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Colorado Man Infected With Deadliest, Rarest Form Of Plague

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Don't Panic. But..."The message we're trying to get out is that the plague bacteria is present here in Colorado, and to take necessary precautions to avoid getting infected," is the warning from health officials as a Colorado man is infected with the rarest and most fatal form of the pneumomic plague, an airborne version that can be spread through coughing and sneezing. As Bloomberg reports, it is the first case of pneumonic plague seen in the state since 2004, and rather stunningly, he appears to have contracted the illness from his dog. "We don’t think it’s out in our air," House said. "We think it’s in our dead animal populations."

As Bloomberg reports, a Colorado man is infected with the rarest and most fatal form of plague, an airborne version that can be spread through coughing and sneezing.

The state is working “to investigate the source of exposure and to identify those who may have been exposed through close contact with the individual,” the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said in its statement. “Any individuals exposed will be recommended for antibiotic treatment.”

 

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“We don’t think it’s out in our air,” House said. “We think it’s in our dead animal populations and dead rodent populations.”

 

“The reaction is leaning toward people who are tired of the protection of prairie dogs on some level,” said Jim Siedlecki, director of public information of Adams County. “Most people look at them as cute little dogs on the side of the road, but in rural Adams County they are looked at as a rodent who damages crops and is potentially plague-ridden.”

 

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Untreated plague is fatal, and antibiotics have to be given within 24 hours of the first symptoms to reduce the chance of death. Symptoms of the disease include fever, headache and chest pain, along with a pneumonia that develops rapidly causing shortness of breath, chest pain and bloody mucus, according to the CDC.

There is no vaccine available for plague in the U.S.

Colorado officials recommend that residents keep pets away from wildlife, especially dead rodents. The plague can spread from animals after a large die-off of prairie dogs, when fleas with the bacteria seek new hosts, according to the state.

“The message we’re trying to get out is that the plague bacteria is present here in Colorado, and to take necessary precautions to avoid getting infected,”

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So, in summary, West Africa has the worst breakout of ebola virus in history (which is not under control) and now the US has this 'deadliest, rarest form of the plague' - good times, people.

 

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Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:15 | 4953824 Chupacabra-322
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More chilling are the viruses & disease coming in from the illegals & open boarders

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:18 | 4953830 I am Jobe
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Bullshit, Amerikan immune system has been pussified. 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:19 | 4953833 LetThemEatRand
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The plague really fucked that guy.  Fucked him right in the pussy.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:30 | 4953855 Grande Tetons
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These prairie dogs have been getting a free pass for too long. 

Fuckers

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/prairie_dog_flickr(1).jpg

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:34 | 4953868 LetThemEatRand
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"In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, prairie dog'."  -Caddyshack (paraphrasing)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:34 | 4953876 Manthong
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That ain’t nothing compared to the rats and the plague in D.C…

and it infects 99.99% of those who live there.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:40 | 4953898 A Lunatic
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Yes, but thankfully there is a vaccine for that......

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:51 | 4953933 BobTheSlob
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Indeed, I think it's lead based.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:13 | 4954001 linniepar
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Please direct "them" to the line for inoculation. 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:24 | 4954039 espirit
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Have a sis in the hospital at Ft. Collins for the last two weeks with undiagnosed pulmonary infection.  Doc's are acting like 1st year interns and won't even test for Valley Fever, although she just arrived from Tucson.

Enter the hospital at your own risk.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:33 | 4954070 Juno Rock
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"Don't panic. But..."

THE STAND 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:52 | 4954133 Thorny Xi
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Captain Trips stared at Dugway, UT ... where the NSA datacenter is now.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:35 | 4954259 Anusocracy
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The least rare and most deadly form of plague is government.

Four hundred millions deaths from it in the 20th century.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:27 | 4954423 7.62x54r
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Yup. prairie dogs and squirrels are the current carriers of this wonderful disease.

Fortunately, most folks decended from European plague survivors have a fairly strong resistance to it. But not this poor dude, apparently.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 01:19 | 4954602 Liberal
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Don't worry, people. Our government is on the way to help! You can trust them.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:29 | 4954431 FEDbuster
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Anyone else notice all these stories about the CDC fucking up with all the deadliest pathogen samples all over the place?  Looks like they might use the old pandemic to kill off their Social Security and Medicare obligations.  Eliminate debt obligations, one old fucker at a time.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:47 | 4954469 bitterwolf
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Please sir, where do I sign up as a volunteer :)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:57 | 4953951 Stuck on Zero
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Should you encounter an infected animal anywhere follow these instructions.  Put on rubber gloves and mask, handling the animal with tongs.  Slip the animal into a plastic bag and tie securely.  Place in a box and mail to your state Senator care of his/her address in Washington DC.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:10 | 4953993 Winston Churchill
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My Blacks vetinnary has nothing on pestes in canines.

"when it gets serious,you have to lie ".

Wonder what was in the biology lab at Mosul university ?

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:31 | 4954435 7.62x54r
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Good advice. Only our civil masters have the mad elite skills to handle something this serious.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:03 | 4954362 El Vaquero
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These prairie dogs have been getting a free pass for too long. 

