The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has posted a fun new quiz: Who’s nuttier: Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin?
I got a perfect score, which I’m not sure is anything to brag about.
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windsagio Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:04:49pm |
That's clever on a number of levels;
Including the way they're getting the message out, the message they're presenting, and the way they're collecting a ton of email addresses.
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jamesfirecat Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:07:02pm |
re: #1 windsagio
That's clever on a number of levels;
Including the way they're getting the message out, the message they're presenting, and the way they're collecting a ton of email addresses.
Democrats, doing something that's politically clever? I don't believe it!
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:08:55pm |
re: #2 windsagio
Also, I failed the test :(
Me too...I didn't realize Palin looked so sane next to Bachmann.
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Killgore Trout Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:09:10pm |
re: #3 jamesfirecat
Democrats, doing something that's politically clever? I don't believe it!
They are on a roll lately. The Republicans are making it easy for them but they're being pretty politically clever these days. If anything I think they're being too timid.
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windsagio Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:10:06pm |
re: #6 Killgore Trout
Somebody young enough to understand how to use the internet got into power.
Compare this stuff to the nightmare that was the RNC page.
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jamesfirecat Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:10:27pm |
re: #6 Killgore Trout
They are on a roll lately. The Republicans are making it easy for them but they're being pretty politically clever these days. If anything I think they're being too timid.
Of course they're being too timid? Don't you know the true definition of a democrat is someone who is afraid to take their own side in argument?
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:11:13pm |
Suffice it to say Bachmann won't be getting her own TV show called "Michele's Minnesota"
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Jaerik Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:12:24pm |
Any way to take it without giving them my email address?
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:12:31pm |
re: #3 jamesfirecat
Democrats, doing something that's politically clever? I don't believe it!
Times have changed, hopefully.
Total give away that Palin was on The Chris Matthew's show. Yeah right.
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:13:25pm |
re: #8 jamesfirecat
Of course they're being too timid? Don't you know the true definition of a democrat is someone who is afraid to take their own side in argument?
You're screwing up a perfectly good Robert Frost quote.
"A liberal is a person too broadminded to take their own side in a quarrel."
much better in the original.
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:13:44pm |
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jamesfirecat Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:14:18pm |
re: #13 Aceofwhat?
You're screwing up a perfectly good Robert Frost quote.
"A liberal is a person too broadminded to take their own side in a quarrel."
much better in the original.
I agree with you.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:14:33pm |
re: #11 Jaerik
Any way to take it without giving them my email address?
Use a fake email. I got 3/5. As have others, I didn't take in mind how crazy Bachmann is. Which reminds me. I filled out my census form last night. It took me all of 5 minutes and it was neither scary. I'm disappointed. :)
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Decatur Deb Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:14:50pm |
re: #10 Uninformed Opinion
Bachmann has the crazy eyes...
I ran out of time. The eyes were following me...
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windsagio Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:15:07pm |
re: #14 Aceofwhat?
I don't think it actually checks, anyways, use the classic F***you@suckmydick.com
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Gus Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:15:09pm |
Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin both failed the test.
/
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:15:20pm |
re: #11 Jaerik
Any way to take it without giving them my email address?
From memory:
Who claimed there'd be death panels?
Who claimed there'd be 'reeducation camps?'
Who claimed that Obama and the Democrats are anti-American?
Damn..can't remember the other two and it won't let me go back.
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watching you tiny alien kittens are Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:18:16pm |
But but those are trick questions, we all know they both would have said them if they had thought of them first!
I ran out of time before I could answer everything :(
The puter is very busy right now encoding a DVD from AVI for burning while also downloading another film torrent, things are a tad slow here right now.
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Racer X Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:19:18pm |
I got 2 right.
I guess I don't pay enough attention to either of them.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:19:20pm |
re: #11 Jaerik
Any way to take it without giving them my email address?
[nerd-snob]
You only have one email address?
[/nerd-snob]
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:19:55pm |
re: #21 Virginia Plain
Ah, the Bachmann Palin Overdrive.
That mod tears up the engine of the GOP, resulting in the party wearing out its welcome.
/I wish I was kidding
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captdiggs Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:20:02pm |
My vote goes to Rep. Hank Johnson who thinks that stationing 8000 marines on Guam will make it tip over and capsize.
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Spare O'Lake Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:23:45pm |
Would it be more or less politically incorrect to speculate on which one would be more fun in bed?
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Gus Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:24:50pm |
Wow, that test is a good reminder of what lunatics these two are...
"What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't pass..."
However, I still think Bachmann is the top loon.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:25:00pm |
re: #27 Racer X
THE STAR IS CALLED THE UNICORN!1 THAT'S WHERE THAT UNICORN LOVING ALIEN OBAMA IS FROM!!1
/Alex Jones
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:25:36pm |
re: #28 Spare O'Lake
Would it be more or less politically incorrect to speculate on which one would be more fun in bed?
It would be improper. They are both married.
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Killgore Trout Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:25:43pm |
re: #28 Spare O'Lake
I think crazy chicks are more fun than stupid ones. I'll take Bachman.
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:26:54pm |
re: #28 Spare O'Lake
Would it be more or less politically incorrect to speculate on which one would be more fun in bed?
I'm guessing Bachmann. Palin isn't religious enough to really cut loose.
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Digital Display Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:27:31pm |
I'm not sure about Bachmann
She is always talking in Tongues and I'm never sure if she is talking about me..I wish she would speak in English..You know cause Religious prophecy always works better if you understand what they are saying..
So yes..That is completely nuts..Hands down
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:27:36pm |
re: #31 Dark_Falcon
It would be improper. They are both married.
We'll put you down for Sarah...Oh wait, you're not one of Todd's business partners...never mind.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:29:04pm |
re: #35 darthstar
We'll put you down for Sarah...Oh wait, you're not one of Todd's business partners...never mind.
That's a shitty thing to say. I don't like Sarah Palin, but I was raised to believe that you don't accuse someone of adultery without evidence.
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Decatur Deb Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:29:11pm |
re: #28 Spare O'Lake
Would it be more or less politically incorrect to speculate on which one would be more fun in bed?
Why start with those two? There are a hundred waitresses in my small town that would be more interesting, in or out.
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:29:52pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
That's a shitty thing to say. I don't like Sarah Palin, but I was raised to believe that you don't accuse someone of adultery without evidence.
I'm just waiting for Levi's tell-all book...that one should be enlightening.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:31:14pm |
re: #28 Spare O'Lake
Would it be more or less politically incorrect to speculate on which one would be more fun in bed?
[harp arpeggios play, as we dissolve to:]
Sarah would be completely unable to stop talking for 15 seconds.
Michele would suddenly start crying with deep, wracking sobs out of the clear blue. She would refuse to explain why, saying "it's nothing," and then when you're obviously freaked out and continuing is the farthest thing from your mind, she'll insist that your sudden loss of interest indicates that you think she's deeply repulsive. Then she will be angry, and of course it will be all your fault.
[harps; dissolve back to reality]
Wow, what a nightmare!
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bratwurst Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:31:15pm |
re: #38 darthstar
I'm just waiting for Levi's tell-all book...that one should be enlightening.
Actually, I have to say that he is quite possibly the only person in the world that can cause me to feel some level of sympathy for Sarah Palin.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:33:14pm |
Sarah Palin is sort of laughable, and an opportunist. But Bachmann is pure bigoted slime. Put the sheet and the hood on that woman, that's where she's coming from.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:33:55pm |
re: #40 bratwurst
Actually, I have to say that he is quite possibly the only person in the world that can cause me to feel some level of sympathy for Sarah Palin.
Me too. He's an asshole who fathered a child he was unwilling to really support. I hold jerks like that in very low regard.
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Spare O'Lake Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:33:58pm |
re: #37 Decatur Deb
Why start with those two? There are a hundred waitresses in my small town that would be more interesting, in or out.
You eat out a lot?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:34:11pm |
re: #28 Spare O'Lake
Would it be more or less politically incorrect to speculate on which one would be more fun in bed?
Go for it! :D
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Decatur Deb Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:34:57pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:34:57pm |
re: #38 darthstar
I'm just waiting for Levi's tell-all book...that one should be enlightening.
Levi is almost staggeringly stupid. Listening to him speak is actively painful.
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:35:21pm |
re: #42 Dark_Falcon
Me too. He's an asshole who fathered a child he was unwilling to really support. I hold jerks like that in very low regard.
Ah, that's the Palin line. Not necessarily true.
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windsagio Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:35:55pm |
re: #46 WindUpBird
The mean person in me says "He would have fit in well with the Palins!"
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Racer X Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:35:59pm |
As long as we're bashing white women, OK if I bash on Pelosi?
