He stole my spray-on-bandage idea that I patented years ago in my mind.

It would also be infused with antiseptic, analgesic, blood clotting, and cicatrization promoting drugs.

It didn't work.

Now where's the antiseptic?

>> ^TheGenk:

There's a diarrhea joke in there somewhere, I just can't put my finger on it...
You might want to wash your finger afterwards, with a powerful antiseptic.

I'll start by saying that I believe everything Goolsbee says here is true.

I think the problem is that the framing of the issue is too narrow.

Let's start with his list of Republican priorities vs. Obama's priorities. He uses the antiseptic euphemisms about "Top 2%" and "Bottom 98%", when the words he needs to be using are "the super-rich" and "everyone else".

He also should be mentioning that if we're going to go further into debt right now to help the economy, the best thing we could do to help it is to increase government spending, but because Republicans don't care about anything but making sure the rich don't have any obligations to anyone but themselves, they won't even talk to us about that.

It's true that all the tax cuts he put on the Obama side of the chart are tax cuts the left would like, the problem is that to replace the lost revenue, we should be raising taxes on the rich, so revenues overall go up, or at least stay the same.

The reason being, the Republicans understand that this is a long game. They want to see revenues go down, no matter what. If deficits keep going out of control, they think this benefits them, because then they have an excuse to cut back on the programs that help poor people that used to be paid for with money collected from rich people, because Democrats are too chickenshit (or bought) to actually raise taxes on the rich.

Letting all the Bush tax cuts expire, even the ones for the poor and middle classes, is a win for us. It might be unpopular, but that's why you make it clear that it's the Republicans who let it happen by refusing to see reason. It should be easy, they act unreasonable all the damn time.

Of course, I don't really want them all to go away, I want Obama's original tax plan to go through. But I'd rather see them all go up than let the cuts for the top 2% get extended another day, because otherwise we've screwed ourselves in the long game. If they pass, and the economy recovers, the overtly right-wing mainstream media will credit the Bush tax cuts that Obama was forced to extend by heroic Republicans who only had 42 seats in the Senate at the time.

If it doesn't, the overtly right-wing mainstream media will blame the deficits that Obama created with "wasteful government spending" -- even though all of the waste was the tax cuts!

He needs to start framing his policies and political messaging with the long game in mind, instead of these shortsighted half-measures that might do a little short-term good. Nobody believes that these left-wing tax cuts Goolsbee is highlighting will fix the economy, and no one thinks that in 2020 we'll look back on that part of the tax cut package and think of it as the thing that saved the economy. All this package does is cede the overall argument to the other side (namely that only tax cuts for the rich help the economy), and advance their long-term strategies to destroy the country by "starving the beast".

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Kids are living in antiseptic world, while the adults themselves set bad examples every day.

How about war as being inappropriate for children?

Or daddy's unemployment because of his boss' greed?

"Check out that smokin' fleshly tabernacle...oh, Snap!!"

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Hardest I've laughed all day Critttter. The empty queue us thus forgivable.

In reply to this comment by critttter:
Very insightful. And 'fleshly tabernacle', har, har, harrr...

Hardest I've laughed all day Critttter. The empty queue us thus forgivable.

In reply to this comment by critttter:
Very insightful. And 'fleshly tabernacle', har, har, harrr...

>> ^snoozedoctor:
.. "absolute pitilessness"...

And speed. Less than a minute in some cases. Surgeons back in the day were BIG men apparently. Sorta like lumberjacks I imagine.

God I love the 21st century.

Fun fact: "[Listerine was] [f]irst formulated by Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert[2] in 1879 as a surgical antiseptic, it was given to dentists for oral care in 1895 and it was the first over-the-counter mouthwash sold in the United States in 1914. The mouthwash was named in honor of Dr. Joseph Lister, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery."

And he got to drain pus from TWO *British monarchs! Lucky devil!

Seriously, it's a *long story, but well worth the watch. Great find, Serious Surgeon.

persephone, the fact that you believe that these lactose tablets are doing anything is all well and good bar these few things:
* They are doing NOTHING other than any placebo effect, they truly do contain NOTHING at all that could possibly help.
* You are paying for sugar/lactose tablets, you are being conned
* I agree with the over prescription of antibiotics, and I have THREE kids. Two of which we try to never use them on. One we do because he has a series of congenital heart defects which makes the chances of him getting an infection in his heart quite high. For the two kids of ours who don't have this problem we quiet happily give them nothing but panadol or the like for whatever pain they may have, and that's it, let them ride it out and become stronger for it. We would NEVER use homeopathy to treat our heart kid, because if we did, and the infection spread to his heart because, well, the homeopathy does diddly squat, we'd never forgive ourselves.

The few times we do give our kids pain relief, it works a charm because they hardly ever have it.

Stop being part of the problem and spreading the misinformation about homeopathy.

Now, in regards to your Arnica, if you're using it as an external ointment with an actual amount in it, then yes
"There is some positive evidence that arnica has some anti-inflammatory activity when applied externally."

HOWEVER in all other cases:

"A recent review of all placebo-controlled studies related to the clinical efficacy of oral arnica found that the homeopathic remedy is no more efficacious than placebo."

And:

"A placebo-controlled study examining the possible ameliorative effect of oral arnica on the tissue trauma following removal of impacted wisdom teeth found more pain and swelling in the arnica-treated group than in the placebo group. "

Quotes from here

Basically it's bunk... for bumps and scratches use a tea tree ointment, it's in no way homeopathy (it has actual, measurable concentrations), it is a wonderful antiseptic, and reduces swelling etc. and is still nice and natural if that's what you're after.

Try and think a little scientifically when using these things, think about whether there's anything else that you're doing at the same time that may actually be doing the good, and also about your mental state where you 'believe' that it's going to work.

And also stop assuming those who don't believe in homeopathy haven't tried it and haven't sat up at night with a collicy baby, or heaven forbid, one with a nasal gastric tube and acid reflux. Because, you know, some of us have.

The music is from OTT's brilliant record of Hallucinogen Remixes called In Dub. This is a remix of Spiritual Antiseptic.

Easy, here, you gotta know Dizze...

You Topman, Topman, hard toppa toppa,
Come to me with an attitude, come a cropper,
I'm old school like Happy Shopper,
I fight old school, bring your bat and your chopper,
And a First Aid Kit, and some antiseptic, this could get hectic,
I'm a done accept it, you got a bright future,
Don't let my shit affect it!