 

More like a free ride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ70JJpa0M

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:47 | 4954569 401K of Dooom
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Now that is the way to handle illegal immigration!  Screw Title 8 and the libs!  I wanna see that implemented soon!

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:28 | 4953858 Chupacabra-322
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Classic! I love the "Fuck her right in the pussy" guy. He should copy right that qoute ASAP.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:31 | 4953863 SilverIsKing
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"Him" not "her"

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:41 | 4954281 Chupacabra-322
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Argentina fan pulls a solid "fuck her right in the pussy."

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f43_1405301082#yxFWo33pRhZZsiXe.99

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:03 | 4954360 willwork4food
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Funny that I saw many of them crying after the game

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:29 | 4954432 7.62x54r
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Pussies.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:20 | 4953831 knukles
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So, any CDC (et al) facilities in CO?
uh - huh ...  uh - oh ...

 

PS  Next we'll be told the dog's name was Bush, so it'll all be Bush's fault, no doubt.
Ola!  A qui el border, senior?

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:20 | 4953835 LetThemEatRand
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Didn't The Stand virus start in Colorado?

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:29 | 4953859 kliguy38
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You conspiracy theorists........you think our gov would send bioweapons on its own PEEPS???? oh wait... never mind

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:43 | 4953910 Caviar Emptor
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Plague happened 1 week after the "accidental" finding of vials of smallpox which the authorities seized. And 2 weeks after the "accidental" exposure of lab workers to Anthrax.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:10 | 4953994 knukles
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"Remember Plum Island!"

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:55 | 4954149 Tall Tom
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I'd really like to forget. Really...

 

But how can I forget when I have been infected with that shit?

 

But I am a walking Biological Warfare Lab...as I carry it.

 

Hmmm...Maybe a trip out to Washington DC may do me some good...Maybe I need take along my pet ticks.

 

If you know someone with Lyme Disease just do not share ticks or fleas.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:39 | 4954450 Oleander
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 Just take a  vacation on Marthas Vineyard this summer.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:38 | 4954558 logicalman
Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:47 | 4954115 Drachma
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http://www.ctvnews.ca/baxter-admits-flu-product-contained-live-bird-flu-...

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayer-admits-it-paid-millions-in-hiv-infecti...

 

This is war people. Biological, chemical, electronic, genetic, neurological. Know thy enemy.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:48 | 4954471 MeelionDollerBogus
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Their own peeps? It's the repteeeelyunz!!

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:21 | 4954018 Hulk
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going looking for an old black woman in a corn field in Nebraska. I hear she makes great fried chicken !!!

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:22 | 4953838 I am Jobe
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They have NORAD and Pot Farms. Does that count??

NORAD- Pussies

POT- Amerikans stoned

End of story 

 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:32 | 4953865 nmewn
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Hmmm, maybe the cat the offered O'Barry a toke in the bar where he was laughing it up, playing pool and drinking beer before going down to "check on the border" was...an assassin.

Insert obligatory audible gasp here_____________for HuffPo readers and statist oligarchs.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:08 | 4953987 TeethVillage88s
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just joking, these people are at fault.

We all want change and reform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_La_Raza
http://nationalbrownberets.com/Aztlan.html

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:18 | 4953832 Pladizow
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Sprinkle a little weed on that shit!

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:23 | 4953847 Rusty Shorts
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Joseph Moshe H5N1 Ukraine Plague Warning

 

Joseph Moshe: Microbiologist Arrested After 8 Hour Standoff With Police:

 

Joseph Moshe had called in to Dr. A. True Ott on Republic Broadcasting two days before his arrest august 13th 2009, claiming to be a microbiologist who wanted to supply evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions.

He said that Baxters Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine. He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death, the plague...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jemRjFzZy7M

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:09 | 4953991 UselessEater
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Wow, those FBI agents sure went over the top for just one guy - a mob of way over armed agents, seems cowardice is macho.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:08 | 4954505 bitterwolf
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I remember that scientist  treated like HVT by swat, that was around the super duper Avian flu time 09-10...than it turneed out to have a really low efficacy rate.wheeew....the elite keep swingin for the fences it seems...nuked american city of v the table now , physical destruction to much $$$$$ to replace..so bio weapons fer sure....Thanks risk reward analysis

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:59 | 4953950 Kirk2NCC1701
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Not to worry, DC and NY have a worse Plague, with deadlier implications:  The Walking Mad.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:56 | 4954152 rubiconsolutions
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John Denver could write a helluva song about this....."Rocky Mountain High Fever" 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:09 | 4954392 MeelionDollerBogus
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#1 that's BORDER not BOARDER.

