The AIDS Virus Was Officially Recognized 30 Years Ago Today. Featuring A Few Of The 16 Covers We’ve Produced.
The deadly disease first broke out in the homosexual communities of New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Later, it cropped up among heroin addicts, Haitian refugees and victims of hemophilia. And now, public-health experts fear, the epidemic has spread to infants and even unwary patients receiving blood transfusions. With each new case, they have become more alarmed — particularly because the cause of the illness is unknown.
Experts call the new disease acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), meaning a breakdown in the body’s natural defenses that often leads to fatal forms of cancer and lethal bouts of infection. AIDS was first recognized in 1981. The Centers for Disease Control have now documented 827 cases, with 312 deaths, around the United States. The 38 percent mortality rate makes the disease as menacing as smallpox once was and considerably more deadly than such recent baffling epidemics as Legionnaire’s disease and toxic shock syndrome. Dr. Henry Masur of the National Institutes of Health notes that none of the victims he has studied has lived more than 18 months. “Once they develop a severe case of the disease, I suspect they all die,” he says.
Newsweek December 27, 1982
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Herman Cain makes fun of vegetarians as weak or “unmanly”
List of vegetarian things that Herman Cain should say this to their face:
- Mike Tyson
- Irate water buffalo
- The fang-tastic gelada baboon
- Cassowary (which can disembowel a man with one kick)
- Hippopotamus (kills more people in Africa than lions or crocs)
- Stegosaurus
I’m beginning to think that the smartest thing to ever come out of this guy’s mouth was a particularly intelligent chicken wing.
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I made these on a whim. They were pretty good, but I wasn’t really in the mood to put fourth the effort that these needed just to make them pretty. So: not the prettiest, but pretty tasty!
TURKEY CHILI
Last Week was unusually cold for this time of year. So I decided to find something easy to make that was fitting for the weather. To my surprise, I had everything I needed in my kitchen to make a perfectly good turkey chili. I didn’t have a recipe, but here’s the gist of what’s in it:
1 lb ground turkey
1 onion
1 garlic clove
red pepper flakes
2 cans tomatoes, diced
1 can red kidney beans, drained
chili powder, ground cumin, ground allspice to taste
hot sauce to taste
I first browned the ground turkey in a skillet with the onions and garlic clove. then i transferred it to my slow cooker and combined with the rest of the ingredients. Let it cook on high for about 4 hours. And its ready to eat!
