JosephH

Dude, get some edjumacation before spouting: herd immunity.

Puritans and power - ridiculous. Sun tzu and the Khans knew that in a world at war, high stress on leaders just isn't a good thing and someone needs to be giving the presidential and four star blow jobs. They get this in the EU where affairs are the norm and are definitely not a crime under their UCMJs; that it is under ours is a problem because - formally or informally - you just aren't going to decouple power and pussy.

Way to get it done - shows what a forthcoming, sincere, and honest approach based on mutual trust and respect can deliver.

You're conflating way too many aspects of the pharmacy industry, its practices, it's products, the science behind them, and medical history. The result is really a lurching mess. Yes, without a doubt pharma has moved trials offshore to countries with few rules and high levels of corruption over the past two decades in response to oversight in the US and EU and that's a despicable practice - one among many in that industry. Those capitalism-driven business practices aside, our societal delivery of medicine unavoidably kills people sometimes in any number of ways and that unfortunately is part of the cost of providing healthcare to large populations: bad things sometimes happen. Appendectomies for example, don't all turn out well; most all surgeries have a certain percentage of bad outcomes and most drugs have adverse effects or are poorly tolerated by a certain percentage of people. Fighting infectious disease in particular is a constantly shifting battlefield where it's often the case where it's not about the individual, but rather the herd. And in protecting the herd there are again unavoidable costs in individual lives. No two people are alike and responses to vaccines operate on bell curves of efficacy and adverse reactions - some people die for any of a variety of reasons. Ditto on our cancer treatment about which today you can still say the cure can be almost as bad as the cancer and a matter of which succumbs first. Our transportation and food distribution systems operate similarly with equally tragic loss of lives each year. But do you sell your car or stop shopping at Safeway because a fellow member of the herd died? Bottom line is we don't know what causes autism, but it isnt the vaccines per se. More likely it will be a genetic, microbiome, environmental, cultural, or societal issue or some combination of all of the above.

It appears this revolves around the Central Command's economic contribution to Tampa to some extent and in the creation of an interesting local military brass / high-society culture. This sort of intermingling happens on a fairly broad scale up in D.C. but egos are at least somewhat kept in check by the sheer numbers of the power players. In Tampa's isolation, however, it seems to have all spun out of control in some fairly odd and incestuous ways.

The OPV AIDS hypothesis was thoroughly investigated by people who lent the concept credibility until the science soundly repudiated it. You can make a far better case that OPV contamination by SV40 may be involved with some cancers - but not AIDS.

The racist democrats of the south didn't become less racist, they became republicans. That they now want to re-secede after a black man won a second term in the Whiteyhouse doesn't really surprise me after a forty year campaign by the republicans encouraging that racism.

I do have a minor in microbiology and am now so nervous I'm going to pay to have my transcripts amended to remove it.

Africa is still starving despite vaccines? That anyone would even attempt to correlate those two is so friggin' hilarious. It's like saying vaccines haven't brought down traffic fatalities here in the U.S.

They have a critical thinking vaccine for threads like this. Hard to cram more fundamentally and increasingly skewed bullshit into this many bits but conspiracy theorists always manage. And really, the whole vaccine thing is just a cover for the chemtrails work, dontchaknow.

And hell, I'm sure they'd love to have it back - Mitt could be Governor of New Texas given his Mexican roots.

Texas is essentially on it's own electrical grid so it's really not a problem unplugging it. I say let the racist cocksuckers go and let them take Oklahoma while they're at it.

They obviously don't teach female sexual counter-insurgency and social warfare tactics at West Point or the War College. He was in way over his head.

I can see why you might think that, but I believe that's just the shadow from Jensen's. From what I can see the arena looks entirely present in that 1867 photo as well. And as much as it looks like the result of a blast, maybe it was the result of an earthquake and it's all buried under the high angle slope up to the arena (that's got to be made up of rocks from somewhere). Biddle himself made no specific mention of a blast or even the three tunnels in his "Beacon Rock on the Columbia"

The death toll from childhood diseases would be unthinkable without vaccines. You must be younger and your father and mother didn't recount the tales of how many friends and classmates died all the way through their schooling.

Only then you would die of cancer from the antibiotics.

Now if that doesn't sound like a willingness to rally around Boehner I don't know what does...

The "things" rationale they are currently coalescing and rallying around speaks strongly to the contrary.

