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Derna's rival Islamist militias fall out over Caliphate allegiance
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
White House Confident It Can Prevent Ebola Outbreak
[FREEBEACON] Thomas Eric Duncan, the first and only person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, is currently at death's door, and "fighting for his life," according to Dr. Tom Frieden, the Director of the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

"As of now, the man in Dallas [Texas], who's fighting for his life, is the only patient to develop Ebola in the U.S. We know that there are going to be other concerns and rumors and we'll track everyone one of those down. We want people to be concerned, but appropriately concerned, about people who have the travel and the symptoms that might suggest they need testing for Ebola, and if they do we'll get that testing done promptly," Frieden said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Government and health officials have scrambled to quell public fears since Duncan was diagnosed late last week.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hope he doesn't invoke his basketball bracket picking skills....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/07/2014 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  White House Confident It Can Prevent Ebola Outbreak

Bold talk for an outfit that can't prevent fence jumpers from entering the Green Room.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2014 2:10 Comments || Top||

#3  If necessary they're prepared to bomb Dallas or any other city in Texas to control the outbreak.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/07/2014 7:53 Comments || Top||

#4  White House Confident It Can Prevent Ebola Outbreak in the White House.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/07/2014 8:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Ebola doesn't care if you destroy the hard drives.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2014 9:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Well crap, now I'm definitely re-stocking my squirrel hole.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/07/2014 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  How, pass a law ?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/07/2014 11:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Well we are fucked.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/07/2014 11:49 Comments || Top||

#9  I believe what the CDC says about as much as I believed Baghdad Bob.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2014 11:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Our Headline should read:

Obe believes in American Exceptionalism After All !

Ebolaoutbreak: Spread of deadly disease across Europe is 'unavoidable', warns WHO chief
Posted by: Large Elmetle3509 || 10/07/2014 12:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Quick Obe...Block All The Doors or the Death Panels will have Nothing to DO !

CDC:Doctors, nurses fleeing hospitals...
Posted by: Large Elmetle3509 || 10/07/2014 12:54 Comments || Top||

#12  The problem is we've seen so much institutional lying from this regime and the bureaucracy under it that they have no credibility, even if telling the truth
Posted by: Frank G || 10/07/2014 14:02 Comments || Top||

#13  CDC: Isolating Liberia would make it worse for the US. Isolating in hospitals the infected traveling here from lIBERIA MAKES IT BETTER. Liberal Logic 101.637
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 10/07/2014 14:25 Comments || Top||

#14  CDC: Isolating Liberia would create regional turmoil and unrest in Africa [paraphrasing].

Please tell me, what doesn't create regional turmoil and unrest in Africa.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2014 14:28 Comments || Top||

#15  If you haven't already, read The Stand by Stephen King. Great book, apropos for ebola, and it'll make you paranoid as hell.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/07/2014 14:50 Comments || Top||

#16  Ebbang Uluque, a quick question. What if you're already.... 'paranoid as hell.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2014 14:52 Comments || Top||

#17  "M-O-O-N" - that spells "paranoid as hell"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/07/2014 14:57 Comments || Top||

#18  Tyrant Obama aka "Moon Golfman" relies on the power of sheer arrogance and personal narcissism to protect us from silly things like Ebola.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/07/2014 16:17 Comments || Top||

#19  White House Confident It Can Prevent Ebola Outbreak

Imagine (better you than me) the hashtags.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2014 16:23 Comments || Top||

#20  We can only stop Ebola if America votes for democrats, invests in green energy, marries someone of the same sex and eats oganic vegetables.
Posted by: Airandee || 10/07/2014 17:18 Comments || Top||

#21  M-O-O-N, that spells Frank read the book. cough, cough
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/07/2014 18:04 Comments || Top||

#22  Sept. 24: Duncan begins to show symptoms

Tomorrow marks two weeks. We'll see how contained this is over the next week or so.
Posted by: mossomo || 10/07/2014 19:28 Comments || Top||

#23  Moar Speeches.
Posted by: Injun Ulomoque8628 || 10/07/2014 21:02 Comments || Top||

#24  "Captain Trips" (from The Stand) had a 99.something fatality rate, extremely contagious, was airborne, and symptoms looked, at first, like the common ordinary flu.
(all those reading of the Stand and watching of the miniseries finally paying off...)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/07/2014 23:19 Comments || Top||

#25  The book was great, the miniseries so so.
Posted by: badanov || 10/07/2014 23:43 Comments || Top||

#26  Agreed.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/07/2014 23:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democrats start to point fingers
[THEHILL] Democrats are starting to play the blame game as they face the possibility of losing the Senate in November.

Tempers are running high a month out from Election Day, with polls showing Democratic candidates trailing in the crucial battleground states that will decide whether control of Congress flips to Republicans.

The behind-the-scenes tension broke into the open last week when former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) questioned Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
's (D-Nev.) decision not to endorse Democrat Rick Weiland in South Dakota's Senate race.
Pro-immigrant advocacy groups, meanwhile, are saying Democrats should not blame them if Latino voters don't turn up to the polls on Election Day. They say President B.O. made a tactical blunder by postponing an executive order easing deportations.

