EBOLA: The CDC advice is flawed. It might be an idea not to touch the gloves:
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Bedfordshire Dad Scared Of Ebola Sends Daughter To School In Goggles And Mask
OTHER parents presents Jon O’Brien, of Turvey, Bedfordshire, who is “insisting” his 13-year-old daughter wears a face mask to Sharnbrook Upper School.
Ha-ha. Dad insists teenage daughter does what he says when in school. Dad is living in a dream world.
But Jon’s world is the stuff of nightmares:
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Ebola: CDC Issues Flawed Advice As Dead Bodies Vanish From Liberia’s Streets
Hong Kong: The Taking Of Mong Kok In Photos
THE pro-decmoracy protests in Hong Kong are being dismantled. Police are ripped down barriers in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Police cleared protesters.
We’ve photos of the umbrellas, the police and how big sticks win:
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Snotty @hawkeandco Mock Their Customers On Social Media: Epic Fail
WHEN brands are jerks to their customers on public social networks, you get this.
@hawkeandco has now many followers?
They are:
Hawke & Co is a lifestyle brand designed for the Modern Explorer.
Dickheads are as dickheads do.
Bratislav Stojanovic Lives In A Grave (Photos)
Homeless Bratislav Stojanovic is seen near the grave where he now dwells in a cemetery in the city of Nis, Serbia. The homeless man from this southern Serbian city has been dwelling at a local cemetery for more than fifteen years, turning one of the underground tombs there into a place of his own. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Dying Staffordshire Man Told By 999: ‘Call Back If You Fall Unconscious’
AT the inquest into the death of Mark Hemmings, 41, the court heard that he had called 999 for an ambulance. The despatcher at the West Midlands Ambulance Service refused to send help. They told Mr Hemmings that his agonising gallstones should be treated in an out-of-hours surgery.
For seven minutes he pleased for an ambuilance. Three times the despatcher refused. The call was recorded so we know he was told this:
“You could try a warm bath, hot water bottle in the painful area but if you collapse, become unconscious, unresponsive, faint, or become pale, cold or clammy it’s 999.”
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£5 Fine Warning: What To Do With Your Library Books If You Catch Ebola
WHAT to to with your library book if you catch Ebola:
A fiver for catching Ebola is a small price to pay when compared to the late return charges…
Spotter: @jamiesont
Sex In The Time of Ebola: Semen Acts Like A Grain Store
SEX and Ebola:
When the only way to get an often fatal disease is through contact with body fluids, it makes good sense to be very careful about sexual partners and practices. But since Ebola victims can infect others only when they are showing symptoms — high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness and aches — physical intimacy probably isn’t a common way of transmitting the disease.
However, the Ebola virus can survive in semen for months after a man recovers from the infection, posing an ongoing threat to sexual partners long after he is well. At a time when a man’s bloodstream is swimming with antibodies, and he is immune to the disease, he still may be able to infect others. . . .
The magnitude of the threat is not entirely clear, however. After past Ebola outbreaks, follow-up studies of people who have recovered from Ebola found no evidence that the virus was transmitted from a recovered patient to close contacts, according to Bruce Ribner, medical director of Emory University’s Infectious Disease Unit, who led the team that successfully treated American missionaries Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol.
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Four Men Guilty Of £100m Match.com Dating Scam
Emmanuel Oko
HOW do you know the true idenity the man of your dreams – the one you met online? The man is James Richards, aka Emmanuel Oko, aka Peter Monty Emu, aka Adewunmi Nusi and aka Chukwuka Ugwu. James Richards is a 4-for-1 deal.
The quartet of unlovelies have been jailed at Winchester Crown Court for tricking 12 lovelorn women out of nearly £250,000.
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The War On White Men: Transgender Timothy Boatwright Is Too Male To Be Wellesley College’s Diversity Officer
THE war on white men continues: a caucasian female student who identifies as a man has been discouraged from becoming Wellesley College’s diversity officer because to have a white male in that position would perpetuate patriarchy.
Timothy Boatwright was born a girl, and checked off the “female” box when applying to the Massachusetts all-women’s school, according to an article in the New York Times. But when he got there, he introduced himself as a “masculine-of-center genderqueer” person named “Timothy” (the name he picked for himself) and asked them to use male pronouns when referring to him.
And, by all accounts, Boatwright felt welcome on campus — until the day he announced that he wanted to run for the school’s office of multicultural affairs coordinator, whose job is to promote a “culture of diversity” on campus.
But some students thought that allowing Boatwright to have the position would just perpetuate patriarchy. They were so opposed, in fact, that when the other three candidates (all women of color) dropped out, they started an anonymous Facebook campaign encouraging people not to vote at all to keep him from winning the position.
