Thoughts Out Of Season

Did the grand jury in the Eric Garner case base their decision partly on the fact that Garner was able to speak when he said "I CAN"T BREATHE?". If so than they must have had a jury of fucking imbeciles weighing whether to indict or not. I was a medic for 20 years in Harlem and treated thousands of asthmatics, for example. To a person each one had just about the same complaint, "I can't breathe". Eric Garner did not literally mean he could not, was incapable of taking a breath. It meant that he was having difficulty breathing. What should I have done when a very serious asthmatic patient looked at me and said, "Help me, I Can't breathe"?. Should I have stopped what I was doing and explain to him that since he was able to speak he was able to breathe and that I'm supposed to go home in 20 minutes so fuck off and leave me alone? Of course not! I knew he was capable of getting a breath in if he could speak, but I also knew getting that breath...

Former Washington DC Mayor Marion “Crack is Whack” Barry collapsed and died out side his home today at the surprising age of 78. You remember Mr. Barry, don’t you? He was the guy caught tooting on the crack pipe on police video in 1979 and spent 6 months in prison. Undaunted by conscience or sense of shame he again ran for office and landed a job on the City council back in 2005 to the joy of the City’s then large population of crack addicts. Barry was remembered by his longtime friend Jack “The Smoker” Johnson as a man who loved his city, its people and some white little rocks that you can buy off many of the City’s street corners. “The worst part of it all”, explained Mr. Johnson was that Barry was just starting to turn his life around. “He was just starting to turn his life around. He went down to the local high school just the other day to pick up the application for the GED. He wanted to go back to school to be a chemist”. Drugs weren’t Barry’s only addicti...

A Liberian ship with sick crew members is slated to dock at a NOLA port raising fears of Ebola spread

A doctor from th e World Health Organization who should know full well how to protect himself tests positive for Ebola. Tell me how in the Hell that happens? This thing is much easier to contract than we are being told.

Please read the linked article which describes what's going on in Liberia during this Ebola epidemic . Hell on earth for these people http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12249

Reports of shelling around the city of Donetsk in Ukraine. Looks like cease fire between Russia and Ukraine is over

Reports coming in states that ISIS leader Bathgadi killed in airstrike

The United States has begun airstrikes against ISIS near Iraq's Haditha Dam. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29098791

A physician not working with the Ebola virus has indeed contracted the virus. The doctor, who was treated pregnant women at the time immediately quarantined himself. It is unknown how he caught the virus

Looks like my guess about a profound ,mutation in the Ebola virus was right http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/ebola-kills-5-researchers-outbreak-study-published-article-1.1922329

Im really tiring of President Obama'a lack of a sense of appropriatness and political gaffes. A US general gets killed in the line of duty and he's lucky to get an honor guard. He admits to the entire world that he has no strategy to deal with ISIS which probably warmed the hearts of every member of that bastard organization.Talks about security but it's easier to get through the Mexico-US border than it is to find a Starbucks in NYC. Come on man, your the President not an aspiring Arnold Palmer. Get to work. Do something about our borders, show some appropriate PR skills when it comes to members of our military. And for God sakes when asked something like " So you have a strategy to deal with a group like ISIS" answer something like " yes, at this time I am working closely with the Pentagon on a plan that will wipe those SOB's off the face of the earth".

Pentagon officials now confirming Russia firing missiles into Ukraine!

Rprts starting to come in that Russian troops are pouring over the border and into the Ukraine at this time

The Ebola Virus and its 90% mortality rate is engulfing Liberia like a tsunami. Circumstances have dealt the country a severe blow as it desperately tries to fight this ravaging disease. What little medical care that was present in the first place has all but disappeared with the deaths of many of the country's health care workers (in the best of times the doctor/patient ratio was 2 doctors/100,000 people). The stigma attached the relatives of those sickened by the disease has caused families to hold notification to authorities and secretly bury their dead and the ill advised quarantine of the entire city of West Point and its 50,000 residents has caused the sick and the well to mingle unabated spreading the disease like wildfire. I have said in prior posts that it was my belief that the current numbers being reported in the media were far below what was really happening, but now I'm sure of it. 

