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Obama Mobilizes National Guard, Army Reserves To Fight Ebola

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With numerous counties and states having declared "States of Disaster" or "States of Emergency", the looming civil rights destruction of martial law domestically draws ever closer.

However, President Obama has decided that, by Executive order:

  • *OBAMA ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER FOR ARMED FORCES IN WEST AFRICA

  • *OBAMA TO ACTIVATE INDIVIDUAL READY RESERVE FOR EBOLA

What is The Individual Ready Reserve? (via Wikipedia)

The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR)is a category of the Ready Reserve of the Reserve Component of the Armed Forces of the United States composed of former active duty or reserve military personnel and is authorized under 10 U.S.C. ch. 1005.

 

 

For soldiers in the National Guard of the United States, its counterpart is the Inactive National Guard (ING). As of 22 June 2004, the IRR had approximately 112,000 members (does not include all service IRR populations) composed of enlisted personnel and officers, with more than 200 Military Occupational Specialties are represented, including combat arms, combat support, and combat service support.

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In other words, we are sending Vets and reservists to Africa... where they are expected to do what? Shoot at viruses?

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BUT they will come into contact with Ebola:

Via Bloomberg Transcript,

 
 

KIRBY: Afternoon, everybody. I'm proud to welcome into the briefing room General David Rodriguez, commander of Africa Command. He's here to give you an update on U.S. contributions to the effort against Ebola -- U.S. military contributions to the effort against Ebola in West Africa. And with that, sir, I'll turn it over to you.

 

QUESTION: Just a clarification on that, please. Will they be in contact with individuals or just specimens?

 

GENERAL DAVID M. RODRIGUEZ (USA), COMMANDER, U.S. AFRICA COMMAND: They come in contact with the individuals and they do that. And they're -- like I said, it's a -- it's a very, very high standard that these people have operated in all their lives, and this is their primary skill. This is not a -- you know, just medical guys trained to do this. This is what they do for a living.

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As USA Today reports,

President Obama has issued an executive order calling up ready reserve troops to combat the Ebola crisis in Africa.

 

Obama notified Congress of his order Thursday. It reads: "I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation United Assistance, which is providing support to civilian-led humanitarian assistance and consequence management support related to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa."

 

The Pentagon said it had no immediate plans to send reservists to Africa, saying that the order simply allows the military to begin utilizing reserve/guard forces in our overall response in Northern Africa.

 

It "doesn't mean that we are deploying these forces, but it gives us the option to do so if we need to," said Air FOrcer Lt. Col. Thomas Crosson, a Pentagon spokesman.

 

The White House said it didn't know exactly how many reserve troops would eventually be required.

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Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:46 | 5343435 1000yrdstare
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oooh, 36yo, 6'2 AND single....count me in big boy!

ps.( I gotta tell the wife though...)

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:41 | 5343391 Amish Hacker
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It says something about our militarized collective mentality that regardless of what the problem is, our first impulse is to declare war on it. I'm starting to wonder if we just don't know any other approach.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:43 | 5343413 Tenshin Headache
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Make no mistake, mankind is at war with this virus. I pray we defeat it.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:42 | 5343392 NoWayJose
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At least the wives and girlfriends of the US troops sent to Africa will be able to freely fly back and forth for their conjugal visits.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:42 | 5343393 breezer1
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The story of Ebola brought to us by the same storytellers of the 911 tale.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:56 | 5343816 Dapper Dan
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I think the troops are for US soil not African, I don't think they could state that without pure pandemonium.

