Posted on 10/24/2014 6:24:35 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
[Hard-to-process Alert ...]
-- President's 'Just-us' Department belittles blacks to make a case for voter fraud --
-- Judicial Watch Probes Fast & Furious, 0 Shields Holder's Wife --
-- Updates on 0's Immigration Franken-Scheme --
-- NY Hatchet-Man, Terrorist? --
-- Updates on Bristol Palin Mugging & Ridicule --
-- Ebola in NYC and possibly Louisiana and Connecticut --
-- Other Ebola Updates --
-- Southern Flori-duh Threatens to Secede due to Climate Change --
update: 'Calibration error’ changes GOP votes to Dem in Illinois
[links & specifics coming up]
— Updates on 0’s Immigration Franken-Scheme —
DOCUMENTS: Dangerous criminals among illegals released...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/22/immigration-detainees-released-criminal-records/17714925/
Sheriff: Administration Refusing to Give Names to Law Enforcement...
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/23/AZ-Sheriff-Obama-Admin-Refusing-to-Give-Law-Enforcement-Names-Of-Criminal-Illegals
Labor Sec: O Will Take ´big and bold, Aggressive Exec Action´ on Immigration
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218928/posts
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said President Barack Obama will take “aggressive executive action” on immigration, which Perez said will bring about more “shared prosperity.” Addressing the National Press Club this week, Perez, who is reportedly on the short list to be Obama´s next attorney general, said the country needed to “fix our broken immigration system” with comprehensive amnesty legislation that is “big and bold” to ensure that there is “shared prosperity,” which he said is a goal of his Labor Department. Though the Congressional Budget Office determined that comprehensive amnesty legislation would lower the wages of American workers, Labor Secretary... [snip]
— NY Hatchet-Man, Terrorist? —
Hatchet-wielding man shot dead by NYPD cops in Queens; police eye possible terrorism motive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218897/posts
jonatron offered this address which might explain hatch-man’s thinking:
http://www.news.com.au/world/new-york-axe-attack-man-dead-two-police-officers-injured/story-fndir2ev-1227100821536
[Speculation — was he Islamic?]
ISIS Sends Message To America: “God Willing, We Will Make Some Attacks In New York Soon [September]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218908/posts
[and ...]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218911/posts
“The suspect was hiding behind a bus shelter as if he was waiting to attack the officers, according to a law enforcement official, who said it almost appeared as if he was stalking...”
[and ...]
Obama Has Ignored Domestic Jihadist Attacks For Years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3218931/posts
Michelle Malkin:
... And I’m not just talking about the “workplace violence” of jihadist Nidal Hasan, whose Koran-inspired Fort Hood rampage took the lives of 13 American servicemen and servicewomen and one unborn baby. An entire parade of infidel-hating fanatics targeted U.S. soldiers long... [snip]
[lastly ...]
Canadian reservist’s beloved dogs wait for him to return home a day after he was shot dead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218936/posts
...His mother, who is traveling to Ottawa, is ‘completely broken’, relatives said, ‘Their noses peeking out from under the fence, Nathan Cirillo’s dogs wait patiently for their dad’ - unaware that he will never be coming home....
[snip]
— Updates on Bristol Palin Mugging & Ridicule —
Matt Lewis shames the press for laughing at Bristol Palin’s physical assault
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3218910/posts
Apparently, the usual sober and fraught political commentary that often accompanies episodes of physical violence directed toward women disappears when the subject of that violence is a Palin. The political press had a hearty chuckle at the expense of the Palins when it first broke that the former first family of Alaska was involved in an alcohol-fueled brawl. The “thrilla in Wasilla,” some called it. One might, however, have expected the laughter to die down after local police released audio of Bristol Palin who described through hysterical tears how she had been assaulted, dragged through the grass, and robbed. It... [snip]
[and ...]
Mark Levin Slams Costello for Palin Mockery
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3218999/posts
[and...]
CNN´s Carol Costello apologizes for Palin remarks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218947/posts
“Over the past few days I have been roundly criticized for joking about a brawl involving the Palin family. In retrospect, I deserve such criticism and would like to apologize,” Costello said in a statement to POLITICO. On Wednesday, before playing a tape in which Bristol Palin describes an alleged altercation at a party in Wasilla, Alaska, Costello said, “This is quite possibly the best minute and a half of audio we’ve ever come across. Well, come across in a long time anyway.” [snip]
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“Why such thuggish hatred?”
