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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Elderly Florida Diner Beaten In Cursing Dispute
[THESMOKINGGUN] When an 80-year-old Applebee's patron politely asked him to stop loudly cursing and talking about "titties and ass," a Floridian, 26, responded by punching the octogenarian in the face, according to police.

The confrontation late Sunday in the Port Orange eatery resulted in the arrest of Mikie Sawyer on a felony charge for battering a person over the age of 65.

Harry Sander told police that he was at the Applebee's bar when he heard Sawyer "talking obscenities." Sander said that he approached Sawyer "and asked him politely if he could please stop using the 'fuck' word and stop talking so loud about 'titties and ass,'" according to a police report.

After Sawyer replied that he did not have to stop cursing, Sander noted that in his home country of Germany, "you don't speak in such a manner." A witness told a Port Orange Police Department officer that Sawyer replied, "I don't care where you are from whether it be Russia or Dutch take your ass to the other side of the bar."

Sawyer then allegedly punched Sander in the face and pushed the pensioner to the Applebee's floor. Sander "stated he does not remember much after that moment." Sander's left eye was red and his left cheek was "discolored and bruised," noted Sherlocks, who added that Sawyer's knuckles "appeared discolored and bruised."

The elderly victim was treated for his injuries by emergency medical services who responded to the Applebee's.

Following the punch, Sawyer departed with two friends. When a restaurant manager followed him into the parking lot, Sawyer charged the worker in a "threatening manner" and warned that he "would also kick [the employee's] ass too."

Sawyer, who was apprehended during a traffic stop, was placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for battery and disporderly conduct, a misdemeanor.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sawyer might have been shocked had Herr Sander, after being assaulted, pulled out a Walther PPK and emptied the magazine into Sawyers belly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 6:25 Comments || Top||

#2  after while being assaulted
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2014 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  PPK or this little H&K 9 mm squeeze cocker.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/02/2014 17:28 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
'Dual Survival' star stripped of SF Association membership
[Mil Times] Discovery Channel's "Dual Survival" reality star Joseph Teti, a former Army and Marine Corps special operator, has been disavowed by the Special Forces Association and stripped of his membership with the group.

"He is no longer a member and cannot rejoin," retired Army Col. Jack Tobin, president of the association, told Military Times.
We're returning your DD-214 and course completion certificates Joe. Nobody on Smoke Bomb Hill knows you. Have a nice day.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 11:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Deer Struck By The Ultimate Roller Coaster In England
[BREITBART] A theme park confirmed a young deer was struck by a roller coaster, killing the animal and covering passengers in blood.

A spokeswoman for the Lightwater Valley theme park near Ripon, England, confirmed the deer wandered Saturday morning onto the track of The Ultimate, billed as Europe's longest roller coaster, and was struck by the car.

"We can confirm a young deer did unfortunately get hit by the Ultimate train yesterday and was killed instantly," the spokeswoman said. "There is a large perimeter fence surrounding the theme park but occasionally wild animals do manage to stray onto the park during the night."

The roller coaster was closed for 30 minutes before resuming normal operations.

Reports indicate passengers were sprayed with the animal's blood, but there were no human injuries from the crash.

A deer previously wandered onto The Ultimate's tracks in June 1994 and was struck by a car, resulting in the hospitalization of a 12-year-old boy.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now that's a Dark Ride.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/02/2014 5:54 Comments || Top||

#2  I can only hope the deer was not carrying the Ebola virus...
Posted by: Dar || 10/02/2014 13:52 Comments || Top||

#3  One more post and this will be as popular as "Pierson Resigns".
Posted by: KBK || 10/02/2014 14:10 Comments || Top||

#4  History Repeats itself: A deer previously wandered onto The Ultimate's tracks in June 1994 and was struck by a car

Ah-Oh, The same fate as Uncle Clive in 1994....

Posted by: Black Bart Turkeyneck5798 || 10/02/2014 14:14 Comments || Top||

#5  If they had only put those 'Deer Crossing' signs in areas where the roller coaster went up, then the deer could have safely passed underneath. But Nooo, they didn't so the deer were forced to cross wherever........
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/02/2014 14:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Aaand we're over the top! Wheeee...splat
Posted by: KBK || 10/02/2014 14:21 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
CDC Official: TX ER "dropped the ball" on 1st US Ebola case
(CNN) -- The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola on American soil went to the emergency room last week, but was released from the hospital even though he told staff he had traveled from Liberia.

"A travel history was taken, but it wasn't communicated to the people who were making the decision.
wasn't "fully communicated" to doctors -- Texas doctors are incapable of taking their patients' medical / travel history on their own initiative? Was the patient incapable of giving this history? Or was the medical & nursing staff simply running on automatic pilot?
I know where Liberia is and I know why it's important...
It was a mistake. They dropped the ball," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

"You don't want to pile on them, but hopefully this will never happen again. ... The CDC has been vigorously emphasizing the need for a travel history," Fauci told CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper."

