EBOLA, Y’all!
Louie says that (1) the reason the Secret Service can’t protect the President because of “political correctness.” And then just to jack with your mind, he refuses to explain what this political correctness is, and (2) that the President sending 3,000 soldiers to Africa to catch ebola and “bring ebola back to us.”
No, I am not jacking with you.
Here’s Lou and Louie to break your brain.
And then there’s Rand Paul, who says the government is lying to us about ebola. And we know that because the government lies about everything.
Paul, who’s laying groundwork for a potential presidential campaign, said “we should not underestimate the transmissibility of this” and questioned the validity to what experts have said.
He said officials and the government are letting “political correctness” stand in the way of serious discussion about the threat.
“It’s a big mistake to downplay and act as if ‘oh, this is not a big deal, we can control all this.’ This could get beyond our control,” he said.
What the hell? Yeah, the enemy is political correctness? If we would just let Louie and Rand call the President the N word then we’d be safe from ebola. It’s your choice. Let us use the N word or we all die.
EBOLA, y’all! Get scared! Blame someone. Anyone, as long as they are a Democrat.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
It must be terrifying for the rest of the country to know that the people in charge of keeping Ebola out of the rest of the US are “Texas health officials” and Gov. Rick Perry. If Rick Perry does something stoopid, all heck could break loose. Welcome to our world, America.
1And the brilliant medical patriots in the Republican Party all voted to cut in half President Obama’s request for funding to combat Ebola. Between that and Rick’s refusal to expand Medicare in Texas should be hammered home by Dems.
2You said it right. With Louie, Rand and the rest of the Klan it’s really about those Nword and don’t forget the other brown people who are bringing us leprosy and other horrendous diseases across the border. I saw a clip of Michael Savage on Thom Hartman the other day and Savage was just full on open KKK about it. These racists are never called out on network TV. If “60 Minutes” wants to redeem themselves they would report on these aholes. I keep hoping I’m going to wake up from this time warp nightmare we’re living.
3Oops. Loopy Louie and Weeble Wobble Paul are full of the “S” word and refusing to speak it. Please put down the soap, Mama, the word they will not speak is sequestration.
Gee, budget cuts to essential government services and the frighty righties are crowding Miss Lindsey off the vapors couch.
BTW Was the CDC one of those agencies Gov Oops forgot?
4I think it’s a pretty serious situation and nothing to joke about. Do you have enough food if you should happen to be quarantined? If you really want to know about it, go to http://www.naturalnews.com. It just might be to your advantage in the long run. But, that’s just me. The U.S. govt. has a patent on the ebola virus. You will find the patent # at that website.
5I wrote this on another site the other day, and I got called just about every name in the book.
montag says:
“And the brilliant medical patriots in the Republican Party all voted to cut in half President Obama’s request for funding to combat Ebola. Between that and Rick’s refusal to expand Medicare in Texas should be hammered home by Dems.”
Yes, these points SHOULD be hammered home by Dems but that would require fighting for something. And fighting ain’t usually what Dems do. Lord, I’ve said this before but I wish we had Dems who were willing to fight as hard for liberal causes as Rebubs fight for conservative bulls**t.
6Montag,
7It’s Medicaid, not Medicare, that Perry and other Republican governors have refused to expand. But you are absolutely spot-on about congressional Republicans cutting budgets and then complaining about the outcomes.
We wouldn’t even be having this conversation if the people at the Dallas ER had listened to the man when he went there complaining of illness and told them he had been in ebola ravaged Africa.
Instead, they told him he had the flu and sent him home, because…..this ebola pandemic in Africa, affecting a bunch of black folks, is probably not a big story on Faux News. And we are talking Dallas, Texas.
So, now the Dallas P.D. have his family more or less under house arrest, to keep them quarantined. And, where we had one case of the virus… they are now talking about possibly 100.
And Gohmert wants to make this political. Heck who am I kidding? The Republicans will probably raise money off this whole mess.