 

Another oddity is no state official has mentioned anything like “we are aggressively pursuing a vaccine” or “we are working closely with the drug makers and scientist to find a cure”

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:06 | 5343884 Global Hunter
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not according to the USA Today tweet in the article above, it states "combat Ebola in Africa" of course USA Today could be wrong.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:43 | 5343395 geno-econ
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Democrats just lost the military vote in mid term elections.  On other hand Democrats will get more campaign funding from military contractors.  You win sone and lose some---thats Show Biz and Sports

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:54 | 5343490 Ms. Erable
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No, they just sent a few thousand Red team voters away so their ballots are more easily lost or ignored.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 20:21 | 5344506 Withdrawn Sanction
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No way these guys get mobilized and sent before 11/4.  2 and 1/2 weeks?  Not in any government operation I've ever seen.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:42 | 5343396 wmbz
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Just shows what a sick fucker Obozo is! He should fly his skinny ass over there and handle the situation!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:42 | 5343398 astoriajoe
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its staggering.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:42 | 5343399 orangegeek
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good boy barry

 

maybe you can stop the flow of immigrants who are often infected with viruses before arrival - it's a stretch, but use some of that activist intelligence to build a chain link fence.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:43 | 5343403 CunnyFunt
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It's all part of the p.c. act to show the world that 'Merica ain't rayciss.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:35 | 5343688 Otto Zitte
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Right. Invade a country with no military to speak of. Fuck the UN too.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:44 | 5343409 Latitude25
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As long as we keep getting ZH ebola panic articles I'll keep posting this.  Our own president Obola admitted to hugging and kissing nurses who have treated Ebola patients.  Either he's going to get very sick or else he knows something about this disease that you and I don't, like it's a fucking hoax.

http://rt.com/usa/196556-ebola-obama-us-protocol/

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:50 | 5343781 still kicking
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Zerohedge is there any way we could get you to put in a fucking block feature?  Case in point this fuck up above me, I'll pitch in to cover that programming cost.  Thanks!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:11 | 5343905 Global Hunter
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His point is valid and even if it weren't I believe in free speech, even your hysterical opinion and your right to act like a goon.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:40 | 5343992 still kicking
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I honestly meant ignore, not block, that is my bad.  I agree with him having a right to say it I would just very much like a button that allows me to ignore him so I don't have to constantly read the same post over and over.

Also you totally miss the point of free speech from a legal perspective but whatever 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 19:54 | 5344379 silverliberty
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Free speech is free speech any other form is called censorship.  I know who I'd like to block/ignore after a statement like "free speech from a legal perspective" this phrase is code for censorship.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 00:11 | 5345180 still kicking
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Freedom of speech under the first amendment ensures a citizens right to free speach without persecution from the law as congress is forbidden to pass laws limiting said free speech.  Again I sincerely meant I wanted an ignore button and was pointing out that from a legal stand point a private enterprise can control content displayed in its domain.  None of us have a "freedom of speech" at ZH legally.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 04:10 | 5345411 css1971
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Just because one person speaks doesn't mean others are obliged to listen.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 21:45 | 5344779 SMG
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It could be only a special few are getting the vaccine and not talking about it.  I guess you wouldn't fear it then.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 23:54 | 5345132 Gold Eyed Cat
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Hi Latitude

Remember when Obola took the girls swimming in the gulf to prove how safe and healthy the water was after the never-ending oil spill?  It was later discovered that the picture was not taken where he said it was taken.  Obola could have said he personally snow-balled Dr. Kent Brantly and it was lovely.  That however does not make it the truth.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 00:25 | 5345198 Bunga Bunga
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Hope!

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 01:02 | 5345268 ASACJon
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Yeah, so he says.  But critically, these were Emory University nurses.  The implication is that he kissed the Dallas nurses. 

Who knows when he allegedly smooched these healthcare workers.  The lies spew out like effluent from a broken sceptic tank.

Regading the call up of the National Guard, for what it's worth I called my Congressman's office to voice disapproval with the proposed deployment.

 

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 06:18 | 5345516 Moe Howard
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They must have been male nurses.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:46 | 5343411 Conax
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"GENERAL DAVID M. RODRIGUEZ (USA), COMMANDER, U.S. AFRICA COMMAND: They come in contact with the individuals and they do that. (Do what?) And they're -- like I said, it's a -- it's a very, very high standard that these people have operated in all their lives, and this is their primary skill. (No, it isn't)  This is not a -- you know, just medical guys trained to do this. This is what they do for a living."

A blithering idiot on display.  An Affirmative Action General Officer.

