If I wish to import a horse into the United States from Liberia or any African country other than Morocco, the horse needs to undergo a 60 day quarantine period at a USDA approved quarantine facility prior to mingling with the general population of horses in this country.
Africa has a disease called African Horse Sickness that does not exist in the US; this is the way we have kept it out of this country. African Horse Sickness does not cause disease in people, only horses; our government has determined that it would be devastating to the US horse industry if it were to come here.
The United States (and virtually all other countries) require a myriad of tests and often quarantine prior to bringing in a foreign animal.
I can’t legally cross state lines in the United States with a horse or cow without a health certificate signed by a USDA accredited veterinarian stating that the animal has been inspected and found free of infectious disease. In most cases blood tests are also required. In fact I can’t legally cross the Snake River and ride my horse in Washington without a health certificate and a negative blood test for Equine Infectious Anemia.
I’m not complaining; the United States of America, the States of Idaho and Washington, as well as the other 48 states take the health of our livestock very seriously, and we have a very good record at keeping foreign animal diseases out of our country. I am happy to do my part to maintain biosecurity in our animal population.
If I am a resident of Liberia incubating Ebola, to enter the United States all I need to do is present a valid visa, and lie when asked if I have been exposed to Ebola. Within hours (no quarantine required) I can be walking the streets of any city in the United States.
I feel very fortunate to live in a country that values our animals so highly.
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I remember moving schools as a wee child, and the all important birth certificate and immunization records. Now neither are required I guess...I have a pair of good horses. I'm glad they are protected.
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I did' stop all humans without a negative coggins test right at Suwannee, St. Mary's and the floragabama bar. If they shows signs of the Dutch Elm Disease, shoot on sight.
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My dogs get better medical care than my wife, daughter, and I. Our daughter signed up for ObabbleCare and she is wondering whether she is tossing her hard-earned money done a hole. She doesn't know whether she is actually getting anything. She is having a hell of a time finding a doctor who will accept ObamaScare.
[DAWN] IF it is obvious that Pakistain -- its population and its relations with the rest of the world -- is in grave danger thanks to the growing presence of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... , it is also clear that neither the centre nor the provincial administrations have taken any action to prove they care about the threat.
On Saturday came a report by the Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. It is a damning indictment of our failure to battle the "Pakistain poliovirus".
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let them enjoy the bounty of Allan. Every time the West tries to help with vaccines they spread the paranoid theory that we are trying to sterilise them or give them AIDS so let them just sort it out themselves for a change.
I'm sure if they supplicate enough to Allan he might grant a miracle
[DAWN] The contents of Pak textbooks have come under particular scrutiny, especially after the events of 9/11. As many scholars and analysts have noted, there is considerable material in our schoolbooks that promotes obscurantism, while the fudging of historical facts has left generations of Paks confused and ill-informed about the past and its impact on the present.
And most efforts at reform have met with stiff resistance from certain quarters that prefer their own hard-line ideas. In the latest case, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... education department has decided to remove content from a grade 10 Pashto book that discusses the problems confronting society.
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As many scholars and analysts have noted, there is considerable material in our schoolbooks that promotes obscurantism, while the fudging of historical facts has left generations of Paks confused and ill-informed about the past and its impact on the present.
Well now I know where Common Core came from. Like Polio it is a gift from Pakistan.
[TheAtlantic] The Obama administration's anger is "red-hot" over Israel's settlement policies, and the Netanyahu government openly expresses contempt for Obama's understanding of the Middle East. Profound changes in the relationship may be coming.
With true friends like President Obama, what need has Israel of enemies?
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To bad Israel never gave Washington anything like a bust of Churchill that could be returned to show disdain. I suspsect Obama would have liked that.
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#4To bad Israel never gave Washington anything like a bust of Churchill
I thought Obama was, at one time giving foreign dignitaries DVDs of his speeches. It would be funny if Israel got these speeches and sent them back. Maybe Obama did give Israel these speeches and they refused them and that is why he is so p!ssed--got into his ego too much.
By Kobane's Commander Meysa Abdo
Published 10/28/2014
[NewYorkTimes] Since Sept. 15, we, the people of the Syrian town of Kobani, have been fighting, outnumbered and outgunned, against an all-out assault by the army of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
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You are a puling idiot, Hemingway, a gasbag full of words containing nothing but the stench of your airy thoughts. The Kurds are Moslems, Yazidis, Christians, even Jews, all accepted by one another. They aren't Arabs, though, any more than the Turks or the Medes'n'Persians are. It is the Kurds who are protecting the Christians and other non-Moslem Iraqis from the rampaging Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, and the Kurds who with little more than hand guns have held off the rampaging ISIS hordes in Syria, a feat no one else in that part of the world has managed, and one reminiscent of the defence of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Kurds have earnt our respect and our support, not the scorn you pour so liberally in your determined ignorance.
I am leaving this post up so that everyone can see what I'm responding to, but otherwise everything of yours today will be delated.
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To poster #1: Fuck. You. I've trained these people. And to a man, they are better than such puling keyboard cowards like you will EVER be. You'd no doubt piss yourself if confronted with what they have seen, and what they are defending against. And their culture is not some Islamist 6th century deathhole. Its tolerant, secular oriented, and all kinds of religious freedom and ECONOMIC freedom is there, including equality for women. The Kurds are the good guys here.
Your post is so fucking stupid it seems almost like a caricature of what a leftard moron would try to post when posing as an "Islamophobe".
So guess what bitch - I saw right through you. Fuck you, libtard, with your attempt at false flag or agent provocateur, go die in a fire.
#4
Wow, Hemingway. Seems I got here after the blanket party.
You really stepped in it. Or should I say "on it"? Just to make sure it was you and not some other troll (like the one in Toronto,) I checked.
Notice how you've been promoted to "troll"? Congratulations. Take the rest of the decade off. Spend it breathing deep of that clean mountain air. Go wreck a jeep, sweetie. You deserve it.
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