CNN is reporting that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford soon will begin chemotherapy to treat a rare and aggressive cancer, a doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in the city said Wednesday.
Dr. Zane Cohen said Ford has a malignant liposarcoma, and a second biopsy on his tumor done Monday shows it is aggressive.
“However, we are optimistic about this tumor,” Cohen said.
Ford, who recently announced he will not run for re-election, will start chemotherapy by Friday afternoon.
The cancer has spread from the fatty tissue of Ford’s abdomen to other parts of his body, including his buttocks, Cohen said.
The doctor added that this type of tumor comprises only about 1% of all cancers and has at least 60 different types of cells, making it difficult to treat.
Although warmongers like John McCain and Lindsay Graham are calling for more American troops in the middle east, the president once again reiterated that in the fight with ISIS, there would be no American “boots on the ground.” And he also spoke about the developing Ebola crisis in Africa.
Have you noticed that Congressional Republicans have been especially silent on the serious Ebola outbreak in Africa. Not a sound, not a murmur, not even a sigh to show their feelings on the subject as thousands die from the potentially global crisis.
Then a few days ago when the president acted by sending 3,000 military personnel to Africa to help fight the deadly disease, Republicans have, all if a sudden, awaken from their slumber. They found their voice and are, of course, finding fault with the president for not acting sooner.
Republican House Faker John Boehner couldn’t contain himself as he announced from the podium that… wait for it… Obama should be blamed for not acting sooner. Thus, insinuating that the vastness of the outbreak is due to the supposedly slow response from the president.
“I think this Ebola outbreak in Africa is a serious problem and I’m a bit surprised the administration hasn’t acted more quickly to address what is a serious threat, not only to Africans but to others around the world,” Boehner said at a news conference.
Some Republicans want the administration to do more. Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio) called on the administration to conduct mandatory screenings of individuals exhibiting Ebola symptoms at U.S. ports of entry.
But Boehner wouldn’t comment directly on the proposal floated by Portman, his close friend and fellow Buckeye. Instead, he suggested reporters pose questions to Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul (R-Texas), who’s holding a hearing on Wednesday.
“I think in the coming weeks,” Boehner said, “you will see the Congress and the administration figure out how do we best contain this very horrible disease.”
This Republican say the things other Republicans say. The only difference is, he got caught.
Jacob Dorsey, a 19-year-old candidate challenging Democratic state Rep. Deb Kolste, apologized last week for referring to gay people as “fags” in a tweet.
In December 2013, Dorsey tweeted “fags need 2 leave my favorite state alone” after a judge decided not to stay the ruling that struck down Utah’s gay marriage ban, according to the NOManiancs blog.
Now, Dorsey admitted that he made other offensive comments on Twitter and YouTube, which were discovered by the NOManiacs blog.
In comments on YouTube videos, he used the words “fags” and “niggers.” In one comment he said “Niggers trash cars. I’m not selling my town car to one…” according to NOManiac’s screenshots.
He also said “fuck Abraham Lincoln” and “I hate Obama and the the [sic] national urban bastards” in other comments.
Dorsey withdrew from the race and will return to school at Brigham Young University-Idaho, from which he took a semester off to campaign for state assembly.
The video shows NYPD officers getting into a physical confrontation with an onlooker, and then body slamming him on a street in Brooklyn New York.
According to reporting by ANIMAL, police in Brooklyn NY started telling street vendors in Sunset Park — known for its large Latino population — that it’s 6PM and they need to close up shop, and it ends with violence and multiple people being arrested and assaulted by police while cops also are attacked.
The report states that on Sunday at the 5th Avenue festival a group of at least six officers approaches a vendor and tells him to shut down his table. It appears they give him no time and quickly it escalates. A black female police officer says “6′oclock it’s 6 o’clock. You guys know the rules. Simple.”
It then sounds like she says, “If you guys are gonna fuck with us, we’re gonna fuck with you,” and a male officer then starts asking an older woman on the street who she is and how old she is. A younger man in a Cincinatti Reds hat tells the group of women they don’t have to answer that, and the male cop then approaches the young man and soon a confrontation begins.
