the new york post has published an article which indicates that the u.s. center for disease control understands full well that ebola may be communicated by sneezing and coughing. the mechanism?-- the disease rides along in tiny droplets of water, or moisture, emitted in sneezes and coughs, and can remain virulent in those droplets for up to 24 hours.
touch a door knob upon which a sick person has recently sneezed. touch your face, eat without washing your hands, pick your nose, ... , any number of common human behaviors, and you can find yourself the proud owner of a case of ebola. no warranties, no guarantees. no giving it back if you aren't satisfied.
the obama administration's position, and that of the cdc, on the question of quarantine remains most puzzling. does obama want the united states seized by an ebola contagion? his curious lack of concern over the danger of the disease is puzzling, or, is it? is it just a muslim's acceptance of allah's will? or, is it the rabid socialist's dream of bringing the u.s. to its knees.
this idiot is far more dangerous than even i have given him credit.
this is sorta funny. someone in the obama administration/whitehouse, and high up, has called benjimin netanyahu "chickenshit." actually, it is funny beyond belief, funny beyond comprehension, even insanely funny.
obama is a physical coward, and an intellectual fraud. the most dangerous risk he has ever undertaken is burning his nose hairs lighting up a dooby. by contrast, netanyahu was an israeli commando, and a veteran of battle. (his brother was killed at the entebbe raid, ... , net'n was in the same command.)
too bad this could not be settled by trial by combat. cleaning the shit out of obama's pants prepping him for burial would not be a pleasant task.
john jay @ 10.29.2014
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/29/netanyahu-responds-to-senior-obama-official-calling-him-a-chickenst/ . obama, ... , what a fucking ultra maroon, as bugs bunny would say.
obama has appointed an ebola czar. (he confesses to know little about it, ... , in this, he may be forgiven, for no other public official in the united states seems to know much about it, either. or, if they do, they have not demonstrated any prudence arrived at via that knowledge.)
ebola is a highly infectious and quite often fatal disease, heretofore more or less confined to certain regions of africa.
prior to certain medical practitioners from the united states going to africa to treat it, and then bringing it back to the united states when they have become infected, it has been largely unknown in north america. (there may be other disease vectors for the transmission of ebola to north america, but, to the best of my knowledge such method and manner of transmission as related above is not privy to my knowledge, or the knowledge of the general population in the united states.)
thousands have been infected in africa, and thousands have died from ebola.
the known cases of ebola in the united states and canada number in the 10's, and if there are more, they are not being reported.
obama has appointed an "ebola czar."
why has obama appointed an ebola czar?
the "better efforts" of those returning health practitioners who have been to africa to treat the disease aside, the united states does not yet suffer the ebola disease in epidemic proportions. so far, several persons infected have died. and, that's about it.
local health officials, when not interfered with by the united states government, have treated the disease with some efficiency, but, in spite of their best efforts, health workers treating the "imported cases" have also become infected, in spite of rigorous protocols to avoid this.
the appointment of a "czar" to handle an epidemic disease seems odd, especially given that no epidemic has occurred.
apparently, someone in the government, and i should imagine that it would be the u.s. center for disease control, must feel that there is a danger that ebola might become epidemic, and that we should prepare to wage a fight to contain the disease.
who better to make that assessment, and to come up with the strategies to contain the disease, then the center for disease control.
yet, the center for disease control is rabidly opposed to local states using time honored standards of quarantine to fight the spread of the disease in the united states of america. the center for disease control, and the obama administration, jumped on the neck of new jersey governor chris christy to release a nurse just returned from treating ebola in africa from new jersey quarantine.
as it turns out, that nurse was and is an employee of the center for disease control, in africa at the direction and in the employment of the united states of america.
she used political clout of obama and the cdc to get released from new jersey quarantine, even alleging that she was mistreated (what, they insisted that she have vanilla and not chocolate ice cream, or, maybe they beat her?). she is presently in maine, under "house quarantine," and she has hired counsel in maine to get her freed?
so she can spread the disease? who the hell knows.
my query is simple. (or, so it seems to me.)--
if the disease is so serious that it requires an "ebola czar" to contend with, then why won't the federal government employ the simple and time honored technique of quarantine to help prevent its spread?
surely the idiot doctor who went out for sandwiches and bowling and rode the subways all over new york city because he felt alright, before he started vomiting his guts up in public, would seem to show the necessity for quarantine.
