PBS Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien Calls Out Fox News’s Irresponsible Coverage of Ebola

“A level of ignorance we should not allow in our media”
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On CNN’s Reliable Sources this morning, Miles O’Brien, science correspondent for PBS NewsHour, had some very strong words for the irresponsible coverage of the Ebola virus from many media sources — especially Fox News, where they’ve been in non-stop fear-mongering mode.

Perhaps the most outrageous comments on Fox News came from Andrea Tantaros (which is not unusual for her), who actually said she was afraid someone could “get off a flight and seek treatment from a witch doctor who practices Santeria.” Absolutely blatant racism for the right wing base.

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1 Kragar  Oct 5, 2014 12:55:12pm

Speaking of wingnuts and ebola

2 Varek Raith  Oct 5, 2014 1:05:36pm

What the hell is wrong with these people?!
The need to politicize every god damned thing is…
Ah fuck it.
These people are reprehensible.

3 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Oct 5, 2014 1:07:57pm

re: #2 Varek Raith

Dude, everyone knows that Africans come to the US to seek out witch doctors who practice Santaria. That’s just math.

4 Shiplord Kirel  Oct 5, 2014 1:09:06pm

re: #1 Kragar

Speaking of wingnuts and ebola

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Back when I was a Republican (don’t worry, I’m fully recovered now), Todd Kincannon was just the type of embarrassment we worked hard to keep out of public view. Every county GOP operation had a group of de facto monitors, usually self-appointed, who would keep an eye out for Birchers, CCC adherents, open racists, and like-mindless kooks. They would discreetly warn the chair so these folks could be kept out of positions that might bring them to the attention of the media. They could also be run out of the party completely if they were too persistent. This was tricky with big contributors, but they found ways most of the time. Alas, today’s GOP has not only let these people out of the attic, it has put them in charge.

5 calochortus  Oct 5, 2014 1:09:36pm

re: #1 Kragar

Speaking of wingnuts and ebola

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What on earth has he been drinking? I think we need to look into that.

6 Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2014 1:10:33pm
7 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 5, 2014 1:12:17pm

re: #3 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Dude, everyone knows that Africans come to the US to seek out witch doctors who practice Santaria. That’s just math.

That’s because there is no Santería in Africa.

8 nines09  Oct 5, 2014 1:12:25pm

Fox News is ignorance. And they are damn proud of it.

9 jaunte  Oct 5, 2014 1:13:00pm

Tantaros: “In these countries they do not believe in traditional medical care.”

Nigeria’s Actions Seem to Contain Ebola Outbreak
With quick and coordinated action by some of its top doctors, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, appears to have contained its first Ebola outbreak, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

As the epidemic rages out of control in three nations only a few hundred miles away, Nigeria is the only country to have beaten back an outbreak with the potential to harm many victims in a city with vast, teeming slums.

“For those who say it’s hopeless, this is an antidote — you can control Ebola,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the C.D.C.

These countries, with those people.

10 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Oct 5, 2014 1:14:38pm

re: #7 Pie-onist Overlord

OOHHHH!! That makes perfect sense. Of course they would come here. I’m such a schmuck about these things.

11 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 5, 2014 1:17:36pm

I don’t practice Santeria, I don’t got no crystal ball.

12 Kragar  Oct 5, 2014 1:19:12pm

If Wingnuts stopped posting their vile ignorant shit and only posted their good ideas on twitter, no one would know they existed

13 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 5, 2014 1:21:50pm

re: #12 Kragar

If Wingnuts stopped posting their vile ignorant shit and only posted their good ideas on twitter, no one would know they existed

I have never seen a good idea posted to #tcot unless it was from a cross-posting Liberal.

14 wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2014 1:22:30pm

‘The president was dancing in Martha’s vineyard’.

HOW COULD HE! HOW DARE HE! AT A TIME LIKE THIS!!!1!

15 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2014 1:27:49pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

I don’t practice Santeria, I don’t got no crystal ball.

I think all you need is a chicken…

16 Jay C  Oct 5, 2014 1:28:43pm

re: #13 Pie-onist Overlord

I have never seen a good idea posted to #tcot unless it was from a cross-posting Liberal.

WHAT “good ideas”????

