Thursday, October 16, 2014

Don't Chase Imaginary Unicorns

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VIRAL SUICIDE: Obama DHS Now EXPEDITING Visa Requests From Ebola-Infected Countries

Wondering how Thomas Eric Duncan was able to enter the U.S. while suffering from Ebola? He asked for a visa and received one in August.

In fact, the Department of Homeland Security is proudly advertising its "Ebola Outbreak-related Immigration Relief Measures to Nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Currently in the United States."

You read that right. Not only are the Obama Democrats leaving our doors wide open to those seeking entry from Ebola-infected countries, they're actually expediting visa requests!


Here's a more legible version:

Center for Disease Control Spent 3 Times as Much on "Community Transformation" Than On... Disease Control

By Sara Noble

While the nurses in Texas were dealing with an Ebola patient without protocols and proper equipment, the CDC continued to claim the protocols were in place and the hospitals in the U.S. were ready.

You have to understand. Ebola takes them away from their real mission which is to build bike lanes, get rid of guns, tell you what to eat, and harass anyone who builds a playground.

Politico reports (in an article written by Gov. Bobby Jindal) that “over the past five years, the CDC has received just under $3 billion in transfers from the fund. Yet only 6 percent—$180 million—of that $3 billion went toward building epidemiology and laboratory capacity.”

Protecting Americans got $180 million while community transformation got $517.3 million!

Did you think detecting and fighting infectious diseases was still their business?

What is community transformation you ask?

Larwyn's Linx: Could It Possibly Get Any Worse?

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Nation

Could It Possibly Get Any Worse?: Roger L. Simon
Ebola’s U.S. Spread: What’s Going Wrong?: Sharyl Attkisson
The President Who Cried Wolf: Erick Erickson

Another Ebola case in Dallas: John Hayward
Dallas Nurse Flew to Ohio and Back 1 Day Before She Was Diagnosed: Ace
CDC: Ebola is Airborne, Sort of...: Declan Finn

Cruz Leading: Calls for Ebola Travel Ban. Where’s Rest of GOP?: CHQ
Wargaming the 2014 Midterms: Stephen Green
67 Percent Want An Ebola Travel Ban: DC

Ebola no match for NBC's Dr. Nancy ‘Soups’ Snyderman: John Kass
Network Theory and Ebola: Jeff Carter
More Ebola cases in Dallas 'very real possibility': county official: Reuters

Economy

NIH uses Ebola to hide mismanagement and increase funding: RS
Governments Need Inflation, Economies Don’t: Peter Schiff
School Threatens To Call Police On Students Handing Out Constitutions: Downtrend

Scandal Central

We'll tell you how dangerous Ebola is after the election: Ann Coulter
Army Completes Probe Into Bergdahl's Alleged Desertion--No Results Before Election: CNS
Only in Illinois: Substitute Teach for One Day, Get $1 Million Taxpayer-Funded Pension: CI

Obama Has An Ebola Czar. She Re-Directed Federal Research Money to a Democrat Donor: Erick Erickson
Nurses’ Union: Ebola Patient Left In Open Area Of ER For Hours: CBS Houston
Ebola in Obamaland: Incompetent CDC Looks For 132 Passengers Aboard Infected Nurse’s Plane: Clash

Climate & Energy

Emails Reveal EPA, Radical Marxist Green Group in "Absolutely Inappropriate" Relationship: Kelsey Harkness

Media

The Left Lied, Turns Out the Military Found Lots of Chemical Weapons in Iraq: GayPatriot
NY Times Just Blasted Out of Existence Biggest Myth About George W. Bush & Iraq War: IJR
Liberal Website Deadspin Pushes Out a Democrat Lie Against Cory Gardner. Blows Itself Up.: Aaron Gardner

Dem. Billionaire Tom Steyer's GOP Vote Suppression Plan (And Politico Covered It Up): Lid
Ebola is 2014 October surprise: Elise Viebeck
Panic Hits TV News Divisions: Hollywood Reporter

The ‘Bam Who Fell To Earth: Ed Driscoll
WaPo calls out Dems for blaming Ebola on GOP, awards 4 Pinocchios: Unyielding
Black Voters in Ferguson Considering Voting... GOP?! Don't Tell MSNBC!: Ken Shepherd

World

The Strong Horse: Mark Steyn
The Fate of a Disarmed Population: GayPatriot
British Muslim: ‘We Can Have Slavegirls in the Caliphate’: RightPlanet

