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Ricin Possibly Found at Las Vegas Motel
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Posted on 02/29/2008 3:14:39 AM PST by maquiladora
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To: CindyDawg
I have always wondered on the TV shows, they always show the cop ‘tasting’ the alleged coke to see if it is real. I stopped by to see if there was anything new known...anything?
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posted on
02/29/2008 4:49:06 PM PST
by
PennsylvaniaMom
(Michelle Obama: this seasons Teresa Heinz.)
To: PennsylvaniaMom
To: PennsylvaniaMom; CindyDawg
They seem to have the news well under control...
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posted on
02/29/2008 4:56:57 PM PST
by
null and void
(I slept better when I thought our betters actually were better...)
To: girlangler
I remember girlangler.I did a thread on Dreams on the canteen.Someone put a link to that dream on the thread.I can’t find the thread right now.
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:02:25 PM PST
by
fatima
To: fatima; girlangler
AHA!
Here:
Strange Dream
(It wasn't me, nobody saw it, you can't prove anything!)
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:15:08 PM PST
by
null and void
(I slept better when I thought our betters actually were better...)
To: null and void
:)That’s it.Gives me the chills.
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:36:47 PM PST
by
fatima
To: null and void; fatima
Good find. Now that I see it again, I remember it being passed around alot after the reality of 9/11 sunk in.
fatima, do you still have a dreams thread...if you do one again in the canteen please ping me.
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:40:38 PM PST
by
PennsylvaniaMom
(Michelle Obama: this seasons Teresa Heinz.)
To: null and void; fatima
Good find. Now that I see it again, I remember it being passed around alot after the reality of 9/11 sunk in.
fatima, do you still have a dreams thread...if you do one again in the canteen please ping me.
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:40:46 PM PST
by
PennsylvaniaMom
(Michelle Obama: this seasons Teresa Heinz.)
To: PennsylvaniaMom
I will.I did a search and can’t find the other one.We had some really good dreams posted that came true.My favorite was the adoption of a baby.((((Hugs)))
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:43:35 PM PST
by
fatima
To: PennsylvaniaMom; fatima
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:48:46 PM PST
by
null and void
(I slept better when I thought our betters actually were better...)
To: null and void
That’s it.Your good:)Check out post 78.It is so beautiful.
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:54:59 PM PST
by
fatima
To: fatima
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posted on
02/29/2008 6:09:01 PM PST
by
null and void
(I slept better when I thought our betters actually were better...)
To: CindyDawg
Yes, that’s the plant. A very common shrub, hardy, evergreen. Ricin is basically a distillation of its seeds’ toxic chemical. The process is very simple but I’m obviously not going to post it here. Besides, making it can kill you pretty handily. That may, in fact, have happened here. Tough nuts if so!
To: prairiebreeze
"The fatigue the bug caused was one of the worst symptoms. I had it from start to end for over a month. My chest got so tight I had to get an inhaler."
It's a nasty one, isn't it? I got a flu shot in October since I travel so much, and I managed to escape several bad bugs my kids brought home that seemed to be variants of the flu. Maybe the shot helped. Maybe it wore off? Maybe it was mis-targeted and wouldn't apply to this bug? Who knows. There's no doubt my affliction is influenza, either. Rather classic symptoms. And you can appreciate how it can kill people. I'm healthy, in decent shape, and probably only caught it from getting run-down with too much travel and not dosing myself with Airborne as meticulously as I should've. But once I had it I'd say my strength and endurance were reduced by 80-90%, to a point where I was starting to get rather worried. I'm getting better fast now, thanks to lots of rest, tons of vitamins, no aspirin or other fever-reducer (fever is good! ...to a point, of course), and an occasional dosing of codeine late in the game to stop the cataclysmic (and pointlessly unproductive) cough. Gad I love codeine, a true wonder drug. For me, it's the only thing that works for a chest-shattering cough like that.
Anyway, I got the bug Tuesday, and now it's Friday and I'm much, much improved. Now to avoid over-doing things and causing a relapse! Those suck majorly.
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Glad you are starting to feel better. Why has it taken two weeks to hear about this “incident” though? FR is better than this:’)
To: girlangler
i had a dream about some muslims getting sent back from whence they came. hope that is prophetic
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
I agree wholeheartedly about your observation relating to fever. No anti-pyretics taken here until it approaches 102. Fever is miserable to the viruses too.
Problem was, I didn’t have any fever with this bout. Almost was wishing for it. Had some very mild chills and sweats, that’s it.
I had very little cough and yes it was mostly non productive. What I had was chest tightness and breathlessness. Intense fatigue with that yucky feeling and terrible sinus symptoms for 4-5 days. It all started with a sore throat that lasted for a week. (no strep)
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posted on
03/01/2008 4:38:46 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
("Mental institution Michael...think about it". -- FDT 2007)
To: jmcenanly
Yes, there was a report on 60 minutes about this man. Injected ricin is much more toxic than ingested. Flu-like symptoms generally worsen along with high fever until death.
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posted on
03/01/2008 10:43:10 AM PST
by
Neoliberalnot
((Hallmarks of Liberalism: Ingratitude and Envy))
To: CindyDawg
Lupine is another garden plant with similar leaf appearance to castor bean. Very common and some varieties have a poison that acts similarly to caster bean poisoning, although its potency is much less. It is however known to kill sheep and other small livestock in the western states and in lesser doses creates birth defects in animals.
I’ve always wondered why people order castor seeds from garden catalogs and go through great pains in my own gardens to keep poisonous species to a minimum - there are a fair number in many garden catalogs and nurseries.
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posted on
03/01/2008 7:30:43 PM PST
by
sbMKE
To: NinoFan
Not sure I understand the comment about government bases. I dont think weve stored significant amounts of ricin in years. Its not very effective on the battlefield. The idea of a poof-box of it secreted on a Janet Air flight to Area 51 might be enough to put various high-ranking sphincters into full-pucker mode...
It gives ME the creeps, and I'm just a midwestern nobody (who does NOT like the idea of either a wide-open border serving as a conduit for terrorists, OR a "lone nut on a mission" with a bunch of deadly poison).
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posted on
03/02/2008 3:16:15 PM PST
by
Don Joe
(We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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