Dr. Craig Spencer was working with Doctors Without Borders treating Ebola victims in West Africa. He traveled from that location and arrived at JFK airport in New York on October 17th. While here, it was revealed that the doctor checked his temperature twice a day but found no evidence of ebola until today, October 23rd, when his temperature rose to 103 degrees.
According to information disclosed during a press conference, Dr. Craig Spencer had no signs of Ebola for the days between October 17th to October 23rd. During those days, the doctor went to The Gutter Bowling Alley in Brooklyn New York. That Bowling Alley is now reportedly shut down since news broke that Dr. Spencer was there. Spencer also went jogging, rode the A train, the L train and the 1 train.
When Dr. Spencer started feeling the first symptoms of the disease today, he called his employer and was then immediately transported to Bellevue Hospital where he is now in isolation. His fiance and two other friends who came in close contact with him are also in isolation for the 21 days period.
Dr. Spencer is being held in an isloated section of Bellevue Hospital and according to information provided at the press conference, Bellevue is 1 of 8 other hospitals in New York especially capable of handling ebola cases. New Yorkers are asked to carry on their days as normal. According to Mayor DeBlasio, if you are not exposed the bodily fluids of an ebola patient, “you are not at risk!”
It never ceases to amaze me what cowards Americans are. They are afraid of everything. Afraid of terrorism, afraid of air travel, afraid of countries thousands of miles away, afraid of Cuba, afraid of rare diseases. Yet somehow they think they are the most courageous people in the world. The rest of the world doesn’t see it that way, which would be the majority of the earth. And for good reason because it’s not true.
Three people have contracted Ebola, only two of them while in the United States. Both of those people are nurses that had direct contact with the man who died. That’s it. Yet, there are screams for travel bans and paranoia over how easy it is to contract the disease. None of it is based in reality, just fear and of course crass politics. And hey right wingers..don’t tell me about Obama’s “late” response to Ebola when your hero Reagan let over 40,000 Americans die of AIDS before he would even mention the word!
What is really killing Americans at an alarming rate is obesity, alcohol and cigarettes. This is reality, but all we hear about is how frightened Americans are over Ebola. About as frightened as they are over ISIS. Neither poses any imminent threat at all. AT ALL. But they want travel bans as well as boots on the ground in Iraq so more strangers can die in the name of “freedom.”
It’s not freedom at all but fear. They are afraid so they want others to protect them from their uniquely American fears. Notice how most other nations including Canada have no such fears. They don’t worry about ISIS or Ebola the way Americans do. Maybe the real fear should be with Texas and its health care system. A place where they send you home from the hospital with 103 fever and a free cowboy hat and an autographed Rick Perry head shot.
It’s stunning how Americans have the inability to look around them and see how other countries handle things. It’s like they live in a vacuum. The first reaction to any crisis is fear. Not a common sense solution or a dialogue but outright hysteria. There is no weighing options because that would take brains and courage. Two things that too many Americans are lacking. Stop flights! Don’t allow them damn foreigners in our schools, to learn or teach! Doesn’t matter if you aren’t from anywhere near West Africa or Africa for that matter…you look foreign so you must have the Ebola! You must be feared!
It’s fucking pathetic. It continues generation to generation because kids see their parents being afraid so they become afraid. Speaking of the children, an 11 year old shot and killed an albino deer and now feels like a “rock star” according to his wonderful father. Albino deer are so rare that I didn’t even know they existed. They are also beautiful. They don’t inspire fear at all. They inspire hope about nature and what evolution has given us. Yes evolution. Because if they were created by the lord why would most Christians not be up in arms about the murder of one..right?
The murder took place in Howell, Michigan. Mostly Michigan is fine, but not Howell. It is a right wing shit fest. Home to the KKK. No wonder this kid is a hero there. So are guys in sheets. Now I don’t want to be too hard on the kid. I do however despise his parents. Instead of teaching their son about empathy and concern for weaker creatures, they have taught him to kill and to love it. To bask in it. Maybe a school or a politician can be his next target? For this there should be a nice place in hell prepared for them. The same can be said for the right wing propaganda ragUSA Today that actually glorified the killing.
This is an all American story for sure. If the obstacle is tough and powerful like ISIS or Ebola, we cower. If it’s an easy target like a poor Albino deer we shoot to kill and show off. What courage! I know what…let’s sing “God Bless America” one more time! Notice how they don’t have the need to sing about blessing Canada in the middle of every hockey game? But Americans wouldn’t notice that, they never notice anything outside their own little universe. Other nations advance while we are stuck in the dark ages.
