[Washington Examiner] Secret Service managers told agents on the ground in Atlanta not to file a written report after discovering that a convict with a gun rode in an elevator with President Obama during his visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sept. 16, according to two sources familiar with the case. No sense needlessly alienating the Atlanta voting base now is there ?
#4
The guard dog at the contract security employees National Agency Check (NAC)..... OH WAIT! Not another botched security clearance investigation !!!!!
[Market Watch] WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama rode in an elevator with an armed, convicted felon during a Sept. 16 trip to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a congressman said Tuesday. I was told by a CDC source that the guard was observed violating photography rules, was pulled aside by the Secret Service and detained in a separate room. His employment with the CDC terminated later that day. It is only now coming to light that he was an armed felon.
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Please remember, this is the same CDC that will save us from Ebola. One can just about imatine what Federal MBE contract award factors led to the awarding of the guard contract. Anyone care for a game of....follow the money ?
#3
So, with the guard, O man, and hangers one, any guesses at the total number of criminals in the elevator?
(Kinda like guessing the number of jellybeans in the jar...)
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That's hangers on.
Jeez I hate autocomplete.
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#5
Right Ed. The danger to the POTUS is entirely overblown and clearly discounts felonious professional courtesy. The guy was clearly having the time of his life taking happy snaps. The Security Guard - POTUS selfie was probably pushing the envelope.
#1
The CDC says no worries, it can totally be contained. Besides, they are watching everyone the guy came in contact with. To see if they get it so they can watch whoever *they* came in contact with. I am totally reassured by this.
In other news, a mystery respiratory virus that sometimes causes paralysis is sending kids to intensive care in 40 states and Canada.
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Timeline:
•September 19: The adult patient boards a flight to the U.S. in Liberia after being screened for Ebola symptoms
•September 20: The patient arrives in the United States
•September 24: Patient shows first symptoms of Ebola
•September 26: Patient seeks initial medical care
•September 28: Patient admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
So the guy was walking around 4 days with symptoms - 2 after he first sought medical help.
#10
Presbyterian Hospital is pretty much a top of the line hospital somewhere around the same category as Dallas's Medical City Hospital. Very sharp people, that is why they were ready for Ebola. They ain't stupid so Dallas is lucky to a small degree. Now as far as Dallas over all with the huge foreign population, those areas will most likely be impacted with the virus in my opinion.
Fatu Kekula has cared for four of her family members with Ebola, keeping three alive without infecting herself.
(CNN) -- It can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu, so imagine how 22-year-old Fatu Kekula felt nursing her entire family through Ebola.
Her father. Her mother. Her sister. Her cousin. Fatu took care of them all, single-handedly feeding them, cleaning them and giving them medications.
And she did so with remarkable success. Three out of her four patients survived. That's a 25% death rate -- considerably better than the estimated Ebola death rate of 70%.
Fatu stayed healthy, which is noteworthy considering that more than 300 health care workers have become infected with Ebola, and she didn't even have personal protection equipment -- those white space suits and goggles used in Ebola treatment units.
Instead Fatu, who's in her final year of nursing school, invented her own equipment. International aid workers heard about Fatu's "trash bag method" and are now teaching it to other West Africans who can't get into hospitals and don't have protective gear of their own.
Go read the whole thing. This young woman will go far, if she lives through this.
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AND, Liberians in Dallas are taxi drivers. Working out of the Dallas International Airport. They love to socialize at the taxi stands, so this has a real possibility of spreading nationally.
#15
Still gotta go with my 2nd favorite city (after Lexington, VA) has the place to watch. There could be Panic In The Streets. Say something nice about the US Health Service.
#17
Thanks TW for posting the reference to the trash bag improvisation.
Taxis in Monrovia are a vector for transmitting the disease, because sweat is a body fluid, and Liberia is hot. So is Texas. This is going to be interesting.