And grassroots organizers are grumbling about Alison Lundergan Grimes's (D-Ky.) bid to take down Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), arguing her campaign has been disorganized.

"Yes, you've seen pre-emptive finger pointing in the last couple of weeks," said Gerald Warburg, a former Senate Democratic leadership aide and assistant dean at the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

"I used to work in the Democratic caucus and some of the toughest shootouts we ever engaged in were when we stood in a circle and fired at each other. I think you see a little bit of that now," he said.

With control of the Senate in jeopardy, some Democrats are eyeing potential scapegoats: Obama's low approval rating; low turnout from Hispanic voters; overly centrist messaging; and the media, to name just a few.

One of the Senate's most vulnerable incumbents, Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) recently said he wants to replace Reid by electing Sen. Chuck Schumer
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower.
(D-N.Y.) as majority leader. He made the comments at a fundraiser, according to audio obtained by The Washington Free Beacon.

Pryor said the "best thing that could happen" to the Senate would be if McConnell "gets beat and Harry Reid gets replaced."

With an eye on saving his majority, Reid adopted a strategy of limiting legislative amendments to protect vulnerable colleagues from tough votes that could be used against them on the campaign trail.

Those moves have at times proved controversial with fellow Democrats, such as Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), one of the party's most endangered incumbents.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How does this Crying The Blues compare to two years ago, when all of us dupes figgered O was out?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/07/2014 13:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems just a week ago they were claiming Republicn claims of their taking the Senate were looking shakey. Guess it depends upon how you carefully word and weight those polls I guess.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/07/2014 14:46 Comments || Top||

#3  It's all Bush's fault.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/07/2014 14:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Circular firing squads can be interesting to watch.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2014 15:28 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm gonna watch MSNBC on November 4th for the sheer schadenfreude...
Posted by: Raj || 10/07/2014 16:11 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm not sure MSNBC would be aware of their situation. I'm thinking they would blithely continue blundering along without a clue.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2014 18:07 Comments || Top||

#7  One can still enjoy the schadenfreude of their situation none-the-less.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2014 18:08 Comments || Top||

#8  MSNBC - "WE shall overcome! How racism Voter ID suppression and THE MAN keeping us down!"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/07/2014 18:43 Comments || Top||

#9  I dunno. Ima thinkern dirty trix and GOTV software.

'course the Donk weaklings and dissidents will either have to 'rehabilitate' themselves or find themselves on the outs...
Posted by: Pappy || 10/07/2014 20:27 Comments || Top||


Grimes Staff Caught on Hidden Camera: She's Lying About Support for Coal Industry
Another Project Veritas game changer.
[FREEBEACON] U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is lying about her support for the state's coal industry according to Kentucky Democrats, including members of her campaign team, who were captured on a hidden camera video.

The video, produced by conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe, shows five employees of the Grimes campaign and local Democratic Party affiliates speculating that the Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is only professing her support for the industry out of political expediency.

"If we can get her elected do you think she is going to do the right thing and she's gonna try to wipe out that coal industry and go for better resources?" asks an undercover videographer in one segment of the video.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why would this be news? She's a politician - they're always lying about everything; it's the key job requirement.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/07/2014 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Consumption for those who want to be lied to. Better to later bitch about being lied to than to surrender power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2014 9:00 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not just Democrats. *Everyone* runs to the right of their actual positions. Pols know what we want -- and absolutely refuse to give it to us. At least so long as we are stupid enough to keep voting for the same idiots with the same lies.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/07/2014 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Democrats lie to get and stay elected? Who would have known?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2014 12:03 Comments || Top||


Democrats losing long war against voter ID
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] In one month, voters will go to the polls to elect the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. Will the midterms be clean? Could some elections be stolen? Everyone ostensibly agrees that voters have a right to know that their decision is not being ignored. And a clear majority supports a simple way to make sure: voter ID.

You would not know it if you read only the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
or watched only MSNBC, but the Left and President B.O. are losing their fight to block the widespread introduction of voter ID cards. In courts of law and the court of public opinion, the issue is gaining traction. With few exceptions, liberal pressure groups have lost lawsuits in state after state, with courts tossing out their faux claims that ID laws are discriminatory, unconstitutional or suppress minority voting.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It could help clean out the system some but only if it is enforced. Right now, they hop the border, and at the food stamp office, they are registered to vote with motor voter crap.

Ballot certification helps
Posted by: newc || 10/07/2014 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Any kind of vote fraud is treason. It is an attempt to overthrow the government by rigging an election. Anyone involved should be tried and convicted, then put against the wall and shot. Including those who like to 'find' ballot boxes forgotten in their trunk.

Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/07/2014 8:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Why do you think they're importing 10 million illegals? Amnesty, then the vote.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2014 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Red states will have voter ID. Blue states won't. The net of this will be to keep red states red and blue states blue.

