GOOD: After Ferguson, Police Rush To Buy Body Cameras.
Well, people have a due process right to record the police, but that’s no reason for the police not to record themselves. Some related thoughts here.
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October 12, 2014
EBOLA: Health worker 2nd in US to test positive for Ebola. “A Texas health care worker who was in full protective gear when they provided hospital care for an Ebola patient who later died has tested positive for the virus and is in stable condition, health officials said Sunday. If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.”
Related: Dallas health worker who tested positive for Ebola wore ‘full’ protective gear.
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REASON TV: Mike Rowe on the Value of a Strong Work Ethic. “Rowe, who once sang for the Baltimore Opera and worked as an on-air pitchman for QVC, worries that traditional K-12 education demonizes blue-collar fields that pay well and are begging for workers while insisting that everyone get a college degree. He stresses that he’s ‘got nothing against college’ but believes it’s a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction regardless of interest or ability.”
TIM CARNEY: Walker could be strolling to massive win in Wisconsin.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker is under investigation, and he is reviled by the largest political force in his state. But you’d never guess that by watching him amble through the stalls at a central Wisconsin dairy farm.
Walker converses with a casual ease rare among politicians. He strolls with a light step through a massive cow barn at Ruedinger Farms on Wednesday. The only thing hanging over his head is the mechanical hawk that chases away the pigeons.
You wouldn’t guess from his demeanor how hated he is. County prosecutors are still investigating him. And the government employee unions — which failed to block his legislation, failed to recall him, and failed to take back the state legislature — still have it in for him.
Well, when your opponent puts a known domestic abuser in a campaign ad, it’s easier.
HIGHER EDUCATION GENERATES FRESH IDEAS TO BENEFIT MANKIND: To Save Water, Students Told To Urinate In Shower. Shockingly, it’s not Costanza U.
IT’S NOT AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE, IT’S A STRATEGY: Brazil’s Election Shows How The Left Thrives On Welfare Dependency.
SHIKHA DALMIA: Sex-Shaming: The Feminist Weapon of Choice to Silence Dissenters on Affirmative Consent.
Accusing women of enjoying rape was something that men used to do to justify raping them. Now, apparently, it’s a club feminists use to clobber other feminists who disagree with them.
The whole point of feminism is allowing some women to do the things women always complained about men doing, while feeling self-righteous about it. Plus:
When Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student who wanted taxpayer funded contraceptive coverage, a “slut,” the whole feminist establishment rose in unison to condemn him—and rightly so. Ultimately, he was forced to do the decent thing and issue an apology. “I did not mean a personal attack,” he said. “My choice of words was not the best, I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.”
The question now is, can Gray and Ryan manage to rise to Limbaugh’s level?
I’m waiting, sisters!
Don’t hold your breath.
CANADIANS FIGURE OUT a Keystone End-Run.
WHERE DO I GO FOR A DEBUGGING? Cosmic rays offer clue our universe could be a computer simulation.
October 11, 2014
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Police Arrest Teacher, Accused of Four-Year Lesbian Affair With Teen Student.
VIDEO: Energy Policy And Poverty.
SCIENCE: Ebola could never spread widely here. Could it? “The ability of affected nations to isolate patients will also depend on equipment being available. The 2003 SARS epidemic was quelled with the same approach: isolate primary cases, quarantine their contacts and isolate those that become sick. There were just over 8000 cases of SARS worldwide, and by the end global supplies of surgical masks were exhausted. Toronto was one of the cities most seriously affected and struggled to control the virus. “We couldn’t have handled another Toronto,” says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.”
I WONDER IF THERE’S A CONNECTION WITH HIGH CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE? Using novel biological aging clock, team finds obesity accelerates aging of the liver.
JOURNALISM: New Jersey enforces isolation order for NBC crew. “New Jersey officials have issued a mandatory quarantine order for members of an NBC crew that was exposed to a cameraman with Ebola. The order went into effect Friday night after state health officials said a voluntary 21-day isolation agreement was violated.”
IN PART BY BOGGLING MY MIND: How Electric Superchargers Work. “Essentially a turbo’s compressor mated to a DC electric motor, this supercharger can spin to 70,000 rpm in less than 0.4 second, supplying 8.7 psi of boost before the HyBoost’s larger exhaust-driven turbo wakes up. Ricardo met its goal of increasing the Focus’s fuel efficiency from 39 mpg to 59 in European test cycles.”
STUFF LIKE THIS REVEALS A LOT ABOUT HOW LEFTIES ACTUALLY THINK: Dana Milbank: Why would GOP want Secret Service to protect Obama?
Remember all the Bush assassination-fantasies? They weren’t jokes.
DUMBASS OF THE WEEK: NFL fan allegedly aims laser-pointer at QB, brags about it on Twitter.
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