#18
"with the help of the NSA they ARE watching everyone"
It would really help if the CDC and NSA didn't have to contend with the 'Jamie S. Gorelick Memorial Wall' between the agencies.
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A mysterious African fever
Is dissed as an underachiever.
When he takes to the air
He'll be known everywhere;
If you hear him, you'll be a believer.
#20
On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent back to the northeast Dallas apartment complex where he was staying with a prescription for antibiotics. Duncan's sister, Mai Wureh, said he notified health-care workers that he was visiting from Liberia when they asked for his Social Security number and he told them he didn't have one. Missed the main chance there. I wonder which hospital ER that was.
#24
Ebola man, Charlottesville, VA. dreadlock killer, OK city beheader, CDC felon guard, Ferguson, Mo. cop shooter.... generally a bad couple of weeks for the IQ-67 entitlement crowd.
#27
More on the TX ER that dropped the ball, from WaPo:
The man in Texas who tested positive for Ebola told hospital officials he had traveled from West Africa when he sought treatment on Friday, but that information was not relayed to everyone treating him at that time, authorities said Wednesday. As a result, the man was diagnosed with a “low-grade, common viral disease” and sent home that day, said Mark C. Lester, executive vice president of the health-care system that includes Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, the Dallas facility treating the Ebola patient. “Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team,” Lester said during a news conference Wednesday. “As a result, the full import of that information wasn’t factored into the clinical decision-making.”
Communication of that kind of information ain't rocket surgery.
#30
AH, this sounds like the "scandal" that's embroiling the University of Michigan football team. QB gets a mild concussion doesn't get communicated to the coach and doctors etc. QB goes back in the game........AND ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE ON SPORTS SHOWS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!
Ebola gets set loose in Dallas due to miscommunication......and crickets.
#31
Just caught a story that said the Ebola vector 1 patient didn't fly in to the country at DFW, but transited through Dulles.
The plot thickens.
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#32
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise.
Right now there are thousands of Ebola victims in Liberia, and none of them have access to medical care. So, those who can get out to somewhere that has some. This is normal and should be expected. These kind of things are going to happen regularly all around the world, until this starts to taper off in the spring.
The key thing is controlling access to infected people each time they turn up for the week or so they are contagious. That is what the medical folks in Dallas are doing now. Take heart in that Nigeria had 20 or so cases last month, but has none now. Why, because they did exactly the right thing and tracked down all potentially contagious people and isolated them.
Any U.S. city is more able to deal with this than Nigeria, so the risk of more than a few handful of cases from each introduction in the U.S. or other modern states is vanishingly small.
When this happens to places less modern than Nigeria though, there will be problems. These are countries like: Somalia, South Sudan, Chad, Haiti, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Niger, and Sierra Leone. They are the canaries in the coal mine, so to speak. If those countries can keep a lid on Ebola for the next three months or so, than this is going to subside.
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HOUSTON, Texas -- Liberian government officials have identified the patient who brought the Ebola virus to the United States as Thomas Eric Duncan. Duncan lives in Monrovia and is said to be in his mid-forties. Duncan is the first person to bring an undiagnosed case of Ebola to the United States.
Duncan had direct contact with an Ebola patient in Liberia shortly before his departure to the United States according to a report on Wednesday in the New York Times by Norimitsu Onishi. Duncan helped to carry a pregnant woman who was near death from the Ebola virus back to her home after the family was refused treatment by hospital officials because of overcrowding in their Ebola treatment ward.
This occurred on September 15th and the Ebola patient died later that night at 3 a.m.
#2
Ship handling in a close channel is tricky, nothing like maneuvering in open water. The hull displaces water and, guess what, you're in a canal. The water surface flow speed between two ships in a shallow channel is almost 2X of what the ships themselves are moving, creating a 'suck' between them.
John McPhee's "Uncommon Carriers" has an interesting chapter in it about a lake in Switzerland of all places, where they use 10 meter scale ships to teach senior ship masters handling under controlled conditions.