Bill Clinton Gets Caught On Camera Trashing Netanyahu At Harkin Steak Fry: Lid
Hey Progressives, ISIS Has Saddam's 'Non-Existent' WMDs: Declan Finn
‘Islamophobia’ strikes again – national students’ union refuses to condemn Isis: Douglas Murray

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Lessons Lost: Project Ebola 1983: Backwoods Engineer
When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?: Mark Suster
Russian Hackers Made $2.5B Over The Last 12 Months: Sara Peters, Dark Reading

Cornucopia

Nine Ebola tweets that the CDC probably wishes it could take back: Twitchy
What Else Are They Lying To Us About?: MOTUS
You Had Only One Job!: Elephant

Image: Chain reaction: Concern about Ebola nurse’s flight prompts school closings in two states
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QOTD: "At the moment, more than 13,000 West Africans have travel visas to come to the U.S. Having just seen an Ebola-infected Liberian get $500,000 worth of free medical treatment in the U.S., the first thing any African who might have Ebola should do is get himself to America.

Of all the reasons people have for coming here -- welfare, drug-dealing, Medicare scams -- "I have Ebola and I'm going to die, otherwise" is surely one of the strongest. The entire continent of Africa now knows that this is a country that will happily spend half a million dollars on treating someone who just arrived -- and then berate itself for not doing enough.

Thomas Eric Duncan's family may be upset with his treatment, but they have to admit, the price was right. Medical bill: $0.00. Your next statement will arrive in 30 days. " --Ann Coulter

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

WE'RE IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Ebola-Infected Nurse Called CDC to Ask If It Was Okay to Fly. They Said... Yes.

What else would you expect from an administration that proudly proclaims it "leads from behind"?

Not only did nurse Vinson call the CDC multiple times before boarding the flight, she was already running a fever when she called the CDC before taking her flight and they still allowed her to board the flight, which means she was infectious while on the plane...


One health official said to me somebody dropped the ball. I then called the CDC and the agency said that this nurse, nurse Vinson, did in fact call the CDC several times before taking that flight and said she has a temperature, a fever of 99.5.

But the person at the CDC looked at a chart and because her fever wasn’t 100.4 or higher, she didn’t officially fall into the group of high risk. Now I think what’s disconcerting to people is that you would think common sense would tell you, well, after the first nurse, Nurse Pham became sick with Ebola, you would have thought, well, out of an abundance of caution let’s just keep her there and not have her get on the flight.

But maybe we're not borrowing, spending and redistributing enough.

Mark Levin has more information that should infuriate you -- and motivate you -- to vote every single one of Obola Democrats out of office in November.

Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

A COMPACT FUSION REACTOR THAT COULD CHANGE THE WORLD FOREVER: Lockheed Martin Claims Breakthrough

William Pentland at Forbes relays word from Lockheed Martin that might truly be historic.

In the simplest terms, nuclear fission breaks a single atom into two whereas nuclear fusion combines two atoms into one.

Fusion, the holy grail of nuclear power, creates three to four times as much energy as fission. More importantly, fusion’s key advantage over fission is that it does not produce cancer-causing radioactive waste...

...Tom McGuire, who heads the project, told Reuters that his team had been working on fusion energy at Lockheed’s Skunk Works program for the past four years, but decided to go public with the news now to recruit additional partners in industry and government to support their work.

Last year, while speaking at Google’s Solve for X program, Charles Chase , a research scientist at Skunk Works, described Lockheed’s effort to build a trailer-sized fusion power plant that turns cheap and plentiful hydrogen (deuterium and tritium) into helium plus enough energy to power a small city.

Déjà vu all over again: Clinton henchman Cheryl Mills reportedly hid incriminating Benghazi documents

The invaluable Sharyl Attkisson has the scoop.

To Sonya Gilliam, a recent account of improper sorting of Benghazi-related documents at the State Department brought back vivid memories of her own encounters with high-level government officials who withheld, deleted or destroyed public records.

And one name stood out for its familiarity: Cheryl Mills.

A former deputy assistant secretary of state had told The Daily Signal that Mills was present during an after-hours document operation in a basement room of the State Department in October 2012. Mills was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The purpose of the session, former State Department official Raymond Maxwell said, was to “separate” documents damaging to Clinton before records were turned over to an independent review board probing the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Mills declined to comment on Maxwell’s account to The Daily Signal.