he has done tremendous harm, that would have been prevented by quarantine. hey, new yorkers, you gonna go to the "meatball" diner for sandwiches this evening, ... , they are probably having an "ebola sale," 3/4's of the regular price off. or, denizens of gotham, how about some bowling at the "gutter" bowling alley, to show your disdain for infectious death?
the little red haired nurse in maine was a cdc employee. the idiotic reporter (and doctor) for nbc seems to have no regard for quarantine. and, doctor beck, who may yet end up in heck, didn't seem to respect a disease he traveled all over the world to treat.
so, what gives?
are we to take this whole thing seriously, as befits another "czar?"
are we to treat this whole thing w/ the same disdain that the medical professionals who have seen the death up close? they don't seem too damned concerned about infecting the rest of you?
or, does the obama administration want to see a deadly epidemic spread in the u.s. of a., so that the government can be seen to reign rein it in? (and, they would ask you to ignore the fact that it has been their direct employees and the employees of your pals, the united nations ngo's, who have done their best to spread it?)
i don't know the answers. but, i do know, that the whole damned affair, as conducted thus far, makes no damned sense.
john jay @ 10.29.2014
p.s. i expect "zeke" emanuel to rear his ugly mug in here somewhere, with a paper explaining why the united states is better off sustaining 10 or 20 million deaths from the spread of this disease, rather than imposing "quarantine."
in fact, i suspect his idiocy in all of this so much, that i am gonna spend a couple days to see if he can be found having supplied the center for disease control the rationale for opposing state ordered quarantine for medical personnel returned from treating ebola.
update: 10.29.2014. well, old zeke is everywhere. talking.
it is readily apparent from listening to him, and he is a pre-eminent academician (whether that is good, bad or indifferent is subject to your point of view), that when he speaks he reflects the prevailing academic view on things. this side of the pond.
and, his view is that while ebola is deadly in africa where the health standards are very low, and the medical "establishments" are simply not up to treating such matters, it really isn't very dangerous here, and is unlikely to spread in our society. he also repeats a mantra that it is very hard to transmit the ebola virus from person to person, (requiring an exchange of bodily fluid, e.g., such as saliva and/or blood and/or semen, ... , my observations: jjj) and that this society has mechanisms to deal with it. http://www.bloomberg.com/video/stem-ebola-spread-via-focus-on-infrastructure-emanuel-says-QPqyU52LQseaATectQy9mw.html . (as an added bonus, bloomberg adds at about the 3 min: 30 sec mark, in a banner at the bottom of the screen, that the cdc has sent 55 workers to africa to help confront the disease.) 55 little red haired nurses. cdc employees, and obama zealots, no doubt.
well, there it is.
the cdc opposes quarantine, because the cdc has adopted zeke emanuel's view that it simply will not spread effectively in the united states. the meme is good health & sanitation standards, good medical care, and easily adopted stratagems to deal with it, will prevent it from becoming contagion. e.g., emaneul's mantra. but, there is evidence that ebola is also an air-borne pathogen, see the link below in the little gizmo's at the bottom, and here. http://thelastgreatstand.com/lgs/2014/10/12/the-cdc-the-un-are-forced-to-admit-that-ebola-is-airborne/.
the truth will out. but, were i you, and were i living in new york, or the "big five" of airport cities, (where people fly in from africa absolutely without health screening), i would suggest that simple prudence dictates that you prepare for an eventuality of a disease of far greater severity, and far more rapid spread, than the good sepulchral dr. emanuel is suggesting. (he just looks like the classic movie/television mortician, ... , and, in a way, death is his game. he's rolled the intellectual dice one way, placed his money on the turn of the mandela, and it is just your life at stake. his money. your life. that's all.)
he may not be pimping truth. end update.
if obama and the cdc have bought into the zeke emanuel mantra, why then the need for an "ebola czar" for an epidemic the lefties believe will never come? very curious, all of this.
http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2014/10/the-paradigm-of-the-self-righteous-health-worker-humbly-spreading-ebola-.html . [immediately preceding post, here.]
