Nah, no typo or error, that would be Marshall in second not the verb … ah, never mind, it’s just another of those ridiculous titles of mine that will explain itself once you’re done reading this scrapbook of a post.
Let’s clear the serious subject first, fast and furious because there are funny things for dessert.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/woman-dies-measles-first-us-death-12-years-n385946
A woman in Washington state became the first victim of measles in over a dozen years. She did not die of measles actually but from pneumonia which is a subsidiary illness of that virus.
The reason why it matters ( get it now? ) is that vaccination can prevent measles and just about only vaccination. Why? Simply because measles is highly contagious even prior to symptoms appearing on those infected. And people link together in scale-free networks. What does the one have to do with the other? Aside :
A few years back, scale-free networks were found to be the rule in nature. When things freely associate, they’re not equal. Some form only a couple links with neighbors while others enjoy numerous relations. In a planned network, the common form is randomness as strange as it may seem. Most parts have about the same number of links with others, some have one or two more or less and their distribution is a standard curve. It so happens that most networks are not so orderly. They follow an infinite curve from ends of the path connections with one or two links to preferred nodes, i.e. parts that have more and more and more than that connections. A human in a small community could be known to a mere dozen of friends and family but millions of folks know who Kim K. Barack or Beyonce are.If the former coined the best sentence ever in human history, its spread would be minimal but when the 3 latter say something, the whole world is immediately informed. It was understood that if the same holds true for real life viruses as for social ones, vaccinating the popular folks would have more of an effect to prevent spreading measles. However, we live in communities akin to hives nowadays and for the worst diseases, even this technique does not suffice. Vaccination against measles needs to reach 90% of the population in order to be truly effective. Do you see then why laws are passed on such things? With the fad going against vaccination, as many as 30% of Americans are reported as anti-vaccines. Only 13% of scientists agree.
http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2015/01/PI_ScienceandSociety_Report_012915.pdf
That’s still too much for measles though which at 87% can still flourish. The idea is that most folks and certainly all those that interact a lot have to be covered. That way, only the loose ends ( either geographically as our victim from above or socially as in loners ) would be at risk.
That won’t convince the vaccine skeptics of course, To these, I can only say this : I do understand your “natural law_suspicions on medical practices_I’ll take my chances” ideas. I’m rough and though and proud, more than dubious about big pharma corporations and quite the kind to risk it all and often myself. But I understand the succinct explanation on propagation and networks I just gave. I understand that if it was for that lone lady it wouldn’t be so bad but that as proved by the Disneyland outbreak in April last, in the hive, the average carrier is often less than an arm’s length away. So that unless you stay secluded, by not getting vaccinated, you’re taking not only your chance with the disease but also mine if we take the same bus to work or the same elevator and so on. Reading the above article would prove that as it ends on this simple ascertainment : since the fad of not getting vaccinated rose, the number of measles cases per year jumped by more than factor of 10. So at least for the diseases that speed fast and easy and those that kill the same way, IPV and MMR vaccines, mandatory may be the way to go. It’s like the old joke goes : That’s a dangerous disease : you either die from it or stay an idiot; I know, I had it! Don’t risk idiocy by being foolish?
Ok, on with lighter Mathers. As in Eminem, who was fooled himself by the ineffable Colbert! The good Stephen you see has to much time on his hands between the end of his acclaimed Report and his upcoming tenure on the Late Show. Since being silly is more than a pastime for the guy, rather like air and food, he turned to small ventures for temporary sustenance. That’s how he took over the local public TV “Only in Monroe” ( Mi ) for one episode earlier this week. That proved too much for one of my favorite rappers. Eminem, being from Michigan too, agreed to an interview with the national comic. Ouch! Did that one sting! Was it the subdued ambiance of the community type show : minimalist kitsch decor, absence of laughing audience as cue, etc or is Marshall simply not getting his news as most progressive people do from Stewart & Colbert? In any case, it was soon evident that he knew less about Stephen than the opposite. So that when Colbert begins giving advice to Eminem on having a “real career” to fall back on when singing as a hobby fades, the D12 fraction is non-plussed and when said funny guy kept a straight face while warning that he’d fight if the invitee jumped him ( which was not at all Eminem’s intent to begin with ), our poor rapper repeated from earlier : “I’m really confused!” He had asked Stephen if he was serious earlier and ended the interview with a discreet -“This is flocking weird right now!” Then again Colbert both had replaced Eminem’s promo clip for his upcoming film as producer Southpaw with Jake Gyllenhaal and went on to have the poor guy read a surrealist calendar of local stuff before ending ( do check it al ) sequence of waving off at the cameras for two minutes. So Em bro, do come back in August when the second Stephen apparition occurs and this time maybe light a fat one prior to taping cause yes, Colbert knew who you were, he’s just that good an idiot!!! 🙂
The whole thing is Colbert at his worst which is darn good but the interview begins after 21:20 and watching it until the ends brings along great hopes as it’s a The Late Show production.
Was it the Grexit problem that inspired the move as if they leave the Euro, they’ll need to re-issue drachmas instead or just coincidence but the Da’esh gang saw pictures of a possible “Islamic Dinar” emerge from a source in the know on these ISIL characters : Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi on his Twitter.
https://twitter.com/raqqa_mcr/status/613095143311343616
Great huh? Forget Beaujolais, the Daesh Dollar nouveau is out! Of course, they wanna have shiny stuff too except that … if they can try to force those under their rule to use it, it will cost them a lot of gold and while it may hide them en masse, at first, that currency will mostly serve to identify their supporters? In any case, nothing a few trunks of good ol’ American bucks won’t fix in the next 48 months.