“My stomach dropped,” Gilliam says about hearing the allegation last month that Mills was involved in Benghazi document sorting:

I said to myself, oh my gosh, here we are, 14 or 15 years later, [and] Cheryl Mills is still in charge of document ‘production’—I’ll use that term loosely.

Gilliam, now retired, was responsible for Commerce Department responses to Freedom of Information Act requests during the Clinton administration.

Back then, Mills was deputy White House counsel to President Clinton. At the time, multiple probes sought to determine whether the administration was fundraising illegally by selling seats on Commerce Department trade missions.


You can read the entire report here.

Reason #4,032 that I penned an open letter to Rep. Michele Bachmann asking her to get to the bottom of these Clinton scandals once and for all.

After all, what difference does it make?


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

CDC Head Thomas Frieden Proven an Incompetent Liar, i.e., a Perfect Fit for This Administration

By Investor's Business Daily

Public Health: The man whose one job is to safeguard America's health has failed, saying that we must change our responses to Ebola after a Dallas health care worker becomes infected despite the rules he championed.

After 26-year-old Dallas health care worker Nina Pham became the first person to contract Ebola on U.S. soil, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said during a press conference that (we) "have to rethink the way we address Ebola control."

Yes, we do. Pham's infection, just as Thomas E. Duncan's death in Dallas after a multistop trip from Liberia, wasn't supposed to happen with CDC's protocols. Frieden's repeated assurances that everything possible was being done have been demonstrably false.

Blaming Pham, who contracted the disease while caring for Duncan despite taking recommended protections and wearing the proper gear, Frieden said that "at some point there was a breach in protocol, and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection."

He later walked back his remarks. But if the protocols were adequate, why do we need to rethink them?

Pham isn't alone. Maria Teresa Romero Ramos, a Spanish nurse's aide, contracted the disease while caring for an Ebola patient in a Madrid hospital.

She got infected when her gloved hand inadvertently touched her face while removing her protective gear.

In August, two American aid workers who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia returned to the U.S. for treatment. That those trying to treat Ebola patients and fight the disease's spread — people aware of the dangers and practicing the prescribed protocols — still catch the disease doesn't bode well. Bringing back infected Americans under controlled conditions is one thing. Unrestricted air travel from West Africa is quite another.

The Sober, Deliberate Competence of the Obama Administration Expressed in a Single Tweet

Holy shnikeys! It's either a real crisis or a major polling disaster for Democrats. Please. Sit down. President Obama. Canceled. A fundraiser!


Oh, wait. It's not a crisis. President Obola has returned to the fundraising circuit.


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Larwyn's Linx: "If you haven't torched Obama by noon on Wednesday..."

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Nation

"If you haven't torched Obama by noon on Wednesday...": HayRide
The Last Refuge of Scoundrels: David Rutz
Debunking Liberal Propaganda, One Lie At A Time: Blogmocracy

Second Health Care Worker in Texas Tests Positive for Ebola: ABC
Ebola and the Stench of Democrat Desperation: Leon Wolf
Even in Houston, Texas, You Will Be Made to Care: Erick Erickson

5 Key Implications if Baghdad Falls to ISIS: Patrick Poole
Ruins of the Middle East: Victor Davis Hanson
Odierno: 'Military risk is accumulating exponentially': Stripes

Soros to Host Funder for 'Independent' Kansas Senate Candidate: WFB
DSCC Dumps Alison Grimes, WH Press Enjoys Laugh at Her Expense: Glob
Circuit Court allows Texas to enforce voter ID law : Lyle Denniston

Economy

Clinton Charges University $225,000 for Speech on High Cost of Tuition: NRO
Report: Obamacare Will Raise Deficits by $131 Billion: WS
Gravity Returns - The Market Drops Nearly 5% in 3 Days: Adam Taggart

Scandal Central

Thought Eric Holder Was Bad? Meet Tom Perez: J. Christian Adams
Ebola Preparation ‘Will bankrupt my hospital!’ Director Reacts to CDC Prep Call: Bryan Preston
Houston Demands Oversight of Religious Sermons: Bob Unruh

Climate & Energy

Climatologists discover photosynthesis: Don Surber
Senator: Emails Reveal EPA, Green Group ‘Beyond Cozy’: Daily Signal
POTUS Official Twitter Account Instructs Fans to ‘Stick It To’ Climate Change Deniers: Stephen Kruiser

