Andy9o8

If they do it'll be a 5-4 decision.

But the applicable standard in this situation is not one of "reasonable person"; it's one of "reasonable professional police officer". Police officers are charged with the duty to know the applicable laws, especially something as frequently invoked in the field as traffic laws, that do and do not exist in their jurisdiction, that they are empowered to enforce.

lol "I agreed with Obama" probably won't sell the same amount of books. This. For decades, departing a President's administration, and then writing a book critical of the President, has been a Washington cottage industry. It's how they cash in after they leave public office. Well, partly how. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Yes, if you use the site to commit a war crime, you could be banned from SC for up to a month.

You seriously need to re-examine your definition of "failure".

I'm sure he morally rationalized it. It brings up a classic Ethics 101 conundrum: You're exposed to Ebola in Liberia. Everyone who's been exposed to the same sick patient you helped is now sick or dead. You know that if you stay there, or if you tell the truth on the questionnaire, you're condemned to death, and soon. But you also know that the US has successfully treated victims. So you rationalize that not only can traveling to the US save your life, but also that if you do expose others, they, too, will be able to be saved by US or Western medicine. You might be prosecuted after your recovery... but you'll be alive. So what do you do - try to save your life and possibly endanger others, or accept the likelihood of death within days? It's easy to condemn this guy from the outside looking in. And... it gets worse: Dallas: Workers Spray Ebola Patients’ Vomit Off of Sidewalk with Pressure Washer and No Protective Clothing (Photos and Video)

Would you prefer a PowerPoint or an excel? I do too much research for this place as it is. I'm crashing for the night.

Married Koreans only. They have more to lose.

You keep forgetting that word. Illegal irish immigration has been our dirty little secret through all of the 20th century thru the present. More to the point: just look how they breed.

I think you'd be hard pressed to deny the extent to which massive irish immigration has shaped the US, in terms of both population and culture. Besides, the Mexicans have a much shorter swim to get here.

Calling Doctor Seuss! Code Blue!

Not too racist, there. Of course, illegal freckle-faced white immigrants don't raise the same concern. As of 2007, there were an estimated 50,000 Irish illegal immigrants in the U.S.

Except this Act and any other immigration laws designed for our protection can only do so when a person enters the country legally or is caught at the border. I think the point is that one may reasonably extrapolate.

Can you catch Ebola on a plane?

you really just can't help yourself can you? whatever, carry on.

Do you still have it?

Oh, sorry. Here, try this link; it's the same article http://www.dailynewsen.com/politics/immigrants-and-the-fear-of-disease-h2525989.html

The story gets more bizarre: "Have a speedy recovery. And oh, yes - you're under arrest." Liberia intends to prosecute Duncan, assuming he recovers and returns home, for apparently answering No on a questionnaire asking if he had any infected relatives. (I haven't seen the questionnaire itself. But according to the news reports I've read, the person who infected him was a friend, not a relative.) ETA - other stories I'm reading now are saying the questionnaire may have been more broadly worded. For example: Did U.S. Ebola patient lie on airport questionnaire?

Oh, good fucking god, Marc. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-border-immigration-children-scabies-conservativ-20140724-column.html

There aren't many Presidents to whom that also applies, but I think long-term objective history will rule that for the most part it applied to Carter, too. In fairness, I'd probably say the same thing about Ford. Nobody else in my lifetime. Maybe Ike, sort of, if you exclude the FBI's persecution of suspected Reds.

Bwahaa! The best historical comment of the day.

Of course, that begs the question of how many of those also specifically mentioned, during the triage interview, that they had just returned from West Africa.

I think the vilification (not by you; up-thread) of the very elderly generally as presumptively senile and/or not worth being listened to, and of Carter specifically as senile (that would be you) is not well-founded. Re: very elderly generally - yes, of course many people over, say, age 80 lose a lot of their cognitive faculties, and some do have dementia. But these days many really do not, at least not to the extent that presumptively "nobody should pay attention to what they have to say". I mean, my god, that's just an awful attitude to have toward the elderly. (For anecdotal example, my parents in their mid-80s, and my aunt at age 90, are still fully with it and able to analyze and articulate lucidly as much as when they were, say age 65.) Re: Carter - Some of his positions are "out there", but that's really just Jimmy being Jimmy, and always has been, kinda similar to the way, say, Jerry Brown is kinda out there, and always has been. But in fairness, since it's been a while since I've heard Carter speak at length, I kept an open mind, and looked up a recent interview. Here's about a 4-minute excerpt of one from March 2014 (6 months ago). When you have the time to devote, I suggest watching all of it. In my over-50 layperson's opinion, this does not at all seem to me to be a person affected by dementia. http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/jimmy_carter_gets_around_nsa_spying_by_using_old_fashioned_snail_mail.html

I think it's an open question as to whether it's really him, or it's someone using his name. (I have no opinion on that one way or the other.)

Of course it requires full international cooperation & coordination. The guy connected thru Brussels.