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Don't kid yourself. This particular treatment is still in its initial laboratory exploration and, regardless of its potential or efficacy, will be forced through every hoop imaginable. Why? Because it is a broad spectrum anti-viral that could potentially cure diseases from AIDS to ebola. The drug company interests will fight it by seeking to find problems with it all along the way because it threatens the economic interests of every drug used for the treatment of aids, flu vaccines to OTC cold and flu treatments. I wouldn't imagine the cost of creating this concoction is especial

not only that, but unless we actually control the disease there, it is only a matter of time that it will spread as it is a numbers game. that is patently silly. The 'incentive' of people who are infected is not to infect others. It is to get treatment if treatment is needed as quickly as they can and, because the level of care is actually diluted, it is especially in the interest of those who catch it, to keep others safe. It is just that you aren't contagious until you begin to show symptoms. the likelihood of infecting others early in the process is comparatively small increa

I'm closing this. I'm going to let the mods take care of the reports. I will say that there are report buttons in PMs if you ever have a problem with a PM. context and tone are often elements that heighten statements to threats. Usually, when people realize they are real neighbors, they tend DE-escalate instead of escalate. As far as the 'joke' that started this ... it was off topic. the original post ... what was going on there ... is of interest and if anyone has any information, please share it. Please do avoid this well-worn road. pubby

Worse than that, I hear if you have a low-impact wreck, the air bag could go off and cut your throat. pubby

And the science your argument is based upon? That those who are infected with ebola are contagious before they start running a fever? That the disease is airborne? That you don't believe that those who come in close contact with the virus aren't at risk despite the precautions? The plain fact is that being 'around' ebola is being treated as a crime by people who let their fear - A VERY POWERFUL EMOTION - surpass their logic and demand that people be put into the equivalent of solitary confinement for three weeks. That, frankly, is an example of emotion surpassing logic. One a small p

ABR: The car got in the way of the three Harley's that I was trying to shoot. pubby

If that's what you are looking for Shallow Hal; I think you'll be disappointed. pubby

You say those in the Obama Administration made the comments regarding the lone-wolf scenario. I'll ask who? You do know that there are those with access to the right-wing media who have no problem lying about this stuff for 'effect.' Even if this were a source in the administration, who is to say it is not someone who has an agenda that may be more aligned with the preconceptions of the right. The record of false alerts - both official and off-the wall - is rife in the 'war on terrorism' ... Even if ISIS made such a call doesn't mean a thing. If I were to declare a revolutio

It is obvious that you're saying that. I didn't. What I said is that the guy was committing suicide by cop. I suspect his comments about jihad or whatever, were part of the effort. I figure the cops would find that worthy of an extra round or two, you know and I'm sure if their death by cop is the their goal, it wouldn't do to just say, I'm crazy ... the cops might, just might, feel mercy in such a moment. The ISIS or Jihad line though ... almost guaranteed death. pubby PS: If the suicidal idiot has a modicum of sanity, they may pull the jihadi thing to give the cops a little ex

Heck, dogs, All they'd have to do is subscribe to your posts and they'd get a mega dose of redneck. pubby

There were bigger events going on in Paulding Saturday than the Top of the Ridge Car Show but one might opine, there were none 'nicer' ... especially considering that politics pervades most things this time of year. This event was put on by Mike Fritz and while the action was about as a laid back as you could get, partisan conflict was duly muted. Among the candidates attending was Micah Gravley who spoke briefly to the crown and then talked about his current passion, passage of the Medical Marijuana legislation. Gravely, who represents District 67, was hawking tickets to the premier of

Yes, schizophrenia is a specific medical diagnosis. So is PTSD and any number of other mental disorders that afflict the homeless and helpless. Some of these people tend to violence. Whether they blame their insane activity of Allah or some dog doesn't change the fact that they're loony. And the essence of insanity, in my book, is to attack four armed police officers with a hatchet. I think a more accurate description of the event is 'suicide by police.' pubby

And if they did and an hour later I walked in and got me cup of tap water, they'd have opened the store owners to a mega-lawsuit based on unequal provision of services in a public facility. The only right thing to do is to give a person asking for a cup of tap water, a cup of tap water. That 8 oz of water would have a cost of .0001 cents meaning it would cost the store one-cent to deliver free water to 100 people. What you're presenting, zorro, is a video of an opinionated individual you think, because she is either fat (there is discrimination against fat people), loud (a lot of peop

What is really kind of silly is that the 'number one place to do business award' came after he spent tons of money on advertising with one of many magazines that talk to businesses. As magazines are all having tough times since the crash - largely because they are advertising supported - the idea that one would 'adjust' ratings and rankings to get a big ad order (like they got) is not only obvious, but actually known to be fact. pubby PS: It is an old game that as a media and marketing director for an ad agency - a role I performed back in the 1980s where I controlled the spending of