Every sign is now to the contrary, the hard right are calling for a 'pure' candidate and not another "establishment" suckup sellout moderate they think Romney was. I think you way underestimate the depth of the philosophical tribal warfare just begun and going to be waged on through to one of the bloodiest republican primaries ever seen in 2016. We'll know soon enough how it's going to play out by watching how well Boehner corrals his caucus over the next year. Well, 'forever' is definitely going to be until the 2020 census and two years after that. Given the current redistricting, the way the counties map out and the current republican hold on governorships and state legislatures we will definitely have to agree to disagree on the point - that redistricting is the cement that locks the map in place. Exactly, and forty years of peddling hate in combination with racial redistricting means they can't change on a dime or likely even by 2016. They'll be lucky to do it by 2020.

I'm not saying it wasn't blasted; it has all the hallmarks and fractures of a blast. But I believe the 'conventional wisdom' was the tunnels were chiseled and the arena blown just prior to, and were the impetus for, the sale into private hands to preserve it. It's that story that goes out the window with the 1889 photo - the blast, if there was one, obviously happened prior to that. Just did a search on the date of the railroad itself and found this: So if the railroad wasn't in until 1908, then blowing the arena for rock doesn't seem like a very useful endeavor unless they were going to transport it on the river in some sort of early barge. It also seems to me like there would have been easier sources of rock closer to the city if that was how they were transporting it. They could have blown Rooster Rock and had a good supply in a place far easier to load the rock. I don't know - it's a mystery.

Look, the 2010 redistricting is on racial lines and as we just saw there's no way to appeal to those whites with an anti-immigration message during the republican primary and then turnaround and try to send any other message to latinos regardless of the level of "finesse". It's just not credible. Ditto with the south on gay marriage and including blacks. No way, Jose. And that's the problem with the redistricting - the House is now locked down on racial lines and so those necessarily divisive house races set the tone for the overall election. I mean, what do you suppose the 2016 republican primary is going to look like? Do you think the contrast between the 'moderate' right and the far right is going to be less than it was this year? Man, I don't think so. If anything, it's going to be way, way worse and a bloody mess. And the problem then is the same as it was this year - the gap between the primary messages and the general election messaging of the primary winner are just too much of a credibility gap. How do you propose they get over that?

Hmmm, the arena is clearly visible if you blow up that last 1889 pic QITNL just posted. I haven't seen that one before but it pretty much shoots down the idea the arena was blasted anytime after the turn of the century. Has anyone seen documentation of any kind which dates exactly when those tunnels were chiseled out?

The total bummer thing about the whole 'affair' is Panetta and Petraeus swapped jobs for a very specific reason: to make the CIA more operational and to better integrate those capabilities with the defense establishment both in D.C. and on the ground in conflict zones. They each brought experience from their respective cultures to the opposite side in order to ease the transition, breakdown the cultural barriers, and in Petraeus's case really try to spin up a more operationally-oriented agency which could do more in-country than fly drones. Losing Petraeus is a major blow to those efforts and it's hard to imagine another military leader capable of helming the agency with anywhere near the experience on the ground or force of authority as Petraeus.

They didn't come 'roaring back 2010'; their strategy of obstruction in the House simply paid off with some mid-term house gains, but ultimately cost them this election. And combined with racially redrawn congressional districts off the 2010 census they'll likely hold a progressively slimmer majority in congress until at least 2020. But make no mistake, if they stay their current course or move further to the right they will lose even their House majority at some point between 2018 and 2022. As it is, they will never see the inside of the Whiteyhouse or a senate majority again in their lifetime the way they're going. That means we'll likely hold the presidency and senate through at least 2024 which will hopefully deliver us a Supreme Court majority. With the 2010 House redistricting on racial lines and investing forty years in racism, homophobia, xenophobia and sexism in those districts it's hard to look at a county map of the nation and see how they are now going to get those rural constituents to suddenly embrace gays, blacks, and latinos (just forget women, that's now a done deal and won't be ressurected). And the south? They definitely aren't going to embrace gays and minorities, so if the republicans do try to head in that direction they'll be telling the south to just stay home on election day. Add to that no one believes cutting taxes the wealthy helps anyone but the rich so no matter how you look at it, they're pretty much fucked and going to now reap the rewards of sewing forty years of hate.

- Supreme Court appointees - War with Iran - Israeli / Palestinian talks - Environmental protection - Consumer protection - Healthcare - Wall Street oversight and regulation - Restoring reasonable taxation of the wealthy - Cuts in services to the most needy in society - Medicare turned into state general fund block grants - Assault on education - Trade war with China A whole lot of policy hung in the balance so I'd have to disagree.