I read the Bachmann yesterday went on the floor of the house talking about how FDR's enactment of the Hoot-Smalley tariffs caused the Great Depression. Of course she's factually wrong in every possible way. You don't suppose someone on her staff is giving her this stuff and then cracking his or her shit up watching CSPAN?
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
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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.
Gudanov - Apr 30, 2009 10:06:40 am PDT #17469 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
msbelle - Apr 30, 2009 10:18:51 am PDT #17470 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Someone should really just start a fact-check Bachmann site and email footnoted or red-lined versions of her speeches to various news sources with the factual corrections.
Gudanov - Apr 30, 2009 10:21:24 am PDT #17471 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
That would be a big job.
Shir - Apr 30, 2009 10:46:54 am PDT #17472 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Huh, I didn't realize that teaching cursive wasn't pretty much universal. They start it in 3rd grade here.
They don't teach it here: I think I saw it first in a movie when I was in the 6th or 7th grade. I can't read it, too.
Thanks for the flu info: I had some of the questions you asked in mind. And I'm gonna try Googling for "cytokine storm" with results in Hebrew, because it's late and I'm tired and it's big words as is.
Tom Scola - Apr 30, 2009 10:48:23 am PDT #17473 of 30000
hwæt
My department is having its swine flu meeting at 4:00.
Our company is based in Toronto, and there was a whole bunch of contingency planning that went on after the SARS, so I'm expecting all kinds of overreaction.
Shir - Apr 30, 2009 10:54:46 am PDT #17474 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
So, I read about cytokine storms. It's kindda like having a deadline to write a paper, and your head is full with info and it's just full gas in neutral combo, and you'll fail the class if you won't hand in the paper. Or just a writer's block. Only in biology. So it'll be cool if they could understand that, so I could write better papers, more efficiently, and not failing classes.
At least, that's how I understand it. Yes, my world is THAT narrow.
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2009 10:54:48 am PDT #17475 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
(Which I hear is the homeopathic remedy for swine flu.)
::snerk::
Kathy A - Apr 30, 2009 11:00:35 am PDT #17476 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
A medical researcher in Jacksonville, Florida has developed a new stitching technique that could possibly transform surgical procedures around the world. Perhaps the most fascinating detail is the researcher is a 14-year-old high school freshman.
And it doesn't sound like he's some kind of Doogie Houser, but just a freshman at a magnet school.
flea - Apr 30, 2009 11:03:51 am PDT #17477 of 30000
information libertarian
The other issue about the current swine flu is it is currently resistant to two of the main antiviral drugs. Happily it is not resistant to Tamiflu right now, but it could develop that resistance, or if it becpmes truly widespread, there could be a shortage of Tamiflu.
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2009 11:11:25 am PDT #17478 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The other issue about the current swine flu is it is currently resistant to two of the main antiviral drugs. Happily it is not resistant to Tamiflu right now, but it could develop that resistance, or if it becpmes truly widespread, there could be a shortage of Tamiflu.
What I read said that the swine version of H1N1 is not resistant to Tamiflu or Relenza, but the *human* version of H1N1 *is* resistant to Tamiflu.
Confusing. I didn't even know there was a human version of it.