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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Where Is the Woman Who Allegedly Had Hot Lesbian Sex With Florida’s Lieutenant Governor in Her Office?

Beautiful, hilarious, and sexy, with just a hint of arson!  I hope this story continues to "blow" up!  Please go to the link for more juicy background links..  Gawker: 

Jennifer Carroll is Florida's Lieutenant Governor, second in command to the insane and unpopular Rick Scott. Carroll is one of the few nationally prominent black female Republicans. (She is also insane, but that's a topic for another day.) A former aide to Carroll says that she walked in on her in a sexually compromising position with Beatriz Ramos, Carroll's travel aide. So then—where is Beatriz Ramos?



Here is a good rundown of this convoluted and completely bananas sex scandal, which has been making headlines in Florida since last week. The short version: Carletha Cole, a former aide to Carroll, was fired last year, and later arrested after leaking (allegedly illegal) recordings to the press that were damaging to Carroll. Cole says that she was railroaded after she walked into Carroll's office one day and saw Carroll being orally serviced by Beatriz Ramos, her travel aide. From a polygraph examiner's letter obtained by Mother Jones [sic'd]:
(Cole) walked into the Lt. Governors Jennifer Carroll's office and observed the Lt. Governor sitting at her desk with her foot up on the cadenza and her skirt hiked up. Beatrice Ramos was kneeling in front of Carroll, poised as if she (Ramos) was about to or had performed oral sex on the Lt. Governor.
Carroll gave a typically insane statement denying that she was a lesbian. Money quote: "I'm the one that's married for 29 years. The accuser is the one that's single for a long time. So. Usually black women that look like me don't engage in relationships like that. *Cackling laughter*" Yes, she is insane. There's also a whole side scandal about Beatriz Ramos trying to set Cole's trash can on fire, which could have burned down the Florida State Capitol. And a subsequent scandalous squelching of a state investigation of that incident. We are not making any of this up. Just normal Florida news.


The question that is very pertinent right this moment is: where oh where is Beatriz Ramos? The average American, whether Democrat or Republican, immediately searches for a picture of the oral sex-giver when a lesbian political scandal of this nature comes up. But as far as we can tell, there are no online photos to be found of Beatriz Ramos. Quite a tragedy. Ramos has also been staying quiet since this scandal broke. She's not peddling a tell-all. She's not posing for Playboy. What's going on down there? Granted, it's only been a few days. Still. This is America. More than that—this is Florida. All most come out.

If you know anything about Beatriz Ramos, email us. Together, we will get deep, deep inside this mystery.


I, for one, believe her.  Women who look like Jennifer Carroll would never engage in lesbian sex.  Isn't that right, Wanda Sykes?

Jennifer Carroll spots an attractive lesbian at a Mixed Martial Arts event?

If Jennifer Carroll's straight, I'm Ray Romano! 

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Huh; Which Is Worse? The Timing, The Willful Ignorance, Or The Result?

"Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret.  State rushes closure of its only TB hospital in Lantana."  No one will care until "real people," you know, other than the homeless, start getting sick.   The Palm Beach Post.  Excerpts:

The CDC officer had a serious warning for Florida health officials in April: A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville was one of the worst his group had investigated in 20 years. Linked to 13 deaths and 99 illnesses, including six children, it would require concerted action to stop.



That report had been penned on April 5, exactly nine days after Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill that shrank the Department of Health and required the closure of the A.G. Holley State Hospital in Lantana, where tough tuberculosis cases have been treated for more than 60 years.


As health officials in Tallahassee turned their focus to restructuring, Dr. Robert Luo’s 25-page report describing Jacksonville’s outbreak — and the measures needed to contain it – went unseen by key decision makers around the state. At the health agency, an order went out that the TB hospital must be closed six months ahead of schedule.

Had they seen the letter, decision makers would have learned that 3,000 people in the past two years may have had close contact with contagious people at Jacksonville’s homeless shelters, an outpatient mental health clinic and area jails. Yet only 253 people had been found and evaluated for TB infection, meaning Florida’s outbreak was, and is, far from contained.


The public was not to learn anything until early June, even though the same strain was appearing in other parts of the state, including Miami.


Tuberculosis is a lung disease more associated with the 18th century than the 21st, referred to as “consumption” in Dickensian times because its victims would grow gaunt and wan as their lungs disintegrated and they slowly died. The CDC investigator described a similar fate for 10 of the 13 people who died in Jacksonville.


They wasted away before ever getting treatment, or were too far gone by the time it began. Most of the sick were poor black men.

“The high number of deaths in this outbreak emphasizes the need for vigilant active case finding, improved education about TB, and ongoing screening at all sites with outbreak cases,” Luo’s report states.

Today, three months after it was sent to Tallahassee, the CDC report still has not been widely circulated.

Backer of closing hospital didn’t know



Meanwhile the champion of the health agency consolidation, Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples, said he had not been informed of the Jacksonville outbreak and the CDC’s role as of Friday.


Told the details, the chairman of the House Health Care Appropriations Committee vowed that there would be money for TB treatment.


“There is every bit of understanding that we cannot not take care of people who have a difficult case of TB,” Hudson said. 


The governor’s office asked a reporter to forward a copy of the CDC letter on Saturday, but did not comment by press time.


Treatment for TB can be an ordeal. A person with an uncomplicated, active case of TB must take a cocktail of three to four antibiotics — dozens of pills a day — for six months or more. The drugs can cause serious side effects — stomach and liver problems chief among them. But failure to stay on the drugs for the entire treatment period can and often does cause drug resistance.


At that point, a disease that can cost $500 to overcome grows exponentially more costly. The average cost to treat a drug-resistant strain is more than $275,000, requiring up to two years on medications. For this reason, the state pays for public health nurses to go to the home of a person with TB every day to observe them taking their medications.


However, the itinerant homeless, drug-addicted, mentally ill people at the core of the Jacksonville TB cluster are almost impossible to keep on their medications. Last year, Duval County sent 11 patients to A.G. Holley under court order. Last week, with A.G. Holley now closed, one was sent to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. The ones who will stay put in Jacksonville are being put up in motels, to make it easier for public health nurses to find them, Duval County health officials said.


They spoke about CDC’s report Friday, only after weeks of records requests from The Palm Beach Post. The report was released late last week only after a reporter traveled to Tallahassee to demand records in person. The records should be open to inspection to anyone upon request under Florida Statute 119, known as the Government in the Sunshine law.

It's a good thing the evil, partially dismantled Department of Health wasn't there to nip this TB resurgence in the bud.  It's a good thing!  Have you seen one of our many beautiful beaches?

So Governor Scott:  How much money do you think you're saving by consolidating the Department of Health and closing this particular Tuberculosis Hospital?

Also, Sir:  How much money do you think a full blown epidemic of a drug resistant strain of Tuberculosis within the state, or nation wide..  How much you think that would cost?

It's incredibly heartening to know that no one in Florida government gives a shit what the CDC says about..  Well, anything!  Nobody bothered to read the report.  Wow. 

Well..  Sleep tight, Florida!  When it comes to All Things Infectious, you are definitely on your own..  Goodnight!