Hospital officials have acknowledged that the patient's travel history wasn't "fully communicated" to doctors, but also said in a statement Wednesday that based on his symptoms, there was no reason to admit him when he first came to the emergency room last Thursday night.
based on his symptoms, there was no reason -- weasel words. In what alternate universe is medical treatment & disposition based on symptoms alone? Once I was on the verge of sending a patient home based on symptoms alone, until the family informed me that the patient had passed out in their living room & they performed CPR before bringing granny to the ER. Naturally granny had no idea about this & so couldn't account for her sore chest.
Now wait: ER docs have to make this call all the time and I don't envy them. It is the patients you send home that worry you the most. How many people roll into the ER every day with a little fever and GI distress? Plenty. How many do we admit -- virtually none, because they don't require admission. And if we admitted them all we wouldn't have beds for anyone else.

You write as if you're a doc as well -- so then, you know this as well as I do. What the hospital said may not have been weasel words at all -- if they didn't know the man's travel history then he's got a fever and tummy ache. That doesn't punch your ticket.

As always, we need for info. Of course we can't trust CNN for that.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/02/2014 09:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The CDC has been vigorously emphasizing the need for a travel history," Fauci told CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper."

Here's a novel idea. How about we isolate the threat and simple suspend fok'n travel to and from affected areas until this thing runs it's course ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 11:09 Comments || Top||

#2  That'd make too much sense, B.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/02/2014 12:18 Comments || Top||

#3  White House Places No Ebola Travel Restrictions
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/02/2014 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Immigration official sez regime is to blame.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 12:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Any one who comes here who is from that area, they may try a round about set of connections to avoid restrictions from direct flights, will be quarantined for 21 days in a "leprosy center" so to speak. If they aren't sick and still alive, they are free to go.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 10/02/2014 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  The patient had to have known that he'd come in contact with folks suffering from Ebola. Supposedly he had helped carry a dying woman, who told everyone she had it, some distance while he was in Liberia, and later had come in contact with a child diagnosed as having it.

A couple weeks later, he was sick.

Even if there was a severe language problem, wouldn't you find a way to tell the doctors/nurses treating you that you had been in contact with it? Was he in denial?

Or, did someone not pay attention?

A few questions left unanswered at this point.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/02/2014 13:18 Comments || Top||

#7  He says he told them his travel history. The hospital says it is investigating. Meanwhile, some of his closets contacts have been ordered to stay home, with no visitors.

What if they run out of food before they get sick?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/02/2014 13:36 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm starting to be reminded of a cartoon my dad made once for his desk. It showed someone with an "Engineering" name tag in aptoplectic shock, shouting "Oh Shit! You did it just like I told you!"
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/02/2014 13:47 Comments || Top||

#9  .What if they run out of food before they get sick?

I would call the pharmacy at my grocery store -- where they know me very well -- and ask them about getting basics delivered to the house, charged to my credit card. Or Amazon -- they deliver, and if I go through Rantburg, Fred even gets a kickback. Of course I'm in this country legally, I have a valid credit card, and a front stoop where things can be left without personal interaction. An illegal living on a cash-only basis in an apartment building without a doorman would have to rely on the telephone and personal contacts willing to drop groceries on the doormat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/02/2014 14:04 Comments || Top||

#10  I bet he had no insurance so they gave him two aspirin and showed him the door.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 10/02/2014 14:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Because at this point the odds are that most of those exposed won't get sick, they'll just be bored to tears as a precaution. Nigeria (?) seems to have scotched their possible outbreak by using the same kind of contact tracing and isolation of all possible contacts of the idiot who came down ebola on the flight to their airport, and subsequently died in hospital.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/02/2014 14:08 Comments || Top||

#12  We did more to prevent the spread of mad cow.

I recently heard Texas has upwards of 10,000 liberians. If so the hospitals should be very aware of the chances and should have set up quarantine facilities just in case. better to inconvenience a few than to deal with a real outbreak.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/02/2014 14:21 Comments || Top||

#13  "We did more to prevent the spread of mad cow." Which was a non problem.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/02/2014 15:28 Comments || Top||

#14  TW, I'm not so confident. The way Ebola arrived in the US seems similar to how it arrived in Nigeria. But there some important differences, and not in our favor.

Patrick Sawyer collapsed in the Lagos airport and was taken directly to the hospital. From him, it spread only to health workers who had direct contact with him, and their families.

Health workers are much more likely to know and follow strict hygiene and quarantine procedures than Joe Q. Public, or children.

Sawyer was not out roaming around in Lagos for 4 days while symptomatic.

He did not directly expose a number of his own relatives and five children, who attend four different schools, and apparently were in school for at least a few days after being exposed.

In sum, Duncan created many more potential chains of transmission than Sawyer did. And many of the people he exposed are not health workers.

Furthermore, US officials' insistence that we are so much sophisticated than Africans is bunk. We are still humans, and idiots.

For example: many Americans have a strongly ingrained sense of entitlement to personal rights and freedoms even under the most exigent circumstances, such as an extinction-level pandemic. I find it unlikely that Ronulans and the Free Sh!t Army, for example, would submit to 3 weeks of quarantine without the threat of force, or actual use thereof.

Finally: the more I hear from CDC Director Tom Frieden and other honchos, the less confidence I have. Frieden could barely suppress the panic in his own voice. Others are confidently downplaying any concerns, by making assertions with no basis in fact.

And the more they insist everything is under control, the more it seems like no one has any idea what they're doing. Compared to Africa, the US health system has almost no real-world experience with widespread infectious disease. Further: no travel restrictions? Open borders? Business as usual, nothing to see here, move along? Seriously? It's like there's no one in charge.