Cops can be seen punching and kicking the man in the Reds hat and it spirals downward, with people at times trying to fight back against police. Multiple people were shooting with their phones
Another story to add to our ever-growing folder on excessive force and police brutality.
A Preliminary autopsy states that the young man was shot in the back corroborating eyewitness’ account that the man was running away from police. You wanna know what was the Police account of the shooting? They said the young man was coming towards them with a sword, so they shot him in the back?
Huh? How… wa… I don’t… *sigh*
ThinkProgress reports that last Wednesday, 22-year-old Darrien Hunt was shot dead by police in Saratoga Springs, Utah, about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City.
For three days, police said nothing about the cause of the shooting while witnesses reported that he was running away as officers shot outside a Panda Express. On Saturday, police issued a brief statement saying he lunged at them with a sword. But Hunt’s lawyer says an independent autopsy shows Hunt was shot in the back and not in the front, and his mother Susan Hunt says the “sword” was a blunt-edged vanity version of a Japanese “Katana” sword he bought at an Asian gift shop.
“Those stupid cops thought they had to murder over a toy,” Susan Hunt told the Associated Press. The family’s lawyer, Randall K. Edwards, declined requests from the Los Angeles Times to provide the name of pathologist who performed the alleged autopsy, or to provide a copy of the autopsy.
Hunt told the Associated Press that she returned to Utah recently after separating from her husband and fleeing an abusive relationship, to start a new life with her children. She said Darrien was coping with the separation and looking for jobs in Saratoga Springs
Roberta Thompson told TPM that she was present at the home where the drunken brawl by mama grizzly Sarah Palin and the rest of the Palin family took place.
“It was just so shocking,” Roberta Thompson said.
She mostly confirmed what her husband told multiple news outlets last week, saying that the two of them were right next to each other during the incident. But she provided her own take on how the events unfolded, including a portion that she said involved the eldest Palin daughter, Bristol Palin, and the owner of the house, Korey Klingenmeyer.
“What I saw was two girls run past and run towards Korey,” Roberta Thompson said. “And then I just saw Bristol Palin start punching him in the face.”
“It was quite, quite violent,” she added.
She said Klingenmeyer was clearly upset about what was happening but maintained his composure.
“She kept punching him and then he just said, you know, ‘You need to go,'” Thompson said.
Klingenmeyer escorted the Palins around the corner from there, Thompson said, and she did not see what happened after that.
That is where I think Alison made her mistake. I still don’t understand why all these Democrats are running away from the President when the President is the only one in Washington fighting for the American people. Seems like the most obvious choice would be to adapt the president’s policies, fight for the people instead of billionaires, and let the chips fall where they may. But no, these Democrats think running away from the president guarantees their ticket to Washington.
Alison Lundergan Grimes is against Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell and according to the latest polls, she is falling way behind. This is her way to try and get back in the race, to tell the people of Kentucky that she is not like Obama.
“Mitch McConnell wants you to think I’m Barack Obama. Mitch is the same guy who thought Duke Basketball players were [from the University of Kentucky]! Or who’s attacking me on coal after doing next to nothing while we’ve lost thousands of coal jobs? He even said it’s not his job to bring jobs to Kentucky.”
“I’m not Barack Obama. I disagree with him on guns, coal and the EPA.”
SIDENOTE – Kentuckians are enjoying all the benefits of Obamacare, something Mitch McConnell is trying to take away from them. Yet, these people will apparently vote to put McConnell back in office.
He’s questioning the legitimacy of the event because, like all gun loving Republicans, everything is an attempt to take away their precious guns.
Meet Republican Tom Ready, who is running against Democratuc Pueblo County Commissioner, Sal Pace. Ready’s views on Sandy hook is well known. He even posted his views on his Facebook page. In a live televised debate last Wednesday, Ready was asked if he stood by his belief that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.
“There’s still a question about whether it really happened, Sal,” Ready blurted out. He continued.
