My Idiot Brother-in-law and Potassium Iodide...

[Freeper]

MineralMan  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Mar-20-11 09:54 AM
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My Idiot Brother-in-law and Potassium Iodide...
   
The place is Minnesota, and the player is my teabagger moron brother-in-law, who has not read a newspaper nor listened to or watched a normal news program for years. Listening to satellite right-wing radio is is only contact with the world beyond his house. So, he finally heard about the radiation problem in Japan yesterday from some radio moron, and heard that potassium iodide is the thing to have to protect himself from deadly fallout that will somehow teleport itself to Minnesota.

Being the moron that he is, he did not seek out the stuff himself, but sent his wife to get some. Now, I'm not sure where she found it, but she came back with a 100-count bottle of potassium iodide pills to meet the needs of him, her, and their 13-year-old son. She told my wife about it yesterday. My wife advised extreme caution with these pills and suggested that a consultation with their doctor might be in order before gobbling the pills. I later told my wife that some people are allergic to the stuff without even knowing it, and that it can lead to anaphylaxis and death, along with being absolutely useless against anything but Iodine-131, which will not come here to Minnesota. She has passed that information on to her sister, but I'm sure it will have no good effect.

You see, the teabagger radio blabber has spoken, and that settles it for my idiot brother-in-law. I do not speak with him, for my blood pressure's sake, so all communications are passed with my wife as the intermediary. I'll make one more attempt to inject some reason into this, but I doubt it will be of use.

This is what we face out there - morons listening to other morons, then buying enough potassium iodide to supply their entire townhome development.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x696979

I love the bouncies where they claim a "tea bagger" is doing what they are currently doing.
The DUmmies say we hate science yet we are the ones not panicking over the nuclear problem in Japan, and why? That's right because we know the science behind it.

I do wonder however, if this tale could be a coded shot at Nadin.

[Ballygrl]

That's funny, I haven't heard anyone on "right wing talk radio" advising about this at all, if anything they've advised the opposite, not to take it unless it's recommended to take if we have an emergency here.

BTW, this IMO is projection, the left has been looking like idiots since this whole thing started, so this was purposely done to take the heat off of them.

[Texacon]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x696979

I love the bouncies where they claim a "tea bagger" is doing what they are currently doing.
The DUmmies say we hate science yet we are the ones not panicking over the nuclear problem in Japan, and why? That's right because we know the science behind it.

I do wonder however, if this tale could be a coded shot at Nadin.

That's what I was wondering as I read it.

KC

[Skul]

That's what I was wondering as I read it.

KC

Make that three of us.

Stand by for number four.

BTW, I'd love to see Nada-yaada, jump into that fray.

[franksolich]

That's funny, I haven't heard anyone on "right wing talk radio" advising about this at all, if anything they've advised the opposite, not to take it unless it's recommended to take if we have an emergency here.

BTW, this IMO is projection, the left has been looking like idiots since this whole thing started, so this was purposely done to take the heat off of them.

Bingo, madam, right on the mark.

I haven't heard any hysteria about "radiation poisoning" excepting.....from the left.

[Ballygrl]

I do wonder however, if this tale could be a coded shot at Nadin.

 

Well if it is he needs to have the cajones to come out and say it and not lie about what he thinks "right wing talk radio" has been saying when in fact they've said the opposite. Own up to the kooks that share your ideology and don't drag us into it.

[Ballygrl]

And isn't Mineral Man the same guy who has like over 10,000 posts on Free Republic?

[franksolich]

And isn't Mineral Man the same guy who has like over 10,000 posts on Free Republic?

Yeah.

The anti-osteopathic primitive's in the last half of his 60s, lives in Minnesota, likes to fish, and for reasons only God knows, likes Nebraska football.

[Ballygrl]

Yeah.

The anti-osteopathic primitive's in the last half of his 60s, lives in Minnesota, likes to fish, and for reasons only God knows, likes Nebraska football.

Why the heck would he even post at FR?

[Freeper]

Why the heck would he even post at FR?

I can't imagine he would last too long as a mole. It's much easier for civilized people (us) to act barbaric, than it is for barbarians (them) to act civilized.

[Ballygrl]

I can't imagine he would last too long as a mole. It's much easier for civilized people (us) to act barbaric, than it is for barbarians (them) to act civilized.

He's had over 10,000 posts there from what I've read. That just makes me suspicious, is he toying with people at DU?

[franksolich]

.....is he toying with people at DU?

shhhhhh.

[Ballygrl]

shhhhhh.

[blitzkrieg_17]

And isn't Mineral Man the same guy who has like over 10,000 posts on Free Republic?

He was zotted quite some time ago.

[jukin]

Common sense people on the radio have been 180 degrees opposite of the fear mongering of the democrat propaganda arm known as the MSM.

[true_blood]

That's funny, I haven't heard anyone on "right wing talk radio" advising about this at all, if anything they've advised the opposite, not to take it unless it's recommended to take if we have an emergency here.
BTW, this IMO is projection, the left has been looking like idiots since this whole thing started, so this was purposely done to take the heat off of them.

Michael Savage has mentioned it on his show, but is not promoting the use of these pills.

[Duke Nukum]

That's funny, I haven't heard anyone on "right wing talk radio" advising about this at all, if anything they've advised the opposite, not to take it unless it's recommended to take if we have an emergency here.

BTW, this IMO is projection, the left has been looking like idiots since this whole thing started, so this was purposely done to take the heat off of them.

I don't have right-wing satellite radio. Does anybody? Maybe it is exclusive information for people who have that?

[AprilRazz]

Make that three of us.

Stand by for number four.

BTW, I'd love to see Nada-yaada, jump into that fray.

Present!

[BlueStateSaint]

Present!

I'm in!

I got an email from my sister out in Port Hueneme, where her husband is stationed, and she told me that on post, they're not being overwhelmed with hype from the Navy.  But, you can't find a iodide pill anywhere on the West Coast.

[Ballygrl]

Michael Savage has mentioned it on his show, but is not promoting the use of these pills.

Oh yeah, they've mentioned the pills but they've also cautioned against using them.

[Ballygrl]

I don't have right-wing satellite radio. Does anybody? Maybe it is exclusive information for people who have that?

I thought maybe he was talking about XM or Sirius.

[Randy]

I thought maybe he was talking about XM or Sirius.

XM has that renowned evil rich right wing rethuglican Oprah on it. They also hosted that right wing Err 'Merica  after it failed on regular radio. Of course that was before the merger so Sirius must have dragged them left.  

[Evil_Conservative]

Us teabaggers sure are stupid.  How about you check in with Nadin and see about her potassium iodide stockpile?  I, for one, have yet to see potassium iodide on any of our shelves in the stores.  I was browsing to see if people were buying them off the shelves in Nevada, but I can't even find it.