h/t Jerry Pournelle
As a rule, one should not panic at whatever crisis has momentarily fixed the attention of cable news producers. But the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has migrated to both Europe and America, may be the exception that proves the rule. There are at least six reasons that a controlled, informed panic might be in order.
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Six reasons for a travel ban and closure of the southern border.
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10/18/2014 10:03 Comments ||
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Royals made the playoffs
Chiefs made the playoffs
Two wildcard teams will play for World Series
Kansas City will host the World Series
Seahawks won the super bowl
USA soccer made it past the first round
h'Ok, back to hole diggin'
srzly, like the comment on the passenger jets, society will not break down due to a wave of refugees, but when enough people decide to not go to work. Unfortunately our current government policies already encourage that. Drive a grocery delivery truck or...get an O phone and EBT credits. Ebola, or X-Box?
[NYSun] That New York Times dispatch on what it calls "The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons" is best viewed as journalism's longest correction. It's designed to try to extricate the Gray Lady from all these charges about how President George W. Bush and his camarilla lied about the danger of Saddam's chemical arsenal. For it turns out that Iraq was littered with thousands of shells containing poison gas, like Sarin. The Times tries to palm off on its readers the idea that this is different from the "active weapons of mass destruction program" that America had gone to war to destroy.
We don't blame C.J. Chivers, the Timesman who penned this opus. It was a tall order, and he did the best he could. He's cranked out something on the order of 10,000 words. We ran the whole dispatch through one of our favorite contraptions for the modern editor: The patented "Straight-talk Gasoline Operated High Volume Prose Compactor." We have the Tolstoy 100 model, which can handle stories twice the length of Chivers'. It summarized his piece this way: "Dang, we're angry at Mr. Bush for failing to tell us we found the weapons that he had warned were there and that the Times insisted weren't."
To cover its own bumbling of the story, the Times tries to blame Mr. Bush for the fact that a number of our heroic GIs were injured by poison from the weapons the Times had claimed were a fiction. "The secrecy fit a pattern," says the Times. "Since the outset of the war, the scale of the United States' encounters with chemical weapons in Iraq was neither publicly shared nor widely circulated within the military. These encounters carry worrisome implications now that the Islamic State, a Qaeda splinter group, controls much of the territory where the weapons were found."
You're telling us. Implication number one is that the Times ought to bring back Judith Miller and install her as its foreign editor. She was the reporter who got fired because she broke the story that we needed to go in there and get these weapons. For penance the Times could put her in charge of covering the war against the Islamic State. Number two is that the Times owes Ahmad Chalabi an apology. It has done nothing but libel him for inspiriting the Iraqi National Congress. It has suggested he purposely misled America, even though what he sought was a Free Iraq.
Finally it owes an apology to President Bush. He has devoted his post-presidency to inspiriting the GIs whom he sent into battle, particularly those who suffered life-changing injuries. He rides bikes and golfs with them, thinks about them all the time, keeps faith with them. He knew we couldn't withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, warning "they will follow us home." That's what they're fixing to do now that we have withdrawn from Iraq and are withdrawing from Afghanistan. Our advice to the Times is that before it goes into print attacking our President and our GIs, it would be wise to think through what kind of correction it's going to have to run ten years hence.
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Wait until they tell you about the shipload of uranium yellowcake seized in Basra, that was financed by Bear-Stearns, and sold off to the Canadians after the war.
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[Ynet] In open letter to Israelis written during Operation Protective Edge, young Iranian man slams his country's leaders for fanning flames between Israelis and Paleostinians and increasing bloodshed.
My name is Ali and I live in Tehran. I want to tell you, Israel's citizens, about Iran and about the lives of the people in Iran these days. I want to take you on a virtual tour of Tehran, so that you will get to know the reality in Iran as it really is ‐ and not as it is presented in the media.
Our tour begins on Thursday, July 24, a day before Quds Day, the Iranian Jerusalem Day which marks the protest against Zionism, and in the height of the fighting in Gazoo during Operation Protective Edge. I leave home for work at an early morning hour, arrive at the bus stop and wait. All the walls around me and all the bulletin boards are filled with posters and pictures from previous years' Quds Day demonstrations, inviting Iran's citizens to participate in this year's protest.
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Why Is Iranian Citizens' Money Buying Missiles For Hamas?
Because, Islamic dictatorship. I hate to put it this way, Ali, but we ain't going to be liberating you any time soon - if ever. If you want it changed, you're going to have to do it the old fashioned way. It will kill a lot of your people who want freedom, and it cannot - WILL NOT - end until every last Ayatollah and every single Pasdaran is hanging from a lamp post.
You have to decide. Until you do, innocent Israelis will continue to die. In your name.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
10/18/2014 11:31 Comments ||
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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.
