DC Tom

I just saw a headline that called this "Day 6" of the shutdown. A couple hours ago, I saw one that said "Day 4." After seeing one this morning that said "Day 2." Seriously, media...what the ever-lovin' *****? What is this, Kirk and Spock's half-assed "Starfleet Regulation 46A" code from Star Trek II?

Al Jazeera is a better source for American news than most American sources.

Hey, there's a thought. When "separating families at the border," put Planned Parenthood in charge of taking care of the kids. Sure, they'll need funding for the extra work...but the $6 of my tax money that represents will be well worth the entertainment value of watching the looney left twist themselves into pretzels over it.

Nah. Actually, I'm going to just point out that the source is... ...wait for it... ...Russia.

I still get a hearty chuckle out of that one. "Women lack agency, but they must be believed, unless they're just bimbo eruptions."

Maybe it just takes him a month or two to come up with a post that stupid...

Critical Political Theory. Political analysis by understanding the experience of voters within current cultural contexts, rejecting quantitative data as relativized hence deemphasized within current social constructs as subjective, inconsistent, and not applicable to past or future paradigms. In other words: they feel they were cheated by someone, so their responsibility begins and ends with blaming everyone else for their failure.

He used to be Hitler, didn't he? Before Trump was Hitler, but after McCain and Bush were Hitler...

He's also confusing "could not" and "have not."

What's truly horrible is how many people replied to her along the lines of "Good for them. You're evil."

No, I'm saying fleas cannot transport plague from humans to anything else. The flea is a one-way vector, from rodent to human. There is no human-to-human transmission of bubonic plague via flea, for the very simple reason that Y.Pestis infects the human lympahtic system, not blood, and fleas don't consume lymph. And yes, there are different types of plague - bubonic, septicimic, and pneumonic. Only pneumonic is transmissible person-to-person.

Mitt Romney!

Now it's a good morning.

No, there is no person-to-person transmission of Y.Pestis via fleas. There is no person-to-anything transmission of Y.Pestis via fleas. People are not a reservoir for bubonic plague. Fleas do not pick up Y.Pestis from biting people. Plague is not malaria. It also has nothing to do with anti-vaccination tards. There's no publicly available vaccination for plague.

What the hell is this bull####? He doesn't fall through any ice or anything...

Then it really doesn't matter if he said he'd sign it. "I'll sign something that doesn't exist" isn't a credible statement; criticizing him for it isn't a credible criticism.

Did he ever have a resolution to sign? I don't recall anything ever getting to the Senate floor for a vote.

I think that because it's not just possible, it's a well-documented truth. Plague came over to the West Coast in the early 1900s in Norwegian rats on steamships from the Orient. It moved in to the native rodent populations from there. For the past 100 years, it's been endemic to the southwest, with a low, steady rate of zoonotic infection. And people don't carry bubonic plague. It's transmitted by fleas, from rodents, but not by humans (or by fleas from humans). Flea bites rat, flea bites person, person gets plague. But flea bites human bubonic plague victim, flea bites rat, rat does not get plague. Human migration across a border does not and cannot transmit bubonic plague. Rodent migration can...but we're not talking about undocumented chipmunks, are we? And yes, people can carry and transmit pneumonic plague...but we're not talking about that either. We don't have pneumonic plague cases.

Fed workers didn't trust Trump. Or Congress, for that matter. They just don't have much of a choice. Most I talk to blame both parties relatively equally (the disdain of your average civil servant for elected officials shouldn't be underestimated - federal workers aren't terribly partisan, but are rather cynical). Anything you read about govvies blaming Trump or Congress for this - and I've already seen several examples of either - is based on cherry-picked testimony to promote an editorial position.

Bubonic plague is endemic to the southwestern US, in prairie dogs, ground squirrels, and the like. There's about 5-15 human cases of it every year in the US. It has *****-all to do with vaccinations or immigrants. In fact, if anything, plague incidents in Central America would most likely come from the US, not the other way around.

It's also worth considering that the source is trying to back-fit partisanship assumptions to prove partisanship. That whole thread is tautological navel-gazing, and largely meaningless.

Good luck proving her wrong. Or right. The numbers on illegal immigrant health at border crossing just don't exist, as far as I can tell. Best I can find is some MMWR reports from the 90s about how measles was epidemic in border crossers, but that was before Central America started getting vaccination programs in place...which have since collapsed in some locations. Now, all the "research" seems to be op-eds confirming pre-existing bias, where it exists at all. None of which is a good thing. The problem with that being that no one seems to want to determine if that's because TB is being imported by immigrants. Everything I've found from the past five years treats that as an "access to health care in the US problem" - they're already here, they catch TB, they don't get treatment because "we need single payer medicine!" It's not even a "correlation equals causation" fallacy. It's a "correlation proves Republicans hate immigrants!" fallacy.

Not just "Biden, Sanders, Obama." Biden, Sanders, Obama, Clinton.

That, in particular. "Trump went to Iraq. By the way, Defense and State disagree that ISIS is finished." Holy non-sequitur, Batman. "Gratuitously negative" doesn't even begin to describe that desperate scrabbling for negativity.