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New HIV Strain Discovered
reporter and barnyjr were among the readers alerting us to the discovery of a new strain of the HIV virus, found in a woman from the west central African nation of Cameroon. "It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine. ... The most likely explanation for the new find is gorilla-to-human transmission, Plantier's team said. But... they cannot rule out the possibility that the new strain started in chimpanzees and moved into gorillas and then humans, or moved directly from chimpanzees to both gorillas and humans. ... Researchers said it could be circulating unnoticed in Cameroon or elsewhere. The virus's rapid replication indicates that it is adapted to human cells, the researchers reported."
meaning, this could be an old strain of aids.
AIDS != HIV.
Well, to be fair, so far Obama doesn't seem to have the education of a chimp, so the parallel doesn't really work out. He's actually pretty witty, I can't think of any major bloopers and blunders he showed during press conferences or TV shows.
Then you're not looking hard enough. There are plenty of Obama gaffes. They all happen off-teleprompter. See, with Bush, every misstep was shown on every news program, every advertisement for every news program, every nightly talk show, plastered all over the web and anywhere else it could be shown.
With Obama, any gaffes are ignored by all except for a few conservative blogs. For example, imagine if Bush had done the following:
PIE!!!
It would have been on every news cast, every talk show etc. Since it's Obama, it's ignored.
As for Obama's education, have you seen his school records? Neither has anyone else. He won't release them.
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That's your best example? One weird diversion to talking about pie? I have no idea why he would go off on a tangent like that, but it's nothing compared to Bush's mistakes (there are whole compilations of those on youtube). So even if the media actually did ignore his mistakes (given that a pie discussion if the best you could come up, that's pretty much proven wrong), then youtube should provide an accurate picture.
The press are reporting that Obama's approval rating dropped sharply after his comment that the police "acted stupidly" by arresting Gates. You're obviously wrong that the press will not show Obama in a negative light. Could it be that you have some sort of bias that is clouding your perceptions?
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
meh
I would have pointed to the "cops acted stupidly" comment myself.
Reverse racist?
Assuming his friend could do no wrong?
Look, I realize that someone's going to troll or flamebait me, but fact is I don't think anyone since Regan was very eloquent once off teleprompter...
As to Regan, didn't he use astrologers (by way of his wife)?
And Carter was a terd.
And Nixon was a Liar.
And I forgot Ford (sorry)
And Kennedy was in a box before I was born (Damn shame too, I wanted to see the moon landing...)
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Read about it here
Obama has been called a communist on Fox News. There you go again!
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
What about Obama messing up the oath of office? True, the person reading it did mess up -- however, Obama should've read over the oath and prepared beforehand to make sure that HE didn't mess up. Or, what about this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leEcpFOrulY video which is just one of many instances that shows that Obama can barely form a coherent sentence if it's not scripted and already rehearsed? Then there's that incident you always hear of with Obama and the Irish PM where Obama thanks himself for coming because someone screwed up the teleprompter..... If you bother to look on youtube, you'll find plenty of instances of Obama looking like an idiot (better yet, you can even find one where he blatantly admits that his cap and trade plan will quote "cause energy prices to skyrocket"......yup, because that's what we need during a recession!).
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