Laga, was it you saying you are partial to Abyssinian cats but would likely go with a shelter baby next time you were looking for a cat? How do you feel about breed-specific breed rescue organizations? [link]
I believe that's my hey. Hey!
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WindSparrow - May 01, 2009 10:15:27 pm PDT #8509 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
omnis_audis - May 01, 2009 10:29:58 pm PDT #8510 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Fort Worth school district is closed for 2 weeks, and the city cancelled the ArtFest, weekend festival of crafts, concerts, etc.
Laga - May 01, 2009 10:32:20 pm PDT #8511 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
ooh I had considered a breed rescue if I ever decided to get an Irish Wolfhound but it never crossed my mind that cats would have breed rescues too. Thanks for the tip, WindSparrow!
omnis that stinks! How many cases of the swine flu have they had?
omnis_audis - May 01, 2009 10:54:34 pm PDT #8512 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Not sure. A few. Clearly an over reaction.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 02, 2009 12:18:24 am PDT #8513 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I just had leftover cheese-stuffed baked potato skins for breakfast. Ni-ice.
Hil, best of luck with the rheumatologist. Pain management is such a tricky balancing act. I hope they can give you something that helps.
Am up to 3000 words of my 6000-word paper! Some of the words are even OK! Today: at least 1500 more! Here I go...
Shir - May 02, 2009 12:47:21 am PDT #8514 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Another Saturday, another academic shit to write. Meh. Need to get coffee in order to do that.
And thanks for the new tagline, Laga.
DCJensen - May 02, 2009 12:48:11 am PDT #8515 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I've mixed feelings on the overreactions. The speed with which the H1N1 bloomed and the ratio of deaths to infections in Mexico was alarming.
Compare it to a forest fire. If there is a potential for a massive forest going up and you have an opportunity to put out a small fire to prevent it, it might be best to aggressively stamp hard on any flying embers ASAP.
The pandemic 1918 was bad, but we have global air travel now. Even if this is a bust, we better get used to it. A pandemic is probably inevitable until everyone has everyone's germs. (Although that is statistically improbable).
Shir - May 02, 2009 12:59:19 am PDT #8516 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Related, from the Boing Boing: [link]
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 02, 2009 1:20:51 am PDT #8517 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Israel talks of banning the term 'swine flu', while the Church of England apparently has no comment on the impending apocalypse. But then, we're deny-y people here in foggy England.
(Above link courtesy of one of my favourite sites, Ship of Fools. Which currently cites 'chance of rapture' at 72%, up to 2% this week because of the increased possibility of plagues. Heh.)
My first attempt at this post got eaten because of bad code. Trying again.
Steph L. - May 02, 2009 2:21:48 am PDT #8518 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
But the 1918 epidemic started out mild and mutated into something deadly. Somewhere between 20 and 40 million people died in it.
That was close to a century ago. The standards of living and medical care, throughout the entire developed world, were vastly different than they are now. In 1918, the US -- and the rest of the world -- was recovering from World War I, with widespread poverty, hunger, and unsanitary living conditions, coupled with no available antibiotics (a very large amount of flu deaths are from secondary bacterial infections that set in after the initial flu infection) or flu medications or modern medical care.
So pretty much I'd say that if the CDC says we need to do it. We need to do it.
I think it's a big mistake to assume that the CDC is infallible. They also estimated that avian flu could kill 60 million people worldwide. That was back in 2006.
I'm not saying the CDC is ignorant, or totally mistaken. But I think there's an enormous amount of overreaction going on with the swine flu right now, and even the CDC isn't exempt from that.