Presidential Science Panel says 90,000 could croak this year from the swine flooos
Close to HALF the Country could be infected.
Coming soon to an ER near you.
Read it and weep HERE.
NOW:
The carnage could start as early as next month, which is little comfort to those most at risk since a vaccine will not be ready until mid-October and it will take weeks to get people fully immunized, probably because it comes in a SERIES of shots. (Now they say two, but last week it was three.)
Then there was this reassuring quote from THE pandemic expert, the guy who wrote the book on flu pandemics:
“The Northern Hemisphere medical care requirements for the next six months are a train wreck waiting to happen,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis. “In the fall, even if nothing else changes in terms of the virus’s severity and our preparedness, it’s going to be a real challenge.”
A Nation of Dumbasses
Birthplace of our President. Really, no kidding.
According to a new Public Policy Poll, 10% of Americans either believe Hawaii is not part of the United States or are unsure about it. (See, Q4 on Page 2 of release.) Jesus H. Limping Christ on a Fucking Raft! We deserve whatever awful fate awaits us. Perhaps the swine flus will kill off a lot of stupid people and ultimately save us from ourselves. One can only hope.
This explains it all or Why we spent two trillion dollars we didn’t have
To Battle Gog and Magog.
A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush
JAMES A. HAUGHT
Gog and Magog - what worried Bush the most.
Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.
Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.
Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”
This bizarre episode occurred while the White House was assembling its “coalition of the willing” to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush’s call and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”
Anti-Abortion Extremist Predicts Violence if Abortions are paid for in the Health Bill.
Mr. Terry's sick handiwork.
(My question in all this is why the hell an aide to Nancy Pelsosi ever agreed to meet with these nutbags. And, a great example of right-wing crassness was “Ms. Roe” of Roe vs. Wade fame bringing up the Speaker’s Catholicism.)
By Jonathan Allen | July 28, 2009 4:21 PM
Randall Terry, the controversial former head of Operation Rescue, is predicting that extremists would retaliate with violence if a health care overhaul allows taxpayers to foot the bill for abortions. Terry offered his forecast during an unusual meeting on Tuesday between two dozen or so anti-abortion activists and an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during which Terry spilled hundreds of miniature plastic babies from a small faux casket onto a conference table in a room adjacent to Pelosi’s personal office in the Cannon Building. During the meeting, Terry warned of ominous repercussions from extremists if House provisions that would expand insurance coverage for abortions are made into law.
“If you force people to pay their money” he said afterward, “there are people who will resort to acts of violence.”
Democrats cave on card check
I fucking KNEW this would happen – kissing Blanche Lincoln’s and Mary Landrieu’s Confederate asses.
The Unbelieveable Crassness of Republicans
I must admit one thing. I’d miss the Republicans if they all got raptured tomorrow. If anyone had predicted on Sunday night some of the outrageous things that have been said by Republicanist Senators on the Judiciary Committee since Monday morning, when the Sotmayor hearings began, they would be ridiculed as blindly partisan hacks. Consider this:
“Then you would have some ’splaining to do.”
– Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), doing his best Ricky Ricardo impression at Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing.
If it were a confirmation for a black judge, would Coburn put on blackface and sing a “mammy” song?
It gets better. Confederate Jefferson Beauregard Sessions chastised Sotomayor for failing to vote the same way as another judge on her circuit, “also of Puerto Rican heritage.”
Smarmy shit Lindsey Graham, as Maureen Dowd noted in the NYT today, read Sotomayor some anonymous comments made by lawyers about her, complaining that she was “temperamental,” “nasty,” “a bit of a bully.” Then he patronizingly lectured her about how this was the moment for “self-reflection.” That nasty little sissy needs to spend some time with his governor helping him to self-reflect.
Day Old Bread – Odds and Ends – 06/01/09
- Silver American Eagle
- Silver has best month since 1987. Get it NOW.
- GM filed for bankruptcy today.
- Willfully asleep at the switch: Bush’s SEC thwarted regulation. “After Cox became SEC chairman in mid-2005, he adopted practices that undermined the enforcement division’s efforts to investigate cases of corporate wrongdoing and punish those involved, according to interviews with 19 current and former SEC officials.”
- Right-wing extremist held in slaying of Kansas abortion doctor. ‘Of Dr. Tiller’s death, Mr. Leach said, “To call this a crime is too simplistic,” adding, “There is Christian scripture that would support this.”‘
Day Old Bread – Odds and Ends – 05/29/09
- Paul Krugman is not worried about inflation.
- My boy Berlusconi is in hot water again. L’affaire Noemi?
- GM Readies For Bankruptcy.
- While Confederate mushmouth Dick Shelby is ringing the socialism alarm bells - again, over the deal. His alternative? Let it fall.
- Gold on 3 month high. Silver closing in on $16.00 per ounce?
The Economic Downfall and the Rise of Tent Cities
The Camp of the Bonus Army, 1932.
Quote of the Day
My theme is the intellectual decline of conservatism, and it is notable that the policies of the new conservatism are powered largely by emotion and religion and have for the most part weak intellectual groundings. That the policies are weak in conception, have largely failed in execution, and are political flops is therefore unsurprising.
Richard Posner
Will These Dim-Witted GOPers EVER Learn?
Suicide Blond Rep. Marsha Blackburn tried to blindside fellow Tennessean Al Gore with a question today about him making money off of preaching climate change. She comes off looking like a fool. Like Mike Pence with Hillary Clinton the other day, Blackburn asked for it and got it, in aces and spades. These people are mega-stars, you pinheads, they will eat you for breakfast. And, as a final note, it’s extremely difficult to take someone seriously who says “imporDant” instead of “important”.
Bill Hits the Nail Right on the Head
Embittered.
From
the Los Angeles Times
Opinion
The GOP: divorced from reality
The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.
By Bill Maher
April 24, 2009
If conservatives don’t want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.
It’s been a week now, and I still don’t know what those “tea bag” protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who’s going to win “American Idol.” But it wasn’t tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that’s when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.
The Republican Civil War – At Least Meaghan McCain Gets It.
Ms. McCain, daughter of failed candidate John McCain, recently addressed the world’s most Quixotic political group, The Log Cabin (Gay) Republicans. She blew some skirts over some heads with what she had to say.
Of Pirates and Other Barbarians
- Avast, matey!
- Pirates seize two more ships.
- Convoys called for in battle with Somali pirates.
- Wingnut flack Golberg struggles to compliment the Prez after being tongue-lashed yesterday by Boss Limbaugh.
- At least Rollins is man enough to admit the President acted decisively and correctly.
- Roger Simon also has high praise for the commander-in-chief.
- Young couple executed by Taliban for the crime of eloping.
Politics Bag – 04/14/09
- Is NY next?
- Wonkette perceives “Balkanization” in the Teabagger movement.
- NY Guv to push same-sex marriage bill in Lege.
- MN Court declares Franken winner. Coleman to appeal – natch.
- Bernie Sanders tells Alabama McCarthyite to put up or shut up.
- The Party of No stumbles in PR efforts.
- Spanish Court plans to move ahead with torture indictments against Bush Admin officials.