I'm afraid we truly are screwed.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:18 | 5343928 The Chief
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You nailed it.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 23:55 | 5345138 Gold Eyed Cat
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General David M Rodriguez, choking on the lies.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:43 | 5343412 Kirk2NCC1701
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They will come in contact with Ebola, as Ebola-infected Liberians board offshore Oil Platforms or its Delivery System and endanger oil production for the US.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:51 | 5343414 Bill of Rights
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Is he sending his daughters? What a FUCKEN waste of six years .

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:44 | 5343415 Bangin7GramRocks
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"Son, shoot everyone. If they don't move, they are late stage and you did them a favor. If they run, they are early stage and trying to spread it to the homeland."

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:45 | 5343417 Ariadne
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To what end? For what purpose? Who benefits?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:57 | 5343421 Whoa Dammit
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  • Prez O Prissy: Lordy, we's got to have a doctor!

    I don't know nothin' 'bout killin' no Eboli!

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  • Scarlett: What do you mean ? You told me you knew everything!

  • Prez O Prissy: I don't know why I lied!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:48 | 5343429 falak pema
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One of the biggest Oligarchy companies of the world that benefits from African exploitation of RM and local wages is now finding itself front line in the economic battle of Ebola's legacy to Africa : Nestle and its Cocoa/chocolate empire based in neighbouring Ivory Coast/Ghana now gets the Ebola jitterbugs.

Instead of talking about economic disruption, these Oligarchs who have benefitted in billions from Africa's rape year in year out, should be pumping money back to save their economic empire.

When capitalism's ugly face based on crass human exploitation meets Nemesis.

Its time to pay the piper for your "easy" billions, you scammers; the Oil barons, the RM barons and the food barons of the great, humanitarian West. 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:45 | 5343430 the not so migh...
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the president has gone insane

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:52 | 5343484 corporatewhore
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giving way too much credit to that reasoning

nothing by coincidence

nothing by mistake

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 19:59 | 5344403 silverliberty
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He's been insane.  He's flammingly insane.  He's finally showing all his true rainbow colors.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 07:19 | 5345603 j0nx
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I don't see why this has been allowed to go on for as long as it has with these politicians continually endangering the nation both physically and financially. At this point there has GOT to be some grumblings at the O4-O6 level.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:46 | 5343433 Son of Captain Nemo
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FEMA here we come!

Pack your bags folks 3 squares a day and a roof over your head for....

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:57 | 5343505 Evil Bugeyes
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Good idea! Let's send FEMA over there to fight Ebola.

But on second thought, what has Liberia ever done to us?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:47 | 5343434 SocialismIsCancer
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Entirely understandable action for the president of Africa(ns) to make.

But I don't understand why American soldiers would obey this unconstitutional order to go to Africa, rather than go to where the real problem & danger is, ie WADC.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:47 | 5343436 Sid James
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Nina Pham’s Boyfriend Reportedly Admitted With Ebola Symptoms

http://canadajournal.net

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:43 | 5343711 IridiumRebel
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According to Dallas News, Rev. Jim Khoi of Our Lady of Fatima Church in East Fort Worth was told by Pham’s mother that a friend of her daughter’s had also been admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, although he was not told of the nature of their relationship.
Nina Pham will be transferred today from Dallas to a hospital in Bethesda, Md., according to a statement from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

So two victims? boyfriend and male friend?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:54 | 5343799 Kinskian
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And is the convalescent serum from Brantly working for Pham or not? They really aren't telling us much.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:46 | 5343437 cherry picker
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Obama is sending troops on a suicide mission against a virus?

If I was in the military I would tell him to go screw himself because I didn't sign up for that, not in a foreign country.  They have people there that can look after things.  If they need supplies, medicine, food, that is one thing.  Troops?

There are ways to get rid of a President legally  Why doesn't someone call a special election, we know Biden and the others don't quallify, neither does Hillary.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:47 | 5343441 Apocalaugh
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Re-activating retired military to play with the ebola people is okay, but shutting down air traffic isn't?  Disgraceful.  Absolutely postitively disgraceful.  This whole episode is going to go down in history (if we survive) as a case-book study in poor, misguided leadership.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:41 | 5344030 williambanzai7
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I think it will go down in history as a little bit more than that. It goes way beyond this latest Ebola episode.

