“COULD IT BE ANY MORE OBVIOUS? . . . FEMINISM IS A JOURNEY TO LESBIANISM.”

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HMM: The Centers for Disease Control Changed Its Ebola Prevention Page on September 19, 2014. Why? Here’s what they took out:

Because we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola, few primary prevention measures have been established and no vaccine exists.

When cases of the disease do appear, risk of transmission is increased within healthcare settings. Therefore, healthcare workers must be able to recognize a case of Ebola and be ready to use practical viral hemorrhagic fever isolation precautions or barrier nursing techniques. They should also have the capability to request diagnostic tests or prepare samples for shipping and testing elsewhere.

Hmm. There is a vaccine now, sort of, but this gives the impression of avoiding panic at all costs.

TRIFECTA: Drunken, Sloppy Sex: Does ‘Yes’ Mean ‘Yes’ or Just More Rape Panels?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Ebola Survival Handbook: A Collection of Tips, Strategies, and Supply Lists From Some of the World’s Best Preparedness Professionals.

FASTER, PLEASE: Memory Loss Associated with Alzheimer’s Reversed for First Time. My dad is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and I’d love to see his problems reversed.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The House Of The Usher.

The Secret Service ‘failed’ president Obama just as the intelligence agencies ‘failed’ to warn him about ISIS. The data explosion has the downside of flooding us with alarms. On any given day a thousand indicators cross a certain threshold. Then they cry “wolf” but not all of them are true, urgent cries for help. Still one of them — Murphy guarantees it — eventually may well be.

The way bureaucracies deal with this problem is to put a man in loop to check if the wolf is there. The amount of information that the US military processes is staggering. The news watching public could be forgiven for thinking that the administration’s drone warfare requires nothing more than a hi-tech model airplane, a satellite and a bunch of teenagers operating a glorified game console. In reality it requires 268 people to operate each drone.

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WELL, THIS MAKES SENSE. NOW EVERYBODY’S GOT A WITNESS THAT THERE WAS CONSENT. Univ. of New Mexico to host ‘threesome’ sex event for students. Just remember the ancient wisdom: Inside every threesome is a twosome and a onesome.

IT’S COME TO THIS: School bans cartwheels.

UGH: A Single Fire Can Cripple America’s Aging Air-Traffic System. Here’s Why.

Well, I’ve argued in favor of hardening infrastructure for years, but that sort of thing might create too many jobs for burly men.

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TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Destrehan teacher arrested for reported sexual relationship with student. “Deputies placed Shelley Dufresne under arrest for one count of carnal knowledge of a juvenile. She is a teacher at Destrehan High School, located west of New Orleans. . . . Officials with the St. Charles Parish Public School District reported the incident to the Sheriff’s Office. Investigators were told that the student was bragging to other students that he was ‘having a sexual relationship with teachers.'” Note the plural.

Remember: There are so few men in teaching because society is afraid they might be predators.

HOW BUREAUCRATS THINK: Thought Crime: UK Leadership Wants To Ban Predicted ‘Extremists’ From Social Media, TV, Events. The way they handled the Rotherham rape scandal should give you some idea of what that will involve.

Say, did any of the officials responsible for Rotherham get prosecuted for anything? . . .

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: CDC Director Confuses CNN with Conflicting Information on How Ebola Is Transmitted. Video at the link.

UPDATE: Chris Matthews: Didn’t Obama tell us it was “unlikely” Ebola would come to America? Yeah, well, he also told us if we liked our health insurance, we could keep our health insurance.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Appeals Court to Mull Guns in Post Offices. There’s no “safety” reason to bar honest people from carrying guns. And these arguments — that the sight of a gun “may excite passions, or excited passions may lead to the use of the firearm,” or that “someone could also attempt to take the firearm from its lawful carrier and use it for criminal purpose” — don’t wash. First of all, why give people an “heckler’s veto” on guns? And someone could also attempt to take a firearm from a cop, as sometimes happens. It’ll be interesting to see what the 10th Circuit does here. I hope someone sends them a copy of my Second Amendment Penumbras piece.

WHAT NEXT? WEARING SKINS AND LIVING IN A CAVE? My coworkers made me use Mac OS 9 for their (and your) amusement; If you want to appreciate the present, try living in the past for a few days.

OKAY, NOT EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS DECADE SUCKS: This Belgian City Plans to Build an Underground Beer Pipeline.

FOR THOSE PROPOSING REGULATION, THIS IS OFTEN THE TRUE GOAL: It’s Normal For Regulators To Get Captured. This goes back to the formation of the ICC over a century ago.

JOURNALISM: New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff.

DALLAS: Second Person Being Monitored For Ebola. “The director continued to assure residents that the public isn’t at risk because health officials have the virus contained.”

Related: Expert: Ebola Outbreak In U.S. Unlikely.

WELL, AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS OF BUSH ASSASSINATION-FANTASIES BY THE LEFT, YOU CAN SEE WHY THEY’D BE PUZZLED: New York Times: Say, Why Don’t Republicans Want President Obama To Be Killed? “Of course we want the president to be safe. Those who are surprised by this perhaps need to spend some more time with their ideological opponents, or — and this will be harder, I grant — spend a little more time examining what it is about their ideology that led them to conflate political opposition and violence in the first instance.”

It’s no mystery. Lefties tend to want their opponents dead or in jail. Naturally, they assume their opponents feel the same way about them.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 510.

PAUL HSIEH: Who Decides What Medical Care You Receive At End of Life? Er, death panels? Pretty much.

TRAIN WRECK UPDATE: Under the ACA, the Doctor Won’t See You Now.

Getting access to a preferred, in-network doctor is getting harder all the time. Three big stories about access blocks under the Affordable Care Act came out this week. First, the NYT profiles the troubling rise of contract ER doctors. The emergency medicine departments in many hospitals now employ doctors who are out-of-network for a given insurer, even when the ER itself is listed as “in-network” for that same insurer. The result is that even patients who have the ability to choose an ER in an in-network hospital often wind up with out-of-network doctors treating them—and large, unanticipated, out-of-pocket bills as a result. . . .

The ACA does nothing to address this trend, which is just one example of the barriers to access popping up all across the U.S. health care system. The LA Times reports that, despite several lawsuits challenging it, California intends to stick with its narrow doctor networks for ACA plans next year. Even worse, some insurance companies are planning to cut the number of in-network providers even further. There is still no registry that would allow people to make a comprehensive assessment of which doctors will be covered under their ACA plans, a gap which caused a lot of confusion for patients in the last year.

Nor are those insured through the exchanges the only ones facing access problems. A Department of Health and Human services report on the ACA’s Medicaid expansion finds that many Americans newly insured through the program often have to “wait for months or travel long distances” to get care, according to the NYT. Though the federal government requires states to ensure “adequate access to all services covered,” the definition of “adequate access” is left to the states. This access problem for Medicaid recipients is not new, as Avik Roy repeatedly points out in How Medicaid Fails the Poor, and has been exacerbated as large numbers of people have joined the program.

In all three of these reports, we see under the ACA a declining level of access to a covered care provider. This is not what progress in health reform looks like.

Hopey changey.