Just take the flu shots. The government loves you.
ROFL

Just take the flu shots. The government loves you.
ROFL

#1 | Posted by JeffnDenmark at 2009-04-26 02:16 PM

If you don't want to take them then flee to a foreign country like a certain pussy on the DR has done!

If you don't want to take them then flee to a foreign country like a certain pussy on the DR has done!

Wrong hole try one a little further South...

The confirmed this morning in the press conference that this particular swine flu is airborne. Not much anyone can do to stop it.

Wash your hands, don't get near people who cough and sneeze, and stay out of big crowds. Take lots of Vitamin C and good luck 'cause if this swine flu gets as bad as they think it might, we're going to need it.

Damned ChemTrails..

Flu season is tailing out -- flus don't spread well as it gets hotter and more humid. The level of hysteria in the media -- particularly from Matt Drudge -- seems far in excess of the actual risk.

Watch what happens to the Airlines stocks
The next bailouts on the horizon
Media should be in full spastic mode by Tuesday

Now's a good chance for them to get rid of the Tamiflu vaccine that they stocked up during the bird flu hysteria. Never mind that it's useless.

"Tamiflu vaccine"

#8 | Posted by Ray at 2009-04-26 05:54 PM

Tamiflu isn't a vaccine, dimwit.

"TAMIFLU is not a substitute for the flu shot; vaccination is the first line of defense for flu protection."

particularly from Matt Drudge

Wozzit now?

Damn, now Spud has to e-hop on over to that weirdo's Retort parody site and find out wot the blog-god is talking about...

PANICO!

OH NOEZ! OMFG!

WTF?!

Was the red lettering really needed there, Matt?

On top of the Banner headline?

And the 18 links?

A little overboard, no?

18? That's not a news aggregate site that's a golf course of fear mongering!

Be Well.

Swine flu is a hoax!

Sincerely,
Ray

The question I have not yet heard asked is, how is it possible for a new mutant flu virus strain to appear simultaneously in so many places at once?

Inquiring minds are very fkucing curious.

Hold your breath people, both literally and figuratively. Our immune systems may not be the only thing targeted by the time this is over.

After 9-11 we had the anthrax scare and interminable yellow, orange, red alerts (never green).

After the bailout they gotta have something to permit further lying cheating and stealin. This will do fine.

It happens every year, they just don't usually give it this much fanfare.

It's called airlines and travel

How easy it is for you retards to jump from "public health emergency" to "declaring martial law".

"Napolitano said the emergency declaration is a warning, not a notice of imminent danger, similar to preparing for a hurricane.

"I wish we could call it a declaration of emergency preparedness," Napolitano said. "

You head the department Janet, just make a new alert. You have the power.

Zat and Spud are back. Cool!

Vacancy: Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services.

HHHHhhhhmmmm....

Zat and Spud are back. Cool!

Well, someone has to tutor Tad in the ways of rightousness!

Spud is also glad to see Zat back! ^_^

Plus the mystery behind Ron Karate's mysterious appearance has been solved to Spud's satisfaction.

All's good in the hood!

Be Well.

Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano must be filling in.

Remember the flu vaccine issue in 2004, Kerry and Kennedy blamed Bush.

We do not have a fully functional Govt. 100's of appointments to be made and BO is golfing!!!!

Where is the outcry?

Swine flu is a hoax!
Sincerely,
Ray
#11 | Posted by nullifidian

Tamiflu isn't a vaccine, dimwit.
#9 | Posted by Zatoichi

These two remind me of my days in grade school.

"These two remind me of my days in grade school.

#23 | Posted by Ray"

It's a shame you never graduated.

"These two remind me of my days in grade school.

#23 | Posted by Ray at 2009-04-26 07:05 PM

I remember you, Ray. You were the kid always goofing off in science class. And it shows.

don't take the flu shots.

"don't take the flu shots."

#26 | Posted by nanc at 2009-04-26 07:35 PM | Reply | Flag: getting a nasty cough soon

"The swine flu virus that has killed more than 80 people in Mexico may mutate into a "more dangerous" strain, the World Health Organisation has warned. Skip related content

"It's quite possible for this virus to evolve... when viruses evolve, clearly they can become more dangerous to people," said Keiji Fukuda, of the global health watchdog."