#2 when your people migrated you brought disease with you too. We all do. That's why migration should be all the way open so we all get cross-immunized. It takes time but it works.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:09 | 4954512 bitterwolf
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noooo its BOARDER when we pay for food and BOARD. kay

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:16 | 4953826 I am Jobe
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Monty Python-Bring out your dead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs&feature=kp

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:17 | 4953827 Big Boss Man
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Of my circle, there have been 13 girls and one boy born in the last 9 years. I think Mother Earth is getting fed-up with us Humans and will be culling the herd soon.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:30 | 4953851 JustObserving
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Normally about 51% boys and 49% girls are born.  When pollution levels get high, more girls are born. For example,  when both father and mother smoke, 75% chance that the child will be a girl.

Right now, Autism in US chances are 1 in 42 per Stephanie Seneff of MIT (compared to 1 in 10,000 in 1970).  Since boys are 3 times more likely to be autistic than girls, luckily your circle has been having girls.  Maybe, nature's way of reducing autism.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:35 | 4953878 JuliaS
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Comparing the rates of Autism to 1970's is like cross-referencing unemployment numbers or the CPI. When diagnosting standards keep changing, the numbers don't mean squat.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:39 | 4953896 JustObserving
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Watch this video if you doubt the skyrocketing autism rates in USA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_AHLDXF5aw

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:35 | 4954258 massbytes
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Officially I think the rate is 1 in 68 born.  No confirmed diagnosis as to why autism occurs.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:42 | 4953908 A Lunatic
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Unless of course we are talking about global warming.........

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:15 | 4954009 Caviar Emptor
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Ask any autistic American: they are all out to get us

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:02 | 4954361 MeelionDollerBogus
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for that we have these standardized 'machines' called 'thermometers'. I know, Americans are now being trained by Koch industries to pretend we've never invented or even used thermometers before. Never seen one and so if one is encountered, make sure to read it upside down and call it global cooling.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:40 | 4953897 nmewn
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Squire nmewn is a 25%'er, who knew? ;-)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:39 | 4954093 daveO
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Free gov. money is nature's way of increasing autism. They weren't paying them in 1970, or giving them their own schools(mostly white and insulated from minorities). Yes, I'm a racist.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 11:07 | 4955466 dizzyfingers
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Bad diet. Ketogenic diet works.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:27 | 4953853 greatbeard
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>> 13 girls and one boy

So each boy needs to keep 13 girls fucked.  The problem is?

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:00 | 4954348 MeelionDollerBogus
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That's the hormones in the water. Remember all those birth control pills & plastics that break down into chemicals that mimick estrogen?

That's the outcome. It's not god. It's pollution.

That unfermented soy sold as faux milk? Estrogen mimick. Therefore women drinking it are overdosing on estrogen. Just imagine what that does during pregnancy.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 11:22 | 4955513 dizzyfingers
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"That's the hormones in the water. Remember all those birth control pills & plastics that break down into chemicals that mimick estrogen? That's the outcome. It's not god. It's pollution. That unfermented soy sold as faux milk? Estrogen mimick. Therefore women drinking it are overdosing on estrogen. Just imagine what that does during pregnancy."

Imagine its effect on national fertility. On men!! (manboobs)

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 00:01 | 4958022 MeelionDollerBogus
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Bob... had bitch-tits.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:22 | 4953828 I am Jobe
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Bullshit American pussies have to go to the Doc for a fucking cold. Pussies 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:44 | 4953919 BobTheSlob
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Right...they could just do it like you do and wipe their nose with your boyfriend's sloppy johnson.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:22 | 4953839 MaxThrust
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Lets not forget that Saudi Arabia has its own pathogen issue also

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:23 | 4953843 I am Jobe
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Send Congress for that/

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:38 | 4953889 nmewn
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Note to self: Don't drink camel piss.

Second note to self: Never allow yourself to be in a position where first note is even an option.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:41 | 4953906 Grande Tetons
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When I am old an grey and I have a couple of marbles rolling around in my head....as I am reaching for that bottle of Camel Piss...please stop me. 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:55 | 4953946 l8apex
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So, like this evening?

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:01 | 4953961 nmewn
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Deal ;-)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:03 | 4953967 New_Meat
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but they never actually do anything, no self-exporting, no self-demise, no nothin' - Ned

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:29 | 4954243 Otto Zitte
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The Old Panther Piss is OK 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:22 | 4953841 A Lunatic
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At least he didn't contract Liberalism.......

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:29 | 4953861 seek
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The four corners area (and in hundreds of miles in any direction from it) is rife with plague. The county health people where my ranch is issue alerts for it almost every spring; pretty routine to find prarie dogs/squirrels/etc with it, and they trap and test to confirm it. So no news there.

Normally I wouldn't think much of it, but it being pneumonic and not bubonic plague, that raises the alarm level a bit.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:21 | 4954021 Winston Churchill
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But the WHO said smallpox was erradicated in 1972.

Surely the nascent world govt. wouldn't lie to  us. \s

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:23 | 4954028 New_Meat
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winnie-u kno that dem bureaukratz have kno clue

not their fault

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:03 | 4954364 grunk
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Won't get fooled again.

No No.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:07 | 4954504 Tall Tom
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he countries which kept stockpiles of Smallpox, just in case you know...not that it will ever be used as a Biologicaal Weapon...or for Population Control on a scale of Billions of deaths...was the USA and SOVIET RUSSIA.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 06:20 | 4954763 Ace Ventura
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......that you KNOW of......