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For a safe proof of concept you can try at home, simply bring your knees up to your chest in the bath. Notice how the boats begin moving towards one another.
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Looks to me like Columbo Express was attempting to overtake and pass the Maersk Tanjong but then got too close to the shore and was forced to either turn or run aground. Maybe his turn was accelerated by the suck but it looks like it could have been avoided if he had just slowed down.
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Military operations in northern Donetsk city by both pro Russian militias and Ukrainian troops continue to intensify as both sides move fresh troops to the region, according to the pro Russian Voice of Sevastopol news outlet.
Despite obligations agreed to in the September 19th Minsk ceasefire agreement, according to militias Ukrainian artillery units have continued to fire artillery strikes in Donetsk city itself, hitting some residential areas.
For their part militias admit returning counterbattery fire in an effort to destroy Ukrainian artillery.
Militias have also committed to taking the airport, located north of the city, which has been in Ukrainian hands for weeks. Last week militias took at least part of the airfield, but are having difficulty driving the Ukrainians from their fortified positions.
One reason may be that Ukrainian military units are occupying structures at the airport meant to withstand nuclear blasts.
Sunday militia reports were that 850 Ukrainian troops had managed to slip into the airport, including paratroopers from the 25th Airborne Brigade.
Militias have launched artillery strikes against Ukrainian positions west and northwest of the airport at Avdeyevka, Marinka and Krasnogorovka.
Ukrainian artillery units have been firing on areas and towns in and near Donetsk, including Peski, the Kievsky district on Economicheskaya Street and on residential areas in Petrovsky District.
A number of engagements between militias and Ukrainian military units have taken place in areas northeast of Donetsk and areas south, including areas north of Mariupol.
Reports from militias are that they expect a major attack on the airport using as many as 8,000 troops. Those attacks are expected to come from areas held by the Ukrainians well north of Donetsk city.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Ukrainian state prosecutors said on Tuesday they had opened a criminal investigation against a Russian law enforcement agency, accusing it of supporting separatists in the east of the country, World Bulletin news website reported.
The move appeared to be a tit-for-tat response to a criminal case launched on Monday by Russia against "unidentified representatives of Ukraine's senior political and military leadership", the National Guard and nationalist organizations, in which it accused them of committing "genocide".
The two legal investigations will further increase tensions between the two neighbors and put pressure on a ceasefire agreed on Sept. 5 between Kiev's forces and pro-Russian separatists that has been violated by daily skirmishes and artillery shelling.
[ArutzSheva] Eleven apartments legally bought by Jerusalem-based organization; anti-Jewish riots injure one policeman.
The longer there is no peace, the less there will be to negotiate about. Consequences.
In what is being hailed as a victory for the Jewish presence in Jerusalem, dozens of Jewish families moved into their new homes overnight Monday/Tuesday, bravely settling in to the Shiloach neighborhood (known as Silwan by local Arabs) in Jerusalem.
Shiloach, a predominantly Arab neighborhood, is situated next to the historic City of David and across from the Western Wall.
The decision for Jews to move in has made headlines, however, as the neighborhood is also a flashpoint for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
The buildings were purchased by an American company, Kandel Finance, and are owned by Jews, but Arab residents have claimed that the houses belonged to three Arab families. Such claims are regularly made after Jewish purchases of homes in Arab neighborhoods as a means to keep Jews out.
According to Walla! News, some eleven apartments - confirmed to have been legally bought by a legal representative for Kendal - are at the center of the conflict.
During the move - which was carried out in the dead of night for security reasons - Arab rioters attempted to enter one of the Jewish homes by force, and began attacking police. Rioters threw rocks and fireworks at security forces, which were forced to calm the crowd using riot dispersal means.
One policeman suffered light injuries to the head and was treated on-site.