17 Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2014 1:30:34pm

re: #16 Jay C

WHAT “good ideas”????

There are no good ideas posted on Twitter. Good ideas take too much space to explain.

18 Jay C  Oct 5, 2014 1:30:58pm

OOPS! #16 was meant to be a response to #12…

We can haz edit function pleez?

19 farmhand  Oct 5, 2014 1:31:54pm

As long as you’re going to play the race card on Fox, you’d better do it for the LA Times, too. Or just continue on with your prejudiced ignorance heaping insults on your favorite targets.

latimes.com

“Around May 10, a woman famous for her traditional healing powers was buried in Koindu, a Sierra Leone diamond-mining town near the border with Guinea. As Ebola spread across the frontier, desperate patients had sought her help, and she, too, became infected.

The funeral drew mourners from near and far. At least 14 women were infected among the healer’s following, said Stephen Gire, a research scientist at Harvard University who studies the evolution of viruses.

The women probably handled the body, which tradition holds must be washed before burial. But many others would have placed their hands on the body. Health authorities believe as many as 365 Ebola deaths can be traced back to that one funeral.”

20 electrotek  Oct 5, 2014 1:33:38pm

I honestly could never understand how Andrea Tantaros, being of Greek descent and all, could be this blatantly racist and prejudiced. Guess she forgot how her father did go through when he came to the US as an immigrant from Greece. It’s mind-boggling, honestly.

21 jayjaybear  Oct 5, 2014 1:34:14pm

Go back into your egg, hatchling…

22 calochortus  Oct 5, 2014 1:37:10pm

re: #19 farmhand

I fail to understand how someone saying infected people will come here and seek Santeria practitioners, just because they are from Africa is just like reporting on a case where people consulted a Santeria practitioner in Africa because they had no other medical options.

23 wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2014 1:37:24pm

re: #19 farmhand

That’s a little different from saying people are going to fly to the US to ‘seek treatment from a witch doctor that practices Santeria’.

24 Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2014 1:37:29pm

re: #20 electrotek

I honestly could never understand how Andrea Tantaros, being of Greek descent and all, could be this blatantly racist and prejudiced. Guess she forgot how her father did go through when he came to the US as an immigrant from Greece. It’s mind-boggling, honestly.

Maybe she’s been reading Golden Dawn propaganda.

25 wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2014 1:40:09pm

re: #20 electrotek

I honestly could never understand how Andrea Tantaros, being of Greek descent and all, could be this blatantly racist and prejudiced. Guess she forgot how her father did go through when he came to the US as an immigrant from Greece. It’s mind-boggling, honestly.

There are racists in Greece, as I’m sure you know. There are racist immigrants to the US. I find racism somewhat difficult to understand where ever is appears, because it seems to be based in stupidity while promoted by otherwise smart people.

26 Editor in Chief  Oct 5, 2014 1:40:53pm

re: #19 farmhand

As long as you’re going to play the race card on Fox, you’d better do it for the LA Times, too. Or just continue on with your prejudiced ignorance heaping insults on your favorite targets.

latimes.com

“Around May 10, a woman famous for her traditional healing powers was buried in Koindu, a Sierra Leone diamond-mining town near the border with Guinea. As Ebola spread across the frontier, desperate patients had sought her help, and she, too, became infected.

The funeral drew mourners from near and far. At least 14 women were infected among the healer’s following, said Stephen Gire, a research scientist at Harvard University who studies the evolution of viruses.

The women probably handled the body, which tradition holds must be washed before burial. But many others would have placed their hands on the body. Health authorities believe as many as 365 Ebola deaths can be traced back to that one funeral.”

Ah, but nobody does it like Fox does it.

Fox is not just consistently wrong, biased, bigoted, ignorant, outright stupid, they’re intentionally wrong, biased, bigoted, ignorant and stupid.

27 Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2014 1:41:21pm

re: #19 farmhand

LOL.

28 Editor in Chief  Oct 5, 2014 1:43:27pm

re: #19 farmhand

As long as you’re going to play the race card on Fox, you’d better do it for the LA Times, too. Or just continue on with your prejudiced ignorance heaping insults on your favorite targets.

latimes.com

“Around May 10, a woman famous for her traditional healing powers was buried in Koindu, a Sierra Leone diamond-mining town near the border with Guinea. As Ebola spread across the frontier, desperate patients had sought her help, and she, too, became infected.