Skip " Skip related content " .

#26 | Posted by nanc at 2009-04-26 07:35 PM | Reply | Flag: getting a nasty cough soon

#27 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2009-04-26 07:39 PM | Reply | Flag: Hopefully

Would seem to me the Obama admin is starting the fire. Maybe Drudge and other media outlets are fanning the flame, but it's our gov't who's pushing the alert button, no?

The emergency declaration is just a procedural step that enables health agencies to allocate resources and prepare in case it becomes more serious. It's not a reason to panic.

#26 | Posted by nanc at 2009-04-26 07:35 PM | Reply | Flag: getting a nasty cough soon

#27 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2009-04-26 07:39 PM | Reply | Flag: Hopefully

#29 | Posted by nullifidian at 2009-04-26 07:41 PM | Reply | Flag: funny

I'm not worried. I have a car antenna.

"I'm not worried. I have a car antenna."

#32 | Posted by Corky at 2009-04-26 07:51 PM | Reply | Flag: funny

Flu season is tailing out -- flus don't spread well as it gets hotter and more humid. The level of hysteria in the media -- particularly from Matt Drudge -- seems far in excess of the actual risk.

#6 | Posted by rcade

that is true, but mutated strains may operate in different environs..Case in point is this one originated in Mexico City not exactly tropical but also not alaska.

The CDC has stated that it is not if but when the next spanish flu hits and we are definitely overdue and ripe for mama nature to bitch slap us..

It's a shame you never graduated.
#24 | Posted by LetUsPrey

Dumb.

I remember you, Ray. You were the kid always goofing off in science class. And it shows.
#25 | Posted by nullifidian

Dumber.

I have a BSME. That's Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Please don't ask me what an engineer is.

"Please don't ask me what an engineer is."

#35 | Posted by Ray at 2009-04-26 09:06 PM | Reply | Flag: Wouldn't know.

As in, "Last week I couldn't even spell injinear and now I are one."?

Damn, that's old.

This is an engineer: txtell.lib.utexas.edu

#36 | Posted by Zatoichi

He always has to brag about the betters he had lunch with.

"I have a BSME. That's Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Please don't ask me what an engineer is."

Well, that's interesting Ray, since you reject as much of modern, mainstream science as do bible-thumpers. From theories of disease and medicine to blacks holes and the big bang, you have a fringe theory for every occasion.

"He always has to brag about the betters he had lunch with."

#38 | Posted by Ray at 2009-04-26 09:20 PM

Actually, femtobrain, I built Ben's first GaAs MBE lab back in the 80's.

I had lunch with Jim Cronin (1980 physics Nobel) recently.

And if some shithole excuse for a college actually gave you a BSME they should kill themselves.

He always has to brag about the betters he had lunch with.

What do you expect from the guy who made Willie Nelson famous?

"What do you expect from the guy who made Willie Nelson famous?"

He always has to brag about the betters he had lunch with.

What do you expect from the guy who made Willie Nelson famous?

#41 | Posted by goatman

And the green goblins of jealously arise..

There will always be someone smarter, better looking and richer than you..get over it. Your betters couldn't give two shits about your opinion or pettiness.

I just fixed the radio station, shit-for-brains.

Is that the story now? I see it has changed since you last told it.

"Your betters couldn't give two shits about your opinion or pettiness. "

They don't call him Petty Goat for nothing.

They don't call him Petty Goat for nothing.

Explain to me your claim that I am the troll even though you always come after me first?

Oh, that's right. You are too chicken shit to admit that you are full of crap. LOL

BTW, who is this mysterious 'they' who calls me petty Goat? Or is it just more nullshit? I vote that it's more nullshit, just like I'm the troll thingy. LOL

"What do you expect from the guy who made Willie Nelson famous?"

I just fixed the radio station, shit-for-brains.

