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Distributed for peer review last week, the study found that people vaccinated against seasonal flu are twice as likely to catch swine flu.
Glaciers are melting. Period. Satellite data show that Greenland glaciers have been thinning at between the rate of 1/2 meter (19 inches) per year and 1-1/2 meters (or almost 60 inches — 5 ft!) per year. In Antarctica, glaciers are thinning by 9 meters (30 ft) per year.
We are but fleas agitating the hide of a far greater organism.
With Rush Limbaugh‘s encouragement, the Republican National Committee sponsored propaganda outlet NewsMax [article removed, link removed] yesterday published an article calling for a military coup d’tat to “resolve the Obama problem“, replacing it with an interim administration of “military trained nation builders”.
Unsurprising, really, the playbook is, afterall, seventy-five years old. ‘Bout the same timeframe into the administration, as well.
Treason, a hanging offense, never-the-less.
in the next ten years if heath care reform fails.
In Oregon, the number of uninsured could soar to nearly 1 million from 715,000 today. Providing care to poor families and children through Medicaid and the state Children Health Insurance Program could jump 110 percent over the next 10 years, from $2.5 billion today to $5.4 billion in 2019.
“This report makes clear the urgency of health insurance reform,” Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., said. “The opposition is playing politics with people’s lives, and if we continue down this dangerous path, almost one million Oregonians will be uninsured in the next decade. We simply cannot afford the high cost of inaction.”
Even under the “best case scenario” in which enrollment in those programs is stable, the cost in Oregon would rise from $2.5 billion to $4.3 billion over the next decade. The costs to individuals and families in Oregon would range from 70 percent more in a worse case to 49 percent in the best case.
Hide Witch hide, the good folk come to burn thee;
They hide their keen enjoyment, behind a perfect mask of duty.
There are no “gods”, only fairy tales. Fantasies to explain away the dark, justify sex with young children, and profit. You really don’t think the witch doctor really believes that tossing a virgin in a volcano will make it rain, do you? Nooo… tossing a virgin in a volcano keeps him in his cushy witch doctor gig, with the additional perk of spending a few quality end of life hours with the virgin – what…!? you thought the virgin, stoned to the bone on Ambien, Prozac, and Viagra and smiling all the way to the bottom, was still a virgin when the witch doctor tossed ‘em in? I’ve got some property to sell. Ocean-front. Cheap. Cash only, in small bills. You’ll love Idaho!
Recalling that in all legend lay a kernel of fact, reading the fabrications koran, bible, and torah in larger, historical context with other fabrications lain down in stone it is in fact quite easy to afford “Intelligent Design” a measure of credibility. When chariots with wheels of fire flitting about, vast arks propelling the seeds of life across vast empty spaces, and fathers asking of their wives “be this my son, or that of a “giant?” are lain aside the physical record it isn’t all that far fetched to supposit that at some point in the past half-million years extra-terrestrial travelers – for whatever reason: pure science, sheer boredom, desperate survival, or profit – genetically interfered with the development of the proto-humans they found roaming the savannahs of Northern and Western Africa. Not only are we but fleas agitating the hide of a far greater organism, but some bastard’s abandoned science project, if not cattle, as well. Wrap the twelve percent of your brain you use around that.
This notion that the bastard is going to come back and rescue us… that as the blood of our adolescent squabbles over whose imaginary dog has the bigger dick rises to the horses’ bridle will come floating down out of the sky on a white horse with a thousand angels to carry away the chosen few, the faithful… Who are these “Chosen People”, these “faithful”? The genetically purest cattle (or pigs, as it is)? More accurately: just who do they think they are? Get this straight, these “Chosen People”, these “faithful”, can destroy the world – burn the forests, chop down the mountains, turn the air we breath into toxic gas and waters we drink into vast garbage reservoirs… can
drop their fucking bombs and burn the screaming babies
and at the last moment, the moment the world is utterly destroyed, after the bloodbath, some spectral being with whom they’ve entered into some kind of “special” contractual obligation is going to float down out of the sky and carry them away.
Uh-huh. To what?
Far the more likely thousands upon thousands of cavernous spacecraft, vast slaughter-houses piloted by ravenous vaguely reptilian creatures, replete with horns and folked tail, intent not as benevolent overseers of the demise of this world and our current iteration in human evolution and our children’s evolution onto the next iteration of humanity but as ravenous reptilian creatures… you know, hungry lizards.
We did, afterall, invite them to “Come Eat!”
That’s how many Americans would pay higher taxes for better health care.
The telephone survey of 3,003 U.S. adults conducted by Thomson Reuters found 63 percent willing to pay for healthcare reform, though most also said they are happy with their own doctors, insurance plans and out-of-pocket costs.
That’s the good news. The teabaggers are the minority by a 2 to 1 margin.
However, only 35 percent of those surveyed said President Barack Obama’s reform agenda and the debate in Congress will lead to better health service, while 41 percent said they would expect it to lead to lower costs.
The Catholic Church doesn’t have a pedophilia problem:
The statement, read out by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the UN, defended its record by claiming that “available research” showed that only 1.5%-5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sex abuse.
He also quoted statistics from the Christian Scientist Monitor newspaper to show that most US churches being hit by child sex abuse allegations were Protestant and that sexual abuse within Jewish communities was common.
Well, the bible does say it’s Ok to fuck your daughters, so…
Human life does not “begin” at conception, sperm and egg are both alive before they even encounter one another. So what’s next, banning masturbation? How’s that gonna’ work with your penchant for pornography, airport men’s room hookups and pedophilia, slavering braindead jerk-offs?
I’m pretty sure it was your dawg, right in there with don’t eat shrimp and hookup in airport men’s rooms, that said “it is better to spill your seed in the womb of a whore than upon the ground.” (not that some of you don’t)
