The 11th CC sez he can sue the CDC WTF, you ask? It's an invasion of privacy thingy.
Does this mean Charles Manson can sue, too? After all, the only difference between the two is that one was successful in killing people, and the other only tried to spark some kind of epidemic that could have killed God knows how many.
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No, it's not an invasion of privacy thing. RTWT. It's a government incompetence thing. He had to pay the price for it and now he deserves a day in court and compensation if the facts are as he alleges.
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No, it says in the article that he can sue for invasion of privacy, not just the usual government incompetence, which is enough to make you grind your teeth down to nubs.
Be the information right or wrong, the guy showed his true colors and put his own convenience ahead of the lives of almost 100 fellow passengers. He "feared" for his own life if he didn't get back to the US for treatment, but he didn't care for the rest. Men, women, children and babies. Pilots and stewards. And anyone their lives touched. I'm sure someone near where he was when he was informed of his XDR TB status could have taken care of him. I don't belive it's that complicated, but who cares.
It would have been the right thing for the government to have worked with him to get him back here at a reasonable expense to him, but since when has our government ever been into doing the right thing ever since our founding fathers died?
I find it humorous that a lawyer is the subject of this. They often don't give a crap that sometimes some poor guy has fractions of a second to make a difficult decision. They'll go on in court for days about how a split-second decision was made wrong. But in this case the guy had plenty of time to think and rethink his decision, he weaseled out anyway, and he's still shameless enough to try to follow through with a lawsuit.
If I were the judge I'd have tossed him out on his ear. He gave up his right to privacy when he hopped on that plane.
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Europe doesn't know how to treat TB? Selfish prick, pretty obviously
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If the guy was such a danger to the health of all around him, why didn't the CDC arrange with the CDC in EUrope to have him quarantined immediately and returned in a secure fahsion? Because he wasn't such a danger and the CDC was a dysfunctional bureaucracy? How about that fluy pandemic?
As to the guy being a selfish prick, he did what he appears to have done what he did at the urging of the CDC. Sure they wanted a chartered plane, but I'd bet he said "I can't afford that, I'll fly coach." But the truth is we don't know what happened and that's the purpose of a trial. He's made a case that he deserves one in my mind and in the minds of the 11th CC. It's not that easy to get to sue the government. He deserves his day in court.
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As was mentioned in the article, this dude was used as a toy by the CDC, to both make him an example, and to get their budget increased.
He generally obeyed their orders, in so far as he could, and yet when he got back to the US, they decided to manhandle him and treat him as an arrogant public menace.
So yes, on the surface he sounds like a douche bag, but what he did was what most people would have done.
I say this as a strong believer in involuntary medical detention for those who recklessly break quarantine. Just in NYC alone, there are probably more than a dozen people in medical detention (most for TB), because they refuse to take their medicine.
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Where was he in Europe when they called him? In most of Europe the health care is excellent if you have lots of money or private health insurance, which any American not on Medicare will have. Even if the TB medication needed to be shipped under refrigeration, it would only cost a few hundred dollars for DHL to get it over there within two days, and perhaps two thousand dollars to send over a technician to administer it, if necessary. I speak from personal knowledge about DHL rates; I had to look into getting medication shipped across the ocean once. Fortunately someone had a business meeting at the right place and time. Also, I spent five years getting excellent medical care in Germany and Belgium, courtesy of the health insurance plan provided by Mr. Wife's employer, while my local friends waited months for appointments. We won't discuss differing attitudes toward dental care, though -- that we had done Stateside after a few unhappy experiments.
[Dawn] At least 208 people have died in a cholera epidemic in Haiti, authorities said Saturday, as thousands of people overwhelmed hospitals and clinics in the impoverished country.
"We have recorded more than 208 dead," Gabriel Thimote, the ministry's director general, said at a news conference.
He said most of the victims were in the rural Artibonite region of central Haiti, the focus of the first cholera outbreak the country has seen in over a century.
More than 3,000 people were being treated at hospitals and medical centers, in many cases overwhelming available medical personnel, Haitian health authorities said.
More than 50 inmates at a prison in the center of the country have been infected with cholera, and three inmates have died, officials said.
"The situation is under control. The population should not give in to panic, but people must take hygienic measures seriously," said Jocelyne Pierre-Louis, a physician with the health ministry.
So far the outbreak appeared to be contained in the rural center of the country with 194 of the deaths reported in the Artibonite region and 14 in the central region.