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:36:06pm |
re: #46 WindUpBird
Levi is almost staggeringly stupid. Listening to him speak is actively painful.
And yet Sarah was obsessed with fighting him. It boggles the mind.
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windsagio Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:36:53pm |
re: #51 darthstar
Well he did knock her daughter up, I'd be pissed too.
(I'd imagine she had some fierce words for Bristol too, tho')
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:36:55pm |
re: #50 Racer X
As long as we're bashing white women, OK if I bash on Pelosi?
"She's a nice person." Sen. Coburn.
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Spare O'Lake Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:37:21pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:37:42pm |
re: #26 captdiggs
My vote goes to Rep. Hank Johnson who thinks that stationing 8000 marines on Guam will make it tip over and capsize.
Hey, you know that was a metaphor, right?
Metaphors, they're hard to understand sometimes, I know :)
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:38:05pm |
Ahem...so i'm a little uncomfortable with the personal stuff here...
So any Boise State fans here crazy enough to think they have a shot at the National Championship next fall?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:38:20pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:38:25pm |
re: #54 Spare O'Lake
I can't make up my mind...can I have a threesome?
OH MAMA!
I'd require hallucinogens for such a scenario :D
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:38:46pm |
re: #56 Aceofwhat?
Ahem...so i'm a little uncomfortable with the personal stuff here...
So any Boise State fans here crazy enough to think they have a shot at the National Championship next fall?
Any Boise State fans here?
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webevintage Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:38:59pm |
I did not take the quiz.
Yet.
BUT if you look there is a FaceBook thingiee on the left side towards the bottom that allows you to become a fan of the Democrats.
And the first person who is a "fan" on FaceBook is a friend of mine.
No really.
Of the 101,777 people who are "fans" on FB my IRL friend is the first person!
If I was stoned I would think there was some FB conspiracy going on....
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:39:04pm |
re: #41 WindUpBird
Sarah Palin is sort of laughable, and an opportunist. But Bachmann is pure bigoted slime. Put the sheet and the hood on that woman, that's where she's coming from.
I don't think so. I think she's cut from the same cloth as Concerned Citizens who see the HAND OF SATAN in such things as the Smurfs, the Tele-Tubbies, teenage pop groups, and so forth.
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Spare O'Lake Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:39:23pm |
re: #50 Racer X
As long as we're bashing white women, OK if I bash on Pelosi?
For her I'm gonna need a quart of bourbon, a double hit of viagara, earplugs and a paper bag.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:39:56pm |
re: #61 negativ
I don't think so. I think she's cut from the same cloth as Concerned Citizens who see the HAND OF SATAN in such things as the Smurfs, the Tele-Tubbies, teenage pop groups, and so forth.
She did hide in the bushes, spying on teh queero!
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:40:09pm |
re: #62 Spare O'Lake
For her I'm gonna need a quart of bourbon, a double hit of viagara, earplugs and a paper bag.
I don't think Nancy would sleep with you even if you put a bag over your head.
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:40:10pm |
Just a drive by before LOST.
Holy moly... so last Sunday I worked my first 4 hours at the store, had one of the best cashiers in the place training me.
Today I walk in from my shift... they put me on a register WITHOUT anyone to hold my hand... I'm thinking, this is going to be flying by the seat of my pants.
"Hi... did you find everything you need? Do you need any stamps... ice... wood pellets, it's going to get cold tonight."
"Hi... did you find everything you need? Did you find everything you didn't need. Can I get you some stamps, ice... small furry critters."
"Hi... did you find everything you need? Did you find everything you didn't need. Can I get you some stamps, ice... we have a special on road kill."
"Hi... did you find everything you need? Did you find everything you didn't need. Can I get you some stamps, ice... would you like to adopt a child."
Seriously... I said these things... they instructed me to "engage" the customers (or was that to get "engaged" to the customers)... so, I'm going to be the worlds first "stand up cashier."
"Do you want paper or plastic... or shall I just toss the stuff in the general direction of your vehicle?" (no, I didn't use that line).
Fun.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:41:00pm |
re: #62 Spare O'Lake
For her I'm gonna need a quart of bourbon, a double hit of viagara, earplugs and a paper bag.
Spacesuit :D
"This is entirely pressurized so none of the crazy leaks in!"
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Capitalist Tool Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:41:34pm |
Sorry, have no clue who Michele Bachmann is, but I do remember what Bill Clinton said about Sarah Palin:
"I tell you what, that Sarah Palin is one woman I could reeeeeally get behind, Yessirree!"
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:41:35pm |
re: #65 Walter L. Newton
I WISH I lived in Colorado right now.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:41:50pm |
re: #65 Walter L. Newton
Gosh, I hope you are still writing...
Haha'd out loud in a lonely, dark hotel room.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:42:26pm |
re: #62 Spare O'Lake
For her I'm gonna need a quart of bourbon, a double hit of viagara, earplugs and a paper bag.
oh well, walked into a pelosi diss, that's what I get for not having more caffiene!
I can't help but notice that Pelosi isn't demonizing gay people and dogwhistling to paranoid freaks. Once Pelosi singles out a minority for bigotry, you just let me know ;-)
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Racer X Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:42:50pm |
re: #65 Walter L. Newton
"Hi... did you find everything you need? Would you mind covering for me while I use the restroom? I would really like to go home - this planet sucks."
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:43:13pm |
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:43:35pm |
re: #67 Capitalist Tool
Sorry, have no clue who Michele Bachmann is, but I do remember what Bill Clinton said about Sarah Palin:
"I tell you what, that Sarah Palin is one woman I could reeeally get behind, Yessirree!"
[snicker]
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Capitalist Tool Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:43:46pm |
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:43:51pm |
re: #69 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Gosh, I hope you are still writing...
Haha'd out loud in a lonely, dark hotel room.
FBV... I'm always writing... even if I'm not putting something down on paper... reference... my comment above... that's mental writing.
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:44:17pm |
re: #69 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Gosh, I hope you are still writing...
Haha'd out loud in a lonely, dark hotel room.
you didn't get electricity with the room? Priceline really sold you out, eh/
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:44:17pm |
re: #76 Walter L. Newton
Well, it pissed excellence, it did.
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Racer X Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:44:21pm |
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:45:20pm |
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:45:34pm |
re: #47 Stanley Sea
Ah, that's the Palin line. Not necessarily true.
Well, there is the fact that they had to sue him to get him to cough up the child support he owed from his appearance fees. That seems to support the Palin family's side.
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:45:45pm |
re: #75 Capitalist Tool
Thought you were up by Evergreen...
Close... Conifer... the REAL South Park... home of Trey Parker and Matt Stone... yes... there really are characters like that up here. remember, there is no real town of South Park... South Park is a mountain meadow about 40 miles southwest of here.
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:46:16pm |
re: #59 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Any Boise State fans here?
i'll take that as a no...it's a shame. they're so sensitive.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:46:33pm |
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Racer X Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:46:40pm |
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:47:05pm |
re: #68 Stanley Sea
I WISH I lived in Colorado right now.
You have a room anytime you're in town. All Lizards are welcome here if you're passing through, any time of the year.
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Capitalist Tool Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:47:46pm |
re: #84 Walter L. Newton
Close... Conifer... the REAL South Park... home of Trey Parker and Matt Stone... yes... there really are characters like that up here. remember, there is no real town of South Park... South Park is a mountain meadow about 40 miles southwest of here.
Hmmm don't think I've been to Conifer... can just picture the area, though.
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:48:34pm |
re: #90 Capitalist Tool
Hmmm don't think I've been to Conifer... can just picture the area, though.
Twelve miles south of Evergreen. On 285.
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Uninformed Opinion Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:49:15pm |
Every day in Colorado is a good day to me.
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Capitalist Tool Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:49:24pm |
thanks Walter- you've picked yourself a spot in paradise, imho
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:49:52pm |
re: #88 Racer X
The best play was on Sunday at the Giants/Mariners game. Ray Ramirez ( a 60 something year old balldude) wearing a poncho--it was pouring rain--made a diving catch for a foul ball, landing in a large puddle of water. The game wasn't televised...still waiting for the Giants to put the video of it up so I can share.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:49:56pm |
re: #88 Racer X
Amazing play by Mark Buehrle Chicago White Sox vs Cleveland Indians
[Video]
Great stuff. Glad to see him making a tough catch. I hope the Sox do well this year.
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Spare O'Lake Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:49:59pm |
re: #64 darthstar
I don't think Nancy would sleep with you even if you put a bag over your head.
I'm actually extremely handsome and sexy.
I know this because I once heard a gorgeous blonde say that to a guy standing right beside me.
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Ojoe Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:50:47pm |
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:51:15pm |
re: #94 Stanley Sea
Thanks Walter! You never know.
