Day: June 11, 2009
Quote du Jour
Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office.
— The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in an interview with the Hampton Roads Daily Press, when asked if he had spoken to President Obama.
Flu Update: Australian Test Only 90 Percent Accurate
From ProMed:
Some Australians may have been falsely diagnosed with human swine flu while others with the disease may have been sent home with a negative
result because the laboratory test used to identify the potentially deadly virus is only about 90 percent accurate.
So far more than 1,200 Australians have tested positive to swine flu. [New South Wales] Health is among those using polymerase chain reaction testing, also known as PCR testing, to identify the H1N1 strain of influenza. Last night [9 Jun 2009] NSW Health declined to make any further comment. The latest information from the World Health Organization, supported by the US Food and Drug Administration, suggests the newly developed rRT-PCR “rapid” testing method gives only a “presumptive positive” rather than a “definitive positive” result for H1N1 influenza. According to reports from both organizations, the test can also provide a “false negative” result in cases where the patient actually has the virus. PCR testing is the global benchmark used to identify viruses and is endorsed by the WHO.
In April, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization to allow a “rapid” form of the method to be rushed to laboratories across the US to combat a potential swine flu epidemic, even though the method had not been fully developed or obtained approval. A document released by the FDA on 28 Apr [2009] states only that rRT-PCR swine flu testing “may be effective” in testing for swine flu. The FDA report states that “a positive result indicates that the patient is presumptively infected with swine flu virus, but not the stage of infection,” and that “a negative result does not, by itself, exclude the possibility of swine flu virus infection.”
Shepard Smith Describes Fox Fans’ Email As Increasingly ‘Frightening’ – Freeper Responds: Shep Is An ‘Angry Little Queer’
In the wake of the right-wing terrorist attack at the Holocaust Museum in Washington yesterday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith raised concerns over the increasingly hate-filled emails he has been receiving from his network’s viewers. Within minutes, some of these same angry Fox viewers began posting comments about Smith at Free Republic, one of the oldest websites that caters to the right-wing lunatic fringe. One commenter even referred to Shep as an “angry little queer.”
The transcript of Smith’s comments and a selection of responses from his viewers on Free Republic follow…