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:59 | 4954489 dogbreath
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delete

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:31 | 4953864 buzzsaw99
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There is no vaccine available for plague in the U.S...

 

Thank god or they would force us all to get it at gunpoint.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:34 | 4953873 nmewn
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No shit, Swine Flu Fauxdemic II.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:21 | 4954022 New_Meat
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au contraire, meathead--our very own Hillary decided to economize on the various prophylactic strains because she actually knew which thang was a'commin'

or not

- ned

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:27 | 4954237 nmewn
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I can see the campaign slogan now:

A Body Condom in Every Glovebox! Hitlary-Fauxcahontas 2016!

(Hell hath no fury like women scorned, available on DVD 2017) ;-)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:34 | 4953879 Marco
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Fuckers already took away my god given right to get polio :/

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:36 | 4953885 buzzsaw99
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and apparently gave you autism instead

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:53 | 4954325 MeelionDollerBogus
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Right now the entire Nation of America is suffering from O-tism!

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:39 | 4953895 seek
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Some vaccines actually work.

It's interesting that some members of congress and people deemed important to ongoing government get quite a few vaccines that aren't recommended/required (or hell, even available in some cases) of the general public.

Meanwhile, though, you did have the governor of Texas trying to force innoculations against HPV and burning political capital to do it. Safe to say when you're trying to make it mandatory for boys to get vaccinated against a virus that only affects women and that is generally considered a STD (ie no risk until sexually active)... something funny is going on.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:56 | 4953949 Miffed Microbio...
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I used to run HPV testing, there are hundreds of types, most do not cause any cancer. Before the shot, I primarily isolated the 16 and 18 which can cause cancer but less than 10% of people who have it will get cancer and not for 20 of 30 years. After the shot, I was isolating most of the other high risk HPVs ( many are out there) not covered by the shot.

The shot is simply a money maker for Merck. I recommended my daughters not get something that had a higher risk of side effects than the disease they were trying to prevent. Now that they are hoping to get boys to be vaccinated shows their desperation for a greater income stream.

Miffed;-)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:35 | 4954075 daveO
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If you mean Perry, he desperately wants to be prez. I saw a headline(didn't need to read) that quoted him saying that the isolationists were making the US more susceptible to terrorist attacks. He's sold out to the MIC.  

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 11:50 | 4955611 dizzyfingers
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Perry? From the land of Lockheed, Bell Heli, Raytheon, Boeing, etc? He's playing to his backers.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:25 | 4954040 Winston Churchill
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CDC has 400 million vaccine shots stockpiled but no info

on which pestes strain the vaccine is for.If its not strain specific its

useless.Your tax dollars at work.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:39 | 4953883 Miffed Microbio...
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Ok, now we are really going overboard here. Yersinia pestis is isolated locally every year in the squirrel population in San Diego county. Public Health puts up signs in the areas to warn people not to feed them.

There are many microbes you can get from animals. A hunter got Francisella tularensis from a rabbit recently, almost died ( that bacteria is highly dangerous for microbiologists so we run the risk too). A local man had to have amputations due to flesh eating bacteria ( group A strep) just last week. That bug has been isolated off telephones and other supposedly innocuous places. We have a Mexican in ICU dying from a fulminant Coccidiodes immitis infection he got probably doing demo on a house. Two weeks a go I isolated a Histoplama capsulatum in the CSF from a visited from Tennessee that came into the ER with an intractable headache. That bug is found in bird and bat shit.

People, the world is fucking scary out there. The stuff I see every day will either make you so frightened you will become incapacited or you will appreciate every moment of good health.

Miffed;-)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:43 | 4954080 espirit
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@MM

Have a sis in Ft. Collins hospital for last two weeks with an undiagnosed pulmonary disorder & since she recently arrived from Tucson suggested they test for Coccidiodes.  Maybe tuesday?

1st year hacks they are.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:53 | 4954138 Miffed Microbio...
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Definitely test for Cocci because she came from an endemic area, especially if she is not native to Tucson. People who are not native have a greater chance for infection. Phillipinos have a 20x greater chance getting Cocci because they lack native immunity. One got it just having the windows down while driving through the San Joaquin Valley.

At least immunodiffusion for screening. Pathology may see spherules if they have found a nodule and biopsied it. We often isolate it on a routine fungus culture. 2 weeks seems very long without a diagnosis. Have they ruled out other disorders vs infection? Keep me posted.

Miffed;-)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:39 | 4954272 Tall Tom
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2 weeks seems very long without a diagnosis.

 

How about Twenty Years? It only took me having a bout of temporary blindness while driving to get an accurate diagnosis.

 

This is an example of Medicaid/Medicare at work. The efficiency is wonderful.

 

If you have a premium insurance then you MIGHT get quality care. If you are underinsured, Government Insured, or, now. ObamaCare insured, you are going to wait a long time...a very long time...and if it puts you in the grave while you wait...so much the better for the insurer and insurance companies.

