Andy9o8

Anyone can quote any silly thing on the Internet. Are you going to show us your quote sources, like everyone else does, or not?

Link to quote source please? Basic netiquette.

Speaking of trying, it's bad form not to post your quote source links.

Irrelevant. Embrace the meme. It now comes in powdered form you can mix with water.

Yes, they do equate. Dumb is just dumb.

Sorry, I forgot the tongue in cheek emoticon.

Silly boy. The answer to your third sentence is found in your second sentence.

Check please.

Google "blames obama for ebola". Then marvel at how many hits you get. And you'll recognize some names. Don't take my word for it, see for yourself.

How you doin?

I'm not advocating, I'm explaining. As I said upthread, I think the guy rationalized that it would turn out ok in the end, for everyone.

Exactly the point I made. That he intentionally lied in the interest of self preservation is the most plausible and likely explanation. I agree. Honor and dead is still dead. Dishonor and alive is still alive. There are no friends below 2,000 feet.

You'd win. Probably outside law firm counsel @$350/hr.

Yeah, but I don't think the UK govt is refusing to take them back, it's just declining to exempt them from prosecution if they do come back. So... can't the Turks just deport them? Am I over-simplifying?

I see what you did there.

Oh, I'm like you - between contact lenses and ironing all those shirts, we must to thru 20 gals of distilled water per month.

And I say they're stone-cold liars. a les guillotines!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU

I would suggest nations of origin such as the UK, US, etc. enact what I suppose might be referred to as a "from this date forward" provision. That is, set a specific date, and give all those wishing to return an exemption from prosecution if they renounce their activity and leave the conflict countries by a certain date. After that date, anyone remaining in the conflict areas, or anyone going there to engage in warfare-related activities, will be liable to be prosecuted. Not necessarily. As long as the rule of law that currently exists in the UK, US, etc. of a minimum level of evidence needed to charge someone criminally, and an opportunity for a fair trial by a jury, with the presumption of evidence, assistance of counsel and opportunity to present a defense, as with any other criminal case, that probably addresses that concern.

Yes, if you use the site to commit a war crime, you could be banned from SC for up to a month. Would that include personal attacks, or just mass attacks? Is the public, that isn't even aware of this forum, if hurt, considered casualties of war crimes? Look, do you have genocide planned? If not, stop worrying, you're probably safe from banning. For that, at least.

What's entertaining is watching the dastardly federal government, the supposed 'golden child' for healthcare in America, completely screw this up. Actually, it is a privately run hospital whose system or employees fucked up. And if I were to run a hospital as a business, I would likely do the same. The probability of an ebola victim walking in the doors of some Texas hospital is pretty low, so why waste any resources on it? Of course, sensible people see all the blame-pointing as a useless waste of energy. Let's use it as a teaching moment, and move forward. Anyhoo, as I see it, basking in the perfection of hindsight, it's easy to say that the US Feds should have already had a protocol in place that would have prevented Duncan from connecting from Brussels to Dallas purely by virtue of Africa being his point of origin. Of course, as I said above, that would really require full international cooperation. Re: the hospital, that screw-up is on the hospital, because said screw-up seems to have taken place before either state or Fed health authorities were notified. As for the unforgivable fiasco of how the vomit outside the apt building was "cleaned up", I put that equally on local, state and federal authorities (all of whom had more or less concurrent jurisdiction at that location). "Duncan vomiting outside the building" was reported in all the news outlets before the clean-up took place. There's no excuse for that area not having been immediately and properly contained and treated as a highest-urgency contamination zone. Shame on all of them for dropping that ball.

Right on, bro! There oughta be a law!

If so, I expect there would have been a pole. Where would it be put? Maybe we should have a poll. I thought he meant theonlyski.

You mean: you hate him. Yes, I already knew that; I think we all did. I just hoped it might be worth my taking the time to write you a serious and thoughtful answer.

Well, aside from journalists, you have to be interested in that stuff in the first place, just like sports books are generally read by... sports fans. Students, scholars and aficionados of history, politics, government, biography, etc. If you go to a Barnes & Noble, it's the people who read the stuff in the History, Politics and Biography section. Some such memoirs are deadly boring, but that's the fault of the writing. Some, if written well, can be fascinating. (Even if self-serving, these things are autobiographical, by people who are witnesses to and participants in history.) If, you know, you like that stuff.