Ebola is here. Can this clusterfuck 'president' do ANYTHING right???

[SheriffJoe]

Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola

A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea became the first person in the city to test positive for the virus Thursday, setting off a search for anyone who might have come into contact with the man while he was sick.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/craig-spencer-is-tested-for-ebola-virus-at-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html

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[RDTrains]

 

[pubguy]

It says a lot about Obama that during a public health crisis he hires a political hack instead of a public health expert.

Note: this Dem piece of crap is going to report to Susan Rice, not the President.

LMFAO

Nailed it.

 

[superbeets]

[h=3]Army Expeditionary Laboratory Team to Deploy to Liberia[/h]By Cheryl Pellerin
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2014 – A highly trained team of soldier-scientists who are part of an Army expeditionary laboratory unit is deploying to Liberia for up to a year to establish four labs outside Monrovia and contribute to the U.S. effort to halt Ebola outbreaks in West Africa.

Army Maj. Felix Ortiz, executive officer of the 1st Area Medical Laboratory, salutes during the 1st AML's Oct. 27, 2014, casing ceremony at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. The AML is deploying to Liberia to set up laboratories in support of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. U.S. Army photo by Sean Kief (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.

The 1st Area Medical Laboratory is part of the Army’s 20th CBRNE Command based at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The 20th CBRNE’s soldiers combat chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats facing the nation. The 1st AML deploys worldwide in support of joint and combined operations to protect U.S. forces through disease surveillance and environmental testing to determine threats and environmental health hazards.
Army Col. Patrick M. Garman, 1st AML commander, spoke with DoD News about the 22-member, one-of-a-kind unit that consists of microbiologists, biochemists and laboratory technicians.
Ebola Surveillance, Sample Testing
All will conduct Ebola surveillance and test patient samples for the disease in four laboratories that the unit will set up in different locations outside Monrovia, the Liberian capital.
“We’re an organic [U.S. Army Forces Command] unit,” Garman said. “That means we are not pulled together from a fixed facility, research organization or large medical center. We live, train and work together as a unit. So the 1st Area Medical Laboratory is a FORSCOM organization that's built for this type of expeditionary mission.”
The deploying unit also has a small headquarters element with support personnel, a noncommissioned officer to run a tactical operations center, and the commander, his sergeant major and an executive officer whose Army specialty is laboratory management.
Garman has a pharmacy doctorate and has worked as a pharmacist, and he also holds a doctorate in epidemiology.
For ongoing technical training, the unit has an “enduring relationship” with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Maryland, the colonel said. “When it comes to the biologic piece, whether it's infectious endemic disease or biowarfare, historically USAMRIID has been our reach-back organization, or the organization that helps ensure that we get high-quality training for our soldiers,” he added.
Garman said that when the unit learned of its Liberia mission, USAMRIID stepped forward and offered additional Ebola-specific training at its laboratory.
Farther From Monrovia Than Other Labs
When the unit arrives in Monrovia at the beginning of November, the colonel said, the four Ebola testing laboratories it will set up will be farther away from Monrovia than other laboratories that already are in place. “That's OK with us,” he said. “That's what we do. So … we will push out those individual laboratories to wherever we’re going to be.”
The unit has tactical containers that can be set up as laboratories, but Garman said he thinks the four teams on this mission will use existing structures.
“We’re setting up under the Joint Task Command of the 101st [Airborne] Division, so we'll be part of the task force and we’ll ensure that the outlying bases we set up are provided with all the things we're used to in the U.S. Army -- force protection, good living conditions and food and water,” the colonel said.
In Liberia, each laboratory will receive samples that have been taken from patients at hospitals around the region, then packaged and paired with documentation before being transported to the labs. Garman said the need to transport the samples many miles over poorly maintained roads prompted the expeditionary unit’s mission of setting up more labs in areas that are closer and easier to reach than are the main laboratories in Monrovia.
Each of the four labs has a team of three specialists, he said:, a microbiologist, a noncommissioned officer and a junior enlisted soldier, all trained as lab specialists.
Unit Travels With Its Own Equipment
The unit travels with its own equipment, including a Class 3 biosafety glove box that allows technicians to prepare, decontaminate and inactivate, or kill, whatever is in a sample. Afterward, technicians move the processed samples into a biosafety cabinet that has special filters and whose air flows away from the technician.
In the biosafety cabinet, a technician prepares a sample for processing in a real-time polymerase-chain-reaction, or PCR, system that identifies and tests the sample. Once the sample is deactivated, Garman explained, “There's an extraction method you use where you put certain solutions into the inactivated sample that help to extract the RNA, or the nucleotides, that the PCR machine actually tests.” The PCR results determine whether the sample contains Ebola, he added.
Garman emphasized that biosafety is the priority in the unit’s work.
“When you're talking about Ebola, just like anthrax or smallpox, you need to keep the laboratory workers safe,” he said. “It's the biosafety levels, the personal protective equipment that you wear, and the equipment you use to [protect] the person who works with the samples. These soldiers volunteered for the military, and they were selected for some pretty high-end training as laboratory technicians.”
The soldiers and the scientists volunteered to be in a field unit, he said, adding that they work hard, they've been out in the field, and they know how to drive a truck, talk on a radio and safely test for chemical or biological weapons.
“These are top-notch American soldiers,” Garman added, “and if their parents or loved ones happen to read your article, I hope they know how much we appreciate what the [unit members] do and how confident we are in their abilities. My leadership and I are honored to be able to lead them and our top responsibility is to keep them safe.”

