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Thinking about the future, I think I'll stick with my Nunn and Carter signs. McCain and Palin were has beens that never were Thanks for the well wishes though pubby

The WHO is an international organization that seeks to serve all the countries in the world. As countries come in a wide variety of attitudes - almost all self-serving - the political attitude adopted by WHO by necessity is eclectic based on the science first largely because that is the only tenable position they can have. To say or assert differently would be like saying that conservative believe that 2+2=3, liberals 2+2=5 and the only reason that 2+2=4 is because that is a compromise. Bunk. Assertion that the WHO is not science-based at heart in their judgments is cynical beyond imaginati

I was busy 'interviewing' Paulding Patti - Patti Smith - for a redux of the Pat and Patti show. Yep, we talked about the race for Post 2 and she noted how bad she beat me and I threatened to kick her under the table 'cause it was my birthday. Anyway, since the first notices I saw were on facebook and when I looked, just before noon, not here ... I was feeling a bit down ... like yeah, not saying Happy Birthday to me on Pcom but doing so on Facebook has just got to make my day (not that I don't appreciate all the well wishes but ...) Oh well ... thanks everyone for the well wishe

That opinion is pure conjecture and the idea that a different president would react differently is unlikely because the experts haven't changed their judgment. It almost certainly would not have been treated any differently than it is. that said, if you think a Republican president would react differently, what you're saying is that they would react based not on science, but abject, purely emotional fear. That would make the as likely to drop a nuke on NYC at noon today to 'stop' the infection as anything. That combination of ignorance and fear I would find much scarier than ebola and

The doctor who contracted it, recognizing that he was developing symptoms, chose to self-quarantine this morning once he began showing symptoms (his first 'fever' was established this morning at 11am). Those whom he came in contact with in the last 24 hours prior to his showing symptoms have been identified and are being monitored. Since the patient has intimate knowledge of the disease, he chose to limit his contacts even before he developed the first symptoms. As the potential of contagion increases with the advance of the disease, the likelihood that he has infected anyone at this

Hummm? Interesting video: A man with business at the Republican state convention comes packing a firearm and is detained before entering the convention because there is not a blanket agreement that everyone should be packing at the GOP state convention. Once they powwow, which is most of the five minute video, they allow the man to enter the facility and check his firearm with security before proceeding on. The video ends with an officer escorting the man to the security office at the convention where presumably he disarms. Heck, I'd have thought that they'd have had a parade

Here's the lead in the referenced story at RED STATE: (hardly a bastion of the eastern liberal media.) As Casey Cagle's effort to retain his seat shows, things haven't changed much since then. Heck, with Nathan Deal and David Perdue, one might think the plot just grows thicker. pubby

That is good news. pubby

What we should do is open a dozen or more field hospitals in that area like we should have done six months ago to get this whole thing under control. It is only because they have limited health care there that there is any interest in coming here. The reality, on Duncan, however, is that his plans to visit here did precede his infection and stupidity. He paid the ultimate price regardless and without being heartless, I think it is probably good that he died as had he lived, it would have meant more would try. But there was no reason to take him out and shoot him when he came in b

I noticed right off and I put my toe in that hot water knowing its Onion origin makes it basically a joke As far as the way we treat livestock is how, I'm afraid, some want us to treat humans. There are several movies regarding contagious diseases that revolve around such exterminations in their plot lines. NJ: I don't know any preppers. As far as Duncan coming here, he repeatedly banged on the door of the hospital before he was let in ... which, if you understood my case, means when you rested yours, you made mine pubby

Come on now NJ: THINK! I'm sick with a viral infection that, left untreated, kills 90+ percent of those so infected. So, instead of seeking medical care, where I have a 5:1 chance of surviving, I instead opt to take the 9.5:1 odds of dying because I'm that stupid. I can see lying to get here from there (or to a european or even Cuban hospital instead of staying in Liberia) but it is to get away from the place where the medical care is overwhelmed to one where I have a chance of surviving - a good chance. Once I've exited that hell hole, I'm all for getting caught and treated

She must have committed a crime Dillinger could have gotten away with it if his face had changed that much. pubby

