Ebola-Shmola

 

Seems like that’s the new scare.  It covers my news feed in Reddit, so that I miss new Hunger Games girl nudes… It blacks out daily tv news coverage so I miss out on sappy stories about Hollywood-has-bins that died.  Now its spamming the shit out of my twitter feed that I can’t get Walking Dead news.    Ebola-Shmola.  I’d worry, if it was really worth worrying about.

Ebola has [gasp] killed 4,000 people in Africa, home of the world’s longest running genocide antics, and yet everyone is freaking out about how awful it is.   To tell you the truth, as a disease, HIV kills 6,000 and Tuberculosis kills 5,000 PER DAY.  We’re talking 6 to 8 months worth and were only at 4,000 in Ebola-ville.  Put it in to comparative numbers for a second, that means Ebola is on pace to kill off about 5500 people this year.  Or yeah, about what TB and HIV do per day… If we really want to tug at the heart, 6.3 million children under 5 died last year… due to malnutrition, disease, poor neonatal care.  Not Ebola.   Not being fed.  Not having a hospital.  Punemonia.  Ghradia from shit filled water.  That’s a real killer.   And before we get snooty about it, I ripped all of those numbers from the World Health Organizations website.  All of them. 

If you really want to die in Africa, HIV and TB will get you, if you make it past 5.  Before 5 years old, you’ll die because there isn’t drinking water, food to eat, and your HMO is run by a guy with oxblood and feathers on his face dancing outside a hut.  That’s a a fucking problem.  But should you make it…. should you really, really want to wait for Ebola to kill you… think again.

Africa has been the home to genocide in the world for the past 40 years.  Its got serious street cred.  Al-Qaeda sends guys there as a study-abroad project.  I’m not kidding.  Last year alone, one guy, killing only Christians and Christian schools, in Nigeria alone, Abubakar Shekau, has raked up 1500 murders.  He’s pretty discriminate as far as ethnic cleansing goes in this part of the world.  Look at Sudan. What Hollywood lib’s want you to pay attention to as Darfur [forgetting the awful mess of political boundaries], in a year they’ve managed to kill 175k to 400k.  That includes the government helping out.  What the fuck are you doing worrying about Ebola in Africa???  Most of the populations in this region aren’t sustainable with a birthrate of 3x the United States… that’s adding up to be a lot more than Ebola.

Don’t get me wrong, I really don’t want to catch Ebola.  But I’m also not going to walk around Africa anytime soon, for any reason. People in America think 1 dead kid in St Louis is a clusterfuck, wait till they walk around in Kenya and watch children with AK’s shoot up people dispensing grain from UN dispensary sites, while on the other side of town, they machete arms off people attempting to touch Bibles.  That’s whats something to worry about.

http://qctimes.com/news/local/former-mayor-pleads-guilty-to-theft-charges/article_b5a86eba-d7f9-11e1-be68-001a4bcf887a.html

Its not every day, in every city, a former cop/ former mayor gets to plead guilty for theft.     Not only theft, but while working for a pawn shop in the downtown area....  Not only for a pawnshop, but falsifying records for fake pawns, then pocketing about 10k in cash.    Yeah.  Thats a Quad Cities kind of day.  Keep it classy out there folks.


Hello Quad Cities!!!!

the return of RONRON !!

Former alderman arrested on gun charge

available online Qctimes.com

by Kurt Allemeier

A former Davenport alderman who served a troubled tenure on the city council has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Ronald Van Fossen, 67, of 4523 S. Concord St., was charged Thursday stemming from an incident earlier in the week. He is scheduled to appear in court next on Aug. 27.

Van Fossen served one term on the council, from 2006-2008, marred by arrests for domestic abuse, a stint in alcohol rehabilitation and a sexual harassment lawsuit by a city employee that resulted in a $92,000 settlement.

It was a 2007 conviction for domestic abuse that led to the firearm charge, a court affidavit states.

Davenport police investigating his vehicle being stolen recovered it Saturday in the 2200 block of East 12th Street and found a handgun inside, the affidavit says. The next day, officers asked Van Fossen whether he owned the handgun. Van Fossen said he did.

Van Fossen appeared in court Friday. He was not booked into the Scott County Jail.

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RonRon, I have missed you. You and your stupid antics are what this town needs again. Get your ride ganked. Leave your gat in the front seat, and let the police find it down around 12th street. Lets see if that makes news. Bitchin' RonRon is back baby!

How was YOUR weekend?

Davenport police report busy holiday weekend

by Ann McGlynn [QC Times, available Online]

Two stabbings, a robbery, a theft at a car dealership and a large fight at a bar kept Davenport police officers occupied beginning early Saturday and continuing through early today, officials said.

The youngest person arrested in the string of unrelated incidents was 12 years old, records show.

"It was a busy weekend," said Capt. David Struckman of the Davenport Police Department.

The first incident happened at 2:12 a.m. Saturday at 200 W. 16th St., when Shirley A. Smith stabbed her live-in boyfriend, Felipe Reyes, in the neck with a scissors, police said. He was treated and released from Genesis Medical Center, East Rusholme Street, Davenport. She was arrested and charged with domestic assault with a weapon.

Also sometime early Saturday, a break-in occurred at Dixon Auto Sales, 1720 W. 3rd St. Thieves stole several sets of car keys and at least two cars, police said. Arrested and charged with third-degree burglary were George Douglas James, 12; Frederick Bernard James, 13; and Timothy Williams Jr., 15.

The James brothers, police said, have "extensive" juvenile records.