 

[superbeets]

[h=1]Dallas reaches the end of Ebola monitoring period as 177 at-risk people are cleared without virus symptoms[/h]

• It has been 38 days since 'patient zero' Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas
• Monitoring for the two nurses who came in contact with Duncan and contracted the virus will end at midnight Friday
• People deemed at risk of Ebola must be monitored for a 21-day incubation period, according to CDC guidelines
• The final person to come off the monitoring list was a hospital worker who handled medical waste for an Ebola patient

 

[superbeets]

Dallas calmly marked the end of its Ebola crisis on Friday when the last of the 177 people who were being monitored for symptoms of the deadly virus were to be cleared at midnight.
It has been 38 days since Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and officials expressed relief and resolve that they were prepared if anything similar - with its resulting panic, fear and constant media attention - ever happened again.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins called it an early Thanksgiving for the city.
He said: 'It's a time to reflect on the sacrifices of our hometown health care heroes and the city, county, and school district employees that worked so hard, along with our state and federal partners, to keep us safe during the Ebola crisis.'

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'Patient zero' Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas 38 days ago. Everyone in the city has now been cleared with no symptoms of the deadly virus

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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas where Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S., received care. Dallas calmly marked the end of its Ebola crisis today when the last of the 177 people who were being monitored for symptoms were to be cleared at midnight

 

[ScottL]

Any of you nutters still thing ISIS is going to weaponize Ebola?

Yeah, right after Jameis Winston is jailed for pointshaving.

 

[superbeets]

[h=3]Ebola Response Hospital in Liberia Opens[/h]By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2014 – The Defense Department-provided, 25-bed hospital sent to Monrovia, Liberia, as part of the department’s Ebola response efforts has officially opened and is completely staffed, Defense Department spokesman Army Col. Steven Warren told reporters at the Pentagon today.
“The 25-bed hospital, also known as the Monrovian Medical Unit, officially opened and is fully manned by 65 public health service personnel,” Warren said.
The colonel also noted there are currently no patients at the facility.
Hospital Part of Ebola Response Effort
The hospital, which the department first noted would be sent to western Africa on Sept. 12, is part of approximately $30 million in program funding approved for DoD’s Ebola response efforts -- including its delivery and payment for diagnostic equipment, supplies and training.
In other Ebola response-related news, the colonel said the first Ebola Treatment Unit in Tubmanburg, located in western Liberia, is complete and is being transferred to nongovernmental organization officials today.
“As of this weekend, we now have over 2,000 personnel in Liberia helping with the crisis response to Ebola,” Warren said.
(Follow Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone Marshall on Twitter: @MarshallDoDNews)

 

[superbeets]

Troops Establish Air Bridge for Ebola Response

By Air Force Maj. Dale Greer
Joint Task Force Port Opening Senegal
DAKAR, Senegal, Nov. 10, 2014 – More than 35 airmen and two Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, arrived here recently to establish the 787th Air Expeditionary Squadron and fly humanitarian cargo into Liberia as part of Operation United Assistance, the mission to fight Ebola in West Africa.

Aerial porters from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group load eight tons of humanitarian aid and military supplies onto a U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Nov. 4, 2014. The aircraft and crew, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, are deployed to Senegal as part of the 787th Air Expeditionary Squadron, and will fly the cargo into Monrovia, Liberia, in support of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. government’s effort to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa. U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Dale Greer (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.