So, IMHO, I think it will be sheer blind dumb luck, or an act of G-d, if things here turn out as well as they did in Nigeria.
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/02/2014 15:45 Comments || Top||

#15  Likely story? Busy nurse, didn't chart the data. With the Electronic stuff we have going on (mandated by Obamacare), all she had to do was miss a checkbox on a "structured note" when taking the H&P, and nobody would ever know it was even asked. Thus the busy ER Doc may not have had it available for him to see. Absent the travel info, all the doc is working with is a fever and pain. That could be a simple norovirus, whcih means go home push fluids, take tylenol and ride it out - come back only if it gets worse.

Secondarily, the fact that the patient was at an ER for a fever and headache obliquely tells me he was likely uninsured - because insured folks go to their family doctor, or a local clinic, not a hospital. That puts him in there with lots of other patients who use the ER like a regular doctors office, most of whom do not need to be there, many of whom are illegals in Texas.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/02/2014 16:07 Comments || Top||

#16  Nonetheless, what kind of Doc sees a patient who speaks English with an African lilt displaying the symptoms and doesn't even think to himself, "Jeez, I sure hope this guy doesn't have Ebola cause I just took his pulse?" Or do Docs not touch their patients any more?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/02/2014 16:18 Comments || Top||

#17  Liberian worked for FEDEX. Got fired. Made contact with an EBOLA victim. Then went immediately to the US.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 10/02/2014 16:38 Comments || Top||

#18  NS, in a busy ER, it is possible the doc read the chart, didn't see anything amiss, talked to the patient for a moment, checked McBurney's point (appendicitis), noted the pain was upper abdominal, and called it "stomach virus" and sent him home with instructions to hydrate and take tylenol or motrin.

As for the accent, its a downtown hospital in the 5th largest metropolitan area in the US -- lots and lots of accents, especially uninsured in the ER, so that likely did not raise any suspicions (its typical, not atypical in an urban ER).

Posted by: OldSpook || 10/02/2014 17:43 Comments || Top||

#19  One other FYI, the patient was asymptomatic - they did check temperature when boarding. And apparently you don't start shedding the virus until symptoms appear, which was several days after being in the US.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/02/2014 17:47 Comments || Top||

#20  One question for the Libertarians: how does your ideal of "open borders" (i.e. uncontrolled) deal with this? Hmmm?

Yeah, thought so. Libertarians are idiots when it comes to the border and national sovereignty - and dealing with irrational leaders of aggressive countries. Foreign policy stupidity (or, more charitably, naivete) is what drove me out of the libertarian movement. Unlike them and their fantasy world where everyone can be bargained with financially, I know there are people that live off hate and power, not rationality, I've met them and fought them. They can only be stopped with force, and can only be prevented from acting by the certainty of overwhelming destructive and deadly force directly against their person and/or family. The first thing you need is a good barrier to keep them out, and to control who you let in.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/02/2014 17:50 Comments || Top||

#21  Another ball might have been dropped:
”So who cleaned up the (Ebola patient's) vomit, and where are they now…?…..what system did the vomit pass into?”

Top men!
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 10/02/2014 18:03 Comments || Top||

#22  TW, I'm not so confident. The way Ebola arrived in the US seems similar to how it arrived in Nigeria. But there some important differences, and not in our favor.

I'll stock the pantry, then, and get some bottles of stable bleach and a box or two of trash bags. This is my reference for nursing items for the duration. But if it really gets bad, I'm toast; my condition makes me more susceptible to infections, less able to fight them, and I lack the sustained attention to detail necessary to avoid infection under such circumstances.

Furthermore, US officials' insistence that we are so much sophisticated than Africans is bunk. We are still humans, and idiots.

Oh yes. Not just officials -- I've seen similar nonsense on Facebook. And, the anti-vaxxer types are as likely to reject the idea of a threat as any ignorant African villager believing it's the result of black magic.

many Americans have a strongly ingrained sense of entitlement to personal rights and freedoms even under the most exigent circumstances, such as an extinction-level pandemic. I find it unlikely that Ronulans and the Free Sh!t Army, for example, would submit to 3 weeks of quarantine without the threat of force, or actual use thereof.

Agreed. Although I'm not sure who the Ronulans are in this statement.

On the other hand, we have a lot more doctors and hospitals per capita, and they are a good deal more sophisticated than anything in Nigeria, even if there have been entirely too many shortages in supplies and medications recently -- thanks in part to an overzealous FDA, as far as I can tell. And, thanks to the large percentage of people living in the suburbs, getting about in their own cars, and doing things like shopping, work, and socializing via the internet, we have fewer interactions with others at close quarters on daily basis than the Nigerians, and therefore a somewhat reduced chance of being in the same space as an infected person. I'd think this would somewhat slow the rate of transmission, giving people more time to prepare and respond.

And finally, we do have at least some plans in place for a pandemic: I've a friend who is a factory Quality Assurance manager, and several years ago she was tasked with drawing up plans and stocking her factory with supplies against the H1N1 possibility. The assumption was that people would be locked in for the duration to prevent spread, either if a worker came in sick or if there was sickness offsite. She told me that all mid-and large size companies were supposed to quietly do the same. It was going to be hard on the families, she admitted, but they had a responsibility to do what they could.