#42 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2009-04-26 09:29 PM

And you just explained why you are an IT boy on an oil rig and I was making Willie famous being chief engineer of KOKE FM in 1974-75

Posted by Zatoichi at 2008-05-27 07:38 PM

#46 | Posted by goatman at 2009-04-26 09:46 PM | Reply | Flag

You already posted that, virtually word for word. It doesn't get any less retarded upon reposting.

There will always be someone smarter, better looking and richer than you..

Undoubtedly. In fact, there are probably at least 6,000,000,000 people who fit that description.

Your point being . . .?

I sense a swine flu on an oil rig TV show; Everybody dies.

You already posted that, virtually word for word. It doesn't get any less retarded upon reposting.

True. BUt you do indeed look more and more retarded by not answering and continuing to insist that it is I, not you, who is the troll.

As I always do and you always take me up on, I am letting you have the last word. Get some new material for your troll act if you want to keep me walking over your bridge. You bore me more and more easily as the days go by, trollifidian.

IPDA => IDPA

It really doesn't matter if you're dead.

"Posted by Zatoichi ... 2008"

Never gets it.
That's why Hans bailed, dimwit.

"Goatman leaves"

Face it loser, make the world a better place, just jump overboard.

"As I always do and you always take me up on, I am letting you have the last word. "

Wow. What a lying sack of shit. Nobody has lastworditis more than you Goattroll.

Face it loser, make the world a better place, just jump overboard.

Want to see the one when you told us about the microsoft stock you purchased with the money from the sale of your house in the '70s? That one is even better than your claim of making Willie Nelson famous. LOL

And now, you may have the last word, as always, Goattroll.

"Posted by Zatoichi ... 2008"

Never gets it.
That's why Hans bailed, dimwit.

Because of your Willie Nelson claim. Well, I guess the DR does have you to thank for that.

Good Lord, the ginger glazed pork I had tonight was delicious.

Oh, yes, it was free ranging, pastured pork and chock full of coconuts before I hit it with the back side of an axe blade and then slit its throat.

It felt no pain, but let me tell you, you give a much greater "thanks" when you know exactly where your meat came from.

A healthy, happy pig, giving healthy, happy food.

Thank you piggie for your sacrifice.

No thank you to the industrial meat complex that churns out infected swine/poultry/pistachios for profit and then sells us worthless drugs to combat the quasi-crafted virus.

Can't y'all call a truce? *sigh*

Chris

Pretty cool.

If Texas secedes, they're big enough to have their very own civil war.

Lets see here...

The Messiah meets with Nancy "Pig"losi...

The Messiah goes to Mexico...

Two weeks later, there is a SWINE FLU epidemic in Mexico...

When you lay down with PIGlosi's, you end up with Swine Flu...

So why the surprise?

The Messiah, Change America can do WITHOUT...

I'm liking Shyguy a lot more then I used to....

yet another reason for border controls.

Maybe the swine flue is what I've had for the past 10 days. Lots of green, though, it's probably a "swinus" infection, bu-dum-bum-bing!

Facts:

Every year in the United States, on average:

UTASTAFF-
re: "Nice work Obama on distracting America from your failed economic crisis."

Do you ever stop to think that maybe even a flu pandemic is not a political ploy by Obama? One of the concerns about this flu is that many of the dead are young and healthy, while most strains of the flu kill the very old and the very young (toddlers, infants, etc.)

You've gone over the edge in your hatred of your president.

Betelg,

Obama empowers himself by causing panic. He continues to panic America on the financial crisis making it even worse. He is panicking America with a flu strain with less than 1/1000th the effect on the American population than the common flu. The deaths are ocurring in a 3rd world country with substandard healthcare. Obama shook the hand of infected man himself and he is okay!

If Obama really gave a crap, he would be restricting travel from those entering the U.S. from Mexico or at least requiring actual testing of travelers from Mexico and he is not doing either! Obama has not even picked a Director of the CDC or even a surgeon general!!!!!

Pandemic my ass!

Obama has not even picked a Director of the CDC or even a surgeon general!!!!!

Pandemic my ass!

#68 | Posted by utastaff

Hello... his HHS Secretary just got confirmed a few days ago.

