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  • About Those Terrorists Who “Didn’t” Sneak Across the Southwest Border . . .

    Remember those allegations made by Rep. Duncan Hunter about terrorists coming across the US Southwestern border?  You know, those allegations that the current       group of less-than-truthful persons of irregular parentage running things in DC     Administration claimed – in the words of DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson – were “categorically false”?

    Well, guess what?  It turns out those claims weren’t actually false at all.  Are you surprised the Administration “got it wrong” – again?  And apparently baldfaced lied about the matter?

    Nah, me either.  I’ve already had to get rid of several pair of trousers because they keep p!ssing on my leg and telling me it’s rain.

    While not members of ISIS, the 4 individuals in question were Turkish.  And

    The men initially claimed to be members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front, known by the acronym DHKP/C. The group is a Marxist insurgency that claimed credit for a 2013 suicide bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, last year.

    But U.S. counterterrorism officials said the men were more likely members of the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which has been battling for Kurdish rights within Turkey for decades, though recently PKK and Turkish leaders have tried to broker a political agreement.

    Both the PKK and DHKP/C are listed by the State Department as terrorist groups.  Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the fact that avowed members of terrorist groups got into the U.S. shows it’s possible to sneak across a porous border.

    So, they’re not ISIS/ISIL terrorists – they’re simply other terrorists.  They only claimed to be members of a group of Marxists that have conducted suicide bomber attacks on a US Embassy, and which is recognized as a terrorist group by the State Department.

    But they’re not ISIS/ISIL.  So I guess to this      group of clueless idiots      Administration that means, “No problem; it’s all good.”

    The four men in question apparently paid a smuggler network $8,000 each to be smuggled into the US.  I’m guessing they weren’t the first to do that.  And I’m also guessing the lies we heard here about them not being terrorists aren’t the only lies we’re going to hear along those lines from this Administration, either.

    The Washington Times had a fairly good article the other day on the subject; the quote above is from that article.  It’s worth reading.

  • So, How Are Things In Iraq Going These Days?

    So, How Are Things In Iraq Going These Days?

    Not so good, apparently.  In fact, it looks like those 1,600 or so “advisors” we already have there are about to have some company.  Because – in time-honored “bury news we don’t want anyone to notice by announcing it no a Friday afternoon” tradition, yesterday we had this little announcement:

    Obama authorizes 1,500 more troops for Iraq

    This won’t be free, of course.  So the Administration is asking for an additional $5+ billion to pay for their deployment.  And a significant change to previous policy, our troops will now be allowed to operate at installations outside of Baghdad and Erbil, too.

    But don’t worry that we’re about to get involved in another war in Iraq – oh, no.  These new troops will be “advisers, trainers and security personnel“.     But according to the White House, they “won’t serve in a combat role“.

    Yeah, right.  Does anyone really believe that last load of bullsh!t?  Our “advisers” in Vietnam prior to July 1965 supposedly weren’t “serving in a combat role”, either.

    Ya know, sometimes it seems to me like we should have negotiated an agreement to leave a few units in-place in Iraq in 2011 rather than pulling everything out helter-skelter.  But I guess that just wasn’t possible.  And besides, no one believed we ever might need to have forces on the ground there after the end of 2011 to guard against the possibility of future troubles – well, except for the SECDEF at the time and a former Ambassador to Iraq.

    Are your pants legs wet yet?  Better check.  And, for the record: it was pretty clear here yesterday.  So if you’re leg’s wet, I don’t think that was rain – even if some folks keep telling you its been raining.

    From Jonn; I wrote a post on the same subject before I saw Hondo’s post so I added it below rather than make two posts;

    last convoy out of Iraq

    What? No, that can’t be right. Reuters is reporting that the Obama Administration has announced that they’re sending 1500 more troops to Iraq. It was announced a few days after the election, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with it. So what’s that? About 3,000 US troops there now?

    [Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John] Kirby told a Pentagon news briefing that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was urging Congress to approve the funding as soon as possible. It is part of a larger $5.6 billion supplemental spending request.

    Alarmed by the advance of Islamic State militants across Iraq, Obama began sending non-combatant troops back to Iraq in the summer for the first time since he withdrew U.S. forces from the country in 2011.

    Officials denied the troop buildup amounted to “mission creep” and said it was justified partly because of Iraqi Shi’ite efforts to reach out to Sunni tribesmen after the election of Shi’ite Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

    Yeah, it is not mission creep. It started with 200 troops and now it has increased to 15 times that number. And they still insist that they’re not there to engage in combat operations. Put enough of them on the ground and they will be engaged whether you want them to be or not.

