Sunday, October 19, 2014
Ebola Discoverer Says ‘Without a vaccine I’m not sure we can stop Ebola’
Via WRSA
THE EBOLA VIRUS – its very name seems to have come straight from the heart of darkness – is striking fear across the globe. It has killed (officially) 4,546 people out of 9,191 infected since the first case in West Africa in December 2013, but it now poses a risk to millions. Yesterday, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, described it as the “biggest health threat to the world in a generation”. A politician’s soundbite, or the stark reality?
The Belgian scientist who co‑discovered the virus is phlegmatic. Professor
Peter Piot, now director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, says there is good news – and bad.
THE EBOLA VIRUS – its very name seems to have come straight from the heart of darkness – is striking fear across the globe. It has killed (officially) 4,546 people out of 9,191 infected since the first case in West Africa in December 2013, but it now poses a risk to millions. Yesterday, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, described it as the “biggest health threat to the world in a generation”. A politician’s soundbite, or the stark reality?
More @ The Telegraph
Michigan funeral home's drive-thru window allows mourners to pay their last respects on the go
Only a couple of families have taken advantage of a new service available at a Saginaw funeral home.
Drive-thru viewings.
Paradise Funeral Chapel recently started offering the option, which allows mourners to pay their last respects on the go. It was designed in part to cater to those with physical limitations.
More with video @ The Republic
Crowd of Democrats walks out on Obama: Steady stream of people leave, heckler interrupts president
The magic that President Obama once enjoyed at political rallies appears to have vanished into thin air, as a crowd of spectators walked out on the president during a speech for Democrats Sunday in Maryland.
During an appearance for Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown, who is running for governor of Maryland, “early departures of crowd members while he spoke underscored his continuing unpopularity,” reported Reuters.
“A steady stream of people walked out of the auditorium while he spoke,” the wire service noted, “and a heckler interrupted his remarks.”
More @ WND
Compact or Collectivism
Via Billy
Underneath all the national anger in the country over Comrade Obama’s supposed ineptitude (I think much of it is by design rather than ineptness) there also simmers a strong disagreement over just how we should interpret the Constitution. Now I have to admit up front that I have some problems with the Constitution. I find myself much more in line with the thinking of Patrick Henry that I do with that of Alexander Hamilton.
In fact, a couple years ago I did a whole series of articles on the Constitution for a blog spot that pulled the plug awhile back. Even though the original blog spot that carried them has gone by the wayside, other sites picked them up and they are still out there. You can find them on http://www.dixienet.org and http://www.spofga.org and I even found one on sonsoflibertyandamericanrevolution.blogspot.com Some of these will probably shock some folks because you never read anything like this before, but if you can, plow through them a little at a time anyway.
Underneath all the national anger in the country over Comrade Obama’s supposed ineptitude (I think much of it is by design rather than ineptness) there also simmers a strong disagreement over just how we should interpret the Constitution. Now I have to admit up front that I have some problems with the Constitution. I find myself much more in line with the thinking of Patrick Henry that I do with that of Alexander Hamilton.
In fact, a couple years ago I did a whole series of articles on the Constitution for a blog spot that pulled the plug awhile back. Even though the original blog spot that carried them has gone by the wayside, other sites picked them up and they are still out there. You can find them on http://www.dixienet.org and http://www.spofga.org and I even found one on sonsoflibertyandamericanrevolution.blogspot.com Some of these will probably shock some folks because you never read anything like this before, but if you can, plow through them a little at a time anyway.
More @ Revised History
8-Year-Old With Down’s Syndrome Scores Kick-Return Touchdown In Amazing Show of Sportsmanship
8-year-old Gabe White is a “manager” for Rhinelander High School’s
freshman football team in Wisconsin. He’s also the team’s biggest fan.
Moments after time expired during the team’s last game of the season on
Oct. 16, Gabe was called off the sidelines and onto the field. All of
the sudden, everyone was cheering for him. Gabe, who has Down syndrome,
is the younger brother of the team’s #84, Owen White.
