On Howie Carr's radio show @ 3:45 PM - "HAZMAT team boards a plane at Logan Int'l airport. Plane in question is said to be connected to the Arab Emirates".
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] A bus carrying paintball players struck and killed a Washington state man inside a zombie attraction at a corn maze in northern Idaho, authorities said Saturday.
Jeremy T. McSpadden Jr., 18, of Spokane Valley, Washington, was a role player in the "Zombie Slayer Paintball Bus" attraction at the Incredible Corn Maze in Hauser on Friday night, the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office said.
Dressed as a zombie, he emerged from his hiding place and ran toward the modified school bus, but he tripped and fell in front of the rear passenger-side tires, witnesses reported.
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Alas, poor Yorick McSpadden ! I knew him, Horatio Rantburg Fred:
a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
come; make her laugh at that.
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What?↑↑↑↑
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A delightful play on theatrical pretensions, Herb Untervehr9087. :-)
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] He won the Nobel Prize for physics. But Brian Schmidt received no special treatment from the TSA when he tried to take the 24-carat pure gold medal through airport security in Fargo, Nebraska.
He was awarded the prize, made from $10,000 of gold, for co-discovering that the expansion of the universe was accelerating - a finding that has transformed our understanding of the solar system.
As he tried to take it to show his grandmother, however, the revered physicist was stopped and interrogated.
'There are a couple of bizarre things that happen,' Schmidt, 47, told an audience in New York last month.
'One of the things you get when you win a Nobel Prize is, well, a Nobel Prize.
'It's about that big, that thick [he mimes a disk roughly the size of an Olympic medal], weighs a half a pound, and it's made of gold.
'When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it. 'I was coming around so I decided I'd bring my Nobel Prize.
'You would think that carrying around a Nobel Prize would be uneventful, and it was uneventful, until I tried to leave Fargo with it, and went through the X-ray machine.
'I could see they were puzzled. It was in my laptop bag. It's made of gold, so it absorbs all the X-rays--it's completely black. And they had never seen anything completely black.
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Now, she had a dream about the king of Sweden,
He gave her things that she was needin',
He gave her a home built of gold and steel,
A diamond car with a platinum wheel.
Now, he gave her his townhouse and his racing horses,
Each meal she ate was a dozen courses;
She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes,
And she sat around and counted them all a billion times.
"Minnie the Moocher"
Five miles from my house. Thanks, Obama!
Boston officials are stepping up efforts to spot Ebola cases after the Hub area was hit by its first scare yesterday, when a man who recently visited Liberia was quarantined after walking into a Braintree medical clinic complaining of head and muscle aches.
Boston hospital officials downplayed the danger last night, saying the likelihood the Braintree patient had Ebola was "extremely low." Yesterday's scare came amid a report that a Dallas nurse who wore a protective suit while treating the Ebola patient who died last week also contracted the deadly disease -- in what a local ER chief called "a game-changer" because it's the first time someone has caught Ebola in the U.S.
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Please don't call any "Ebola cases" unless & until the blood tests are +.
No point in spreading more FUD than is warranted by facts. Discussions of policies & defense strategies against Ebola are a different matter.
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I talked to my brother who lives near Boston yesterday. He hasn't seen any dead Ebola patients in the streets, no severed heads, either. Life is good there.
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I lived in Woburn for 2 years. I liked it there. I liked Boston a lot. Made some good friends and dispelled some myths about southerners. I probably re-inforced some others.
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I would like to encourage all Rantburgers to strongly consider getting a flu shot this week. Contact in HC/ infectious control is telling me that if Ebola stays in the news past the "short attention span news theater", you will not want to be showing up at any medical facility with common flu like symptoms. Chances are you will be put in the room with all the other fever sufferers while they rule out Ebola.
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My sincere thanks Cap. I immediately copied your #9 and forwarded to friends and family. Your short paragraph and prudent suggestion may have save some lives.
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"Towards of end of the illness, the virus is trying to live and thrive. It's trying to get out of the person's body. It's producing massive amounts of fluid," he said.
At that point, caregivers need to add more layers of protective gear, such as double gloves and a respirator or a full bodysuit. Those kinds of decisions need to be made by managers who are constantly assessing the risk to healthcare workers, Kaufman said.