Oh, brave new world…
Hatred Presents The Most Joyously Violent Video Games Ever
THERE’S a bit of hubbub around a new video game that’s knocking about called ‘Hatred’. It is being hailed (or accused, if you prefer) as the most violent game ever.
Of course, fans of video games will roll their eyes at such a suggestion as there’s a whole host of gory splatterfests in the gaming canon.
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Posted: 17th, October 2014 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
John Grisham Tells The Truth: Watching Child Porn Doesn’t Make You A Paedophile
JOHN Grisham has rather surprised the usual people by telling the truth about child pornography. Yes, there is truly vile stuff out there and those who produce it and seek it should indeed be locked up. But that’s not quite the same as saying that everyone who looks at a pair of underage tits should be in jail:
The author of legal thrillers such as The Firm and A Time to Kill who has sold more than 275m books during his 25-year career, cited the case of a “good buddy from law school” who was caught up in a Canadian child porn sting operation a decade ago as an example of excessive sentencing.
“His drinking was out of control, and he went to a website. It was labelled ‘sixteen year old wannabee hookers or something like that’. And it said ’16-year-old girls’. So he went there. Downloaded some stuff – it was 16 year old girls who looked 30.
“He shouldn’t ’a done it. It was stupid, but it wasn’t 10-year-old boys. He didn’t touch anything. And God, a week later there was a knock on the door: ‘FBI!’ and it was sting set up by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to catch people – sex offenders – and he went to prison for three years.”
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Posted: 16th, October 2014 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment
Why Europe Hates Israel: It’s Envy, Stupid
Scouts parade with their Colours passing through the vast crowd at the Jamboree.
Date: 03/08/1924
WHY is Europe obsessed with Israel? It’s envy:
Why Europe Is Irrational About Israel. “The flowering of Jewish national life in Israel makes the Europeans crazy. It is not simply envy: it is a terrible reminder of the vanity of European national aspirations over the centuries, of the continent’s ultimate failure as a civilization. . . . Europeans cannot live with their past. They cannot live with their present, and do not plan to have a future, for they do not bear enough children to forestall demographic ruin at the hundred-year horizon. With its high fertility, national spirit, religiosity and unabashed national self-assertion, Israel reminds the Europeans of everything that they are not. Much worse: it reminds them of what they once desired to become. The idea of Israel as well as the fact of Israel are equally intolerable to them.” over the centuries, of the continent’s ultimate failure as a civilization. . . . Europeans cannot live with their past. They cannot live with their present, and do not plan to have a future, for they do not bear enough children to forestall demographic ruin at the hundred-year horizon. With its high fertility, national spirit, religiosity and unabashed national self-assertion, Israel reminds the Europeans of everything that they are not. Much worse: it reminds them of what they once desired to become. The idea of Israel as well as the fact of Israel are equally intolerable to them.”
And that’s what many of Israel’s critics don’t like about it. It’s not just that it’s home to Jews. They want to bash Israel for the sins of their own forefathers…
Posted: 15th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
Ebola Panic: Woman Wears Hamzat Suit At Airport As Son Hides Inside A Plastic Bag
HOW scared are you by Ebola? The Daily Caller spots the most scared person in the USA at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. is apparently not taking any chances.
The female passenger waited dressed in a full hazmat suit / plastic burqa – complete with a full body gown, mask and gloves.
That plastic bag to her side is her son.
Amber Vinson Flew With A 99.5 Degree Fever The Day Before Being Diagnosed With Ebola
AMBER Vinson was showing signs of illness. She recorded a 99.5 degree fever while flying a day before being diagnosed woth Ebola.
Amber Vinson, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is unwell. She’s a health care worker who cared for Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who flew to Dallas, Texas. Nina Pham, a nurse who also cared for Duncan, was diagnosed with Ebola on Sunday.
Posted: 15th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Judy Finnigan And Free Speech Trolls: Ched Evans Didn’t Rape On Twitter
MORE media balls now as the Sun declares that “TV Judy and daughter Chloe” are in a “rape threat hell”.
Judy is Judy Finnigan, who kicked off her perch on ITV’s Loose Women with a view on Ched Evans, the convicted rapist and erstwhile professional footballer. Finnigan said Evans deserved a life after prison, even if that included being a footballer.