Media

“The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons” Reports…NYT??": John Hawkins
Ebola is much less scary than Hollywood’s ‘Contagion.’ Or is it?: Jonah Goldberg
Democratic ads off the air in Kentucky Senate race: AP

Sinking MSNBC to Shuffle Lineup Yet Again: OTB
ABC Poll: Nearly 7-In-10 Americans Want Flight Restrictions From Ebola Countries: WZ
‘Unemployed’ Man in Dem Attack Ad is Actually Employed: WFB

Stuart Varney Destroys NIH Claim That Budget Cuts Killed Ebola Vaccine: Tammy Bruce
Does Andrea Mitchell think Greg Abbott fakes his disability?: RS
GOP Digs HRC with 404 Page: MB

World

Mainstream Media Lies: The Iraq War Was Never About An Active Weapons Program: Ace
US Born Muslim Guns Down Americans… in Saudi Arabia: Daniel Greenfield
Political Buffoonery Is America’s Greatest Security Threat: Rachel Marsden

Recent Raid Yields ‘ISIS Manifesto: 100-Year Plan for a World Khilafah’: Sharia Unveiled
Heroine of Kobani: Kurdish Female Fighter Rehana 'Kills 100 Isis Jihadis' Single-handedly: Gareth Platt, IBTimes
Chilling ISIS army training video: This ain’t no jayvee team: Allen West

Cornucopia

GOP's big idea: Let's NOT have a wave election: C&S
“In The Air Tonight”: MOTUS
11 Years Ago, President George W Bush quit golf in honour of the US soldiers killed in Iraq: Telegraph

Image: Heroine of Kobani: Kurdish Female Fighter Rehana 'Kills 100 Isis Jihadis' Single-handedly
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QOTD: "Do not let the NYTimes get away with its false history of the Iraq War. The war was not made solely based on claims of an active Iraqi weapons program. It was made because, as President Bush explained repeatedly to the American public: Saddam Hussein possessed old weapons of mass destruction, desired to evade inspections so as to keep them, hoped to restart his weapons programs in the future, and could pass weapons to terrorist groups with ambitions to harm the West." --Gabriel Malor

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Obama Survival Manual, Intl. Edition

Bret Stephens, writing at the Wall Street Journal, offers the definitive survival guide for the next 25 months or so. There's a subscription required to read the whole thing -- well worth it, by the way -- but the key graphs follow to offer you but a taste.

So Paul Krugman, who once called on Alan Greenspan “to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble”; who, a few months before the eurozone crisis erupted, praised Europe as “an economic success” that “shows that social democracy works”; who, as the U.S. fracking revolution was getting under way, opined that America was “just a bystander” in a global energy story defined by “peak oil”; and who, in 2012, hailed Argentina’s economy as a “remarkable success story”—this guy now tells us, in Rolling Stone magazine, that Barack Obama has been a terrific president.

Which can only mean that the next two years are going to be exceptionally ugly. How to get through them?


I ask the question not as an exhortation to subscribe to Survivalist magazine, stock up on tuna fish and Zithromax, and master the arts of homolactic fermentation. In fact, if you’re a resident of the U.S., you’ll probably be OK. What Americans call a recession is what the rest of the world considers affluence. What we call disaster is what others know as existence.

Stephens asks us to consider what the Caddy-In-Chief means for the President of Estonia (or any other territory in Putin's cross-hairs), or a student protester in Hong Kong, a Kurd guerilla fighter defending his village against ISIS, or any other number of putative allies abandoned by President Jarrett.

Leaders in Russia, Moldova and Saudi Arabia have all described U.S. foreign policy under Obama as "complete chaos".

TECH QUOTE O' THE DAY: Was Windows 8 the Worst Operating System of All Time?

As a new user of Windows 8.1, I find myself nodding in agreement with this missive by Preston Gralla.

Is Windows 8 the worst operating system Microsoft has ever released? There are some bombs it has to compete against. Windows ME was laughably bad, and lasted only a little more than a year before Windows XP was released. But Windows ME's badness was nothing compared to the awfulness that was Windows Vista, a bug-ridden, hardware-unfriendly operating system with high-end system requirements and annoying features such as overly intrusive User Account Control.

