I haven't written anything about ebola yet because I don't know anything about it yet.

Those ISIS people are on a level of their own... But I'm not at all ready to associate it with the religion of Islam.

I think about the Crusades, or the Inquisition. Hard to top that one.

Or burning folks at the stake - like they did to Joan of Arc.

I'm not at all ready to associate those activities with the teachings of Jesus Christ - who, I think, should have a say in the way that "Christianity" is celebrated...

Similarly, I was appalled at the actions of Israel vis a vis the Palestinians not so long ago. But what the actions of a national entity have to do with Judaism escapes me as well.

Briefly, I can shake my head at these activities, and yet I go about my environment, replete with Musiims, Jews and Christians, and we ride the bus together, smile at each others children, and are courteous to one another.

As a parent of three young kids I reflect on the difference between my childhood and theirs often.

No helmet, out all afternoon with my parents having little to no idea where I was etc... etc...

I can remember vividly my mom saying..."Be home for dinner" and then off I went on my bike with no helmet doing gosh knows what.

The American journalist with Ebola who arrived at a Nebraska hospital today believes that he may have gotten infected when he got splashed while spray-washing a vehicle where someone had died from the disease.

Ashoka Mukpo arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center this morning after being flown directly from Liberia.
 

ABC News

This proves two things:

1. The virus can exist outside of a host for a substantial time.

2. It can be transmitted via water and/or aerosol spray.

Jesse Jackson in Dallas to address Ebola scare

The family's attorney is the same one retained by the Michael Brown family -- Ben Crump.

"I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over non-religion," the Reagan-appointed jurist told the crowd of about 400 people.

"We do Him [God] honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies," the conservative Catholic justice continued. "There's nothing wrong with that. It is in the best of American traditions, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. I think we have to fight that tendency of the secularists to impose it on all of us through the Constitution."

What is he talking about?

Is there anyone this guy wouldn't bomb?

Assad is a maniac but what's the alternative?  

This argument shows to me that our actions in Syria right now are pointless and we aren't accomplishing anything.

I think I'm gonna really miss working nights soon, just to have some free time in daylight hours.

It never occurred to me that being all the way on the eastern end of our "zone" we get the short end of the daylight stick.  There are all sorts of economic reasons I'm sure it makes sense to be on EST.  But looking at the map, it might make sense to take NYC and Long Island with us.

Instead of 3,287 brand new voters registered in Ferguson there are actually only 128:

as of 5:00 p.m. Monday, October 6, 2014, the SOS advised us that there have been 128 additional voter registrations for Ferguson from August 9, 2014 to October 6, 2014.

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For us lucky guys in the Keys, and some other places on the East Coast you will be able to see both the sun and moon due to the Earth's atmosphere bending light rays.

Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other religions. Murder rates in most of the Muslim world are very low compared to the United States.

In a statement released early this afternoon, Senator Rita Heard Days, Democratic director of the St. Louis County Election Board, admitted that her office released wildly inflated figures in response to press inquiries about how many new voters have registered from Ferguson.

Less than a week ago, Days' office reported that 3,287 brand new voters registered in Ferguson after the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 9. The figures seemed to show an energized voter base and the promise of political change in Ferguson -- the current mayor James Knowles was elected with only 1,324 votes back in April.

In another riveting segment on Fox and Friends, two men debate whether a jury will convict a woman based on her looks. Dr. Keith Ablow feels a female jury would be more likely to give Arias the death penalty because male jurors might find her attractive and would be reluctant to sentence her to die.

The psychiatrist said that there were even some members of the jury who fantasized about being with her. The blonde du jour on the couch said, "That's sick." Meanwhile, she claimed she was the lucky girl sitting between two such respected men. A woman should be there to be objectified, that's why Fox keeps a blonde sandwiched between two men every morning.

Legal Analyst Arthur Aidala agrees. He feels that the jury was comprised of mostly men, if there was a fatherly or big brotherly connection, the jurors would likely not give her the death penalty.

Ablow said
"She is not, objectively speaking, too pretty to die...there are some members of those jurors who fantasized about being with her... You don't want to go where the money is which is looking at her in a sexual way."

Your attempt to stir up hysteria about Ebola would be risible if the disease itself wasn't so serious.  Hemmoragic fever viruses, which is what Ebola is, have never been documented to be spread by aerosol spray.

In fact, the latest study published suggests that Ebola can't be transmitted by aerosols from primate to primate, which is the same mammalian order we humans belong to.

Kobinger's current research demonstrated that infected macaques were unable to transmit the virus to uninfected macaques without direct contact. The study used the species responsible for the current epidemic of 1,700+ human infections. The two groups of primates were near enough where aerosols could have spread the virus through the air, but they were not able to touch. While the infected macaques died in under a week, the other two never contracted the virus.

This proves two things:

    The virus can exist outside of a host for a substantial time.

    It can be transmitted via water and/or aerosol spray.

I know you will acknowledge your error.

Uh, no ... it does not.  It proves that you have absolutely no evidence to support your silly theory and you have trouble with logic.  The fact that the cameraman believes it's possible he got it while washing out a car isn't evidence.  See if you can spot the qualifiers in there (I made it easy for you).