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Beaten Man Gets Justice For Hong Kong Police Beating
Police officers request the protesters to move to a nearby park at the main roads outside government headquarters in Hong Kong’s Admiralty, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers moved in early Wednesday to clear pro-democracy protesters out of a tunnel outside the city government headquarters in the latest escalation of tensions in a weekslong political crisis. Officers, many of them in riot gear and wielding pepper spray, tore down barricades and concrete slabs around the underpass. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
IN Hong Kong, protesters are being beaten. Well, one is. Of course, if the Chinese Red Army arrive, this will be light relief:
CCTV footage has captured what appears to be six police officers in Hong Kong assaulting a protester on a street corner. The men can be seen repeatedly kicking and punching alleged victim Ken Tsang Kin-Chiu, a member of the Civic Party. The officers have been suspended since the footage was aired on a local news channel
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Public School Never Made Me Gay: Benedict Cumberbatch And Those Curious Boys
Dermot Turing, nephew of Alan Turing inspects the Pilot ACE computer – formerly the fastest computer in the world in the 1950s and fundamentally designed by Alan Turing, at a preview of the Codebreaker: Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy exhibition at the Science Museum.
BENEDICT Cumberbatch is plugging his film The Imitation Game. He plays Alan Turing, the mathematician and computer scientist whose key work decrypting German codes in the second world war helped the British defeat the Nazis.
Turing died in 1954. He had been convicted of gross indecency for being gay. At the time homosexuality was illegal in the UK. He endured a chemical castration as an alternative to prison. His death was suicide, so they say.
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Posted: 15th, October 2014 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment
Ched Evans: A Tale Of Love, PR And A Victim Who Wants To Forget
CHED Evans, a convicted rapist and Sheffield United footballer, is dating Natasha Massey. She was dating Evans before he was jailed for five years in 2012 for raping a 19-year-old in a hotel room. She was dating him at the time of the rape.
Massey thought it a good idea to appear on ITV’s This Morning and talk things over with the great unwashed.
Evans is likely to be released this month. Shrill voices say he should never play professional football lest impressionable and doltish fans see him at work and think rape is ok.
Massey appears to be on a PR offensive. She says:
“As soon as I found out that he’d been questioned over rape, my instinct was kind of protective of Ched, and I thought I have to stand by him. So my thoughts and feelings over the cheating were put to one side and I just stepped in to help him through this terrible time.”
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Madeleine McCann: Roderick Macdonald, Brighton Victims And A Ghost Child
MADELEINE McCann: Anorak’s look at the missing child in the news.
The Daily Star leads with the story:
MADDIE: BRIT PAEDO ARRESTED – Perv was in Algarve in 2007
So. Can this pervert be linked to the missing child in anything other than a headline? And that story of a “ghost child” by the missing Madeleine is in questionable taste, no?
LINE 1:
Maddie McCann police arrest British paedophile who was on Algarve at time of disappearance
Line 2:
A CONVICTED paedophile thought to have been in Portugal when Madeleine McCann vanished has been arrested in Malta.
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Posted: 15th, October 2014 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
These Are The ‘Bizarre’ Things That Happen After You Win A Nobel Prize
Nobel Prizes winner for physics astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter displays his lifetime parking pass good for parking at the University of California at Berkeley Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif.
IN 2011 astrophysicist Brian Schmidt won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He went on the Nobel circuit. He travelled. A lot.
‘There are a couple of bizarre things that happen. One of the things you get when you win a Nobel Prize is, well, a Nobel Prize. It’s about that big, that thick [about the size of an Olympic medal], weighs a half a pound, and it’s made of gold.”
“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it. I was coming around so I decided I’d bring my Nobel Prize. You would think that carrying around a Nobel Prize would be uneventful, and it was uneventful, until I tried to leave Fargo with it, and went through the X-ray machine. I could see they were puzzled. It was in my laptop bag. It’s made of gold, so it absorbs all the X-rays—it’s completely black. And they had never seen anything completely black.”
“They’re like, ‘Sir, there’s something in your bag.’
I said, ‘Yes, I think it’s this box.’
They said, ‘What’s in the box?’
I said, ‘a large gold medal,’ as one does.
So they opened it up and they said, ‘What’s it made out of?’
I said, ‘gold.’
And they’re like, ‘Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?’
‘The King of Sweden.’
‘Why did he give this to you?’
‘Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.’
At which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humor. I explained to them it was a Nobel Prize, and their main question was, ‘Why were you in Fargo?’”
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The NUS Bans Free Speech And Won’t Condemn IS For Fear Of Looking Islamophobic
THE National Union of Students has voted. And it will not condemn ISIS.
The Tab reports:
The bill called for the Union – which claims to represent UK students – to support unity between Muslims, condemn the bloody terror of ISIS (also known as the Islamic State), and support a boycott on people who fund the militants. But the motion offended Black Students Officer Malia Bouattia, who said: “We recognise that condemnation of ISIS appears to have become a justification for war and blatant Islamaphobia. This rhetoric exacerbates the issue at hand and in essence is a further attack on those we aim to defend.”
Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Posted: 14th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