Police in Yorktown, NY are looking at the possibility that junior members of the terrorist group ISIS, also known as MM-ISIS or Mini Me-ISIS,drew first blood on American soil when they found a beheaded goat and other dead dairy and poultry animals scattered around a local reservoir This reporter shot right over to the scene but was kept from approaching by police but I did speak to a local man, a butcher who works around the corner from where the carcasses were found and this is what he had to say: " I tella the police thata the animals fell offa the truck while we were making a delivery but he tella me go home and minda mine own abusiness". Yorktown police have called in members of HomeLand Security to assist in the investigation. Further details to follow http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/26/beheaded-goat-other-dead-animals-found-in-yorktown/

New York City is up in arms over a pair of trespassing incidents on the Brooklyn Bridge over the past few weeks. Now the City and police department are going berserk trying to stop future similar incidents. The Mayor and police commissioner assault the airwaves with nonstop talk about the possibility of terrorists doing the same " with catastrophic consequences". But they have not given an example what the terrorists might get the chance to do if they did get access to the top of the bridge. Blow it up? How, carrying 5000 pounds of explosives on their backs? I don't think so. Use it as a platform to initiate sniper attacks on people? There's a trillion higher, much more easily accessible spots in the city. Throw buckets of urine down on passerby? Disgusting but not really dangerous? Flip the bird to passing police helicopters? Disrespectful but again not so dangerous as to be catastrophic. What exactly is the "catastrophic" threat here? What is the real t...

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Former Capo di tutti Capo of Hip-Hop Surge Knight was shot in LA during a pre-VMA party. Reports are that Mr.Knight walked from the club and into a police car to await paramedics despite 6 gunshot wounds to his upper torso. He is now in critical but stable condition at a local hospital following surgery. I asked Dr. Hackenbush, noted trauma criminologist about the proclivity of someone being shot that many times and surviving. Mr.Hackenbush: " Our team did a study of 217,000 shootings over the past 3 years in several American cities and found that anyone loosely defined as a perpetrator ( someone actually convicted or suspected of committing a variety of crimes) had a 917% better  chance of surviving an attack than another not named as or thought to be a perpetrator. Some examples include: The rapper 50 Cent shot 9 times and survives while on the same day a police officer dies after a bullet fragment hit his big right toe causing an infection that eventually caused his death; ...

Liberia has quarentined 50,000 residents of its capital West Point region. These people are left to fend for themselves. No food, no water. This is one big reason I suspect many other villages, cities and towns are keeping mum about their diseased and dead. I said it before and I will say it sagain, watch for an "explosion" in numbers of people affected and dead in the comming weeks.

Liberia has gone back in time, back to the days of medieval times when due to the ravaging plague entire villages were quarantined, the people left to die, Anyone who tried to leave being immediately killed by guards whose job it was to ensure that not a person left the village alive to spread the dreaded plague throughout the surrounding countryside. As I said Liberia has gone back in time to such a state. Entire villages have been surrounded with the threat of instant death to anyone who dares try to leave. Inside these villages people are not only being sickened and dying from this dreaded disease but are being starved, dying of thirst' abandoned to die alone. One report detailed how a 12 year old girl was sealed in a house with her mother who had succumbed to the disease days before.Her cries for help were heard for days but no one dared try to help. Instead the remaining villergers picked up and fled. It was with luck that this occurred before the quarantine or the villagers w...

In an escalation of the sort the City of Ferguson, Missouri does not need at the moment, Gov. Jay Nixon has decided to call out the national guard to help quell the disturbances going on in the City following the shooting of an unarmed black man who apparently had his arms raised above his head when he was shot six times by a white poice officer. Days of disturbances and rioting have takenlace. One complaint by the protesters ( and many pundints) was not only were the polive being a bit heavy handed with protesters bit that they were clad in gear that made them appear less polive force than an invading army. Gone were the regular clearly identifiable uniforms and in their place the police wore military uniforms and equipment which one protester likened to Robo cops on steroids complete with armered personell carriers equipeted with turrets out of which police snipers could be seen pointing their weapons at the crowd. This had the effect of further enraging the crowd as they felt like ...

In one of the greatest act of stupidity seen ain General Custer said " Over the  hill I think they're friendly Indians ( kudos to Ed Norton) a gang of Liberians attracted and Ebola station and " freed" 29 confirmed Ebola patients under the pretense that Ebola was not a real disease. They ransacked the place carrying any thing they could get their hands on including sheets soiled with blood. Now of course we are well aware that Ebola can survive outside the host, remaining infectioua on such things as doorknobs, medical equipment and of course sheets soaked in blood.I guess in contrast to America were an imbecile can attain the heights of power, in Liberia they just stand around and blees out their assholes and eyes till they die.

