We have just gotten official swine flu email from the big boss. Don't panic! and have some hand sanitizer.
I didn't create the troll. I didn't date the troll. In fact I hate the troll. I helped deflate the troll-- All done.
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Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Apr 27, 2009 9:47:22 am PDT #16963 of 30000
hip deep in pie
tommyrot - Apr 27, 2009 10:11:42 am PDT #16964 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Republican party platforms are always amusingly insane
PZ quotes from the Oklahoma GOP platform:
4. While the objective study of philosophy and religion can be beneficial, public schools should not be endorsing any specific religion or philosophy. We believe that students and teachers should enjoy the right of free exercise of religion.
5. We support posting the Ten Commandments and our Nation's motto, "In God We Trust," in all public schools in recognition of our religious heritage. U.S. citizens. We support teaching the intent of our founding fathers, the original founding documents, and the difference between a democracy and a republic.
Anybody notice a wee bit of... inconsistency between these two?
meara - Apr 27, 2009 10:18:11 am PDT #16965 of 30000
Hah! I wish, working from home, I could be all "I'm sorry, swine flu makes me unable to get to work"
Though given how half my work is about traveling on planes and shit, I'm probably going to like, die of swine flu from some annoying person next to me sneezing all over me or something.
beth b - Apr 27, 2009 10:26:41 am PDT #16966 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Although, someone I just had a meeting with was saying she had heard that if you feel sick, you should stay home! To avoid getting on the subway, etc.
Is this where I become a mom? When you are sick you are supposed to rest. and a day of rest , even if it is 'only a cold ' helps your body heal. and it is one less day I get exposed to your germs -- which makes my lungs very happy.
Gudanov - Apr 27, 2009 10:28:27 am PDT #16967 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
When you mention the words Republican and insane, it always brings to mind Michelle Bachmann.
Her latest, comments on global warming in regard to the cap and trade proposal.
BACHMANN: But people talk about cap and tax and they aren’t sure exactly what we’re talking about. Let’s get back to step one. What is the problem? Why do we have to have this tax in the first place?
It’s about carbon dioxide.
Well, what is carbon dioxide? Let’s just go to a fundamental question.
Carbon dioxide, Mister Speaker, is a natural byproduct of nature. Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation that’s on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that — that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth.
As a matter of fact, carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful!
But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows carbon dioxide is a harmful gas. There isn’t one such study because carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas, it is a harmless gas. Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth’s life cycle.
And yet we’re being told that we have to reduce this natural substance and reduce the American standard of living to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occuring in the earth. Well we’re told the crux of this problem is human activity. It’s humans that are creating more carbon dioxide!
Is that true, or is that false?
Well, carbon dioxide is a natural part of Earth’s atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is perhaps three percent of the total atmosphere that’s in the Earth. So if you take a pie chart, and you have all of Earth’s atmosphere, carbon dioxide is perhaps three percent of that total.
What part of human activity creates carbon dioxide? If carbon dioxide is a negligible gas and it’s only three percent of Earth’s atmosphere, what part is human activity?
Human activity contributes perhaps three percent of the three percent. In other words, human activity is maybe 3 percent contributing to the 3 percent of carbon dioxide that’s in Earth’s atmosphere. It’s so negligible — it’s a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent — that it can hardly be — be quantified.
She has such a wonderfully casual relationship with reality.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2009 10:30:12 am PDT #16968 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's good advice whether or not you have swine flu, though.
The point this person was making was, how do you both get treatment ASAP and stay home because you'll probably just get better on your own at the same time?
Frankenbuddha - Apr 27, 2009 10:33:58 am PDT #16969 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'd like to lock Michelle Bachmann in an airtight room and see how long she continues to think CO2 is a harmless gas.
Jessica - Apr 27, 2009 10:34:44 am PDT #16970 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth’s life cycle.
Yup - natural and harmless. Just like lead and arsenic. Delicious, delicious arsenic...
Can someone please point her towards this site? I'd love to see a bill put forward to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide...
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 27, 2009 10:36:24 am PDT #16971 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I suspect she could live off the reserves of air between her ears for quite some time.
erikaj - Apr 27, 2009 10:37:11 am PDT #16972 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Of course it's natural, Crazyhead Bachmann. Iron is natural and beneficial but if you get too much, you get sick. which is sort of what's happening with carbon and the earth. and you and media attention.