You're all wrong, the sign says "llama" You guys are just confused since you can't see the first part of the sign when it gets crumpled. Or maybe it says "pajama..."

^SDGundamX
I'm pretty certain most people would say that paying 100x the price for the drug is worth preventing the taking of a human life.

What gives you the right to make that choice for me? If I have cancer, and I have one year to live, who are you to tell me what products are safe for me to use? What if I don't have health insurance and I can't afford a drug which costs $100,000, but I can afford the drug that costs $1000 even if the side-effects aren't well known. Are you saying I should just die?

If 50,000 people die from heart disease and a drug is invented which cures heart disease, you just killed 325,000 people waiting for it to get FDA approved (50,000 x 6.5 years). You are looking at the situation from only one perspective, and you haven't looked at the FDAs track record. If you count the number of lives saved and the number of lives that could have been saved--the FDA has an awful lot of blood on its hands.

And by the way, do you know what the failure rate in drug testing is?

You act as if companies make profit when their drug kills people and their name is all over the news. They don't. No company wants to be headline news for killing thousands of people, which is why they would purchase private testing. Would you buy drugs from a bum on the street, even if they were FDA approved? No. So why would you buy new, unproven drugs from a company with no safety record? You wouldn't unless you had no other choice--and a bad option is better than no option.

In addition, when companies release products they usually do it slowly, and in small numbers. So if problems do arise, they can recall them and few if anyone is injured. However, when a company receives the FDA seal of approval the product goes into immediate widespread production. This has happened many times. One case is the government mandated that all pajamas be made flameproof, so companies used the cheapest chemical available (FDA approved) in a rush to comply with the law. Years later they found out all the kids who wore those pajamas got cancer. If the market had been allowed to operate, they would have introduced "brand new flame-proof pajamas" and the market would have adopted them slowly and the number of kids would not nearly have been as high. Eventually, the flame-proof version would become widespread because what parent wants their kid to catch fire? The difference is that the product would have been proven safe in the market years before tons of consumers adopted it.

It's fine if you really believe the FDA is the way to go, but you aren't being fair to yourself or the issue if you don't take an honest look at both sides of the story.

If you go the route of the FDA, you are putting your life in the hands of a dozen bureaucrats.

If you go the route of the market, you are putting your life in the hands of the sum knowledge of hundreds of millions of mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters, each looking out for their personal wellbeing and the wellbeing of their families and friends, who personally use the products and judge them as harmful or beneficial.

To illustrate this concept--when you buy a product, say from amazon. Do you base your decision more off what the single reviewer wrote, or what the hundreds of buyers wrote?

Watch for the pajamas' feet at 1:07!

He's wearing pajamas with gold plated tat
He's the neighborhood shit, he's so phat.

Actually Chuggos clinically overweight
The dumb shit can't get a date. Word.

My favorite theme posting master of 1000 faces cat on the sift! You're both the cat's pajamas and the cat himself, keep the awesome sifting going!

Dang video ends before she's finished...

Here's the lyrics in their entirety:
SPOKEN:
I remember when I was a very little girl, our house caught on fire.
I'll never forget the look on my father's face as he gathered me up
in his arms and raced through the burning building out to the pavement.
I stood there shivering in my pajamas and watched the whole world go up in flames.
And when it was all over I said to myself, "Is that all there is to a fire"

SUNG:
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

SPOKEN:
And when I was 12 years old, my father took me to a circus, the greatest show on earth.
There were clowns and elephants and dancing bears.
And a beautiful lady in pink tights flew high above our heads.
And so I sat there watching the marvelous spectacle.
I had the feeling that something was missing.
I don't know what, but when it was over,
I said to myself, "is that all there is to a circus?

SUNG:
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

SPOKEN:
Then I fell in love, head over heels in love, with the most wonderful boy in the world.
We would take long walks by the river or just sit for hours gazing into each other's eyes.
We were so very much in love.
Then one day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't,
and when I didn't I said to myself, "is that all there is to love?"

SUNG:
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing

SPOKEN:
I know what you must be saying to yourselves,
if that's the way she feels about it why doesn't she just end it all?
Oh, no, not me. I'm in no hurry for that final disappointment,
for I know just as well as I'm standing here talking to you,
when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my lst breath, I'll be saying to myself

SUNG:
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

You are the cat's pajamas Schmawy.

Castume ideas:
-Unserious Cat
-Cyborg Cat
-Surreal Cat
-Catzilla
-Jazz Cat

fur pajamas
cognac
nitrous oxide

fuck Guantanamo-
another symptom of a much more dire problem, not limited to anything having to do with the Military, per-se....It's like this ya bleeding-hearts:
To be focus upon, and passionate about, some internment facility involved in nefarious goings-on, and not being able to recognize but a toenail of the hydra, because you are too robotic to be concerned about the heads(and I ain't talking about the bobble-heads that call themselves Presidents, Prime Ministers, dictators or Mullahs, either), is a reflection of their stranglehold on your sensibilities as they relate to $$$, and what drives this buggy...You Do!
*adjusts fur pajamas and throws plastic bottle in furnace


Bandaids on sucking chest wounds....Guantanamo is all in your minds, putties

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Thank you lucky. You are the cat's pajamas.


And might I add the bee's knees?

Thank you lucky. You are the cat's pajamas.

Aarrrgggghh, I want to kill those two in a mighty suicide conflagration! .. but, I am already in my pajamas.

Thanks for the responses folks, great read

Dags right, sometimes it's very hard. I don't see how a parent of 5 or 6 do this on a daily basis. Seriously I think it's easier to teach a class of 20 than your own kids.

I'm hoping my daughter will thrive in the new school because she's a personality that's difficult to homeschool. She dominates her brother so much and distracts a major part of the day competing for attention. In a group setting though, she actually more focused I think which is weird. She is happy around groups of people. Being home drove her nuts...and us too!

My son on the other hand loves to be able to separate work from play. At home he can work in a quiet place, in his pajamas, with mom near by to chat about the subjects. He loves the quiet, building his sets, going to homeschool groups to find one boy to play with, and waiting on his bike for the school bus to get back to play w/ the local boys.

Different personalities!

***Don't feel guilty if you're not homeschooling. Every family has their own needs. It truly is a lifestyle change. No matter what school your kid goes to, he/she can get a good education if you keep up w/ them. Personally I hate homework, but it's a necessary evil if your kid goes to school.

Their are books out there that has lists like "What your 3rd Grader Should Know" or whatever grade.... You can use materials like that to find out where your child needs help, and when summer break rolls around...

They're doing nothing during the summer anyhow. There's a decent workbook series for kids on summer break called "Summer Bridge to ____ Grade" I think.


Summing up, homeschooling can be hard...but I love it. You don't have to be anal retentive organized to make it work either (it helps tho ) If you've thought about it, but aren't sure... then use a summer break to give it a try.

Why does it look like he's in his Pajamas?

*whistle*, excessive celebration, child in blue pajamas, 15 yard penalty, still first down.