The move was facilitated, in part, by the Elad organization, which seeks to help increase Jewish presence throughout Jerusalem, including in predominantly Arab neighborhoods. Elad also operated the City of David tourist and historical site next to Shiloach/Silwan, which already houses roughly 50 Jewish families.
Earlier this month, the Jerusalem Magistrate Court ruled that the Davidson Center Archeological Park next to the southern Western Wall could not legally be transferred to the organization's ownership.
The Archaeological Park is a tourist attraction that extends from the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, and includes the Davidson Center Museum.
The Park houses remains from the Second Temple of Jerusalem, as well as portions of the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount, the remains of Robinson's Arch, Hasmonean-era remains, streets of the Herodian, and ritual purification baths once used by visitors before ascending to the Temple.
Transfer of ownership to the park was rejected on grounds of the site being owned, technically, by the government of the State of Israel.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered a "mysterious feature" on Saturn's moon Titan. Scientists are working to determine, what, exactly, this feature might be.
NASA reports that the feature is roughly 100 square miles, and it lies in Ligeia Mare, one of Titan's hydrocarbon seas. Cassini's radar has observed the feature twice, but its appearance changed between the two sightings. Scientists suspect the feature's change in appearance could be the result of Titan's changing seasons, which Cassini's current extended mission will monitor.
The feature's first sighting was in July 2013, and the radar images depicted a bright spot, which stood out from the dark sea. Scientists were "perplexed" when the feature couldn't be located with follow-up radar experiments, but they found it again on August 21, 2014.
[AnNahar] Iran is to extend compulsory military service to two years because of a shortage of conscripts in the Islamic republic, the army said Tuesday.
The decision to extend the term by three months from March results from a fall in the number of men aged 18, chief conscription officer General Moussa Kamali was quoted by state media as saying.
He said compulsory service would be three months shorter for married men, and cut by another three months for each child in the case of fathers.
A three-month reduction could also apply for service in "operations and security zones", he said, apparently referring to border regions with Afghanistan, Pakistain and Iraqi Kurdistan.
Women are exempted from military service in the country of 77 million, whose birthrate has been in decline, while young Iranian men living abroad can pay an exemption fee.
Iran's armed services are estimated to number 700,000 men, according to foreign experts.
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also, a conscript in the army is paid less than a volunteer in the Iran Republican Guard
of course if you are in the guard your first duty is to help oppress your fellow citizens - some like that, many do not
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Also reduces the disaffected youth unemployment, keeping them right where they can be watched.
An example of how political correctness could have cost the lives of the President of the United States and his family. Feel free to extrapolate the cost of political correctness to our society as a whole.
#6
Why does the head of the Secret Service still have her job?
Oh, that's right. It would be bad optics to fire the first female head of the SS.
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Pushing his way past a female guard.... that's just sexist! He wouldn't have done that to a male! Send that brute to sensitivity training!!! /idiot lib
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The Secret Service’s response to Gonzalez’s dash from the front railing was slowed because perimeter alarms — dubbed “crash boxes” — had been muffled at the request of the White House’s ushers.
Reads like the SS is getting vetoed on issues of security. "Angella Reid is the White House Chief Usher, becoming on October 2011 the first woman and the second African American following her predecessor, Stephen W. Rochon, to serve in that post." Affirmative action at work?
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Pierson just resigned, and you have to wonder who the door alarm was annoying, I think its the Mother-In-Law in the residence upstairs or the wookie herself? Clearly the culture in the SS has failed since the O'Bama's and their ilk came to stay, imagine what it will be like under the Hildebeast?
#13
It seems the SS has slipped some in recent years--or since it came under DHS.
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Well, there are bound to be a mistake or two when you're transiting a Service composed of hard-working, hard partying, primarily male, agents with a mission of "Protect", to a Service with a composition and mission of "cultural relevancy".
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.
[Market Watch] WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama rode in an elevator with an armed, convicted felon during a Sept. 16 trip to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a congressman said Tuesday.
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