1) Thimerosal is a preservative, not an adjuvant.

2) The doses earmarked for pregnant women and infants have no Thimerosal in them.

3) At this time, H1N1 vaccines for the US market will not contain aluminum, squalene or other adjuvants. This may or may not change after clinical trials.

Ruben Bolling is a pen name. The gentleman who does the strip was, last I heard, an investment banker with a Harvard Law degree.

One suspects he's probably never had problems on the dating front.

Is enabled to a great extent through Medicare. You know, socialized medicine.

On the other hand, we're 46th in the world in terms of infant mortality. USA! USA!

...is even more complicated than the poster above noted. What they said is all correct--but there was another purely local issue mixed in, which was the lawsuit the Metro transit folks had filed against the contractors who built the last stretch of the light rail system (for cost overruns around $100 million). Metro lost, and so in addition to eating the cost overrruns, got to cover additional millions of dollars of legal expenses from said contractors.

This did not make a good impression on the locals a few months later when the funding came up for a vote.

As I understand it, the big thunderstorms in the ITCV top out at over 50,000 feet. Over is not an option, but around usually is...

The have higher infant immortality

So far as I know, "The" have the same rate of infant immortality as anyone, that is, zero.

The US's infant mortality rate, on the other hand, is worse than either Canada or the UK's. Here are the the infant mortality rates of the US and the 42 countries better than us at keeping babies alive, from that well known left wing source, the CIA 2008 fact book (numbers are infant deaths per 100 live births):

180 United States 6.30

181 Korea, South 5.94

182 Cuba 5.93

183 European Union 5.84

184 Isle of Man 5.62

185 Italy 5.61

186 Taiwan 5.45

187 San Marino 5.44

188 Greece 5.25

189 Monaco 5.18

190 Republic of Ireland 5.14

191 Canada 5.08

192 Jersey 5.01

193 New Zealand 4.99

194 United Kingdom 4.93

195 Gibraltar 4.91

196 Portugal 4.85

197 Netherlands 4.81

198 Luxembourg 4.62

199 Guernsey 4.59

200 Liechtenstein 4.52

201 Australia 4.51

202 Belgium 4.50

203 Austria 4.48

204 Denmark 4.40

205 Macau 4.30

206 Slovenia 4.30

207 Israel 4.28

208 Spain 4.26

209 Switzerland 4.23

210 Andorra 4.03

211 Germany 4.08

212 Czech Republic 3.83

213 Malta 3.79

214 Norway 3.61

215 Anguilla 3.54

216 Finland 3.50

217 France 3.36

218 Iceland 3.25

219 Hong Kong 2.93

220 Japan 2.80

221 Sweden 2.75

222 Singapore 2.30

Oh, wait, wrong pointless argument. :D

PV was originally designed for the space program, wasn't it? Where, ironically, space was (and still is) at a premium? In small scale applications, like running a single laptop or trickle charging a car battery on a parking lot, it's more practical than solar thermal.

When you're talking stuff at the size of a house, or power plant, though--applications where there's room for plumbing--thermal solar concentration starts looking pretty good. I recall research being done on this back as far as the 80s, by McDonnell Douglas of all companies.

Bond was more Danforth than Ashcroft, with bona fide reformer credentials. But power corrupts, and the GOP corrupts absolutely.

It does have the special glasses in some theaters. She got that right.

Everything else is up for debate. ;)

Was just that, a strategy, not a short-term one-election tactical plan. The goal was to flip enough states this election to make flipping a few more next election more likely, while building political infrastructure in states where we (the Democrats) had none or close to it. You can't sell anything if you don't have people on the ground to distribute it.

There are tactical benefits as well, of course: scaring the GOP enough in places like GA to force them to tack to the crazy right with someone like Palin, a move which has begun to sour independents in a lot of more unsettled states, and which I believe will end up being a net negative when the EVs are counted. That's how you play chess, as opposed to tic-tac-toe, sir.

I'm not sure which would be more of a challenge, the old dead Greek guy who didn't know what a cell was or the invisible superhero in the sky who always says what a certain select group of folks need him to.

Blizzard, the game company that owns and runs WoW, kicks people out of the game for buying or selling gold for real currency. They've taken steps to make many of the tools used in the process no longer function in game. That hasn't stopped the activity, but it does put a different light on the exploitation angle, although it shouldn't take much effort to see other historical analogs...

Don't place the changing table next to a wall with a power outlet or phone jack. Trust me.

Spotting occurrences of the "As a life long Democrat," macro in troll posts. Seriously, once that phrase appears, you can skip the rest, because nothing they say after it can possibly matter. It's a no-longer-secret code, people. I'm sure it's something they learned at Freeper Troll school, but it's gotten so obvious they need a new one.

Anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking "As a former campaign worker for Dukakis" or "As a former member of the Peace Corps" myself.

Cold. Toddy. Method.

Ah, but you see: if they include biodegradable crap instead of the normal crap, it pushes it towards the simple "message film" some critics (not Stephanie) evidently wanted it to be. Another paradox: the louder a message is shouted, the easier it can be to ignore.

I would actually bet that the Pixar folks see the project (insofar as they have anything other than a storytelling agenda) as being more about the end results of humans cutting themselves off from each other and the world, including the symptom of environmental degradation, than a purely "green" message per se.

But that's just a guess from their other work, which, as others have noted, has always been about loss and the fear of loss. If we lose ourselves: to stuff, to mindless media, to the eternally hungry maw of the now, we will of course lose the Earth and everything else too.