It's fine... al I ever get staying here and stopping in are liberals... we know how to handle them :)
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Charles Johnson Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:51:15pm |
re: #26 captdiggs
My vote goes to Rep. Hank Johnson who thinks that stationing 8000 marines on Guam will make it tip over and capsize.
Rep. Hank Johnson is gravely ill with hepatitis C. But don't let that stop you from mocking him.
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:55:25pm |
re: #100 Walter L. Newton
It's fine... al I ever get staying here and stopping in are liberals... we know how to handle them :)
Hey Walter - backatcha. If you are ever in my area alone or with guests - you have a place to stay.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:57:08pm |
re: #101 Charles
Rep. Hank Johnson is gravely ill with hepatitis C. But don't let that stop you from mocking him.
oh man, I lost a very good friend to that insidious disease...that's bad news, maybe he will pull through for another few rounds...I hope so
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b_snark Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:57:40pm |
re: #50 Racer X
As long as we're bashing white women, OK if I bash on Pelosi?
Skin colour is irrelevant. Is Pelosi as stupid as either Palin or Bachmann? What fun quotes of hers do you have?
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:58:46pm |
re: #98 Spare O'Lake
I'm actually extremely handsome and sexy.
I know this because I once heard a gorgeous blonde say that to a guy standing right beside me.
We're all handsome and sexy on the internets.
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Digital Display Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:58:57pm |
re: #101 Charles
Rep. Hank Johnson is gravely ill with hepatitis C. But don't let that stop you from mocking him.
You know sometimes you show great kindness to the weak..And sometimes you just cut the knees out from the Strong..
You rock dude...nice
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:59:18pm |
re: #63 WindUpBird
She did hide in the bushes, spying on teh queero!
unfinished business:
re: #779 WindUpBird
I see your ttruueee colors
shiiining throughhh
and btw Cindi is a hommie :) so bite me.
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:59:33pm |
re: #106 albusteve
My stepsister too. Died at 39. In "the family's" opinion, she didn't take care of herself. Who knows, I was miles away.
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:59:42pm |
re: #101 Charles
Rep. Hank Johnson is gravely ill with hepatitis C. But don't let that stop you from mocking him.
He's not gravely ill. He meant that he was concerned the infrastructure couldn't handle the additional 8,000 marines. On one hand, we conservatives should address the meat of the remark or let it be, IMHO.
On the other hand, "gravely ill" with HepC = end-stage cirrhosis or some other form of grave liver disease. No one with end-stage cirrhosis is up and walking around Capital Hill. It's a horrible way to die.
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b_snark Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:00:01pm |
re: #65 Walter L. Newton
Just a drive by before LOST.
Holy moly... so last Sunday I worked my first 4 hours at the store, had one of the best cashiers in the place training me.
Today I walk in from my shift... they put me on a register WITHOUT anyone to hold my hand... I'm thinking, this is going to be flying by the seat of my pants.
"Hi... did you find everything you need? Do you need any stamps... ice... wood pellets, it's going to get cold tonight."
"Hi... did you find everything you need? Did you find everything you didn't need. Can I get you some stamps, ice... small furry critters."
"Hi... did you find everything you need? Did you find everything you didn't need. Can I get you some stamps, ice... we have a special on road kill."
"Hi... did you find everything you need? Did you find everything you didn't need. Can I get you some stamps, ice... would you like to adopt a child."
Seriously... I said these things... they instructed me to "engage" the customers (or was that to get "engaged" to the customers)... so, I'm going to be the worlds first "stand up cashier."
"Do you want paper or plastic... or shall I just toss the stuff in the general direction of your vehicle?" (no, I didn't use that line).
Fun.
Do you have your routine all written and practiced up?
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:00:44pm |
Cool...new episode of "Justified" starting now on FX.
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Capitalist Tool Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:00:52pm |
re: #91 Walter L. Newton
Twelve miles south of Evergreen. On 285.
Oh! Well, I've most likely been through there, then. Going from Lakewood through Evergreen and on up to Fairplay... weren't Lizards back then.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:01:16pm |
re: #113 b_sharp
It was worth it. I'm still snickering.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:02:08pm |
re: #112 Aceofwhat?
He's not gravely ill.
Yes, he most certainly is. U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson battling hepatitis C.
WASHINGTON -- For months, speculation has swirled in both Atlanta and Washington about U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson's health.
The Lithonia Democrat's already-thin frame has shed 30 pounds in the past year. His speech is slower than ever, and he regularly gets lost in thought in the middle of a discussion. He is easily fatigued and often impatient and irritable.
Monday, he revealed why.
In an exclusive interview with the AJC, Johnson disclosed he has been battling hepatitis C, an incurable, blood-borne liver disease, for more than a decade.
He was officially declared free of the virus in January, but it has ravaged his liver, resulted in thyroid problems and other health issues, including depression, for which he's also being treated. To keep the disease in remission, Johnson is going through an experimental treatment that he said has been the worst part so far.
"I am weaker than I ever have been," Johnson, 55, said in his Capitol Hill office.
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:02:49pm |
re: #110 brookly red
unfinished business:
re: #779 WindUpBird
I see your ttruueee colors
shiiining throughhh
and btw Cindi is a hommie :) so bite me.
You really want to drag this over to a fresh thread?
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:03:02pm |
re: #111 Stanley Sea
My stepsister too. Died at 39. In "the family's" opinion, she didn't take care of herself. Who knows, I was miles away.
sorry to hear that...treatments are very expensive and not wholy successful....there is no cure, altho the virus will sometimes go into submission, maybe forever....sometimes you don't know you have it until it's too late...very sad
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Capitalist Tool Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:03:23pm |
re: #108 darthstar
We're all handsome and sexy on the internets.
Would that it were true... just so you know, I'm old an' ugly.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:03:47pm |
re: #110 brookly red
Would you please drop it?! Don't bring a spat from the previous thread onto this one.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:03:54pm |
re: #120 Capitalist Tool
Would that it were true... just so you know, I'm old an' ugly.
I'm old and dead sexy.
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:04:32pm |
re: #119 albusteve
Definitely a lot of moral judgment was involved with that part of my famile.
Thanks.
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:04:47pm |
re: #117 Charles
Yes, he most certainly is. U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson battling hepatitis C.
In your quote, he is saying that the worst part has been the current drug therapy that he's undergoing. That is not end-stage liver disease. Trust me. He can speak for himself. No one with end-stage liver disease is debating the finer points of infrastructure on Guam.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:05:19pm |
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Linden Arden Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:05:29pm |
re: #26 captdiggs
My vote goes to Rep. Hank Johnson who thinks that stationing 8000 marines on Guam will make it tip over and capsize.
Amazingly, volcanic islands often "capsize" from erosion and landslides on the shield volcano opposite side.
I doubt Mr. Johnson had the geologic process in mind though.
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:05:29pm |
re: #118 McSpiff
You really want to drag this over to a fresh thread?
no I just I just have to respect the the homegirlz honer... Cindi does not suffer fools well.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:05:41pm |
re: #124 Aceofwhat?
In your quote, he is saying that the worst part has been the current drug therapy that he's undergoing. That is not end-stage liver disease. Trust me. He can speak for himself. No one with end-stage liver disease is debating the finer points of infrastructure on Guam.
I didn't say he had "end stage liver disease." I said he is gravely ill. And that is absolutely true.
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:06:11pm |
re: #127 brookly red
no I just I just have to respect the the homegirlz honer... Cindi does not suffer fools well.
that is all.
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:06:54pm |
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:08:06pm |
re: #130 McSpiff
Awesome, no need to clutter this thread then.
no I will leave the clutter to you as it should be.
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:08:14pm |
re: #128 Charles
I didn't say he had "end stage liver disease." I said he is gravely ill. And that is absolutely true.
No, it's not. Gravely ill due to liver disease = nonfunctional. Trust me, before you lessen the gravity of what it really looks like to be gravely ill due to liver disease.
Don't minimize how horribly this disease can end by overdramatizing the side effects of medication.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:08:17pm |
re: #65 Walter L. Newton
Man...
I worked big-box retail in my late teens through mid 20s, and the most valuable lesson I learned from it was DON'T BE AN ASS TO THE REDSHIRTS.
I was never a "people person" to begin with, but dealing with retail customers for an extended period of time can really sour you on people in general.
If any of you are ever annoyed at the treatment you're getting from a retail employee, just keep in mind that it's not terribly unlikely that the last seemingly friendly and engaging person they talked to went to the manager and falsely claimed you offered them a discount on something.
