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Ebola Controversy!! Rapper Akon Singing In Plastic Bubble In Africa To Avoid Catching Disease?
Mstars News ^ | October 5, 2014 | Mitch Thorpe

Posted on 10/05/2014 6:25:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It looks like when it comes to the Ebola virus some people aren't taking any risks. Rapper Akon, who performed during the International Day of Peace festival in the city of Goma in The Democratic Repbulic of Congo, took extreme precautions to avoid catching the deadly disease. The "Smack That," singer took a note from the made-for-TV movie, The Boy In the Plastic Bubble, and secured himself in a giant rubber ball so that he didn't catch the sickness from the festivalgoers.

After a diagnosis of a Dallas man earlier this week, the world has broken into a Ebola frenzy, with people taken serious steps to avoid contracting the illness.

Yahoo has just posted pictures of the hip-hop singer crowd surfing over the 60,000 attendees of the event in his plastic bubble....

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment; Travel
KEYWORDS: africa; ebola; rap; rapmusic

1 posted on 10/05/2014 6:25:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now that is a plastic bubble I am going to want to touch afterwards.


2 posted on 10/05/2014 6:26:31 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL!!!


3 posted on 10/05/2014 6:28:53 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL!


4 posted on 10/05/2014 6:31:46 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Got Ebola? Come to America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am actually buying one of these.


5 posted on 10/05/2014 6:33:01 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Akon! Let them touch those things!

6 posted on 10/05/2014 6:33:14 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder if the media will accuse Akon of being a racist..nah he’s black and a rapper so he’s safe


7 posted on 10/05/2014 6:40:46 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A rapper in a wrapper.


8 posted on 10/05/2014 6:42:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yawn. Nothing new.


9 posted on 10/05/2014 6:51:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Guess The Flaming Lips are scared of Ebola too.

Does anybody actually do any research? Using a bubble to surf the crowd has been going on for a long time.

10 posted on 10/05/2014 6:53:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reminds of the guy floating off the coast of Miami in a giant bubble.


11 posted on 10/05/2014 7:11:23 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Rapper Akon Singing In Plastic Bubble"

Rappers can sing?

12 posted on 10/05/2014 7:15:25 PM PDT by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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13 posted on 10/05/2014 7:15:44 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bubble boy


14 posted on 10/05/2014 7:30:10 PM PDT by Old Yeller (D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
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To: Old Yeller

Beat ya to it, ya moop! :-)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3211424/posts?page=31#31


15 posted on 10/05/2014 7:33:40 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And, he won't have to risk flying with infected natives going back to the U.S.-


16 posted on 10/05/2014 7:36:46 PM PDT by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

POP GOES THE WEASEL!


17 posted on 10/05/2014 8:01:58 PM PDT by Big Red Badger ( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
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To: Big Red Badger
POP GOES THE WEASEL!

Cause the Weasel goes pop!

18 posted on 10/05/2014 8:23:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There’s no controversy — this guy does it in concerts other continents, and other artists do it. It has nothing to do with Ebola.


19 posted on 10/05/2014 8:40:55 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Old Yeller

Is he a moop?


20 posted on 10/05/2014 9:27:09 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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