8Marv, it is unfortunate that you ran into a storm of name calling. Instead, you should have been invited to a little research about Mike Adams and “Natural News.”
http://health.skepticproject.com/articles/natural-news/what-skeptics-really-believe/
I appreciate your concerns regarding the Ebola outbreak; it should concern all of us. We need to press our elected representatives to do the right thing and deploy as many medical resources to East Africa as possible, and encourage our allies and the UN to do the same.
9Now when this whole country or any little part of it is not wiped out by ebola, are those rwnj’s gonna be disappointed? Really. Think about it.
10Marv’s spam needs to be removed.
11So, the eye doctor who got his degree by mail knows more then Dr. Richard Besser, former head of the CDC? Only in the R’s fantasy league.
12Juanita Jean, Honey, I could do face-palms until I’m blind over this kind of stooooopidity; however, I am well into the Baseball Playoffs. Why, right this minute I’m listening to the Baltimore game (they’re beating the stuffing out of the Tigers as I type). The big discussion around these parts is what to call the World Series that features the Washington Nationals vs. the Baltimore Orioles–The Parkway Series? The Beltways Series? or, my favorite, MARC Madness! (MARC trains go from Union Station in DC to Camden Yards in Baltimore).
Not only does have Texas have NO teams involved in this, the big, important hospital in Dallas screwed up their sole Ebola case.
Just sayin’. 🙂
13Good grief.
14Surely some nice folks would be glad to help take food over to the sick home even if they haVe to leave it on the porch. I agree, the airport and ER should have listened with educated ears to the sick man. And Saint Rick ain’t savin’ us from nuthin’.
15Ebola is scary – that makes it terrorism… aren’t we supposed to attack terrorists over there before they can attack us here?
Oh, right, that’s only if we can drop bombs…
16I wish these morons would get half as excited about climate change– excuse me, catastrophic climate disruption– or the fact that since 1970 we have killed off HALF the wild animals on this planet while doubling the human population. An Ebola pandemic would be a blip.
17Political Correctness is Paul’s middle name. Read, listen and find out how Rand Paul flip flops on his deeply held libertarian convictions from aid to Isreal to the Civil Rights Act all in a bid for votes.
18I’m tired of the ‘Juniors’ of political families crying for attention at our expense!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/revenge-rand-paul
As He Considers A Run For President, Rand Paul Tries to Rebrand Himself
NPR – 8 hours ago
Lou Dobbs and Louie Gohmert. What a pair of bookends those two are! Together, they have less intelligence than a pair of concrete blocks. In six minutes, the st00pid really shines through.
19Rand Paul questions the experts about the transmission of Ebola? What they’re saying is no different–Obama hasn’t changed anything–than what I learned back in the 1990s from reading two popular books, THE HOT ZONE by Richard Preston and THE PLAGUE by Laurie Garrett. Maybe Paul should have opened a book sometime in that decade.
BarbinDC – great names! For those not from this area, the Parkway series is named after the Baltimore-Washington Parkway between the two cities and the Beltways series is based on the fact that both cities have a beltway. Barb picked the best one as her favorite though: MARC Madness – love it!
20Why, yes, of course we must blame President Obama. In years past, it was the custom of Republicans to firmly attach blame to any situation before looking for a solution. Since the horror that was eight years of Bush and Cheney, they just blame everything on Obama and never bother to do anything about solutions. Maybe they’re trying to make up for all the crap Bush and Cheney got away with. When Louie isn’t capable of choosing matching socks, I’m sure he blames Obama.
21Marv, honey, your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
22It shows how badly Lou Dobbs has slipped in credibility over the years that he has to dip down in the sludge pit and come with a lengthy interview with the likes of Louie Gohmert.
23This is shaping up similarly to the initial response to AIDS. Experts said that it was not easily transmitted and would require an exchange of bodily fluids (much like ebola). That didn’t stop the fear-mongers from demanding that children be expelled from schools, etc.
Previous to that it was cancer, which is not transmittable even by bodily fluids. Yet people lost their jobs and were shunned by friends and even family because of the Big C.
Fear seems to lower the human IQ by 30 or 40 points and a lot of people really can’t afford that ’cause theirs isn’t that high to begin with.