 

Doctors, most Doctors, in my "anecdotal" experience ARE A JOKE. They are only in it for the money. There may be a Medical PRACTICE. Yeah they are licensed by the state and have a monopoly on that.

 

But do not kid yourself. There IS NO MEDICAL CARE. They can not CARE LESS ABOUT YOU if you do not have the cash. Furthermore they do not work on cures but only management of synptoms as that leads to greater profits. They are parasites on the misery of the people.

 

Share this post with some of the Doctors whom you work with. They may tell you the truth.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:53 | 4954574 Miffed Microbio...
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In your case Tom, Lyme is very difficult to diagnose. It cannot be cultured, at least routinely. Elisa is not sensitive or specific enough for diagnosis. Some people do not produce antibody and therefore are false negative on serological tests. Antibodies often cross react with other organisms so there are false positives. PCR is of limited value unless serologically positive. Western blot is still considered definitive I believe, but with a negative serology or low titer organism, may not be useful. In other words, blaming the Dr in your case may not be fair.

I have worked with many fabulous Drs as well as numerous ones that were terrible. As in all professions, the distribution of talent is Gaussian. A good diagnostition is part scientist and part artist. I have worked with a few who had an uncanny ability to find the answer and none of them would refuse to see a patient that had no money. Dr K once correctly diagnosed a patient chronically ill for 30 years. After hearing his story, He told him he had one of 3 things. The man had grown up in South Africa and it turned out he had a parasite encysted in his spleen that his body was reacting to. The man was on prednisone for 30 years for lupus he did not have. All his Drs had given up and were just giving him pills for each symptom he developed. He was left with severe neurological impairment but he finally got his answer.

I had to laugh when Dr K told me the story. He was disappointed in himself. It was the second guess, not the first and he felt he had wasted money to rule out the first. " Dear God Miffed, I'm am slipping".

Tom, I know this doesn't make your case any better but please understand there are brilliant Drs out there that do love what they do and don't just do it for money. Unfortunately, in today's climate, they are leaving the profession because there is no room for their talents. Many HMOs force diagnostic trees on Drs and discourage deviation from protocols. This will destroy the profession because one size will not fit all.

Miffed;-)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:02 | 4954176 GooseShtepping Moron
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I've said a prayer to St. Jude for her.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:38 | 4953890 q99x2
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Bankers have the most deadly form of plague. The dumb greedy bastards just brought extinction to our  species.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:41 | 4953899 BobTheSlob
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Well if the Africans can get Ebola by having a romantic fruit bat dinner with a chianti and a side of fava beans with it's pet monkey; then why can't the Coloradans smoke a legal joint and have his way with his pet prairie dog?

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:41 | 4953902 asscannon101
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You fucking cynics- you just need to be more HOPEFUL, thats all!! The Obombination can fix all of this with a magical fist-bump, a hearty 'High-Ho Yellen!' and an impromptu appearance on Letterman.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:43 | 4953914 Mike in GA
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Okay, imagine how the present administration will handle a biohazard crisis.  They'll hafta recall Secretary Clinton to help make moar hashtag signs saying - Don't Panic! or maybe, We'll tell you when to Panic! or, My village raised an Idiot.

Then you got your backburner hashtag signs already made up saying Martial Law in 3 - 2 - 1...

 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:52 | 4953936 navy62802
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To be honest, we need something to thin the herd a bit. It has been almost 70 years since the last world war. Without some sort of conflagration, we are looking at a global population which is not sustainable.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:55 | 4953945 BobTheSlob
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We can't even get a reasonable stock market correction around this joint and here you are asking for a population correction. Go file your complaint with JPM and let us know how that works out.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:03 | 4953969 booboo
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I volunteer you. Send this man a Paslode nail gun and a clip of 12cc ring shanks.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:29 | 4954058 daveO
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That's easy. Abolish fiat currency and watch the 'takers' shrivel up(it'll take a while, go to Wally World and see) and die.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:19 | 4954531 Tall Tom
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It has been almost 70 years since the last world war. Without some sort of conflagration, we are looking at a global population which is not sustainable.

 

So you are pretty certain that without a conflagration that the population numbers will explode and lead to EXTINCTION.

 

However I am also pretty certain that with a conflagration that the population of Humans WILL BE REDUCED TO ZERO, Nuclear Winter Style...EXTINCTION.

 

Why is your ilk's answer War?

 

Is there a possibility, remote as it may be, that there may be another solution? Is that worth the EFFORT to explore?

 

It is so easy to destroy. It is much harder to build.

 

War is the lazy, unimaginative, uncreative, and destructive man's answer to everything.

 

Is that what you are? What a shell of a man...vaccous...hollow.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:53 | 4953939 are we there yet
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The latest season 3 of 'the walking dead' about a bio plague costs way more than the previous seasons. Too bad Ebola does not make zombies or we could ask screen writers for a cure.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 20:57 | 4953952 Dublinmick
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There have been some law suits in several states where doctors and nurses sued because of mandated flu shots. They refused to take them. There are many doctors out there who will tell you they will not have their children vaccinated.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:00 | 4953959 BobTheSlob
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Wow, that was the shortest post I've ever seen by Dublinmick. So in other words, it's the only post I've ever fully read by Dublinmick.

