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Category: WTF?

  • The Zombie Apocalypse . . . Begins??

    I’ll just leave this here . . . .

    About 100 brains missing from University of Texas

    No, the article wasn’t referring to the Board of Regents. (smile)

    But if it was zombies, they’re gonna have one helluva hangover. From my dealings with OB and Crown beer while in Korea (which at the time still had measurable traces of formaldehyde), that sh!t will give you one of the worst hangovers possible.

  • “C’mon, Helga – From Now On, We Do It In the Dark!”

    Be glad you’re not in Germany, folks. Let’s just say that the Environmental minister has some, um, interesting ideas about how to “save the planet”. Oh, and in case you’re wondering: yeah, she’s a Socialist.

    The comments to the linked article make good reading.


    (Hat tip to Drudge for an indirect link to the source.)

  • WTP?

    The following headline appeared yesterday on an article published on the Gainesville (FL) Sun’s website:

    Suspect attempts to rape, rob man
    leaving ATM, Gainesville police say

    That’s not the odd part – well, maybe it is a bit “odd” for Gainesville, FL, but it’s not the oddest thing about the incident.  The really strange part is the suspect’s moniker.

    Phuc Kieu.

    Seriously.

    It gets even better. Immediately before assaulting and attempting to rob and rape the other guy, Kieu was apparently watching pr0n in his car on a portable DVD player.

    You simply could not make this sh!t up if you tried.

  • Oh, Fer Christsakes – Send the Little Idiot Back!

    You’ve probably all heard about the DNI – James Clapper – and his trip to North Korea earlier this month.  During that trip, the DNI secured the release of two Americans detained there – Matthew Miller and Kenneth Bae.  He brought them back to the US.

    Well, guess what.  One of them now reportedly claims he really wanted to stay in North Korea.

    Seriously.

    Fine.  Then give the little dumbsh!t the paperwork to renounce his US citizenship – and once he’s done that, put him on a plane to Korea, bus him to Panmunjum, and march his stupid butt north across the “Bridge of No Return”.  Problem solved.

    For some reason this keeps running through my mind.  I’m guessing it’s also what must be running through Clapper’s mind right about now.  With apologies to Strother Martin:

    What we’ve got here is . . . failure to communicate.  Some men, you just can’t reach.  So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it . . . well, he gets it.  I don’t like it any more than you men.

  • Ebola doctor dies after he tests negative

    Ebola doctor dies after he tests negative

    The Washington Post reports that Doctor Martin Salia has died from the Ebola virus, just a few weeks after he tested negative for the disease;

    When Martin Salia’s Ebola test came back negative, his friends and colleagues threw their arms around him. They shook his hand. They patted him on the back. They removed their protective gear and cried.

    But when his symptoms remained nearly a week later, Salia took another test, on Nov. 10. This one came back positive, sending the Sierra Leonean doctor with ties to Maryland on a desperate, belated quest for treatment and forcing the colleagues who had embraced him into quarantine.

    “We were celebrating. If the test says you are Ebola-free, we assume you are Ebola-free,” said Komba Songu M’Briwa, who cared for Salia at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center in Freetown. “Then everything fell apart.”

    So they flew him to Nebraska where he died yesterday;

    “Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite out best efforts, we weren’t able to save him,” said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit.

    Salia arrived Saturday to be treated at the Omaha hospital, where two other Ebola patients have been successfully treated.

    We’ve been scolded by the healthcare industry because we’re panicking about the spread of this disease, but, you know, when it’s the healthcare industry that is flying around the world taking the disease with them, like luggage, I think we have the right to panic. It’s almost as if the US government wants to create a crisis here. It also seems that the healthcare professionals don’t know what they’re doing in regards to the virus.

  • Well, At Least She Saved the Police Some Trouble

    (facepalm)

    Yeah, alcohol was involved.

  • So . . . You Can’t Get Ebola from Someone On a Bus, Eh?

    NOTE: Article has been edited to reflect the apparent deliberate removal of the original version of the droplet spread factsheet from the CDC’s web site, as well as its replacement with a deliberately watered-down version downplaying the threat.

    Well, then why did the CDC publish this a few days ago?

