Now THAT's funny! :D

Michale

"Because they can't, we shouldn't so as not to make them feel bad???"

As Yoda put it, "Their is no try, only do." They have no do. Events will play out long before they get do. This situation is called a non-starter.

There was a joke that circulated in North Vietnam during the war. The North would ask the Soviets for more aid. The Soviets would reply, "tighten your belts." The North would cable back "please send belts."

Maybe, but my larger point is that nobody's talking about the border except for Republicans trying to make some political hay out of unjustified fearmongering.

Again: see the title of this article. Why are all the "American exceptionalists" so terrified of something that HASN'T EVEN HAPPENED? Whatever happened to the "land of the brave" being PART of that American exceptionalism? You're seriously thinking "We're not as good as Nigeria"? That's not very exceptional, is it?

I seem to remember you taking exception to Obama not being sufficiently "American exceptionalistic" in the past, at the drop of a hat, in fact. And now you're saying our public health system ranks below Nigeria's? I can just imagine what you would have said a few months ago if President Obama had made a statement like that....

-CW

But the logic against a travel ban falls completely apart when we are talking about closing the border..

Michale

That guy in Dallas snuck across the southern border? News to me. I thought he flew in on an airplane, which is what we're talking about here. I mean, your comment is just divorced from reality. When you can come up with a headline "Ebola patient sneaks across border" or for that matter an old one saying "Dems and Obama announce open border" then I'll listen to such nonsense, but not before, sorry.

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That statement is 100% accurate. What's fear-mongering about it? Fear-mongering is "ISIS is going to send Ebola-infected people across our southern border! AAAAHHH! Everybody run!"

See the title of this article, please.

If Medicaid expansion doesn't exist, uninsured people are not going to go to the hospital. That's pretty much of a fact. The Texas guy who died was uninsured, and he was turned away initially. Texas could have told the nurse not to travel to Ohio, but they didn't (she didn't actually contact the CDC, she contacted "Texas public health officials" who told her it was OK to fly).

Michale [13] -

Please go back and re-read Friday's column. HOW do you want a "travel ban" implemented? That's the question nobody calling for one can answer. Every answer is simply not sufficient to stop disease at the border. What Obama is doing right now has a MUCH higher chance of success, because people are still volutarily admitting that they've travelled to the infected countries. If there's a travel ban, people will stop admitting this and they'll be impossible to track. What are you going to do -- stop all flights from Europe? Then people will start travelling elsewhere to change planes. Stop all flights from everywhere?

Seriously, those calling for a travel ban can never answer what exactly we should do. Except poop our pants and panic.

Home of the brave? Hardly.

-CW

So???

Because they can't, we shouldn't so as not to make them feel bad???

Michale

Yes, but none of the countries in the Liberia - Sierra - Leone Guinea have the political or economic means to implement the common sense measures. Especially policing the borders.

It could be worse. People with Ebola who are highly contagious high virus load stages are usually too sick to travel. If that weren't so, Africa would have looked like Black Death Europe decades ago.

You mentioned something about Democrats not being crazy??

"If ebola comes to #tennessee our failure to have expanded #medicaid will cause much greater epidemic as uninsured wont get diagnosed early."
-Steve Cohen D Tennessee

I beg to differ.. :D

Crazy fear-mongering at it's finest...

Michale

What I mean is that borders be secured and traffic only allowed thru designated crossing points..

Crossing points where checks can be done and monitoring can be accomplished..

In other words, CLOSE the border that Obama and the Democrats opened..

It ain't rocket science...

It's common sense..

Michale

When you say you say close the borders, do you really mean all inbound travel, or just travelers from certain locations? If the latter, how do prevent cross contamination via travel across foreign borders you can't police. If you do mean closed to everybody, doesn't that amount to a self imposed blockade? History shows blockade to be one the best ways to bring an economy to its knees, even though all blockades are porous to some degree. Sieges are often associated with epidemics - deprivation makes populations more vulnerable to disease. Closing your borders strikes me as similar to committing suicide to avoid being killed.

What you want is a manageable, layered defense. Screen people at the border for signs of disease. Quarantine those who show signs. Use your public health infrastructure to do the same to your own citizens. Inoculate your citizens if the means exist. Manage disease reservoirs outside the human population. Stress proper sanitation - there is no risk if there is no exposure.

So, in other words, his movement was curtailed and that's what saved Nigeria...

And what does Closed Borders do??

Closed Borders curtail movement to prevent spread of the disease...

Michale

If the tables had been turned, politically, in this election, Republicans would be howling that Democrats had invented Ebola and imported it for their own nefarious political reasons. Admit it: you know the crazies on the right would be making such claims, if the positions were reversed.

To date, no Democrats or anyone on the Left has made such a claim. Even if it does turn out to be an effective October Surprise for Republicans. Because the Left just isn't that crazy.

Really???

The White Man Created Ebola To Kill Black People, Says Noted Scientist Louis Farrakhan
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/02/the-white-man-created-ebola-to-kill-black-people-says-noted-scientist-louis-farrakhan/

Left Wing crazies are just as crazy as Right Wing crazies... :D

Michale

OK,that WAS funny! I especially liked the "That 70s Show" version: Reds Kins

Heh.

-CW

I have answered comments back to last Monday, so go check them out to see. Well, except for that Ebolapalooza article, didn't get all the way through those comments, have to finish tomorrow.

Good game tonight, eh?

Go Giants!

:-)

The city's new motto just may become: "Every two years!!!"

Heh.

-CW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYf-ChIa5s

-CW

Funniest thing I've seen in a long time...

http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/10/19

but then I have a strange sense of humor. I'll check the Redskins video out, but I'm going to try to get through some comments here.

I apologize for taking a week off from answering these. First, I had to get my taxes done by 10/15, then I've been putting together an author interview/book review that'll likely run after the election, and I'm working on some behind-the-scenes code fixes with the site, so time's been kinda tight.

Anyway, check out that comic. Music lovers (of the 1960s-70s variety) should find it hilarious...

:-)

-CW

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/hari-kondabolu-redskins-logo-campaign