Of course, if they really want to be afraid of something they could choose climate change or the recurrence of diseases previously eradicated by vaccines or–top of the list–guns.
24I feel much more threatened by the epidemic of ignorant, intolerant, fanatical, superstitious extremism that owns this state and most of the country than by a virus that can be skirted by wearing the garb my dental hygienist wears, and neutralized with a spritz of pickling vinegar and bleach.
25Did the guy get sent home because he did not have insurance in the glorious State of Texas?
26Too bad Paul Ryan didn’t read The Hot Zone instead of Ayn Rand’s sophomoric screeds.
27You know, you are kinda the cherry on the top of the news sundae. I read TPM, Raw Story, Daily Kos and Booman regularly- i save you for last, its always tragi-comic, tart, delicious and sweet.
28Well, I have a grand idea.
29The president should demand Congress return immediatly to discuss the ebola situation and the if we should send troops to wherever.
Right now. Midterm elections be damned. S orry moma.
Gale, did the guy not receive due diligence because he was black?
30maggie and gale: You have both come up with the reason that the Ebola patient was sent home without delving into his previous exposure. He was black and had no insurance.
31I almost feel guilty bringing this up (as fearmongering), BUT:
This incident was inevitable. If not Ebola, then the other virus that is killing children off (except it was never used in a Tom Clancy novel). Lethal viruses shall end up in this country, eventually, and we as a society shall need to deal with them.
In my opinion, one of the many arguments for universal health care is to allow a well prepared public health system that can *find* and treat outbreaks of disease before they can become large. And, I can’t believe I have to state this, it would remove the priority of treatment out of the realm of the political. Louis G should have NO voice in dealing with a lethal virus outbreak other than to announce that “here was an example of our tax dollars well spent in serving our country”. To put imminent *preventable* disaster into a campaign gotcha….
I used to like Lou Dobbs.
32This is just nuts: “The U.S. govt. has a patent on the ebola virus.” Really, Marv? Good Lord!
Some of what is being said on TV is just ludicrous … panic before performance … fear before the fight to make sure this gets no worse.
There has been a large contingent of soldiers from Ft. Carson in CO Springs, CO sent to help build medical facilities and help train personnel to deal with Ebola. Hopefully and with God’s help, they’ll all be able to return home … alive!! If they made it through Dubya’s wars, hopefully they will make it through Ebola.
33Here’s the link to the government patent on Ebola virus:
34http://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502
Well, let’s hope and pray that this virus can be stopped sooner then later … patented or not! That is still INSANE that the virus would actually be patented!! Hopefully this knowledge is being used for a cure and/or vaccine.
Fort Carson has announced the battalion that will be deploying to Africa to help in the fight against Ebola. The 160 engineers assigned to the 615th Engineer Company, 52nd Engineer Battalion will NOT be treating patients while overseas.
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Fort-Carson-Announces-Battalion-Being-Deployed-To-Help-With-Ebola-Fight-278040511.html
35Don’t let us forget that the pres has been without a surgeon general for a year now because the repubs won’t confirm any of his nominees.
36His nominee happens to be a public health expert.
The 101st Airborne, Air Assault is on its way as well.
These soldiers are worn out from too many deployments these past 13 years, but they are now going to build medical facilities.
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/local/fort-campbell/2014/09/30/fort-campbell-troops-headed-liberia-fight-ebola/16498771/
37Lots of interesting messages. Remind everyone of the budget cuts given a misleading name so nobody could remember it happened. SEQUESTRATION. And that was before the gummint shutdown. If the GOP can shut everything down often enough they can prove that sure enough, the government doesn’t work. Sure enough.
38With reference to the patent cited by Chuicuito: It allows the holder to create a vaccine or diagnostic against parts of the Ebola virus.
This allows the government to create and manufacture a vaccine without having to license the technology from another patent holder based on the science described in this patent.
One outcome is that the government would NOT be blocked from creating a vaccine or diagnostic if a broad patent for these technologies was held by a private entity or individual who decided either not to license or would sell a license for an exorbitant sum.
39Surely not even the voters of east Texas will re-elect loopy Lowie to Congress again. Random choice would be an improvement.
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