Low wind shear, favorable steering currents and the lack of dust from the Sahara desert leave conditions ripe for an Atlantic hurricane in the next week or two. May or may not be a threat for the US Atlantic coast.

There hasn't been much in the way of increasing numbers lately regarding the spread of Ebola. But don't let that fool you into this thing has been controlled. Many people have caught the disease and died but their families have hidden the fact and buried the bodies secretly to avoid the the wrath of authorities, their neighbors and townspeople. Liberia is being decimated by this disease especially since most of its medical personnel have themselves been stricken leaving no one to care for new cases. So watch for an "explosion" of cases in the coming days.

There are a few frightening facts about this epidemic of Ebola virus:  It can stay alive and infectious out side of the body. Why is this frightening? A patient with Ebola vomits, urinates, coughs into his hands and touches an object like a doorknob, that object is now infectious and can cause illness in the next person to touch it The virus is contained in all body fluids including saliva. Does that mean a sneeze, a cough, kiss can transmit the virus? It has a mortality rate anywhere from 50-90% It is incubating and replicating in one of the poorest regions on earth where the most rudimently medical supplies, including doctors and nurses are in such short supply as to be almost non-existant leading to unchecked spread of the disease. The incubation period is anywhere from 2-22 days meaning that someone already infected can show up at an airport looking healthy. He's allowed to fly Beijing. 5 days later the guy  starts to feel sick and makes his way to the hospital c...

The current increase in Ebola cases in Nigeria related to the American that collapsed at the airport have climbed to 13 at this time. What happened here was that the patient had collapsed and people rushed over to help. Police were called, medics picked up the patient and rushed him to the hospital. All this time the patient was thought to be suffering from Malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes. The man was handled the entire time with the least in precautions for such a serious disease. All those who came into contact with this person is a risk of becoming infected and infecting others as the disease is spread through not only blood but sweat, saliva, urine, just about any fluid in the body. Not only that but the virus can live on even after its host has died, on floors, doorknobs, car seats, any surface. How many persons this person had contact with while sick and thus infectious is hard to know but you can count those on the airplane, those in the airport, those in the ambul...

The Ebola virus has been around for about forty years or so now. There have been dozens of sporadic small outbreaks throughout the years all of which have been contained easily. So what is so different about this outbreak than those in the past? Well, of course there is the huge number of cases that have occurred which have not been confined to small geographical areas,but have been widespread, even crossing borders to other countries. There has been the intense media coverage of the epidemic in the US especially since two Americans contracted the disease. Extreme poverty, lack of decent sanitation, clean water also play their parts. And something else: Western Africa is urbanising at an incredible rate right now. Where as thirty to fourty years ago most Africans lived in rural towns and villages  today up to 60% of Africans live in urban areas so the disease can be spread to a greater number of people than ever before. There has also been an incredible amount of deforestation in t...

It has been reported in various news outlets that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino was arrested following a dispute at his family's tanning business in New Jersey. But this reporter has dug up the real reason the Jersey Shore Alumni was arrested and it had nothing to do with a dispute at a tanning salon nor did it even occur in long Island. Sources close to the investigation say the Italian playboy was arrested by officers from the 45 prescient in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx. Sources state that Mr.Sorrentino entered a local espresso shop and asked for an iced espresso. The elderly man behind the counter, eyes narrowed responded, "Hey this is a no Star-a-bucks, we no make espresso like-a that. You want a bull-a-shit drink like-a that you go over there". Mike, trying to keep calm asked if he just throw a few ice cubes in his drink. The proprietor now crimson and with narrowed eyes shot back, "how would-a you like it if I stick a few ice cubes upp...

A concerted effort by Michigan Republicans to force every last black person out of the City of Detroit has taken an ominous turn that has sparked outraged from Spain to Canada.  Frustrated Republican lawmakers and elected officials have tried everything, from replacing much of the City's police force with cheaply made scarecrows, replacing streetlamps with wood burning lamps shaped like crosses to turning over the Department of Social Services to recently paroled members of the Alabama Tea Party. All this to convince the City's African American to scram ( in a case of misguided cultural attack, officials ordered the closure of every chicken joint and Chinese take-out in the City). But the proud last residents of the Motor City refused to knuckle under. Bravely they fought indignity after indignity with pride and a grit that caused every state GOP member to question his faith in God, Capitalism, and his preconceived notions of black ...