On Sunday night, a mentally challenged man was robbed of more than $200 in the 3300 block of Covington Drive. The suspects threatened the man with physical harm. Two people are charged with second-degree robbery: Nicholas Ryan Troxel, 17, and Keith Wilson Kelley Jr., 17.

Twenty minutes later, at 8:55 p.m., Darrius Ross, 31, was stabbed in the arm during a fight at 1124 Gaines St. During the fight, a resident of the house started having chest pains and a toddler ingested a bottle of pills. All were treated at Genesis. The child was admitted overnight for observation.

And finally, about 1:40 a.m. Monday, five people were arrested after a large fight at Las Bananas, a bar with a history of trouble at 1512 E. Kimberly Road.

Charged were Jose Luis Torres Sr., 40, for failure to disperse; Jose Luis Torres Jr., 22, for disorderly conduct; Deliah Berryman, 24, for disorderly conduct and failure to disperse; Emmanuel J. Berryman, 23, for disorderly conduct and failure to disperse; and Brandon Berryman, 21, for disorderly conduct.

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Ok. So this isn't a Chicago or Detroit police blotter for the weekend. But for Davenport alone, this is pretty good. You've got a trio of car thieves, none of whom are old enough to be in drivers ed yet... You get some good old fashioned jail house neck shanking action. Top it off with the madhouse from hell, with a stabbing victim, someone else who wanders in with heart attack symptoms, followed by, a toddler needing attention dropping back a bottle of pills. Bring to a boil, then mix in a game of "mug the mentally ill." Lastly, let stand, and garnish with the Family Feud: Las Bananas Bar Fight Edition... where pops and junior v. chick + brother + other brother all go for the battle royale, where the

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurvey SAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

YOURE ALL LOSERs.

Davenport student gives classmates rat poison

available online: QCOnline.com [link. June 5 2009]

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A student at a Davenport elementary school brought rat poison to school and gave it to seven classmates, but all of the second and third graders are OK, an official said Thursday.

The students at Monroe Elementary School ingested a small amount of pellets before school on Tuesday, said Laura Bozarth, a spokeswoman for the Davenport Community School District.

The student brought the rat poison from home, she said. One student told a school employee, who told administrators.

'They did an all-building announcement and then teachers spoke to the students to try and determine who may have eaten it. If you did, they were sent to the office immediately, where parents were called,' Bozarth said.

The Iowa Statewide Poison Control Center was called.

'Poison control told us that the children would have to ingest an entire box to experience any poisonous effects,' she said.

Typical rat poison thins the blood.

Bozarth said some parents took their children to see doctors.

'None of the children have experienced any kind of concerning symptoms. As of yesterday, five out of the seven students were back in school. I don't know why the other two families didn't send their kids,' she said.

Bozarth said it's unclear why the student brought the rat poison. She declined to give details about the student or comment on the student's status.

Davenport police were called, she said.

A telephone call to police spokesman Capt. Dave Struckman on Thursday was not immediately returned.

Bozarth said the brand of rat poison was Contrac, made by Bell Laboratories. It's small turquoise pellets.

'What it has in it is a chemical that has a long-lasting anticoagulant. Basically, it thins the blood. A mouse or a rat that would eat this, it would thin their blood so much that they could have bleeding problems,' said Tammy Noble, a registered nurse and education coordinator with the Iowa Statewide Poison Center.

Noble said it would take a much larger quantity to affect a child — more than a mouthful.

She said if a human ingests a small amount, the body should tolerate it.

She said if a large amount of rat poison is ingested, the person would be monitored at a hospital to make sure the blood is not too thin.

Symptoms include nosebleeds and bruises, and usually appear after 24 hours.

The treatment is vitamin K, which helps the blood start clotting better, Noble said.


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of course this made national news. the LA Times, KC Star, etc etc, all ran various versions on the same AP article. go Davenport!

Hamburglar clears the air a bit here; mainly due to my infatuation with him, I thought I could work this bit in too.

Perspective: I’ve Taken Your Clown-Faced Burger Bullshit for Long Enough

[available: The MQ Online Volume 10 Issue 6]

The Hamburgler

Ronald McDonald? More like Ronald McFuckerson. You and your lame-ass clown suit can eat my burger-eating ass. I have two delinquents and a wife in the streets and I never get respect. Now it’s “me” time: Hamburgling time. I have taken your clown-faced burger bullshit for long enough.

For 34 years, I have slaved behind your fake smile. You done me wrong, Ron, and that ain’t right. “All the kids love me!” That’s what you told us. You took all the cred and left us all in the darkness. I know now that was a ray-croc of shit, you never cared about me. All I want to do right now is choke you to death with my red tie with hamburgers on it.

When I got out of the McPrison for stealing those Fish Filets, Mayor McCheese was there. Officer Big Mac still supported me. Even Buzz fucking Lightyear hooked this brother up. But you? Nothing. You were off getting high with that Jack-in-the-Box corporate whore. Learn to respect the little people, asshat.

I looked up to you, man. When I was young, you brought us all in as equals. Little did I know you’d turn out to be such a pube-bucket. All we wanted was recognition of our hard work, but no, you needed the statuses of yourself AND the Ronald McDonald playhouse. You couldn’t get enough of yourself, and now I’m going to quarter-pound your face in with a shit-burger.

Remember that 1990’s “Beanie Baby” craze? Do you remember the night before when, while we were drunk in your basement, I told you my idea to market them? Do you remember my disgusted face as you trampled me on your way to the top? That’s right, dong-captain, you stole my ideas. But never burgle a burglar, bitch. I’m coming after you and your size 23 feet, and I am gonna bust a McCap in your lame-ass yellow jumpsuit.