debutaunt
Have you mastered that?
Not really. .About half the time, I've got this horrible burning in my nostrils, meaning I did it right, but the rest of the time, it feels like a dwarf holding a torch is rapelling down my throat. Awful, but it has already cleared out my sinuses, which were infected something fierce anyway to begin with.
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:32:54pm |
re: #258 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Ask Guanxi88...sounds like a coke-head. Probably knows all about model glue.
//
hahahahahaahhahahahahahhaa
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UberInfidel67 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:33:08pm |
re: #261 Catttt
Holy cow! Now I say this as a friend....Do NOT ever touch glue again! Bad!
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:34:02pm |
re: #237 pre-Boomer Marine brat
{goddess} I'm glad it's "only" allergies which are dogging you.
/*crawling under the desk*
If your going to be under here, would you mind getting your boot out of my ear?...:)
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:34:19pm |
re: #265 UberInfidel67
Holy cow! Now I say this as a friend....Do NOT ever touch glue again! Bad!
I do have some crazy glue, but I usually end up just duct taping things.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:34:20pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:34:23pm |
re: #258 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Ask Guanxi88...sounds like a coke-head. Probably knows all about model glue.
//
You need a bread bag, and what you do is.....
///
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MandyManners Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:35:37pm |
Gotta' go fry some bacon. All these pork puns got me wanting a BLT. Maybe I'll slice up some avacado.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:35:50pm |
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BlueCanuck Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:36:13pm |
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:37:26pm |
re: #271 MandyManners
Gotta' go fry some bacon. All these pork puns got me wanting a BLT. Maybe I'll slice up some avacado.
We just had a BELT for dinner -wonderful!
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:37:51pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:37:57pm |
re: #259 debutaunt
I really love this back and forth!
Wink Wink, nudge nudge...
Know what I mean? Know what I mean?
Say no more. Say no more.
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The Shadow Do Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:38:14pm |
re: #200 Charles
There's just one after another of these. At least a dozen in the past hour.
Sort of like Valentines Day. Only worse!
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:38:22pm |
Okay, just did another dose of the stuff in the snuff bottle.
Who wants to disco?
Or talk all night about their childhood?
///
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:38:58pm |
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:38:59pm |
re: #276 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Wink Wink, nudge nudge...
Know what I mean? Know what I mean?
Say no more. Say no more.
Do I go? Is that what you are asking?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:39:31pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:39:45pm |
re: #280 debutaunt
Do I go? Is that what you are asking?
Candid photography, eh?
Snap, snap, wink wink, grin grin, nudge nudge?
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:40:22pm |
re: #281 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Now I'm WHEEZING with giggles! BRILLIANT!
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wrenchwench Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:40:58pm |
re: #283 Catttt
But, wasn't it the Romulans who had the cloaking device?
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:40:59pm |
re: #281 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
On neat, Boomers doing the Witch Doctor song...:)
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:41:10pm |
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alegrias Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:41:31pm |
re: #182 eon
* * * *
Thank you Eon for explaining compulsory youth participation in these "movements".
Solzhenitsyn's Archipelago--must read again as I've forgotten his documenting of Soviet horrors.
Thank you again, for reminding me what totalitarians do, on the glide path to their "perfect" societies that you can't check out, nor ever leave.
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:42:08pm |
re: #153 Fenway_Nation
Mexico's probably (over)reacting on the side of caution because their health-care infrastructure is so fragile...
In which case it is good this happened before nationalized health care.
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Sharmuta Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:42:44pm |
re: #285 wrenchwench
But, wasn't it the Romulans who had the cloaking device?
Klingons had them too. In the movie Star Trek VI, they found a way to remain cloaked while firing weapons.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:42:52pm |
re: #289 Kosh's Shadow
In which case it is good this happened before nationalized health care.
Don't worry - there will be other disease for national healthcare to fail to contain.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:43:06pm |
re: #284 goddessoftheclassroom
Now I'm WHEEZING with giggles! BRILLIANT!
I want you to get feeling a lot better very soon!
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:43:51pm |
re: #291 Guanxi88
Don't worry - there will be other disease for national healthcare to fail to contain.
Well OK, as long as their intentions are good.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:44:13pm |
re: #293 debutaunt
Well OK, as long as their intentions are good.
They're not, of course. But what can you do?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:44:27pm |
Star Trek/Monty Python and the Holy Grail Mash-up.