  • Two More Afghans Vote With Their Feet

    Well, it looks as if a couple of other Afghan officials training in the USA have voted with their feet. Two others have now been reported to have walked away from training and disappeared.

    The two were attending prison-reform training in Colorado, apparently conducted by the Colorado Department of Corrections. One of the individuals disappeared in September 2013; the other, in February.

    One of the two individuals was later apprehended while attempting to cross into Canada. It’s unclear which of the two – the one who disappeared in September, or the one who disappeared in February – was apprehended.

    Identities of the two individuals have not been released due to concern for the safety of their families’ remaining in Afghanistan. The individual at large is not thought to pose a threat.

    I guess these guys decided they really don’t want to see how things work out in their homeland after we leave. Why? My guess is because they want to stay alive.

    I suppose I can’t blame them for that.

  • Yeah, That Could Explain It

    Perhaps you’ve noticed a certain news story has been missing in the news for the past few days.  I’m talking about the Ebola epidemic and stories about possible cases turning up in the US.

    At first, I thought it had simply been displaced by election news.  After all, the election was big news.  But it’s still missing.

    I think I know why now.  And I think I was wrong.

    Check out the dates on the first of these stories – and then think about when the Ebola stories disappeared (a couple of days before the election, as I recall):

    HERE’S Why Ebola Is No Longer In the News

    Report: Obama Administration Pressured News
    Outlets to Not Report Suspected Ebola Cases

    Oh, and it looks like it’s not just the media that’s subscribing to treating the US public like mushrooms:

    Md. to stop providing updates on Ebola
    investigations, unless cases confirmed

    Yeah, that’s REALLY the way to ensure public trust in government – feed the public bullsh!t, then pressure the media to hide the ugly truth.  Well, I’ve seen that movie once before – around 1967-1968.  I was just a kid at the time, but as I recall it pretty much sucked then.  It sucks just as bad now.

    Sheesh.  What’s next – are we going to see the Surgeon General (or maybe the POTUS) come to a news conference and channel Admiral Felt, yelling at nosy reporters to “Get on the team!”?

     

  • Nice Sidestep, Mr. SECNAV. Nice Backbone, Mr. SECDEF.

    Remember those recent allegations that the military records of the outgoing Commandant of the Marine Corps – Gen James Amos – were not exactly 100% “kosher”? You know, that little “oopsie” where somehow a signed official bio submitted for Senate confirmation seemed to claim that Gen Amos went to USMC’s “The Basic School” in 1972 when in truth he actually received credit for completing it via correspondence in 1977?

    Well, you’ll be pleased to hear that – in the words of Gertrude Stein – “there is no there there”. The SECDEF has determined that the error in Gen Amos’ bio was due to a “data entry error” on the part of the person preparing the resume, and that claims Gen Amos padded his resume were “not . . . credible.” He also further determined that Gen Amos did not engage in misconduct in terms of unlawful command influence two other matters – the famous “urination video” and “Heritage Brief” incidents.

    Bottom line:  “Nothing to see here, folks; move along.”  Gen Amos will retire with 4 stars.

    Well – isn’t that special. “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”

    Frankly, the fact that Gen Amos will retire as a 4-star isn’t the part that bothers me the most. I indeed have a hard time believing that Gen Amos didn’t adequately and thoroughly review the bio submitted to Congress over his signature.  However, since someone else actually prepared the bio that claim is at least plausible (if IMO pretty damned unlikely).

    And while I have my own personal opinions about the other two incidents, I wasn’t there – so I don’t really know the “real deal” on those, either. The DoD IG apparently did clear him of outright misconduct in the “urination video” case.  Regarding the “Heritage Brief” issue, precisely when a public statement does and does not constitute improper command influence in a Court-Martial is IMO a fairly murky area.  And besides, even if Gen Amos “fornicated Fido”* in one or both of those cases I’m not sure that rises to the level of misconduct invalidating “successful service”.

    What bothers me more is the way this was handled by the SECNAV and SECDEF. The SECNAV could have handled this himself.  He didn’t; he punted it to the SECDEF.  And the SECDEF’s statement here IMO gives the distinct impression of obfuscating through dwelling on irrelevant trivia – perhaps in order to bolster a predetermined conclusion – vice making a decision based on his own evaluation of the pertinent facts.

