Used to get a flu strain every year as a child. Those always seemed to be stomach bugs that made you vomit

That wasn't the flu, it was a stomach bug of some kind; norovirus, salmonella, etc. Influenza is a respiratory disease. The only time flu makes you puke is when you cough so hard and uncontrollably that the coughing triggers the vomiting. If you don't have a deep, wet cough with a fever and chills, you don't have the flu.

It worked for me, I'm 60 and didn't get the flu.

And I didn't even get a flu shot!

Ironically, I think the first Bush was a pretty good Republican. He was willing to violate his no tax pledge for the sake of the fiscal health of the country

I was referring to Junior.

Thanks, the Linux box is kubuntu 10 so maybe it will work. I wonder where this latest rash of slashbugs came from?

Bush is a good guy

I can't agree with that. He may and probably is very easy to get along with, but enriching his cronies at the expense of the entire economy is just wrong. Bush is an oil man, gasoline prices more than quadrupled during his Presidency, and that was one of the biggest causes of the great recession. Another was slashing taxes on the rich. Starting a war with Iraq because Hussein threatened his dad was both stupid and evil.

Obama has not changed many of Bush's policies (which is why I didn't vote for him in the last election

I voted Green Party for the same reason, but if Illinois had been a swing state I'd have voted for Obama just to keep Mister "fuck the 99%" out of office. If the Republicans had run anyone worth voting for I'd have voted for him, but they haven't run a decent candidate since Eisenhower.

I shouldn't have to hunt for the smallest punctuation mark there is while reading. It's fine if you move your lips when you read, not when you're used to reading books.

Crap, what OS are you on? I'm getting the bugs in FireFox on W7 too, was going to log in on the Linux box to change my password, but if the bug is only on FF I'm screwed. I'm not installing Google's spying program.

Is anybody else getting the bug that makes "account" not work? I'm going to have to log into the Linux box to change my sig or password.

I'd hardly call Clinton a "model Christian", but it isn't up to me to judge him for his peccadillos. He probably is as good a Christian as me, I'm far from perfect even though I try (hell, I got seduced by a married woman last week). It seems that Christians make lousy Presidents; Carter seemed a good man, but he sucked as President. Of course, he didn't suck nearly as badly as Bush, who I don't think has a conscience.

My beef isn't spelling, it's starting sentences with lower case. The only time spelling bothers me is when it changes the meaning of the sentence ("The bank should loose their money"), and when it's obvious that a comment is written by someone barely literate ("They're house is on fire").

I didn't even notice the misspellings, it was the look of "this long paragraph is a single sentence". Periods don't stand out, upper case letters do.

As for formatting, you probably had it set to "HTML" rather than "plain text".

Sorry, but that wall of uncapitalized sentences is unreadable. Can someone translate that to written English for me?

That shift key is there for a reason. I don't struggle to read the newspaper and I'll be damned if I struggle to read a comment written by an alliterate.

If you think that was a misspelling or typo, google it.

Apologies to the moderators, but that crap annoys the hell out of me in a site supposedly for the educated.

You know, for an extra two bucks you can get almost a pound of Folgers or Maxwell House which perks pots and pots of coffee. His point is, if you're spending six bucks for a cup of something that costs pennies to make, bitching about an extra buck for quality honey is just stupid. Especially since that jar of honey will do you for months instead of hours.

If I were moderating you'd get a "funny".

It just struck me why people drive so stupid when I'm on my way to work -- they're racing to Starbucks, while I'm already well caffenated.

Fresh honey? Gimme the sitting in your shelf for ages, crystallized and it's still good thing.

You can uncrystallize honey by heating.

We already eat way too much sugar and meat anyway.

We? I'm not overweight (maybe even a little underweight), don't have diabetes or heart disease, so how could I possibly be eating too much meat and sweets?

A lot of people like their coffee sweet, and many of them put honey in their coffee. It seems to me that coffee honey in coffee would be damned good, if you like sweet coffee (I don't).