Weird is right. The guy's wife is apparently a duck.
Posted on 05/31/2007 4:28:06 PM PDT by Baladas
And now new threats from Al Quada.
I agree with you. It’s just crazy now.
Doesn’t help the entire world knows, if they didn’t before, our security system malfunction in the disease catagory. Lovely, just lovely.
Why are we not hearing about the new wife?
I assume he kissed her?
“”Speaker’s father-in-law has worked at the CDC for 32 years and is in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, where he works with TB and other organisms.””
Would one of those be...anthrax?
“Speaker’s father-in-law has worked at the CDC for 32 years and is in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, where he works with TB and other organisms”
Anyone that thinks this is just a coincidence has been smoking too much funny smelling stuff.
Well, that pretty much says alot about our Customs Border Protection officers under Chertnoff's command. It actually happens more often than the media reports. CBP, USCIS, BP, and ICE are hampered by absurd restrictions from the top.
The DEPARTMENT of HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) should be dis-mantled yesterday. The original intent was to bring together all the various "security" agencies. They left out the FBI and CIA, and have accessed billions of dollars for the purpose of searching old ladies with walkers in airports.
However, I will give kudos to the FBI for locating and arresting numerous Islamo-facists in the states over the last years according to numerous media reports. Still, they can do better. Time to discriminate.
Oops, is that a bad word? Sorry to inform the liberal whiners, but everyone, including them, discriminate in all aspects of their lives every day in how they pick their produce, what gas station they use, what beer they drink, which highway they use to work, what TV show to watch, etc. Individuals discriminate - that's life.
Oh gag!
Can you imagine? “Oh Honey, by the way, I know marriage is supposed to be based on trust, but, it just slipped my mind to mention I have an infectious, deadly disease. By the way, would you mind calling your Father? We just might need his expertise!”
I mean, what do you SAY to someone after you’ve just put them and half the world at risk?
What about her? Didn’t she wonder when he wanted to SNEAK back into his own Country?
As I've just said another place
There is no such thing as sanity and rationality with some folks. Everything is Bush’s fault ... he’s the King of America, after all .. supreme power. He orders the legislation, writes it, funds it and holds all the guns.
God bless President George W. Bush, damned .. no matter what he does.
This is incredible: a warning — including instructions to hold the traveler, don a protective mask in dealing with him, and telephone health authorities — popped up, officials said. About a minute later, Speaker was instead cleared to continue on his journey, according to officials familiar with the records.
I read an earlier article that said they were worried at every passport control station they crossed in their journey that they would be stopped. So she obviously knew, too.
Speaker said in a newspaper interview that he knew he had TB when he flew from Atlanta to Europe in mid-May for his wedding and honeymoon, but that he did not find out until he was already in Rome that it was an extensively drug-resistant strain considered especially dangerous.
Despite warnings from federal health officials not to board another long flight, he flew home for treatment, fearing he wouldn't survive if he didn't reach the U.S., he said. He said he tried to sneak home by way of Canada instead of flying directly into the U.S.
Can you beat this? Bozo was afraid he'd die if he didn't get home in time, so he snuck back in anyway he could. Damn the other passengers, full germs ahead!
I wonder if the border guard got some money from the lawyer during the minute he was making a decision.
Is this not considered "assault" in our courts, whether it was "simple" TB or XDR TB?
OMG. I suppose they truly deserve one another. On the other hand, perhaps it’s a love to die for.
It’s difficult for me to phantom the Father-in-law would have anything to do with it. I know I am apt to take the personal responsibility thing too far, but he has worked for the CDC for years. I can’t help but feel he knows what this stuff can and will do. To willfully expose his own daughter to it? Well, I just don’t know. Somehow, I just can’t wrap my mind around that.
Aw! That’s interesting!
Border agents are supposed to let everyone in, aren’t they? Like the greeters at Walmart. If the agent had tried to stop him, the agent could have been thrown in prison. Those are the rules these days. If the libs and RINOs want those rules applied, they must be applied across the board. You don’t get to use profiling to detain some, while letting everyone else in. We either have a border, or we don’t. Can’t have it both ways.
The wife has tested negative for any sort of TB. And presumably she knew as much as her husband did throughout the trip. After all, it seems unlikely that he would have discussed it with her father, with neither he nor his father mentioning it to her.
The whole thing is nuts, imo. The fact he knew he had TB, no matter the flavor, should have been enough to send him for treatment right then and there.
I really don’t understand what’s happening to people. Where did common sense go?
Now he’s exposed alot of people, the world over, to something awful. What about the hotels they stayed in? Restautants they dined in? Tours they took? It will take months to round up all the people exposed to this deadly strain of TB.
From what I’ve read, the only good news is the amount of bacteria in his lungs is on the low side. Cold comfort. imo.
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