“Some of the people, if you recall, there was a picture of a man walking in whose daughter had died, he was smiling and joking. When he walked into the room, he turned and all of a sudden had tears in his eyes. Why? I question that.
“There’s nothing wrong with an open discussion.”
And you wonder why the Republican party is the laughing stock of the nation.
Here’s another one for the Republican led Supreme Court that recently issued a ruling saying racism was dead in America. An actress who appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, wrote of her recent experience with police officers from the Studio City Police Department. Daniele Watts wrote that after showing affection to her boyfriend, she was approached, handcuffed and put in the back of a police cruiser.
According to her boyfriend’s Facebook posting about the incident, the officers apparently assumed this black girl kissing a white man meant she was nothing more than a prostitute.
From the questions that he asked me as D was already on her phone with her dad, I could tell that whoever called on us (including the officers), saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were a HO (prostitute) & a TRICK (client).>
Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place. When the officer arrived, I was standing on the sidewalk by a tree. I was talking to my father on my cell phone. I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn’t harming anyone, so I walked away.
A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs.
As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong. I felt his shame, his anger, and my own feelings of frustration for existing in a world where I have allowed myself to believe that “authority figures” could control my BEING… my ability to BE!!!!!!!
I was sitting in that back of this cop car, filled with adrenaline, my wrist bleeding in pain, and it occurred to me, that even there, I STILL HAD POWER OVER MY OWN SPIRIT.
Those cops could not stop me from expressing myself. They could not stop the cathartic tears and rage from flowing out of me. They could not force me to feel bad about myself. Yes, they had control over my physical body, but not my emotions. My feelings. My spirit was, and still is FREE.
I will continue to look any “authority figure” in the eye without fear. NO POLICE OFFICER OR GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN ME. WE ARE EQUALS. I KNOW THAT I WILL ALWAYS BE FREE BECAUSE THAT IS THE NATURE OF MY SPIRIT.
And moreover, I deeply enjoyed connecting with the cops who detained me. I allowed myself to be honest about my anger, frustration, and rage as tears flowed from my eyes. The tears I cry for a country that calls itself “the land of the free and the home of the brave” and yet detains people for claiming that very right.
Today I exist with courage, knowing that I am blessed to have experienced what I did today. All of those feelings, no matter how uncomfortable. These feelings are what builds my internal strength, my ability to grow through WHATEVER may happen to me.
That internal knowing is what guides me in this world. Not the law, not fear, not mistrust of government or cops or anything else.
In this moment there is a still small voice whispering to me. It says: You are love. You are free. You are pure.
It was good to see Keith Olbermann again. Yes, I know, he’s now on ESPN. But his role on ESPN is slightly different to the cutting edge political broadcasting he did at MSNBC.
Keith Olbermann and Michael Moore joined together – HBO sports jackets on and all – to do a little sports commentary on an unprecedented event – Bill Maher’s six blocks marathon from the Washington studio where he does his HBO show to another location for a live stand-up special.
“We’re seeing something unprecedented in comedy tonight, Michael,” Olbermann said. “A man trying to be funny for an hour in one theater, and then stopping the funny, then getting into a car with a motorcade going through Washington [D.C.] and then trying to be funny later on.”
At the end of his HBO show, Maher runs off stage to his dressing room where he quickly changed into a more “casual” attire. Maher may have changed too fast causing Moore to make the following observation. “It does not look like Bill is wearing his protective cup.”
“I hope nobody was looking for that,” Olbermann said.
Bill Maher then rushed to a waiting limousine and was ushered through the streets of Washington by a police escort. All this time, the “sports” duo of Olbermann and Moore humouously kept the audience informed on Maher’s progress, or lack of progress when the motorcade stopped at a corner to allow a boyscout and an old woman to cross the street.
Realizing that the feeble old woman and her assistant were taking too long, Maher exited the limousine and sprinted the final block to the waiting audience where he was greeted with a standing ovation by his live audience.
An ‘unprecedented” event indeed. Watch it unfold below.
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