We are witnessing a mega orgy of corruption and hubris. And this Ebola fiasco is where it has led us.

The most fascinating aspect is the assertion that no laws have been violated in the process.

The real virus is not Ebola. The virus is our runaway kleptoplutocracy and all of the corruption, statist mismanagement and resource misallocation caused by it.

The Ebola episode is lifting the veil of opacity.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:18 | 5343443 wtf1369
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So let me get this straight. Dickhead wouldn't sign an executive order banning travel to/from west african shitholes but he did sign one possibly mandating travel TO west african shitholes for unfortunate SOBs who are NO LONGER ON THE ARMY PAYROLL. For those not in the know IRR = your ass did your 4 year enlistment and got the fuck out but uncle sam can still call you back for another 4 years if he feels like it even though you no longer work for him.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 06:24 | 5345518 Moe Howard
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They did the same thing during the Gulf War. I was temporarily assigned to a unit at Fort Ord to inprocess IRR soldiers back then. The line at the Chaplain's office had hundreds of call up joes in it. This is when they were talking about thousands maybe dying over there. I even ran into a former comrade from Berlin who was called up, he was walking around like a zombie in shock they could do this. He thought his Infantry time was over. It wasn't.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 09:50 | 5346161 wtf1369
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Yeah, that's the fine print none of were smart enough to read and really let sink in at age 18. Even so, answering uncle sam's call to arms is slightly more understandable than some fuckin call to go "fight" ebola. Not something to celebrate when the BOHICA call comes, but slightly more understandable.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:48 | 5343447 docinthehouse
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AS OMANDER IN CHIEF, HE SHOULD GO THERE AND TAKE MICHELLE WITH HIM TO TEND TO THOSE POOR SICK PEOPLE.  

HE COULD TEACH THEM HOW TO PUTT !!!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:47 | 5343448 atthelake
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Yale New Haven announced it's one patient does NOT have Ebola.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:16 | 5343606 IridiumRebel
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No worries. Comrade Malloy signed a declaration eliminating all civil liberties last week.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:49 | 5343449 Infinite QE
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Putin 2014. We can't wait two more years.

 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:48 | 5343450 Hamm Jamm
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Are they testing a New vacine and need some test subjects....    Ot oh...   more medicine for the soldiers

big pharma gonna make some bucks

 

C'mon boys....  don't make us bring back the draft

sign up and fight some ebola...   yessir do it for uncle obama

 

ps.. don't go, its just more bullshit and they don't give a rats ass about human life

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:50 | 5343454 Manipuflation
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Call your elected representives and voice your concerns.  Press 1 to be disconnected or press 2 to leave a voicemail that will never be returned.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:08 | 5343556 One of We
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I thought it was "1" to be ignored in English and "2" to be ignored in Spanish?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:49 | 5343773 Manipuflation
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Pretty much so.LOL  OR, assuming that you actually get to talk to a human being, they give you a phone number informing you that you have call this or that agency who then refers you back to who you originally called in the first place. 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:50 | 5343456 dlfield
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Deploy Clipboard Guy with them.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:50 | 5343461 atthelake
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Sending the National Guard to Africa is THE best way to ensure Ebola comes back to America. Ebola stays in semen for up to 3 months after acute illness.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:51 | 5343463 Bioscale
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Looks like US is preparing for a war, I wonder where the troops will be headed from Africa.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:38 | 5343713 NotApplicable
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Humanitarian mission in Syria, of course.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:53 | 5343465 IridiumRebel
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"Gentlemen! Our enemy today is about 0.0004 millimeters in length with a lasso like head....it's about the size of the common sperm. Try to hit the little lasso bastard in the loop! We deploy at 0600. HOORAH!"

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 20:07 | 5344445 silverliberty
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Iridium, I can't stop laughing.  I tell ya whenever I'm feelin' blue I just start reading ZH and it brightens my day. 