    I mean really, Secretary Mabus:  you couldn’t review the facts and make the determination yourself whether Gen Amos was truthful when he submitted a signed bio to Congress that was incorrect? And really, Secretary Hagel:  blaming the submission of a clearly erroneous but signed document on a “data entry error”? Really?

    Bottom line: I’d expect a SECNAV to be more decisive than that.  And I’d expect both a SECNAV and SECDEF to actually, you know, face and make hard decisions head-on – particularly since the each is a member of the chain-of-command (administrative in the case of the SECNAV; both administrative and operational in the case of the SECDEF).

    One day, perhaps we’ll see that kind of decisive leadership again at senior levels.  But based on this, I guess we won’t see it any time soon.

     

    * – PC-speak for “screwed the pooch”.  Used here for the benefit of any of our sheltered-from-reality “liberal brethren” who might chance across this article and be offended by non-PC language.

  • Worried About an Epidemic Caused By “Dumb Government Tricks”? Too Late. We Already Have One.

    More precisely: we have one today, courtesy of our    clueless DC clown krewe’s     wonderful Administration’s “we don’t need no steenkin’ public health” policies.

    We already know the current     group of fools and tools calling the shots in DC     Administration doesn’t want to take effective measures to keep Ebola out of the US.  Logically, since Ebola seems to be about 70% fatal that means they’re apparently OK with letting Ebola come to the US and kill maybe 90 or so folks by the end of the year.  (Projections are for up to 130 additional cases of Ebola in the US by year’s end under the Administration’s current “don’t worry/be happy” Ebola control policies; 70% of 130 is 91.)

    Well, that really should be no surprise – hell, we should have seen it coming. Because      those starry-eyed, “We Are the World”-singing, ideology-driven imbeciles     the current Administration is already responsible for the needless deaths via imported disease of several US children; the paralysis of dozens of others; and hundreds ending up seriously ill in hospital emergency rooms and/or ICUs due to their asinine policies.

    We all know that the     Marxist morons running the Executive branch     current Administration has essentially run an open Southwestern border for months – “for the sake of the children”, allegedly. Well, along with the criminals and other illegals who took advantage . . . another thoroughly unwelcome import seems to have come along for the ride.

    It’s called EV-D68. It’s an enterovirus that’s common in Central America, but which was previously quite rare in the US.

    Because of recent Administration policy along our Southwestern border, however, today it’s no longer rare in the US. In fact, today the US appears to be smack-dab in the middle of a full-blown epidemic of EV-D68.

    Wonder how that happened, and what it’s done? Here’s an excerpt from a DailyCaller article on the subject:

    The deadly EV-D68 enterovirus epidemic, which struck thousands of kids this fall, was likely propelled through America by President Barack Obama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence.

    . . .

    So far, that virus has been found in nine people — including at least three American kids — who died from illness. It has apparently inflicted unprecedented polio-like paralysis in roughly 50 kids, and it has put hundreds of young American kids into hospital emergency wards and intensive care units throughout more than 40 states. Most of the dead have not been publicly identified.

    Yeah, you read that correctly: thousands sickened, hundreds seriously ill, about 50 paralyzed, and 9 dead – so far. In just a few months, the disease has already spread across more than 40 states (47, to be precise). And more cases are certain to appear in the future.

    Sounds like a freaking epidemic to me.  Hell, it’s probably established and endemic in the US now.

    And the “best” part? It was a completely preventable epidemic.  It was caused by a handful of politically-driven, manifestly stupid policy decisions – decisions that gave higher priority to helping non-citizens break US law than enforcing US law or protecting the nation.

    You should go and read the full DailyCaller article.  It’s fairly long, so budget time accordingly.

    I’m guessing the article will p!ss you off royally.  It damn well should.  And after reading it, perhaps the Administration’s seeming lack of concern about Ebola will make a bit more sense.

    Why? Well, for what it’s worth: reading the DailyCaller article, it appears that the CDC seems to be doing it’s best to “stonewall” inquiries regarding technical data and analysis about the origins of current EV-D68 epidemic, and possibly also downplay its severity. They don’t seem to want to answer reasonable questions, and almost seem to be making difficult for 3rd parties to obtain much information about what’s going on. “Deliberately uncooperative” is the phrase that comes to mind.

    To me, that kinda sounds quite familiar – and says much. But maybe that’s just me. Interpret the situation as you see fit personally; come to your own conclusions.