Next step is to purge voter rolls every four years. That would go a very long way toward reducing multiple registrations, dead voters, etc. Put another way, it makes wholesale vote fraud (i.e. the entire Democratic party) much more expensive.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/07/2014 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  I agree on purging the rolls. Perhaps every election should require re-registering.

I'd also like to see a movement away from absentee ballots. Yeah you can fill them out at home but you should drop them into the box at the booth so your ID can be checked and your ballot can be counted along with the rest of them instead of getting lost along the way.

I don't know what the military overseas should do but they need to figure out something because its just too damn easy to disenfranchise them with the current system.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/07/2014 14:49 Comments || Top||


Bill Clinton tells Arkansans: Don't protest Obama in midterm vote
[CBSNEWS] Former President Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
urged voters in his home state Monday not to use the midterm election as a protest against the White House, as he toured the state to help Democrats' efforts to prevent a GOP takeover in Arkansas.

Clinton kicked off a series of rallies in Arkansas on Monday, praising Democratic candidates in close races for U.S. Senate, House and governor as people willing to work with both parties for the good of the state. He also criticized Republicans' efforts to tie Democrats to President Barack Obama
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Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "And while we're talking about it, I wasn't here today. You haven't seen me in weeks."
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/07/2014 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Anybody who is dumb enough to believe anything Bill Clinton says deserves whatever they get.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/07/2014 11:41 Comments || Top||

#3  EU, that would be a fine sentiment IF "anybody" was the only target of getting what they deserve.

Unfortunately there are a lot of unbelievers that get it too.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/07/2014 12:10 Comments || Top||

#4  He's doing this with a wink and a nod. When he says "Don't protest against Obama" he really means "Hell yes protest against Obama".

He wants Obama's team humiliated and driven to the outskirts of the Dem party. He wants Hillary to be able to campaign for the middle. A Republican wave will actually do Bill a favor.
Posted by: frozen al || 10/07/2014 13:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Unfortunately there are a lot of unbelievers that get it too.

Yeah. Sorry about that. We're all in this boat together and if we have dumb asses at the helm then we are all up the proverbial creek.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/07/2014 14:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Leon Panetta: Obama has 'lost his way'
[Washington Post] It's going to be a rough week for President B.O., thanks in part to his former CIA director and defense secretary, Leon Panetta
...former SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
, who in an interview published this morning said the president has "kind of lost his way."
"Baa baa baa..."
By not pressing the Iraqi government to leave more U.S. troops in the country, he "created a vacuum in terms of the ability of that country to better protect itself, and it's out of that vacuum that ISIS began to breed," Panetta told USA Today, referring to the group also known as the 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....

He said Obama has a "frustrating reticence to engage his opponents and rally support for his cause" and too frequently "relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader." Sometimes, he told USA Today's Susan Page, Obama "avoids the battle, complains, and misses opportunities."

The USA Today interview was the first of what inevitably will be a series as he promotes his book, "Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace," which is sharply critical of Obama's handling of the troop withdrawal from Iraq, Syria and the advance of the Islamic State. "I think we're looking at kind of a 30-year war" that will also sweep in conflicts in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and Libya, he told the paper.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK Leon - where was this WHILE YOU WERE ON THE JOB?

Gutless political bastard.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/07/2014 2:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Lost his way? That implies he had one to begin with.
Posted by: gorb || 10/07/2014 2:19 Comments || Top||

#3  He said Obama has a "frustrating reticence to engage his opponents and rally support for his cause"

Ag, the former Klingon master and foreign policy expert finally speaks. Thanks Leon, for highlighting these previously unknown facts regarding an indolent, out-of-touch Champ. Who could have possibly known? Thanks also for your sage predictive analysis of the '30 year war' which has appeared out of nowhere. I always assumed you were a sycophantic piece of kak. Your recent interviews and the timing and release of your new book simply confirms my assessment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2014 2:25 Comments || Top||

#4  I believe he is on the very way he he intended too be on.
Posted by: chris || 10/07/2014 3:35 Comments || Top||

#5  I believe he is on the very way he he intended too be on.

Neh, I've seen many like him an academy: strait A students, beloved by their teachers/thesis supervisor. Get tenure, grants, etc... can't produce publications.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2014 3:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Panetta is as much a political animal as Obama. As said if he disagreed so much with Obama, why didn't he say something previously or submit his resignation? He is more of a Clintonite than in Obama's camp. It looks like he is paving the way for Hillary.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2014 11:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Obe, Pan, Bill, Hill, Pelo, Reid and all the Demon-rats are just....

Posted by: Large Elmetle3509 || 10/07/2014 12:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Large, that looks like US-26 west of Casper a few years ago when I was on it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/07/2014 12:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Looks like Perry-Reeeeebeau writ large.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/07/2014 14:22 Comments || Top||

#10  He lost his way as soon as he always got his way.
Posted by: AlmostAnonuymous5839 || 10/07/2014 15:20 Comments || Top||



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  Derna's rival Islamist militias fall out over Caliphate allegiance
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