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Idiots in Office
Wherever you live there is an idiot occupying a government office. Share with us some of the stupid things he or she has said or done.

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Reply #50 –
Quote from: mjmsprt40 – on
Then we have serious mis-steps going on here in Dallas, and -- if you wanted an epidemic to get started here, that would be a good way to do it. Don't train the first-responders so they have no idea what they're dealing with, allow people who have been possibly contaminated to travel at will, only get on top of the situation after the thing is nearly out of control and so on. By now, I don't blame anybody for going full-metal Katsung on this ebola scare. It looks like our health professionals are at the very least incompetent, if not criminally culpable.
When Ebola becomes epidemic in the US, call me out. It's about as likely as an ISIS candidate being elected president in '16. And that's as likely as Romney being elected. :o

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We have a total of three cases in the US. with one death and another that apparently actually doesn't have the virus anymore. More on it People from the effected countries can on fly into one of five airports that have additional screening and travelers from those three countries will undergo active monitoring for 21 days.



It's terrible for those people Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. They have a real crises. The bigger story in the US is how the disease is being exploited by the media and politicians.

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Quote from: Jimbro3738 – on

Quote from: mjmsprt40 – on
Then we have serious mis-steps going on here in Dallas, and -- if you wanted an epidemic to get started here, that would be a good way to do it. Don't train the first-responders so they have no idea what they're dealing with, allow people who have been possibly contaminated to travel at will, only get on top of the situation after the thing is nearly out of control and so on. By now, I don't blame anybody for going full-metal Katsung on this ebola scare. It looks like our health professionals are at the very least incompetent, if not criminally culpable.
When Ebola becomes epidemic in the US, call me out. It's about as likely as an ISIS candidate being elected president in '16. And that's as likely as Romney being elected. :o


Answering bolded section: Some people think we already have done that. The person presently warming the chair in the Oval Office has had his possible Muslim connections argued ad nauseum on talk-radio.
What would happen if a large asteroid slammed into the Earth?
According to several tests involving a watermelon and a large hammer, it would be really bad!

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Reply #54 –
Has anyone yet  suggested that those are not the ears of an Earthling?

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Quote from: tt92 – on

Has anyone yet  suggested that those are not the ears of an Earthling?


It's been done. A lot. The following item turns up in a search:

What would happen if a large asteroid slammed into the Earth?
According to several tests involving a watermelon and a large hammer, it would be really bad!

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Reply #56 –
Ebola is a very real and present threat, not to Americans and Europeans, but to West Africans. Efforts should be (should have been) made where they make a difference, namely fighting the disease, not in measures of dubious value and much higher cost.

Or as put in The Guardian, We need to stop talking about Ebola like it’s just another Dustin Hoffman germ-thriller

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Somehow, in America at least, we seem to be taking Ebola both too seriously and not seriously enough. Rightwing xenophobes rage about closing the borders and impeaching #OBOLA (heads up, white Americans: if anyone has a track record of deliberately introducing devastating diseases to the North American continent in order to wipe out the population, it’s not half-Kenyan lawyers), while the rest of us titter proprietarily over the gory doom that we know will almost certainly never touch us; meanwhile, we’ve skimped on funding infectious disease research ever since the 90s Ebola scare lost its lurid lustre, and healthcare workers are paying the price. As Wired reported on Monday: “If there were more infection-prevention research, the nurse in Dallas (and probably the one in Spain, who may have contaminated herself doffing her gear) might not have become infected.” Not only that, but Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, says that, if it wasn’t for funding cuts, we would probably have an Ebola vaccine by now.

Sooo … do we learn from that? Are we going to invest in medical equipment that protects doctors and nurses from contamination? Procedures that minimise human error? Education campaigns about the dangers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria? Or even, um, a functioning healthcare system? Anything constructive? Nah, said John McCain on Sunday. Instead, he suggested, Obama should appoint an Ebola tsar to assuage Americans’ superficial, borderline recreational anxieties about a disease that mainly affects people in west Africa living in extreme poverty without access to clean water and modern medical facilities, along with the underfunded, understaffed medical personnel desperately battling the epidemic. Not to mention the fact that the Obama administration almost certainly has not just appointed officials but entire agencies to contain Ebola in the US (if I learned anything from Outbreak, Rene Russo is also on the case), and that McCain’s party hates tsars, government oversight in general and probably Rene Russo, too.

Perhaps John McCain and his cohort ought to invest in a Get a Grip tsar.

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Reply #57 –
To be an idiot in office is the best way bourgeois and noveaux riches have to earn their lives.
It affects voted ones as well voting ones.
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #58 –
I think there was a panic reaction as is usual over the pond duue to the traditional emotionalism there. Now the nurse who was forced into isolation has won her case against a Governor as she had no systems of the thing.
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #59 –
Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of Australia (a country that abolished Imperial honours  some years ago) has awarded Prince Phillip a knighthood.
Abbott has done a lot of foolish and bizarre things but nothing prepared us for this.

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Yep he could have extended the bizarre by living over there...... :D
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Gabbard abruptly ousted CIA Russia expert days after Trump-Putin meeting
Quote from: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/gabbard-abruptly-ousted-cia-russia-expert-days-after-trump-putin-meeting
By naming this person in a memo last week announcing she was revoking the security clearances of several current and former intelligence officials, Gabbard appears to have identified a CIA officer who was operating under cover, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
The headline is wrong. Gabbard not only ousted, but also outed an agent. Among intelligence workers - and Gabbard is the chief one -, this is treason.

But nothing matters anymore. Nobody was fired for leaking Signal chats either. Hegseth and Kash Patel (and Gabbard) are in top positions looking for whistleblowers and leakers, polygraphing and firing people, even though they themselves are the leakers.