The funeral drew mourners from near and far. At least 14 women were infected among the healer’s following, said Stephen Gire, a research scientist at Harvard University who studies the evolution of viruses.

The women probably handled the body, which tradition holds must be washed before burial. But many others would have placed their hands on the body. Health authorities believe as many as 365 Ebola deaths can be traced back to that one funeral.”

You’re not aware of what makes racism, racism are you?

29 Shiplord Kirel  Oct 5, 2014 1:47:48pm

Witch doctors with useless, superstition based treatments are not unique to Africa. We have plenty of them here, but they call themselves faith healers, alternate health care practitioners, nutritional supplement distributors, etc.

30 Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2014 1:48:19pm

re: #19 farmhand

As long as you’re going to play the race card on Fox, you’d better do it for the LA Times, too. Or just continue on with your prejudiced ignorance heaping insults on your favorite targets.

latimes.com

“Around May 10, a woman famous for her traditional healing powers was buried in Koindu, a Sierra Leone diamond-mining town near the border with Guinea. As Ebola spread across the frontier, desperate patients had sought her help, and she, too, became infected.

The funeral drew mourners from near and far. At least 14 women were infected among the healer’s following, said Stephen Gire, a research scientist at Harvard University who studies the evolution of viruses.

The women probably handled the body, which tradition holds must be washed before burial. But many others would have placed their hands on the body. Health authorities believe as many as 365 Ebola deaths can be traced back to that one funeral.”

One must look at both the totality of an article and the totality of the media outlet’s coverage. The LA Times was doing a factual look at the spread of Ebola and that passage served as part of that factual look. Fox News hasn’t gone as deep with its coverage, and its has been going more for sensation than fact. Thus the fact that two passages from the two entities are similar does not mean the two should be treated the same.

31 Romantic Heretic  Oct 5, 2014 1:54:07pm

re: #25 wrenchwench

There are racists in Greece, as I’m sure you know. There are racist immigrants to the US. I find racism somewhat difficult to understand where ever is appears, because it seems to be based in stupidity while promoted by otherwise smart people.

I believe racism, and all forms of prejudice, is based in laziness.

A bigot can look at someone and go “I’m better than those people!” without actually having to put the effort into being a better person.

As Cracked put it, “I’m unemployed, nasty to my kids and less than fifty percent of my urinations have been into toilets but I’m nothing like those people.”

32 Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2014 1:58:52pm
33 Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2014 2:01:51pm

Bill Maher fired off an anti-Islam blast on Friday. If this has been discussed before, I apologize, as I just read about it:

Furious Ben Affleck blasts Bill Maher and guests on-air after they claimed Islam is the ‘motherload of bad ideas’ and compared religion to being in the Mafia

Journalist Nicholas Kristof then cuts in, telling Maher he was painting an ‘incomplete’ picture of the religion by failing to account reformers like activist Malala Yousafzai.

‘Or how about the more than a billion people who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punish women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and don’t do any of the things you say all Muslims do?’ Affleck adds.

Maher responds to this by saying: ‘One reason they (other views) don’t get exposed is because they are afraid to speak out. Because it’s the only religion that acts like the Mafia. That will f***ing kill if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or write the wrong book.’

34 Editor in Chief  Oct 5, 2014 2:02:58pm

re: #33 Dark_Falcon

Bill Maher fired off an anti-Islam blast on Friday. If this has been discussed before, I apologize, as I just read about it:

Furious Ben Affleck blasts Bill Maher and guests on-air after they claimed Islam is the ‘motherload of bad ideas’ and compared religion to being in the Mafia

Maher has been duly called an idiot for it.

35 Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2014 2:04:45pm
36 Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2014 2:05:11pm

re: #34 b_sharp

Maher has been duly called an idiot for it.

Glad to hear it.

37 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 5, 2014 2:05:12pm

re: #29 Shiplord Kirel

Homeopathy is big in enlightened Europe.

38 darthstar  Oct 5, 2014 2:06:56pm
39 wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2014 2:08:22pm

re: #36 Dark_Falcon

Glad to hear it.