[yesterday] Van Jones confession r. Palin: “We were scared!”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218318/posts
My view:
The truth is that the D.isease Party was scared to death of Sarah Palin. So they DE-volved into a ‘hen-pecking’ party. When the hens see blood, they get into a pecking frenzy until the bloody hen is killed.
The mugging and jeers are the inevitable result of people allowed to turn into wild beasts. This is what “Lord of the Flies” is all about.
[I uh, go on some more and branch out at this point. I wouldn’t blame you if you scroll on past.]
Leftists have ‘checked out’. They wage war against civilization and embrace barbarians such as Islam, hate-mongering pseudo-Christians [black liberation theology], leftist-anarchists, and union thugs. They also stir up discord. They encourage divorce and pit poor against rich, animal lovers against humanitarians, sexual reprobates and drug abusers against Christianity, women against men, children against parents, and working women against house keepers.
Global warming is also a method of ‘divide and conquer’ — those who trust grant-funded research and those who point out the fraudulence of it along with the end game: ‘more taxes and less prosperity’.
All of this resulted in the religion of leftist secularism: propserity is ‘evil’, Christianity is ‘evil’, masculinity is ‘evil’, and freedom is ‘dangerous’. All of Western Civilization’s underpinnings have eroded. And as our economy reflected this, so did China’s economy eclipse us.
Sarah Palin cut through leftist divisiveness. She united and inspired people, a breath of fresh air. No one was surprised — she was [after all] overwhelmingly popular as Alaska’s governer. She posed a threat. So the D.isease Party did the only thing it understands — D.estruction and D.iscord.
[Ok, climbing off my rickety stack of soap boxes ...]
[ ~~~~~~~ Non-Ebola ~~~~~~~ ]
update: ‘Calibration error’ changes GOP votes to Dem in Illinois
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218785/posts
[Hard-to-process Alert ...]
— President’s ‘Just-us’ Department belittles blacks to make a case for voter fraud —
[actual title ...]
Voter fraud, lynch mobs, failed policies and race
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3218969/posts
‘...The Department of Justice introduced an “expert witness” to a North Carolina court considering that state’s voter identification law who calmly explained that the requirement in inordinately onerous to black citizens because they tend to be “less sophisticated,” “less educated,” and “less attuned to public affairs” than other Americans...’ [snip]
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— Judicial Watch Probes Fast & Furious, 0 Shields Holder’s Wife —
BREAKING: Judicial Watch Obtains List of Fast and Furious Documents ..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218760/posts
Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder’s Wife
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218692/posts
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Southern Flori-duh Threatens to Secede Due to Fear of Climate Change
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3218971/posts
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US scrambling jets almost daily to repel Russian threats...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/23/vladimir-putin-emboldened-by-weak-us-response-to-r/
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Debate crowd loudly laughs at “War Against Women” charge by female Dem challenger (#NY23)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218905/posts
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IRS beats tea party in court
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218825/posts
[Judge threw it out because the IRS later caved on tax status. No punitive consequences.]
[ ~~~~~~~ more ‘non-ebola’ at ‘In-Depth’ post ~~~~~~~ ]
Thank you! And here ...
Fast and Furious: Family of Slain Border Patrol Agent “Baffled”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219023/posts
Late Wednesday evening the Department of Justice turned over a list, or Vaughn Index, of Operation Fast and Furious documents being held from the American people and Congress under President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege. The list was turned over after a long legal battle with government watchdog Judicial Watch. Yesterday in an initial review of the list by Judicial Watch, it was revealed Attorney General Eric Holder was involved in crafting talking points for the cover-up of the operation from within DOJ and that President Obama asserted executive privilege over emails between Holder, his wife and his mother. The family... [snip]
~~~~ Ebola in NYC and possibly Louisiana and Connecticut ~~~~
[Just one Louisiana link]
New Orleans area man being monitored for signs of Ebola, DHH says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218820/posts
“...after returning to Louisiana from visiting an Ebola-affected country...”
[Just one Connecticut link]
Six in quarantine in Connecticut as U.S. steps up Ebola checks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218990/posts
Reuters: The family of six West Africans, who arrived Saturday and were planning to live in the United States, will be watched for 21 days, Connecticut state health authorities said Thursday. Officials have yet to say where the family came from. ... [snip]
[Now for NY ...]