Finally, there's this: Israeli app helps inform about ebola. A little thing, but free and Apple could easily push it to all iDevices -- and the other guys to their smartphones -- with as little effort as they did that song/album that people are fussing about having received. Apparently it's proving a big help where it's been deployed in the affected bits of Africa.

Bottom line, I can be more sanguine, RandomJD, because you and others are handling the worrying and the wargaming. And if it doesn't get bad, my supplies will get used, as did the duck tape and plastic bags I would have used to seal off my closet in case of a post-9/11 gas attack, and the pantry supplies I keep on hand for a two week long, weather-induced power outage. We've gone up to ten days, you see, here at the far end of the power lines.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/02/2014 18:57 Comments || Top||

#23  Or do Docs not touch their patients any more?

Pulse and other vitals are usually done by Nurse, Nurse's aid, or some other assistant aren't they? The Doctor's seldom soil their fingers with such mundane procedures.

Hmm... I wonder if anyone checked on the unlucky bastard[ette] who did it.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/02/2014 19:41 Comments || Top||

#24  The Doctor's seldom soil their fingers with such mundane procedures.

Not if you're trying to cover, diagnose, and treat a dozen to two dozen emergency beds, get your patients' notes down correctly (and before you forget,) enter scrips, consult with other physicians at other hospitals for them to accept, the patients you're trying to transfer to them. Et cetera, et cetera.

Which is Latin for "stop being ignorant."

This ain't kindly Doctor Brown the town medico schtuff, hombre.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/02/2014 22:42 Comments || Top||

#25  Oh sorry TW - "Ronulans" are the Ron Paul lunatic fringe. Like the author of the "ethics" piece I linked. As silly and dangerous as the anti-vaxxer crowd.

You're right, we do have some structural factors going for us. It's just, I've read detailed accounts of previous Ebola outbreaks in the boonies, and scientific reports on how this virus works. Ebola is the worst pathogen imaginable in an urban setting. Like flicking a cigarette butt into bone-dry underbrush.

From that perspective, it's just very hard to see how this isn't going to be an unmitigated disaster.
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/02/2014 23:05 Comments || Top||

#26  Houston Chronicle today: Law enforcement posted to enforce quarantine:
The family of America's first Ebola patient initially did not comply with an order to stay at home, Dallas officials revealed Thursday amid a scramble to eliminate any chance of the deadly disease spreading.

About 100 people may have had at least brief contact with Thomas Eric Duncan before he was isolated in a Dallas hospital, officials said Thursday, but four members of the 42-year-old Liberian man's family are of particular concern.

Police officers on Thursday took up posts outside the family's Dallas apartment to ensure compliance with an official order to stay, County Judge Clay Jenkins said in an afternoon news conference.

"They were non-compliant with requests to stay home," said Jenkins, who did not elaborate.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/02/2014 23:09 Comments || Top||

#27  "Checklist for Patients Being Evaluated for
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the United States" date marked 1 Oct 2014

First item:

Upon arrival to clinical setting/triage
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Does patient have fever (subjective or ≥101.5°F)?
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Does patient have compatible EVD symptoms such as headache, weakness, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain or hemorrhage?
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Has the patient traveled to an Ebola-affected area in the 21 days before illness onset?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/02/2014 23:30 Comments || Top||

#28  WFAA: Patient Zero apartment neighbors informed for first time about quarantine

For the first time, one of the residents inside the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan was staying walked outside Thursday.

He was given permission to come out briefly to get supplies and food left on the porch by the Red Cross.

"No one is supposed to go inside the apartment. They can not come out. They are not even allowed to come out on the porch," said the Ivy apartment complex manager.

Pretty difficult to bring in boxes from the porch without getting out on the porch.

The manager said there is no need for alarm. She said no one has reported seeing Duncan outside the apartment at any time while he was here and he was not in the common areas, like the laundry.

The CDC has also cleaned the apartment and bagged items, including bedding.

Translation has been one hindrance to keeping residents at the Ivy Apartments informed, because as many as eight different languages are spoken there. The apartment manager said they will hold meetings for residents in various languages to make sure everyone gets the information they need.

I wonder how the residents understand the health department notices, news media, etc.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/02/2014 23:51 Comments || Top||


Second person being monitored for Ebola
[USATODAY] DALLAS -- Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County's health department said Wednesday.

All who have been in close contact with the man officially diagnosed are being monitored as a precaution, Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, said in a morning interview with WFAA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth.

"Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: The fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient," he said. "So this is real. There should be a concern, but it's contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment."

The director continued to assure residents that the public isn't at risk because health officials have the virus contained.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  lots of speculation about the possibility that ebola will mutate into something that can be transmitted through air (like, say the flu)

remember that bubonic and black death were flea borne

HIV never became air transmitted

avian virus never became air transmitted

ebola has been around for at least 40 years now and not yet become air transmitted

it takes a virus with a pretty strong external protein surface to survive air - not just because of heat and light but also oxygen (particularly the ion of a single atom and ozone) degrade the protein coat -this doesnt mean its impossible just unlikely near term
Posted by: lord garth || 10/02/2014 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you your Lordship. Yes, the mutations in Washington are of far more concern than those in Dallas or elsewhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 6:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Ebola hasn't needed to become airborne to get where it is today.

