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FINALLY, Some government spending I can really support!

I just read a "zombie apocalypse" article published by the CDC... yes folks, at long last, the CDC gets serious about the impending zombie apocalypse.

Here is the article in it's entirety.

"There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.

A Brief History of Zombies
We’ve all seen at least one movie about flesh-eating zombies taking over (my personal favorite is Resident EvilExternal Web Site Icon.), but where do zombies come from and why do they love eating brains so much? The word zombie comes from Haitian and New Orleans voodoo origins. Although its meaning has changed slightly over the years, it refers to a human corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead. Through ancient voodoo and folk-lore traditions, shows like the Walking Dead were born.

In movies, shows, and literature, zombies are often depicted as being created by an infectious virus, which is passed on via bites and contact with bodily fluids. Harvard psychiatrist Steven Schlozman wrote a (fictional) medical paper on the zombies presented in Night of the Living DeadExternal Web Site Icon. and refers to the condition as Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome caused by an infectious agent. The Zombie Survival GuideExternal Web Site Icon. identifies the cause of zombies as a virus called solanum. Other zombie origins shown in films include radiation from a destroyed NASAExternal Web Site Icon. VenusExternal Web Site Icon. probe (as in Night of the Living DeadExternal Web Site Icon.), as well as mutations of existing conditions such as prionsExternal Web Site Icon., mad-cow diseaseExternal Web Site Icon., measlesExternal Web Site Icon. and rabiesExternal Web Site Icon..

The rise of zombies in pop culture has given credence to the idea that a zombie apocalypse could happen. In such a scenario zombies would take over entire countries, roaming city streets eating anything living that got in their way. The proliferation of this idea has led many people to wonder “How do I prepare for a zombie apocalypse?”

Well, we’re here to answer that question for you, and hopefully share a few tips about preparing for real emergencies too!

Better Safe than Sorry

So what do you need to do before zombies…or hurricanes or pandemics for example, actually happen? First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house. This includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the first couple of days before you can locate a zombie-free refugee camp (or in the event of a natural disaster, it will buy you some time until you are able to make your way to an evacuation shelter or utility lines are restored). Below are a few items you should include in your kit, for a full list visit the CDC Emergency page.

    * Water (1 gallon per person per day)
    * Food (stock up on non-perishable items that you eat regularly)
    * Medications (this includes prescription and non-prescription meds)
    * Tools and Supplies (utility knife, duct tape, battery powered radio, etc.)
    * Sanitation and Hygiene (household bleach, soap, towels, etc.)
    * Clothing and Bedding (a change of clothes for each family member and blankets)
    * Important documents (copies of your driver’s license, passport, and birth certificate to name a few)
    * First Aid supplies (although you’re a goner if a zombie bites you, you can use these supplies to treat basic cuts and lacerations that you might get during a tornado or hurricane)

Once you’ve made your emergency kit, you should sit down with your family and come up with an emergency plan. This includes where you would go and who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your door step. You can also implement this plan if there is a flood, earthquake, or other emergency.

   1. Identify the types of emergencies that are possible in your area. Besides a zombie apocalypse, this may include floods, tornadoes, or earthquakes. If you are unsure contact your local Red Cross chapter for more information.
   2. Pick a meeting place for your family to regroup in case zombies invade your home…or your town evacuates because of a hurricane. Pick one place right outside your home for sudden emergencies and one place outside of your neighborhood in case you are unable to return home right away.
   3. Identify your emergency contacts. Make a list of local contacts like the police, fire department, and your local zombie response team. Also identify an out-of-state contact that you can call during an emergency to let the rest of your family know you are ok.
   4. Plan your evacuation route. When zombies are hungry they won’t stop until they get food (i.e., brains), which means you need to get out of town fast! Plan where you would go and multiple routes you would take ahead of time so that the flesh eaters don’t have a chance! This is also helpful when natural disasters strike and you have to take shelter fast.