Some of you may not have seen this...
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:44:34pm |
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:44:43pm |
Favorite scene in Trekkies - where the Klingons go into the Mickey D's and get waited on as if nothing is odd. When Denise Crosby asks if they've had Klingons in before, the McD employee says "yes."
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BaseballMom57 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:44:58pm |
re: #276 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Wink Wink, nudge nudge...
Know what I mean? Know what I mean?
Say no more. Say no more.
Your wife interested in, eh, photography? Eh? Photographs? Eh? He asked him knowingly....
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:44:59pm |
Regarding this flu, our local newspaper is reporting that it is a never before seen strain that combines pig, bird and human viruses. Scary.
[Link: www.pasadenastarnews.com...]
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:45:07pm |
re: #294 Guanxi88
They're not, of course. But what can you do?
I WAS trying to look on the bright side of life, you addict.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:45:13pm |
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:45:27pm |
re: #285 wrenchwench
But, wasn't it the Romulans who had the cloaking device?
Yeah, but the Klingons had it too. The treaty was with the Romulans, but the Feds agreed not to do cloaking at all.
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:46:13pm |
re: #285 wrenchwench
But, wasn't it the Romulans who had the cloaking device?
The Romulans developed cloaking technology first. The Klingons got it from them in the (short) alliance in the 2260s that got the Romulans the Klingon D6 class Klothos class battle cruiser. The Federation developed an advanced "phased" cloaking system in the 2350s that proved to be more trouble than it was worth in addition to violating the Treaty of Algeron.
I disregard most of ST: Enterprise's use of the Romulans, as it violates too many previously-established facts in the timeline.
/There are Trekkies- and then there are Trekkers. We're the serious head cases.
cheers
eon
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:46:29pm |
re: #300 Pvt Bin Jammin
Regarding this flu, our local newspaper is reporting that it is a never before seen strain that combines pig, bird and human viruses. Scary.
[Link: www.pasadenastarnews.com...]
It reminds me of a Tom Clancy storyline.
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:46:30pm |
Oooooooh, I just found a coooool geek site:
[Link: geekscape.net...]
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:47:05pm |
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:47:23pm |
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirms two cases of swine flu in Kansas…
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:47:28pm |
re: #301 debutaunt
I WAS trying to look on the bright side of life, you addict.
Those of us with addictive personalities have all manner of flaws.
Want some flu medicine?
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:47:29pm |
re: #307 debutaunt
It reminds me of a Tom Clancy storyline.
So true.
I have to admit that germ warfare crossed my mind.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:47:45pm |
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NelsFree Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:48:01pm |
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:48:02pm |
re: #311 Guanxi88
Those of us with addictive personalities have all manner of flaws.
Want some flu medicine?
First dose free?
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:48:42pm |
re: #315 debutaunt
First dose free?
Always!
Hell, this stuff hurts so badly, I'd imagine it would be more widely used if people were paid about 5 bucks a dose to use it.
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yochanan Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:49:23pm |
re: #313 pre-Boomer Marine brat
hidden sexual reference to the question does size matter.
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brookly red Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:49:40pm |
re: #300 Pvt Bin Jammin
Regarding this flu, our local newspaper is reporting that it is a never before seen strain that combines pig, bird and human viruses. Scary.
What are the ods of that happening in nature?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:49:49pm |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:50:02pm |
Hello Weekend Lizards! It's raining, but pleasantly warm, in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland.
Has there been a thread on the swine flu? I just finished a book, recommended by a Lizard called The Last Centurian in which a version of the flu becomes the 21st century plague. Kinda wierd.
How are you-all doing and what are we talking about?
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:50:04pm |
re: #316 Guanxi88
Always!
Hell, this stuff hurts so badly, I'd imagine it would be more widely used if people were paid about 5 bucks a dose to use it.
Ah ha! Reverse psychology! I'll take a 3 month supply, please.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:50:16pm |
re: #309 pre-Boomer Marine brat
GODDESS!
IT'S YOUUUUUU!ROFLMAO
Fine. I was trying to be nice. Now the gloves come off.
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Kosh's Shadow Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:50:41pm |
re: #298 Catttt
Favorite scene in Trekkies - where the Klingons go into the Mickey D's and get waited on as if nothing is odd. When Denise Crosby asks if they've had Klingons in before, the McD employee says "yes."