The Dyess airmen, all from the 317th Airlift Group and 7th Bomb Wing, joined forces with more than 70 airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, who have been operating a cargo hub at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar since Oct. 5.
The 787th flew its first sortie into Liberia Nov. 4, airlifting more than eight tons of medical equipment, stretchers, blood, bleach and other supplies, according to Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Brock, a C-130 pilot and the squadron’s commander.
Delivering Supplies and Equipment
“Our airlift mission here is extremely important, particularly as the number of deployed U.S. forces continues to increase,” Brock said. “We will be flying daily sorties into the affected areas to deliver supplies and equipment that are mission-essential, both to the sustainment of troops and to ongoing efforts to contain and eliminate the Ebola outbreak.
“The 787th is executing a noble mission,” he continued. “I’m very proud of the team and their professionalism as we’ve stood up our squadron here. We’re excited to work with the 123rd CRG and build on the foundation they’ve established in Dakar.”
Two more C-130 aircraft and about 90 additional airmen are expected to arrive from Dyess and Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, in the coming weeks, bringing the 787th to full operational capacity for its 120-day mission by the end of the month.
Working in Partnership
The 787th’s airmen are working in close partnership with their Kentucky Air Guard colleagues, whose primary task is to offload cargo arriving in Senegal by 747 aircraft, stage it for forward movement, and load it on Dyess C-130s for delivery to Liberia.
Since Oct. 5, the Kentucky troops -- augmented by six active-duty airmen from Travis Air Force Base, California, and Joint Base Maguire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey -- have coordinated flights for 128 military and civilian-contract aircraft, processed 336 passengers and handled more than 600 tons of cargo.
“I couldn’t be more pleased by what our airmen have accomplished in such a short period of time,” said Air Force Col. David Mounkes, commander of the 123rd Contingency Response Group and Joint Task Force-Port Opening Senegal. “It is especially gratifying to know that we’re part of a much larger, global effort to render assistance to people who need our help fighting a horrible disease that has claimed more than 4,000 lives.
“Our unit was created to respond to contingencies of all kinds, from wartime taskings to natural disasters,” Mounkes continued. “Every airman in the group volunteered to join because he or she wanted to be a part of something that can deliver aid where it’s needed, when it’s needed, as efficiently as possible. This is what we do, and we feel privileged to be able to do it.”
Whole-of-Government Approach to Ebola Fight
U.S. Air Force operations in Senegal are part of a massive whole-of-government approach to Operation United Assistance, directed by the U.S. Agency for International Development and incorporating a broad array of federal agencies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Department of Defense.
The U.S. military has committed approximately 3,900 troops to support the mission. They will staff medical laboratories, provide training to local health care workers, and build up to 17 100-bed Ebola treatment units and a 25-bed hospital. More than 1,600 soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Department of Defense civilian employees and contractors are currently deployed to Senegal and Liberia in support of Operation United Assistance.

 

[superbeets]

[h=3]Liberia is Making Progress Against Ebola but Cases Continue[/h]By Cheryl Pellerin
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12, 2014 – New U.S.-funded Ebola treatment units and diagnostic laboratories are stoking progress on the ground in Liberia, but new cases of Ebola arise daily, U.S. officials reported today during a teleconference from the Liberian capital, Monrovia.

Simple red lines on the floor are what mark the boundary between the low-risk zone and the high-risk zone in the Monrovia Medical Unit, a facility designed for health care workers who become infected with the virus. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Hoskins, Joint Forces Command, United Assistance Public Affairs (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.