Also keep in mind that when that employee does their duty and upholds company policy with regard to returns & exchanges, if you respond by threatening to call the BBB / AG / FOX4 / etc., when you aren't allowed to return the laptop you bought 3 months ago and which is now covered in orange Cheeto dust: It isn't going to make anyone want to help you.
Anyway, I think if I ever ended up in a situation where keeping a job was unimportant, I would go and get a job at a big-box retailer just so I could dissuade people from this crazy idea that the customer is always right.
My current job gets tedious and mind-numbing at times, and I REALLY hate that. However, it's still better than having to interact with the general public.
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darthstar Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:09:17pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:09:30pm |
re: #124 Aceofwhat?
In your quote, he is saying that the worst part has been the current drug therapy that he's undergoing. That is not end-stage liver disease. Trust me. He can speak for himself. No one with end-stage liver disease is debating the finer points of infrastructure on Guam.
interferon treatments can just about kill you...whatever stage he's in he certainly has my sympathy
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Charles Johnson Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:09:47pm |
re: #132 Aceofwhat?
No, it's not. Gravely ill due to liver disease = nonfunctional. Trust me, before you lessen the gravity of what it really looks like to be gravely ill due to liver disease.
Don't minimize how horribly this disease can end by overdramatizing the side effects of medication.
And don't try to blow smoke up my ass. He's been fighting hepatitis C for more than a decade and has lost 30 pounds in the past year.
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Vicious Babushka Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:10:09pm |
Passover has passed over! Everything is put away for next year!
My sons went out to get pizza and beer.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:10:25pm |
re: #132 Aceofwhat?
Ace, please leave it. You're not going to get anywhere dueling over semantics with Charles like that.
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b_snark Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:10:40pm |
This is going to be an incredibly off topic post, and Charles, I will not bitch if you delete it.
My wife is going in for surgery on the 14th and will find it difficult to climb steps for a couple of weeks. I would like to transmit the TV signal upstairs for her so she can watch her shows. Does anyone know of a decent method of wirelessly transmitting the signal from a cable PVR to a TV.
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Digital Display Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:11:15pm |
re: #132 Aceofwhat?
No, it's not. Gravely ill due to liver disease = nonfunctional. Trust me, before you lessen the gravity of what it really looks like to be gravely ill due to liver disease.
Don't minimize how horribly this disease can end by overdramatizing the side effects of medication.
Not following you ace..Who overdramatized in what post?
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:11:21pm |
re: #138 Alouette
Passover has passed over! Everything is put away for next year!
My sons went out to get pizza and beer.
damn... I shoulda had some kids.
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:11:44pm |
albusteve - you know I'm playing Sail On right now.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:12:11pm |
re: #138 Alouette
"That's a good boy."
-Navin Johnson's Father, "The Jerk"
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:12:31pm |
if someone has hep C and the virus is active, biopsies are positive...you are gravely ill imo
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:13:12pm |
re: #139 Dark_Falcon
Ace, please leave it. You're not going to get anywhere dueling over semantics with Charles like that.
I lost an uncle to this. Charles can own this blog but he's obviously not a doctor, and in this case, has no fucking idea what he's talking about. The sky is blue no matter what color someone else says it is, and when one is gravely ill from this disease, they are in a wholly different state than Hank Johnson's.
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Digital Display Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:14:15pm |
re: #138 Alouette
Passover has passed over! Everything is put away for next year!
My sons went out to get pizza and beer.
Passover?
Our God shows us mercy...
/Cause if he didn't this joint would have been burned to the ground thousands of years ago..
*waves*
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:14:21pm |
re: #143 Stanley Sea
albusteve - you know I'm playing Sail On right now.
try to find the Beach Boys Reunion (or whatever it was) where Ray Charles sings it live as a guest....I posted it here and could never find it again...track that down and you'll have a little treat
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Charles Johnson Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:14:57pm |
re: #146 Aceofwhat?
I lost an uncle to this. Charles can own this blog but he's obviously not a doctor, and in this case, has no fucking idea what he's talking about. The sky is blue no matter what color someone else says it is, and when one is gravely ill from this disease, they are in a wholly different state than Hank Johnson's.
I have no idea why you're being such an asshole. The guy has hepatitis C, and is seriously, gravely ill from it.
What the hell is wrong with you?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:15:16pm |
re: #118 McSpiff
You really want to drag this over to a fresh thread?
hahaha I sure don't, too much work to do!
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Obdicut Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:15:51pm |
re: #132 Aceofwhat?
Um, dude, gravely ill is a broad term, and I would call someone with Hep C who lost 30 pounds gravely ill.
I'm not sure why you're digging your heels in on this one.
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:16:26pm |
re: #145 albusteve
if someone has hep C and the virus is active, biopsies are positive...you are gravely ill imo
oh and as a public service announcement, that straw that you are sticking up your nose that just went up someone else's is a major cause of hep transmission...
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:17:39pm |
re: #152 brookly red
oh and as a public service announcement, that straw that you are sticking up your nose that just went up someone else's is a major cause of hep transmission...
needles/illicit sex/bad transfusion
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:18:00pm |
re: #149 Charles
I have no idea why you're being such an asshole. The guy has hepatitis C, and is seriously, gravely ill from it.
What the hell is wrong with you?
I'll log off. My uncle was gravely ill from hepC...before he died. I know what gravely ill from this disease looks like. I know all too well.
Good night.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:18:58pm |
re: #154 Aceofwhat?
I'll log off. My uncle was gravely ill from hepC...before he died. I know what gravely ill from this disease looks like. I know all too well.
Good night.
Apparently, what that taught you is to be a complete jerk about other people who have the disease.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:19:31pm |
re: #146 Aceofwhat?
The presence of HCV in the liver triggers the human immune system, which leads to inflammation. Over time (usually decades), prolonged inflammation may cause scarring. Extensive scarring in the liver is called cirrhosis. When the liver becomes cirrhotic, the liver fails to perform its normal functions, (liver failure), and this leads to serious complications and even death. Cirrhotic livers also are more prone to become cancerous.
[Link: www.medicinenet.com...]
LIVER
FAILURE
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:19:49pm |
re: #148 albusteve
try to find the Beach Boys Reunion (or whatever it was) where Ray Charles sings it live as a guest...I posted it here and could never find it again...track that down and you'll have a little treat
Will this post?
[Link: fliiby.com...]
Yes, a treat.
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:20:22pm |
re: #65 Walter L. Newton
Congratulations on surviving your first solo day!
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:20:23pm |
re: #153 albusteve
needles/illicit sex/bad transfusion
snot.
the hep virus is carried by mucus and that can be found in your nose...
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:21:53pm |
re: #153 albusteve
needles/illicit sex/bad transfusion
kinda funny how so many people have blinders on...
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:22:16pm |
re: #157 Stanley Sea
Will this post?
[Link: fliiby.com...]
Yes, a treat.
yup, that's it....but listen close....there is an unsettled dispute as to who wrote it....it's all a myth now...good job!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:22:27pm |
re: #140 b_sharp
This is going to be an incredibly off topic post, and Charles, I will not bitch if you delete it.
My wife is going in for surgery on the 14th and will find it difficult to climb steps for a couple of weeks. I would like to transmit the TV signal upstairs for her so she can watch her shows. Does anyone know of a decent method of wirelessly transmitting the signal from a cable PVR to a TV.
Not sure what a PVR is, but a Slingbox may be what you want: [Link: www.slingbox.com...]
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Digital Display Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:22:59pm |
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Gus Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:25:29pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:25:41pm |
re: #165 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I'm not sure if that's a veiled implication that Hank Johnson was using drugs.
One wonders!
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Racer X Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:25:52pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:25:54pm |
I LIKE POTATOES!
G'night knuckleheads.
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windsagio Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:26:32pm |
re: #168 WindUpBird
I think someone is still pisst from last thread and is sharing the joy.
You know, if 'sharing' means 'trying to poison another thread'.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:26:59pm |
Wrong is wrong. I don't care which side of the spectrum from which it raises its ugly head.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:27:00pm |
re: #166 austin_blue
Food borne? Hmm...
I think you misread something. The quote says "blood borne."
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:27:18pm |
re: #165 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
WTF?
the hep can be carried in mucus...
person A put straw in nose, person B exposes them self to person A's mucus when placing the same straw in their nose. Sorry if that is a problem.
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NJDhockeyfan Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:27:41pm |
re: #170 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I LIKE POTATOES!
G'night knuckleheads.
We planted the first veggies in my garden last weekend. Pretty soon we will have fresh lettuce for salads. :)
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:27:43pm |
re: #172 Locker
You're a good person :D :D
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watching you tiny alien kittens are Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:27:53pm |
re: #164 albusteve
Ray Charles is baaad ass!...hoot!