So my response: these docs and nurses are simply proving that you can't fix stupid.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:11 | 4953996 bunnyswanson
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Nonsense.  And I say that having worked in medical arena for 30 years.  Doctors do not get flu shots, the prefer to get the flu rather than trust the shot.  Would you blindly let anyone inject you with a substance that could contain material which would later result in significant medical condition such as Alzheimers?  You are too stupid to really respond to but take my word for it, doctors see dying patients every day and live healthy lifestyles.  Now that they have been forced to get flu shots (or not able to entire medical facility), they are finally letting the world know what they know...we are being made ill by what has been called medical care.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:16 | 4954010 BobTheSlob
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"You are too stupid to really respond to..."

And yet you did. So who's the ignoramus? Doctors are like this: I'm smart, everyone else is stupid. So who is doling out the shots in the first place? Answer: the doctors and nurses. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

"Would you blindly let anyone inject you with a substance that could contain material which would later result in significant medical condition such as Alzheimers?"

And yet the medical community will inject everyone else even in light of their Hippocratic oath.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:47 | 4954301 MeelionDollerBogus
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Because that's their job.

Just like bankers will rob banks & clients of banks like the mafia, skimming accounts & emptying them completely.

Those same bankers know better where to keep their money so others won't do it to them.

And I will also follow that example & keep my money out of their reach.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:19 | 4954015 UselessEater
Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:38 | 4954087 Miffed Microbio...
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The funny thing bunny is the flu shot is really not that effective. That last few years H1N1 has been included in the flu shot and I am still isolating it in the vaccinated population. I got the 2009H1N1 flu ( nasty, gave it to Mr who was anything but pleased) which will confer far better immunity that for the shot. The immunity, if any, from the shot will only be good for the season thus requiring the shot again the following year. It is obvious why pharmaceutical companies push it. Immunity from actually getting the flu can last for 20+ years and you will have partial immunity against variants of the strain.

Even the mechanism to vaccinate is faulty. You do not naturally get flu by having it injected into your arm. This can cause unwanted reactions to other proteins in the shot like the adjuvant causing severe reactions. 30k people die every year from the flu, most have other health issues and are elderly. This number has not reduced even with the push for vaccination.

Miffed;-)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:13 | 4954209 GooseShtepping Moron
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I really like your posts, Miffed. It's beneficial to get this professional perspective.

Fourteen years ago I got a mandatory flu shot from my university health center. The administering nurse injected the vaccine directly into the lateral head of my left tricep. All these years later, I still have a palpable knot at the injection site. I'm not sure what happened exactly, but my theory is that it's probably not a good idea to inject foreign RNA into polynucleated cells that specialize in protein production. Perhaps my tricep has been pumping out chicken albumin all this time, or something like that.

I'm being a little facetious, of course, about the chicken albumin, but I think something similar really did occur.

 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:44 | 4954288 MeelionDollerBogus
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When you use your computer do you double-click or double-cluck? That'll be the first hint!

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 11:33 | 4955555 Axenolith
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1918 flu killed 4 in my maternal Grandmothers family and she had it, I don't think she's ever gotten flu since then, and she's 97 now and still lives on her own in the country.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 11:37 | 4955569 dizzyfingers
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Thanks Miffed, good info on immunity.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:55 | 4954332 quasimodo
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Give the guy a break. He's been here for a month and his cherry has not been popped yet.

I just chuckle when I see all these folks around here preaching about the flu shot, then chuckle again when many of thier kids still end up missing school becuase of the very flu they were told they would be immune from.

Have never given our kids the flu shots. We make damn sure when the shit starts flying around they get plenty of sleep, make damn sure they don't skip the vits(organic whole food, not the lab made shit) and eat right, moreso than they normally do. Feel a cold coming on? Oil or oregeno. Yeah, they piss and moan since it tastes like ass, but it works every time and they don't end up going to the doc.

The Mrs. works for the local public health dept. and as brainwashed as she is she won't even get it. Having been in the animal pharma area for many years, and knowing what goes into some of those vaccines is the reason we don't eat meat from the store unless it's hormone/vaccine free or organic, and source most of it locally when possible. 

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:48 | 4954570 UselessEater
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Also if little ones can get a break from the vaccines they're OD on (my niece went into shock after get multiple) there are good old fashioned germs that us older folk as kids used to play in (you know the back yard with the dogs?).

Today friends who are older mothers remove every germ possible from the house and play area but then push their little one into crowded day care... immune systems take time to build through natural life, there is going to be the odd sickness that we used to actually get over (measles, mumps in my case) but if the kids do not get a lifestyle of outdoor play, real food and good sleep patterns in a secure (not overcrowded nursery/school environment) its logical to assume their undeveloped immune system is working overtime.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 13:51 | 4956045 Miffed Microbio...
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Funny you should mention dogs ( as I hug your little corgi...mine is now jello). They have discovered that children that grow up with dogs have far less asthma than children that do not have dogs. They are now focusing on a specific bacteria colonized in dogs that may have something to do with this.