I forgot about all that. Losing money to the feds because of non-performance, responsibility for which Deal ducked about like he's ducked so many others. Looking at medicaid, which of course, the state under Deal failed to expand to cover some 650,000 Georgians, including many working poor, I discovered that this administration also failed to provide medicaid for 89,000 others Georgians, including the disabled, who are qualified under the current guidelines. Apparently these 89000 folks sought coverage under the ACA but were found to be eligible for medicaid in Georgia under the curre

This ought to satisfy all those who have out-sized concerns about ebola coming into the country. For instance we know that we'll catch anyone who 'just made it on the plane' before developing symptoms. Second, if they lied on their exit documents and said they were no where around anyone with an ebola infection, that ruse can be safely dropped here because, well, they will get excellent care if they fess up as we wouldn't ship them back to Liberia. Third, if they remain asymptomatic, they can still be convinced to state whether they were close enough because in the interviews they

yeah, but that damn web page with its five autostart videos is enough to drive a sane person nuts. pubby

I read Michelle Malkins' piece on what was being done and it struck me as not just a little silly but full bat-cheese wacko Let me explain by posting a piece from the article. Now to the uncritical mind t his sounds like they're going to strap down 120,000,000 kids and doing "functional magnetic resonance imaging" and turn on cameras in their bedrooms to peek at them as they undress to see what kind of underwear they're using ... ever single one of them... my KID ... chaNO Bull hockey with massive fifty-foot tall hockey sticks. I have no doubt that there will be a scienti

Facebook is a data mining scheme to put corporate America's greedy hand in your pocket and if we don't educate our youth better, they will be even more vulnerable. pubby

NJ: I have to disagree. The GOP guy just seems so predictably, well, anti-progress. You know, party of NO approach who is sensitive to the parents fear that their kids are getting a better education than they got. Howard Maxwell - you heard him at the PBA meeting last spring - has the same reading as Ms. Wilson on Common Core and to call him a liberal is almost fighting words. I think those who don't see the improvements in education or math standards are just afraid ... but hey, fear has been driving Republican voting for decades ... seriously ... A hint ... your

Lets put this topic back on the topic and give folks a good tool to use that is more reliable than the attitudes expressed. This aired a week ago on PBS. Pubby

I think we need to elect people to office who demonstrate their service through sacrifice and good works. From what I can tell, folks like David Perdue haven't sacrificed a thing; instead they've forced others to sacrifice as they took credit and cash. Yes, people of that point of view think those who were forced to sacrifice are actually failures worthy only of contempt and summary dismissal. pubby

Those who are having issues voting should check their 'permissions' ... As far as the risk of infection through transmission through insects, I figure that it is really remote given that the respository in the wild is not insect based but mammalian. There is no record whatsoever of insects being involved in the transmission of the disease. As far as insect-infected areas, the area of West Africa is far from arid and features several rivers, deltas, swamps and jungles ... and insects are not vectors for ebola. Also, you should take great comfort from the fact that Nigeria, Africa's

It is obvious that 17 days ago, I predicted that at most two or three of the ten to twelve people closest to the guy in Texas would become infected with Ebola. Most of the 48 folks who were indeed closest - including care givers - were given the all-clear today and none other than the two nurses have been diagnosed with ebola. While it is true they were taking 'precautions' it is also true the procedures they used were flawed and obviously self-defeating. pubby

12 For Life Research shows that not graduating high school significantly limits employment options. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, those who drop out face an unemployment rate nearly 5 percent high than those with high school diplomas. They make an average of about $8,000 a year less, as well. The U.S. Census Bureau puts those gaps at closer to $10,000 and reports that nearly a third of dropouts live in poverty. For a variety of reasons, a significant number of students doing poorly in school see dropping out as their only choice. Hoping to cut that number, Southwire and t

Marvin: At least you have a choice on the state wide races. Come to Paulding where the GOP dominates and of the local jobs, you have a choice only for Post 2 commissioner. The rest were selected in a Republican primary where fewer than one-in-twelve voters made your selection. pubby

I suppose you could make the argument that race 'has nothing to do with it', NJ ... That argument would go like this ... The GOP has been just as disrespectful of every Democratic candidate for office and President since ... well Jimmy Carter ... or maybe Kennedy (you know the ultimate sign of disrespect is a bullet to the brain). I think it is probably due to some academic work regarding linguistics and how to destroy democratic systems so that the oligarchs can present the appearance of democracy. While the argument is more tenuous going back to Kennedy; it becomes probable beginning w