Monday’s News and Comments.
February 18th, 2008 . by TexasFredI don’t know about anyone else but this flu bug that’s going around is a real pain, literally, it hurts, all over, and anyone that has had it knows what I’m talking about, and I had my flu shot too, but, as we are finding out, the Flu shot doesn’t protect from most viruses, now isn’t that just a dandy little tidbit??
And all the while, President Bush Touts U.S. Aid to Fight Malaria, AID, U.S. aid, that means money, our tax dollars folks, being sent to Africa to fight their maladies while right here in the USA we still have people dying that are sick, cold, hungry and/or homeless, but we just keep on pouring money into Africa, and a few other places…
I always heard it said that charity begins at home, maybe that’s an outdated thought in a One World Government…
Look for fuel prices to do that ripple effect thing again, West Texas Oil Refinery Explodes, Injures 4 People, so far there are no reports of dead, I pray there’s not, but regardless, oil companies will make their money back if they feel they’ve lost any, and this will be looked at as a loss…
One thing I don’t understand though, oil companies are making record profits, BILLIONS in profits, that means money on the plus side, so WHY do we have to pay for a refinery when THEY blow one up?? Isn’t that just a part of the cost of doing business??
Then there’s the beef recall of meat that’s been long eaten, 143 million-pound beef recall, now I know that with current info this potential health problem can likely be headed off, for now, but what’s the point in scaring people by making the recall effective against meat products from 2006?? If that meat is still around, it NEEDS to be recalled but most, if not ALL of it has been cooked, eaten, digested and is long gone down a river somewhere…
Is there ANY doubt that the Clinton’s have a lot of ’stroke’ with the left leaning MSM?? Get a load of this, Bill Clinton vs. Anti-Abortion Activists, just click the link, the story was there, then *poof*, it was gone, I got the dreaded HTTP 403 – Forbidden…
I wonder what happened to the writer OF the story?? 
Violence in Baghdad IS down but it’s NOT over, Rockets, Mortars Kill 4 in Baghdad, a few minutes ago I was talking to some Iraqi Vets that we’re working in their civilian jobs, they hadn’t yet heard the news story, and I asked them what they thought about this, and to a man the 1st question asked was, “Were any of the dead Americans??” and I told them no, indigenous population only this time and again, to a man their reactions were identical, “Well, as long as it wasn’t OUR guys, f*ck em”, and you know, that sort of sends some mixed signals about the overall reactions of the Iraqi mission from troops that have actually been there for more than a few days, and in a combat position rather than that of a “fobbit”, and I can offer no real proof to this hypothesis yet, but there seems to be a lot of fobbits named Johnny…
And as all the good little Republicrats line up like the good little troops they are, Ex-President Bush backs McCain, now this didn’t come as a surprise to me, GHW Bush and McCain have a lot in common, both were Naval Aviators, and both crashed, McCain’s wife is a lot hotter though, in other words, nothing new here, just RINOs backing RINOs…
And lest we forget, today is Presidents Day, 100 years from now, if America still exists as a free nation, the people will look back on the last few years of American Presidents, shake their heads in disbelief, and will likely be asking themselves, ‘What were the people thinking when they elected those idiots?’
Happy Presidents Day, now go shopping and help turn the economy around…
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That would be a ‘What THE HELL were the people thinking when they elected those idiots?’
I am SO glad you are back on your feet!!!
Actually Kate, I’m on my ass, I tried blogging standing up but it’s a lot easier sitting down…
Glad you are back.
The FLU is different from cold and rhino viruses. When the flu vaccine is prepared, months ahead of the actual flu season, the manufacturers have to guess/predict which particular viruses they think will attack the US this season, and make their vaccines accordingly. Sometimes they guess right and other times not.
We always take the flu vaccine each year. I had an awful cold that started January 11. Hubby brought it home and gave it to me. We were both coughing our heads off when he had to go and have a HEART ATTACK.
So there we are in St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville on January 18, he’s all fixed up with another stint installed and I sound like I’ve got the plague.
It took four weeks for my ribs to heal up, I think I bruised most of them and maybe cracked one with all that coughing.
We are never safe from those “bugs” my friend.
Feel better and take it easy.
Glad to have you back amongst the living, Fred!
Fred I’m glad that you are back and getting well. Debbie I didn’t realize that you also had to contend with the Flu. I got my Flu shot way back in October so I’m feeling the vulnerability!!!
Welcome back!
My wife, a Medical Laboratory Technician never gets a flu shot. She says what they’re injecting you with is last years strain and won’t do a bit of good on this years.
Fred, sorry to hear you were ill, but as we all know ya can’t keep a Texican down for very long.
Gotta disagree with you about the malaria issue though. Malaria kills indescriminately. The reason it is such a problem is all of the eco-nuts and lib-tards that have pushed the banning of DDT. A simple spray of a small amount of DDT on house walls and mosquito nets could save tens of thousands of children’s lives a year and NOT impact the environment one bit. And maybe, just maybe, one of those kids would grow up and be the answer to the woes of the continent of Africa. Lord knows that is the same rationale we use for our anti-abortion stance. Aren’t those kids just as innocent?
Might be just as innocent but they ARE Africans, and I am of the opinion that we care for America, and the American people 1st…
And Lord knows, we have more maladies HERE than we can take care of…
As I said, I always heard it said that charity begins at home, and to be brutally honest GM, I never have give a damn as to what happens to anyone in Africa…
To my secret admirer, 1991 in an official capacity, after that, none of your business, in late March of ‘94 I retired to pursue ‘other’ endeavors…
Bush taking an interest in malaria and its treatment and cure is a good thing — contrary to GM Roper’s suggestion, the latest delays in spraying DDT were because Bush didn’t want to spend the money. Environmental Defense, the organization that first sued anywhere to stop broadcast, outdoor spraying of DDT, was on record several years ago saying Indoor Residual Spraying, as part of an integrated pest management program(IPM), was fine — in a letter urging Bushies to get off the dime and spend the money Congress had appropriated for it. Bush is starting to come around.
Spraying small amounts indoors has always been legal, and was what Rachel Carson advocated in IPM way back in 1962.
We can’t poison the disease away, however. It will take what we had in the U.S.: Economic development to get poor people into good housing and to kickstart medical care, and screening, either on the windows or around the beds. Bushies also argued that nets shouldn’t be given away because the natives wouldn’t “appreciate” free nets so much as nets they had to pay for. Projects in the past year show 50% reductions with just bed nets, given away free, so everybody has one.
Among malaria’s more pernicious effects is that it knocks workers out of work. Controlling the disease would be a great boon to Africa. DDT can’t control it; bednets and medical care, with or without DDT, can control malaria.
To add to what Debby said, this year the CDC’s crystal ball must have been really off because more people are getting the flu this year despite taking the vaccine:
“Doctors say they’re seeing a lot of cases of Influenza A, the strain this year’s flu vaccine targeted. In good years, the shot can fend off up to 90 percent of bugs. But, the CDC says virus mutation has slashed that number to only 40 percent, this year. Experts say the stats shouldn’t make you skip the flu shot.”
http://www.wjbf.com/midatlantic/jbf/news_index.apx.-content-articles-JBF-2008-02-20-0050.html
Glad you didn’t let it keep you down…!!!