Tuesdays with Claymore
Republicans made Obama spend all the monies
Dems have a clown car of their own!
Enjoy your cheaper gas, you selfish bastard.
So apparently “inspiration p0rn” is now a thing?
Promotes women’s rights, uses picture of asshole who supports tyrants that enslave women
Shouldn’t that be “African American Projects”?
Capt. Crazypants wants you to pay to see him on Bill Maher’s show.
The left is already convinced that Hillary is inevitable. Are you?
I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
Indian uprising (not an Elizabeth Warren post, ironically)
Law firms that specialize in “divorce for men” are probably racist
Your requisite Bush Family Evil Empire thread. You’re welcome.
Earning your vote, one bimbo eruption at a time
Oh wait, here’s the Elizabeth Warren post (and it’s about Hillary, ironically)
Category: Tuesdays with Claymore
I’m with the DUers on the anti-vaccine crowd. Denying the science because of a “feeling” based on zero real science is about as fucking stupid as you can get.
The only fix for the anti-vaxxers is to prohibit kids without vaccinations from attending public school.
Jenny McCarthy and Rand Paul are idiots for telling people that it is acceptable to keep children from vaccines….if Jenny McCarthy had lived when polio was regularly ravaging kids or watched someone with measles die from encephalitis she might have a different viewpoint when your next door neighbor is playing ball with you one week and a month later is confined to a wheelchair for life or another kid never comes back to class because he’s dead at 11 you have a different perspective….she grew up in the era of near zero risk thanks to an overwhelming herd immunity based on vaccination rates over 95%.
Her personal opinions lack science and endanger the lives of children that are not her own. The medical evidence on vaccinations is overwhelmingly pro-vaccine and the consequent results.
Those on DU expressing a similar outlook are spot on in ridiculing those who would choose to not vaccinate a child based on quack doctors with piss poor research.
Proof that it can always get worse: did you hear about the moratorium on gain-of-function experiments that the White House pushed through in October? Don’t be surprised if you didn’t; not a lot of people outside the fields of microbiology and virology did. The language was highly inflammatory and withdrew all funding for and put a flat ban on any gain-of-effect experiments in the field, which happens to include pretty much all influenza vaccine research. They’ve been granting waivers without actually lifting the ban, and their primary reasoning is that they want to ban research which could lead to any potential risk to humans from a virus ‘escaping’ from a lab. (This was pretty much a kneejerk political reaction to the lab accidents where a few CDC workers – and, mostly not even CDC but hospital personnel – were inflected with Ebola virus. There’s potential risk, therefore all of this kind of research must be banned!) It was using wildly unscientific numbers in place of genuine statistics (because there ARE no statistics for something like this), and basically treated all of this kind of research as potentially violating the Geneva Convention’s restrictions on weaponization of viruses and germs etc for biowarfare purposes. In other words, while the White House hasn’t jumped on the Jenny McCarthy bandwagon officially, they are slowing and outright stopping research, including vaccine research, while claiming to be the ‘pro-science’ crowd. All under the same heading that Jenny McCarthy and her ilk use: to protect the widdle chiiiiildren, and ignoring the effects of disease and virus mutation and transmission in an unvaccinated population. Sorry this is so long and ranting (I keep wanting to swear, believe me). As mentioned, the moratorium has not been outright lifted, only waivers have been granted on a case by case basis. The White House has a tame ‘scientist’ who has been spreading this in numerous highly unscientific, unsound articles. Oh, and the reason you didn’t hear about it (if you didn’t)? The moratorium went out in a Friday afternoon press release to minimize coverage. Business as usual for the current powers… Read more »
Well, then the DU crowd needs to take issue with their peers. A great deal (if not the majority) of opposition to mandatory vaccination seems to be in “deep blue” states – like MA – and among liberal voters.
Not much a fan of the “Daily Show”, but they’re spot-on here. Warning: video may be NSFW due to language.
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/g1lev1/an-outbreak-of-liberal-idiocy
Assholes abound in DU and here in the PRoM, but even the DU can be right about somethings and the folks calling out the anti-vaccine crowd are right to do so in my opinion, and my opinion only.
I love the part in your video link where the interviewer says, “What is consensus anyway?…well I guess it’s overwhelming agreement based on evidentiary support”
I about fell out of my chair laughing, thanks for the link.
I’m an equal opportunity crank, I bite both sides of aisle where it’s appropriate, and sometimes when it’s inappropriate.
YMMV
(chuckling) Glad you liked it, VOV. And yeah – the public good done by vaccinations far outweighs the exceptionally rare adverse effects.
Public and private schools should absolutely refuse to accept non-vaccinated students; ditto employers. Want to opt out? Then homeschool the little “darlings” – and pray you don’t roll snake-eyes with a preventable disease that goes bad and cripples or kills your child. And find a way to make a living working at home, so you don’t unduly endanger your co-workers and the public.
Yes: that clip is a winner. Almost fell out of my chair the first time I watched it.
One of my best friends walks with a limp due to polio. None of my kids or grandkids do.
Measles is several times as contagious as Ebola, by the way.
I guess I’m a selfish basterd because instead of just driving my car indiscriminately to burn up the gas I buy, I sometimes don’t drive it at all. Too busy doing something constructive.
But this is thanks to the Saudis and their decision to NOT support a high price for oil so as to undercut US competition.
I can drive 10 miles in any direction and pay less than $2/gallon, which translates to $1.859 less per gallon than a year ago, which translates to cash in the cash drawer.
Damn straight I’m saving it.
had to laugh at the folks getting their knickers twisted over people with CHL permits being allowed to carry in school. A recent article sais even the PAKISTANIS are training teachers (especially females) in the use of pistol, shotgun, and rifle, since they would probably be the only defenders on the scene. So the Pakis get it and the Dems don’t.
Well, I guess that answers the question of which group is smarter . . . .
In the early 50s,in elementary school(I cannot remember what grade I was in) we had mass inocs in school on school time. I do remenber having to have asnged permission slip either. This was for measles and polio. No one in the school systems had any adverse effects. Joe