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Hypocrisy, thy name is AGAIN Obama:
From the WashingtonTimes.com:
Obama meets with rich Democratic donors, warns about ‘interests of billionaires’
by Dave Boyer
President Obama raised money Tuesday from wealthy Democrats who have benefited from his policies and warned supporters in an email that if Republicans win both houses of Congress in the midterm elections, “the interests of billionaires will come before the needs of the middle class.”
I have to ask: is that not some funny shite, eh wot? Hello, calling General Electric? First to have ObakaKare waived?
However, millionaires and billionaires have done especially well under Mr. Obama. The number of U.S. households with a net worth of $1 million or more reached 9.63 million in 2013, up by 600,000 from the previous year. The Spectrum Group said there were 6.7 millionaires in 2008, before Mr. Obama took office.
But here’s the proverbial Crux of the Biscuit:
“If the Republicans win, we know who they’ll be fighting for,” Mr. Obama said. “Once again, the interests of billionaires will come before the needs of the middle class.”
Right, Mr Obama. Because you so much eschew billionaires. Yecchh! Hok-ptui!
Next: standard Obaka rentoon-rentoon-rentoon:
At one of the fundraisers Tuesday, Mr. Obama blamed Republicans for the lack of progress among America’s middle class.
“We have achieved so much, but we still have so much to do,” he said. “So far, we can’t get Republicans to cooperate.”
Right. Those terrible Republicans. It’s Bush’s fault. No wait; it’s Reagan’s fault. Hold on; it’s Lincoln’s fault.
But here is the greatest line of bullshit Obaka has spewed in quite some time:
The president also said the public is largely unaware of his successes because the cynical news media won’t tell the real story.
Really? Is that why we have cartoons like this? Any person with a modicum of a brain left extant know the American Media Maggots carry Obaka’s water whenever possible and hump his leg at every chance. And yet, despite being kicked to the curb on numerous occasions, the AMM still roll over on their backs for the occasional pat from Mr Obaka’s regal hand, like the sniveling jackanapes they are.
Final paragraph of the story:
The fundraiser in Connecticut was held near the Greenwich Polo Club at the home of Rich Richman, chairman of one of the largest owners and developers of rental housing in the nation.
Perfect.
Hypocrisy, thy name is in fact Obama.
BZ
How did the Spanish nurse contract Ebola?
From ABCNews.com:
New Concern Worldwide as Nurse in Spain Gets Ebola
By CONNIE CASS and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press
Raising fresh concern around the world, a nurse in Spain on Monday became the first person known to catch Ebola outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. In the U.S., President Barack Obama said the government was considering ordering more careful screening of airline passengers arriving from the region.
In Spain, the stricken nurse had been part of a team that treated two missionaries flown home to Spain after becoming infected with Ebola in West Africa. The nurse’s only symptom was a fever, but the infection was confirmed by two tests, Spanish health officials said. She was being treated in isolation, while authorities drew up a list of people she had had contact with.
I have just two questions: 1) if officials are unsure how the nurse, a trained and experienced medical professional, managed to contract Ebola — what does that say about the cadre of roughly 3,000 American troops that Mr Obama plans to place in harm’s way in West Africa, when they are not so trained?
I’d care to have someone answer that question. To me, it would appear those are nothing more than potential victims. It is an extremely ill-advised move.
Question 2: if Ebola can only be contracted through bodily fluids, then any given individual should be able to safely stand in a room with an Ebola patient, in street clothes. If that is true, then why is everyone coming in contact with Ebola victims gowned and gloved and masked to the Nth degree?
Correct. No one trusts Ebola.
And no one should.
BZ
Elbert Guillory speaks the truth once again: Political Ad of the Year?
First, watch the video:
Elbert Guillory already had what I termed the “Tweet of the Year.”
With this, is would appear that Elbert Guillory now has the political advertisement of the year. He spoke volumes not about simply one politician, but the entire trunkful of DC politicians in general.
Thoughts?
BZ
P.S.
For your information, Guillory switched from the Demorat to the Republican party last year.
Another HOT ZONE entry: now creeps deadly Marburg into Uganda, mid-eastern Africa
Richard Preston wrote THE HOT ZONE back in 1994.
In it, he mentions the then-little-known viruses known as Ebola and Marburg. Ebola got all the press; Marburg didn’t.
Marburg is now back “in the news,” in a way you didn’t wish. From YahooNews:
Man dies from Ebola-like Marburg virus in Uganda
Kampala (AFP) – A hospital technician has died of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Kampala, the Ugandan government announced on Sunday
The man, aged 30, died in the Mengo hospital where he worked in the capital of the east African country on September 28, 11 days after falling ill, the authorities said.
Tests confirmed the presence of the disease two days later.
The Marburg virus is one of the most deadly known pathogens. Like Ebola, it causes severe bleeding, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.
The victim’s brother and one other person he was in contact with have so far “developed signs” of the disease, the ministry of health said in a statement.
But here is the paragraph of note:
“So far, a total of 80 people who got into contact with the initial confirmed case have been identified and isolated” for the 21-day incubation period, it added.
R2 indeed? Now, R=80?
“These include 38 health workers from Mengo hospital and 22 health workers from Mpigi Health Center IV.”
Like Ebola, the Marburg virus is transmitted via contact with bodily fluids and fatality rates range from 25 percent to 80 percent.
From apparently only one Index Case?
Ebola vs Marburg?
The Mayo Clinic delineates the symptoms of both Marburg and Ebola here.
Ebola and Marburg disease manual here.
Marburg virus described here.
As if we needed any more complications.
Heads up.
I don’t write this for my own comfort.
Clearly.
BZ