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/02/2014 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Gee, I wonder if it might be necessary to suspend the elections in November. Purely as a public health concern, of course.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/02/2014 7:37 Comments || Top||

#5  one in Hawaii as well.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/02/2014 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  So the smog is protecting us from EB going airborne?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2014 10:43 Comments || Top||

#7  ZH says 100 being monitored.

The CDC is lying through its teeth. I wonder what's really going on?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/02/2014 10:57 Comments || Top||

#8  skidmark

yes ozone is a powerful killer of both bacteria (used in many water treatment plants) and virus - in fact ozone has been tested in the lab to see how well it did against the H1N1 virus (sometimes known as avian flu) - it did very well

the atmosphere usually averages only about 5 parts per billion or so of ozone but because a virus is 'in the air' for quite a few seconds between the human source and the prospective human 'target', the anti viral effects are pretty impressive
Posted by: lord garth || 10/02/2014 12:31 Comments || Top||

#9  2 points.

1) your lordship, what exactly does air borne mean in this case? According to what I read from Ft. Dietrich yesterday it is as contagious as flu in that sneezes or coughs spread an aerosolized version. Sounds sufficient to me.

2) Thank you ed in Tx, I thought maybe I was the only one paranoid/cynical enough to think of that.
Am I paranoid/cynical enough?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/02/2014 13:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Nearly 20 years ago, a refereed article disclosed lethal experimental infections of rhesus monkeys by aerosolized Ebola virus. Other articles I've seen indicate that this mode may be more effective in climates cooler than that of Ebola's origin.
Posted by: KBK || 10/02/2014 14:31 Comments || Top||

#11  alanC

the airborne vector is complicated to describe

big droplets that you see on your hand after you sneeze would be infectious for at least a few moments if they carried live ebola virus but these droplets only travel a few feet

tiny droplets travel farther but the moisture is not enough to significantly prevent the virus itself from any toxic properties of heat, light and atmosphere

the annual influenza, against which most of us are vaccinated, travels (at least per current plurality theory) in big droplets because it makes people sneeze hard, among other things

the masks you see health care folks wear in hospitals are designed to trap particles above a very small diameter (say a half a micrometer in diameter) and to let gases through - an oxygen molecule is more than an order of magnitude smaller than such a particle


Posted by: lord garth || 10/02/2014 16:08 Comments || Top||

#12  more effective in climates cooler than that of Ebola's origin.

KBK this was part of what I read from Ft. D. too.

LG, you mean this s#!t is complicated? Don't say so. Aside from the snark the problem is that most people don't understand the complications. But I think it's fair to say that getting sneezed on or coughed on is not a good idea, no?

The environment of schools in particular is prone to toxicity.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/02/2014 16:38 Comments || Top||

#13  alan C

yes, its complicated

but your comment about schools is a good one - in fact a large body of mathematical models indicate that vaccination of school kids against the seasonal flu is the most cost effective way to limit the spread of this disease - that's both for the reason you mentioned (density of potential victims), because school kids run around a lot and get into things and because the vaccine frequently does not give immunity to old people
Posted by: lord garth || 10/02/2014 17:17 Comments || Top||


In Dallas Ebola Case, Officials Are Monitoring Children Exposed to Patient
[NY Times] DALLAS -- Health officials in Dallas are monitoring at least five schoolchildren in North Texas who came into contact with a man found to have Ebola virus, after he became sick and infectious.

The authorities also said that an early opportunity to put the patient in isolation, limiting the risk of contagion, may have been missed because of a failure to pass along critical information about his travel history.

The patient was identified by Liberian health officials and The Associated Press as Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national. Mr. Duncan came to the United States on Sept. 20 aboard a commercial airliner and officials said that he had shown no symptoms of the disease while on the flight and that he had posed no threat to other passengers.

The body of Sonny Boy Williams, 21, hours after he was picked up alive from his home in Monrovia, Liberia. The man who flew to Dallas and was later found to have the Ebola virus, identified by Liberian officials as Thomas Eric Duncan, helped Mr. Williams carry his sister, Marthalene Williams, 19, who was stricken by Ebola, to and from a hospital last month. She died the next day.

A school official measured a pupil's temperature last week in Lagos, Nigeria, one of several countries in Africa affected by Ebola.Nigeria's Actions Seem to Contain Ebola Outbreak SEPT. 30, 2014

Mr. Duncan worked at a shipping company in Monrovia, Liberia, but had just quit his job, giving his resignation in early September, his boss said. He had gotten a visa to the United States and had decided to go, his neighbors said. He lived alone, but has family in the United States, they said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice chap that Thomas Eric Duncan. People were turning up dead all around him and he flew on to the states anyway and mingled with children. Nice chap. Hoping for the very best for him, and that his estate is able to pay the medical costs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 6:15 Comments || Top||

#2  aaaand that changes everything
Posted by: Frank G || 10/02/2014 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Now the count is up to 'as many as' 80, 5 kids are 'in home protection' and their schools have been scrubbed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2014 10:56 Comments || Top||

#4  He should received zero treatment but be quarantined.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/02/2014 11:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Still no word on gov't travel restrictions to and from the infected regions. Warnings yes, restrictions no. No word on travel visas or screening.

Potential Implications for Travel Because of Ebola in Parts of West Africa
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  I've been war-gaming worst-case scenarios since July. But this shocked me:

But he certainly knew that he had been exposed to Ebola by the time he boarded that plane and came to Texas, four days after his friend died of it. He must surely have known it when he first visited the Texas Presbyterian Hospital, and he must have known it when the doctors sent him home.
. . .