I think the govt. has taken the saying"when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" to a whole new absurd level. 

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 00:01 | 5345152 IridiumRebel
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It's a train wreck. Only thing that makes me feel better is laughing and making others laugh. We're fucked. I've read crazy crap, but this is absurd.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:52 | 5343469 Duffy
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REVOLT.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:53 | 5343474 Smuckers
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My cleaning maid would be far more effective at fighting Ebola than 100 reservists. 
And fuck no, you can't send her.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:52 | 5343481 Bumbu Sauce
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The military is just a playtoy for social experimentation to progtards like the dog eater Obola.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:53 | 5343485 atthelake
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What the hell does the National Guard know about Ebola?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:56 | 5343486 Son of Captain Nemo
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For soldiers in the National Guard of the United States, its counterpart is the Inactive National Guard (ING). As of 22 June 2004, the IRR had approximately 112,000 members (does not include all service IRR populations) composed of enlisted personnel and officers, with more than 200 Military Occupational Specialties are represented, including combat arms, combat support, and combat service support.

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Translation:

They either work for USAID as "hired guns" or they volunteer as the stupidest motherfuckers this Government in the United States of America could find!  Best of all this pandemic will ensure the lemmings stay at home in full fear and panic mode without a nasty Bonus March/OWS/Ferguson moment where they can eventually be collected without harming the occupants that are making all of it possible in the Nation's Capital! 

Get your hot buttered popcorn at the ready folks, cause the "Third Act" of this show thats about "the last war" is about to begin!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:53 | 5343489 Evil Bugeyes
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What has he been smoking?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:54 | 5343495 netpounder
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They eventually have to come back and each one to their own hometown.  WTF !!!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:55 | 5343496 squid427
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What really bothers me is that there isn't a mass of pissed off citizens out side the white house right now. 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:00 | 5343519 clade7
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yeah, or inside the whitehouse, Speedy Gonzales style

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:03 | 5343528 Eagle Keeper
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There are, they are just a long way outside the WH

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:56 | 5343497 Black Forest
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Tell them not to eat bush meat. That will help limiting contagion. Hope they understand.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:57 | 5343503 Salsipuedes
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In Newspeak, 'Posse Comitatus' is "chopped liver."

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:56 | 5343507 Eagle Keeper
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Former active duty ?!!!

I got out in 85

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:10 | 5343562 IridiumRebel
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Best get down to the range to brush up! You hunt Ebola now!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:58 | 5343511 IXLADXI
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Reminds me of this. Replace the light grenade with Ebola.

http://youtu.be/dCeD2gF9jUo

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 16:57 | 5343512 Bastiat
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You can't think too deeply about this with Obama.  No need to go beyond: Jarret, Pelosi etc with an election coming up - "Look like you're doing SOMETHING!!!"

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:02 | 5343522 clade7
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Well, it IS a creative way to keep all these 'folks' from voting...

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:02 | 5343524 css1971
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Here it comes. The end of The Republic.

 

Do you think anyone (else) will notice? Or care?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:02 | 5343526 geno-econ
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Great opportunity for sending in Assist. Sec. of State Nuland and her husband to hand out cookies, protective gear and condoms.  They make such a nice couple demonstrating   America's  goal of saving lives and promoting peace.  Also don't see Hunter Biden volunteering to spread transparency

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:03 | 5343530 PKF
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Long Clorox....

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:06 | 5343545 clade7
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Short green bananas

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:06 | 5343543 squid427
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I'll bet if an NFL game was cancelled because of EBOLA we would get some pissed off people real quick.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:31 | 5343544 Tachyon5321
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Governor Perry did it to sercure our TX's boarder months ago.  Obama must be lost because he is shipping the national gaurd overseas without any training.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:08 | 5343550 Obamanism
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Al part of the Master plan. All these National guard and such from different units, will go to Africa be rotated back home, with the Virus, and Infect the rest of the base. Imagine if 40% of the Armed forces were struck down or helping look after the sick.  Like a sniper only wounding his target knowing that someone will come to the aid and the sniper picks them off one by one

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:09 | 5343555 Quinvarius
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WTF???  This dude just wants the military out of the US.  

