Swine Flu Info - Stop it in its tracks

"This study shows you're not contagious for a day or two" with H1N1 swine flu. "You're probably contagious for about a week," said Gaston De Serres, a scientist at the Institute of Public Health in Quebec, Canada, who presented one of the studies Monday at an American Society for Microbiology conference in San Francisco.

Levels of virus present in nasal mucus can give experts an indication of whether the flu can still be spread by coughing and sneezing. In the Canadian study, between 19 percent to 75 percent of people with H1N1 flu still showed signs of virus in their noses eight days after the first onset of symptoms. Two others studies -- one from Singapore, the other from Mexico -- produced similar results.

The meeting is the first major gathering of infectious-disease experts since swine flu first emerged last spring in Mexico and the United States, before circulating around much of the globe. The World Health Organization is currently reporting nearly 280,000 cases of infection, with at least 3,205 deaths worldwide.

In the United States, H1N1 swine flu now accounts for an estimated 98 percent of the flu virus in circulation, with more than 1 million cases of infection and an estimated 600 deaths. By way of comparison, regular seasonal flu hospitalizes more than 200,000 American each year and causes an estimated 36,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC has been recommending that people infected with swine flu stay home and avoid contact with others for at least one day after they've been free of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications.

Nancy Cox, director of the CDC's Influenza Division, told the AP that keeping people out of work or school for extended periods of time may not be worth it, since the H1N1 virus continues to cause mostly mild illness, primarily in children and young adults. More here:

Well, this tells me four things:

1 - The media/government HATES it if you call it the Swine Flu -- so I'm going to call it the Swine Flu.

2 - It's a mild version of the regular flu that is constantly present on Earth.

3 - The ones most at risk are younger people because most older people have already been exposed to this virus at some point in their lives and that makes them immune.

4 - If someone you know has it, wait eight days after their symptoms APPEAR before kissing them ... or touching them ... or being in the vicinity. On second thought ... just tell them you're busy for the week ... they won't mind.

Media just can't figure it out

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The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.

Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.

Similarly, only about a quarter (26%) now say that news organizations are careful that their reporting is not politically biased, compared with 60% who say news organizations are politically biased. And the percentages saying that news organizations are independent of powerful people and organizations (20%) or are willing to admit their mistakes (21%) now also match all-time lows. More here:

Well ... NO SHIT. Look at the graph ... how slowly the American people learn.

Hey, media jackasses ... I'm guessing this mirrors your profits graph. Will the media learn? The Klown says NAY. Liberals are INCAPABLE of learning. They'll go broke before they learn. I love it. Fox News is the only one that is CLOSE to fair when reporting political/environmental events and they STILL lean a little left if you ask me.

Another thing ... look how the graph starts out low and then goes to the toilet. Ha ha. Unreal. Of course, they're all geniuses and the rest of us are idiots.

Obama gets one right !!

ABC's Terry Moran set the Twitter-sphere all aflutter when he wrote:

We've reached out to Moran and will update this post when we learn more.

Now, an ABC spokesperson explains to POLITICO what happened:

"In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview. This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again."

The White House had no immediate comment. From Politico

If you don't know what this idiot did you can read about it here.

Funny GIFS

Here's three animated GIFS from Planet Dan.

I also found this "Neti Pot" video on his blog. I've never heard of a Neti Pot so I had to check 'er out.

The Police Do Care!

Guys it is just sad that this would happen to jack in the prime of his life!


Lexington Police Department reports finding a man's body in the Kentucky River just west of the Clays Ferry Bridge ... The dead man's name will not be released until his family has been notified. The victim apparently drowned due to excessive beer consumption. He was wearing black fish net stockings, a red garter belt, a strap-on dildo, and an Obama tee shirt. He also had a cucumber stuffed up his ass. The police removed the Obama tee shirt to spare his family any unnecessary embarrassment.

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China says "Erm .. s'cuse me"

The US Federal Reserve's policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to redesign its foreign reserve policy, according to a top member of the Communist hierarchy.

Cheng Siwei, former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee said Beijing was dismayed by the Fed's recourse to "credit easing"

"If they keep printing money to buy bonds it will lead to inflation, and after a year or two the dollar will fall hard. Most of our foreign reserves are in US bonds and this is very difficult to change, so we will diversify incremental reserves into euros, yen, and other currencies," he said.

Ohhhhh - NOOooooo!! Sounds like this guy took Economics 101. He's onto your dumbass, Barack.

Mr Cheng said the root cause of global imbalances is spending patterns in US (and UK) and China.

"The US spends tomorrow's money today," he said. "We Chinese spend today's money tomorrow. That's why we have this financial crisis."

Yet the consequences are not symmetric.

"He who goes borrowing, goes sorrowing," said Mr Cheng.