    But here’s my take: after seeing how the Administration handled EV-D68 and is handling Ebola, there are really only two possibilities that come to mind that plausibly explain the “why” behind their actions in each case.  And, bluntly: both of those possibilities absolutely reek.

    Best case, the Administration is acting as it has because they’re utterly incompetent and clueless – so incompetent and clueless that they literally don’t realize their policies are endangering the US public.  Or maybe they just are too stupid to believe reality when it smacks them in the face. Either works.

    That’s the best case.

    Worst case?  Worst case is that they know full well they’re endangering the public.  But in spite of that knowledge, they’re going ahead anyway – because they just don’t give a sh!t that their asinine, politically-driven policies which deny reality are needlessly costing US citizens their lives. To them, playing politics is far more important than protecting public health and safety – so it’s “full speed ahead”. A few unnecessary innocent corpses here and there are just “the cost of doing business”.

    Previously, I could believe either of the “best case” options above.  But after now seeing two recent, similar examples of this Administration’s blatant disregard of public health and safety to push their political agenda, I can’t really say I can believe that any more.

  • More Ebola Follies, Courtesy of the Clueless DC Clown Krewe and Others

    Here ya go. Try not to blow a gasket at the utter stupidity.

    • An idiot judge in Maine ruled against allowing the State of Maine to quarantine that Narcissistic Ditz and Special Little Snowflake of a nurse who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa.

    • At the same time, it’s been reported that Ditzy’s roommate in Africa appears to have contracted Ebola.

    • While in another example of Ditzy being Ditzy, that Narcissist Ditz and Special Little Snowflake nurse in Maine has now stated that she believes Ebola quarantines to be an “abundance of politics”.  (sigh)  You know, you’d think a nurse would know at least a little something about protecting the public from deadly and incurable diseases for which no vaccine exists.  Oh, wait – I forgot.  She’s “special”, so those measures simply don’t apply to her.  Her convenience is more important than protecting the public.

    • As I previously wrote here at TAH: a few days ago, CDC admitted that droplets from a sneeze could spread Ebola.  However, not long afterwards they abruptly did an about-face and replaced that admission on their web site with a “don’t worry, be happy” version downplaying that fact – apparently in order to hide politically inconvenient truth from the general public.

    (Don’t believe me? Look here for their original admission from 29 October – which has now vanished from their site. Look here for the watered-down version that replaced it, dated 1 November. The original version appears to have vanished from the CDC website sometime on or after 31 October, probably on 1 November  – but not before a copy was archived for posterity on 31 October. [smile]

    And please, libidiots: spare me those transparently bogus “The document was revised to make it more accurate” claims.  IMO that claim’s very obviously bullsh!t, and anyone with even two working brain cells can see it’s bullsh!t. It was revised because the original version was obviously written by someone who actually cares more about protecting the public than playing politics – and thus contradicted the Administration’s desired “fairy tale with a happy ending” story now found in the new version.)

    • However, at the same time WHO is recommending sneeze protection as appropriate for those around Ebola sufferers. You know, WHO has been directly managing the efforts to contain Ebola in West Africa for a while. Maybe they know a thing or two about how Ebola really spreads.  And they don’t seem interested in hiding the truth for political reasons, either.

    • Of course the WHO isn’t exactly the poster child for accuracy and transparency concerning the West African Ebola Outbreak, either. Last Friday (31 October), it revised the outbreak fatality and total case figures from Guinea substantially downward – due ostensibly to removal of “suspected cases” from the totals.  Total casualty figures for the outbreak are now set at 4,951 dead and 13,567 total cases to date – which are estimated to be only 40% of the true total.  Now, while WHO doesn’t have any real reason to exclude suspected cases, the government of Guinea – who reports the totals – certainly might have an agenda here (make it appear as if things are under control, and thus ease travel and trade restrictions). Given that, plus the known massive degree of under-reporting of Ebola cases to date during this outbreak, pardon me if I take that “removal of suspected cases” rationale for lowering the numbers with a HUGE grain of salt.  Figuratively speaking, of course.

    • FEMA also is currently conducting a pandemic exercise in NYC and northern NJ. Kinda makes one wonder, eh? Especially after that little incident with our “loose cannon” and self-appointed demigod doctor in NYC who apparently thought he was Superman – and found out the hard way he wasn’t.

