-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post Accidentally Like A Martyr
Ha-ha-ha!
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post Accidentally Like A Martyr
If San Francisco Pride can’t honor Bradley Manning who is one of the few genuine heroes of our time, rather than a putative one as some dithering fools might stupidly remark, then SF Pride doesn’t deserve a parade, so fuck them.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: “The Greater Good”
Well we were very attentive to their health nutritionally and otherwise. I don’t think vaccines are a magic bullet.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: “The Greater Good”
Yes, I read it from a reputable (scientific ) source in the course of a debate on another forum some months ago. I think it may have been specifically in relation to the elderly though, since that was the topic. Here is a link to the CDC website.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm
It puts the effectiveness at 60% for the general population but states that the vaccine is less effective in young children and the elderly. However, the vaccine is generally targeted to the elderly.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: “The Greater Good”
I’m not comfortable with injecting chemicals into my body or my kids’ bodies. Luckily I was able to keep my own kids from having to be vaccinated until they went into public school.
At least at that age I think their bodies were better able to handle it than if they had been vaccinated as infants or toddlers. Who knows what ill effects they may have suffered or what disabilities they might have today if they had all those substances injected into them when they were no more than babies?
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: “The Greater Good”
I read that the flu shot is only 50% effective anyway. Why pay for that run the risk of bad effects for such a low return?
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: “The Greater Good”
Hmmm, I didn’t know that. That’s very interesting.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post British Prisoner Shaker Aamer May Die in Guantanamo Because of Secret Detention Deal
That’s bullshit. The ACLU has been a lone presence for the last eleven years exposing US torture and detainment without charges through documents obtained under the FOIA. They are the only organization I support anymore financially.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post The Roundup for March 21, 2013
Regrading the Post Office and Saturday delivery, this Reuters story is misrepresenting the facts. The Post Office is being “squeezed” not by being “forced” to deliver six days, but rather, by being forced to fund the pensions of its workers many decades into the future–an arbitrary condition that no other organization has to meet.
Cutting delivery days is just the thin edge of the wedge to force the PO into privatization, or to give private companies the opportunity to grab more of its business. Labor doesn’t want to stop Saturday delivery. It’s just a concept conceived by the same people who brought us the concept of cuts to Social Security.
-
jasmine311 commented on the diary post Cheney’s Folly: How Torture Cost Us 7 Years in the Hunt for UBL by TuffsNotEnuff.
Oh! And because the person ordering the torturing, and participating in the torturing, and in at least one instance, torturing someone to death is a woman–why, according to Moore, that makes this a feminist film. O happy day!
-
jasmine311 commented on the diary post Cheney’s Folly: How Torture Cost Us 7 Years in the Hunt for UBL by TuffsNotEnuff.
I think Moore pretty much jumped the shark defending ZDT.
-
jasmine311 commented on the diary post Cheney’s Folly: How Torture Cost Us 7 Years in the Hunt for UBL by TuffsNotEnuff.
Why did ZDT change the facts to insinuate torture provided the information to find OBL when that was not actually the case? Why did ZDT not present any scenes in which intelligence people decried torture, as actually happened in actual life, instead of scenes in which intelligence people lamented that they could not do their [...]
-
jasmine311 commented on the diary post Cheney’s Folly: How Torture Cost Us 7 Years in the Hunt for UBL by TuffsNotEnuff.
Exactly. Well-said.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post Live Stream: The Newtown Address, President Obama Speaks
Only a hypocrite could pretend to be moved to tears by children’s deaths, when that same person routinely kills children day after day and year after year. His elaborate play-acting and the media’s solemn reporting of it sicken me.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post Nothing to Say
He “gave his life”? Too bad he didn’t give it before he repeatedly pumped multiple bullets into 6-year-olds at close range over and over and over.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post Bradley Manning’s ‘Unlawful Pretrial Punishment’ Hearing, Day 8
Kevin, you have done an amazing job. Thank you so much for this invaluable and excellent coverage.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post Poll: Should Susan Rice’s TransCanada Investment Disqualify Her from Secretary of State Job?
YES!
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post President Obama Wins Re-Election
So Obama won. Who cares? Not me. I voted for Jill Stein.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post Elections Have Consequences
Elections have consequences alright. Thanks to the 2008 election we lost habeus corpus, the narrow window of arresting climate change, and I personally lost all hope for the future of this country.
I don’t have room to think about any more consequences.
-
jasmine311 commented on the blog post Elections Have Consequences
Oh haven’t you heard? Drones are effective so who cares what happens to their victims.
- Load More