*** kind of a "if i die from ebola" while acting nobly, "then the rest of them deserve to die too," because they didn't act nobly. that's how i parse it out, anyway.
am i mistaken?
update @ 10.29.2014 tip o' the ole hat, carolyn e. apparently the little red haired nurse wants free of her quarantine at home. and, the doctor who went bowling, well, he rode around in the new york subways and visited his girlfriend before he got sick. no wonder she looked a little worried when he got popped in the hospital.
fucking idiots. well, you read the follow ups, and decide on your own.
well, obviously he knows better, knew better, about his chances of getting sick, ... , right up until he started hurling his guts.
as to his colleague, the "spunky" little nurse who feels fine? well, the good doctor has not tempered her enthusiasm for her medical judgment.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/29/ebola-nurse-in-maine-im-blowing-off-my-quarantine-order/ . she's not going to obey legal process ordering her quarantined at home. she knows best, just like the doctor who knew best and road the subways of new york city until he took ill. the nurse says she feels fine, no symptoms. the doc said he felt fine, no symptoms, until he started puking his guts up in public.
i was unselfish and served humanity, as i treated ebola victims in africa.
given that i am so deserving, when i return home, i can violate quarantines at my whim, and expose my fellow citizens to death & suffering from the ebola i give to them, by violating quarantine.***
it seems to me an odd paradigm, but, it is the paradigm and mantra of the contemporary humanitarian.--
a doctor returns from africa, and violates a quarantine to go bowling, the night before he vomits in public w/ a high fever. into the hospital, diagnosed w/ ebola.
a doctor, and television correspondent, violates quarantine so that she can go get a treat to eat, ... , putting her hair up in a ponytail so as to escape detection via disguise. how's that for a commentary on her motives, and understanding of the wrong she is committing?
it confers a peculiar form of arrogance, this humility and willingness to serve. or so it would seem.
look at me, look at me, look at me, i did good!!! so now i can do anything i fucking please.
"it is to laugh, it is to cry," as social commentator bugs bunny has been wont to observe.
john jay @ 10.27.2014
*** kind of a "if i die from ebola" while acting nobly, "then the rest of them deserve to die too," because they didn't act nobly. that's how i parse it out, anyway.
am i mistaken?
update @ 10.29.2014 tip o' the ole hat, carolyn e. apparently the little red haired nurse wants free of her quarantine at home. and, the doctor who went bowling, well, he rode around in the new york subways and visited his girlfriend before he got sick. no wonder she looked a little worried when he got popped in the hospital.
fucking idiots. well, you read the follow ups, and decide on your own.
well, obviously he knows better, knew better, about his chances of getting sick, ... , right up until he started hurling his guts.
as to his colleague, the "spunky" little nurse who feels fine? well, the good doctor has not tempered her enthusiasm for her medical judgment.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/29/ebola-nurse-in-maine-im-blowing-off-my-quarantine-order/ . she's not going to obey legal process ordering her quarantined at home. she knows best, just like the doctor who knew best and road the subways of new york city until he took ill. the nurse says she feels fine, no symptoms. the doc said he felt fine, no symptoms, until he started puking his guts up in public.
this came to my attention courtesy of carolyn e., aka abraxas. she's still in there pitching, and reading, and she tries to keep me informed.
we all know that obama and holder & minions are marxists leninists of the first order, and disciples of marcuse, alinsky and their ilk. well, it turns out that holder also believes in the tactic of "expropriation," which is marxist leninist doctrine of the value of being the last thief in line, e.g., theft in the name of the state.
it would appear that holder is such a firm believer in this that he has pressured his assistant u.s. attorneys to lie, cheat and steal in order to take from the rich.
judge morrison c. england, jr., chief judge of the (federal) eastern district of california, has referred a case in which holder directed his attorneys to suborn justice to the chief judge of federal district 9 of the district courts. (most of the western united states are in this district.)
the reason for this is that a very strong case has been made by the defendants in the original lawsuit in question that the u.s. attorney's office prosecuting suit against sierra pacific, lied about the factual posture of the case and withheld evidence favorable to the defendants, from the defendants. and, they did not reveal that an "expert" in the case had substantial economic interests in its outcome, adverse to the defendants. none of this was done by accident, which would be bad enough, but purposefully, and in direct violation of the code of ethics which governed/governs their conduct in all litigation.
(some big shots are quite likely to get disbarred, probably prosecuted.)
it also appears that holder pressured his underlings to do so, based on the direct testimony of two asst. u.s. attorneys who resigned their offices rather than follow holder's directives on how to conduct litigation. yes, lawyers have higher obligations in the conduct of their profession even above the directives of a sitting u.s. attorney general.
holder and obama have nothing but contempt for bourgeoisie law. and, holder has been caught with his pants down.
when the chief judge of the federal eastern district of california recuses all of his judges from hearing a case, and refers it on directly to the chief judge of federal district nine on the basis that his judges were lied to by the u.s. attorney's office in a case they brought in his district, you should listen.
this was not something judge england took on lightly. you might observe that he acted by force of conviction, and his conception of the ethical duty owed his court/judges by all who practice before it.