Being worse than Windows Vista takes some work, but Windows 8 has proved to be up to the task. It forces users of traditional computers to wrangle with an operating system built for touchscreen tablets, and it bolts together two entirely different operating systems. Even Rube Goldberg would have been embarassed to sketch out something like this.


The consequences of Windows 8's problems will haunt Microsoft for far longer than Vista did. Windows 7 largely fixed what was wrong with Vista, and as a result Microsoft suffered no serious long-term losses because of it. Not so with Windows 8. Windows 8 came out at a time when Microsoft needed to make a splash with tablets. But because its tablets were forced to run an operating system built for both tablets and traditional computers, Windows 8 has never been a great tablet operating system. As a result, Microsoft fell behind even further in mobile.

MINIMUM WAGE HIKE ONLY THE START: Forced Unionization of Fast Food Workers is the Democrats' Real Goal

By Brady Cremeens

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The effort to raise the minimum wage in Chicago and throughout the state of Illinois in general is not just about a higher salaries but about the ability to unionize, a labor leader said this week.

Speaking at a panel at the Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference in Washington this week, Kendell Fells a national coordinator for Service Employees International Union, said an increased minimum wage is not the ultimate goal of his group.

Fells, who also serves as president of Fast Food Forward – a group that advocates for an increased minimum wage for fast food employees across the country and including in Chicago – said his movement is more about unionizing employees in the fast food sector than it is about them making more money.

“Just to be clear, this is not a minimum wage campaign, these fast food workers are not trying to raise minimum wage,” Fells said. “They want to sit down with the $200 billion fast food industry and get the money out of their pockets and negotiate a union contract with them.”

Patrick Semmens is the vice president of public information at the National Right to Work Foundation. He says fast food workers should be careful what they wish for, because it might not be as great a deal as they think.

“Some of these jobs would be eliminated,” Semmens said. “It’s not too hard to see that technology and robots could take the place of some workers if it gets too expensive. That’s something that needs to be weighed.”

Larwyn's Linx: The Ineptocracy Strikes Back!

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Nation

Blaming Ebola on GOP budget cuts: The Ineptocracy Strikes Back: John Hayward
You can find out your 2015 Obamacare premiums… after the election: Jazz Shaw
GOP Appropriated More for CDC This Year Than Obama Requested: Erick Erickson

Obama Cut CDC’s 2014 Preparedness Budget By $270M: S&L
The Centers for Disease Control Loses Its Grip: Paul A. Rahe
American nurse with protective gear gets Ebola; how could this happen?: CNN

Time Waits For No One: Richard Fernandez
Americans Die, Obama Lies, GOP Hides: CHQ
President Obama Declares War — On the Clintons: Erick Erickson

Gardner Pulls Away from Udall as Colorado Democrats Face Upset: Rod Kackley
CT Governor Malloy Campaigns Against Firearms Industry: Herschel Smith
Democrats: The polls are skewed!: Moe Lane

Economy

Covered California issues $184M in no-bid contracts: Hot Air
WI teachers: politics, costs, lack of choice made us leave union: EAG
Thanks to Obamacare, Health Costs Soared This Year: Robert Moffit

Scandal Central

Ebola Nurse Boyfriend Reportedly Admitted With Ebola Symptoms: GotNews
Texas nurse fighting Ebola receives blood transfusion from survivor Dr Kent Brantly: DailyMail
Top Ebola Virologist: It’s POSSIBLE that Ebola can be transmitted via the air: Scoop

Rebuilding Gaza for the next attack: Cal Thomas
Fat Lesbians Got All the Ebola Dollars, But Blame the GOP: Erick Erickson
Judicial Supremacy – Should We Stand Down And Let It Rule The Land?: Realities

Climate & Energy

Canada poised to outflank Obama on Keystone XL dithering: DTG
That’s going to leave a mark: Owen Paterson To Call For Suspension Of UK Climate Change Act: WUWT
An ethanol surprise in Iowa?: Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

Media

Panetta Book Bombshell: Challenges to Obama's Legitimacy Affected His Presidency: AT
Can You Blame Ebola Outbreak on "Republican Cuts" to Health Budgets?: Reason
Illinois Man Just Humiliated Gov. Quinn in Less than 5 Minutes: BuzzPo