If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak. CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or international partners dealing with a zombie infestation. This assistance might include consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient management and care, tracking of contacts, and infection control (including isolation and quarantine). It’s likely that an investigation of this scenario would seek to accomplish several goals: determine the cause of the illness, the source of the infection/virus/toxin, learn how it is transmitted and how readily it is spread, how to break the cycle of transmission and thus prevent further cases, and how patients can best be treated. Not only would scientists be working to identify the cause and cure of the zombie outbreak, but CDC and other federal agencies would send medical teams and first responders to help those in affected areas (I will be volunteering the young nameless disease detectives for the field work)."
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Right off the bat, I have two issues with this article. First off... “human corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead” I’m not entirely sure that I trust someone who doesn’t do all their research. Then again, the good people at the CDC aren't paid to keep up on zombie folklore, classic (Romero), or modern zombies. Only the Return of the Living Dead (John A Russo’s breed) eat brains. Secondly, I have to point out that Selenium is an element in the periodic table and Solanum is the zombie virus. Regardless, overall, the article is strong in it's subject.

Now, to those that would criticize me for posting this article, possibly stating that “this is a waste of tax dollars” I can only say that you, yourself are a waste of tax dollars with your incredible idiocy. Articles like this draw attention from a generation that would otherwise ignore messages like this to consider emergency preparedness for any disaster. While this article is somewhat light-hearted (Seriously though, hats off to the CDC for having a sense of humor on an otherwise important subject. It’s good to know bureaucrats in DC aren’t all walking around like a bunch of…well…zombies. You just made government cool again. Applause for having the courage to actually do something creative to draw interest to an important subject, disaster preparedness. Well Done! My favorite Zombie survival tip from Max Brooks – First ascend the staircase, then destroy it.), it draws proper attention by a demographic that would not normally think of such preparedness techniques. I certainly hope those making statements like this are purely trolls sent over by Fox News as otherwise, you are imbeciles. An article on preparedness without the word zombie would not attract the public eye as much as one that would.

And to those who would point out that the writer left out weapons as part of the prep kit, let's talk about that for a moment. Weapons over essentials, it does not matter if you have a gun to fire or bat to swing if you don’t have the strength to lift them due to muscle fatigue from dehydration or starvation. In a zombie-like scenario, bunkering is the best strategy for the common person to survive given an adequate stash of supplies. Obviously, the standard, non-couponing household will have a limited supply of up to a month (not considering fresh water) but a much longer supply is needed to allow for basic zombie degradation (depending on region and population density). Weapons are more likely needed against pillaging neighbors than from unwanted advances by the undead.

In closing, if you would like to read an excellent book about disaster preparation on a whole, and zombies, click here, for The Zombie Survival Guide, written by Max Brooks, it's about as in depth as you can get!

I'm bored so...

Okay, so I'm not really bored, it turns out that I have way too much stuff, having just received a mistaken shipment of stuff from an Amazon store that doesn’t care about returns.

I plan to give away stuff in return for using you to promote my pathetically disturbing blog.

As a THANK YOU to all my followers, I am going to give away some really, really cool stuff. This isn’t just your normal stuff. It’s disturbing stuff. Prizes will include:

Random and unidentified body fluids from someone (maybe me).
Belly Button Lint from a high school German teacher with whom I had illicit relations when I was 16.
An Polaroid picture (yes, a Polaroid!) of one of my cats, eating a mouse in the back yard.
Two (2) deformed M&M candies.
A pizza box containing the uneaten crusts of two (2) pizza slices.

The Grand Prize:
An Act of God, delivered at an unspecified random time and location.

The contest rules.

1. Must be 18 or older to play.

2. Must not reblog this post.

3. Must be following 名もなき道….

4. Must have achieved the divine state of true Avidyā.

Winners will be identified in two weeks by random selection and notified via email from our prize distributor in the UAE, Microsoft Lottery Winnings, Inc.

Prizes are absolutely free, but winners will be required to pay shipping and handling of $730 (£830, €440, or ¥850,000 depending on your country of origin and current exchange rates) prior to shipping, payable via Western Union money order. Nude photos of current prize winners will be required along with an NDA and model release. No liability is assumed by 名もなき道… or any subsidiary or affiliated company or organization for consequential damages, drowning, maiming, financial loss or destruction of relationship or marriage during the course of or following the contest or delivery of prizes. Act of God subject to government approval (patent pending). Love for followers is a metaphor for general disappointment. No solicitors please.