How to deal with terrorism or a disease? Fear and discrimination. How to raise a child? Violence and power is good, honorable. Dress them up in camo (what war are they fighting?) and send them out to kill nature, destroy the environment, hey it’s OK, you are an American son!
Fear the unknown and the strong, bully the weak and the defenseless. Makes my skin crawl.
The man was shot dead, but not before swinging his weapon and striking one officer in the arm and another in the head. The incident happened in Jamaica Queens around 2 pm today.
The officers, all recent graduates of the Police Academy assigned to the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica, were asked to pose for a picture by a freelance photographer at the intersection of 162nd Street and Jamaica Avenue shortly before 2 p.m. when the man attacked them from behind, Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
The suspect “charged at the officers with a hatchet in his hand,” Bratton said. “Unprovoked and not speaking a word, the male then swung at one of the officers with a hatchet, striking his right arm. After striking that officer, the suspect continuing swinging the hatchet, striking a second officer in the head.”
It wasn’t clear what provoked the attack, Bratton. Authorities were working to confirm the identity of the assailant, Bratton said.
The 25-year-old officer, who was struck in the head, is in surgery and his family, which also has members of the NYPD, was keeping vigil at Jamaica Hospital, Bratton said. The 24-year-old officer, who was struck in the arm, was expected to be released from the hospital this evening.
TPM is reporting that a healthcare worker was admitted on Thursday to Bellevue Hospital in New York City to be tested for the Ebola virus, according to the New York City Department of Health.
In a statement on its website, the department said the patient had recently traveled in one of the three West African countries facing an outbreak of the virus (Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.)
The individual was transferred to Bellevue by a specially trained team equipped with hazmat suits. Tests were expected to be back within 12 hours, according to the statement.
The patient exhibited “fever and gastrointestinal symptoms,” according to the health department. Taken together with the recent travel history, the city decided to test the healthcare worker for Ebola after consulting with Bellevue and the Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A gun owner was sitting in his kitchen with his baby. His baby was apparently dirty, so he decided to clean it. Not too far from the gun owner was his other baby, his 9-month-old child.
The man began cleaning his baby, but he forgot to remove the bullet from his baby’s chamber. The baby went off accidentally shooting the man in the leg and shooting his 9 month old in the head.
Police are investigating the incident between 31-year old John Hambaugh III of Indiana, his dirty baby with the bullet in the chamber, and the accidental shooting of his 9 month old child.
Both Hambaugh and his 9 month old were taken to Community Howard Regional Hospital Kokomo. Hambaugh is in stable condition but his 9 month old is in critical condition.
This is good news for America, bad news for Republicans. They thought they would be able to use Ebola as a boogeyman, scaring Americans into voting for them this November. But with stories like this, Republicans will just have to go back to their other scare tactics, like, OMG, there us a black man in the White House!
Doctors no longer detect Ebola in a Texas nurse who flew to Ohio and back before she was diagnosed with the virus, her family said Wednesday.
Officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldn’t detect Ebola in Amber Vinson as of Tuesday evening, her family said in a statement released through a media consultant. Doctors usually do two tests a day apart before saying they can’t detect the virus. It’s unclear how many tests Vinson has had.
Vinson’s mother, Debra Berry, spoke to her Wednesday, and Vinson has been approved for transfer from isolation, the statement said.
“We all know that further treatment will be necessary as Amber continues to regain strength, but these latest developments have truly answered prayers and bring our family one step closer to reuniting with her at home,” Berry said.
Vinson, 29, remains in treatment at Emory, near Atlanta. Emory wouldn’t release any information about the patient, hospital spokeswoman Holly Korschun said.
Ron Kaufman writes: “I am a Republican, and I will not be voting for Gov. Scott Walker this November. He does not deserve my vote or another four years in office.
“I voted for Walker four years ago with high hopes, but he has turned out to be one of the worst governors Wisconsin has ever had.
“Walker has no respect for the hard-working people of Wisconsin. He believes people can live off of minimum wage, which has not been increased for years.
“Walker has no respect for women. He thinks they are incapable of making their own health decisions. If the Republican Party tried to tell men what to do with their own bodies, there would be a revolution in this country.
“Walker has waisted millions of dollars on voucher schools, some of which closed, while failing to properly support our public schools.”
The Hill obtained an email sent out earlier this month by Mitch McConnell’s campaign, begging supporters to join them on an all expense paid trip to different events around Kentucky. The supporters are asked to contribute to the “enthusiastic atmosphere” at McConnell’s campaign events.
