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The White House announced a plan today to fight antibiotic-resistant microbes.

Top Republicans immediately denounced the plan because of its implicit acceptance of evolutionary principles. And because Obama proposed it. Said one GOP lawmaker, "I was planning to introduce this exact plan, word for word, within a week. But now that President Obama supports it, I'm agin' it. My constituents would expect nothing less." --Bob

That's funny. But here's something really hard to believe: the House passed a bipartisan health insurance bill!

Medicare 'doc fix' bill passes House

This photo is from CNN, not the Onion:

Bob78164 wrote:The White House announced a plan today to fight antibiotic-resistant microbes.

Top Republicans immediately denounced the plan because of its implicit acceptance of evolutionary principles. And because Obama proposed it. Said one GOP lawmaker, "I was planning to introduce this exact plan, word for word, within a week. But now that President Obama supports it, I'm agin' it. My constituents would expect nothing less." --Bob

The only criticism cited in your link is from a Democrat. A New York one at that.

"Once again, the administration has fallen woefully short of taking meaningful action to curb the overuse of antibiotics in healthy food animals," said New York Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, a microbiologist who has sponsored legislation to stop routine antibiotic use in animal farming.

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:The White House announced a plan today to fight antibiotic-resistant microbes.

Top Republicans immediately denounced the plan because of its implicit acceptance of evolutionary principles. And because Obama proposed it. Said one GOP lawmaker, "I was planning to introduce this exact plan, word for word, within a week. But now that President Obama supports it, I'm agin' it. My constituents would expect nothing less." --Bob

The only criticism cited in your link is from a Democrat. A New York one at that.

"Once again, the administration has fallen woefully short of taking meaningful action to curb the overuse of antibiotics in healthy food animals," said New York Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, a microbiologist who has sponsored legislation to stop routine antibiotic use in animal farming.

Did you fail to recognize sarcafont? --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:Did you fail to recognize sarcafont? --Bob

I recognized the satire. The level of ignorance in confusing sarcasm with satire is startling.

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Did you fail to recognize sarcafont? --Bob

I recognized the satire. The level of ignorance in confusing sarcasm with satire is startling.

Isn't this supposed to be in satirafont? You put it in sarcafont. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Did you fail to recognize sarcafont? --Bob

I recognized the satire. The level of ignorance in confusing sarcasm with satire is startling.

Isn't this supposed to be in satirafont? You put it in sarcafont. --Bob

It is sarcasm. I wrote no satire. But you did.

However, the bigger question is what is "satirafont"? Is there one? If not, perhaps we could develop one and get it patented. Then we would collect royalties whenever someone uses it. I'm looking for ways to collect mailbox money. You do patent work, right?

A good satirafont would be one that looks believable, and official. After all, good satire really isn't good unless some fool believes it. It can't have that Disney look. Perhaps something similar to a Britannica encyclopedia, but not exactly, else they get to collect the checks instead of us.

A good serif style, but not gaudy. The sans serif stuff looks childish or amateurish.

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Did you fail to recognize sarcafont? --Bob

I recognized the satire. The level of ignorance in confusing sarcasm with satire is startling.

Actually it's irony.

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Did you fail to recognize sarcafont? --Bob

I recognized the satire. The level of ignorance in confusing sarcasm with satire is startling.

Actually it's irony.

Um...no.

What Bob wrote is clearly satire. And what I put in sarcafont regarding the level of ignorance is clearly sarcasm with no use of irony. Had I said "The level of intelligence displayed by cleverly tagging satire as sarcasm is breathtaking." would be irony, of the sarcastic kind. But I didn't.

For fuck's sake would you guys whip your dicks out, measure, and go on about your bidness.

ne1410s wrote:For fuck's sake would you guys whip your dicks out, measure, and go on about your bidness.

I had two thoughts on responses to that.

One: Nice sarcasm.

Two: Nice try, but you'll have to get your thrills somewhere else.

And my initial thought was that the post and the avatar don't really go together well.

ne1410s wrote:For fuck's sake would you guys whip your dicks out, measure, and go on about your bidness.

I can't wait to find out what ES does with this post. --Bob

Again, I'll interject some actual news:

1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA

jarnon wrote:Again, I'll interject some actual news:

1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA

Yeah, but how many 1,000 year old onions are out there?