Here’s a Maher defender you could size up for the grill.

40 sagehen  Oct 5, 2014 2:10:32pm

re: #33 Dark_Falcon

Bill Maher fired off an anti-Islam blast on Friday. If this has been discussed before, I apologize, as I just read about it:

Furious Ben Affleck blasts Bill Maher and guests on-air after they claimed Islam is the ‘motherload of bad ideas’ and compared religion to being in the Mafia

It got paged and everything.
littlegreenfootballs.com

41 Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2014 2:11:32pm

re: #39 wrenchwench

Here’s a Maher defender you could size up for the grill.

If it shows up again we’ll see. For now its gone down its troll hole.

42 darthstar  Oct 5, 2014 2:14:27pm

re: #34 b_sharp

Maher has been duly called an idiot for it.

I like Maher…a lot. I think he can be very funny much of the time, and I agree with him on a number of political issues…not all, but some. And I understand his act is to be offensive to as many people as possible, and that nothing is sacred. So when he acts like a douche he’s on his own. I suspect he doesn’t have a problem with this either.

43 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2014 2:17:09pm

News from the backwoods:
My sister was moved out of ICU this morning.
Tomorrow she undergoes a load of tests, mostly to determine if her carotid arteries are strong enough to withstand a bypass operation and avoid a stroke.
She’s in relatively good spirits but really upset because her health insurance doesn’t kick in until January and she was really hoping the heart attack would have held off until then.
Such is life…

44 PhillyPretzel  Oct 5, 2014 2:19:26pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is good news. I hope everything works out for her.

45 andres  Oct 5, 2014 2:20:03pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

My prayers with your sister, your family and you.

{{Backwoods_Sleuth}}

46 Jenner7  Oct 5, 2014 2:23:11pm
47 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2014 2:23:17pm

The stent that was put in Friday is already making a huge difference, but it appears that another two arteries are 80% and almost 100% blocked, so she still has some difficulty breathing, but not as much as she had been having the past couple of weeks.

48 Jenner7  Oct 5, 2014 2:23:54pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thinking of you and your family…

49 Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2014 2:24:45pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

News from the backwoods:
My sister was moved out of ICU this morning.
Tomorrow she undergoes a load of tests, mostly to determine if her carotid arteries are strong enough to withstand a bypass operation and avoid a stroke.
She’s in relatively good spirits but really upset because her health insurance doesn’t kick in until January and she was really hoping the heart attack would have held off until then.
Such is life…

re: #45 andres

My prayers with your sister, your family and you.

{{Backwoods_Sleuth}}

As are mine.

50 wrenchwench  Oct 5, 2014 2:26:15pm

Later, lizards.

51 CuriousLurker  Oct 5, 2014 2:26:58pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

News from the backwoods:
My sister was moved out of ICU this morning.
Tomorrow she undergoes a load of tests, mostly to determine if her carotid arteries are strong enough to withstand a bypass operation and avoid a stroke.
She’s in relatively good spirits but really upset because her health insurance doesn’t kick in until January and she was really hoping the heart attack would have held off until then.
Such is life…

E gad, I guess I’ve been out of the loop—I didn’t realize your sis was in ICU. {{{Backwoods_Sleuth}}}

52 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 5, 2014 2:27:55pm

My mom (91 & kicking ass!) on vacation in Paris. My son (38) was on vacation in Geneva with my grandson (10) so they just popped in to Paris to be with Grandma.

53 KerFuFFler  Oct 5, 2014 2:28:34pm

re: #38 darthstar

A grown ass man is mad at his girlfriend at Olive Garden & has made a menu fort

Well, she is on her darn phone!

54 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 5, 2014 2:34:11pm

re: #52 Pie-onist Overlord

Wow!

55 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2014 2:34:46pm

re: #51 CuriousLurker

thanks.
She had a heart attack on Friday.
In other news, my oldest stepson still in rehab for another 9 days or so. Turns out the reason he fell in the first place was extremely high blood sugar and a previously undiagnosed brain aneurysm that burst. He’s fallen twice since then, both times while in the hospital.
Youngest stepson has been in and out of the hospital the last couple of weeks due to massive GI bleeds.
Sometimes life just sucks. But we’re all still fighting back.