Fascinating. Does the virus produce the fluids so it can move onto the next host, or is fluid production a consequence of the virus thriving, which coincidentally facilitates transmission? Does the fluid production make the infected person more likely to cough or sneeze?
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Wait. If she floats, she's a witch, right?
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A guy on local talk radio said the other day: I don't know why everyone is excited about this virus from Africa. He will only be in office for another 2 years.
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What this shows is just how easy it is to spread the virus and how training isn't up to speed.
Blaming the victim as the standard dhimocrat response is not helpful. In fact it makes me want to send the stupid department heads to infected isolation wards without protective gear.
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Good discussion on Dallas Morning News about Ebola transmission by droplet &/or aerosol, how epidemiologists draw conclusions, and the mysterious / unknown ways Ebola is sometimes transmitted.
Still looking for a discussion / explanation on why PPE for the top-rated CDC Ebola virus labs is so much more protective than the PPE recommended by the CDC for lowly medical care-givers of Ebola patients.
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Of bigger concern (here) is the mention that this poor lady also has a dog. Spain was pretty abrupt with theirs, that I assume was tested positive.
If swine flu can cross species does this manifest as 'dogbola'? Or is the CDC/MSM sufficiently ignorant of transmission mechanisms that the article is worthy of a dog mention?
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#9 Yesterday MRs. Ret. described the perfect solution to the Ebola situation; any confirmed cases in the US get flown immediately to Iran, Iraq, Syria, or allowed to enter ISIS-held areas.
I also find genius and good counsel in the distaff side.
1) The buddy system. Ebola caregivers will spot each other as they dress and undress in protective gear to be sure they are following safety protocols. The change suggest the workers had been coming and going from Duncan’s ICU room without such supervision.
2) The type of gear being used to protect workers also is being reviewed and changed with an eye toward finding protective equipment that is easier to use, reducing the risk of infecting the worker as the clothing is removed. Suggests this was not a consideration when the equipment was selected in the first place.
3) Spray workers with bleach or its equivalent to kill the virus on their protective clothing after they leave the patient’s room. Such decontamination is being done in West Africa and has been found to be effective in killing the virus and in protecting the worker. Suggests the spray was not being used at Presbyterian during Duncan’s stay.
4) Reduce the number of hospital workers treating an Ebola patient, which reduces the risk that more people would be infected. Suggests there was no limitation on the number of caregivers treating Duncan.
5) Reduce the number of procedures an Ebola patient receives thus reducing the risk of staff exposure during those procedures. Suggests too many repetitive procedures were done on Duncan, which might have unduly increased staff exposure to the disease.
6) Staff will use respiratory protection inside the Ebola patient’s room when treatments are being used that could increase the risk of viral exposure. Would relate to use of medical procedures, such as intubation and dialysis, which increase staff exposure to the patient’s bodily fluids. Suggests respiratory protection was not used when Duncan was given those life-saving procedures before he died.
7) Assure that staff members are not wearing too much equipment, such as three pairs of protective gloves instead of two. Extra layers can be harder to remove, possibly exposing the employee to the virus. Suggests the staff was not following the protocols for protective gear.
8) Retrain Presbyterian’s staff in infection control to assure rules are being followed carefully. New training standards also will apply to other hospitals so that the U.S. health care system is better prepared for Ebola patients in the future.
Deliver half to the front door of the White House (when Bambi is there), half to the CDC head's front door. Tasteful urns optional.
Hilarity ensues.
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I also find genius and good counsel in the distaff side.
Yep John QC. Not only smart but easy on the eyes. May not know a crescent hammer from a metric ball sleeve, but her other talents more than compensate. (her at work name is Martha Stewart)
British doctors, nurses and soldiers sent to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will not automatically be brought back to the UK for treatment if they are infected with the virus.
A total of 750 British troops are being sent to Sierra Leone to tackle the Ebola outbreak, along with hundreds of NHS volunteers who responded to an appeal from the Chief Medical Officer, Prof Dame Sally Davies.
However, both the Department of Health and the Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday that medical and military personnel would not be guaranteed repatriation if they developed Ebola while working on the relief effort.
Instead, they could be treated in field hospitals in Sierra Leone and would only be flown home on a "case by case" basis, the departments said.
