Sopkoviak
Sopkoviak's JournalThe United States is sending about 4000 military to West Africa
Which is basically a third world region with little medical services infrastructure and there now is "patient #2" in a so-called modern facility in our own country.
Temperatures checked by Liberian health workers who have been dealing with Ebola!
I wonder how well thought this mission really is?
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2014/10/09/us-military-aircraft-arriving-in-liberia
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014914460
Ebola Outbreak: Liberia Cancels Nationwide Election Over Ebola Concerns
Source: IBT
Liberia has canceled its nationwide Senate elections scheduled for Tuesday over concerns that the election commission could not safely operate poll stations given the countrys ongoing Ebola crisis. Officials said the elections, in which almost 3 million voters were expected to participate, would have endangered lives and could not be carried out at this time, according to the Agence France-Presse.
Liberia was slated to vote in half of its 30-member upper chamber. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf exercised her authority to declare a state of emergency and suspended any and all rights ordinarily exercised, enjoyed and guaranteed to citizens.
[The government] has been unable to undertake several of the processes that are prerequisites to conducting the pending 2014 Senatorial elections, including the deployment of staff in the field to conduct civil/voter education, the recruitment and deployment of the required polling staff at polling centers, [and] the importation of basic, essential and sensitive electoral materials due to the suspension of flights to Liberia, the president said in a statement late Wednesday.
Liberia has been hit the hardest by the Ebola outbreak, with more than 3,900 cases. Over 2,200 of those were deadly, according to numbers from the World Health Organization. President Sirleaf said Wednesday that international aid to help combat the Ebola epidemic was arriving too slowly. However, she said there were signs that the outbreak could be in decline, Reuters reported.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/ebola-outbreak-liberia-cancels-nationwide-election-over-ebola-concerns-1702203
How long before the nutjobs in this country point to this and claim it will happen here?
Oh for Christs sake CNN "Texas Ebola patient had contact with children"
Way to ramp it up...
Five students at four different schools have been in contact with the Ebola patient, Dallas Superintendent Mike Miles said. None of the students has shown any symptoms. They are being monitored at home. Schools will remain open, Miles said.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Let's talk numbers. 5.41" is all-time wettest Sept ever in Phoenix (1939).
After today: we're at 5.05" 2nd wettest Sept on record.
https://twitter.com/NWSPhoenix/status/516062021645639680
And we still have 3 days to go! Lets do it!
The storm approaching Phoenix today! iphone photo!
https://twitter.com/dakotasnider/status/516033471266181120/photo/1
So the Horny Guy Who Said He Won’t Get a Fair Trial was wrong
Horny Guy Says He Wont Get a Fair TrialThey cleaned him up....
And he got his fair trial, convicted of 3 murders.
That's fair.
Caius Veiovis screamed at the Springfield jury that convicted him Friday, saying: 'I'll see you all in hell every f****** one of you. I'll see you all in hell.'
They had considered his case for the past week in Massachusetts.
Veiovis also was convicted of three counts of kidnapping and three counts of intimidation of a witness in the killings of David Glasser, Edward Frampton and Robert Chadwell.
Their remains were buried on private property in Becket.
The two other men charged in the killings have already been convicted.
Authorities say one of those co-defendants wanted Glasser dead so he couldn't testify against him in another case.
The others were killed to eliminate witnesses.
Hell, they deliberated for a week, how much more fair could he have wanted?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771367/Man-implanted-horns-666-tattoo-convicted-triple-murder-screams-jury-f-hell.html
Peak Oil Guy: ExxonMobil finds oil in the Russian Arctic
Peak Oil?
The oil was found at Universitetskaya, a 7,700-foot well in the Kara Sea that ExxonMobils partner, Rosneft, believes holds about 9 billion barrels of oil. The find seems certain to create tension with the US government, which two weeks ago slapped new sanctions on Russia that forbid US companies from participating in Russian Arctic drilling. Lobbied by Exxon, the Obama administration granted the company an extension through Oct. 10 in order to allow the safe cementing and abandonment of the well.
The company proceeded with the drilling, as Quartz noted late yesterday, and it struck oil, the Financial Times wrote today. If true, the find does not necessarily mean the field contains commercial volumes of oil. That will have to be determined in further drilling, in which ExxonMobil will be able to participate only if tension between the West and Russian president Vladimir Putin subsides, and the sanctions are eased.
ExxonMobil declined to comment on the report of the oil find.
http://peakoil.com/geology/exxonmobil-finds-oil-in-the-russian-arctic
Rosneft Says Exxon Arctic Well Strikes Oil
Russias state-run OAO Rosneft (ROSN) said a well drilled in the Kara Sea region of the Arctic Ocean with Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) struck oil, showing the region has the potential to become one of the worlds most important crude-producing areas.
The announcement was made by Igor Sechin, Rosnefts chief executive officer, who spent two days sailing on a Russian research ship to the drilling rig where the find was unveiled today. The well found about 1 billion barrels of oil and similar geology nearby means the surrounding area may hold more than the U.S. part of the Gulf or Mexico, he said.
It exceeded our expectations, Sechin said in an interview. This discovery is of exceptional significance in showing the presence of hydrocarbons in the Arctic.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-27/rosneft-says-exxon-arctic-well-strikes-oil.html
Peyton Manning Infers Pizza Business Is 'Good' in Colorado Due to Legalization
In a recent sit-down with Sports Illustrated's Peter King, Peyton Manning more or less admitted that Colorados decision to legalize marijuana has been a huge boon for his pizza stores.
Weeks before the state passed a legalization amendment in 2012, the Broncos quarterback began snapping up Papa Johns franchises in the Denver area. The move prompted even the most casual observer to deduce that Peyton, a wily old fox, had bought the stores to capitalize on the impending munchies boom that would sweep the state.(snip)You try to know who youre voting for Ive gotten to know some of the folks here in Colorado. Theres some different laws out here in Colorado. Pizza business is pretty good out here, believe it or not, due to some recent law changes. So when you come to a different place, youve kind of got to learn everything that comes with it.
So, is Manning pro-Dro? Certainly hed never personally conspire with the devils cabbage, but judging by the soaring sales his stores have experienced, hes probably not against it.
After all, as TMZ noted in 2013, the 21 Papa Johns stores owned by Manning raked in record sales in the post-legalization period, registering a 25 percent profit increase at one location.
Apparently weed does not promote good taste.
Pot smokers eating dog crap pizza and lining the pockets of a couple of red-neck millionaires.
SMFH
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2203196-peyton-manning-infers-pizza-business-is-good-in-colorado-due-to-legalization
Governor: Suspend Adrian Peterson
MINNEAPOLIS -- The governor of Minnesota has joined the chorus of those calling for the Minnesota Vikings to suspend running back Adrian Peterson.
Mark Dayton -- who spearheaded the legislative fight for the Vikings' new $1 billion stadium and stood next to team owner Zygi Wilf at the groundbreaking in November -- released a statement on Tuesday saying he believes the Vikings should take Peterson off the field until his child abuse case is resolved in Montgomery County, Texas.
From the Dayton family compound on exclusive Lake Minnetonka the Guv finally "doesn't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows". *a not so obscure Mn reference*
Unfortunately it's after ramrodding a billion dollar stadium through the legislature for the carpetbagging, and allegedly corrupt, New Jersey real estate developer team owner Zygi Wilf, thereby quadrupling Wilf's original investment.
Way to go out on a limb there Mark.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11537857/minnesota-governor-mark-dayton-says-minnesota-vikings-suspend-adrian-peterson
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