- From the “Technology” Department – The passenger plane of the future is quite likely to not have windows. In order to save weight, and therefore money, they will have thin displays on the wall, which will allow passengers to watch video, surf the Internet, or even make the side of the plane seem transparent. Yeah, I can’t wait for the first time I wake up after being crammed into the window seat, with my head and upper torso scrunched against the wall, and see nothing but sky in front of me. Now, that will make for some good blog fodder.
- From the “Explanations” Department – South Korean intelligence agencies are reporting that they have discovered the reason why North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un disappeared for several weeks this year. It appears that the rotund little dictator had surgery to remove a cyst in his ankle, which was probably brought about by his opulent lifestyle. No word yet on whether efforts to remove what is left of his decency and humanity were successful.
- From the “Science” Department – The biologist who found a specimen of a rain forest spider the size of a puppy is back in the news. It appears that he has been criticized on-line, including at least one death threat, for killing the creature and bringing it back for study. He explains that the species is not threatened with extinction and that the spider’s remains have been a boon to the study of arachnids. I guess it was for the best that he didn’t say “It was a bloody huge spider, and I stomped it flat!”.
- From the “Politics and Other Contagions” Department – A nurse, who recently returned from West Africa after heroically providing care to Ebola patients, has found the vocal harmonic necessary to get New Jersey Chris Christie to sit up, bark, then roll over. It would appear that being put into a tent, which is arguably a bit uncomfortable, in order to make sure that she doesn’t inadvertently infect someone with the Ebola virus was a violation of her human rights, and CNN was there to make sure that she had a mouthpiece through which to tell the world about how evil such things are. The lady has been released to return to her home state of Maine, where it is expected that she will continue to be monitored for several weeks. It is rumored that the CDC and other parts of the Obama administration leaned quite heavily on Governor Christie to get him to relent. In other news, the U.S. Army is mandating a 21 day quarantine for soldiers returning from the humanitarian mission to West Africa. So, basically, if a nurse voluntarily goes to provide much-needed help during an epidemic of hemorrhagic fever, which includes direct contact with the sick people, it’s a violation of her rights to make her sit in a tent and surf the net for three weeks. But if a private first class is ordered to go to the same region and does nothing to come into direct contact with sick people, she will spend three weeks playing spades and listening to fart jokes with the rest of her unit. Can’t argue with that logic, now can I?
- From the “Thief in the Night” Department – A Florida man recently shot a black bear in his pajamas. How the bear got into his pajamas has not been reported.
News Roundup
Posted by daddybear71 on October 28, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/10/28/news-roundup-231/
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dwneylonsr
/ October 28, 2014LikeLike
daddybear71
/ October 28, 2014Thanks. Try the veal!
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Old NFO
/ October 28, 2014“rain forest spider the size of a puppy”= Nuke it from orbit… Just sayin…
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daddybear71
/ October 28, 2014Yep. Any arachnid bigger than the last lobster I ate is going to die in my presence.
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thornharp
/ October 29, 2014I really didn’t expect to find Marxism in a post on this blog.
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wyowanderer
/ October 29, 2014I’d shoot the bear too, if I caught him in my pajamas…
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Geodkyt
/ October 29, 2014Thornharp – What Marxism?
RE: Ebola – Well, the nurse from Maine is now suing to be released from the quarantine requirements in Maine, after threatening to sue to be released from New Jersey’s quartatine and arguing she could be trusted to self quarantine herself at home in Maine. In other news, Dr. Ebowler in NYC turns out to have lied to officials when asked about his travels about the city while he was supposedly in voluntary quarantine. He only admitted going to the bowling alley and gallavanting about town in public transportation when the cops asked him, “So, if you were holed up in your apartment, why was your Metro card being used all around town?”
This is why “voluntary” quarantine procedures and “self-monitoring” promises are BS. Time and time again, we find that people who swear up and down on a stack of Bibles that they’ll stay home and not risk infecting other people so there’s no need to involuntarily quarantine them for teh safety of the public. . . and as soon as they think they can get away with it, they just drop all caution and head out into public life as if there was *zero* chance of them having a deadly, communicable disease with no known cure and a frighteningly high mortality (plus, the literature indicates that survivors have *life*long* health problems directly associated with the damage done by teh disease before they fight it off).
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daddybear71
/ October 29, 2014I believe he meant the joke I stole from Groucho.
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Anonymous
/ October 30, 2014Ah… whiffed right over my head (but I am short, so… 😉 )
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Jake
/ October 30, 2014And now she’s deliberately violating Maine’s quarantine requirement. She wants this to go to court.
On the one hand, I can sympathize – there really is no scientific evidence that the quarantine is medically necessary, and the evidence we do have is that it is not. On the other hand, quarantine is still a reasonable precaution, and the evidence also exists that trusting these people to self-monitor and self-isolate when they do start showing symptoms is a fool’s game.
On the gripping hand, rights are rights, and if she’s not a danger at the moment, and not likely to become a danger with no warning, then the quarantine is a gross violation of her rights and should not be forced.
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