We are meant to live in the natural world and have our immunity interact with it. This is the best for health. Of course big Pharm will not get rich if we all follow this advice.

Miffed;-)

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:34 | 4954254 atthelake
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Do you know anything about mercury in vaccines? Squalene? Adverse reactions?

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:41 | 4954282 MeelionDollerBogus
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No, that's you, troll.

The coctail of nonsense called the "flu shot" hasn't prevented people from getting influenza! Most people get sick all winter with the flu right after getting the shot so it's the shot making them sick!

I'm immune to the flu. Never has any person with any variation of influenza been able to infect me. Ever. I do not need shots.

A poison coctail of so-called "vaccination" is INFERIOR to my immune system & stands only to add the vulnerability I don't need or have.

Nurses & doctors are the smartest about the flu: those who are smart enough not to take it are never to be questioned by others. It's not your body, you have no right to demand they be injected!

And for that matter if the flu shot worked so good why wouldn't you demand it for yourself instead of insisting everyone else take it?

It's because you already know it doesn't even work!

If it worked so well you'd take YOUR SHOT and never worry if anyone else does.

When a person gets immunized against small pox or polio they don't worry that everone else has had their shots. They don't need to worry: the vaccine actually fuckin' works, you dumb fuckmonkey.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 08:42 | 4954944 Mesquite
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Long time ago I heard that the prez' children didn't have them either..

Oh, and the White House, this one and one under Bush,

only use organic food...

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:02 | 4953965 Son of Captain Nemo
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Someone needs to bottle "it" and send it as an urgent care package to Netanyahu and Obama for doing this and this...

What I wouldn't give right about now to deliver the largest payload of "whsikey Pete" on Washington and Tel Aviv for the crimes they have and are continuing to commit!

 

 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:07 | 4953983 BobTheSlob
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Oh those poor innocent "Palestinians", what with their fake country built on stolen land and their real missiles being fired at those pesky Juden hourly...oh the humanity! You're just pissed because the Jews are 100% better then their Muzzly counterparts at 1) anti-missile defense and 2) killing the enema.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:25 | 4954042 Son of Captain Nemo
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Shlomo a.k.a. BobTheSlob

Either you forgot the /sarc moniker at the end of your statement or you're fixing to be one of the recipients to one of the care package(s) I previously outlined which at the rate things are going may get replaced with a thermo nuclear warhead for convenience.

What would be wonderful is if you were located in either Tel Aviv or Washington D.C., but a close alternate would be Petro "The choco Jew"'s layer in Kiev.

As "Wild Bill" Kristol says... what good are nuclear warheads if you bought 'em and don't use 'em!

Make a wish!

 

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:30 | 4954062 BobTheSlob
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Stick with threatening the Jews...makes you sound crazier.

And this one:
"What would be wonderful is if you were located in either Tel Aviv or Washington D.C., but a close alternate would be Petro "The choco Jew"'s layer in Kiev."

"Petro "The choco Jew"'s layer in Kiev"

So now you are dragging some billionaire's chocolate layer cake into the argument? Or is that LAIR...as in hiding place? That's the shame about the American public school system. Won't spend the time teaching phonics anymore, but they have all the time in the world to teach Jewish fairy tales.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:37 | 4954086 Son of Captain Nemo
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"What would be wonderful is if you were located in either Tel Aviv or Washington D.C., but a close alternate would be Petro "The choco Jew"'s layer in Kiev."

You're right I was thinking like a Freudian Jew... A big chocolate layer cake with a roman candle that looks like an S-300 warhead

Still want you to make that wish "Shlomo"!

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:24 | 4954230 BobTheSlob
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Me wishing that you had the remotest clue about the facts on the ground in Israel isn't going to happen...so why bother?

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:32 | 4954248 MeelionDollerBogus
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The facts on the ground are GENOCIDE by the IDF.

Justice would see every IDF soldier marched into the faces of their children and executed on the spot for their families to watch. Then their families, for habouring a terrorist, ejected by any force necessary & deported to some place else.

Technically the only land they wouldn't have a competing valid claim with is Antarctica but perhaps they'd like to tough it out vs some nasty rebels in the Congo or perhaps in a South American jungle and see how they fare.

IDF soldiers are pussy, child-murdering thugs who have ZERO fight in them unless the USA empire of evil gives them the ammunition.

Boycott, DIVEST & SANCTION

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:48 | 4954290 Son of Captain Nemo
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Me wishing that you had the remotest clue about the facts on the ground in Israel isn't going to happen...so why bother?...

Please Shlomo do tell us all again about the "facts on the ground"!

If it's anything like the last 65 years of your history starting with the bombing of the King David Hotel in '46... The Levon affair... The U.S.S. Liberty incident... The Beirut Barracks incident... The U.S.S. Cole... 9/11... And on... And on...

Let's make it fun!...

Please entertain us with the real numbers to something like this to give us a starting point of your suffering at the hands of people like this and the idea being bantered about by "the chosen" (who incidently wrote this one) for a new potential playground when you are evicted from the one you are in now?!!!