New York Throws 3 People Into Quarantine After Ebola Patient Travels All Over The City
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218976/posts
CDC allowed Doctors Without Borders to bring Ebola patient onto New York City subway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3218954/posts
Doctor [with Ebola] rushed to Bellevue Hospital with fever [NYC]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218761/posts
[and] RODE SUBWAY HOURS BEFORE TESTING POSITIVE...
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/26876626/possible-ebola-patient-at-bellevue
[and] GOOD NEWS! CDC Says NYC Ebola Doctor Cleared Enhanced Airport Screening
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218943/posts
[Our point, sadly, proven, and NYC feels utterly creeped out, people in the subway endangered by patient with a fever, and tourism to NYC risks a major hit.]
[and] Doctor With Ebola In NYC Went Bowling Last Night...
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/23/cbs-2-officials-looking-into-possible-ebola-case-in-new-york-city/
[bowling alley now shut down ... also “ate out ... went bowling and took an Uber taxi”]
[and] Girlfriend quarantined...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/23/health/new-york-possible-ebola-case/index.html
[and] Tracing Ebola Patient’s Possible Contacts Creates Host of Challenges for New York City
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218965/posts
[Hard-to-mentally-process Alert ...]
— President’s ‘Just-us’ Department belittles blacks to make a case for voter fraud —
— Judicial Watch Probes Fast & Furious, 0 Shields Holder’s Wife —
— Updates on 0’s Immigration Franken-Scheme —
— NY Hatchet-Man, Terrorist? —
— Updates on Bristol Palin Mugging & Ridicule —
— Ebola in NYC and possibly Louisiana and Connecticut —
— Other Ebola Updates —
— Southern Flori-duh Threatens to Secede due to Climate Change —
update: ‘Calibration error’ changes GOP votes to Dem in Illinois
[ ~~~~~~~ More on Ebola ~~~~~~~ ]
A New Ebola Vaccine? Thank Dick Cheney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218612/posts
“...There was just never enough money. The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Dick Cheney helped change that. Cheney, then the vice president, said he feared assaults by bioterrorists could be far more devastating than what happened that day...”
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FIRST CASE CONFIRMED IN MALI...
http://news.yahoo.com/first-case-ebola-confirmed-mali-health-minister-213358361—business.html
“...making it the sixth West African country to be touched...”
[Just one patient so far...] “a two-year-old girl who had recently arrived from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak began...”
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Reuters:
Official WHO Ebola toll near 5,000 with true number nearer 15,000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218941/posts
...The WHO has said real numbers of cases are believed to be much higher than reported: by a factor of 1.5 in Guinea, 2 in Sierra Leone and 2.5 in Liberia, while the death rate is thought to be about 70 percent of all cases. That would suggest a toll of almost 15,000... [snip]
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Ebola Hysteria Opens Door for Government Abuse | Bob Barr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218614/posts
If the 1931 classic film Frankenstein were filmed in the United States today, the villagers storming the gates of the castle would not be carrying torches and pitchforks, but instead wearing HAZMAT suits, spraying cans of Lysol in the air, and demanding that the mayor do “whatever is necessary” to protect them ... [snip]
[Bingo — beware of draconian federal powers more than the disease itself.]
“Why I Will Not Submit To Medical Martial Law”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3218915/posts
Zerohedge: One of the most dangerous philosophical contentions even amongst liberty movement activists is the conundrum of government force and prevention during times of imminent pandemic ... [snip]
...If the government in question was a proven and honorable institution, then I would say pro-Medical Martial Law arguments might have a leg to stand on. However, this is not the case. In my view, medical martial law is absolutely unacceptable under ANY circumstances, including Ebola, in light of the fact that our current government will be the predominant cause of viral outbreak. That is to say, you DO NOT turn to the government for help when the government is the cause of the problem... [snip]
...And finally, the Department of Defense has been tasked to create a military controlled “quick-strike team” to deal with Ebola within U.S. borders. This team will be under the command of none other than Northcom, apparently trampling the Posse Comitatus Act ... [snip] ... It should be clear to anyone with half a brain that medical martial law is being quietly prepared, and that the threat of such measures is not a paranoid conspiracy, but a very real possibility... [snip]
... Ebola has been officially known to the CDC for over thirty years. Why has the CDC refused for three decades to produce proper care guidelines for hospitals...? [snip]
... The greatest danger to American citizens is, in fact, not the Ebola virus, but government reactions to the Ebola virus... [snip]
[Very long. Good read. In-depth about the dangers of new, modern vaccines...]
