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Oregon man suffering from the
plague is in critical condition
New York Daily News ^
| June 13, 2012
| Philip Caulfield
Posted on 06/13/2012 7:57:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: miss marmelstein
Well, obviously the man couldn't be a conservative because a conservative would have respected the cat's property rights.
Posession is 9/10ths of the claw. ;-)
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posted on
06/13/2012 9:01:57 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: Veggie Todd
Oregon health officials dont know if the man was bitten by the cat or the mouse.
This reminds me of an incident in Toronto during the 90’s. A bank clerk was fatally shot in the head during a robbery by robbers armed with a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun. The newspaper reported that officials had yet to determine which weapon was used to fire the fatal shot.
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posted on
06/13/2012 9:12:09 PM PDT
by
Hieronymus
( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
To: Windflier
I was bit by a feral cat about three weeks ago. The day after found the cat dead with something crusted around it’s muzzle. Sent the head of to a lab, results inconclusive. Last Sunday completed the rabies shots. Life’s a trip!
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posted on
06/13/2012 9:31:23 PM PDT
by
W. W. SMITH
(Maybe the horse will learn to sing)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I thought the Black Plague was carried by fleas. Fleas living on rodents (as in a mouse).
This story, like so many, makes very little sense. He should have let the cat eat the mouse.
A lot of people figured that out a real long time ago. Unfortunately, too late for the many who died of the Black Plague.
To: Strategerist
*gentle cough*
Actually plague first came to the United States in the 1850's. The rail companies were legally importing Chinese coolies to work on the transcontinental railway.
There was a small plague outbreak in San Fransisco's Chinatown district. An alert doctor spotted the outbreak almost immediately, and appealed to the city council to institute a quarantine and rat catching program.
The town fathers refused to believe there was plague in their fair city.
They screwed around long enough for it to infect the local ground squirrel population where there was no hope stopping it from spreading. Thanks to their inaction, now one can be exposed to plague anywhere in the western US.
Any parallels one wishes to draw with a more recent "gay plague" are left to the reader as an exercise.
Those who do not learn the lessons of the past...
45
posted on
06/13/2012 9:36:12 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1240 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: tflabo
UUuhhhhhhhhh don't cats kinda specialize in chewing up mice as sport? Nope. A cat is an obligate carnivore, it will starve to death on a vegetarian diet. Hardly counts as a sport.
46
posted on
06/13/2012 9:41:49 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1240 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: cricket
Things are more like they are now than they’ve ever been - Yogi Berra
47
posted on
06/13/2012 9:44:45 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1240 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: piasa
Posession is 9/10ths of the claw. ;-) Shame on you!
48
posted on
06/13/2012 9:48:40 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1240 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
I recall a story about some scientist who took a spoonfull of DDT by mouth, every day, for several years as an attempt to prove it was safe. Both he and his wife.
49
posted on
06/13/2012 9:50:38 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1240 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: Windflier
In NM, in 1981, I got a briefing about plague being endemic along with 'don't go into old shacks, they have mouse droppings with hanta virus'.
Some folks don't know, and they learn hard or easy, I suppose.
I followed all of the briefings except where I knew I could get away with it.
/johnny
To: null and void
Well, many of them kinda chew up the mice and then leave them for offerings on the front door step.
Ever read the ingredients on a bag of cat chow? Seems one can fool the cat into thinking it gets meat protein when all the time it is getting corn, wheatr, soy and stuff. Yuck!!
(If i was a cat)
Anyway, the fool should have let the stray get the plague, and be done with it.
Yersinia pestis, has a ring, don't it? I do believe some petitioned to change the name recently, off the top of my head can't recall the new nomencalture.
Was going to ping you this AM regards a post about nullification, but could not remember how you spelled your name, kept getting a message that no such freeper existed.
:-))
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posted on
06/13/2012 9:58:14 PM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: null and void
A cat is an obligate carnivoreIt's good that someone understands that. You certainly can't treat catz like dogs.
/johnny
To: miss marmelstein
Thank you for posting that. What a great movie!
53
posted on
06/13/2012 10:00:34 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: Windflier
ROTFL. The sad thing is you are probably right.
54
posted on
06/13/2012 10:04:20 PM PDT
by
savagesusie
(Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
To: Windflier
“it wasnt green organic cat food”
Maybe that was it. My first thought was he was trying to rescue the mouse!
Whatever his reasoning, it was poor judgment to say the least.
To: DBrow
Not the brightest crayon in the drawer.Nor the sharpest knife in the box. :)
To: miss marmelstein
“The cats I just club with my Yankees baseball bat.”
MEOOOOUCH!
57
posted on
06/13/2012 10:34:26 PM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
To: going hot
IIRC, (and I probably don’t) the grain based cat “foods” need to be supplemented with an amino acid (taurine?) unavailable from plant sources.
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posted on
06/13/2012 10:37:37 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1240 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: going hot
Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis)...
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posted on
06/13/2012 10:41:19 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1240 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: null and void
Yeah, the taurine deficiency was causing congestive heart failure. Took a while, but straightened it out, now all major cat foods have taurine supplement, after processing to kill bugs and stuff, even the vegan concoctions.
Reagards pasteurella, I believe yersinia was also renamed, will check on it in the morrow. Right now I seem to lack the motivation..
Been a long day in the salt mines.
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posted on
06/13/2012 10:52:30 PM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
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