Today, I get the day right (and put the garbage out for collection as well on the right day no less). 
- How fast memory fades. There was little mention of this the last few days.
- H1N1 lies, apparently told.
- A book with advice.
- From the outside looking in, the Japanese are often very weird. I wonder about from the inside looking around?
- Refining a position on SSM.
- Talking about human life and its inception.
- Of aid and ownership.
- Teen employment and the min. wage.
- Will Mr Obama deign to notice?
- That’s starting to sound like real money, no?
- Managing personal finance, an evangelical convinces a secular b-school graduate on method.
- Wow, the lies people tell to demonize the other side.
- A new army unit.
- Summer dance photos.
- McIntyre and climate.
- Heh.
- Connect-the-dots.
- What price failure?
Supposed MSM lies on the swine flu:
Lie #1 – There are no adjuvants used in the vaccines
Strange, I recall hearing multiple reports that adjuvants were used in the vaccine. The blogger doesn’t cite the MSM asserting adjuvants were not used but rather a story that a drug company rep had told a reporter adjuvants were not used (which is possible, I also recall hearing some drug companies have produced non-adjuvant vaccines for those who are convinced adjuvants cause problems.) What’s nice about these MSM lies is that not a single link is provided as an example of a MSM lie.
Lie #2 – The swine flu is more dangerous than seasonal flu
Well yes and no. It does seem more likely to kill children and pregnant women than the regular flu does. The pandemic of 1918 was ‘odd’ like this too….healthier people seemed to get struck worse. Granted the one good thing is that while this flu spreads very fast it thankfully is nowhere near as deadly as it could have been. I think its a warning sign, though. All you need is for the bird flu’s deadliness to combine with H1N1’s ability to spread and you have a huge problem. IMO now is the time to work on getting a fast vaccine production and implementation system in place.
Lie #3 – Vaccines protect you from swine flu
Not sure what the lie is here. Being vaccinated does produce antibodies which will fight the flu and protect you. When you a virus enters your body a race begins. The virus multiplies as fast as it can and your body struggles to find and reproduce the antibodies needed to fight the virus as fast as it can. Even if you catch the flu a day or two after getting vaccinated, your body has a day or two lead time in producing the antibodies. It doesn’t guarantee you won’t get sick but it offers protection.
The author goes on to say that the vaccine is not like getting the ‘real immunity’ you get when you get the full blown flu….which is true. Generally when you get the flu your body will have lifetime immunity from that one variation of the flu virus. Vaccine immunity is a weaker so a year or two later you might be vulnerable to the bug you got vaccinated for in the past. But then the author goes on to complain later that the vaccine is made from ‘live virus’, which makes me wonder what his beef with the vaccine is.