He can even "sense" V.W.s driving past him and somehow deduce their color. That is even more badass than Peter Parker's "spider sense" right?
/
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b_snark Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:28:37pm |
re: #162 WindUpBird
Not sure what a PVR is, but a Slingbox may be what you want: [Link: www.slingbox.com...]
I knew somebody here would have an angle. Thank you my avian friend.
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:29:18pm |
re: #175 brookly red
the hep can be carried in mucus...
person A put straw in nose, person B exposes them self to person A's mucus when placing the same straw in their nose. Sorry if that is a problem.
moral of the story, if you choose to do drugs bring your own gear.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:29:47pm |
re: #180 brookly red
moral of the story, if you choose to do drugs bring your own gear.
Are you trying to insinuate that Rep. Johnson is a drug addict?
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windsagio Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:29:59pm |
re: #177 WindUpBird
news from the new DF, since we're talking games.
I've been so far attacked by a flaming feathered leech (that destroyed my fortress) and a waterbomb monster that poisened a bunch of people when it exploded!
also, you can buy prepared insect brains (as food) and barrels of blood from traders.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:30:06pm |
re: #168 WindUpBird
I'm not sure if that's a veiled implication that Hank Johnson was using drugs.
One wonders!
probably where 90% of hep C originates...altho I am probably wrong...almost everybody I know from 35yrs ago has it including me
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Racer X Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:30:12pm |
re: #175 brookly red
the hep can be carried in mucus...
person A put straw in nose, person B exposes them self to person A's mucus when placing the same straw in their nose. Sorry if that is a problem.
There are lots of ways to contract Hep.
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austin_blue Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:30:47pm |
re: #138 Alouette
Passover has passed over! Everything is put away for next year!
My sons went out to get pizza and beer.
Not pepperoni, I hope.
;-)
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:31:05pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:31:16pm |
re: #180 brookly red
moral of the story, if you choose to do drugs bring your own gear.
there are a multitude of paths of transmission not drug oriented
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Surabaya Stew Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:31:21pm |
I feel for Walter and his new job. The 2010 Census chewed me up and spat me out in remarkably short order. My recently passed time working for our dear Uncle Sam seems to have been designed to turn those with liberal leanings against our government due to its sheer ineptitude. In other words, working for the Census (at least in my experience) had been a freaking joke at our collective expense!
Anybody up for the full story? It would explain why this Lizard has been AWOL for the past 2 weeks....
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:32:03pm |
re: #188 Surabaya Stew
I feel for Walter and his new job. The 2010 Census chewed me up and spat me out in remarkably short order. My recently passed time working for our dear Uncle Sam seems to have been designed to turn those with liberal leanings against our government due to its sheer ineptitude. In other words, working for the Census (at least in my experience) had been a freaking joke at our collective expense!
Anybody up for the full story? It would explain why this Lizard has been AWOL for the past 2 weeks...
I'm up for it.
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NJDhockeyfan Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:32:04pm |
re: #183 albusteve
probably where 90% of hep C originates...altho I am probably wrong...almost everybody I know from 35yrs ago has it including me
I must have hung out with health drug addicts. I never contracted anything but a buzz in my younger partying days.
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austin_blue Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:33:10pm |
re: #149 Charles
I have no idea why you're being such an asshole. The guy has hepatitis C, and is seriously, gravely ill from it.
What the hell is wrong with you?
He apparently doesn't like Dems.
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Olsonist Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:33:14pm |
My sister's a doc. Twenty years ago, when a room mate tested positive, she had me over in her office getting a needle shoved in my ass that morning.
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:33:36pm |
re: #181 Charles
Are you trying to insinuate that Rep. Johnson is a drug addict?
No I never met the man, I as someone who works in the health care field would only would only like to educate people as to how to protect themselves from hep transmission. You would not object to my recommending the use of condoms, would you?
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:33:58pm |
re: #180 brookly red
moral of the story, if you choose to do drugs bring your own gear.
I never heard the one about mucus
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:34:05pm |
re: #188 Surabaya Stew
Do, tell. We LIKE gory details around here.
Nice to "see" you!
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NJDhockeyfan Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:34:30pm |
From the life imitates art file...
German women accused of real-life 'Weekend at Bernie's' stunt
Two German women arrested in Britain after allegedly trying to smuggle a dead relative onto a flight to Berlin said Tuesday they thought the man was simply asleep.
Kurt Willi Jarant, 91, was in a wheelchair and wearing sunglasses as his widow and her daughter attempted to check him in at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, northwest England, on Saturday.
Airport staff helped the elderly man, who suffered from Alzheimer's, out of a taxi into the wheelchair when he arrived for his flight.
But officials became suspicious and took his pulse, discovering he had passed away.
Police then detained his widow Gitta Jarant, and her daughter, Anke Anusic, at the airport on suspicion of having failed to give notification of death. They have been released on bail.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:34:54pm |
re: #178 ausador
He can even "sense" V.W.s driving past him and somehow deduce their color. That is even more badass than Peter Parker's "spider sense" right?
/
Super Ray!
can see in the DARK!
I loved that guy
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:35:29pm |
re: #187 albusteve
there are a multitude of paths of transmission not drug oriented
sure kissing can do it, the point is that don't take risks.
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watching you tiny alien kittens are Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:35:50pm |
So has anyone else noticed the concerted effort today to say that Karzai is not only a drug addict but also mentally unstable on certain news channels?
Gee, you think maybe they are starting to lay the groundwork to yank him from office and replace him with another more amenable puppet or something? (naw, our government never ever does that kind of thing, well, except when they do)
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:37:29pm |
re: #184 Racer X
There are lots of ways to contract Hep.
any way that involves blood as far as I know...I have it, and was a nurse at one time, lost a friend to it and my ER wife was very up to speed with it...it's been a national plague over the last 20 years
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:37:36pm |
I have a dear friend, who couldn't loose his belly fat. No matter what he did, his tummy was bloated. Short version, he was diagnosed with Hep C, and has had a liver transplant, from his Uncle. 5 years on, he is doing well, but his skin color isn't quite right, in the last 6 months & I am worried about him.
No chance it was drug use, his doctors think he picked it up in foreign lands.
He's going to Madagascar this Fall, anyway. Malaria is a big risk for him, but he really wants to go.
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Digital Display Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:38:17pm |
OY:
The Hoopsters Weather report this year..
1) This Winter was colder than heck. Everybody got snowed in.. It was horrible everywhere...
So that must mean there is no Global warming right?
2) The last couple of days Have been the hottest recorded temps in ALL OF HISTORY for Indiana.. So that must mean global warming is right?
3) The Temp will drop by 50 degrees in two days..Yes you read that correct 50 degree..I will be scrapping ice of the windshield Thursday Morning... Climate Change right?
Call me crazy..I see climate change in my neck of the woods..
At this rate who knows what happen..
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:38:20pm |
re: #199 Cannadian Club Akbar
Hola Honco!
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:38:51pm |
re: #204 HoosierHoops
California, here I come!
//
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:39:05pm |
re: #196 Stanley Sea
You work in health care?
yes, we train Doctors & other HCPs about the newest therapy areas.
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prairiefire Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:39:49pm |
re: #65 Walter L. Newton
Walter, you are going to have little old ladies cozying up to you for their weekly laugh.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:40:22pm |
re: #190 NJDhockeyfan
I must have hung out with health drug addicts. I never contracted anything but a buzz in my younger partying days.
it's not about addiction, it's about sharing needles...you can certainly become addicted without mainlining your stash
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NJDhockeyfan Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:40:50pm |
re: #204 HoosierHoops
OY:
The Hoopsters Weather report this year..
1) This Winter was colder than heck. Everybody got snowed in.. It was horrible everywhere...
So that must mean there is no Global warming right?
2) The last couple of days Have been the hottest recorded temps in ALL OF HISTORY for Indiana.. So that must mean global warming is right?
3) The Temp will drop by 50 degrees in two days..Yes you read that correct 50 degree..I will be scrapping ice of the windshield Thursday Morning... Climate Change right?
Call me crazy..I see climate change in my neck of the woods..
At this rate who knows what happen..
We used to call that weather when I was a kid.
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austin_blue Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:41:15pm |
re: #174 Charles
I think you misread something. The quote says "blood borne."
Oops, you are correct. Apologies.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:41:35pm |
re: #200 brookly red
sure kissing can do it, the point is that don't take risks.
possibly...but the virus is bound to the red blood cells...that's a fact bro
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pharmmajor Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:41:39pm |
re: #117 Charles
This is a shame. My thoughts go out to him and his family.