I haven't seen Trekkies, but in Galaxy Quest, there's a scene in a convention where several fans dressed as aliens are all in the men's room. A friend of mine said "Taking a leak with three Klingons? Been there, done that."
Personally, I've only been to science fiction conventions, and even then, not in years.
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:50:47pm |
re: #290 Sharmuta
Klingons had them too. In the movie Star Trek VI, they found a way to remain cloaked while firing weapons.
Only photorps, which are basically guided missiles. To me, the most hilarious line was when Uhura suggested using a sensor jury-rigged on a torp to home in on the Klingon scout's exhaust. The Federation Star Fleet apparently does not have anything equivalent to a Sidewinder in its inventory in the 23rd Century.
/The gaps in logic in ST, especially in its technology, are amusing, bordering on jaw-dropping.
cheers
eon
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:50:48pm |
re: #315 debutaunt
First dose free?
Honestly, there are times when I wonder if they're not just fooling around, seeing what they can get me to take or do if they tell me to. My new rule: I won't take a formula unless I see them do it first. Usually more than once.
(When the Mongols took over China, they instituted a similar rule with their doctors. You've got a medicine for the Qan? Fine - you take 5 times the dose you're giving him first, then we'll see.)
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:51:51pm |
re: #317 yochanan
hidden sexual reference to the question does size matter.
*fingers jammed into ears*
*facing away from the monitor*
/figured it was something like that
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:51:59pm |
re: #307 debutaunt
It reminds me of a Tom Clancy storyline.
Closer to John Ringo's The Last Centurion.
/I sincerely hope not.
cheers
eon
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:52:14pm |
re: #306 eon
The Romulans developed cloaking technology first. The Klingons got it from them in the (short) alliance in the 2260s that got the Romulans the Klingon D6 class Klothos class battle cruiser. The Federation developed an advanced "phased" cloaking system in the 2350s that proved to be more trouble than it was worth in addition to violating the Treaty of Algeron.
I disregard most of ST: Enterprise's use of the Romulans, as it violates too many previously-established facts in the timeline.
/There are Trekkies- and then there are Trekkers. We're the serious head cases.
cheers
eon
Wasn't there some treaty in which the Federation was forbidden to use the cloaking technology --and the Romulans had the upper-hand by that treaty?
I remember an episode/or movie in which Kirk et. al. tracked the Romulan ship by "it's tailpipe."
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:52:28pm |
re: #318 brookly red
Pretty low odds I would imagine, though I do know that viruses change over time.
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:52:47pm |
re: #328 eon
Closer to John Ringo's The Last Centurion.
/I sincerely hope not.
cheers
eon
Didn't Clancy have one about ebola?
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:53:17pm |
re: #331 debutaunt
Didn't Clancy have one about ebola?
Clancy has one about (Fill in the Blank). Talk about prolific.
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SteveC Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:53:17pm |
re: #7 UncleRancher
I'm just happy to be here.
Dont have to be ashamed of the car I drive
Im just glad to be here, happy to be alive
It dont matter if youre by my side
Im satisfied
Well its all right, even if your old and grey
Well its all right, you still got something to say
Well its all right, remember to live and let live
Well its all right, the best you can do is forgive
- End of the Line, The Travelling Wilburys
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:53:29pm |
re: #323 goddessoftheclassroom
Fine. I was trying to be nice. Now the gloves come off.
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:54:01pm |
What did Picard say as Data struggled to repair the Marclosian Stitching Machine?
Answer: “Make it sew.”
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onepistoffyid Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:54:23pm |
This question is specifically for Charles:
As my moniker indicates, I am a jew and as such have been have a huge target on my back (and a Glock in my fanny pack).
IF a counter jihadist blogger supports Israel in word and deed., yet has some questionable "associations" (e.g. Jihad watch, Gates of Vienna) is it really fair to consider them Nazis in the pure sense of the word. It seems to me that Nazis have no support for Israel and buy into the Islamic annihilationist position....or is it your position that this is just a smokescreen concealing their jew hatred?
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:54:39pm |
re: #328 eon
Closer to John Ringo's The Last Centurion.
/I sincerely hope not.
cheers
eon
Yeah, that's the book I just read. Weird senerio. Hope the current administration doesn't handle it as it was handled in the book.
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:54:47pm |
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:54:59pm |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:55:10pm |
re: #335 Dustyvet
What did Picard say as Data struggled to repair the Marclosian Stitching Machine?
Answer: “Make it sew.”
