Maybe he's thinking more big term (like Seattle City Council's condemnation of Russia's actions against its homosexuals) ?
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-immi… Illnesses and unsanitary conditions exist at some detention centers for immigrant mothers and children along the Southwest border, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general says.
Many of the children and families who crossed the border illegally need treatment for communicable diseases, including tuberculosis, chicken pox and scabies, according to the inspector general's report, released Thursday. Homeland Security workers said they had been exposed to such diseases while on duty and, in two cases, transmitted chicken pox to their children.
But, seriously, most people who don't really understand how herd immunity works and have lived through decades of high vaccination rates. They struggle to understand conscientious denial of vaccines as well as the plight of people so poor as to not visit healthcare professionals to get vaccinated. So they get spoon fed misinformation from the internet and believe it true (seriously, poll your newsroom about if organic produce has more vitamins and is more nutritious than standard produce).
@6: Er. side note on your organic produce example. Non organic produce and even frozen vegetables retain their vitamins - it's all the other crap organic produce does not have that is the benefit.
Spokane really is one of the many puss filled cysts we have here in Washington state. The five years I lived there were the worse years of my life. And here's a fun fact: he isn't even one of the really crazy people in Spokane.
Wow, wow, wow, the dude isn't a skeptic. Given his inability to assess the science, he is a denier. Don't start legitimizing his ideological refusal of scientific theories by labeling him a skeptic as if he had scientific ground for not accepting mainstream science.
I understand the concept of fiscal conservatism, and why people like the idea, despite the conservative party in this country's habit of destroying the economy and spending like crazy whenever they get into power, but social conservatism is solely about punishing people because they do not live like you do. Pretty disgusting, really.
@13: Is Bill Maher a poltiician with political power? How did I miss that?
Comparing a republican politician to a celebrity who happens to be liberal is not a fair or honest comparison,and I think you know that. Find a democrat politician who believes vaccines cause autism and attempts to use their power to promote that idea, and you may have a valid point.
At first, I just thought this was a stock photo of an angry white dude circa 1993 since it so successfully ties together all of the elements of a typical Fox News connoisseur.
Well, the school with the second lowest vaccination rate in Spokane is the Slavic Christian Academy. So there is some basis there. Its not that they are immigrants, its that they are *un-vaccinated* immigrants. The only school to beat it is the Catholic Academy so maybe it would be more accurate to say that christians are responsible.
In reality Latin America has higher vaccination rates than the US, and the ONLY cases of measles in Mexico for twenty years have been unvaccinated children from the USA.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-immi…
Illnesses and unsanitary conditions exist at some detention centers for immigrant mothers and children along the Southwest border, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general says.
Many of the children and families who crossed the border illegally need treatment for communicable diseases, including tuberculosis, chicken pox and scabies, according to the inspector general's report, released Thursday. Homeland Security workers said they had been exposed to such diseases while on duty and, in two cases, transmitted chicken pox to their children.
Although the fact that he is on a health board is especially terrifying.
Comparing a republican politician to a celebrity who happens to be liberal is not a fair or honest comparison,and I think you know that. Find a democrat politician who believes vaccines cause autism and attempts to use their power to promote that idea, and you may have a valid point.
That guy would have been the perfect person to play Dwight Schrute's dad.
http://www.spokanewatch.net/anal-cleft-s…