UTA-
The cases are in europe, Mexico,Canada, and the US. It is the very definition of a pandemic. The death toll in Mexico has just been updated to about 150.

If this was such a panic why is Obama out playing golf? He shook the hands of a man who died from the pig flu when he was down in Mexico.

No deaths from the Pig Flu in the U.S., and only around 40 cases compared to 36,000 U.S. deaths and 200,000 hospitalized from the common seasonal flu virus.

Obama is THE PRESIDENT OF PANIC!

UTA-
I happen to be listening to Limbaugh right now, so why should I read your posts? It's redundant and a waste of my time.

If this was such a panic why is Obama out playing golf?

Panic is the last thing we need, so if Obama wished to cause a panic, why is he out playing golf?

Maybe you need to calm down and realize that you don't make any sense at all.

The pig flu isn't killing Americans yet and even if it does it has a long way to go before it hits the 36,000 who die every year from the seasonal flu just in the U.S. out of the annual 15 MILLION Americans who are infected with it.

You're rambling now.

Obama loves fear so the word Pandemic is a nice panic button word.
#74 | Posted by utastaff

Indeed it is. Which, it's probably reasonable to assume, is one reason he why hasn't used the term. (From the article: "President Barack Obama said there was reason for concern but not yet 'a cause for alarm.'") Another reason might be that it isn't a pademic, at least not yet.

Maybe if you'd actually read the article before shooting off your mouth you wouldn't sound so poorly informed.

Doc-
He didn't read the article. Someone on the radio interpreted it for him.

LOL

Hey libs, my comments weren't about the article but watching all of the Obama Admistration press conferences as there have been a ton of them. He is clearly causing a panic by declaring a "public health emergency" and not making any attempt to compare pig flu infection and mortality rates to the huge numbers of inflection and mortality rates in the U.S. caused by the seasonal flu.

Seriously, I watched several Obama Administration press conferences and they are not mentioning that 36,000 Americans die from seasonal flu every year, 200,000 hospitalized every year with approx 15 MILLION infected to put the miniscule 40 infections and zero deaths in the U.S. into perspective.

my comments weren't about the article but watching all of the Obama Admistration press conferences as there have been a ton of them.
#79 | Posted by utastaff He is clearly causing a panic by declaring a "public health emergency"

Which still doesn't explain why you wrote:

Obama loves fear so the word Pandemic is a nice panic button word.
#74 | Posted by utastaff

When, in fact, he hasn't used the term "pandemic."

Doc,

Homeland Security Napolitano called the health emergency, "standard operating procedure, similar to emergency preparedness in advance of a coming hurricane."

No need to panic right? Only similar to procedures for massively deadly and destructive events like hurricanes. Nice!

#81 | Posted by utastaff

Do you really not understand that there are certain ways to cut through red tape and get things done more expeditiously? Or are you being deliberately obtuse?

Homeland Security Napolitano called the health emergency, "standard operating procedure, similar to emergency preparedness in advance of a coming hurricane."

We all know how good Republicans are at shit like that...

#81 | Posted by utastaff

"sound like"?

You are too kind.

"You are too kind."

It's early in the week and I'm in a forgiving mood. Don't worry, that flower won't bloom for long.

Not having it both ways Doc.

I am saying all along that the Obama Administration is trying to cause a panic for political purposes such as to deflect away from his failures with the economy as it continues to deteriorate and to push nationalized healthcare.

Also add to the deflection that it was the Democrat controlled Congress that stipped $900 million of pandemic prepardness for the flu out from the Stimulus Bill.

I am saying all along that the Obama Administration is trying to cause a panic for political purposes such as to deflect away from his failures with the economy as it continues to deteriorate and to push nationalized healthcare.

Also add to the deflection that it was the Democrat controlled Congress that stipped $900 million of pandemic prepardness for the flu out from the Stimulus Bill.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

#87 | Posted by utastaff

Fortunately, you've been quite unsuccessful at proving any of your points thus far.

And as has been shown - it wasn't the Democrats who lobbied against including that in the bill.