I liked him better as Gurney Halleck.
That whole warrior/poet thing, you know.
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NelsFree Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:55:25pm |
re: #312 Pvt Bin Jammin
So true.
I have to admit that germ warfare crossed my mind.
Too easy to speculate at this point. Let's use the 24 hr rule. If Keifer Sutherland dies in 24, we PANIC!
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:55:33pm |
re: #321 ggt
Hello Weekend Lizards! It's raining, but pleasantly warm, in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland.
Has there been a thread on the swine flu? I just finished a book, recommended by a Lizard called The Last Centurian in which a version of the flu becomes the 21st century plague. Kinda wierd.
How are you-all doing and what are we talking about?
Actually, this is it.
cheers
eon
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:56:07pm |
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Nevergiveup Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:56:31pm |
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:56:41pm |
re: #337 ggt
Yeah, that's the book I just read. Weird senerio. Hope the current administration doesn't handle it as it was handled in the book.
I call the odds six-five and pick'em.
/I read Clancy, too, in case you hadn't guessed.
cheers
eon
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Dr. Shalit Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:56:56pm |
re: #289 Kosh's Shadow
In which case it is good this happened before nationalized health care.
Kosh's Shadow -
Like NO KIDDING! For what it is worth, Nationalized Health Care, Like the Metric System, will make the US MORE COMPETITIVE on world markets. Unlike the Metric System, which HAS been adopted on a "stealth basis" - Nationalized Healthcare - Is the Devil's Bargain. More or less, Medical Technology will be FROZEN at current Technological Levels for the Forseeable Future - No Profits = No Innovation. Beyond that, try suing a Doctor for Malpractice - "ROTSA RUCK" - at best you will be at Worker's Compensation levels of recovery - at worst, YOU WILL BE SUING CITY HALL.
Be careful, extremely so, of what you wish for, It Might Come True. That is all.
-S-
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:56:57pm |
Question: How many Star Trek: The Original Series landing party members does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: Only one, but the extra red shirt will die in the attempt.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:57:32pm |
re: #342 NelsFree
Too easy to speculate at this point. Let's use the 24 hr rule. If Keifer Sutherland dies in 24, we PANIC!
LOL
That reminds me that I need to go over to hulu or somewhere and catch up on 24.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:58:42pm |
re: #346 eon
I call the odds six-five and pick'em.
/I read Clancy, too, in case you hadn't guessed.
cheers
eon
I've seen most of Clancy not read him. I thoroughly enjoyed the John Ringo novel. More like that, please.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:58:43pm |
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DEZes Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:59:08pm |
Cleaning isnt all that hard, creating planets......
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:59:22pm |
re: #324 Kosh's Shadow
Galaxy Quest was great!
Guy Fleegman: "can you construct some sort of rudimentary lathe?"
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:59:31pm |
The sickbay medics encountered a strange disease, which they named Quadri-Polar Disorder. It could be treated only with di-lithium.
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 3:59:58pm |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:00:37pm |
re: #353 DEZes
Cleaning isnt all that hard, creating planets......
Cute!
I bet they took a lot of shots to get that one.
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steve Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:01:06pm |
Speaking of the Swine....flu
The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.
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SteveC Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:02:05pm |
Swine Flu update as of 6 PM Eastern
Cases detected in New York City and in Kansas.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization is "Concerned" and they have stated that this is "a public health emergency of international concern." - but they won't raise the pandemic threat level. Currently it is at Level 3, it SHOULD be at Level 5. They won't raise it.
Level 4 is "significant spread with a novel flu virus." HELLO?!?!? Look at the reports!
CDC says they'll do what they need to do regardless of what WHO says the threat level is. (How about close the freakin' border? - SteveC)
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Dr. Shalit Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:04:17pm |
re: #346 eon
I call the odds six-five and pick'em.
/I read Clancy, too, in case you hadn't guessed.
cheers
eon
eon -
Please 'splain to me one (1) thing. Used to be a HUGE Clancy fan. For what it is worth, Flight 93 would have been HIS textbook "Bomb the Capitol" suicide flight were it NOT for the passengers - YET - in 2004, he was a Kerry backer, what gives with Clancy?
-S-
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:04:22pm |
re: #361 brookly red
Fox says California & Texas too...
Yeah, down here in TX, in Schertz, just outside of San Anton
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SteveC Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:04:40pm |
re: #348 Dustyvet
Answer: Only one, but the extra red shirt will die in the attempt.