Concerns were raised 9 Oct 2014 after it emerged that NHS workers and British soldiers may have to be treated in new centres in Sierra Leone if they should contract Ebola. There were concerns that the care would not be at the standard they would receive in the UK. One British worker said: "Infectious disease doctors volunteering say it feels like being asked 'to go over the top'."
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Here's your chance to take one for Queen and country.
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However, both the Department of Health and the Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday that medical and military personnel would not be guaranteed repatriation if they developed Ebola while working on the relief effort.
NICE! I was a corporal in the Territorials, what if I get called up ?
Just occurred to me in mid-snark, that not going back the the UK means they escape the clutches of the National Health Service, which is likely a good thing.
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Mike Smith: Ebola and the coming World Apartheid And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. Rev. 14:19
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If we stop them at the airports they will fly into mexico and cross on foot. Timing is inexact so we will start to see Mexican hotspots and failure of the Mexican Health Care system.
Pretty much gotta seal the border as well and might as well do it know and let that be known before folks get ideas that make things worse.
If the current outbreak doesn't burn itself out the third world is screwed and the first world is gonna have to deal with the overflow of screwed.
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A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, or 10 chains.
So I gotta guess that REV 14:19 poetry version is also a poor English ('furlong') transliteration of some earlier reproduced manuscript written in dirt of an oral history from some drunken guy who was trippin' while he watched the sunset across a bay full of red tide algae. Pretty wide tide though.
[NYPOST] A teen who had recently returned home to Brooklyn following a trip to Sudan was rushed to the hospital with Ebola-like symptoms on Friday night, authorities said.
The 14-year old boy fell unconscious with a fiery fever in the Bergen Beach apartment he shared with his family around 6:30 p.m. after a two-week trip to the Sudan in North Africa, officials said.
The teen was rushed to nearby Brookdale Hospital just before 7:30 p.m., when he was isolated and quarantined by hospital staff as doctors began tests to determine whether the teen has Ebola or not.
Sources told The Post the boy may have lied on a sheet all travelers are required to fill out following trips to infected regions.
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To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.–Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember’d.
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Sudan means it is on it's way to North Africa, where it is only a short boat trip to Europe.
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2sealys, trailing wife, and other Rantburg readers, I knew a few of you would get it. What is so delightful to me is the pleasant, colorful and some times irreverent comments, which fill these pages from day to day. Each comments plays on the "classics" like Shakespeare, Descartes, Voltaire and others too numerous to mention. Yes, I agree "our language has drifted off, far into the ditch. And now, we crash." Lets try to remind ourselves, we don't have to crash, lets rid ourselves of the "language trash" which has become dominant in English over the last 50 years or so. We have a nice venue, all because of the generosity of "Rantburg Fred", who has provided a forum for "civil, well reasoned discourse".
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Herb Untervehr9087, I far prefer to get my culture fix here than at serious lit'rary sites. You would perhaps not be surprised to know how many Rantburgers are amateur or professional writers, though I was. Mr. Pruitt is all sorts of national treasure, whose own novel, advertised in the right margin of the front page, is in my opinion absolutely charming.
[Washington Post] Police agencies have used hundreds of millions of dollars taken from Americans under federal civil forfeiture law in recent years to buy guns, armored cars and electronic surveillance gear. They have also spent money on luxury vehicles, travel and a clown named Sparkles.
The details are contained in thousands of annual reports submitted by local and state agencies to the Justice Department's Equitable Sharing Program, an initiative that allows local and state police to keep up to 80 percent of the assets they seize. The Washington Post obtained 43,000 of the reports dating from 2008 through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The documents offer a sweeping look at how police departments and drug task forces across the country are benefiting from laws that allow them to take cash and property without proving a crime has occurred. The law was meant to decimate drug organizations, but The Post found that it has been used as a routine source of funding for law enforcement at every level.
"In tight budget periods, and even in times of budget surpluses, using asset forfeiture dollars to purchase equipment and training to stay current with the ever-changing trends in crime fighting helps serve and protect the citizens," said Prince George's County, Md., police spokeswoman Julie Parker.
Brad Cates, a former director of asset forfeiture programs at the Justice Department, said the spending identified by The Post suggests police are using Equitable Sharing as "a free floating slush fund." Cates, who oversaw the program while at Justice from 1985 to 1989, said it has enabled police to sidestep the traditional budget process, in which elected leaders create law enforcement spending priorities.
