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NEWLY DISCOVERED FLATWORM IS NAMED AFTER OBAMA
Popular Science ^
| 08 September 2016
| KATE BAGGALEY
Posted on 09/08/2016 12:50:16 PM PDT by hawaiianninja
A new species of blood fluke was found infecting the lungs of turtles in Malaysia. This parasitic flatworm has been dubbed Baracktrema obamai, in honor of the President of the United States (who is the fifth cousin twice removed of one of the discovering scientists).
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: flatworm; obama; parasite; science
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How appropriate?
To: hawaiianninja
'Parasitic'
Apropos, indeed.
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posted on
09/08/2016 12:52:04 PM PDT
by
simpson96
To: hawaiianninja
Yup, the Obamatollah is a blood sucking parasite.
To: hawaiianninja
To: simpson96
Next week: a new species of Moose is named after Michelle.
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posted on
09/08/2016 12:54:26 PM PDT
by
simpson96
To: hawaiianninja
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posted on
09/08/2016 12:54:40 PM PDT
by
onyx
(YOU'RE POSTING HERE, SO DONATE MONTHLY! NOT NICE TO FREEPLOAD!)
To: hawaiianninja
A species of human tapewom might have been slightly more appropriate.
To: hawaiianninja
Future historians may wonder instead if Obama was named after the parasitic flatworm.
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posted on
09/08/2016 12:55:25 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: hawaiianninja
I suppose the irony will be lost on the libs.
To: hawaiianninja
It’s an insult to the parasitic worm, frankly. I might go as far as naming a septic tank about Obummer but not a living creature.
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posted on
09/08/2016 12:58:51 PM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: hawaiianninja
It sounds like Barry’s 5th cousin, twice removed doesn’t care much for him. LOL.
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posted on
09/08/2016 1:00:04 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
To: hawaiianninja
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posted on
09/08/2016 1:02:33 PM PDT
by
Exit148
((Loose Chnge Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
To: simpson96
Moose? I thought they named a new species of sasquatch with her name on it..
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posted on
09/08/2016 1:03:37 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
To: hawaiianninja
The jokes just write themselves.
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posted on
09/08/2016 1:07:45 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
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posted on
09/08/2016 1:12:37 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(I ride by night, and I travel in fear, that in this darkness, I will disappear...)
To: hawaiianninja
"....wattaya call it bath house slug?
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posted on
09/08/2016 1:19:41 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: hawaiianninja
To: hawaiianninja
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posted on
09/08/2016 1:24:22 PM PDT
by
DarthVader
(Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
To: hawaiianninja
parasitic , sucking the life blood , yep that’s Barry
To: hawaiianninja
It was first discovered in the feces of said turtle.
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posted on
09/08/2016 1:24:41 PM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long .as it's mandatory.)
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