tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post4214728365945231744..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Swine flu.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60608552031768252792009-04-26T16:04:00.000-04:002009-04-26T16:04:00.000-04:00It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. I have m...It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. I have my sunglasses, sun-screen lotion and my bright blue medical maskAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78727830230136362872009-04-26T15:54:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:54:00.000-04:00Jackbooted swine fascists!
Impeach Obammer!Jackbooted swine fascists!<br /><br />Impeach Obammer!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61966424646554017342009-04-26T15:51:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:51:00.000-04:00Anger at deadly U.S. military raid in southern Ira...Anger at deadly U.S. military raid in southern Iraq<br /><br />Sunday, April 26, 2009; 10:08 AM<br /><br />BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iraqis protested against U.S. forces on Sunday after U.S. soldiers killed a man and a woman in an overnight raid that was condemned by the provincial governor.<br /><br />The U.S. military said it targeted "special groups" fighters, or elite Shi'ite militiamen the United States says are funded and armed by Iran, in a raid on their house early Sunday in the city of Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad.<br /><br />In a statement, the military said U.S. troops had shot and killed a man suspected of being behind supplying weapons to the Shi'ite fighters. One woman was killed in the crossfire and six suspected militants were arrested, it said.<br /><br />As a funeral procession made its way through Kut carrying the cloth-draped coffins of the two people killed in the raid, protesters shouted angry slogans and demanded the release of the seized men, calling Americans "criminal occupiers."<br /><br /><br /><br />"We condemn this horrific incident. It violates the agreements between U.S. forces and the Iraqi government," said Latif al-Tarfa, governor of Wasit province. "Innocent people were killed and the city is now very tense."<br /><br />U.S. First Lieutenant John Brimley said the women killed "was in the area during the engagement with a suspect, and moved into the line of fire ... A medic treated her on site, but she died of her wounds before she could be evacuated."<br /><br />Another U.S. military statement said the operation had been approved by the Iraqi government.<br /><br />But Iraqi police Major Aziz al-Amara, who commands a rapid reaction force in Kut, said all of those targeted in the raid were innocent. One of those arrested was a police captain.<br /><br />"They were poor people. They do not cause any political or security problems," he said.<br /><br />The raid came just months before U.S. combat troops are due to withdraw entirely from Iraqi cities.<br /><br />Such U.S. raids are authorized under a new U.S.-Iraq security pact but only with Iraqi approval.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5443999529753212482009-04-26T15:48:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:48:00.000-04:00I guess because it is Sunday.
Sunday bloody Sunda...I guess because it is Sunday.<br /><br />Sunday bloody Sunday now that I think about it.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45763394100040352462009-04-26T15:47:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:47:00.000-04:00Nothing in New York Times.Nothing in New York Times.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37872599258499666882009-04-26T15:46:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:46:00.000-04:00a breach of international treaty unilaterally, wit...a breach of international treaty unilaterally, without as much as a phone call or memo.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73633018617658549232009-04-26T15:44:00.001-04:002009-04-26T15:44:00.001-04:00swines.swines.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24116951453588904632009-04-26T15:44:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:44:00.000-04:00First we have teen age sailors shot dead, not even...First we have teen age sailors shot dead, not even taken to Guantanamo, shot in the head for stealing a life raft, now this. This is worse than Bush-Cheney.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84429132037529612572009-04-26T15:41:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:41:00.000-04:00Killing innocent civilians is worse than torture. ...Killing innocent civilians is worse than torture. It looks like war crimes to me from the Obama Administration. Barack is golfing but still where was Biden when this was happening?<br /><br />"Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday that a US raid in which a policeman and a woman were shot dead was a "breach" of a landmark security pact signed with Washington in November."Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6212155966513155062009-04-26T15:30:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:30:00.000-04:00We vote for socialism here, they vote to cover up ...We vote for socialism here, they vote to cover up Heidi Klum there. Its a world of masochists we live in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26117305217967876682009-04-26T15:24:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:24:00.000-04:00Goodness...Goodness...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53306236015750989912009-04-26T15:18:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:18:00.000-04:00Whit, some Germans, like Heidi Klum, are their own...Whit, <A HREF="http://jeanettes-celebrity-corner.com/wp-content/photos/heidi_klum_arena1.JPG" REL="nofollow">some Germans, like Heidi Klum, are their own picturesque region.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24502173295493012932009-04-26T15:14:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:14:00.000-04:00Back to the Germans:
The Associated Press