Let that sink in, though: he knew he'd been exposed, and it's not unfair to deduce that he thought to himself, "the Americans will save me".
. . .

IF he survives- and he's still in pretty bad shape- then it's not much of a leap of logic to figure a lot of sick and potentially sick people will make the decision that it's worth the effort to get over to North America.
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/02/2014 11:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh super. Four of Duncan's relatives directly exposed and restricted to their homes have been out and about:

"The family was having some challenges following the directions to stay home, so we're taking every precaution," Texas Department of Health spokeswoman Carrie Williams said about why the state had issued a legal order. "Food and other needs of the family are being worked out logistically today. Those needs will be specifically covered to allow them to stay in the house."
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/02/2014 12:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Do we need to review our Tom Clancy?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/02/2014 14:03 Comments || Top||

#9  "The Stand" by Stephen King
Posted by: bman || 10/02/2014 17:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Watch "The Strain" on FX. Get past the vampire bits and focus on transmission, ......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/02/2014 18:06 Comments || Top||


Britain
David Cameron: schools should teach mainly in imperial measurements
[THEGUARDIAN] PM says he would 'still go for pounds and ounces' over metric system in Newsnight interview
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Damn, I thought it said Manly. :(
Posted by: Shipman || 10/02/2014 5:56 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Argentina president claims US plotting to oust her
[THEGUARDIAN] Argentinian opposition politicians have accused the country's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of being "completely out of touch with reality" after she gave a rambling televised address in which she claimed the US may be behind a plot to overthrow her government and possibly even assassinate her.

"If something should happen to me, don't look to the Middle East, look to the North," Fernández said during the address on Tuesday night, in which she alluded to an alleged plot against her by local bankers and businessmen "with foreign help".

Fernández had previously claimed to have received death threats from Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(Isis) because of her friendship with Pope Francis. In last night's speech, however, she seemed to suggest the threats against her, received in three emails to Argentinian security officials, had come from the US.

Her claim comes in the wake of a rapid deterioration of Argentina's
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
already rocky relationship with the US after the country went into default in August.

Argentina has rejected paying $1.3bn (£990m) awarded by New York Judge Thomas Griesa to "vulture fund" investors who refused to accept a "haircut" on Argentinian bonds from the country's previous default in 2001.

"I'm not naive, this is not an isolated move by a senile judge in New York," said Fernández. "Because vultures look a lot like the eagles of empires," referring to the bald eagle, the national symbol of the US.

Fernández almost threw out the US embassy chief of mission Kevin Sullivan for saying "it is important Argentina get out of default" to a local newspaper. Fernández claims that despite its debt crisis, Argentina is not in real default and Sullivan was called in for a reprimand by the Argentinian foreign ministry for using the "default" word.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actually, given the current management, USA is the best friend you may have Cristina.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/02/2014 3:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Somehow, I can relate and sympathize with Cristina.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 6:10 Comments || Top||

#3  She doesn't need US help to oust her. She can do that all on her own. Just keep defaulting on debt - when the economy wavers the voters will speak.
Posted by: Incredulous || 10/02/2014 7:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Ahh, delusions of relevance. She needs to talk to the N Koreans on how to stay at the center of attention. Maybe invade a neighbor. Considering that the entire RAF (both planes) is tied up in Syria, it might be a good time to attack the Falklands Islas Malvinas.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/02/2014 7:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Amazing how successful fascism/socialism is at destroying successful countries.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/02/2014 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  If you could buy FdK for what she's worth and sell her for what she thinks she worth, you'd be an instant multimillionaire.
Posted by: Beldar Sloque3832 || 10/02/2014 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  If only we were trying to oust her...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/02/2014 13:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Such intrigues have been around for a while, most are unsuccessful...just think Guy Fawkes
Posted by: Black Bart Turkeyneck5798 || 10/02/2014 14:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Argentina president claims US plotting to oust her

That would require a level of competency we haven't seen yet.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/02/2014 23:21 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Rooshun media inflates mass graves claim by 40x
Not even the pro Russian militia in Donetsk are claiming 400 dead bodies found. They say 40 have been found but so far only nine bodies have been exhumed. Bad enough, but not 400...
Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday that 400 bodies had been found in mass graves in eastern Ukraine but the claim looked highly contentious after it emerged that reports from the scene had been distorted by Russian media.

"This is obviously a war crime," Sergei Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow. "Already more than 400 bodies have been discovered in burial sites outside Donetsk and we hope that western capitals will not hush up these facts [because] they're horrific."

Russian officials and separatist rebels suggested that both civilians and pro-Russian militiamen are among the dead found at several burial sites in and near Nizhnya Krynka, 20 miles east of Donetsk, the regional capital.
Posted by: badanov || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I ween Russians been observing the Kosovo war closely.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/02/2014 3:33 Comments || Top||

#2  That's the thing about Russia. If there's not enough bodies to go around, they can always make more. And will...
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/02/2014 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  As I pointed out earlier, isn't this in the same place the Ukranians were finding mass graves when they took it from the militias back in August?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/02/2014 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  If Ukrainians had found bodies of civilians, the whole world would have found out about it, twice over.
Posted by: badanov || 10/02/2014 16:24 Comments || Top||


Muslim sheep slaughter to be banned in Moscow during Eid al-Adha feast
[ABNA.IR] Prayers marking the Moslem holiday, Eid al-Adha, will begin at all Moscow mosques at 7 a.m. on October 4, a front man for the city's inter-regional cooperation, national policy and religious organizations department said.