What a Surprise! Hard Core Leftist Agitator Lisa Fithian is Coaching Protesters in #Ferguson: ProgsToday
Kafka Was the Rage: Doron Ben-Atar
City Takes Special Needs Kid’s Backyard Playground Away: RightlyWired

The End of Columbus Day is the End of America: Daniel Greenfield
Dana Crushes Andell Brown On Ebola Death Racism Charges: Dana Loesch Radio
Conservative Government in a Liberal Culture: Mark Steyn

World

The Battle of Baghdad has begun: J.E. Dyer
Another Anti-Israel bid by Obama: RWN
The Castro Legacy: Untold Thousands of Watery Graves: AmInt

Cheney: 'Very Dangerous Period … More Threatening Than the Period Before 9/11': WS
Report: Islamic Radicalism So Out Of Control In The UK The Government "Has ... Given Up": WZ
Who Is to Blame for "Islamophobia" in the UK?: Gatestone

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Samsung Schadenfreude And The Fall Of The Church Of Market Share: John Kirk
Review Site Yelp Battles Against Extortion Claims: Paul Elias
Virtual reality and the silver screen: A match made in heaven: CNet

Cornucopia

Behold The Many Duckfaces of Alison Lundergan Grimes!: Sooper
Viva la Vida: Homeland Version: MOTUS
Romney Cracks A Great Joke At Obama’s Expense: WFB

Image: Behold The Many Duckfaces of Alison Lundergan Grimes!
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QOTD: "There is only one way to prevent the spread of an epidemic, and that is quarantine. No medical professional with any sense would suggest that we should admit individuals from Liberia to the United States at this time, and no medical professional worth his or her salt would say that we can test for the disease when the prospective visitor arrives at Immigration and Passport Control. Like most diseases, Ebola has an incubation period. Early on, there are no symptoms: none at all. There is no reliable way to tell whether those arriving at our ports of entry have contracted the disease or not. If we do not want it coming here, for a time, we have to keep everyone out who has been in that neck of the woods.

And what are we told by the authorities? That cutting off contact would contribute to the spread of the epidemic. “Just how?” we are entitled to ask. But no explanation is given because, of course, there is none. We were also told that the disease would not come here. And, when it did come here, we were told that it could easily be contained. And, when it was not contained and a medical professional wearing all the proper gear came down with the disease, we were told that he did not follow the protocol.

Perhaps, the medical professional in question really did fail to follow the protocol, though, he apparently has no notion how he fell short. Perhaps, that is it; then again, perhaps not. Honesty would require that the director of the CDC tell the truth — which is, that he does not know how this particular individual contracted Ebola.

But this he cannot say. For that would cause us to worry, and his responsibility, as he and those above him conceive it, is to cover for the President of the United States. In fact, he works for thee and me. Our taxes make it possible for him to draw a paycheck. But this, in company with nearly everyone in the Obama administration, he has somehow forgotten; and so, in a servile fashion, he goes out in public to defend with forked tongue a policy he and every medical professional in the country knows is madness." --Paul A. Rahe

Monday, October 13, 2014

BENGHAZI ILLUSTRATED: Is THIS What Really Happened in the White House on 9/11/2012?

Based on input from ex-Secret Service agent Dan Bongino and others, Biff Spackle illustrates what he think happened in Washington as the Benghazi terror attack unfolded.


DUDE: One Possible Replacement for the Hummer Makes the Batmobile Look as Tame as a Kia

Not that there's anything wrong with a Kia, mind you. Just that they're relatively... tame.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last week posted a video of an advanced concept ground vehicle under development in its Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) program... It's not clear whether the vehicle in question is a light armored car or a tank, but DARPA wants to give it improved survivability through the use of advanced technologies.


The technologies might include visualization systems to provide high-definition, wide-angle views of external conditions for a closed cockpit; path planning, which would display optimal routes to take; terrain classification, which would evaluate the surroundings for optimal travel surfaces; sensors using various technologies to visualize the surroundings and identify and track friends and foes; and autopilot capabilities that would let the driver focus on more-strategic activities.

WHO YOU GONNA TRUST ON EBOLA? The Center for Infectious Disease Research -- or Dr. B.H. Obama?

Point.

Obama: “You Cannot Get Ebola Sitting Next to Someone On a Bus”

“First, Ebola is not spread through the air like the flu,” Obama explained in the video released by the White House Thursday. “You cannot get it through casual contact like sitting next to someone one a bus. You cannot get it from another person until they start showing symptoms of the disease, like fever.”