Also add to the deflection that it was the Democrat controlled Congress that stipped $900 million of pandemic prepardness for the flu out from the Stimulus Bill.

Why did the Democrats do that, idiot? Why did they strip funding out of their own bill?

I apologize to the blog in advance, but UTA is a clueless hack. A true idiot. I find it difficult to believe that someone could be so completely clueless an misinformed, but there he is.

I'm embarrassed by such fuckery; it's like swatting at the god of gnats.

#87 | Posted by utastaff

You're babbling.

You're babbling.

#91 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

And not in the fun brook-like way.

US Declares Mexican Flu Health Emergency

Mexican Flu, Mexican Flu, Mexican Flu.
A flu is named for the epicenter and that is Mexico.

World Health Organization raised alert to level 4. Is Alfred E. Bama concerned. He will probbly shut the border at Alaska.

This is looking more and more like a bio engineered threat..

I have always wondered about the possibility of nationalistic corporate espionage in the form of a bio-engineered virus in order to gain economic advantage.

Let me coin the new phrase..

State Sponsored Bio-Corporate Terrorism.

In this case the virus seems to be tailored to Mexican nationality to cause maximum pain..who would gain from that?

"In this case the virus seems to be tailored to Mexican nationality to cause maximum pain..who would gain from that?"

Not exactly but if Nature is correct, its certainly an interesting strain...

Good article Andreamackris..That was my point that the probability of this type of random combination seems remote at best although within the realm of possibility.

Human nature and the ease/cost that which viral bioengineering can be performed is what drew my suspicions to this being NOT naturally occurring. The current economic climate and desire for Hegemony over the world order made my eye point towards China to push more business from Mexico.

Here's something scary - there is something of an outbreak of highly pathogenic "bird flu" that has been going on in Egypt. They've just had their 26th case of the year. The virus is circulating there, and it is knocking at humanity's door.

This latest "swine flu" epidemic will probably blossom into a full-blown pandemic, spreading worldwide. One thing you most definitely do NOT want to see happen is a highly contagious, antigenically novel human flu virus reassorting with an even nastier albeit maladapted bird flu virus. The mortality rate in 1918 was 2 or 3%. Human H5N1 cases have a case fatality rate of over 50%.

Flu season is tailing out -- flus don't spread well as it gets hotter and more humid.
Posted by rcade at 2009-04-26 05:45 PM

I friggin rest my case... RETARDS!

And you just explained why you are an IT boy on an oil rig and I was making Willie famous being chief engineer of KOKE FM in 1974-75

Posted by Zatoichi at 2008-05-27 07:38 PM

LOL

#47 | Posted by goatman at 2009-04-26 09:49 PM | Reply | Flag

Talk about taking this place too seriously, saving posts from posters for almost a year...LOL!

Getting a life isn't important with this one.

"Getting a life isn't important with this one."

Posted by moneywar at 2009-04-28 06:21 PM

What's worse is he can't stand it when the tables are turned. But then he doesn't know CDs are STEREO, either.

44KHz sampling 2 channels, that's 22KHz/channel.
NYQUIST implies highest possible frequency is 11KHz and full QUADRATURE cannot be realized for frequencies above 2.75KHz, which is why CDs sound like shit.

But then he doesn't know CDs are STEREO,

Really? No shit. And until yesterday, I thought I also owned the land you owned until you told me otherwise. You are a fountain of knowledge, zat. LOL

Maybe you should educate yourself about when Microsoft went IPO, however.

Another story I'd like to hear again is the one where you remember when the first crystaline silicone was produced. You were about three YO then. If not the same story, at least put your latest spin on it. That would be just as amusing, I'm sure. LOL

Oh -- since I like you so much, here's a gift for you: A feww missspellings for you to boost your ego withh.

In a week and a half you won't hear squat about this flu. The exception being, of course, that the government learned a lot and they need more money to continue protecting you. LOTS n LOTS a money.

Funny t-shirts on swine flu! Yes, swine flu is a sad thing, and we all want to see it stopped, but heh, you still need to be able to keep a happy spirit no matter what.