i don't care what anyone writes about all of this. it is all nonsense, unless you recognize one singular fact.--
the north korean general who is in charge of the north korean military, sat as a table with south korean political and no doubt intelligence people across from him, and smiled.
he smiled.
i am 66 years old. in my entire life, i have never seen a north korean military officer and/or official smile.
you can read a lot of things about all of this. none of it will talk about anything as significant as that smile. that smile sent chills up and down the spines of rooskie and chinese officials, everywhere: they know what it means.
john jay @ 09.04.2014
p.s. during the various peace talks involving north korea and u.n. and u.s. military officers at the border, discussing the korean armistice, north korean military officers sat motionless, with a stony glare, and did not get up to go "potty." ever.
and, you can bet, they did not smile. they look murderous. always.
a public smile says a lot.
go here, http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/10/intriguing-north-korean-general.html , and follow the links at doug ross's article about the portent of the north korean delegation's visit to the south. a most extraordinary event, ... , you are literally sitting in on the making of history.
1.) our friends the chinese and the euros have been searching for years to supplant the dollar as the international currency of exchange. and, the arab petroleum types have also been trying to implement a plan to replace the dollar as the currency that is used to purchase oil from o.p.e.c. and, no doubt the "resurgent" rooskies would like to kick the dollar off center stage.
it hasn't happened.
it hasn't happened because, because the various entities involved do not possess and cannot find a substitute for the dollar. if they could, the dollar would be "gone" in a heart beat. they cannot find a substitute, because it does not exist. and, they cannot "make one" as the euro union tried several years ago.
why? because, oddly enough, as profligate as the u.s. has been with its monetary policy, u.s. monetary policy & posture is in better shape than that of the euro union, and the chinese, and the rooskies. not to mention the japanese.
i haven't a clue if that is reassuring, or not.
2.) the russians really haven't intruded or "projected power" past their borders as they seek to put the soviet union together again. not in georgia, even though they've invaded, and not in the ukraine, except for crimea.
the reason is simple. it is because they cannot. why, do you ask? they have a huge army, and lots of money.
yes, they do. but, what they do not have is any naval power by which to exert influence over water, and they simply do not possess any sort of logistics train to project power over land. in short, they do not have equipment, materials and people experienced in moving troops, support facilities, and transport equipment over land. and, this lack of facilities and equipment also is a limitation of what air power they possess.
they cannot now, nor will they be able to in the immediate future, be able to duplicate what the u.s. has done repeatedly throughout its history, and that is to move a large number of infantry and marines all over the world, to confront opposing forces wherever they may be.
they have got the trucks, trains, ships and planes to do so.
and, for that matter, neither do the chinese, nor the indians, at this juncture. my bet is that the chinese and the indians develop this capability long before the russians ever do. and, we'll see if they can afford to do so.
3.) do you have any idea what it means that the united states has 11 or 12 fleet carrier task force groups, and that no other nation in the world has even one. do you have any idea of what it means that the u.s. marine carrier has a whole mess of air craft carriers able to launch amphibious invasion almost anywhere in the world, fully capable of working in conjunction with the aforementioned fleet carrier groups.
4.) summation.
i mention the things in the last paragraphs, because aside from the facts of monetary policy & posture & position, these things as well have to do with the fact that the u.s. currency remains the medium of exchange in the world.
russia does not have any fleet carriers. nor chines. nor japan. nor the indians. (the russian and chinese "carriers" really aren't. they are converted missile cruisers whose bottoms were built in georgia, and who have jump decks grafted on to them. they do not carrier strategic flight assets sufficient to defend the carriers from any meaningful land based attacks, nor can they stand toe to toe with a u.s. fleet carrier task force. for the chinese, this is about 20 to 25 years out, and for the russians, i doubt the oil "glow" will last long enough to ever finance it.)
france and england share an old small one, but, really not the escort ships, lighters or submarine able to adequately defend one.
these things have not come to pass.
and, it is because, at this juncture, the combined forces of the world simply cannot muster the economic, strategic and tactical strength of the united states.
simple facts.
not very often enunciated. it's not dwelled upon by those countries, because the facts are not pleasant to contemplate or acknowledge. it's not mentioned at all in this country, because the left simply does not want to contemplate, admit or acknowledge that such peace and quiet as the world possesses, is largely because the u.s. has the strength and resources that it does.
oil to the world gets interrupted, the u.s. can restore the supply and protect the suppliers.
no other nation in the world can.
this is why the dollar is not replaced as international currency. it is not because the euros and chinese wouldn't like to.