APPENZE...Back to the Germans:<br /><I>The Associated Press<br /><br />APPENZELL, Switzerland — Voters in the heart of the Swiss Alps have banned naked hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84547020116827714342009-04-26T15:03:00.000-04:002009-04-26T15:03:00.000-04:00It's your ass, America. I don't think even the il...It's your ass, America. I don't think even the illegal aliens who are already here are magically immune to swine flu. But no, don't wanna do any profiling, that's racist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46782243397780553452009-04-26T14:54:00.000-04:002009-04-26T14:54:00.000-04:00WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - The United States...<I>WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - The United States is not testing airplane travelers from Mexico for the swine flu virus that has heightened fears of a possible pandemic, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Sunday.<br /><br />"Right now we don't think the facts warrant more active testing or screening of passengers coming in from Mexico," she said at a White House briefing.</I>When the pandemic is well ensconced here and voters start linking their dead relatives to the policies of this Administration's Homeland "Security" then facts will warrant more active testing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35661541760680888592009-04-26T14:51:00.000-04:002009-04-26T14:51:00.000-04:00Goodness...Goodness...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2199458791240400692009-04-26T14:41:00.000-04:002009-04-26T14:41:00.000-04:00We can nuke Spain, now that the technology is avai...We can nuke Spain, now that the technology is available.<br /><br />If they killed 600,000 of US, in 1918, then payback delayed is better than payback denied.<br /><br />Revenge is sweetest when served cold. Well worth waiting 100 years if we can further justify toasting 'em, now that their proxies in Mexico have launched another bio-tech offensive.<br /><br />They all speak the same foreign language, you know.<br /><br />Go grab a couple of Mexicans off the corner, and waterboard 'em until they confess to the connection.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38106416169699978702009-04-26T12:49:00.000-04:002009-04-26T12:49:00.000-04:00NEW YORK – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says t...NEW YORK – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that students at a city high school were infected with swine flu.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89539268956294816022009-04-26T12:42:00.000-04:002009-04-26T12:42:00.000-04:00Best line of the week, from John Cole:
"It is jus...Best line of the week, from John Cole:<br /><br />"It is just beautiful weather here today. I have no idea what I am going to do, but I think it will involve sitting on a deck somewhere. I might have to go galt on a margarita. Does that even make sense?"<br /><br />I'm gonna go Galt on some rum and fresh OJ, myself.<br /><br />I hope everyone enjoys a lovely Sunday afternoon.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16035441167424790502009-04-26T12:24:00.000-04:002009-04-26T12:24:00.000-04:00Change the Leader-board.
"Don't live in fear, dou...Change the Leader-board.<br /><br /><I>"Don't live in fear, doug, or the pigs win."</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31017893973262649512009-04-26T12:07:00.000-04:002009-04-26T12:07:00.000-04:00Yes, that was excellent, Trish.
That 1918 pandem...Yes, that was excellent, Trish. <br /><br />That 1918 pandemic was a bugger. The only good thing to come out of it that I have found was--<br /><br /><I>The title story "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" is about the relationship between a newspaper woman, Miranda, and a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918. In the course of the narrative, Miranda becomes sick and delirious, but recovers, only to find that Adam has died of the disease, which he likely caught while tending to her. The story is set in Denver, Colorado. Porter herself lived for a time in Denver, where she wrote reviews for the Rocky Mountain News and was stricken with the influenza. The historian Alfred Crosby considered Pale Horse, Pale Rider to be such an exceptional depiction of the suffering caused by the influenza that he dedicated his book about the 1918 epidemic to Porter.</I>--<br /><br /><br />Long live hysterical New York democratic Congressmen.<br /><br />Suggest this book/story for the book club, Trish. Though I've heard the club is defunct.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34035988089405677252009-04-26T11:41:00.000-04:002009-04-26T11:41:00.000-04:00very good Trish, very good.very good Trish, very good.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39409637297880537702009-04-26T10:50:00.000-04:002009-04-26T10:50:00.000-04:00We elected Obama, and got the flu.
Gotta be a con...We elected Obama, and got the flu.<br /><br />Gotta be a connection in there somewhere.<br /><br />Agency memo, DOD photo release a feint. <br /><br />THIS is the real deal.<br /><br />What's more, it's Mexican in origin AND it's type A. High-functioning, hard-driven Latin Am. virus...What're the odds of that developing on its own?<br /><br />Don't be complacent! Spanish flu killed up to 600K in the US, mostly Republicans. The country is still dotted with flu cemeteries.<br /><br />And who was President then? Woodrow Wilson, paragon of the Progressive movement that swept the nation like a...like a VIRUS. From *which* we are yet to recover.<br /><br />Created the Fed and promoted the integration of immigrants into the Democratic Party. Need. I. Say. More?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I didn't think so.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75438627113403479992009-04-26T09:29:00.000-04:002009-04-26T09:29:00.000-04:00The fact that the Germans cannot effectivly respon...The fact that the Germans cannot effectivly respond to Somali pirates, a sure sign of the US foreign policy success. We've achieved the Goal of the past 60 years.<br /><br />Germany cannot project military power.<br /><br />Stop the whining, we got what we wanted. We are seeing success in motion.<br />Learn it, live it, love it.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73898447113148748892009-04-26T09:15:00.000-04:002009-04-26T09:15:00.000-04:00Grace, in the twilight.<A HREF="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/GraceSlick2008.jpg" REL="nofollow"> Grace, in the twilight.</A>Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.com