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(8 replies, posted in Politics)

Report: 9/11 First Responders at High Risk for Three Cancer Types

First Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Cases Detected in North America

Completely incurable gonorrhea may be at hand

By JASON KOEBLER
January 8, 2013 RSS Feed  Print

Gonorrhea infects close to 700,000 Americans each year.
The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the last remaining effective oral antibiotic has been detected in at least nine North American patients, meaning the era of "incurable" gonorrhea could be close.

In a study released Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a group of scientists led by Vanessa Allen of Public Health Ontario, found that 6.7 percent of patients with gonorrhea at a Toronto clinic still had the disease after a round of cephalosporins, the last effective oral antibiotic used to treat the disease. Of 133 patients who returned for a "test of cure" visit, nine remained gonorrhea-positive. This is the first time cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea has been found in humans in North America.


Last year, both the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control warned that untreatable gonorrhea

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(92 replies, posted in Politics)

if you don't give a damn then reading his posts is apathetic

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(0 replies, posted in General)

Gamers hired by father to 'kill' son in online games

A man in China hired virtual "assassins" to hunt down his son in online video games and kill off his avatar, according to local media.

The man, named by the Kotaku East blog as Mr Feng, was concerned about the amount of time his 23-year-old unemployed son was spending online.

He hoped his actions would deter his son from playing the games, he is reported to have said.

His son eventually asked one of the gamers why they kept targeting him.

"It's not going to do much for family relations," Prof Mark Griffiths, a gambling and addictions expert at Nottingham Trent University told the BBC.

"I've never heard of that kind of intervention before, but I don't think these top-down approaches work. Most excessive game playing is usually a symptom of an underlying problem."

Prof Griffiths said he heard from many parents who were worried about their children's gaming habits but often it was not an addiction.

"I've spent 25 years studying excessive video game playing," he said.

"I've come across very excessive players - playing for 10 to 14 hours a day - but for a lot of these people it causes no detrimental problems if they are not employed, aren't in relationships and don't have children.

"It's not the time you spend doing something, it's the impact it has on your life."

Father and son are said to have reconciled but World of Warcraft expert Olivia Grace said she did not think Mr Feng's actions would necessarily act as a deterrent.

"Being killed by someone happens all the time," she said.

"People are just like that online."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20931304


So now we know why Wornstrum is too busy to go online...

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http://gallery1988andrewdegraff.blogspot.com/


This guy made posters of movie plots.  Each colored line is a different character and you can track them as they move around various locations.  He sells the full-size versions for $85.

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(92 replies, posted in Politics)

instead of arguing about God you are now arguing about how to argue about God

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(7 replies, posted in Politics)

they'll never vote for him again

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(6 replies, posted in Politics)

it sounds like a Lucas plot.

"Suppose General X seized Washington D.C. by force, and actually managed to maintain absolute power."   

How does one maintain absolute power, except by exterminating all alternatives?  Does he just engage the Congress in townhall debates and kick their ass?  Does he swindle the Congress into passing his agenda as law, like that naked dude on Survivor?  Or does he dismiss the legislature and shoot anybody who farts rebelliously?

"Within 6 months, he effectively restored the U.S. federal government to the size and intended purpose as mandated by the U.S. constitution"

Yeah several months of research and one day of stripping enabling acts of the active paragraphs.  No more "the Secretary shall...such regulations as are necessary..."

"Before abdicating from power, he helped himself to $20 billion from the U.S. treasury and then resigned to a remote estate to live out the rest of his life in luxury."

OK so after holding 6 months of absolute power he abdicates.  To who? The guys he shot?  if the regional governors were keeping the population in line for him, that's not really absolute power.  does he stage national elections before he goes?  Or hand over to another dictator?

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(16 replies, posted in Community)

retire

come back

retire

lurk

system of a down

1,509

(92 replies, posted in Politics)

Hey. What about me? - God

1,510

(6 replies, posted in Politics)

kidnap him

marry him in Maryland

kill him in an accident

inherit $20 billion

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(5 replies, posted in Politics)

Australia has worked out a deterrent to the tsunami bomb:

1.  large undersea reefs of mine debris, cans and bottles will prevent the shockwave from gaining as much force
2.  the depleted wave will be disrupted by coordinated flushing of sewers
3.  huge barriers of full kegs and flats outside cities will channel the surf into aboriginal homelands
4.  refugees can avoid starvation, dehydration, contaminated water and stress by consuming the kegs and flats
5.  the empties are used to replenish the reefs against a second strike

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(5 replies, posted in Politics)

Doesn't need one.  They'll bunker down and drown the invader.


"'Tsunami bomb' tested off New Zealand coast
The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of a "tsunami bomb" designed to destroy coastal cities by using underwater blasts to trigger massive tidal waves.

The tests were carried out in waters around New Caledonia and Auckland during the Second World War and showed that the weapon was feasible and a series of 10 large offshore blasts could potentially create a 33-foot tsunami capable of inundating a small city.

The top secret operation, code-named "Project Seal", tested the doomsday device as a possible rival to the nuclear bomb. About 3,700 bombs were exploded during the tests, first in New Caledonia and later at Whangaparaoa Peninsula, near Auckland.

