NEW DEALS AT THE Amazon Emergency Prep Store. Plus, Emergency & Long-Term Storage Food Deals.

Plus, the Men’s Denim Store.

Also, 60% or more off on Hunting & Tactical Knives.

WELL, THAT’S AWKWARD: Saddam’s Consultant Threw Party For Arizona Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Fred DuVal.

HORSE, MEET BARN DOOR: European Leaders Scramble to Upgrade Response to Ebola Crisis. Well, okay, it’s not quite horse/barn door territory, but acting a month ago would have been a lot better.

UPDATE: New York hospital officials assure they are ready for Ebola outbreak after first U.S. patient dies.

Plus: Ebola decontamination crew describes ‘eerie’ experience.

Also: Ebola training focuses on astronaut-like gear.

ER, BECAUSE THEY FUDGE THE NUMBERS ON EVERYTHING? Liz Peek: Why The White House Fudged The Numbers On Student Loans.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: For some Ferguson whites, racial fault lines exposed by shooting come as a surprise. “I didn’t have any problems with anybody or any color, and all of a sudden it feels like we are being held responsible for something that’s not our fault. . . . I don’t get it.”

POLL: Do you approve of media confronting Lois Lerner in her neighborhood?

TERROR: British Jihadi Plot Caught By MI5.

Related: Stop jihadi Britons returning to UK, say Londoners as ‘Islamic terror plot’ is smashed. “Three out of four Londoners believe Britons who have gone to Iraq or Syria to fight with extremist groups should be banned from returning to the UK, a new poll reveals today. The YouGov survey found women in particular take a hard line on refusing jihadists back into the country.” So they have Security Moms in Britain, too, I guess.

FLOP? THE MOVIE WAS GOOD AND THE BOOK WAS BETTER: Doomsday Machines. “Fail-Safe was a flop, but it’s much smarter about nuclear war than Dr. Strangelove.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Female high school teacher in Austin fired, accused of sexually assaulting student.

IN THE VILLAGE VOICE, a surprisingly sympathetic piece on knife rights.

Related: New York’s Gravity Knife Prosecutions Are Unjust, And New York Knows It.

TEXAS DEPUTY WHO WAS IN PATIENT’S APARTMENT now transported after showing Ebola symptoms.

UPDATE: This story suggests the risk is quite low. Well, let’s hope so. Better safe than sorry, though.

MERCEDES UNVEILS a self-driving truck. “It never gets tired. It’s always 100 percent and sharp. It’s never angry; it’s never distracted.”

On the other hand, it can’t be bargained with, can’t be reasoned with, and it doesn’t feel pity or remorse.

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Also, markdowns on Hunting & Tactical Clothing.

AMERICAN OFFICIALDOM IS MADE UP OF PANICKY PANTYWAISTS.

TWITTER: Stopping Us From Talking About Surveillance Orders Is Illegal “Prior Restraint.”

READER BOOK PLUG: From reader G.L. Snodgrass, Certain Rules.

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: Report: Producer of anti-Obamacare video being audited by IRS.

Related: In 2009, President Barack Obama “Joked” About Auditing His Enemies.

PERSONALLY, I’M LEANING TOWARD “NO.” Should Industrial Robots Be Able to Hurt Their Human Coworkers? Though at least “accidental robot strike” would be a 21st-century sort of death.

JOE PAPPALARDO REPORTS FROM DALLAS: When Ebola Comes To Your Town.

OIKOPHOBIA IN ACTION: Jesse Walker: I think I accidentally started an urban legend. My bad.

Someone once said that if a spooky legend catches on, it says something true about the anxieties of the people who believe and repeat the tale, even if it says absolutely nothing true about the subject of the story itself.