Army Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, Operation United Assistance Joint Force Commander, Deborah Malac, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, and Bill Berger, U.S. Agency for International Development Disaster Assistance Response Team Leader, spoke with the Pentagon press corps on the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak.
There are positive indications on the ground West Africa, Volesky said, “but there are new cases of Ebola every single day here in Liberia, so we are supporting … USAID in building Ebola treatment units, training health care workers,” and sustaining treatment units.
Malac agreed, “Numbers of cases continue to increase. We are not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination.”
The rate of increase is much lower than it has been over the last couple of months, she added, but it’s important to continue following the government of Liberia's plan, adapting as the epidemic itself adapts and changes.
For the moment, she added, more treatment units and more medical personnel are needed to help treat patients.
Just under 2,200 U.S. troops are in West Africa today, Volesky said. “We will top out in the middle of December just short of 3,000 and that's the most we'll bring into the country.”
The number is about 1,000 troops less than the initial estimate, but the general said there’s more capacity in Liberia than planners thought because of work by lead agency USAID, whose personnel had been in Liberia for months before American troops arrived, and because of efforts by the government of Liberia and many non-governmental organizations.
Thanks to pre-deployment and continuous training and monitoring, he added, no military personnel have showed symptoms of Ebola.
“We continue to sustain their training and talk about how to make sure they don't put themselves at risk. And our chain of command and leadership are very involved in making sure our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are adhering to those standards,” Volesky said.
“You won't see soldiers roaming all over Liberia,” he added. “We've got it very controlled. They go places where there's a mission and we make sure we're following all those protocols.”
On the ground in Monrovia, the first two treatment units have opened.
The Monrovia medical unit for health care workers opened its doors a week ago. Volesky called it a strategic treatment unit “because it is hopefully giving the international community confidence that if they have people come to Liberia [who] get infected, there's a place for them.”
Another unit, the Tubmanburg ETU, opened a few days ago -- a joint venture with members of the Liberian armed forces, who Volesky said did much of the work, with U.S. oversight for electricity and plumbing.
Eventually there will be 17 treatment units, with three or four more completed before the end of November and, depending on weather and other considerations, the rest should be completed before the end of December, the general said.
In addition to treatment units, an increase in mobile diagnostic labs in and around Monrovia has been a game-changer, he added.
It used to take days to determine from a blood sample whether an individual had Ebola, Volesky said. “Now that's determined in a few hours,” he added, reducing the chances that people waiting for diagnoses might infect each other with Ebola or another disease.
Of the nine labs in or near Monrovia, Volesky said, seven are DoD labs, one is a Centers for Disease Control-National Institutes of Health mobile lab, and the other is a European Union-donated mobile lab.
Liberia also has a permanent national reference laboratory that DoD and NIH have supported to help build the facility’s testing capacity. A reference lab is one that performs quality, high-volume or specialty testing of biological samples for physicians, hospitals and other laboratories.
DoD’s military response to the Ebola outbreak in hardest-hit Liberia is part of a whole-of-government response led by USAID.
In August and September, the early days of the U.S. response to the outbreak, some of the first people on the ground included a 28-member USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team, or DART team.
Team members -- from USAID, DoD, CDC, the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Forest Service -- deployed to West Africa to coordinate and prioritize the government’s outbreak response.
Berger, the DART team lead in Liberia, said the team’s composition and size change according to needs on the ground.
“The size of our team varies … depending on which technical specialists we need, but we're at around 30 people. We have two CDC folks on the team but CDC itself has over 60 people in country working out in all the communities,” Berger said.
“We can draw on almost any agency within the U.S. government as needed to augment the capacity of the USAID mission and the embassy here to fight this battle with Ebola,” he added.
When the DART team first arrived they hit the ground running, Berger explained.
“At that time the [infection] curve was going up and nobody was sure if we were going to be able to break that, he added.
“We helped set up an [emergency operations center] so the government could do the kind of coordination it needed for itself and with the international community. We helped get safe burial teams out on the ground. We started working on supporting the [Liberia Institute of Biomedical Research] Lab and getting that back into shape,” Berger said.
When the Ebola treatment units were coming online, if they needed a generator the DART team went to Power Africa and got one. If they needed gravel, the DART team got that.
“We were working flat out,” he said. “Now we're working more with our partners, working on the community-care strategy, with partnerships that are building ETUs, getting public messaging out to change behaviors, and finding more NGOs and international partners to help with the clinical and management care of the ETUs.”
Berger said the U.S. response is everything it was meant to be – truly a whole-of-government response.
“We’ve brought every asset of the U.S. government to bear to fight this disease,” he said, “and there's been tremendous cooperation among all of the agencies. The coordination has been outstanding.”
On the ground, officials agree that much more work is needed.
“We are still very much at the beginning of this effort, although we've been all working very hard for many weeks, some of us for many months, on this issue,” Malac said. “It's nice to know that we’ve been able to have some impact on the curve, but until we have everything down to zero and we haven't had a case for a couple of months, none of us will be able to rest easily at night.”
For the members of Operation United Assistance, Volesky said the mission is going well.
“I can tell you without a doubt, they are all very proud to be here. They feel like they're making a difference. Everywhere I go soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are telling me they're happy to be here,” the general said.
“They can see confidence in the people's eyes here,” Volesky said, “so this is a great mission for all of our servicemen and women.”

 

[superbeets]

