Two of my great grandparents died of TB that he caught during his military service either in the Philippines after the Spanish American War or the Boxer Rebellion in China, and his wife caught it while nursing him. I have been tested for it several times because of my service in areas where it is endemic.
Yes, Scott did it, just like Rumsfeld closed Walter Reed while fighting two wars. Republicans expect poor people and veterans to die, not cost money.
The cluster is in Jacksonville which has a major Navy facility, so it should be subject to greater than normal monitoring because of the prevalence of people who travel widely to the same areas of endemic TB. It is part of the cost of imperialism.
]]>Ham or roast beef were my Father’s choices when he was alive. He reached his limit on poultry when he was a kid. Watching the WKRP turkey drop was a holiday tradition at my parents house, so I always look for it every year.
My younger brother had Wild Turkey parties instead of Thanksgiving dinner for years.
When I drank, I drank WT, but that is all part of the past now.
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i’m not really a fan of starting christmas right after thanksgiving, but for several years i go into a rum ball making frenzy on thanksgiving weekend, making dozens and dozens and dozens of them, some with rum, some with vodka, some with brandy, but my favorites were always the ones with bourbon. yum! homebaked brownies with bourbon poured over them and then frosted with chocolate frosting are good too.
the wkrp turkey drop is a classic that i never get tired of. thanks for the link!
and happy turkey day to you too [though i had ham with pineapple glaze today].
]]>Please ask them (those earthworms) to explain it to me. I’m going back and reading some “ancient history,” some popular science books from the mid-1990s (yes, I have a good reason, and I’m reading only the best authors), and any creature that has an understanding of quantum nonlocality (i.e., entanglement) certainly has no human intuition to fight against.
“… Paul Ryan is one of the few people who truly embodies everything that is wrong with turkeys, and nothing that is right.”
Who would want a turkey that offered only white meat… <grin_duck_run />
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