    The first copy linked above was obtained two days ago – before it disappeared from CDC’s web site; you won’t find that document on their website today. Look here for the current watered-down “don’t worry, be happy” version from CDC – one that’s been “edited” to reflect the current      bogus, politically-based propaganda      Administration “party line”.

    Here’s what the pertinent section of the original document says (emphasis added):

     

    DROPLET SPREAD
    Droplet spread happens when droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person splash the eyes, nose, or mouth of another person, or cause environmental contamination, like a soiled bathroom surface or handrails, from which another person can pick up the infectious material.
    A person might also get infected by touching a surface or object that has germs on it and then touching their eyes, mouth or nose.  Droplets generally travel shorter distances, less than about 6 feet from a source patient.
    Germs like plague, meningitis, and Ebola can be spread through large droplets.

     

    Now, that really makes you feel like the      DC clown krewe      current Administration is doing all it can to keep the US public safe from the possibility of an Ebola outbreak here, doesn’t it?  I mean, we’re just letting anyone who’s been to the “hot zone” run around and do what they please – and depending on them to let us know if/when they start “feeling sick”.  All we’re going to do monitor them is take their temperature a couple of times a day.

    No, that technically isn’t “airborne spread” – true airborne spread produces particles (wet or dry) containing virions that are smaller, small enough to stay suspended in the air for a protracted period of time. Those smaller particles are about 1 micron or less in diameter; droplets sprayed during a cough or sneeze are typically larger than that.

    But here’s the “kicker”: all it takes is one particle.  Since Ebola’s viral load necessary for infection seems to be around one, coming in contact with only droplet containing one Ebola virion means you could be in for a really bad few weeks – or the guest of honor at a funeral.

    It also means you’re  hardly perfectly safe standing near a coughing or sneezing person who’s symptomatic with Ebola.  Or sitting next to them (or in the seat in front of them) on a bus, for that matter.  Or handling a doorknob after they’ve sneezed into their hand.

    Further, sprayed droplets sometimes do travel farther than 6 feet. So I’m not really sure “on the other side of a 15-foot wide room” is safe if the individual is coughing or sneezing repeatedly and strongly, either.

    A few days ago, this info was readily available on the CDC’s 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa page under either “What’s New” or with their other “Infographics” under the “West Africa Ebola Outbreak” icon.  I saw it, but I didn’t think much about it at the time; anyone who’s been following the situation should have already known that.

    But for some reason, the document is no longer prominently displayed on that page any more – though it’s still on the CDC site if you dig deep enough.  Follow the link and look for the item from October 31, 2014.

    No, I’m not the only one to notice this rather sudden change.  The New York Post noticed the original document a couple of days ago.   But today, it’s pretty well hidden – as the UK’s Daily Mail points out.  Indeed, per the Huffington Post the document seems to have become markedly harder to find the day after the NY Post ran its story about the CDC flier.

    Other previously-posted info on the CDC’s site about Ebola also seems to have re-written about that same time also.  The versions now posted appear to have been re-written to downplay the fact that Ebola can indeed be spread through droplet spray or via contaminated surfaces.

    You know, it seems to me almost like someone is intentionally misleading the public about the risks involved for political reasons. But this Administration would never do that, right? (Yes, that last sentence was sarcasm in the extreme.)

    Are you feeling like a mushroom yet?

    Yeah, you might want to check to see if your pants leg is wet – again.  And if it is . . . well, I don’t think that’s rain.

  • From the State That Gave Us the “Bill & Hill Show” . . .

    . . . we now have this headline:

    Democrat Running for Lt. Governor
    of Arkansas Used to be a Stripper
    No, I’m not joking.

    Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in Arkansas John Burkhalter said being a male stripper in Little Rock was one of the many “tough jobs” he had in his past.

    Yeah, it was years ago. And yeah, it’s an honest living – albeit one that raises eyebrows and is considered somewhat disreputable by many.

    Still, an ex-stripper as a state’s Lt Governor? Kinda seems . . . well, just a bit “off”.

    I knew Hope was not a strategy. I just didn’t realize it was a seedy bar in Arkansas with a rather raucous ladies’ night.  Then again:  considering the antics of the last President from Arkansas, I can’t say I’m exactly surprised, either.

    You really couldn’t make this sh!t up if you tried.