Swine Flu

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that all conservatives do is list problems but they never have practical, realistic or feasible solutions? It's black and white when there's color. It's either or never both. It's left or right but straight is forbidden.

Should I stop sharing my bed with my pet potbelly pig Edgar?
A bit out of my realm--though I did grow up in Burtonsville with guys that had close relationships with their farm animals. I can refer you to a veterinary psychiatrist at USDA in Beltsville...:oink:

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that all conservatives do is list problems but they never have practical, realistic or feasible solutions? It's black and white when there's color. It's either or never both. It's left or right but straight is forbidden.
I think it's......you

I think it's......you
Yep, its him. Its funny they now forget about all the bitching they did when Bush was in office.

Should I stop sharing my bed with my pet potbelly pig Edgar?When I made this goofy joke early I randomly came up with the name Edgar because I think it would be a funny name for a pet pig. Now I'm freaked out because Patient Zero's first name is Edgar.
Meet the boy believed to be 'patient zero' - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/swine.flu.patient.zero/index.html)

Weird...

Long story short(as possible).

Every living mammal has it's own version of the flu. For these species their version affects them like ours generally affects us.

In Mexico a guy with a mild case of human flu worked with pigs. A pig had swine flu. That flu-ridden worker contracted the swine flu. Tis rarely happens but isn't impossible. Usually this is no big deal beyond the orginal affected. He/she may die but the disease rarely transfers from pigs so it's almost impossible for it to pass from the affected human to another. In this particular case because the worker already had the human flu the swine interacted with the swine flu to create a more virulent human flu that is passable. This is called reassortment. The viruses pass DNA back and forth and create new strains. This is why every year they have to come up with new flu shots...because every year there is a new flu virus that came from two or more flus reassorting in a host and then passed along.

Nice explanation...thanks. I didn't think it was possible for those things to happen, but I guess they can.

Lets kill all the pigs in the world! Make them extinct! Sure no more bacon or hot dogs but we could also get rid of type 2 diabetes. Kill 2 birds with one stone and by the way I am not too fond of the hummingbird either.

Lets kill all the pigs in the world! Make them extinct! Sure no more bacon or hot dogs but we could also get rid of type 2 diabetes. Kill 2 birds with one stone and by the way I am not too fond of the hummingbird either.

aaawwww, poor hummingbird...what did he do to you?

About getting rid of pigs, well, there is a reason certain religions do not think it is "clean" meat and will not eat it.

aaawwww, poor hummingbird...what did he do to you?

About getting rid of pigs, well, there is a reason certain religions do not think it is "clean" meat and will not eat it.



he flaps his wings too damn fast

Lets kill all the pigs in the world! Make them extinct! Sure no more bacon or hot dogs but we could also get rid of type 2 diabetes. Kill 2 birds with one stone and by the way I am not too fond of the hummingbird either.

Oh hell no! I can't live without Sausage. If you want to liquidate something start with mosquitos, ticks, leeches, and chiggers.