"All of this is fundamentally at odds with the U.S. Constitution," said Cates, who recently co-wrote an article calling for the program's abolition on The Post's editorial page. "All of this is at odds with the rights that Americans have."
Of the nearly $2.5 billion in spending reported in the forms, 81 percent came from cash and property seizures in which no indictment was filed, according to an analysis by The Post. Owners must prove that their money or property was acquired legally in order to get it back.
The police purchases comprise a rich mix of the practical and the high-tech, including an array of gear that has helped some departments militarize their operations: Humvees, automatic weapons, gas grenades, night-vision scopes and sniper gear. Many departments acquired electronic surveillance equipment, including automated license-plate readers and systems that track cellphones.
The spending also included a $5 million helicopter for Los Angeles police; a mobile command bus worth more than $1 million in Prince George's County; an armored personnel carrier costing $227,000 in Douglasville, Ga., population 32,000; $5,300 worth of "challenge coin" medallions in Brunswick County, N.C.; $4,600 for a Sheriff's Award Banquet by the Doña Ana County (N.M.) Sheriff's Department; and a $637 coffee maker for the Randall County Sheriff's Department in Amarillo, Tex.
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No one has even tried to explain why civil forfeitures, legitimate or not, go only to police forces, instead of going into a state's general fund.
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I live in douglasville ga. We also have the license plate readers here too go along with the $120 million jail built a couple yrs. Ago.
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Mobs all over love a protection racket.
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Tax farming (in this case, instead of the usual revenue agency they employ another agency to fleece the population). Use to be King John would send the Sheriff and his men out to collect the 'tax' upon the Saxons peasantry.
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I live in douglasville ga. We also have the license plate readers here too go along with the $120 million jail built a couple yrs. Ago. Posted by chris
But Chris, you need the new jail to handle the influx of new ......ville entitlement residents.
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By Chris Covert
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Ukrainian president Piotr Poroshenko, himself in office less than a year has accepted the resignation of the third defense minister to serve under him, according to Ukrainian, Russian and English language news accounts.
Colonel General Valery Geletey stepped down less than month after a ceasefire went into effect in September that was supposed to end the fighting between Ukrainian's military and Russian speaking separatists in Donetsk and Lugansk, a truce marked by nearly continuous artillery shelling by both sides.
General Geletey was appointed Ukrainian defense minister in the first part of July, apparently after the Maidan leadership in Kiev saw that the conflict in southeastern Ukraina, dubbed Novorossiya by separatists became a much larger problem than anticipated.
General Geletey replaced Colonel General Mykhaylo Koval. General Geletey's successor has not yet been named. Russian military blogs are saying Geletey may end up as commandant of the Ukrainian Kolomna Supreme Military Artillery School, considered a top post in the Ukrainian military.
Western press outlets claimed that the decision to sack General Geletey came after an August report that landed on his desk detailed how Russian special forces and armored units were in part responsible for the defeat of Ukrainian forces at Ilovaisk, where large, unconfirmed numbers of casualties were inflicted on Ukrainian forces.
Western press reports said that General Geletey chose to ignore those reports.
Poroshenko, for his part is expected to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Milan, Italy later this week, along with German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, as well as other unidentified European leaders as part of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).
Central to those talks will be the issue of the two separatist states, but another issue on the table is the lifting of trade sanctions against Russia, imposed since last spring. It is not known, nor is it even hinted if a representative from the United States will attend the meeting.
Merkel earlier this month hinted that she may be open to ending her part of the trade sanctions.
According to several reports, Putin has already ordered 17,600 Russian troops away from the border with Ukraina, or about four combat brigades, among some 15 active combat brigades in Russia's Southern Military District, presumably as a gesture of goodwill. Not widely reported in the western press is the fact that Russia plans later this month to demobilize several hundred thousand troops mustered to duty for "retraining" purposes two months ago.
Ukrainians have been charging since last summer that Russian ground forces were actively involved in the fighting against Ukrainian forces in Ukraina, although to date the only proof has been a few satellite photographs and some press interviews of Russian troops.