56 Editor in Chief  Oct 5, 2014 2:35:53pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

thanks.
She had a heart attack on Friday.
In other news, my oldest stepson still in rehab for another 9 days or so. Turns out the reason he fell in the first place was extremely high blood sugar and a previously undiagnosed brain aneurysm that burst. He’s fallen twice since then, both times while in the hospital.
Youngest stepson has been in and out of the hospital the last couple of weeks due to massive GI bleeds.
Sometimes life just sucks. But we’re all still fighting back.

Giant hugs from the wild north tundra.

57 Stanley Sea  Oct 5, 2014 2:36:01pm

re: #46 Jenner7

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That was so amazing.

Yeah, the expressions of the people inconvenienced was telling.

58 Stanley Sea  Oct 5, 2014 2:36:49pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

Positive vibes being sent.

59 A Mom Anon  Oct 5, 2014 2:38:50pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

Goodness. Please take care of yourself. (((hugs and well wishes to all of you)))

60 electrotek  Oct 5, 2014 2:41:32pm

re: #25 wrenchwench

There are racists in Greece, as I’m sure you know. There are racist immigrants to the US. I find racism somewhat difficult to understand where ever is appears, because it seems to be based in stupidity while promoted by otherwise smart people.

re: #25 wrenchwench

I don’t disagree about that, but damn her appearance doesn’t scream white Anglo-Saxon to begin with (just saying). So I just can’t fathom how they can turn around and be prejudiced towards others while ignoring what their parents or grandparents went through. Plus I doubt she knows much about Golden Dawn given how Greek-Americans in general (at least the multi-generational ones) are not so well-versed about their country other than the superficial aspects of it (no, joining a Greek fraternity does not make them in tune with Greek culture all of a sudden).

Racist immigrants in the US in general, I still can’t understand that. How can one person on one end complain about being a victim of prejudice and bigotry yet turn around and be prejudiced towards others when it doesn’t fit their slant?

61 CuriousLurker  Oct 5, 2014 2:42:11pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

thanks.
She had a heart attack on Friday.
In other news, my oldest stepson still in rehab for another 9 days or so. Turns out the reason he fell in the first place was extremely high blood sugar and a previously undiagnosed brain aneurysm that burst. He’s fallen twice since then, both times while in the hospital.
Youngest stepson has been in and out of the hospital the last couple of weeks due to massive GI bleeds.
Sometimes life just sucks. But we’re all still fighting back.

Holy crap! Hang in there. Here, have some extra hugs… {{{Backwoods_Sleuth}}}

62 electrotek  Oct 5, 2014 2:44:32pm

re: #33 Dark_Falcon

Bill Maher fired off an anti-Islam blast on Friday. If this has been discussed before, I apologize, as I just read about it:

Furious Ben Affleck blasts Bill Maher and guests on-air after they claimed Islam is the ‘motherload of bad ideas’ and compared religion to being in the Mafia

Bill Maher has been browsing Pamela Geller’s blog too many times. These “New Atheists” are nothing but hypocritical charlatans IMO.

63 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 5, 2014 2:44:40pm

re: #59 A Mom Anon

Goodness. Please take care of yourself. (((hugs and well wishes to all of you)))

I’m definitely going to tell my doctor and see if she thinks some advanced tests are in order. We’ve already been proactively addressing my cholesterol levels and other preventive issues for the last 2-3 years.

64 Dark_Falcon  Oct 5, 2014 2:48:30pm

re: #62 electrotek

Bill Maher has been browsing Pamela Geller’s blog too many times. These “New Atheists” are nothing but hypocritical charlatans IMO.

Maher is more genuine than that, but he was still being a bigoted ass.

Edited.

65 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 5, 2014 2:49:30pm

re: #60 electrotek

The majority of the people in the world hold racist views, to some extent or another. I don’t see why immigrants would be an exception.

66 Ryan King  Oct 5, 2014 2:49:37pm

re: #19 farmhand

LA Times = Andrea Tantaros?

You’re either an idiot or an asshole.

67 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 5, 2014 2:49:45pm

re: #62 electrotek

Bill Maher has been browsing Pamela Geller’s blog too many times. These “New Atheists” are nothing but hypocritical charlatans IMO.