    • CDC has reportedly announced its intent to procure PPE – and other items, including body bags – for use during the current Ebola outbreak. And the Pentagon is funding preclinical trials of Ebola vaccine produced by Protectus Biosciences.  These last two were noted on Infowars.com here and here, of course with the typical Infowars breathless, conspiracy-oriented spin. But even blind squirrels occasionally find a walnut. (I’ve chosen to link here to the actual source announcements first.  Look at the latter two links if you want to see Infowars’ conspiracy-theory-laden take on them.)

    • Remember those airport screenings the Administration said would protect us from importing Ebola without imposing a ban on travel to the US from the outbreak area? Studies of past similar efforts show exactly what many experts predicted before we even began the program:  they’re essentially worthless, “for show only” exercises when it comes to actually identifying people with latent infectious diseases having similar symptoms.  But “that’s our      story      policy and we’re sticking to it.”

    • Canada’s leaders have proved they’re not utterly naive PC fools. They’ve followed Australia’s lead and suspended entry to Canada for people who’d been in a nation with widespread Ebola outbreaks during the past 3 months. I guess Canadian leaders still realize that their first responsibility is to, you know, protect their own public first.  Maybe some folks in the current Administration should take notes. (Predictably, folks in Sierra Leone aren’t pleased, calling the decision “discriminatory”.  No, dipsticks – it’s called “erring on the side of caution”.  Everyone should be doing the same.)

    • Hell, even Emmental-Boi and Supreme Idiot ND:tBF and his moronic geriatric cronies in Norkland have the sense to know that you don’t take any chances whatsoever when it comes to Ebola. They’ve clamped down harder than Canada and Australia.

    • Spanish intel reportedly has intercepted Jihadist electronic talk about using Ebola as a weapon. Well, OK.  However, given what I’ve seen regarding the competence of the vast majority of those goat- and/or donkey-fornicating “geniuses” I don’t plan on losing any sleep over this.  Provided here FYI, since YMMV.

    • A major US nurses’ union apparently plans strikes to protest of the “lack of adequate protective gear” for nurses caring for Ebola patients. Well, that’s their stated reason. I suspect the real reason may be that the union in question is in the middle of acrimonious negotiations with Kaiser Permanente in California regarding a new contract, and that this stated rationale for striking is actually little more than a “timely justification of convenience” that the nurses’ union thinks will play well in the press.  But I could be wrong.

    • The aide group MSF says that the Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak is much worse than is being reported. Yeah?  OK, now tell us something we didn’t already know. Even if MSF has an obvious agenda and is a group of freaking idiots who clearly must have more money than they can use (they actually turned down a donation of funds worth roughly $2M from the Australian government a few weeks ago for political reasons), here they’re simply telling us something that anyone who’s been following this situation closely already knows all too well.

    And, lastly:

    • Models predict up to 130 US Ebola cases in US by end of year if current policies remain unchanged. That’s the high-end, worst-case estimate; the best case estimates say we should expect one or two more.  Reality will likely be somewhere between the two – but could theoretically be better or worse if we get really lucky or unlucky.  Since this strain of Ebola’s fatality rate seems to be around 70%, I guess that means the current Administration is OK with seeing 90 people or so in the US die a horrible, eminently preventable death for no other reason than order to show our “solidarity with the people of West Africa” (or some other such      old-style Marxist      manifestly idiotic      outdated Communist       naive but Politically Correct      One World Propaganda      starry-eyed, nebulous, feelgood sound-bite claptrap).

    Sheesh.  Looks to me like the late Robert A. Heinlein was a bit off in his estimated time-frame for the “Crazy Years”.  Obviously they’re still ongoing.

    A final parting thought for today.  A TAH reader asked me in a private email if I’d noticed what follows.  Yeah, I had; I though it was pretty damn obvious, so I haven’t mentioned it in any articles here to date. But maybe it’s not as obvious as I thought.

    It seems to me that the     clueless DC clown krewe      current Administration seems to be taking the position regarding the West African Ebola Outbreak that “it’s better to fight Ebola overseas so we don’t have to fight it here”.  Well, my leftist “brethren”, pray tell: why in the hell was fighting overseas rather than here in the US such a horrible idea when former President Bush adopted it as our strategy for fighting Islamic terrorism roughly a decade ago?

     . . .

    I guess that’s all for today.  Might want to check your trouser legs again, though.  The weather looks to be fairly clear here, so if your trousers are wet . . . .

     

    (Hat-tip to Drudge for bringing most of the above links to my attention.)

  • 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.