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Ojoe Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:41:51pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:42:07pm |
re: #192 Olsonist
My sister's a doc. Twenty years ago, when a room mate tested positive, she had me over in her office getting a needle shoved in my ass that morning.
with what?...do you recall?
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NJDhockeyfan Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:42:40pm |
re: #209 albusteve
it's not about addiction, it's about sharing needles...you can certainly become addicted without mainlining your stash
Yikes! I never messed with needles. That was too scary for me.
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Killgore Trout Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:43:14pm |
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:43:27pm |
re: #212 albusteve
possibly...but the virus is bound to the red blood cells...that's a fact bro
yeah but real kissing involves a bit of bloodshed ;)
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:43:42pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:44:16pm |
re: #218 brookly red
yeah but real kissing involves a bit of bloodshed ;)
I was gonna allude to your girlfriend but refrained
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Digital Display Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:44:43pm |
re: #206 Floral Giraffe
California, here I come!
//
LOL
The weather has been so crazy this year that if I wrote I had a hurricane party in Indiana this summer people would think well that's crazy..But you wouldn't count it out..Not after our climate this year...
It's crazy weather in Indiana this year..
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Surabaya Stew Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:45:17pm |
re: #189 Dark_Falcon
I'm up for it.
I should have known that trouble was brewing when a phone call from the Census folks came in 4 weeks ago on a Sunday at 10:30am! Apparently they were so short staffed in administration, that even when I rejected the first job posting (I was to be a Senior Citizen assistant in helping our nursing bound elders fill out forms for $14.50/h), they informed me that they would call again the following day with another, higher paying, job. So the following Sunday at 9:15am they call again offering $18.75 to do "non-traditional" enumeration. I accepted in my half-asleep state, not knowing what I was about to get into....
....which was counting homeless people in New York City! (The training manual which the Census forgot to take back from me, advises to "Wear comfortable shoes, should the need to run [from angry and violent homeless people] arise.") And that was before the disaster that was "training" began....
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austin_blue Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:45:31pm |
re: #183 albusteve
probably where 90% of hep C originates...altho I am probably wrong...almost everybody I know from 35yrs ago has it including me
Needles. Blood transfusions.
Here's the skinny:
Transmission
Hepatitis C infection in the US by source. (CDC,n.d.[dead link])
Sexual activities and practices were initially identified as potential sources of exposure to the hepatitis C virus. More recent studies question this route of transmission. Currently it is felt to be a means of rare transmission of hepatitis C infection. These are simply the current known modes of transmission and due to the nature of hepatitis there may be more ways that it is transmitted than the current known methods.
[edit]Injection drug use
Those who currently use or have used drug injection as their delivery route for drugs are at increased risk for getting hepatitis C because they may be sharing needles or other drug paraphernalia (includes cookers, cotton, spoons, water, etc.), which may be contaminated with HCV-infected blood. An estimated 60% to 80% of intravenous recreational drug users in the United States have been infected with HCV.[15] Harm reduction strategies are encouraged in many countries to reduce the spread of hepatitis C, through education, provision of clean needles and syringes, and safer injecting techniques. For reasons that are not clear transmission by this route currently appears to be declining in the USA.
The VA Testimony before the Subcommittee on Benefits Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, April 13, 2000, Gary A. Roselle, M. D., Program Director for Infectious Diseases, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, state, "One in 10 US Veterans are infected with HCV", a rate 5 times greater than the 1.8% infection rate of the general population."
A study conducted in 1999, by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and involving 26,000 veterans shows that up to 10% of all veterans in the VHA system tested positive for hepatitis C.
Of the total number of persons who were hepatitis C antibody positive, and reported an era of service, 62.7% were noted to be from the Vietnam. The second most frequent group is listed as post-Vietnam at 18.2%, followed by 4.8% Korean conflict, 4.3% post-Korean conflict, 4.2% from WWII, and 2.7% Persian Gulf era veterans.
[edit]Blood products
Blood transfusion, blood products, or organ transplantation prior to implementation of HCV screening (in the U.S., this would refer to procedures prior to 1992) is a decreasing risk factor for hepatitis C.
A cDNA clone from the hepatitis C virus genome was first isolated in 1989[16] and reliable tests to screen for the virus were not available until 1992. Therefore, those who received blood or blood products prior to the implementation of screening the blood supply for HCV may have been exposed to the virus. Blood products include clotting factors (taken by hemophiliacs), immunoglobulin, Rhogam, platelets, and plasma. In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the risk of HCV infection from a unit of transfused blood in the United States is less than one per million transfused units.
[edit]Iatrogenic medical or dental exposure
People can be exposed to HCV via inadequately or improperly sterilized medical or dental equipment. Equipment that may harbor contaminated blood if improperly sterilized includes needles or syringes, hemodialysis equipment, oral hygiene instruments, and jet air guns, etc. Scrupulous use of appropriate sterilization techniques and proper disposal of used equipment can reduce the risk of iatrogenic exposure to HCV to virtually zero.
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:48:00pm |
re: #223 Surabaya Stew
Glad you survived! YIKES!
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:48:28pm |
re: #152 brookly red
oh and as a public service announcement, that straw that you are sticking up your nose that just went up someone else's is a major cause of hep transmission...
and why for the sake of Pete would someone downding that? Hep kills get over it.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:49:13pm |
re: #219 Dark_Falcon
re: #212 albusteve
Thanks for the info, you two. It's scary but needed.
I have spent 25 years telling people, medical workers etc that I have hep C...it's embarrassing because there is no question it was contracted from shared drug needles...but you have to buck up and be honest about it...and btw, after four surgeries etc over the last two years and all the blood panels I've had, my liver is functioning normally and there is no trace of any viral activity...but it's there, waiting....that's how it behaves
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SilentAlfa Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:49:42pm |
re: #193 brookly red
No I never met the man, I as someone who works in the health care field would only would only like to educate people as to how to protect themselves from hep transmission. You would not object to my recommending the use of condoms, would you?
recommending the use of condoms versus implying that a congressman is a a druggie are a bit different i think
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austin_blue Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:49:59pm |
re: #210 NJDhockeyfan
We used to call that weather when I was a kid.
Yes but you are not a kid anymore and it is time to toss off childish things and learn some science. What HH is reporting is what the climate models say will happen. Gradual warming causing wilder swings in short-term weather.
It might be a good time to change the way we produce power while we still have Florida. Just a thought.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:50:04pm |
re: #227 albusteve
I have spent 25 years telling people, medical workers etc that I have hep C...it's embarrassing because there is no question it was contracted from shared drug needles...but you have to buck up and be honest about it...and btw, after four surgeries etc over the last two years and all the blood panels I've had, my liver is functioning normally and there is no trace of any viral activity...but it's there, waiting...that's how it behaves
Stay healthy, Steve. You're a good man and we like having you here.
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:52:14pm |
re: #227 albusteve
I know, if anyone can, you will kick it's ass!
Be well.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:53:15pm |
re: #224 austin_blue
thanks for that...I never heard of anyone contracting the virus through sex but anything is possible I guess...it is blood borne
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prairiefire Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:53:50pm |
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:54:03pm |
re: #204 HoosierHoops
OY:
The Hoopsters Weather report this year..
1) This Winter was colder than heck. Everybody got snowed in.. It was horrible everywhere...
So that must mean there is no Global warming right?
2) The last couple of days Have been the hottest recorded temps in ALL OF HISTORY for Indiana.. So that must mean global warming is right?
3) The Temp will drop by 50 degrees in two days..Yes you read that correct 50 degree..I will be scrapping ice of the windshield Thursday Morning... Climate Change right?
Call me crazy..I see climate change in my neck of the woods..
At this rate who knows what happen..
Only gonna get down 15-20 degrees here. Thank goodness for Lake Michigan.
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:54:36pm |
re: #228 SilentAlfa
recommending the use of condoms versus implying that a congressman is a a druggie are a bit different i think
f u where you breath OK I am tired of people putting words in my mouth I never did such a thing I don't even know the man I did not imply that and you can bite me.
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ShaunP Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:54:50pm |
re: #232 albusteve
thanks for that...I never heard of anyone contracting the virus through sex but anything is possible I guess...it is blood borne
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:55:42pm |
re: #230 Dark_Falcon
Stay healthy, Steve. You're a good man and we like having you here.
heh...thanks, I'm fine...just trying to shed some light on it...I don't worry too much about it...there is no cure
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:57:39pm |
And the Lizard Army gains a new member:
Dragon-sized lizard eluded science, until now
The next step is to bring ten new members of LGF in front of the lizard. If it picks out YL92 from the pack, it's a true monitor lizard.
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NJDhockeyfan Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:59:02pm |
re: #229 austin_blue
Yes but you are not a kid anymore and it is time to toss off childish things and learn some science. What HH is reporting is what the climate models say will happen. Gradual warming causing wilder swings in short-term weather.