...If the CDC and the federal government trigger a medical martial law scenario, they will most likely include forced vaccination of the population to maintain “herd immunity”. The bottom line? The use of such vaccines will be a death sentence for many, a death more certain than the contraction of Ebola. In my opinion, Ebola vaccination should be avoided at all costs by the American populace....[snip]
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REPORT: Health employees threatened with termination if use word ‘Ebola’...
http://www.infowars.com/hospitals-threaten-to-fire-workers-for-using-the-word-ebola/
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Iowa TV Station Rejects Anti-Republican Ad For Showing Dead Ebola Bodies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218691/posts
Iowa television station KWWL-Waterloo rejected a liberal ad that showed dead and bloody Ebola bodies to illustrate its accusation that Republican-supported budget cuts contributed to the Ebola outbreak. The Agenda Project Action Fund commercial, entitled “Republican Cuts Kill Part II: Joni Ernst Wants to Cut,” targeted Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst and depicted “exposed dead (and sometimes bleeding) bodies,” according to KWWL. [unquote]
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Family, friends of Thomas Duncan protest outside hospital
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218948/posts
“...his family members have been very critical of the hospital since his death...”
[So far, we already know about two nurses infected by Duncan. While I understand that mourning someone can lead to irrational behavior, it’s pretty lame to scorn and belittle that hospital full of front line heroes.]
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WH: States to Decide What to Do If West African Travelers Don’t Self-Report Ebola Symptoms
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218918/posts
[And the states are left wide open for lawsuits from discriminated foreigners, from people put at risk, from employees put in danger, etc.]
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“Is America being beghazied on Ebola?” — Understand the stimulus
“The People Cry out for a Czar but Obama Gives Them a Commissar.” — nathanbedford
“Hey Obama, be a MAN - Implement a travel BAN!” — 2harddrive
[ ~~~~~~~ end of ebola post ~~~~~~~ ]
[ ~~~~~~~ In-Depth ~~~~~~~ ]
Michelle Obama apparently mixes up Colorado Senate candidates at campaign event
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218926/posts
Michelle Obama made yet another flub on the campaign trail Thursday when she apparently confused Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall with his Republican rival. Obama spoke in Denver Thursday as part of a campaign event for Udall, who is engaged in a heated battle with his Republican opponent, Rep. Cory Gardner. She touted Udall’s Senate record in her speech, and called him a “fifth-generation Coloradan.” “Mark understands what makes this state special,” she said. The only problem? Udall is not a fifth-generation Coloradan. In fact, he was born in Arizona and his father, former Rep. Mo Udall, served as a... [snip]
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Union enrollment plummets for Wisconsin teachers under tough law
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218906/posts
[Thanks to ‘evil’ governor Scott Walker...]
Teachers in Wisconsin’s public schools have learned a major lesson from the state’s landmark 2011 law neutering public sector unions, with more than a third dropping out of their labor organization. Given no choice but to join and pay dues to the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) for decades, teachers have for the last three years been able to opt out. And that is what tens of thousands have done as a result of Gov. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, also known as Act 10. “Given the evidence, it shows that the union’s hold is softening,” Patrick Wright, vice... [snip]
[And the union thugs are close to destroying Walker politically this year. Close race.]
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Black disappointment with Obama threatens party...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/10/23/244420_black-disappointment-with-obama.html
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Thomas Roberts, Sam Stein Defend Hillary’s War on Bill’s Women
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218563/posts
“...The topic was the way that Hillary orchestrated the trashing of Bill’s many women. Joe Scarborough argued forcefully that this should be remembered when as a presidential candidate she rails against the “war on women.” But there was HuffPo’s Sam Stein, dismissing Hillary’s calculated campaign against Monica Lewinsky as merely a “personal family matter.” ... [snip]
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SUNLIGHT KEY TO BEATING DIABETES...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/526739/Sunlight-key-fighting-diabetes-Scots-scientists-reveal
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Robot missile makes decisions to kill — WITHOUT human interference...
http://www.thelocal.no/20141023/norways-killer-robot-technology-under-fire
[Necessary sometimes to bypass signal jamming. Radio transmissions have been jammed as far back as WWI, a standard tactic. Also bypasses transmission tracking.]
