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A Texas woman who lived near a popular border crossing was confirmed as the second outside Mexico and the first U.S. resident to die after contracting the virus.

The Texas woman, the second confirmed person to die with swine flu in the U.S., lived not far from the Mexico border and had chronic medical conditions, as did the Mexico City toddler who died of swine flu last week during a visit to Houston, Texas, health officials said.

The 33-year-old woman was pregnant and delivered a healthy baby while hospitalized, said Leonel Lopez, Cameron County epidemiologist. She was a teacher in the Mercedes Independent School District, which announced it would close its schools until May 11.

If you look at the interactive map, you can see it's been growing exponentially, but suddenly they decided to get fuzzy about suspected cases and not bother testing most suspected cases. The science, or something, seems to be telling them they know enough about this flu already and it's high time to put the brakes on this. Maybe they're right. Maybe they're just tired of acting like they didn't let something lethal, that might well have been much more lethal, that started out being damn lethal and seems to have mellowed, get away from them before they even woke up from the sweeping of La Gloria deaths under the rug they were so busy with before someone mentioned it had spread.

I listened to Sebelius drone platitudes, bald-faced lies and clever reality elisions, all dripping with the usual nausea-inducing political self-congratulation-all-around beginnings, middles and ends, by way of a report on C-SPAN earlier, and I think that may have finished me off. I know it probably isn't clear to you yet, but Obummer is 100% corporate-owned.

I know I haven't done a great job of bringing you along with me step by step, and have relied on you to read the links and understand what the heck is going on there, and that's a tall order. I'm so sick of running down all the conflicting information to try to keep it closer to actual that I can't express myself... or can't find the will to express myself. It being of the character of not going to faze anyone enough to fix it, and it has mostly been covered well enough for anyone who might be able to faze anyone enough to fix it to find it and faze somebody if they're going to, okay? Or. Not.

My brains are mush. I gotta go to bed. Too much, too much, too much today... yesterday... whenever....