It might be a good time to change the way we produce power while we still have Florida. Just a thought.
Lighten up, Francis...it was an innocent post on my part. No need to fly off the handle.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:59:06pm |
re: #236 ShaunP
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
right, where there is blood there is hep C...I have no clue individually where my crew found it...I assume via needles
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Digital Display Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:59:53pm |
re: #234 Dark_Falcon
Only gonna get down 15-20 degrees here. Thank goodness for Lake Michigan.
Hi
I guess my point was.. If during the Winter and it was just colder than hell and Rush and Drudge were just crowing about Global warming.Everyday it disproved those evil scientists.... Why the last couple of days when It's been hotter than all recorded history isn't Rush talking about global warming? And in 2 days it will be below freezing..Why isn't Rush talking about climate change?
I guess facts only matter when it fits the narrative...
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prairiefire Tue, Apr 6, 2010 7:59:56pm |
re: #238 Dark_Falcon
Great catch! Awesome in its lizardness
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:01:44pm |
re: #240 albusteve
right, where there is blood there is hep C...I have no clue individually where my crew found it...I assume via needles
tiny amounts of blood can be found in just about anything you think is fun... and some things you don't find fun at all...
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Surabaya Stew Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:02:23pm |
re: #223 Surabaya Stew
I should have known that trouble was brewing when a phone call from the Census folks came in 4 weeks ago on a Sunday at 10:30am! Apparently they were so short staffed in administration, that even when I rejected the first job posting (I was to be a Senior Citizen assistant in helping our nursing bound elders fill out forms for $14.50/h), they informed me that they would call again the following day with another, higher paying, job. So the following Sunday at 9:15am they call again offering $18.75 to do "non-traditional" enumeration. I accepted in my half-asleep state, not knowing what I was about to get into...
...which was counting homeless people in New York City! (The training manual which the Census forgot to take back from me, advises to "Wear comfortable shoes, should the need to run [from angry and violent homeless people] arise.") And that was before the disaster that was "training" began...
Instead of the customary 4 days of training (all on the government's dime) when one learns to be a "traditional" enumerator, only 2 days are doled out for the tougher job of counting our least fortunate citizens. This is even more chanlenging when your trainer has had only 2 days of management training herself! She was competent overall, but clearly overwhelmed by the conflicting and incomplete instructions that she had been given. The first day of training included 2 hours waiting for further instructions from her superiors, and 4 hours of paperwork to fill out in between the remaining 2 hours of instructions. Which left no time for the finger printing, that was required to be completed that day! So, after a promised "5-minute walk" to the main office (that was actually 20 minutes away), us aspiring body-counters had to wait for up to 3 hours to be fingerprinted 2 times each time by a different federal employee! 30 people (mostly mothers with children at day-care) were kicked out at that point (without pay) because they couldn't wait around any longer after being promised they could go home by 5pm. The next day, training was cut short because the feds, in their great wisdom, had rented classroom space from a Jewish institute of learning, and of course they close up shop early on Shabbos! Duh....
Did I mention that everybody in my class felt totally unprepared to do the work? Or that rain was expected for the full 3 days of the "non-traditional" enumeration? Because that's when the real fun began....
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:03:50pm |
re: #243 brookly red
tiny amounts of blood can be found in just about anything you think is fun... and some things you don't find fun at all...
correct...it does not take an arteriole geyser to pass hep C...the smallest nic or scratch will do just fine...also via menstruation
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NJDhockeyfan Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:04:55pm |
re: #241 HoosierHoops
Hi
I guess my point was.. If during the Winter and it was just colder than hell and Rush and Drudge were just crowing about Global warming.Everyday it disproved those evil scientists... Why the last couple of days when It's been hotter than all recorded history isn't Rush talking about global warming? And in 2 days it will be below freezing..Why isn't Rush talking about climate change?
I guess facts only matter when it fits the narrative...
When there was a big rain storm on the East Coast Al Gore claimed it was from global warming. There are kooks on both sides of the debate.
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:05:12pm |
re: #245 albusteve
correct...it does not take an arteriole geyser to pass hep C...the smallest nic or scratch will do just fine...also via menstruation
bingo!
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:05:14pm |
re: #242 prairiefire
Great catch! Awesome in its lizardness
handsome guy...as long as your not a peach or a pear
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Daniel Ballard Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:06:06pm |
My sympathies to anyone with Hep C. I think using a disease for digs at someone is pretty low. AIDS next? *Shudder*
Okay we are celebrating tonight. I had a good month at work, made some extra money. Enough to zero our credit cards after taxes. First good money in about 18 months. Oh and D_L does the happy snoopy dance pretty well!
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:07:16pm |
re: #249 Rightwingconspirator
My sympathies to anyone with Hep C. I think using a disease for digs at someone is pretty low. AIDS next? *Shudder*
Okay we are celebrating tonight. I had a good month at work, made some extra money. Enough to zero our credit cards after taxes. First good money in about 18 months. Oh and D_L does the happy snoopy dance pretty well!
DRINK!
pass the Red Stripe!
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:07:19pm |
re: #249 Rightwingconspirator
My sympathies to anyone with Hep C. I think using a disease for digs at someone is pretty low. AIDS next? *Shudder*
Okay we are celebrating tonight. I had a good month at work, made some extra money. Enough to zero our credit cards after taxes. First good money in about 18 months. Oh and D_L does the happy snoopy dance pretty well!
You both have fun tonight! Congats!
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Daniel Ballard Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:07:27pm |
re: #238 Dark_Falcon
Heh. Do not include emails or phone numbers or personal information in posts when that bad boy is on duty!!!
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:08:03pm |
re: #245 albusteve
correct...it does not take an arteriole geyser to pass hep C...the smallest nic or scratch will do just fine...also via menstruation
but alas the pro science crowd will dismiss this as partisan and continue to infect them selves... shit happens.
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watching you tiny alien kittens are Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:09:18pm |
re: #241 HoosierHoops
Hi
I guess my point was.. If during the Winter and it was just colder than hell and Rush and Drudge were just crowing about Global warming.Everyday it disproved those evil scientists... Why the last couple of days when It's been hotter than all recorded history isn't Rush talking about global warming? And in 2 days it will be below freezing..Why isn't Rush talking about climate change?
I guess facts only matter when it fits the narrative...
Uhh...Duh?
You had no doubts about their veracity before this winter or something?
/you walked right into that one. :p
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:10:48pm |
re: #253 brookly red
but alas the pro science crowd will dismiss this as partisan and continue to infect them selves... shit happens.
OK I miss spoke... the pro science crowd will not not pick up on this... much better.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:10:51pm |
re: #253 brookly red
but alas the pro science crowd will dismiss this as partisan and continue to infect them selves... shit happens.
maybe, that's their business...as for me, I'm gonna burn in hell so there's alot I really don't give a shit about
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:11:56pm |
re: #253 brookly red
but alas the pro science crowd will dismiss this as partisan and continue to infect them selves... shit happens.
if you put partisan politics before fact, you aren't really pro science IMO.
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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:12:08pm |
re: #5 darthstar
Me too...I didn't realize Palin looked so sane next to Bachmann.
Bachmann is pretty close to insane.
Palin is simply an opportunist.
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prairiefire Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:12:24pm |
re: #257 brookly red
Why, because they'll infect themselves with hep? Or they won't give you shit for saying it?
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:12:57pm |
re: #256 prairiefire
WTH?
I just meant that all the haughty people will not see the danger... ironic that science has sections. MY bad.
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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:13:15pm |
re: #9 darthstar
Suffice it to say Bachmann won't be getting her own TV show called "Michele's Minnesota"
The local TV reviewer suggested that Discovery, when putting together the Alaska show should had have considered, perhaps, how the OTHER half of their viewers would react to "Harry's Nevada".
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prairiefire Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:13:22pm |
re: #258 albusteve
No you're not, you said you are going to repent.
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prairiefire Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:14:22pm |
re: #262 brookly red
brookly, enough antagonism. Have a good night.
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:14:24pm |
re: #249 Rightwingconspirator
Congratulations on the good month.
LOL @ the Snoopy Dance.
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austin_blue Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:14:52pm |
re: #227 albusteve
I have spent 25 years telling people, medical workers etc that I have hep C...it's embarrassing because there is no question it was contracted from shared drug needles...but you have to buck up and be honest about it...and btw, after four surgeries etc over the last two years and all the blood panels I've had, my liver is functioning normally and there is no trace of any viral activity...but it's there, waiting...that's how it behaves
Yikes! No wonder you are such a curmudgeon.