Today’s Obedient, Yet Truly Fucked Up Fact!

Imagine that you’ve volunteered for an experiment, but when you show up at the lab you discover the researcher wants you to murder an innocent person. You protest, but the researcher firmly states, “The experiment requires that you do it.” Would you acquiesce and kill the person? When asked what they would do in such a situation, almost everyone replies that of course they would refuse to commit murder. But Stanley Milgram’s famous obedience experiment, conducted at Yale University in the early 1960s, revealed that this optimistic belief is wrong. If the request is presented in the right way, almost all of us quite obediently become killers.

Milgram told subjects they were participating in an experiment to determine the effect of punishment on learning. One volunteer (who was, in reality, an actor in cahoots with Milgram) would attempt to memorize a series of word pairs. The other volunteer (the real subject) would read out the word pairs and give the learner an electric shock every time he got an answer wrong. The shocks would increase in intensity by fifteen volts with each wrong answer. The experiment began. The learner started getting some wrong answers, and pretty soon the shocks had reached 120 volts. At this point the learner started crying out, “Hey, this really hurts.” At 150 volts the learner screamed in pain and demanded to be let out. Confused, the volunteers turned around and asked the researcher what they should do. He always calmly replied, “The experiment requires that you continue.”

Milgram had no interest in the effect of punishment on learning. What he really wanted to see was how long people would keep pressing the shock button before they refused to participate any further. Would they remain obedient to the authority of the researcher up to the point of killing someone? To Milgram’s surprise, even though volunteers could plainly hear the agonized cries of the learner echoing through the walls of the lab from the neighboring room, two-thirds of them continued to press the shock button all the way up to the end of scale, 450 volts, by which time the learner had fallen into an eerie silence, apparently dead. Milgram’s subjects sweated and shook, and some laughed hysterically, but they kept pressing the button. Even more disturbingly, when volunteers could neither see nor hear feedback from the learner, compliance with the order to give ever greater shocks was almost 100%. Milgram later commented, “I would say, on the basis of having observed a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would be able to find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.”

Wow... No words...

Only laughter... because I am shocked lol, someone beat my friend Donnie to the punch...

Introducing...

Culled from the book jacket: Semen is not only nutritious, but it also has a wonderful texture and amazing cooking properties. Like fine wine and cheeses, the taste of semen is complex and dynamic. Semen is inexpensive to produce and is commonly available in many, if not most, homes and restaurants. Despite all of these positive qualities, semen remains neglected as a food. This book hopes to change that. Once you overcome any initial hesitation, you will be surprised to learn how wonderful semen is in the kitchen. Semen is an exciting ingredient that can give every dish you make an interesting twist. If you are a passionate cook and are not afraid to experiment with new ingredients - you will love this cook book!

The reviews are hilarious. You can buy the book here...

Floral Skeletons

 

Personally, I think these things are wicked cool, and I'd love to own one. This is some taxidermy art, with a twist to it. The idea of skeleton is a clear link to death, but with the flowers adorning them the idea seems to be softened. It’s also a stronger connection to life; if we did not go through such trouble to embalm and preserve, the bodies we bury would give way to other life such as flowers.

(As always, clicking on the photos will enlarge them for better viewing.)

Separation of Church and State???

If you're charged with a nonviolent crime in one Alabama town, you might just have the chance to pray it all away.

Starting this week, under a new program called Operation ROC (Restore Our Community), local judges in Bay Minette, Alabama, will give those found guilty of misdemeanors the choice of serving out their time in jail, paying a fine or attending church each Sunday for a year.

The goal of the program is to help steer those who are not yet hardened criminals the chance to turn their lives around. Those who choose to go to church (there are no mosques or synagogues in the area) will have to check in with a pastor and the police department each week, CNN affiliate WKRG reported. Once you attend church every week for a year the case would be dismissed.

Police Chief Mike Rowland said the measure is one that would help save money and help direct people down the right path. Rowland told WKRG it costs $75 a day to house each inmate.

