You take something highly contagious like H1N1, add a bad economy and throw in the employer practice of not giving sick days, or giving too few to employees: Public health experts worried about the spread of the H1N1 flu are raising concerns that workers who deal with the public, like waiters and child care employees, […]
The WHO just changed the Swine Flu to a level 6, its highest level which makes it a pandemic now.
Since the swine flu has been all the news, we have seen right wingers like Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck using it to promote their racist agenda against Mexico, calling for the border to be sealed. Now it turns out the outbreak may have actually started right here in the United States. Let me remind […]
The dipshit of Minnesota is back in the news. Here’s the one and only Michele Bachmann: BACHMANN: I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under Democrat President Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it is an interesting […]
I blogged yesterday about Malkin blaming immigrants for the outbreak of swine flu. It now looks like she was just getting the ball rolling for the racist right. The fact is that most people in America who have contracted the flu were recently in Mexico, or around someone who has been there. Facts like this […]
You knew this was coming: I’ve blogged for years about the spread of contagious diseases from around the world into the U.S. as a result of uncontrolled immigration. We’ve heard for years from reckless open-borders ideologues who continue to insist there’s nothing to worry about. And we’ve heard for years that calling any attention to […]
What a better way to see how confusing things are in Iraq than through the eyes of a fellow blogger and Iraqi citizen: I was trying to decide between a report on bird flu on one channel, a montage of bits and pieces from various latmiyas on another channel and an Egyptian soap opera on […]
You guys better get ready for it..lol PARIS (AFP) – Australia, Canada and the United States stand a “very high” risk of seeing the current H5N1 bird flu pandemic spread to their shores, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) warned. “The probability of this strain appearing in Australia is very high. The possibility […]
Its something we have hard about for close to a year now. Nearly every news show has dedicated at least a large segment to it and countless magazines have reported on it. Sadly its something our President has not addressed until recently. This mysterious problem is Avian Flu, or Bird Flu. The first time President […]
President Bush just got done addressing the United Nations in the opening of the historical summit of world leaders. Most of what he said was a case of typical déjàvu. He reaffirmed the need to fight terrorism and “catapulted the propaganda†on the reasons for staying the course in Iraq. One interesting point he […]