By the Way, We’re Still Doomed

Bye Bye Bird Flu’s Kids.

Kids!
I don’t know why they get so sick, kids today!
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They are disobedient, stubborn oafs!
Noisy, infected, dirty, lazy, loafers!
While we’re on the subject:
Kids!
They’ll will cough and cough till their face is red!
Kids!
But they still just do what they want till dead!
Why can’t they wipe their noses,
using a kleenex?
What’s the matter with kids today?
Kids!
I’ve tried to tell them the best I could
Kids! Kids!
Puking, sneezing, infectious, dying, morons!
And while we’re on the subject!
Kids! They are just impossible to control!
Kids! With their awful health and their rock an’ roll!
Why can’t we lock the shits in jail?
What’s wrong with their hygiene?
What’s the matter with kids today!

Ah, the stubborn stupidity of the typical teen will be the death of them.

Sounds like the nerds/geek/outcast teens will be the survivors. Is that a bad thing?

On a positive note, of those 8,000+ cases, more than half belong to the good ole US of A*.

USA! USA!

*Conspiracy theorists/religious wingnuts attribute this to the fact that swine flu is just another way of saying “bless you”

TJ: California stinquers, please go vote today on Arnie’s ballot initiatives. I’m vociferously opposed to 1D and 1E, but Mr. SFL’s union warns us that if 1A and 1B fail, massive layoffs of state employees (and there are a lot of them that do things that are important to a functioning society, not just paper pushers).

SanFranLefty: What’s the scoop on Arnie’s chances of survival?

(Not that I care so much about him, mind, but California Republicans do have a tendency of providing the nation with completely inferior political product. It really is a strange brew of libertarianism, xenophobia, vacuousness and fanatical Reagan worship — with a good amount of thumperism thrown in for flavor.)

@SanFranLefty: My fear is that after the recession, the states won’t hire again as the burdens of work will be placed on the survivors. This has happened at my state work place (BTW, I’m on a coffee break and I’m waiting on people to get back to me so nyah) where they’ve cut 300 positions and 30 actual people, including a friend of mine in my department. If government barely survives and functions without people, the guv’mint cutters and those who want to drown it in the bathtub will make hiring permanently frozen and furloughs a daily routine.

Closet C-Span Prime Minister’s Question Time Addicts RED ALERT: Speaker Michael Martin hangs up the robes, resigning after involvement in MP expense scandal (gov’t money for flat-screens, moats, etc.)

@chicago bureau: Arnie’s term-limited as Guvernator, and he’s been saying he doesn’t want to run for elected office again, but still he might try to challenge Boxer for her senate seat. His own party hates him.

Yesterday there was the first debate for the three Republicans for Governor. One didn’t show up (Meg Whitman), one made inane jokes and mocked his opponents and moderate Republicans (Steve Poziner), and one showed up with a dry erase board and charts on how to balance the budget (Tom Campbell). Naturally the one serious person is in last place because he isn’t a billionaire, he’s only a brilliant economist and attorney who was a moderate Republican in Congress. Apparently he’s the only adult running for Governor, GOP or Dem party.

This sort of thing didn’t happen before they started teaching Evolution in schools and banned prayer.