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:12 | 5343576 ShrNfr
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The military would like this dude out of the US too.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:09 | 5343559 Sid James
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DALLAS (AP) -- Dallas County's top public health epidemiologist is among those potentially exposed to Ebola after she spent time at patient Thomas Eric Duncan's bedside the day he was diagnosed with the virus.


Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:11 | 5343573 Bill of Rights
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Are we beyond the burning stage? I mean two more FUCKEN years of this inept pos...

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:12 | 5343575 Duffy
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OT -

 

look at this shit: 

Saudi Arabia sentences reformist Shiite cleric to ‘crucifixion’

 

not a peep in the media. 

 

Can you imagine if Iran did this to a sunni cleric? Our neocon overlords would flood the airwaves to help give Israel their war using US blood and treasure as sword and shield for the Oded Yinon plan premised on the nuclear weapons ruse.

 

 

 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:16 | 5343600 ShrNfr
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Crucifixion is not what you and I think of when we hear the word. In the Saudi context, is to be beheaded and then have your corpse displayed for a while as an example. Still, our "dear friends" the Saudis are a lower form of virus, aren't they??

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:18 | 5343934 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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The Quaran states that crucificxion is a valid act that should be done against those who make war against the book or his prophet. Does not make much difference which sect is using the punishment.

You say Shia I say Sunni they both want a bunch people dead.

Islam- killing when times are good or bad but killing in the name of Allah all the time.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:29 | 5343974 The Phallic Crusader
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largely untrue.  The Shia are nowhere near as fundamentalist/crazy as the Sunni - repeated efforts to villify Iran notwithstanding.

 

There is, in fact, a significant difference - you might read up.

 

Wahhabism/Salafism never would have come out of Shia Islam, and Sufism, never would have come out of Sunni Islam.

 

Basically - the Saudis are, mot of all, the problem - and they are deliberately fucking with the Shia in their eastern province, perhaps hoping to get a response from Iran the NYT and CNN can point to.

 

And no - the Iranians don't all want to die in a nuclear fire to bring the hidden imam....  but the orthodox Jews sure wants to bring about the end of days so Israel and Jews can rule the world from the 3rd temple.

 

Eschatology:  it's what's for sinner.

 

 

 

 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:12 | 5343578 smacker
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"In other words, we are sending Vets and reservists to Africa... where they are expected to do what? Shoot at viruses?"

No. The idea is probably to get them out of the country to head-off a revolution back home.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:13 | 5343582 tony wilson
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Formaldehyde DUMPED in Liberian Water Wells Causing Ebola-like Symptoms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeCOVkD2upA&index=6&list=UU3xHAfZZqbMMWj...

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:59 | 5343837 still kicking
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You do realize that Africans, Indians and poorer asians drink Formaldehyde pretty much every day right?  It's used as a preservative and decontaminate in a lot of drinks.  If you are a fan of Kingfisher beer read the ingredients some time.  That shit causes a hangover like you have never experienced just fyi.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 20:04 | 5344432 tony wilson
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Formaldehyde

do the jews drink it

do you drink it flat foot

fuck you you pink clown

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 00:20 | 5345189 still kicking
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I'm not even sure what the hell you just said but all I was pointing out is that injestion of fermaldahyde actually happens commonly in africa.  No need to spaz out there buddy.  Also I am not Jewish but you calling me one doesnt offend me either.  Call me frenchy and we might have a problem.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 03:27 | 5345393 effendi
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Worked with a guy from Chittagong (Bangladesh) last week. He said the merchants there use formaldehyde all the time such as to soak mangoes in formaldehyde to extend shelf life.

Not surprising that some ends up in the water supply of many turd world countries.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 07:44 | 5345610 overmedicatedun...
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in the past long ago in a rice paddy smelling of human shit, we drank" 33" the local bear, which had formaldehyde as the agent used by locals to keep water safe to drink- the head aches were intense the next sun drenched cordite filled day, formaldehyde does kill everything even brain cells..ergo here I am posting on ZZZZZH.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 09:27 | 5346066 still kicking
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I swear the Kingfisher hangover was far worse than any others I have ever had.  I spent 5 months in India where that's pretty much all we drank.  That and Royal Stag whiskey which I am almost positive is just gasoline.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 09:08 | 5345972 Son of Captain Nemo
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t

Per your usual for spotting this.  Many thanks.