[h=3]Rodriguez: Significant Progress Made in Fight Against Ebola[/h]By Nick Simeone
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2014 – With the number of new Ebola cases declining or holding steady in Liberia, the top U.S. military commander for Africa said today that thousands of U.S. troops deployed to West Africa to help stop the spread of the deadly disease could soon shift their focus to other countries if needed or begin to come home.
Army Gen. David M. Rodriguez, who commands U.S. Africa Command, said if asked by USAID and its international partners, Operation United Assistance is prepared to shift its focus to other countries, in particular Guinea and Sierra Leone, which have not seen a similar a drop in Ebola cases.
“The challenge [is] to find and understand where there is a hotspot and then move the resources there quickly,” he said, in providing an update on Operation United Assistance to the Pentagon press corps.
Otherwise, Rodriguez predicted that if current trends continue, the bulk of the 2,900 U.S. troops deployed to the region would likely start to come home within weeks. “The majority of the big engineering and logistic things in Liberia will probably start to tail off at the end of the year or January,” he said, “so that’s when we’ll start to send some of those people home.”
Initially, the mission, which began in September, was expected to last at least a year and include as many as 4,000 U.S. troops, but Rodriguez said he expects civilian agencies will soon be able to take over much of what the military has been doing now that treatment centers have been established and health workers trained.
In Liberia, Rodriguez said, “the trend lines are all moving in the right direction.” However, the World Health Organization reports slight increases in Ebola cases in neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea. More than 6,000 deaths from Ebola have been reported in the region since March.

 

[beefdiesel]

Ebola was a distraction to what really was going on behind our backs, Ebola talk is over now that the President can divide the country more with all the race baiting and unnecessarily going after cops that are doing their jobs

 

[superbeets]

[h=3]Transcom Develops System to Transport Ebola Patients[/h]By Jim Garamone
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2014 – U.S. Transportation Command has developed a module-system capability to evacuate patients with infectious diseases such as Ebola or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Transcom’s commander, Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva, said here today.
Selva told the Defense Writers’ Group the command did not have the capacity to evacuate a person infected with Ebola when the current epidemic started in West Africa.
“We have the capacity to isolate a single person and that capacity was designed exclusively to handle a SARS patient,” the general said.
System Facilitates Patient Movement, Treatment
Over the last 60 days, the command put a requirement on the street for a transportation/isolation module system. That system would load aboard a C-17 or a C-130. The module would isolate the patient, filter the air that moves through the compartment, and would allow access to treat the patient that has a communicable disease that is airborne, or, in the case of Ebola, fluid-borne.
“It accommodates the Ebola issue, but it also accommodates airborne contagions,” he said.
The command went from an idea for the module on the first week in October to a design the first week in November and started testing the module in aircraft yesterday, Selva said. The system will move two patients per module, he said, and four modules fit in a C-17. One module will fit in a C-130 aircraft.
Module Available Soon
“It’s the only capability of its kind other than the small-scale single evacuation capability that’s available on commercial carriers,” Selva said. “This provides us the military capacity to handle casualties that might be infected … with communicable diseases.”
The module will be available in the next few weeks, the general said.
The command has funded for 12 modules, he said. Transcom officials, he added, worked with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services to develop the system.
“Our approach was if we are going to put military members in harm’s way, the capacity to move a single patient at a time was insufficient to the mission we were asking our team to do,” Selva said. “We put an urgent operational needs statement together and challenged industry and the defense engineering community to come up with an operational solution for it. And in 60 days, they’ve delivered a solution that looks like it will work.”

 

[CHOPTALK]

Ebola was a distraction to what really was going on behind our backs, Ebola talk is over now that the President can divide the country more with all the race baiting and unnecessarily going after cops that are doing their jobs

So what you are saying is it was a big deal until it wasn't

 

[superbeets]

 

[vitterd]

We'd been told the chances of Ebola coming to the US were remote. It's not only here, it has now been transmitted. The only thing that had to be done was to prevent flights from Africa from landing in the US and locking down the border. That's literally it. Then we wouldn't be in this situation.

But the Stuttering Clusterfuck couldn't even be bothered to do that. Maybe someone should have told him Ebola has an effect on golf swings...then he'd have jumped to action immediately.

The new narrative is that Ebola isn't airborne. The medical field isn't my expertise wheelhouse, but isn't it possible for two viruses to share a single cell? If someone has both the flu and Ebola for example, that would allow it to go airborne, wouldn't it? Maybe someone who works in the med field can confirm or deny.

Now let's wait for the dims to blame Ebola on global warming and tell us all that comprehensive climate change is the only way to really address the situation.

Good call right wingers. Do you guys ever get anything right?

 

[ScottL]

Ebola saw Obama. Ebola ran away.

In other news Obama still sucks balls.

 

[vitterd]

Ebola saw Obama. Ebola ran away.

In other news Obama still sucks balls.

this bump was at your request in another thread.

 

[ScottL]

Yeah I remember, the weaponized Ebola. You know there's enough wiggle room for me to laugh at the paranoia of the fringe right, and still despise Obama right?

 

[vitterd]

Yeah I remember, the weaponized Ebola. You know there's enough wiggle room for me to laugh at the paranoia of the fringe right, and still despise Obama right?

Um sure. Did I question that or something? You asked for a bump and I found it.....probably the last request I can fulfill for this show of ungratefullness