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Man accidentally texts probation officer — asks for pot...
http://www.walb.com/story/26851352/man-accidentally-texts-probation-officer-in-pot-deal
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STUDY: Listening to music while working increases efficiency...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/11179017/This-is-the-kind-of-music-you-should-listen-to-at-work.html
[Many variables though. Tunes must be in harmony with listener, especially reg. ‘depth’ of thinking involved with task. ‘Rap’ and lyrics hurt deep thinking, studying, etc.]
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— A Politically-Incorrect Look at Lesbians/Sodomites —
For Every Zach Wahls...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3218924/posts
I am reprinting this article I ran in 2011, after reading this article; (This Lesbian’s Daughter Has Had Enough) written by the daughter of a “lesbian Marriage” which attempts to get behind the propaganda picture of perfectly normal and Happy “gay” families. We live in the day of the Big Lie so we must speak the truth! Gay marriage has been rejected by every vote or referendum in every state of the union in which it has been proposed, including Iowa But it was foisted upon the state by Judicial fiat, over the objections of voters. Three of the Justices who imposed... [snip]
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(Vanity) Dr. Walter E. Williams “Suffer No Fools” on PBS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3218938/posts
“...Following Williams from his youth in Philadelphia through his time in the army in the late fifties, the program details his introduction to racial discrimination in the military. He was appalled when he discovered that blacks in the army were given only menial assignments; when his lieutenant ordered him to paint a truck...”
[I’m not surprised that Williams knows what real discrimination is, and I’d be curious to hear him discuss ‘then-and-now’, although I never hear him talk enough about economics as well as his discussions with other intellectual titans.]
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Newsbytes: World food production at record levels
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3218942/posts
Despite all the gloom and doom from people like Paul Ehrlich and the warmers who say global warming will stunt food production, the reality is far different. It seems the increase in CO2 along with adaptive crop genetics may have combined to produce this bonanza. Based on the latest forecasts for production and utilization, world cereal stocks at the close of crop seasons ending in 2015 would surge to 627.5 million tonnes, up 8.3 percent from an already large volume at the start of the season and its highest level in 15 years. Maize would account for the biggest increase,... [snip]
[Also note that ethanol subsidies created artificial demand for corn.]
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Rosie O’Donnell makes controversial remarks on Ottawa shooting on ‘The View’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218949/posts
...O’Donnell said “most of these shooters have severe mental illness” and then expressed support for a controversial tweet about the shooting from model Chrissy Teigen, who used the tragedy in Ottawa to make a point about U.S. gun control... [snip]
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Union demands send Japanese firm, jobs packing from California town
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218956/posts
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Whistleblower: VA Superiors Tried to ‘Shut Me Up’ After Fox News Interview
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218871/posts
[The ‘most transparent administration in history’ tried to suppress truth about VA hospitals.]
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UK told to pay £1.7bn extra to European Union budget
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218970/posts
Obama Wages War on American Fracking: US Senate Republicans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218929/posts
Britain to Crack Down on Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218988/posts
[ ~~~~~~~ End of In-Depth ~~~~~~~ ]
Monster Research Thread of Ebola [Ebola Surveillance Thread]
Earlier highlights coming up.
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Earlier highlights [can track via archive]
— Canadian Gun Skirmishes: Islamic Terror —
— voter fraud alerts —
— Despite the AP news blackout, several ebola screenings being reported anyway —
CRUZ: CONGRESS SHOULD BE CALLED BACK FOR TRAVEL BAN...
Criminalizing Innocent Christian Behavior [over sodomy-pseudo-marriage]
CDC ADMITS TX PRESBY FOLLOWED PROTOCOL
AFRICA: BORDER CLOSURES SAVED US
ICE field agent: Murder suspects, gang members being set free...
NBC Star Willing to Risk Infecting riffraff w. Ebola for Soup
Flash !
Shocking moment ‘bumbling’ cops leave Ebola doctor’s apartment and ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219021/posts
“...dump their protective gloves and masks in a sidewalk trash can.”
[Hey, don’t knock New York’s finest. The CDC is supposed to coordinate training and prep, especially when it IMPORTS dangerous plagues.]
I thought you were dead, or something...
Welcome back (unless you have always been here, and I missed your posts) ...
Bring Out Your Dead
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At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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