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i would not buy girl scout cookies from lance. even thin mints.

the ultimate solution http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-all-drug-olympics/1198068/

infinitely inferior to index, weather permitting

ain't no heroes in this world, just a large n' various menu of flawed meat-popsicles ain't rode a bike since i grew hair on my nuts, but yeah, i'm all fucked up on the inside on this one

tahiti, haiti, practically the same place, eh, mister foreign-phd?

a kindergartner w/ a pair of patent-leather 200$ shoes?!? clearly a plant. the retard kid was just a patsy.

yo quiero gato - me gusto gato!

i have part of an m-1 tank track on my podium i've always figured would be my emergency zombie tool, inshahallah

Mass killing pandemic like that would not happen due to knowledge we have now about viruses, better hygiene and better nutrition. Food shortages were rampart and vast amount of population was suffering from heavy malnutrition, so after 4 years it would be hard to have a robust immune system. Your argument boils down to fear mongering. i didn't say it would happen, thus no fear mongering, merely making the joke that IF it were to happen, kev, like most sane people, would be happy to take any proposed cure. i suspect, when the next super-flu evolves, that, like most modern ailments, it will still take a bite out of the 1st world, yet will concentrate most of the pain further down the food chain in places that, yes, have worse sanitation and generally much greater poverty.

i suspect, should a mass-killing pandemic flu like in 1918 revisit us, and The Man then released a vaccine which stood a similiar chance of stopping it as the more harmless ones of today, that kev would find himself in a doctors office as the corpses creeped closer to his doorway. no atheists in foxholes, right?

only a month's take home pay? i'm sure the wife'll be thrilled! i'm considering becoming a buddhist so i can look forward to climbing this, and many other exotic things, in a future life

one day some motherfucker'll invent a teleporter and maybe i'll be able to put in an appearance - sure looks purty....

How many people died during WW1 due to simple bacterial infections, because surgical instruments were not sterilized? How many died due to shock, because there was no anesthetic procedures? Your question is completely moronic and more importantly irrelevant. I think our knowledge about microbiology have advanced in the last 100 years, don't you think. At the time of WW1 people were also dying from typhoid. All we had to do to stop that was to wash our hands after taking a shit. Gee, get a clue... i think you missed the point, but that's assuming both that i understood bill's rather simple post and your more typically byzantine one

didn't see anythign to argue w/, though admittedly before i could read the 2nd half of the article i was dragged off to read the thomas mallory version of king arthur to a bunch of sleepy children and now find meself required to do some honest school work history is made of great grand backdrops and little bit-players who strut n' fret before them - it is always interesting to note that an event, like newport, can summon forth the will to deal w/ a problem that has little bearing on the immediate event at hand - as the article says, this old boy used a rifle, but he could have done the exact same damage w/ a handgun, and there seems little chance of progress on them cutting to his conclusion though, for all his eloquence, he doesn't seem to have a take-away that's any more useful than anybody else...

echoes of thomas hobbes in there...

IF THOMAS PAINE WAS ALIVE TODAY HE WOULD ONLY POST IN CAPS!

my great-grandfather, a tough-as-nails philadelphia full-irish beat-cop (as the family legend tells) died in the great flu pandemic - he was in the prime of life, and never sick a day they said - he died on his couch, as hospitals couldn't do shit but stack you outside the morgue, so everyone stayed home anecdotes aside, the threat of a new flu like that wouldn't be ameliorated (at first at least, as i understand it) by mass vaccines

also, pretty hard to be sure when you wake up in the morning for work if that shitty feeling is a cold, a poor night's sleep, a bit too much wine w/ dinner, etc. even if you take out the economic disincentive for an employee to skip work (and employer incentive not to create a system where folks can easily play hooky), you still have an imperfect mechanism for keeping sick workers home

my virology credentials are in arrears...but i thought many viruses can be communicated even before the infected begins showing clear signs like fevers, congestion, etc.?

seems not unreasonable that an employer could demand that an employee providing a public service be vaccinated - them army boys don't get a lot of choices, for example. flu vaccines are obviously not panaceas, but if you're working in an intensive care unit, it sure makes sense to stack the deck as much in your favor as possible. requiring all citizens to be vaccinated is certainly more orwellian, but that's not the subject here. if there is a critical mass of doctors who think vaccines are bunk, there ought to be a hospital of their's somewhere i imagine where you can work at, if you have the same mentality.

Seriously. seems actually very easy to understand. two parties w/ two different sets of priorities. party A gets control, spends all it can on what it wants. later, party B takes control, inherits all the old spending, much of which it can't make dissappear, but nonetheless rings up all it can according to its own political scheme. throw in some natural and man-made disasters, an electorate that's alwasy some groggy combination of unaware, uninterested or mad-as-hell n' mis-informed, n' maybe a geniune lunatic demagogue or two and see how it all goes, goes, goes!!! results will vary - do not try at home - enjoy for however many decades you can hold on

no, much more likely on. much. more.

having a large companion to hide behind (and out run) don't hurt neither

love that it's the metrosexual yuppie-fuck getting the chop here

1/12 - day#2 - strange day - freezing fog on the wakeup, car shackled in ice at the dawn - geoff at the burger king - high-speed jet through the quiet lull of the gorge, the road dry n' gentle - beacon becalmed, all door discipline disregarded - a great gut-laugh at the peach allah had gracefully cast into our laps - i get all the leads down low - consensus conditions S5 (our ascent of 12/21/12 in recent memory a retard S9, damn near pegging the limit of the possible) - challenging lead conditions for sure still, with sheet-freeze all over, slowly peeling off in the relatively tropical conditions - runnels of run-off bubbling underneath the ice - the sun bursting through the clear air - rumbles of gunfire, pap-pap-pap-pap, a militia-action for certain on the oregon shores - slip-sliding away all over from grassy ledges up - glimpse of the bonneville crick draining into the river, all jizzum-milky, the vas defernes of the columbian cock- exited the long way, the Great Coward wending all to Starboard where he could - a walk down all bathed in rays of a riotous golden orb - jim at the base w/ an old boy - oaths and auguries, threats and Aggravated Assaults considered - an easy orbit back through the steaming warmth of the gorge-winter disbanded, if only for a bit