Obama also explained that “the most common way you can get Ebola is by touching the body fluids of someone who is sick or has died from it, like their sweat, saliva or blood, or through a contaminated item like a needle.”

Counterpoint.

Health workers need optimal respiratory protection for Ebola

We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.1

The minimum level of protection in high-risk settings should be a respirator with an assigned protection factor greater than 10. A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) with a hood or helmet offers many advantages over an N95 filtering facepiece or similar respirator, being more protective, comfortable, and cost-effective in the long run.

We strongly urge the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to seek funds for the purchase and transport of PAPRs to all healthcare workers currently fighting the battle against Ebola throughout Africa—and beyond.

Is there anything this walking, talking catastrophe has gotten right?

Please: any of you drones out there, let me know in the Comments section. I've got a nice crisp $20 bill for the first "progressive" out there who can describe what Barack Obama himself has done correctly. Personally. Not Co-President Jarrett, but Barack Obama himself. Not SEAL Team Six. But Obama.


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Larwyn's Linx: I have a question for President Obama

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Nation

I have a question for President Obama: Erick Erickson
Ebola-infected Dallas hospital worker followed all CDC procedures: Thomas Lifson
Boston hospital evacuated after Liberian traveler shows symptoms: Daily Mail

Enterovirus D-68 Infections More than Double in One Week in California: Breitbart
Ebola Spreading, ISIS Winning . . . Obama Golfing: WZ
Mexican drug cartel known for beheadings controls Nebraska meth trade: Marathon

From Comedy to Farce: Victor Davis Hanson
Exclusive: The Name of the Nurse Who Got Ebola: GotNews
FBI Chief: Citizens Should Be 'Deeply Skeptical' of Government: Todd Beamon

Pop Quiz!: Ace
A Political Warrior Rises In Oklahoma: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Bruce Braley denies Michael Bloomberg once. …So far.: Moe Lane

Economy

World Health Organization Can’t Wait to Tax You: Ben Howe
Obama CDC did not monitor anyone who came in contact with Duncan: FAM
INSIDER: Ebola Fears Drive Patients From Dallas Hospital: BMW

Scandal Central

The Enterovirus D68 and President Obama’s Executive Order #13295: Treehouse
Obama: You Can't Get Ebola 'Sitting Next to Someone on a Bus;' CDC: 'Avoid Public Transportation': CNS
Florida State Hindered Jameis Winston Rape Investigation, Claims Report: Breitbart

Climate & Energy

IRONY: Anti-Coal Protest Fails When Solar Battery Can’t Fill Up Smokestack-Shaped Balloon: RWN
Five regs a GOP Congress would target: Benjamin Goad, The Hill
Why Oil Is Plunging: The Other Part Of The "Secret Deal" Between The US And Saudi Arabia: ZH

Media

Twitter CEO: Employees Receiving Death Threats From ISIS After Suspending Jihadist Accounts: WZ
NBC Crew Violated Ebola Quarantine: WS
Tales from the Clinton White House: AP

A Psychiatric Take on Obama’s Refusal to Close the Borders to Ebola: MB
Liberal bias in academia is destroying the integrity of research: Naomi Schaefer Riley
Dr. Aileen Marty tells Fusion what she saw fighting Ebola in Nigeria: Fusion

Will Blacks in North Carolina, and Elsewhere, Continue to Buy the Liberal Line?: Star Parker
The Constitution v Sharia…: Liberal Logic
Lancet editor in editorial regrets, but does not retract, Gaza letter: JTA

World

Report: Photographs of Kurdish fighters' bodies suggest chemical weapons use by ISIS: JPost
UN warns of looming ‘massacre’ in Kobani: Times of Israel
Did members of terrorist group cross Mexican border? Answer remains unclear: McClatchy

The Brookings Institution and Qatar – The Money, Power and Influence Behind Global Terror: NoisyRm
CAIR asks for probe into shooting range that refuses to cater to Muslims: Dylan Stableford
Captured by ISIS and sold into slavery: 15-year-old Yazidi girl tells of her horrific ordeal: DailyMail

Expert: ‘Very real’ chance U.S. soldiers deployed to African hot zone will get Ebola: Hot Air
Rep. Smith: Obama Gave $227 Million To Group Implementing Mandatory Abortion In China: Sierra Marlee
The Kobani slaughter: JPost

