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posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 24 2018, @05:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the in-the-meantime-carry-on dept.

"The Supreme Court announced Friday it will take up the case against the latest version of President Trump's travel ban, which bars entry in to the United States for residents of six majority-Muslim countries.

The court will hear arguments in April and is expected to issue a ruling by June." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/19/supreme-court-announces-it-will-rule-on-trumps-travel-ban.html


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:31AM (8 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:31AM (#627033) Journal

    The Social Security Office has an x-ray and...

    I also had to take off my shoes so they could be x-rayed.

    I think I know where the next mutant athlete-foot fungus will come from.
    Heard about that Chronic Waste Disease in US deer population? Coincidence? I don't think so.

    (grin)

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:28AM (5 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:28AM (#627075) Homepage Journal

    It is quite common for homeless people to wear the same pair of socks all the time. I learned the hard way why that's a bad idea.

    The Portland Rescue Mission had a good supply of clean socks, as does Transition Project. Really I did not need to use dirty socks for months on end.

    Both my feet started hurting. I thought I had blisters. Quite suddenly the pain became quite unbearable.

    I called my Mom then asked if I could come back to stay in her guest room. I told her I was incapable of walking.

    I was quite relieved when she said yes, and that she would meet me at a light rail station in North Portland. Just to walk to the station in downtown Portland was unbearable.

    I figured that my blisters had broken open.

    When we got back to her place I took off my shoes and socks so I could have a look at my blisters.

    There were no blisters.

    No, the soles of both my feet had turned white with lots of large red spots. It was as if some terrorist was attacking Portland with biological warfare agents that attack one's feet.

    I took a shower. That helped quite a bit. Then I changed my socks - they were still in Mom's guest room - and avoided wearing those shoes for several days. As much as I could I didn't wear my shoes, just socks.

    I had never seen nor heard of anything like what attacked my feet. While likely a bacterial infection, I strongly suspect that that particular species of bacteria was unknown to medical science.

    I was quite fortunate in that my feet eventually healed.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:20AM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:20AM (#627093) Homepage Journal

      Many a soldier throughout the years has known precisely whereof you speak.

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      • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:36AM (1 child)

        by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:36AM (#627101) Homepage Journal

        Just bathe at least once a week. That's it.

        I didn't believe him.

        I believe in the historical Jesus. That is, I believe that there was a very wise man who was giving sermons on mounts, but that man was not a diety.

        It wasn't Jesus who cured leprosy, but John The Baptist preventing it.

        I mentioned my theory to a friend who said "Bathing lets evil spirits into our pores".

        If you'd never taken a bath in your whole entire life I assert it must feel pretty good to get baptized. So good that you want to get baptized at least once per week for the rest of your life.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @04:41PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @04:41PM (#627213)

          Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Must have missed that huh.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:54AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:54AM (#627108) Journal

      While likely a bacterial infection,

      Fungal infection, most likely.
      Most bacteria won't be stopping at the skin level only, you wouldn't be around with an untreated skin infection enclosed in your shoes for months.
      Luckily, fungi are quite good in fighting bacteria (remember that penicillium chrysogenum?), but if it progresses to a systemic mycosis [wikipedia.org] then it isn't wise to ignore it [dermnetnz.org]

      No, the soles of both my feet had turned white with lots of large red spots. It was as if some terrorist was attacking Portland with biological warfare agents that attack one's feet.
      ...
      ... I strongly suspect that that particular species of bacteria was unknown to medical science.

      You reckon is unknown? You'd be surprised.

      That, for instance, Penicillium roqueforti [wikipedia.org] is quite capable to act on protein rich sources and turn them into creamy goo with a quite intensely concentrated aroma. Many of this world like blue cheeses, but... Penicillium roqueforti produces the PR-toxin, unstable in cheeses (where it degrades further) otherwise a quite nasty one [nih.gov]

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    • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:18PM

      by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:18PM (#627305) Journal

      It was an immersion foot syndrome. And could have been bacterial, but was far more likely to have been fungal, or most likely both.

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:29AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:29AM (#627076) Journal

    Social Security and TSA spread disease!

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:08AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:08AM (#627089) Journal

      Social Security and TSA spread disease!

      Not only spread it, but mutate it... for nefarious purposes... mwahahaha.
      To be in sync with those approaching days in the past... you know it makes sense.

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