For the most part, Zorro, police powers are 'state' powers under our federal system. You do understand that the federal government would be encroaching on STATES RIGHTS in that context if they started, in essence, jailing people for 21 days for no apparent crime. Every state has their own laws allowing for the protection of the public health and most of the directives regarding public health are set up to use state authorities for aspects regarding quarantine. I can only assume you are now flip-flopping on the very apparent states rights issue that to me is so apparent and are willin

This looks like a quickie mart of some sort. I can say with absolute confidence that I've been in a variety of quicky marts and have come in with my own cup to buy coffee or possibly a cup of ice and I've always been provided the courtesy of washing the cup out in the sink either in the bathroom or in the utility area next to the bathroom. I've never been asked a penny for such a courtesy. If the woman is asking for a bottled water, the store sells them and I would not expect a bottled water for free (although if you come into my office and I have one, I'll give you one for free. O

The presumed difference is that many of the larger developments like Seven Hills and Bentwater already have home owners associations that provide services like community recreation, security etc. Certainly the rules for HOA's are such that they have the equivalent of taxing power and actually have greater latitude in some areas than a formal city charter would provide. The advantage a city would have in regard to controlling the development surrounding the major developments would be in the area of planning and zoning of lands that would fall outside the specific borders of the planned d

I was reading the topic "Deal Had No Idea He Sold His Business To Delinquent GA Tax Payers" and from the responses defending our Governor, it would appear that the issue was actually finally put to bed last year and all that is being talked about is stuff that was settled after a thorough investigation. An important article by Jim Walls (atlantaunfiltered.com) that appears online on AtlantaMagazine.com instead suggest that five very troubling areas of inquiry were simply shoved under the carpet, presumably because Governor Deal wanted this issue to go away and put an inordinate amount of

Curious if anyone in pcom land has won an Ig Nobel award and, believing not, hope to inspire entries for the future. This, will give you an idea of what it is all about. The last one might presented here might come in handy for two reasons. For all you who know the elite Republican women and wonder what you could get them for Christmas ... this answers that question and consider it might save the lives of some of us who know these women if the Ebola scare is really as massive as some predict. pubby

good post! Actually, making the statement does appear to be at the center of the problem. Again appearances. I'm not the governor. The only way to ethically do something like that is if you are governor, is to decline to make the sale or ... having made the sale, put the whole shebang in padlocks and say, pay. It wasn't a good situation and those were the key options but he did neither ... and the issue of appearances rose from the ashes. pubby

You're absolutely right. ethics in politics is about appearance. The appearance in this case is that the Governor was on hard times and his "blind" trust found a company that would 'bail him out' by buying his company. Presumably he had nothing to do with the purchase and sale negotiation which definitely is proper but since he was in bind, the idea that the company paid a reasonable price, didn't haggle him down and down and down and try to get his business for nothing or next to nothing no doubt was appreciated by Mr. Deal. The question is, how much appreciation. Wouldn't i

You're going to 'jail them' for 21 days because ???? and you want those whose resources are strained to the hilt to built additional facilities at their cost because they know the only place to control this is where it is running rampant and out of control (west Africa). There is something really wrong with your thinking on this. I mean, the only thing I can think of is that you were pulling for Donald Sutherland to drop the nuke on that small in the movie "contagion" and kill 12,000 people ... presumably only because you like killing. Aw come on, NJ ... you know if everyone - e

If they are treating a hundred patients and they are in charitably 'modest' medical surroundings with minimal equipment and literally overwhelmed by the patient load, it is possible and increasingly likely that a person will become infected. In the health care situation where there are hundreds if not thousands of patients ill with this disease and dying, the challenge to stay 'clean' is complicated. Two, we know, however, that folks who are not outwardly showing symptoms are not infectious. We also know that their potential to spread the disease increases from low likelihood to high lik

I read this stuff pretty well DVBP ... but that paragraph you posted regarding the origins of judicial immunity is way more provocative than it is illuminating. Frankly, about all I got out of it was that judges cannot be held personally liable from torts they commit on the bench even if the tort is making a ruling influenced by a bribe. I.e. a judge says that developer A didn't steal the home of homeowner B when the facts were that Developer A stole the property worth a million dollars - but the judge ruled he didn't because the developer bribed him with $10,000. The homeowner loses t

The motive in this case is very clear. We are coming up on the mid term elections and the right feels compelled to raise the levels of fear to as high as they can take them in the belief that skeered people will vote for the strong leader type that tramples on civil rights, blocks borders and KILLS, KILLS, KILLS the monsters that hide in the closet at night when you go to sleep. The only terrorism that has gone on are the promises to the mentally ill that we would treat them in a community setting but back in the Nixon/Reagan era when we opened the nut houses, they never got around to fun