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

USS America: The Navy's Newest Flattop Can't Decide What The Hell It Is: Tyler Rogoway
Nielsen’s Ratings Problem Is a Total Glitch: LostRemote
Stop Hoping – Start Facing: WRSA

Cornucopia

Super Scary Clowns Are Terrorizing California: BuzzFeed
Watching Ferrari’s Sexy California T Get Covered in UV Paint Is Mesmerizing : Car and Driver
Quantitative Uncoupling or Conscious Uneasing: MOTUS

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QOTD: "...Jonathan Dach is the son of an influential Obama donor and Walmart lobbyist with ties to the First Lady's "healthy eating initiative". Two years ago, Dach Jnr was part of the White House advance team dispatched to Cartagena ahead of the President's visit. The evidence from the hotel register conclusively proves that he had a prostitute in his room. But the White House hushed it up, on the grounds that he did not actually bill US taxpayers for his hooker. How did that happen? Well:

Dach "was not charged for additional guest as a benefit of Hilton Honor Member."

So under the Hilton Honors program the first hooker stays for free. Who knew? Did young Jonathan Dach only have all those points on his Hilton card because he was doing so much presidential travel? In which case, his complimentary hooker was in a sense a perk of office.

Anyway, when he paid off the prostitute and came back from Colombia, Jonathan Dach was given a job at the White House "working on Global Women's Issues". In Cartagena, he was working on Global Women. Now he's working on Global Women's Issues. Ah, well. There's no real need for US officials to travel to Latin America, is there? We're trending quite Latin-American enough in Washington: The Democrats and media have trained the public to accept a certain level of government corruption as perfectly routine, no matter how absurd and obvious it is." --Mark Steyn

Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Shrinking Deficit Myth

Former Reagan administration official David Stockman has one of the more compelling financial sites operating today. Dubbed David Stockman's Contra Corner, it offers a distinctly anti-Keynesian viewpoint that attempts to dispel the notion that limitless money printing can somehow repair a damaged economy.

Stockman recently directed a spotlight on the absurd assertion that Obama has "shrunk the deficit" or "slashed the debt".

When it comes to the Federal deficit, reliable numbers are as elusive as unicorns. Not that there aren’t plenty of numbers out there, but they don’t match reality. And reality is ultimately the change in the gross national debt which shows in its unvarnished manner just how much money the federal government actually had to borrow to fill the fiscal holes.

Regardless of what has been proffered by the White House, the Congressional Budget Office, and others, the total gross national debt outstanding of the US of A hit $17.824 trillion in fiscal 2014 ended September 30. A jump for the fiscal year of $1.086 trillion.

It could have been worse: note how it jumped on October 1, the first day of fiscal 2015, by another $51 billion. That’s certainly one elegant way of putting some lipstick on the debt in fiscal 2014 – by kicking part of it into the next fiscal year. But hey, we all do that. From the Treasury Department:

The fact that the total debt taxpayers will have to deal with in the future soared by $1.1 trillion in fiscal 2014 is in part due to last year’s debt ceiling charade in Congress.

Starting in March 2013, when Treasury debt outstanding hit the debt ceiling, the Treasury Department couldn’t sell additional debt to bring in the money that the government continued to spend. So it borrowed that money via “extraordinary measures” from other accounts, to be repaid later. Then on October 16 last year, so in fiscal 2014, President Obama signed a deal into law that avoided default. The next day, the gross national debt jumped $328 billion to $17.075 trillion...

Obama, Not Reagan, Was Hollywood's First President

By Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.

In movies, handsome men and beautiful women speak eloquent words written by others and perform profound or heroic actions that they were never required to do in real life.

Like a Hollywood fantasy, Obama's is a make-believe presidency. No one expects leadership from a celebrity and no one expects him to mean what he says.

Obama is at his best on a stage set with human props in the background, reading from a teleprompter script to an audience of adoring fans.

Like the son of a Hollywood mogul, Obama breezed through life with an Affirmative Action wind at his back. He was made President of the Harvard Law Review having never written a legal article, was an unremarkable Illinois state senator and made no impact on national events in his brief tenure as a US senator. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize based on rhetoric rather than accomplishment.

Much like the intellectual vacuity of Hollywood, Obama's incompetence is camouflaged by the ignorant approval of naïve or ideological groupies and a fawning and uncritical media.