It was a quote from US founding father Benjamin Franklin. More here:

Hey, Obama ... keep printing money ... everything will be fine ... unless you think the US is due for a fall like Argentina.

Barack Obama is committing the same mistakes made by policymakers during the Great Depression, according to a new study endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan.

His policies even have the potential to consign the US to a similar fate as Argentina, which suffered a painful and humiliating slide from first to Third World status last century, the paper says.

There are "troubling similarities" between the US President's actions since taking office and those which in the 1930s sent the US and much of the world spiralling into the worst economic collapse in recorded history, says the new pamphlet, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. More here:

De Camel, he say ... NAY!

Protect your kids from pedophiles

Ex-Pedophile Shares Tips On How To Make Your Kids Less Attractive

Sheesh, what a doofus

This guy is so turned on he couldn't be bothered to get close enough to make a difference. Nice try though ... perhaps he's new at it.

Found it at Planet Dan's blog:

Found this at Hot Air

Libs hated it -- HATED IT !!!

As Barack Obama prepares a nationwide broadcast to America's students next Tuesday, it has been revealed that Democrats complained in 1991 when then President George H. W. Bush broadcast a speech from a Northwest Washington junior high school.

In fact, the House Majority leader at the time, Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.), said "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students." From NewsBusters:

Yes, Democrats HATE this kind of thing ... you know ... unless Obama does it. That's what I love about the libs ... they're always so honest ... forthright .... consistent in their positions. They're always thinking of the good of America ... they put politics last.

A couple of good ones

Adios comrade, one down, more to go

This contemptible fuckstick communist is OUT of the Obama administration. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, comrade.

(AP) - President Barack Obama's adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation statement. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide." Yes, "They" -- the big, bad "they" are conspiring against him ... such a shame. Of course, YOU'D never mount a vicious smear campaign against anyone, right? Noooo, never.

The matter surfaced after news reports of a derogatory comment Jones made in the past about Republicans, and separately, of Jones' name appearing on a petition connected to the events surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. That 2004 petition had asked for congressional hearings and other investigations into whether high-level government officials had allowed the attacks to occur.

Jones flatly said in an earlier statement that he did not agree with the petition's stand on the 9/11 attacks and that "it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever." Of COURSE ... just because you signed the petition doesn't mean you agree with it, right? I mean, c'mon ... everyone knows an idiot liberal will sign a petition if someone drops a fucking hat ... you can't be held responsible for every petition you sign.

Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck repeatedly denounced Jones after a group the adviser (VAN JONES) co-founded, ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck's show to protest his claim that Obama is a racist. Wait ... what's this? ... a vicious SMEAR CAMPAIGN?

James Rucker, the organization's executive director, has said Jones had nothing to do with ColorofChange.org now and didn't even know about the campaign before it started. Of course not. He didn't knowwww. Don't be ridiculous.

Jones, well-known in the environmental movement, was a civil-rights activist in California before shifting his attention to environmental and energy issues. More here:

Is it my imagination or is every commie with a red flag an "activist" or a "community organizer?" How many more communists are in the Obama administration? Plenty.

Fucketh NOT, with this guy

No Words Needed

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Van Jones - Green Job Czar - Genius

This dumbass commie also thinks 9/11 was an inside job.

More commies in Obama administration

The following was aired on the July 10 edition of Fox and Friends:

BRIAN KILMEADE, co-host, “Fox and Friends”: Phil, we have a czar, he’s a green jobs czar, he’s Van Jones, he’s got a deep history in communism.

PHIL KERPEN, AFP Policy Director: He does. He has a very checkered past. This is somebody who was involved in radical politics out in San Francisco, California. He was arrested during a demonstration/riot following the Rodney King verdict. And he said himself that he was radicalized in jail, that he found communism and anarchism. And then he started a pretty radical, kind of communist, socialist, utopian group that was supposed to end all racism though central planning. And then he decided that the real path the sort of progressive nirvana, was the this green jobs idea. I think its pretty instructive what his past is, I am not just trying to smear the guy, but I think it’s the same sort of philosophy, the idea that government ought to be reordering society in accordance with some utopian vision that failed with communism and socialism, and will fail with this green jobs idea. We are imposing a top-down vision.

GRETCHEN CARLSON, co-host: And more importantly for America Phil, is the fact that we already have an Energy Secretary, who by the way had to go through Congress to be approved. And the reason that these czars, you don’t know anything about them, is because they don’t have to go through that process.

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In an April 12, 2009 World Net Daily article titled “Will a “red” help blacks go green?”Aaron Klein reports that Jones himself stated in a 2005 interview his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class “justice,” and that he was a “rowdy black nationalist,” and a “communist.” More at Newsbusters:

Mmm - Hmmm -- And what do communists like this jackass think of "Republicans?"