Hep C is a buggerbear. I'm vaccinated against A and B (part of the job), but there's no vaccine for Hep C.
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:15:15pm |
re: #258 albusteve
maybe, that's their business...as for me, I'm gonna burn in hell so there's alot I really don't give a shit about
Shit, you're good people steve. Or at least fun to be around. Hope I end up wherever you and the guys like you end up. I'd get bored otherwise.
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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:16:35pm |
re: #50 Racer X
As long as we're bashing white women, OK if I bash on Pelosi?
Lack of permission usually doesn't stop folks...but I don't see a reason to make this a racial thing...you could bash on Cynthia McKinney, and we'll all join in.
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:17:34pm |
re: #259 McSpiff
if you put partisan politics before fact, you aren't really pro science IMO.
no let me try again...
so many people that pride them selves on their scientific enlightenment will not see the risk presented by hep or take the proper steps to protect themselves... is that better?
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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:17:39pm |
re: #51 darthstar
And yet Sarah was obsessed with fighting him. It boggles the mind.
You can sort of see why, though. He got her daughter pregnant at the worst possible moment, she had to drag him to the RNC and pretend the kids were getting married, then he proceeded to go totally haywire...
I would hate him too.
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:17:55pm |
re: #269 SanFranciscoZionist
Oooh, let's have at Cynthia. She's a VERY rich target.
Off to look up her latest antics!
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:18:16pm |
re: #264 prairiefire
No you're not, you said you are going to repent.
I'm gonna try, right at the last minute...but surely they will see it's a cowards scam...I'm going down
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austin_blue Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:18:59pm |
re: #239 NJDhockeyfan
Lighten up, Francis...it was an innocent post on my part. No need to fly off the handle.
I didn't say anything about you!
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:19:06pm |
re: #262 brookly red
I just meant that all the haughty people will not see the danger... ironic that science has sections. MY bad.
Haughty people?
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Surabaya Stew Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:19:21pm |
re: #244 Surabaya Stew
Instead of the customary 4 days of training (all on the government's dime) when one learns to be a "traditional" enumerator, only 2 days are doled out for the tougher job of counting our least fortunate citizens. This is even more chanlenging when your trainer has had only 2 days of management training herself! She was competent overall, but clearly overwhelmed by the conflicting and incomplete instructions that she had been given. The first day of training included 2 hours waiting for further instructions from her superiors, and 4 hours of paperwork to fill out in between the remaining 2 hours of instructions. Which left no time for the finger printing, that was required to be completed that day! So, after a promised "5-minute walk" to the main office (that was actually 20 minutes away), us aspiring body-counters had to wait for up to 3 hours to be fingerprinted 2 times each time by a different federal employee! 30 people (mostly mothers with children at day-care) were kicked out at that point (without pay) because they couldn't wait around any longer after being promised they could go home by 5pm. The next day, training was cut short because the feds, in their great wisdom, had rented classroom space from a Jewish institute of learning, and of course they close up shop early on Shabbos! Duh...
Did I mention that everybody in my class felt totally unprepared to do the work? Or that rain was expected for the full 3 days of the "non-traditional" enumeration? Because that's when the real fun began...
Imagine 200 census workers with umbrellas in front of a soup kitchen.
If you were homeless, would you want to go inside?
That was the situation on my first day. Of course, only 60 of us were chosen; the rest were either sent to other soup kitchens or were told to go home. Naturally, it took nearly 90 minutes to be instructed to do the latter. Which didn't matter because my supervisor called when I was down the block and asked if I could run down to the main office and pick up clipboards and extra forms and bring them back to the soup kitchen.
The image I would like to leave you all with is of Surabaya Stew carrying his census bag in has left hand, bulging with clipboards that chafe against his leg. In his right, an umbrella. On his left and right shoulders, more bags stuffed with 100's of census forms that a Census hired truck couldn't see fit to include while making deliveries. And bouncing around his neck like a dog tag from the planet dork, his badge and emergency contact card!
I was starting to dislike my life very much at this point.
I'll skip the rest, except to say that the best part of chasing down a mobile food van at 8:15pm making pit stops to feed ghost-like homeless new yorkers is getting a phone call from an job that you interviewed at 4 months ago.
I've been working there since Thursday; the best part of which is: no more Uncle Sam paychecks for me!
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:19:40pm |
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NJDhockeyfan Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:19:51pm |
re: #258 albusteve
maybe, that's their business...as for me, I'm gonna burn in hell so there's alot I really don't give a shit about
Hopefully they will let you load the music on the jukebox. I'm sure it will vastly improve conditions down there.
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:19:54pm |
re: #267 austin_blue
Yikes! No wonder you are such a curmudgeon.
Hep C is a buggerbear. I'm vaccinated against A and B (part of the job), but there's no vaccine for Hep C.
just be careful around other peoples blood...you'll be fine
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watching you tiny alien kittens are Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:20:49pm |
re: #246 NJDhockeyfan
When there was a big rain storm on the East Coast Al Gore claimed it was from global warming. There are kooks on both sides of the debate.
Actually they still continue to do that every time a major storm system strikes, but it isn't Al Gore, it is some half informed talking head on T.V. who really has no idea what he is talking about. They just don't get that by blaming normal natural storms that have happened quite regularly for all of recorded history on climate change that they invalidate it completely in some peoples minds and cause doubt even amongst some of the slightly better informed.
We cannot stop them from doing that, we are not in control of what anyone says to the press, unlike the Republican party whose members always quote exactly the same talking points to any press question over and over. They are wrong for trying to sensationalize global warming and claim immediate consequences that often cannot be proven or even linked at all casually to the science. It discounts the actual science and makes those of us who support it look foolish, damn that pesky first amendment and our obligation to allow anyone to say anything they want!
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Stanghazi Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:21:32pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:21:43pm |
re: #268 McSpiff
Shit, you're good people steve. Or at least fun to be around. Hope I end up wherever you and the guys like you end up. I'd get bored otherwise.
we can duke it out for an eternity!.....yeeehaaa!
pack a lunch!
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:22:45pm |
re: #270 brookly red
no let me try again...
so many people that pride them selves on their scientific enlightenment will not see the risk presented by hep or take the proper steps to protect themselves... is that better?
110% agreed.
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:23:16pm |
re: #282 albusteve
we can duke it out for an eternity!...yeeehaaa!
pack a lunch!
I'll make the sandwiches, you pack the tunes?
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:23:29pm |
re: #279 albusteve
just be careful around other peoples blood...you'll be fine
Yo, others people's is my hustla's game , bitches shouda just respected my fame...
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:24:07pm |
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:24:44pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:25:29pm |
re: #270 brookly red
no let me try again...
so many people that pride them selves on their scientific enlightenment will not see the risk presented by hep or take the proper steps to protect themselves... is that better?
me thinks I'm the only one here that understands your cryptic posts...
less is better
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:25:31pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:25:55pm |
re: #285 brookly red
Yo, others people's is my hustla's game , bitches shouda just respected my fame...
pleased to meet you
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brookly red Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:26:08pm |
re: #288 McSpiff
This thread is slowing down, maybe no one noticed?
we are the only 2 assholes left :(
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:27:01pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:27:28pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:29:18pm |
re: #286 prairiefire
No, it is not a coward's scam.
I won't go down easy...if I can cheat my way out of it I will....I'm not a very pious sort of guy and it will catch up with me
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:30:41pm |
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:35:34pm |
re: #298 albusteve
First concert I ever went to, that song blew me away. I've never experienced energy like that. Me and my 100k closest friends all in the same moment. Closest I've been to god.
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Bagua Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:37:43pm |
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albusteve Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:37:49pm |
re: #300 McSpiff
First concert I ever went to, that song blew me away. I've never experienced energy like that. Me and my 100k closest friends all in the same moment. Closest I've been to god.
the Stones rule
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McSpiff Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:42:18pm |
re: #302 albusteve
the Stones rule
Around the age of 17 I saw Apocalypse Now. That movie was about 26 years old when I saw it, making it a classic for me. In it, Armed Forces Radio plays a Stone's tune, and the DJ calls it either an oldie or a classic. The next weekend I saw the Stones live. Sold out show. Can't do that with too many bands.
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Bagua Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:48:21pm |
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 6, 2010 8:49:37pm |
re: #304 Bagua
How does it feel?
[Video]
- Stones - Stripped
Great cover. They did that song even better than Bob Dylan.
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Mentis Fugit Wed, Apr 7, 2010 12:47:28am |
re: #133 negativ
Anyway, I think if I ever ended up in a situation where keeping a job was unimportant, I would go and get a job at a big-box retailer just so I could dissuade people from this crazy idea that the customer is always right.
Therapy:
The Customer is not Always Right
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