For example, late last August, a Russian airborne armor company stumbled into Ukraina near the Sea of Azov coast in southern Ukraina, and exchanged gunfire with Ukrainian armored troops. Russian military or press sources have yet to explain, despite their protestations that those troops were there accidentally, why the vehicles the troops were riding in were combat loaded.
Russian separatists have been grumbling this past week over recent moves by the Russians including tightening border controls to prevent volunteers and munitions as well as weapons across into Novorossiya. Russian bloggers inside Russia report Russian state police threatening to arrest anyone who transfers money to the rebels in Ukraina. Apparently the Russian police are said to be monitoring Russian border guards and threatening arrest if weapons are taken across into Ukraina.
According to Russian military bloggers it has been four weeks since ammunition for artillery has crossed over from Russia, and ammunition production inside of Novorossiya is nearly non existent.
Russian military also have told separatists that the technology for some of the weapons they do have will not be supported for repair by Russia. In other words, separatists will have to figure out for themselves how to fix their own weapons.
Donetsk fighting continues
Pro Russian militias are claiming that the airport in northern Donetsk city is in their hands, save for a small group of holdouts. According to the pro Russian blogger Colonel Cassad, Ukrainians at the airport still hold the control tower and one other building.
Much of the contest at the airport has been to stop Ukrainian artillery fire into Donetsk city itself. Pro Russian separatists have been claiming for months that Ukrainian artillery have been deliberately targeting residential areas, a charge the Ukrainian military vehemently deny.
Another issue in the battle in that area is the towns of Peski, southwest of the airport and Avdeyevka in the northeast. Both towns are where Ukrainians have positioned their artillery in support of the remaining troops at the airport, and apparently serve as a marshaling point for troops in the area.
Rebels have been trying to eject Ukrainian troops from those areas by means of direct attacks with little success. Much of the reason for that failure may rest with the extensive effort by the rebels to assault and finally take the airport from the Ukrainians. It has been said the effort was bloody for both sides, but casualties hurt the rebels more, as well as the lack of ammunition and spare parts for their heavy weapons.
Friday night, according to the pro Russian Voice of Sevastopol, Ukrainian artillery once again hit residential areas in the Kievsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk city. Other settlements and localities have suffered from Ukrainian as well as rebel artillery including Yelizavetovka and Novomikhaylovka, Makeyevka and Kirovskoye. Militia artillery strikes were reported on Ukrainian positions in Peski and Petropavlovka.
According to the Russian language news source Vesti, a total of four civilians were killed by artillery strikes last Sunday.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
h/t Instapundit
The United States is set to be crowned the world's largest producer of liquid petroleum this week, knocking Saudi Arabia off the top spot for the first time in two decades.
The shale oil and gas boom in America has led to output increasing from about 8 million barrels a day in 2011 to approaching 12 million barrels. The real WOT
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Isn't this why the Saudis are happy with O as president? Making the US as stable as any other ME country means the 'secure source' edge is sort of mitigated. Add in the ban on the export of oil (and anti-Keystone support in the EPA), the Saudis/Gulf Arabs have the means to check the international market from getting too glutted. Meanwhile the Chinese will be glad to pick up anything the Americans previously were purchasing as their industrial base need for the stuff just continues to ramp up.
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Diesel prices in my area have dropped substantially since last summer. I doubt they will ever again go below $2 / gallon, though. I junked my old diesel pickup this spring - it would get 22-25 mpg with nothing in the bed, even though it weighed 5000 lb.
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Two things really prevent the shale oil from taking off;
First is the tree huggers who cry about the dangers of oil trains,
and second is the lack of capacity of the 6 Class 1 RRs; between lack of rolling stock and ( bigger issue IMHO) is lack of trackage to keep everything rolling. They just now got almost dug out from last year's grain backlog.
If you're even a casual news consumer, you know that the spread of Ebola, the U.S. airstrikes against ISIS and major security breaches within the Secret Service have dominated media coverage over the last week as Americans mull the safety of their families, U.S. soldiers, and the President himself.
One thing that Americans are collectively rolling their eyes at, though: the upcoming midterm elections, now just 27 days away.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows that Americans just aren't particularly interested in the midterms, with only 15 percent saying they’re following election news "very closely," and nearly one-in-four saying they're not paying attention at all. Compare that to 36 percent who are paying close attention to the Ebola story, 31 percent concerned about the ISIS strikes, and 21 percent closely following the mistakes of the Secret Service.
