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