Sacrificial sheep will be slaughtered on farms and in slaughter houses in individual villages of the Moscow Region, the front man said.

Eid al-Adha, the feast of the sacrifice, honors the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him) to sacrifice his promised son, Ismail, as an act of submission to Allah's command, before Allah intervened to provide Abraham with a lamb to sacrifice instead.

While celebrating the feat of Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him), Moslems slaughter animals (sheep, goats, cows or camels).
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So it's canned sheep for Eid this year, eh?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/02/2014 13:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Nope, up and coming on halal foods list from the Imam of Duck Dynasty

Posted by: Black Bart Turkeyneck5798 || 10/02/2014 14:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Notice the difference.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/02/2014 15:24 Comments || Top||


Economy
New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff

[NY Times] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
plans to eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs, as well as a smaller number of positions from its editorial and business operations, offering buyouts and resorting to layoffs if enough people do not leave voluntarily, the newspaper announced on Wednesday.

Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the newspaper's publisher, and Mark Thompson, its chief executive, said that in addition to the job cuts, NYT Opinion, a new mobile app dedicated to opinion content, was shutting down because it was not attracting enough subscribers.

The reductions, they said, were intended to safeguard the newspaper's long-term profitability.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  safeguard the newspaper's long-term profitability.

They probably actually believe that.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/02/2014 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  slowing, but not stopping, the bleeding
Posted by: Frank G || 10/02/2014 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  They're cutting newsroom, but still hiring on the on-line side. The objective is Democratic-sycophancy and spin in half the time it takes to do it via dead-tree. And the Washington Post is doing that with half the staff that the NYT has.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/02/2014 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  How many reporters do you need to convert DNC talking points into inverted pyramid news articles?
Posted by: regular joe || 10/02/2014 15:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Pierson Resigns
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson offered her resignation Wednesday after several security breaches affecting the White House and President Obama became public, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Wednesday.

"Today Julia Pierson, the Director of the United States Secret Service, offered her resignation, and I accepted it. I salute her 30 years of distinguished service to the Secret Service and the Nation," Johnson said in a statement. "As an interim Acting Director of the Secret Service, I am appointing Joseph Clancy, formerly Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Service. Mr. Clancy retired from the Secret Service in 2011. I appreciate his willingness to leave his position in the private sector on very short notice and return to public service for a period."
Buh By!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Reassuring to know that when a raving, armed, mad man rushes down the halls of the White House, someone in the regime finally recognizes gross incompetence in staffing and acts appropriately.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 6:20 Comments || Top||

#2  The only thing worse than Obama as President would be a Deified assassinated Obama. They'd have to un-name some King and Kennedy stuff just to have enough stuff to name for Obama. Directions would be to go to the Obama Building on the corner of Obama St. & Obama Ave in Obama City.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/02/2014 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  And the Barack Hussein Obama aircraft carrier.
Posted by: JFM || 10/02/2014 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Not to mention the number of library annexes that will spread across the land. Perhaps to every interstate rest area in America.

Posted by: Black Bart Turkeyneck5798 || 10/02/2014 13:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Bad day for the Feministas/Feminazis + those whom want to put women in front-line combat - Pierson resigns, + by most accounts the Perp Omar Gonzalez easily brushed past a Femme Security-Gate Guard physically trying to stop him from entering the WH grounds.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/02/2014 21:27 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Woman seeks case against alleged rapists
[DAWN] SIALKOT: A woman alleged on Tuesday police were reluctant to register a case against fi ve people who allegedly gang-raped her a week ago.

A resident of Gujjar Town, the 32-year-old alleged she was kidnapped and gang-raped by fi ve people, including the driver of a pick-up when she got on a van from Noorabad-Hajipura on Sept 25 to go to Jessarwala, Daska. The suspects took her to a kiln in Bheello Mahaar in the jurisdiction of Motra police and gangraped her.

She fl ed when the captors fell unconscious under the infl uence of booze. She remained admitted to hospital for her injuries.

Later, she went to the Motra police for a case but only to be sent to the Sialkot Sadar and Hajipura cop shoppes.

She said after several visits to the three cop shoppes for a week, she remained unable to get the case registered.

"Give me justice or death," she appealed to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
. She is a mother of fi ve children.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Polio refusals in Islamabad
[DAWN] Parents having more faith in archaic notions than in modern healthcare refused polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccines to 129 children on the first day of the reinvigorated anti-polio campaign in the city on Monday.

Social supervisors of the United Nations
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Bandit lynched
[DAWN] Two bandidos rubbed out a milkman when he resisted a mugging attempt at his shop before one of them was chased after, overpowered and lynched by people in Korangi on Tuesday, officials said.