Good luck on building a "new home" with great PR you've created for yourselves in the current residence...  I'm certain the Russian neighbors will be taking extra special care of you and sooner than you think!

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 22:30 | 4954231 MeelionDollerBogus
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You're a fucking idiot. The Palestinian people have owned that land since before the Bible was written.

Israel is a foreign invader: those people invading can't prove they have ties to the land & if they've had dozens of generations from elsewhere that proves they are tied to another land by ancestry and NOT PALESTINE which they falsely call "israel". Israel is a HOAX.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:02 | 4954329 Tall Tom
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That is not true. The European Jews are genetically tied.

 

Even David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an anti Jewish racist, will confirm this. Israel is Jewish.

 

Watch the video...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udO65M_KIOA

 

Israel is based on race more than religion.

 

Wake up.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:11 | 4954385 Son of Captain Nemo
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TT

Please clarify that position?!!!

Are the Zionists "True Torah" or "Talmudic"???  Kind of an important distinction!

Anyone can call themselves religious living within a fascist theocracy as the Zionists do -but does this mean they are true religion especially when historically it is known that they hijacked it?

True Torah Jews are the only "real jews" as far as word and deed are concerned, and the significant distinction is that they don't believe in the state of Israel!

For that matter I can make the same distinction with just about all religions...

Christianity tops the list on that score!

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:44 | 4954464 Tall Tom
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As I have written before there is a distinct difference between Zionists and Jews. Just because some Jews are Zionist does not mean that all Jews are Zionist. There are many good Jews. They are somewhat willing participants in Zionism because they are ignornat. They are not that much different than Americans. We hate the wars and pay our taxes, supporting that which we hate? They are not that different.

 

Zionism has been around since the time of Jesus of Nazareth. Back then, some 2000 Years ago, they were called the Zealots. The Sanhedrin, the Pharisees, and King Herod did not like the Zealots at all because of their propensity to commit acts of violence against the Roman Occupation. What little power which they had retained, after the Roman Occupation, would have been removed, had the Zealots created too many problems...which they did, finally. The Sanhedrin and the Pharisees were self interested in retaining power over their slice of an Earthly Kingdom.. That is the reason why that Jesus Christ was considered a threat.

 

But even Jesus rejected the Zealot Movement as they were vipers seeking war instead of peace, concentrating upon, concerning themselves with the Kingdom of Heaven.

 

The Jewish Race had served its pupose upon the Immaculate Conception as Jesus was a physically perfect Genetic Being with no Death Program within the Genetic Code.  The Christ was bred throgh a selection, somewhat like Holstien Cattle. That is the reason that the Geneolgies were so important to record.

 

(Of course the transmutation from a organism who uses the corrosive Oxygen for metabolism to one which uses sulfur for metabolism had to be accomplished. That was accomplished in the grave after the crucifixtion. His blood, all of His Oxygenating blood was emptied and He emerged GLORIOUS. Sulfur has that tendency and the Greek word for Glory actually mean GLOW. Oxygen, a portion of the air we breath that keeps us alive, will ultimately kill us as it is corrosive. That was done through the introduction of a retrovirus, the Cup. But there is no telemere regression in the replication of the DNA in the cells of Christ's body. That is the new body which the Christian will take on.)

 

But more to the point. The Bible declares that on the account of the Patriarchs, ALL Israel will be saved. In that same passage it also declares that the Jews are to be considered the enemy of Truth.

 

Furthermore the Bible alludes to the fact that there will be counterfeit Jews, pretenders, which God will sort out at the end.

 

I probably created more questions than answers. But that is a brief expose of my understanding, my beliefs.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:13 | 4954519 Son of Captain Nemo
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TT

Thanks.  As per your usual you are a great resource for relevant historical information, languages and science.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:37 | 4954557 Tall Tom
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There is a book about this...

 

"From Glory Unto Glory ~ A Scientific Account on how God saved the Human Race", Thomas Lorenn

 

http://www.amazon.ca/From-Glory-Unto-Thomas-Lorenn/dp/0971797803

 

It was wrtten by a UC San Diego Biochemist. Interesting read.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 00:01 | 4954496 MeelionDollerBogus
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to EACH OTHER but not to the land. I was clear the first time.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:02 | 4953966 TVP
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Obviously, this came about as a result of Marijuana legalization.  

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:04 | 4953971 BobTheSlob
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In other words, you'd have to be as high as a kite to screw the pooch?

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 23:12 | 4954397 Tall Tom
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I am not into beastiality whether I am inebriated or sober. (I prefer prudence and sobriety.)

 

If you think that getting high will rid yourself of the inhibition to fuck a dog then it is a fact that you have already been thinking about screwing your pooch.

 

Well...Whatever floats your boat...NOT ME. But there are all sorts of people in the World.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:05 | 4953974 firstdivision
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Bet this is being released from our biological weapons lab in Utah by the 1%ers to help allievate the overpopulation.

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:13 | 4954000 grunk
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Invite him to the State of the Union address.

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