They also said that if you cook the chicken, properly, to above 165F, you don't get salmonella from it. I know because I bought a Foster Farms whole chicken and made my special chicken stuffed with red and green peppers last week and I'm still walking around.

Let me be clear - Barry O. had the choice of which 17% of the government got "shut down." He chose based on a desire to inflict pain on the peasants to make them scream (or in this case, get bad diarrhea, hospitalized, and maybe killed).

400,000 formerly furloughed Dept of Defense workers are hard at work today, at their keyboards, and having meetings with defense contractors as I write this, figuring out how many more billions of dollars to sink into fighter jets to deploy against the Soviets, and which rural third world villages to asplode with flying unmanned death robots.

Don't be sheep.

Bracing myself for the inevitable vegan rant.

The EU will be eclipsing the US as the worlds functioning democracy if the Republicans continue their junk economics.

I've been amazed at the nerve of Foster Farms not issuing a recall and instead blaming hundreds of people across the country for not properly cooking their chicken. Seriously, Foster Farms, seriously?

@2:

You make it sound like the GOP's hands are completely clean on this, which, as we all know of course is a big pile of hot, steaming cow pattie

If Boehner and Co. had not desired "to inflict pain on the peasants to make them scream (or in this case, get bad diarrhea, hospitalized, and maybe killed)", they wouldn't have shut down the federal government in the first place, capisce?

@6:

Welcome to Tea Party Heaven...

I think the CDC is refuting this claim.

@2: you do know that CDC wasn't on the rethugs' short list of government entities to reopen, right? You weren't bring intentionally obfuscatory, right?

@3 - I may have bought us a day's reprieve yesterday.

@11 Today is a good day. Thank you.

@12 - It does mean I need to come up with a vegan medal, though. What happens if she finds out I was bluffing?

I don't understand this story, which I've been seeing around for days. Doesn't all chicken make you sick if you eat it raw? Why is this a story?

Let me be clear.

The Terrorists of al-Qaeda USA (GOP) wake up every morning - every single morning - determined to harm America, our President, our Economy, and our Middle Class.

Every. Single. Day.