Ebola - special edition

Ebola is not a laughing matter, but I'll give it a go anyway. And my hat is off to all those front line medical workers at UNMC and those few other places that are geared up to treat Ebola patients. I'm not counting the Dallas, Texas, hospital where one of those patients died and a health care worker is now hospitalized. At least she had the sense to ask to be transferred to a different hospital. * * * * * I continue to believe that had the virus been called E-bola and that it had something to do with cable television and the internet it would have gotten a lot more attention in the early stages. * * * * * * Education is important on an issue like this. Even semi-celebrity Sarah Palin weighed in on the need for education: "Most people," she said, "don't even know where Ebola, Africa is." And Senator John McCain, like he likes to do, today called for the arming of Ebolan Rebels and the bombing of the Ebolan capital. "We've got to send arms to these brave Ebolan rebels. The government of Ebola is like a virus infecting West Africa and it will take a concerted bombing campaign followed by an invasion force. I have visited with these brave Ebolan rebels and they are my kind of people," McCain said. He later called for B-52 bombing runs on the Dallas, Texas hospital where one Ebola patient died and a health care worker was infected. President Obama is thought be considering bombing Dallas, Texas, as he has been considering dropping bombs on Texas for several years now. Texas Governor Rick Perry, interrupting his European trip, announced two parts of his three part program to improve Texas' Ebola response, but he couldn't remember the third one.* * * * * * * And Republicans have simultaneously been calling for an Ebola Czar while criticizing President Obama for having too many czars, calling on him to do more to fight Ebola while holding up $750 million in funds to do just that, and after months of calling him a dictator, are now criticizing him for not unilaterally stopping all travel to the United States from Africa. These people drive me crazy. * * * * * * In other news, Republican Mike Huckabee today threatened to beat the sh** out of Pope Francis because of the Catholic pontiff's recent more accepting attitude toward gays and divorcees......."Who does he think he is, anyway, the Pope?" said the former Governor and unsuccessful Presidential candidate who now mostly spews hyper-partisan, quasi-religious, homophobic nonsense to a shrinking audience demographic of old white men on an unreputable cable network tv show. * * * * * * * And Darrel Issa, Republican Chairman of the House Oversight Committee is investigating why the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, actually talked with Environmental Scientists when developing is Global Warming report. * * * * * * * Today marks the 2309th day the Republicans have failed to deliver their long promised alternative to Obamacare .......... maybe tomorrow. * * * * * * * With the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to 12 year old Malala Yosefzai, eleven Muslims have now been awarded Nobel Prizes. Twelve if you count President Obama.....ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.