Like Ebola this one needs to go viral.  Wonder why Eastern Europe isn't pounding the table with this one?!!!!

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 04:09 | 5343589 Sid James
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UPDATED:

Here is the latest list of nations with bans or significant travel restrictions from the main Ebola affected nations. It includes almost every African nation:

AFRICA:
Angola
Botswana
Cameroon
Chad
Congo (DRC)
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Gambia
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
South Sudan
South Africa
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Zambia
Zimbabwe

CARIBBEAN:
Guyana
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
St Kitts.
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Grenada is contemplating a ban.

SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia

The Ebola spread can’t be stopped till transportation from endemic areas is banned, Lee Hieb from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has said.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:16 | 5343601 atthelake
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Many will think this is stupidity but they would be incorrect. This is intentional. Slow kill has been too easy and not fast enough.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:43 | 5343610 jon dough
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Norton: First, step up, plant your feet firmly on the ground, and address Ebola

Kramden: Wait a minute, what do they mean by "address Ebola"?

Norton: How should I know? That's what it says here...

Kramden: Well, read a little further, maybe it explains it...

Norton: (mumble...mumble)...That's all it says, "address Ebola"...Wait a minute, I think I know what it means there...Here, let me show you...

Step up, plant your feet firmly...

Hello, Ebola!

 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:18 | 5343611 DCon
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So if a black person who does not speak English could be an Ebola sufferer, it is cool to execute him right?

 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:32 | 5343680 clade7
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Short answer... Yes, as long as you are black too...goes on every day in many US cities without a peep..

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:20 | 5343623 Bumbu Sauce
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Gotta keep Africa safe for the Chinese to exploit.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:31 | 5343977 The Phallic Crusader
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I think its rather the opposite...

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:21 | 5343627 Otto Zitte
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Send the senate. They can talk it to death.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:38 | 5343708 Jethro
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The Senate says that ebola has to pay them first.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:28 | 5343966 Otto Zitte
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Issue an executive order.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:21 | 5343629 macambaman
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Road to being the US EbolArmy

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:20 | 5343630 Bill of Rights
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What a perfect way to get rid of the Oath Keepers, their going all
In now... Tits up

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:22 | 5343632 Volkodav
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Repeat of history?

Was Spanish Flu spread all over by US troop deployments 100 some years back?  Something like that? Fort Riley,KS?

If so did any lesson learned? 

Or somebodies alt agenda?

Just glance the WIKI on this, it looks follow same...that putoff for moral and political excuses

Anyone can comment expansively details on this?

 

 

 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:30 | 5343667 Peter Pan
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Either the US administration has lost its marbles or it has a vaccine/cure which it can use once the required number of humans has een culled.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:24 | 5343644 Infinite QE
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i nominate AIPAC and TSA for this task. Second?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:25 | 5343651 Peter Pan
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NEWS FLASH: Mexicans seen retreating from US border.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:01 | 5343836 Sid James
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NEWS FLASH: Mexicans arrest Americans illegally crossing the border.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:25 | 5343652 Coletrane
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That's one way to get them out of the way.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 01:42 | 5343653 trader1
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i'd rather see the reservists with the appropriate specialties volunteer their time and labor to containing and ending the ebola outbreak in west africa.

 

EDIT:

seriously?  

downvoted for recommending voluntarism instead of being tagged a fugitive when you don't report for duty?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:29 | 5343655 Apocalaugh
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DUpe

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:30 | 5343668 DCon
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Inactive Reserves have not given $$ millions to the political establishmnet (both cheeks of the arse).