Contamination of the Artibonite river, an artery crossing Haiti's rural center that thousands of people use for much of their daily activities from washing to cooking, was believed to be at the source of the epidemic.
But the rapid spread of the disease, which is caused by a bacterial infection in the small intestines, raised fears of a much larger health emergency, particularly if it reaches the camps around Port-au-Prince housing hundreds of thousands left homeless from Haiti's devastating January 12 quake.
"It is a scenario of catastrophe," Mirlande Manigat, the frontrunner in Haiti's presidential elections, told broadcaster Radio-Canada during a visit to Montreal.
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hope most of them are the protesters demanding our withdrawal of humanitarian help.
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[Al Jazeera] Guinea has announced an indefinite delay to a presidential election run-off just two days before it was to be held, casting doubt on the West African state's hopes for civilian rule and provoking fresh protests.
"The October 24 date is not possible," General Siaka Sangare, the election commission head, said on Friday.
He said a new date would be announced after the commission further assesses preparations for the poll.
Earlier this week, General Sekouba Konate, the country's military leader, named Sangare, a Malian citizen, to head the electoral commission after disagreements over the commission's makeup threatened to delay the run-off, scheduled for Sunday.
Cellou Dallein Diallo, a presidential candidate and a former prime minister, had accused the previous commission chief of preferring his rival, Alpha Conde.
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(BNA) Bahraini voters started casting their ballots today at 8.00 am to elect 35 Mps out of 139 Parliamentary candidates as five nominees had already won unopposed.. Citizens will also elect 39 municipal councilors out of a total 177 nominees as one candidate secured his seat unopposed.
Eight women candidates are in the in fray competing for parliamentary seats while 3 women are competing in the municipal elections.
These are the third parliamentary and municipals elections ever since His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa embarked on the Reform Project, giving his people a stake in the future of their country, exercising its constitutional right in the decision process.
All political associations have rallied to take part in Bahrain 2010 polls, convinced that the His Majesty King Hamd's reform project has placed Bahrain on the world map and projected its new-look image.
The first elections were held on October 24, 2010, while the second edition were organised on November 25, 2005.
Press reports expect 27 constituencies to be decided from the first round while candidates in 8 constituencies will have to compete in a second round.
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One way or another, I'm sure there was a woman involved here somehow. :-)
Aren't all things that float on water "she"?
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As they waited for the tide to come in, Ross Mckerlich, operations manager of the local Kyle Lifeboat, said he was amazed the submarine tried to do a crew transfer where it did.
He said: 'These big subs normally lie six miles off Kyle. Last night I saw this one four miles off and now he`s less than half mile.
'He's gone inside the channel buoys - I can`t believe it. It`s very shallow there. I have never seen a sub as big as this come this close.
'Everybody who comes through the Kyle knows how shallow it is there.'
Dumbass captain. Subs don't belong anywhere but deep sea. What was he doing in so close?
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Easy enough for someone that hasn't been there to sit on their @$$ and criticize. This incident has just ended the captain's career and please tell me which crewmember caused this. Captaib's responsible but not necessarily the one that did bad. Go back to your toe picking before you spout off.
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D *** NG IT, what is it wid GODZILLA + WORLD SUBS - the Big Guy tries to be nice + moves to Britain from WESTPAC in order to get some sleep, but dem Subs keep hounding + "accidentally" running in into him?
ITS EITHER THAT OR SOMEONE MISSED THEIR
"GODZILLA" QUIZ AT SUBMARINE RADAR SCHOOL THAT YEAR!
Finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations have promised to refrain from competitive devaluation of their currencies, heading off the prospect of a currency war. And then they all rode home on their unicorns.
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Currency war is a trade war by other means. Its also a clear indication that trade agreements and resolutions of unfair trading practices are not working effectively enough to avoid such wars by other means. Deep in the darkest recesses, some pols are discovering that too many trade agreements are simply means to ship unemployment to other countries.
[Al Jazeera] French unions have challenged a back-to-work order in court, a day after the country's senate voted in favour of the government's controversial pensions reforms.
Protesters showed no sign of giving up further industrial action and have vowed more days of strikes in their months-long struggle against the bill that extends the retirement age from 60 to 62.
The union's legal challenge on Saturday focuses on a "requisition" order to employees at the Grandpuits oil refinery, a key plant that supplies the Paris region with 70 per cent of its fuel, for them to return to work.