The plans came to light during research by a New Zealand author and film-maker, Ray Waru, who examined military files buried in the national archives.
"Presumably if the atomic bomb had not worked as well as it did, we might have been tsunami-ing people," said Mr Waru.

"It was absolutely astonishing. First that anyone would come up with the idea of developing a weapon of mass destruction based on a tsunami ... and also that New Zealand seems to have successfully developed it to the degree that it might have worked." The project was launched in June 1944 after a US naval officer, E A Gibson, noticed that blasting operations to clear coral reefs around Pacific islands sometimes produced a large wave, raising the possibility of creating a "tsunami bomb".

Mr Waru said the initial testing was positive but the project was eventually shelved in early 1945, though New Zealand authorities continued to produce reports on the experiments into the 1950s. Experts concluded that single explosions were not powerful enough and a successful tsunami bomb would require about 2 million kilograms of explosive arrayed in a line about five miles from shore.

"If you put it in a James Bond movie it would be viewed as fantasy but it was a real thing," he said.

"I only came across it because they were still vetting the report, so there it was sitting on somebody's desk [in the archives]."

Forty years after the joint testing, New Zealand faced a dramatic breakdown in its security ties with the US after it banned the entry of nuclear-armed ships from entering its territory during the 1980s. The dispute led to the US downgrading its relationship with New Zealand from an "ally" to a "friend".
In his new book Secrets and Treasures, Mr Waru reveals other unusual findings from the archives including Defence Department records of thousands of UFO sightings by members of the public, military personnel and commercial pilots.
Some of the accounts of the moving lights in the sky include drawings of flying saucers, descriptions of aliens wearing "pharaoh masks" and alleged examples of extraterrestrial writing."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/9774217/Tsunami-bomb-tested-off-New-Zealand-coast.html


HOT DAMN

I SAID we needed a Tsunami Bomb in 2004!  We had it 60 years before that!

U!S!A!!!! U!S!A!!! U!S!A!!!

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(37 replies, posted in General)

its not worth it, the secret of the Tower is Patrick McGoohan

1,514

(16 replies, posted in Politics)

sounds like Ron Paul when he wants some money

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(30 replies, posted in Politics)

but I'm not confused about what is evil.  If I say I know what is evil and continually attack it, I may be an asshole, even, "evil", but I am not confused.

It is not true that if my system doesn't appeal to you, it is rendered illusive and undefined.

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(16 replies, posted in Politics)

Plan B is not a solution, and, it cancelled out better stuff that the Republicans passed in August that the Senate refused to touch.

This is a chronic condition.  House passes something good, Harry Reid says "shove it" and then Boehner cracks and renounces his own solution for a failed compromise.  It's why we have sequestration in the first place.  If that goop had just said "We voted to continue the status quo. That isn't what we want but we have to give a little so you get the status quo.  Sign it. We're done."  he'd be the strong guy on Capitol Hill.

Instead he has Republicans voting with Democrats to raise taxes and not cut spending.  I'd say the party has never been weaker, but, those whores haven't passed amnesty and an assault weapons ban so they have a way to fall.

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(98 replies, posted in General)

i reminded KT we could attach pictures to Facebook messages so she could still judge the contest

she freaked out

ofc since we know Zuckerberg's sister got burnt posting a private photo, that's probably just as well we didn't

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(16 replies, posted in Politics)

BREAKING NEWS

Boehner is holed up in the Treasury building

He took Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan hostage

if Obama won't compromise he's going to blow them up and himself with him

it's his 2nd brilliant idea

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(30 replies, posted in Politics)

> [PW2] PICKLE ARMY wrote:

> the smartest trick the three legged rainbow unicorn ever pulled was to persuade the world he didn't exist<


This was never a hot quote in a hip movie

so its clearly irrelevant

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(30 replies, posted in Politics)

primo you should read some William Shirer histories of the Reich

he agrees Hitler lost it in the end, but the camps and the Gestapo and the conquest of Eastern Europe were all planned in advance.

1,521

(30 replies, posted in Politics)

the smartest trick the devil ever pulled was to persuade the world he didn't exist

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(16 replies, posted in Politics)

Actually the Obamacare regs kick in for employers with a certain number of employees who work more than 30 hours a week, which is why many are cutting hours down to that.

Blue Shield in CA is jacking up premiums 25%.  Companies may not know the ULTIMATE costs but they know its going to be bad.

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(37 replies, posted in General)

Teddy Roosevelt used to read in a "Z" down the page in a few seconds and he found he could get enough of the book to chat with the author afterwards.

Though of course he died a long time before he could meet Truman Capote or Norman Mailer

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(33 replies, posted in Politics)

well now he's saying -- in the Daily Mail -- if we don't change to suit him then he'll come back. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254758/Deport-If-America-wont-change-crazy-gun-laws--I-deport-says-Piers-Morgan.html

I'm sure we can work together to give you flight information.

"gun-murder" -- try dealing with the homicide rate, it wasn't improved by banning one set of weapon.

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(141 replies, posted in Politics)

http://www.spanamwar.com/dynamite.htm

yikes

5 lbs shell projected 900 yards??

black powder driving a compressor?

never thought of such things.