More with video @ Conservative Videos
Rand Paul: Ebola Is 'Incredibly Transmissible'
Via Billy
Sunday on Fox News Channel's "America's News HQ," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Ebola is "incredibly transmissible and it's a mistake for the government to say don't worry."
Sunday on Fox News Channel's "America's News HQ," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Ebola is "incredibly transmissible and it's a mistake for the government to say don't worry."
More with video @ Breitbart
'Even animals don't do it': Kobani siege survivors on ISIS & More
A Kurdish activist and his wife, who have witnessed ISIS atrocities in Kobani for several months and documented some on photo and video, met RT’s Murad Gazdiev to speak about what they’ve seen.
Bazran Halil, a Kurdish rights activist and freelance journalist briefly crossed into Turkey with his wife from Kobani for an interview. His laptop is full of graphic videos, lending credence to rumors of the Islamic State’s (IS, or ISIS, or ISIL) trademark brutality.
“There was a man with Down Syndrome,” he says. “He couldn’t understand the situation, to flee, or to run away from the frontline. When ISIS arrived they beheaded him and took photos, shared them on social media and said ‘we killed an atheist, a Kaffir’.”
More with video @ RT
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Body found in the hunt for Hannah Graham in Virginia
A body has
been found in the hunt for missing student Hannah Graham, the University
of Virginia student who went missing more than a month ago.
Officers uncovered human remains in Albermarle County, just south of Charlottesville, where Hannah, 18, went missing.
The
find was made around an abandoned property on a rural road - the area
where suspect Jesse Matthew, who has been charged with Hannah's
abduction, grew up.
The
identity of the remains has not yet been confirmed - but officers have
called off all other search efforts for Hannah in the meantime.
More @ Daily Mail
Police Officer in Ferguson Is Said to Recount a Struggle
The police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., two months ago has told investigators that he was pinned in his vehicle and in fear for his life as he struggled over his gun with Mr. Brown, according to government officials briefed on the federal civil rights investigation into the matter.
The
officer, Darren Wilson, has told the authorities that during the
scuffle, Mr. Brown reached for the gun. It was fired twice in the car,
according to forensics tests performed by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. The first bullet struck Mr. Brown in the arm; the second
bullet missed.
The
forensics tests showed Mr. Brown’s blood on the gun, as well as on the
interior door panel and on Officer Wilson’s uniform. Officer Wilson told
the authorities that Mr. Brown had punched and scratched him
repeatedly, leaving swelling on his face and cuts on his neck.
More @ The New York Times
Constitutional fight launched over election of senators: Lawsuit challenges adoption of 17th Amendment
It’s a movement that’s been building in recent years: efforts by states to reclaim their constitutional authority by declaring Washington’s health care laws, gun control or other restrictions simply don’t apply within their boundaries.
After all, the Constitution stipulates that, except for a couple of dozen specific issues such as national defense, the powers in the U.S. rest with the states.
Now a new lawsuit contends states can regain their authority by returning to the practice of having state legislatures elect U.S. senators, as the Constitution originally required.
More @ WND
Mattie Clyburn Rice RIP
Via WiscoDave
A woman whose father, a black slave, fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War alongside his master was buried today, more than 150 years after the conflict began.
Mattie
Clyburn Rice, 91, died last month. Her father was Weary Clyburn, a
slave from South Carolina who followed his master to war and saved his
life.
He fathered Rice in 1922, when he was 82, and survived until his daughter was eight years old.
More @ Daily Mail
We Few, We Happy Few, We Band Of Brothers......
Re-post x?:)
Morning of the Battle of Agincourt 25th
October 1415, painted by Sir John Gilbert
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall see this day and live old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispin's:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day.
Then shall our names,
Familiar in their mouths as household words,
Harry the king,
Bedford and Exeter,Warwick and Talbot,Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.