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McCabe out as FBI's No. 2

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House votes to release FISA memo

Hyperhyper: Musk peddles flamethrower pre-orders

Oops: House issues tickets for the 'State of the Uniom'

Bernie Sanders cancels interview because he didn't get to choose the questions

Exxon to invest $50 billion in USA, citing tax reform ...

[Cleveland] Indians remove Chief Wahoo logo from uniforms

Trump: No more negotiating with Taliban after series of deadly attacks

A key Tesla engineer who helped design batteries has left the company

Historic black colleges struggle with rock-bottom graduation rates ...

USA to lift ban on refugees from 11 countries

Throwback

I have been trying to recall where I first saw many of Donald Trump's pursed-lips face and grandiose hand gestures from last night's Republican debate in Cleveland. After much head scratching I finally brought the following historic movie clip to mind: YouTube Video.

And yes, I do believe that President Trump probably would make the trains run on time.

Bleeding Hearts

First the NBC health reporter, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, and her crew whose cameraman had come down with Ebola in West Africa broke quarantine to travel to a fast-food restaurant in New Jersey. Then a nurse who treated the Ebola patient Thomas Duncan in Dallas traveled to Cleveland and back by plane even after she detected a low-grade fever which later turned into Ebola. Then a medical clinician who had handled bodily fluids from Ebola patient Duncan in Dallas took an ocean-liner cruise to the Caribbean that cost thousands of passengers their vacations when it was forced to return to port.

Next the doctor who came back from West Africa with a case of Ebola initially lied to police about his activities in New York City … see: New York Post Story. Now the nurse who also returned from West Africa after volunteering to treat Ebola patients there is refusing to observe her quarantine in Maine … see: CBS Story.

What is it about these people … professionals all? Can they not give up twenty-one days of their lives so that their fellow citizens can remain a wee bit safer from this dreaded disease? Have we become such a selfish, me-centered country that so many professionals irresponsibly ignore what appears to be rational public-health policy? Are their neighbors just as worthy of their empathy as those who are already sick? And how can our president encourage such bad behavior on the part of our citizens’ (but not our soldiers’) parts? His logic and that of the CDC and NIH appears to this observer to be so convoluted as to be silly … see: Logic is Logic.

Do liberals somehow lose all their gray matter when their hearts start bleeding?

Afterward: Just heard the president talk on the Ebola crisis ... and imply that anyone, who is in favor of a 21 day quarantine for workers who has been in close contact with Ebola patients, does not appreciate the sacrifice that they have made ... and will discourage others to do the same. Our president's brain must be miswired in that he cannot hold both thoughts at the same time. Clearly these volunteers are wonderfully fine people ... but they still should be quarantined for the safety of their friends and neighbors.

The president also mentioned that Nigeria and Senegal are now free of Ebola. What he neglected to note was that these two countries (and many other African nations too) have closed their borders to the three raging Ebola-infected West African nations.

By the bye, California has just instituted this same 21-day quarantine for returning health-care workers ... see: LA Times Article. (Look out Jerry Brown!)