Title of the month :
Appeal court clears inspectors in French breast implants case
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/02/us-france-implants-idUSKCN0PC0SB20150702
WTF? There are such things as breast implant inspector? And apparently it’s not criminally liable? It’s legit?
It pays?
Man, wait! I’ll just sketch out this resignation letter quickly, grab my resume and I’ll follow you to the job interview.
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OK so it is about a serious lawsuit on a French corp that used below human grade silicon in its prosthesis and found criminally responsible and the cleared inspectors were German folks that only got to check the fake boobs before they got installed on their new chassis, not in situ! Still, Deutschland über alles on that one just for being the pretext of such an improbable headline!
OK so this next one is really bad and I’ll be bawdry again but it can’t be helped to make the point!
https://twitter.com/jackyalcine/status/615331869266157568/photo/1
This dude Googles photos/gorillas and get pics with a girlfriend as a result! That calls for an all out effort :
If that search is valid then the Right was right about freaking out on gay marriage supposedly leading to bestiality cause I’d do that gorilla in a heartbeat!
Seriously, that chick is darn pretty! The guy in the background is actually beautiful too but in the context of the above punch, he doesn’t fit my severe criteria for the occupation, too much penis! Yeah! I know, I’m sexually prejudiced, not doing enough to support the LGBT agenda, etc, deal with it!
Still, the answer by the Google staff guy was a relief, the mistake is one of facial recognition by the AI tool.
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/google-says-sorry-for-racist-auto-tag-in-photo-app-777359
But talking bout Black grrrls, Bree Newsome is worth pursuing too … for her brains first and foremost! Not that she’s ugly but she is one useful gal : The girl that got arrested after taking down the Confederate flag from its supposedly sacred flag post in front of the South Carolina state house.
Click for link.
Let the haters roll their self-created boulder up the hill. It’s been a good week for the Black woman.
No quite so lucky was Julian Assange who saw his bid for asylum to France rejected
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/03/us-france-assange-idUSKCN0PD10G20150703
I’m guessing France knows it has enough loudmouths and pervs naturally already but it may had been timing too. Coming to this right after the publications of the Wikileaks on American spying on French presidents’ phone conversations is kinda like a s..k up? The official answer was that his life was not in danger and the European warrant on him from Sweden not such a positive thing either.
Apparently, Donald Trump has lost his last remaining marbles which led a Mediaite writer to a moment of distraction so he titled
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/donald-trump-defends-immigration-comments-somebodys-doing-the-raping/
Now now, Josh, that makes no sense! You’ve listened to or read those comments as I did?
You don’t defend from calling a whole people drug traffickers and rapists! You may bury these comments like a neurotic beta cat in the litter box of more stupidity which is in my view what happened but you can’t defend them! Relax, have a brew, it’s only the Donald being himself as we all wonder what that may be, expecting the worst for sooner? Still, not a correct headline, mate! 😎
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/06/28/egypt-sentences-trio-for-inciting-debauchery-with-racy-video
Sheesh, how about inciting to bad taste or stupidity? It overpowers sex from the onset! Racy? Pathetic!
And to close on sex ( boobs, girl, girl, dick, dick, both ), this idiot complained to NBC
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Angry-Man-Complains-About-NBC-Gay-Logo-Change-Doesn-t-Realize-Nothing-Changed-72748.html
about their Gayterpretation of their famous peacock of a logo saying on his Facebook page that he’d tune in to ABC from now on! Which just shows anger to be a bad counselor : I’ve been using that logo as a test pattern for setting my screens for years. It is copied from the rainbow which as you may not know existed long before homosexuals ( just science there, not an opinion ). So you just got angry at having bad memory/observation sense applied to a fetish stereotype of yours, that’s all! But may I suggest Fox News instead of ABC? I trust in the long run, you’ll find them better suited to your prejud … inclinations?
YVW!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/us/a-church-of-cannabis-tests-limits-of-religious-law-in-indiana.html
YUP! A Church of cannabis ( Look, Ma! We’re not talking about sex anymore *cough, cough* … ) is tryin’ to get a tax break! Because churches are exempt front taxation? Not quite separation of church and state, huh? Still, I like the idea of putting this BS to the test. No matter what my religious views may be, I don’t think the specific call of not taxing revenues on Churches makes sense anymore. If you can create a church to further an agenda ( whichever ), it is lobbying aka private sector lawful bribing. It should be taxed! And from Catholic to Scientology one, I’m sure the treasury of all modern states would agree? Just sayin’
And when was the last time you saw white folks this happy in Church :
Check, mate! If you catch my drift? 😉 Go Church of steaks! Go Church of Jack Daniels! I have faith!
Finally, this one is my pride as it took some restraint but paid off.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/police-in-turkey-blast-pride-parade-with-water-cannons-accidentally-create-rainbow-10353695.html
Earlier in June, Turkish President Recep Tayyip ( no relation ) Erdogan’s AKP party lost a majority it needed for Constitutional reforms ( not the best kind anyway IMHoO ) in hasty general elections.
Then last week was the Istanbul gay pride festival. The police tried to disperse the deviants with water cannons. Result?
Click for link.
A rainbow, which for once made sense as an alternate sexuality symbol!
The real funny part is from the day after the elections though :
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/water-cannon-producers-stock-dips-after-turkeys-ruling-akp-loses-majority.aspx?pageID=238&nID=83655&NewsCatID=345
when stocks of the country’s main water cannon supplier lost value abruptly!
[ I just knew that stupid news would come in handy later. 😉 ]
Not only is it a bad sign when politics and specific sectors of the economy are so tightly imbricated ( morals and all not yet included ) but if it all, in the end, stops you from humiliating those you despise, where is the world going my poor lady?
Situational irony, noum noum!
Tay.
Definitive Lapse of Reason 