Ebola? Where For Art Thou Ebola?

So even w/ the number of individuals being 'monitored' tripling (at least) and several who have disappeared entirely, it's been awful quiet on the news front regarding the Ebola virus in the US.

There's a reason for that;

The Associated Press and other press outlets have agreed not to report on suspected cases of Ebola in the United States until a positive viral RNA test is completed.

So a complicit media self-censoring to help the administration?  Well now they're backpedaling:

This piece originally and inadvertently suggested that The Associated Press and other news organizations were in agreement “not to report on suspected cases of Ebola in the United States until a positive viral RNA test is completed.” I regret this misinterpretation. In fact, AP is in no agreement with other outlets regarding news coverage. AP’s own position is that it will still report some suspected cases of Ebola if they cause enough disruption, even if there’s no confirmation the person has Ebola.

Yeah.  AFTER the election is over and there was no 'suggestion', it was a direct statement. It was only 'inadvertent' that people noticed.  Just like the real 'health care' numbers have been delayed and F&F documents were released right before the polls closed.  I'll wager ammo the unemployment numbers are going to be 'readjusted'  sharply upward and gas prices are going to spike w/i the next week or so .

FOID Failure

So the Anti's are, unsurprisingly, making a push for banning of private sales after their sole win in WA the other day and are using every method of dance they can.  Example is this email from the Brady Bunch:

My name is Kelley Byrdsong and a background check could have saved my father’s life.
Fifteen years ago my father was shot and killed right in front of me by a neo-Nazi criminal who bought two handguns from an unlicensed seller with no background check.

Well as we all know, anti-gun fanatics never tell the whole story.  The POS that did the shooting was a loser by the name of Benjamin Smith.  He DID buy some guns from an 'unlicensed seller' a few days after being denied from an FFL.

Here's the catch (es).

No attempt was made to apprehend Smith after he had attempted to illegally purchase firearms at an FFL (he had a restraining order)

The 'unlicensed seller' , Donald R. Fiessinger, was already under investigation by the ATF who arrested him AFTER he had already sold dozens of firearms, including two to Smith.

The Illinois State Police issued Smith a FOID card (passing a background check) two weeks prior to the shooting because the paperwork for the OOP had a different middle initial.  They revoked it two days AFTER he bought the guns but didn't arrest him for committing a felony by filling out false information on his application.

So failures by the authorities on multiple levels justifies MORE regulations and restrictions to be monitored by the authorities?  Now to me, that doesn't make much sense.

'Children'

More on that meme about x number of 'children' slain by guns.

(16 yr old) Wright was gunned down in an Oct. 23 drive-by shooting near the corner of Fairmont and Princeton avenues.

Horrible, Horrible.  We must ban guns.

 Two black-clad gunmen opened fire at the wake of slain 16-year-old La’Tray Wright Monday afternoon.

Another 16-year-old from the same gang as Wright was charged with his murder, police said. Wright and his alleged killer, Christopher Stamps, were in different factions of the same gang, police said. Hard feelings reportedly developed between the two over unkind Facebook posts and that led to the killing.
Stamps’ home on California Avenue was shot up the day after Wright was slain. Police believe the attack was done in retaliation for the fatal drive-by.

So a bunch of gang-banging teenagers are shooting up the neighborhood over and over.

Honestly think they care about 'background checks', 'safe storage' or any other of the nonsense laws pushed to 'save the children'?

Some photos of him and his buddies flashing gang signs and smoking weed. Other photos showed gang logos, drug use etc. by this 'good boy'

Even My Dead Kitty Couldn't Save Quinn

So it was a pretty regular 6th year election session w/ the majority party going down hard.  GOP picked up a bunch of House seats and retook the Senate so now we see how they get to screw it up.

In Illinois Quinn went down to Rauner 46-51, considerably more than what the polls were predicting. The only time Quinn held a lead was when the Cook Cnty/Chicago votes started coming in and that went away pretty quickly.  On that topic, Approx half of Quinn's votes came from Chicago which has 25% of the population and that was the ONLY county he won

 Taking Chicago out of the equation, Quinn's numbers drop to 35%, nearly 2-1 in opposition to him.
Currently he's refusing to concede and is busy scouring the cemeteries for a few hundred thousand more votes.  

They exercised their fundamental right to participate in our democracy and they're entitled to make sure that the election in every single single county including Chicago and Cook County count their votes."

So it's pretty clear who he was representing and it wasn't Illinois.  I had several people, long time Democrats all, tell me they couldn't vote for him this time around.  About the only ones of my associates who voted for him were the 'True Believers', those who would vote for the devil before they would vote for anyone w/ an (R) next to their name.

Now we get to see how Madigan and Cullerton keep anything from happening to try and improve the state. 

 The best thing about this though?

No more stupid robocalls or commercials.

Election Day

So, bottle of Pepto in hand, I prepare myself to perform my civic duty.

My choices?

Vote for the Evil Party and maintain the status quo of collapsing economy and a constant attack on my rights and freedoms.

The Stupid Party and see how they can screw it up differently.

The Fifth Column party, this year being funded by the Evil Party to pull votes away from the Stupids.

Or a write in in which I might as well stay home.

I wonder how many times my dead grandma and kitty are going to visit the polls in Chicago? 

 Update:

CSGV: Veterans = Domestic Terrorists

Via GFZ: When one talks about 'LIV's' (low information voters), you can probably add in small, uneducated minds that don't understand hyperbole or nuance.  A company called 'Ranger Up' put out an 'in your face' T-shirt for PTSD awareness.

 

The reaction by the Laddites was typical:

Eddie Delisio The domestic terrorist wannabe shirt.

Karl Rines If they put it on…. take away their guns and lock them up in a mental ward immediately.
Linda Lloyd Unbelievable…promoting senseless violence…why?

CSGV's floppy drives are currently burning up from the responses by Vets to this post which, ironically, completely makes the point of the shirt.

They really need to stick w/ subjects they know about. They like to call the NRA/gun owners racist because minorities aren't a majority in their membership while their entire office was lilly-white. I'm pretty sure there are no veterans in their office either.