They said two bandidos on a cycle of violence came at a milk shop in Zaman Town and one of them went inside the shop and held 27-year-old Yasir Qadeer at gunpoint. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
Yasir put up resistance upon which he was maimed and he died later in hospital, said DSP Raja Mushtaq. The sound of gunshots attracted the people's attention who chased fleeing bandidos and overpowered one of them. They tortured him and he died before the police intervened, the police added.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The sound of gunshots attracted the people's attention who chased fleeing bandidos and overpowered one of them. The police response time was two weeks.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/02/2014 17:32 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Nobel summit canceled after Dalai Lama row
[ARABNEWS] A global summit of Nobel laureates has been canceled after the event was hit by a boycott over the South African government's refusal to grant the Dalai Lama a visa, peace prize winner Jody Williams said Wednesday.

"The summit has been canceled because enough Nobel laureates refused to go," Williams said in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama is based.

A group of six laureates, including American activist Williams, decided late last month to boycott the peace summit in Cape Town scheduled for Oct. 13-15 because the Tibetan spiritual leader was unable to attend.

The six have accused China of putting political pressure on countries to curb interactions with the Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since fleeing Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising.

China accuses the 79-year-old of being a separatist, while he says he merely wants more autonomy for Tibet.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But Al Gore bought chips and dips already.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/02/2014 7:29 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Leviathan Gas Field Group Submits $6.5b Development Plan
[Ynet] After export deals go sour, Nobel energy and Israel's Delek group finally present plan to get Israel's natural gas operation in business, with production slated to begin in 2018.

The partners in Leviathan, Israel's largest natural gas field, have submitted their initial development plan to Israeli authorities, which one source said on Tuesday envisages producing 16 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas a year.

The group, led by Texas-based Noble Energy and Israel's Delek Group, handed in its proposal after months of trying to determine the best way to develop the Mediterranean field, which lies in about 1500 meters of water about 80 miles (130 kilometers) off Israel's coast.

Talks to bring in Australia's Woodside Petroleum, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) specialist, fell through in March.

With estimated reserves of 622 bcm, Leviathan is one of the world's largest offshore discoveries of the past decade.
A spokeswoman for Israel's Energy Ministry, which must now approve the plan, confirmed it had been received, but disclosed no details.

An industry source said the first stage will see a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit passing 16 bcm of gas a year via pipelines to Israel, the Paleostinian Authority and other neighbors that decide to buy the gas.

Production is expected to begin by 2018 and initial investment could reach $6.5 billion, the source said, which was in line with previous forecasts.

The Leviathan partners are in talks with Britannia's BG Group , which wants to bring gas in to feed its Egyptian LNG export plant, and with Jordan's national electricity company.

Later development plans were not included in the proposal, and could include direct LNG exports to more distant markets, officials have said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm willing to bet that somebody comes along and wants to by some of that gas, let's say Poland. Chance for a nice multi-level trade package.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/02/2014 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  No, no, no ed - nobody will by from the Juices!

There are principles involved!
Posted by: Bobby || 10/02/2014 13:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Bobby is right, no one will by from the Juices.


Buy on the other hand....
Posted by: AlanC || 10/02/2014 16:32 Comments || Top||

#4  They've already signed a contract with Jordan, as I recall, and if they don't already have a contract in hand from Egypt, everyone is proceeding on the assumption that they will.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/02/2014 19:48 Comments || Top||


Government
The reporter who brought down the Secret Service's director
Her sources appear to be not only accurate, but amazingly responsive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 12:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


New Secret Service Head Joe Clancy Personally Led Obama Security
[NBCNEWS] Joe Clancy, the man in charge of cleaning up the Secret Service after a series of embarrassing security gaffes, is the ideal person to lead the agency through troubled waters, Washington insiders said Wednesday.

The Department of Homeland Security named Clancy, director of corporate security for Comcast Corp., as interim acting director of the Secret Service after Julia Pierson resigned Wednesday. He retired from the agency in July 2011 as special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division, a role for which he was well-regarded. "I'm very pleased," Rep. Elijah Cummings
...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious...
, D-Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee, told NBC News. "He is a person the president has utmost confidence in -- he will take a bullet for him."

Because of the nature of the agency, not a great deal is known about Clancy's Secret Service career, but his face should be familiar to the American people -- he's the balding man walking behind the president and his family in hundreds of pictures of the First Family during the first 2½ years of the B.O. regime. "I knew Joe Clancy when he led the presidential detail," David Axelrod
...a Chicago-based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O. Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out....
, one of Obama's oldest friends and longest-serving advisers, said on Twitter. "You could not find a better person to repair the Secret Service."
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bald or dreadlocks, doesn't make a damn to me. Can he think for himself, and does he have the power to TERMINATE THE EMPLOYMENT of incompetent, disloyal, or lazy personnel? That is the important question.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2014 6:08 Comments || Top||

#2  "director of corporate security for Comcast Corp"
That's an ominous point that speaks volumes right there. Director of Security for a company that (A) doesn't give a damn what the customer thinks and (B) has crap security (netwise) to boot.
A solid management decision.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/02/2014 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Come on Ed. The dude was in the Governance and FCC Compliance business for Comcast. You know he's qualified to guard the US Treasury.

He also apparently has a strong self-preservation instinct:
walking behind the president
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2014 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  ed, I have noticed a disproportionate amount of suspicious queries on my web server from Comcast. Seems to me a responsible internet service provider would be a little more diligent about watching for infected computers on their subnet.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/02/2014 12:27 Comments || Top||

#5  So he is the head of the Praetorian guard.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/02/2014 13:31 Comments || Top||



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