 

Airlines have

 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:27 | 5343658 Clesthenes
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He’s prepping Americans so they’ll placidly accept the American Schutzstafflel… er, DHS storm troopers.  Really, what else should we call them; after all, the DHS is modeled on French Committees of terror (1792-4), the Judeo-Bolshevik cheka, and the Nazi Schutzstaffel; what possibly could its real, unstated, purpose be… and who could be more useful as assassins… native dopeheads… or members of the ALLIANCE?

And, what is this ALLIANCE?  Shortly after the Red Chinese took possession of the Panama Canal, they organized an ALLIANCE among Mexican and Columbian drug cartels, Chinese Triads, Chinese communist party and several US government agencies (Congress, DoD, DoJ, DEA et cetera)?  Simultaneously, they smuggled into the US 150 top level Chinese crime bosses thru Panama.  Don’t take my word for it; I collected this info from testimony before a congressional subcommittee and Federal Reserve publications.

Are members of this ALLIANCE preparing for the day when they will put on DHS uniforms for the purpose of collecting on $1.3 Trillion of US Treasuries the Chinese communists bought over the years?

 

Or, perhaps, they are practicing for a performance at the next Super Bowl?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:28 | 5343664 Consuelo
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Any news on:

- The EMT personnel that transported Mr. Duncan to Texas Presb.?

- The Dallas sheriffs deputy/s that were ordered to enter Duncan's apartment soon after he was taken to the hospital?

- Any other non-hospital staff (besides family) who came in contact with him?

The rubber meets the road when one of these airplane passengers or other people who were close, but did not have 'direct' contact with him or the now-infected nurses, come down with this s:hit...   If & when word gets out that transmission via near encounter is affirmed, life as we know it will change overnight.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:28 | 5343666 Volkodav
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Amer better raise hell. You need Nat G there now..

Not jumping in spread of it...

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:30 | 5343673 den1313
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The regime pulls more police state shit but does not stop flights from affected areas.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:05 | 5343881 Tenshin Headache
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They will. They just want to make sure it is House Republicans pushing the travel ban.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:32 | 5343678 DCon
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Reuters: Officials say U.S. nurse infected with may have had illness earlier than thought and may contact people on earlier flight

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:56 | 5343821 Tenshin Headache
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Got a link please? I can't find that.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:33 | 5343682 Buzz Hacksaw
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"If then only thing you've got is a hammer.......".

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:34 | 5343683 bigrooster
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"Because of my Obola...err I mean Ebola, we will have to postpone the Nov 2014 elections.  We can't have the Republicans take control of Congress and start trying to Impeach me when I am just getting started on the spread...err I mean war against Ebola.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:34 | 5343685 jomama
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FACT: if ebola truly was airborne, it would be out of control by now.

FACT: there are only two cases of Ebola spreading in the US to date, and only 8 total, counting those who contracted it elsewhere and came to the states for treatment.

This isn't an outbreak and the fifteen stories a day freaking out about armed FEMA guards in level C SCBAs is getting frankly pretty fucking stupid.

That awkward moment when I agree with Faux news:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qj4X0MsQjM

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:36 | 5343700 NotApplicable
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In government circles, that's known as a "win-win."

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:38 | 5343701 clade7
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dude, you are harshing the buzz, just go with it man!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:48 | 5343763 Bumbu Sauce
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Shep's your girl.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:02 | 5343856 Bunghole
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Best eyeliner ever

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:10 | 5343903 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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Until your mama gets it.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:33 | 5343986 The Phallic Crusader
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there's no doubt it can be transmitted through the air via aerosolized fluids - cough sneeze.

when you suck up the sneeze in a vent and recycle the air - it is now "airborne."

 

You, madam, are an ass.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:40 | 5343999 jomama
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/02/352983774/no-seriously-how-co...

RUN, THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!  fear = stress.  and stress kills, dude.  lighten the fuck up.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 20:22 | 5344509 nightshiftsucks
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Level C doesn't incluse SCBA's,it's more like what the nurse had on.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:36 | 5343693 NotApplicable
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I love the IRR's insignia. "We don't know where we are, or which way we're going."

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 18:02 | 5343850 pupdog1
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Fortunately, they always remember to bring a Boy Scout.

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