“Senator McConnell is seeking volunteers to join him on a 3-day campaign bus tour around the state on October 20-22 to show our support for Kentucky coal. You would join local supporters in contributing to an enthusiastic atmosphere at each of his events,” she wrote.
Bussing in supporters isn’t a new tactic for McConnell, who has done it to fill out crowds during his previous appearances at the annual Fancy Farm picnic. Democrats have derided the move, however, as a sign of low enthusiasm for the Republican.
They again charged McConnell’s move to bus in supporters suggested momentum is headed in Grimes’ favor.
“It should surprise no one that Mitch McConnell is left to purchase grassroots support after he and his allies have spent more than $50 million running from his failed 30-year record in Washington. Momentum is clearly on Alison’s side as she draws record-breaking crowds of Kentuckians and runs laps around McConnell’s rusted DC-based campaign,” said Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Dan Logsdon.
A former aide to Alaska’s quitter Sarah Palin, is finally admitting what the rest of the country already knows, that the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee were way in over her head.
During an interview on The Wendy Williams show, Nicolle Wallace, Palin’s former aide who now co-hosts ABC’s “The View,” said that even Sarah Palin “realized that she was in over her head,”
“Just watching her sort of shrink under the enormity and the scrutiny and the hot bright light of our national political process.”
“We should be happy when anyone wants to go into politics,” the former GOP strategist continued. “We are really hard on our politicians and we should be happy when people want to jump in and do that.”
Williams asked whether Palin was a “crier.”
“No, I’ve seen George Bush more, cry more often than I’ve ever seen – no, no, she wasn’t a crier,” Wallace said.
Williams then delved into Wallace’s strained relationship with Palin.
“I think she was really disappointed with the way she was being handled by the entire staff and I think I was a fair scapegoat,” Wallace said. “I was one of a very small circle of people helping her. And the decisions in hindsight weren’t good ones for her. I mean she didn’t look good. So it was fair to be mad at a staff person, that’s your job.”
“But there’s nothing you can do as a staffer when you sort of lose the confidence of the principal and that’s what happened through the course of the Couric interviews,” Wallace continued.
For some of us this is about winning an argument and nothing more. Some would say he was a human being who lived in a country that believes in the freedom to walk down the street without getting six bullets pumped into his body by a police officer.
Others would say he was a thug, and they will quickly point at a video showing him allegedly robbing a convenience store. And although the video had nothing to do with him being killed, these people would say that the video somehow proves that he was a thug, a strain on society, a young man who chose not to listen to the orders of a police officer and therefore, deserved the officer killing him… in the free country.
One of these groups will win their argument and he will either be remembered as a human being, a teenager with a mother and father still weeping his loss. A boy who had birthdays, dreams and heartbreaks. For these people, Mike Brown will be remembered as a human being. He will be remembered as a a teenager with a soul who made mistakes like any other teenager, but like any other teenager, he too deserved to live.
Or, Mike Brown will be looked upon as the ruthless thug who disobeyed the orders of a cop. A thug whose crime began when he literally walked in the streets of this “free” nation. Or maybe, just maybe his crime actually began when he was born and society saw the color of his skin. And maybe because of that color they disregarded his humanity, his birthdays, his dreams and his heartbreaks. And because he wasn’t a human in their eyes they associated his teenage mistakes with thuggery. And they thanked the officer for cleansing the streets of Ferguson. These thug creatures must die.
In the end, one of these groups will have justice, whatever justice means these days. And that justice will either lead to real changes between the police and the communities they’re supposed to protect, or that justice will lead to more Mike Browns and a society stuck in the quicksand of intolerance, a society drowning in its own racism.
What now Republicans? What great idea do you have now to fight ISIS. “Arm the rebels” you screamed every day on my television and although the president told you that was not a good idea, you screamed louder. Well the President listened, and now it has been confirmed that ISIS has our weapons!
What now Republicans? We are giving them weapons to fight us! Not Smart! Unless… wait a second… was this your plan all along?
The Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters took possession of a stray bundle of U.S.-airdropped weapons and other supplies in the Syrian border town of Kobani earlier this week.
The U.S. had dropped 28 bundles filled with grenades, mortar rounds and other supplies intended for Kurdish fighters in Kobani battling ISIS, but at least one had gone astray and was immediately destroyed.
However, Pentagon officials confirmed a second one had gone off course and ended up in enemy hands. A YouTube video uploaded on Tuesday appeared to show an ISIS militant going through an array of boxes, at least two of which contained grenades.
“We have determined a second bundle also went astray,” Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren acknowledged on Wednesday.”There’s always going to be some margin of error” when airdropping supplies, Warren added. “Wind can cause a parachute to move off its intended target.”
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