Seems that there is an outbreak of Ebola in Africa (Guinea, to be exact) and there may be related outbreaks in Sierra Leone and possibly Liberia.

Now most of us feel that this is happening “Over there” and really don’t care. Few are worried that is could come here, and to a certain extent, they are correct.

BUT.

We have air travel now….And people travel from the affected areas to the US, Canada, and Europe EVERY DAY. (this time the tests show that the passenger, who is still in intensive care, doesn’t have Ebola….But he DOES have something that is making him very ill)…How would you like to have been a fellow passenger on the plane he flew in on? Breathing the same air as him for hours and hours…..

Think about it.

(For me, dying isn’t something I fear….But dying while bleeding from the eyes….)

Was a staunch Republican voter for his entire life.

But sadly, he passed away several years back.

He’s voted a straight Democrat ticket ever since.

That I hate more than painting.

If I could find a painter who did as good a job as I do, or who made less mess and left fewer paint drops on the floor than I do, I’d be willing to pay for having my kitchen walls painted

Sadly, “Professional Painter” doesn’t mean “Craftsman” in this area….but rather “fairly sure which end of the paintbrush to pick up” and “not terribly likely to paint the wrong thing” and “might not make too much of a mess”.

So fuckit, I’ll paint.

But I hate it. I’d rather be a demonstrator model at a proctology school.

SO, it seems that, because of a simple misspelling, the brother Splodey Tsarnaev were simply not noticed by the DHS and other folks supposed to be watching for people like them.

Now, I understand that mistakes happen…Sometimes people hit the wrong key when entering data….sometimes they are tired or distracted or whatever.

But really, no one caught the fact that “Tsarnaev” might also be spelled Tsarnayev”? No one bothered to look at a guy who spent 6 months in training on how to blow people up?

And they spend all that time defending the integrity of their lists…even when completely (and obviously) innocent people are inconvenienced by being on it.

Sometimes incompetence is hard to tell from maliciousness. Especially in a bureaucrat.

But I haven’t done any verification:

https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/448989812696293376/photo/1

When you are a narcissistic bastard…

Must sting to be ignored like that.

This cold/flu/plague whathefuckerver is finally breaking

No real brain cell are firing at this time. however.

no blog for amyone for a while.

And here I thought I was gonna miss out on all the fun.

So on Christmas Day, I pulled a muscle in my back. Now, it has taken an inordiate amount of time to heal, and was lamost back to normal.

Also, I was feeling lucky, and congratulating myself on not getting a cold this winter season.

Both of these things intersected on Wed Evening, when my sinusi became flowing…nay, Gushing fountains of clear weepy fluid.

Thursday, this evolved into sneezing fits.

Which made my back feel so much better. Not Fun. At All.

Of course, I got bad enough to actually take something for the symptoms.

I could become happy with a steady diet of Dextromethorphan hydrobromide.

Sadly, it takes away the small cognitive ability that I have left, so I gotta go carefully down that path.

But it does help.

No blogging for a while, as it takes all I got to form words when under the influence.

Or know someone who is?

Here is a a set of scholarships going wanting.

Not huge, but hey, free money for the asking.If you qualify.