Likewise is this:

“Islamophobic is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons” Christopher Hitchens

It is just one of the many reasons I do not miss Mr. Hitchens.

68 CuriousLurker  Oct 5, 2014 2:50:10pm

re: #60 electrotek

re: #25 wrenchwench

I don’t disagree about that, but damn her appearance doesn’t scream white Anglo-Saxon to begin with (just saying). So I just can’t fathom how they can turn around and be prejudiced towards others while ignoring what their parents or grandparents went through. Plus I doubt she knows much about Golden Dawn given how Greek-Americans in general (at least the multi-generational ones) are not so well-versed about their country other than the superficial aspects of it (no, joining a Greek fraternity does not make them in tune with Greek culture all of a sudden).

Racist immigrants in the US in general, I still can’t understand that. How can one person on one end complain about being a victim of prejudice and bigotry yet turn around and be prejudiced towards others when it doesn’t fit their slant?

Treehouse syndrome: Once safely inside, people want to pull up the ladder and not let those other ______________ assholes in because ______________.

69 ausador  Oct 5, 2014 2:52:26pm

Andrea Tantaros: “They let him out of that hospital and he exposed himself to children.”

WTH? I hadn’t heard that the guy was a flasher too. ;)

70 CuriousLurker  Oct 5, 2014 2:53:29pm

re: #69 ausador

How’s the kitten today?

71 ausador  Oct 5, 2014 3:02:48pm

re: #70 CuriousLurker

How’s the kitten today?

Meowing right now…

Save Our Strays is full up and not accepting anymore cats, Friends of Strays shelter is open Tues-Sat. Looks like I am stuck with the little hissing monster till Tuesday morning.

72 electrotek  Oct 5, 2014 3:04:34pm

re: #67 William Barnett-Lewis

Likewise is this:

It is just one of the many reasons I do not miss Mr. Hitchens.

I felt Hitchens was more genuine than the other “New Atheists”. He’s the exception for me, simply because of his tireless work when it came to documenting the massacre in Bosnia by Serb forces while people like Sam Harris either downplayed it or flat out denied it. Hitchens’ interview with the late Alija Izetbegovic in 1993 will be the one I will always remember him by.

Even if he was hostile to the Islamic faith, that didn’t mean he would turn around and support Milosevic, Karadzic, or Mladic and was the biggest defenders of the Bosnian people when the rest of the world stood idly by.

73 electrotek  Oct 5, 2014 3:05:25pm

re: #68 CuriousLurker

Treehouse syndrome: Once safely inside, people want to pull up the ladder and not let those other ______________ assholes in because ______________.

Learn something new, thanks for that CuriousLurker. That term eluded me for such a long time, better late than never I suppose.

74 ausador  Oct 5, 2014 3:08:06pm

Cleaned him up a little but it was exhausting for both of us, his ears are pretty bad, ragged, furless and scabby, tail his a bad spot too. He got his little needle teeth into my finger pretty good once, force bled it some, washed up with antibiotic soap and lathered it in ointment before applying a band-aid. Hopefully it doesn’t get infected, pretty sure my rabies vaccination is still current, hope so anyway.

75 whitebeach  Oct 5, 2014 3:16:16pm

Logged in for the specific purpose of downdinging the dangling hemorrhoid that styles itself “farmhand.

That is all.

76 Decatur Deb  Oct 5, 2014 3:17:01pm

re: #52 Pie-onist Overlord

My mom (91 & kicking ass!) on vacation in Paris. My son (38) was on vacation in Geneva with my grandson (10) so they just popped in to Paris to be with Grandma.
[Embedded image]

Kid’s got a killah Erector Set.

77 Ryan King  Oct 5, 2014 3:30:09pm

re: #19 farmhand

78 Charles Johnson  Oct 5, 2014 3:38:19pm

re: #19 farmhand

It’s the old dump-and-run tactic.

79 krypto  Oct 6, 2014 11:38:44am

It’s worth visiting Fox Nation just to take a look at the incredible rightwing posts and the absurd fictions they contain in an effort to Blame Obama for Ebola (or at least the threat it poses).


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