Saw a poster with Trek's "Big Three" and the usual Security Guard. Caption read "Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy and Ensign Ricky just beamed down to the planet. Guess which one of them won't be beaming back?"
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debutaunt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:06:04pm |
re: #363 Guanxi88
Yeah, down here in TX, in Schertz, just outside of San Anton
I looked at your website and it struck me so funny that pipes are for sale.
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steve Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:06:10pm |
re: #364 SteveC
Saw a poster with Trek's "Big Three" and the usual Security Guard. Caption read "Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy and Ensign Ricky just beamed down to the planet. Guess which one of them won't be beaming back?"
It has to be Spock. He fell in love with a logic computer.
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brookly red Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:07:02pm |
re: #363 Guanxi88
Yeah, down here in TX, in Schertz, just outside of San Anton
well I guess it will be in Europe & Asia by tomorrow...
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SteveC Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:07:53pm |
re: #366 steve
It has to be Spock. He fell in love with a logic computer.
That was my guess, if he could get Nurse Chapel away from sickbay. It was only logical that those two get together!
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:08:08pm |
re: #365 debutaunt
I looked at your website and it struck me so funny that pipes are for sale.
Funny? hey, I'll sell anything that's legal.
Neat stuff, the meerschaum, but really too nice to use. More for collecting.
The clay ones? Well, I've got one of those myself.
The brass ones from China, I've got a sample from a new supplier coming next month.
Got interested in pipes some time ago, and recently managed to reconnect with a few people in Turkey, and from there, things just sort of morphed.
Still, most business is in jade; always has been.
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mamashawna Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:08:21pm |
re: #36 Dustyvet
I just emailed that story to everyone in my address book! HAHAHA!
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steve Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:09:50pm |
re: #368 SteveC
That was my guess, if he could get Nurse Chapel away from sickbay. It was only logical that those two get together!
It is the only logical thing that makes sense.
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Dustyvet Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:09:55pm |
Could Star Trek 4 be considered a "Whale Of A Tale"?...:)
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Guanxi88 Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:10:33pm |
re: #365 debutaunt
I looked at your website and it struck me so funny that pipes are for sale.
I figure it can't hurt to diversify my offerings; jade is a slow but steady mover, and these days, why not?
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So? Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:12:41pm |
I have a bad feeling about this new swine flu. I think we've only seen the tip of a large iceberg. Hold on to your... whatever you hold onto.
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So? Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:13:33pm |
Is Mulder out there or is he still californicating?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:13:35pm |
Obamare: #370 mamashawna
Thanks for replying to it. I laughed hard.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:14:54pm |
re: #372 Dustyvet
Could Star Trek 4 be considered a "Whale Of A Tale"?...:)
There WAS a Kirk in each ... but one had the seal of approval.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:15:52pm |
I'm going to sign off for now, Lizards. Take care.
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Catttt Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:17:50pm |
re: #348 Dustyvet
Question: How many Star Trek: The Original Series landing party members does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: Only one, but the extra red shirt will die in the attempt.
Red Shirt Boogie
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:18:25pm |
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:23:32pm |
re: #362 Dr. Shalit
eon -
Please 'splain to me one (1) thing. Used to be a HUGE Clancy fan. For what it is worth, Flight 93 would have been HIS textbook "Bomb the Capitol" suicide flight were it NOT for the passengers - YET - in 2004, he was a Kerry backer, what gives with Clancy?
-S-
I can't explain it, because I wasn't aware of it. Clancy also wasn't the first to use that particular plot device, anymore than Stephen Coonts was when he used it almost at the same time in his novel Storming Heaven. That dubious distinction goes to Janet and Chris Morris, in a near-future SF novel titled The Forty-Minute War, published in 1984. Their version, a chartered 747 freighter, had an improvised A-bomb on board... and was aimed at the Capitol Building.
cheers
eon
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eon Sat, Apr 25, 2009 4:27:40pm |
re: #351 ggt
I've seen most of Clancy not read him. I thoroughly enjoyed the John Ringo novel. More like that, please.
I have pretty much all of Ringo's books. The Kildar and Prince Roger series being my favorites.
cheers
eon
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snowcrash Sat, Apr 25, 2009 5:44:25pm |
Drudge is linking to a Bloomberg report about Obamas visit to Mexico City as the flu outbreak was starting and possible exposure Obama may have had.