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[McDohl]

Yeah, I love how the Republican strategists are licking their lips at how to tie the Secret Service, a non-partisan body trusted for over a century with the safety of the President no matter what their own political views are, around Obama's neck.

[Mongrel]

PRAETORIAN GUARD.

[Büge]

Bank of America sues itself

[Defenestration]

The Vatican’s assessment ... said that members of the group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, had challenged church teaching on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood and promoted “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”

[TA]

... yes?  They're right.  Everything about that organization is challenging church doctrines on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, and feminism is incompatible with the Catholic faith.

[Thad]

io9: American Airlines to air anti-vaccination programming in-flight

[Classic]

Got kin who still parrot that crap to me.
They're the sorts of people who champion unpasteurized milk.

[Brentai]

I'm almost inclined to believe they're being ironic.  Bringing up to topic of anti-vaccination movements to people who are trapped in a tiny, cramped space full of strangers with absolutely no way out is a really fucking good way to galvanize people against that bullshit.

AA's regime has recently changed hands from notorious liberals to your basic tea party jerkweeds though.  I think half the senior management thinks this is an excellent idea and the other half is just fucking with them as much as they can before abandoning ship.

[Thad]

I think they're just accepting money from absolutely anyone who offers it at this point.

US Airways is looking to buy them out; hopefully they'll get rid of this nonsense.

[Shinra]

Got kin who still parrot that crap to me.
They're the sorts of people who champion unpasteurized milk.

To be fair, there is a lot of reasons to buy unpasteurized milk other than the paranoia over pasteurization killing nutrients or whatever horseshit people are believing in a misguided attempt to set science back 300 years.

Like, for example, the fact that unpasteurized milk tastes a lot fucking better.

[Classic]

I haven't had a meal at their home without at least a bout of diarrhea for about as long as they've been getting this milk apparently.
So that kind of kills any points it gets for good taste to me.

[Büge]

To be fair, there is a lot of reasons to buy unpasteurized milk other than the paranoia over pasteurization killing nutrients or whatever horseshit people are believing in a misguided attempt to set science back 300 years.

Like, for example, the fact that unpasteurized milk tastes a lot fucking better.

What else you got, besides "it tastes good"? Lots of people enjoy smoking too, y'know. Doesn't make it safe.

[Mongrel]

Pasteurized Milk certainly can be unsafe, but there are people who like it. I don't mind it being legal so long as it's only small stuff like private sales direct from the farmer and not in the mass market. It's illegal to do even that in Ontario and I always thought that was more than a bit silly - consenting adults should be able to drink natural milk if they really want to.

[Brentai]

And I eat red meat.  Honestly it doesn't matter to me what you choose to do to your own damn body, but if you're willingly making yourself a vector for transmissable diseases?  Please lock yourself in a tiny room where you aren't a danger to everyone around you, kthx.

[Ziiro]

consenting adults should be able to drink natural milk if they really want to.

The problem is people are stupid and have their kids drink it.

At least 17 people are ill, including four children who've been hospitalized. Three of them are on kidney support.

[Ted Belmont]

Speaking of stupid kids drinking things...

[Mongrel]

Hm, maybe they'll just start adding the same additive to sanitizer that the way they do to rubbing alcohol (I forget what the additive is, but it makes it near-lethal to drink rubbing alcohol as well as incredibly unpalatable).

EDIT: Looks like it's normally benzene or methanol, and it's specifically Ethyl Alcohol that gets additives. Other forms of rubbing alcohol such as isopropyl alcohol are naturally letal and unpalatable anyway (it turns into acetone in the body).

[sei]

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/olympics-2012-a-bruce-schneier.html[/url]]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17884897[/url]]The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics.
An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a "Higher Velocity Missile system" could be placed on a water tower.
...

But estate resident Brian Whelan said firing the missiles "would shower debris across the east end of London".

...
If one of those things is ever fired, either in anger or by accident, it'll shower white-hot supersonic shrapnel across the extremely crowded residential heart of a city.

[Cthulhu-chan]

Huh.  Well, presumably that's preferable to whatever the hell they think might need missiling?

[Lottel]

Clearly they are preparing for asteroids. And after watching Doctor Who enough, I think it's a safe precaution.