"Longevity is the key," he told WKRG.

He said he believes 30-day drug programs don't have the long-term capabilities to heal someone in the ways the ROC program might.

Police in the town said they think it is a simple choice, but others think it's a choice that shouldn't even be offered.

The ACLU in Alabama said the idea is "blatantly unconstitutional," according to the Alabama Press-Register.

"It violates one basic tenet of the Constitution, namely that government can’t force participation in religious activity," Olivia Turner, executive director for the ACLU of Alabama told the paper.

Rowland acknowledged there were concerns about separation of church and state complaints but said he didn't see it as too big of a problem because offenders weren't being forced to attend church, they are just being given the option.

The offenders who voluntarily choose church over jail get to pick the churches they attend. If they complete a year’s attendance, Rowland said, their criminal case would be dismissed and your record would be expunged.
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Hmmmm, 12 months of weekend tedium in honor of a incorporeal being that I can't prove exists...? I'd choose jail time personally... Before anybody thinks that going to church serves any real identifiable purpose, should we not do some investigating first? I mean, the majority of inmates in jails and prisons all over the United States, are religious and are attending some sort of church service in prison. This is just an excuse for the state to save money, a highly illegal way, but a way none the less.

The religious state it's voluntary (I am sorry, but even if the "separation of church and state" was found to be "technically" not problematic because it was "voluntary", this is still discriminatory against those who are non religious.), and the non-religious are already calling upon the ACLU. To which I say, no folks... It's going to require going a bit higher on the food chain than that, as this concerns a little known thing called the US CONSTITUTION.

But can you just imagine it: The wealthy prim and proper lady in her perfectly starched dress and every hair in place, sitting next to the guy who looks and dresses like Jesus but who's beard smells like onions and beer and is only there because he beat the shit out of his wife and child the night before and doesn't have the money to pay the fine, and doesn't want to sit in jail...

In my opinion, the asinine, ignorant fanatic, judge stepped way over the line. It is not in his authority to send people to "church". This man should be removed from the bench, though I should note that I find the idea of "church as a form of punishment" to be immensely amusing.

This isn't about my hating religion. It's about hating the fact that religious people are telling people "If I commit a non-violent crime, I won't have to go to jail, I'll just sit through some church services." and letting people get away with criminal activity, becuase of the misguided childish notion that if they go to church somehow somehow they will magically be turned into non-criminals. You can believe that naive notion if you want and no one will hate you for it, but keep it out of government, and don't make it law, that's just absurd. Instead, let's do away with the foolishness and brainwashing of religion and give folks the option of jail in other ways, a fine, or community service, where they can actually HELP the society they wronged. Going to church does no good to anybody except the church itself, who without the ignorant and the easily brainwashed filling a collection plate week after week, would lose their tax-free income and go out of business.

This also lends the assumption that people who attend church regularly are more moral and ethical than those who don't. That has not be my experience of life, nor is there any objective evidence of that. Also, this assumes that someone who attends church every week – against his or her free will – is the same as someone who attends by choice. Not true, either. And, oh yeah, some of us are sick of having Christianity shoved down our throats and fear a society where the lines between church and state are blurred. Believe what you choose, but leave me alone to believe what I choose.

It also violates the equal treatment clause. Those who can attend church without compromising their beliefs get to have their case dismissed, others do not. This is obvious coercion.

If you pay the fine, you'll have a criminal record...
If you go to jail you'll have a criminal record...
If you attend church they drop the charges and your record will be expunged.

The potential for abuse here is endless. Are there now going to be a rash of arrests for jaywalking and sidewalk spitting of all those either not Christian or not Christian "enough"? Attend church every week or rot in jail......sounds way too close to "Convert or die" to me.

Personally, I don't give a fuck where the jail is. I'd gladly strike up a romantic relationship with some tatted butch chick before listening to some religious ass-hat spew his brainwashing poison in my general direction every week for a year. Wait, scratch that, how about I instead embrace Pastafarianism and buy myself a certificate of ordination for $20, declare myself a church and be misdomeanor free...

 

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