While low interest in the elections may only be surprising to politics nerds, these numbers still worth noting – because they're even lower than in the past two midterm cycles. At around this time in 2006, for example, 21 percent of Americans said they were following the elections very closely. And in 2010, when a major wave swept a new class of Tea Party acolytes into office, a quarter of the public was tuned in.
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It's not even safe to get out and vote in St. Louis. We got the Ebrola thing, and even if we survive that, the cops might shoot us. Better just forget about the election for now. It wouldn't be fair.
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The concept of covering up one disaster with another as a distraction is eventually there are too many distractions to juggle.
One of the organization problems discovered in the early years of the National Training Center was that organizations who's leadership at garrison practiced micro-management and 'mother may I' leadership would reach a point in tactical operations that incoming intel and events could not be dealt with as it overwhelm the commander. Saturated with decisions that could not be delayed or put off, with a staff and subordinates who were not trusted or trained or groomed for independent action, events generated by the OPFOR would overwhelm the ability of the leader to act quickly and decisively enough to allow assets to be applied with decisive or even mitigating effect.
DUBAI: An Iranian police plane crashed late on Saturday killing four high-ranking officers investigating the deaths of police in a province that borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, state news agency IRNA reported.
Three crew also died in the crash, underscoring concerns about Iran's ageing aircraft fleet which Tehran has been unable to modernise due to international sanctions. All seven on board perished when the twin-engined turbo-prop Commander aircraft went down in the mountains outside Sistan-Baluchistan's capital of Zahedan, IRNA said. Two generals including Mahmoud Sadeghi, a senior officer in charge of investigations, and a colonel, were among the dead, Fars news reported.
The police were travelling from Tehran to investigate the killing of four Iranian police officers in the province. Impoverished and relatively lawless Sistan-Baluchistan has been plagued by unrest from disgruntled Sunni Muslim minorities in predominantly Shi'ite Iran and is rife with drug and arms traffickers.
The wreckage of the aircraft has been found but the cause of the crash remains unknown, IRNA said. Iran's airlines have been plagued by crashes, which Tehran blames on international sanctions imposed over Tehran's disputed nuclear program. The measures prevent firms from replacing their ageing fleets. About 22 crashes involving Iranian aircrafts were reported from 2000 to August 2014.
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"Flap, Mahmoud flap!! Faster darn you!!
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This used to be Saddam's modus back in the day.
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We're supposed to believe they can build their own modern stealth fighter jets, yet they can't even keep a simple little turbo-prop transport in the air?
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Aero Commanders are old aircraft and if the turbo props were a retro fit, well, not a lot of detail here, but wing or fuselage fatigue along with the good ol' InShallah Maintenance probably contributed to this.
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More on the aircraft:
Depending on which version, wing fatigue could have been an issue, but it would appear that conversion to the turbo props also was a good time to retrofit new wing center section. The below is from Wikipedia:
Beginning in June 1991, senior engineers met with FAA officials to discuss concerns over the Aero Commander's main wing spar, which was believed to be susceptible to stress fatigue and subsequent cracking, and was believed to have resulted in a number of fatal crashes. From approximately 1961–1993, 24 aircraft crashed when spar failures caused the loss of the wing in flight. 35 more spars were found cracked during inspections.
Commander 690
681 with new wing centre section and engines moved further outboard, two Garrett AiResearch TPE331-5-251K turboprops, 79 built.
Commander 690A
690 with changed flightdeck layout and increased pressurisation, 245 built.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] A bus carrying paintball players struck and killed a Washington state man inside a zombie attraction at a corn maze in northern Idaho, authorities said Saturday.
[NYPOST] A teen who had recently returned home to Brooklyn following a trip to Sudan was rushed to the hospital with Ebola-like symptoms on Friday night, authorities said.
If you're even a casual news consumer, you know that the spread of Ebola, the U.S. airstrikes against ISIS and major security breaches within the Secret Service have dominated media coverage over the last week as Americans mull the safety of their families, U.S. soldiers, and the President himself.
It's not even safe to get out and vote in St. Louis. We got the Ebrola thing, and even if we survive that, the cops might shoot us. Better just forget about the election for now. It wouldn't be fair. 