A requisition can be issued by French authorities when they believe a strike poses a threat to public order and compels strikers to return to work, under threat of prosecution.
Riot police were sent in to clear pickets blocking the site early on Friday, clearing an 80-strong "citizens' cordon" of strikers and local supporters.
Union officials said a number of the protesters were hurt when they were kicked by police.
But staff who had been ordered back to work downed tools again overnight after a judge ruled the government's requisitioning had been illegal.
The judge said the prefect, or central government's local representative, had erred by requisitioning virtually all the workers at the refinery, which meant the site was running normally.
The authorities immediately issued another requisition order at the plant, which the unions are now appealing against.
The interior ministry said that the new requisition only ordered to work a "strictly necessary" number of staff and that trucks were taking fuel from the refinery's depot.
French families faced major fuel shortages on Saturday at the start of half-term holidays, with unions blockading all 12 refineries in the country.
Six out of 10 filling stations were dry or had run out of at least one fuel in western France and a third in the Paris region, Jean-Louis Borloo, the energy minister, told journalists.
Seven of France's 100 administrative areas or departments were short of fuel after a spate of panic buying brought, he said.
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French unions have challenged a back-to-work order in court..
Sometime around a hundred years ago, the French railway unionist went on strike shutting down the economy. The government ordered the strikers back to work with the threat that if they did not, all of them would be 'drafted'/activated into the army, put in front of courts martial, and shot. Strike ended. How times have changed.
Unemployed lawyers from the Bush administration have said that enforcement should be race-neutral. But some officials from the Big Zero administration, which took office vowing to make-work for unemployable lawyers, thought the agency should focus on cases filed on behalf of minorities.
"The Voting Rights Act was passed because people like Bull Connor were hitting people like John Lewis, not the other way around," said one Justice Department official not authorized to speak publicly, referring to the white Alabama police commissioner who cracked down on civil rights protesters such as Lewis, now a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
"There are career people who feel strongly that it is not the voting section's job to protect white voters," the lawyer said. "The environment is that you better toe the line of traditional civil rights ideas or you better keep quiet about it, because you will not advance, you will not receive awards and you will be ostracized."
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The significance of this is that the Washington Post is reporting it. This breaks the cone of silence among the leftist media outlets.
The facts are not much in doubt, although the Post leaves some facts out in an effort to make the DoJ look not-as-bad.
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So, all along it wasn't about 'equality', it was just about POWER. Well, I'm certainly surprised. /sarc off
Somewhere in their 'education' they must of missed the little point that when you disenfranchise the majority in a democracy/republic, it's no longer a democracy/republic except in name like "People's Democratic Republic of..". So, who are these bureaucrats going to get to defend their power when its challenged, because they apparently missed the fall of their brothers in Moscow when no one came to save them from among the serfs disenfranchised.
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But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. - 14th Amendment, para 2
So when the number of representatives are assigned based upon this year's census, does that mean court challenges can be initiated against those state who include any group that they fail to protect the voting rights of? Taking out the 'white' population from the calculation will reduce a good number of representatives for a number of states. They're opening a can of worms they don't want to see.
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Consider who the bad guys are, such a movie would never be made. I was lucky to come across this elsewhere myself, it wasn't taught in any of my history classes and nobody I've met even mentions it.
Making it known across the US again would /terrify/ the left I'm sure.
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"The 1992 made-for-television movie An American Story (produced by the Hallmark Hall of Fame) was based upon the McMinn (aka Battle of Athens)County War but set in a Texas town in 1945. It was nominated for two 1993 prime time Emmy Awards and one American Society of Cinematographers award." - linky
[Geo TV] At least seven people were killed in two different incidents of firing here on late Saturday, Geo News reported.
According to police sources, the first incident took place near Harbans Pora Lal Bridge when two groups shot up each other, killing three persons on the spot.
It was an family feud which led to shootout, police said while those killed were identified as Ashraf, Murtaza and Sarfaraz.
Another man Shahid Khan suffered minor injuries who was immediately rushed to Services Hospital for medical attainment.
Meanwhile in another incident of firing, three youths were killed when a drunken visitor Azam had a little gun sex in celebrations amid a wedding party in Township area.
The deaders were Hassan, Shahzad and Osama, police confirmed.
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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.
At least 208 people have died in a cholera epidemic in Haiti, authorities said Saturday, as thousands of people overwhelmed hospitals and clinics in the impoverished country.
