"When America Realizes It Needs the Army, It'll Need It Really Bad."

A small Army is smart until it's not

Incompetence Meets Mendacity in Obama Administration’s Ebola Response

Americans are shaken by government’s inability to function.

Well, color me surprised.

It is a short step to incompetence when you lose sight of what you are expected to be competent at accomplishing. It is an even shorter step to mendacity for a ruling class that is schooled to believe the country is fatally flawed and, thus, that the pursuit of our national interests is evil. It turns out that when real crises rivet their attention, the rubes still expect the government to protect and defend them. At that point, the government must either attend to those basic duties, or lie. This government has made its choice.

"#MikeBrown Supporters Threaten to Shoot & Bomb Policw After NYT Piece on Darren Wilson #Ferguson"

On Friday The New York Times released a report on Officer Darren Wilson’s grand jury testimony in September. It’s not clear who provided the information to the Times for the report. The Times reported that Michael Brown’s blood was on police officer Darren Wilson’s gun and inside the police car. According to the Times, Brown reached inside the police car and attacked Darren Wilson. . . In response to the NY Times report, far left Michael Brown supporters are threatening terrorism and murder.

Maybe more guns are needed on campuses to keep radical 'feminists' away

“Feminist” Anita Sarkeesian will not be speaking at Utah State University any time soon, because it’s not a “gun-free zone,” the Associated Press reports. State law allows concealed carry permit holders to possess the means of defense, and that does not sit well with the so-called “media critic and blogger,” who elected to self-abort her planned address in protest.

No madness, only method. And in a way, that's far more scary and bodes ill for the creation of future Stalins.

Understanding Stalin: Russian archives reveal that he was no madman, but a very smart and implacably rational ideologue.

In the contemporary West, we often assume that perpetrators of mass violence must be insane or irrational, but as Kotkin tells the story, Stalin was neither. And in its way, the idea of Stalin as a rational and extremely intelligent man, bolstered by an ideology sufficiently powerful to justify the deaths of many millions of people, is even more terrifying. It means we might want to take more seriously the pronouncements of the Russian politicians who have lately argued for the use of nuclear weapons against the Baltic states, or of the ISIS leaders who call for the deaths of all Christians and Jews. Just because their language sounds strange to us doesn’t mean that they, and those who follow them, don’t find it compelling, or that they won’t pursue their logic to its ultimate conclusion.

Hillary prepares high-flying ad campaign.

Meanwhile, preppers get to say, "I told you so."

Apocalypse Now: Preppers Are Gearing Up for Ebola

When it hits your city, be ready to lockdown your house and banish outside family members, they seem to suggest. On Organic Prepper, lockdown guidelines are so severe they include segregating family members for one-month periods before interaction. “I know this sounds harsh, but there are to be no exceptions,” it says. “If you make exceptions, you might as well go wrestle with runny-nosed strangers at the local Wal-Mart and then come home and hug your children, because it’s the same thing.”

The White House wants you to know that Obama's mad about the failures of his minions -- and he's appointed a political hack with no health care experience to do something about it.

Amid Assurances on Ebola, Obama Is Said to Seethe

But of course everything's okay because the new "White House Ebola Czar Was ‘Key Player’ In Solyndra Scandal." so it's not like he lacks for experience in cover-ups and political logrolling. I know I'M reassured.

More here -- New Ebola Czar Ron Klain Is A Long-Time Lobbyist, Democratic Operative and here -- Naked Politics: The Ebola Czar Has No Clothes.

The choice makes sense if Obama's main concern is a) the incompetence of his team, or; b) midterm politics. My strong hunch is it's "b". The Obama White House is not self-aware. It is nakedly political. The uneven response to Ebola threatens to be a toxic issue for Democrats, and the president is under pressure from his party's desperate candidates to do something.

Abu Ghraibery -- Coming Soon to a Detention Facility Near You. Juvenile detainees locked in controversial device ‘when verbal deescalation is not working’

The system involves binding a child’s arms and legs together using straps and handcuffs, and sometimes involves shrouding the child’s face with a hood or a helmet.

Six Reasons to Panic

As a rule, one should not panic at whatever crisis has momentarily fixed the attention of cable news producers. But the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has migrated to both Europe and America, may be the exception that proves the rule. There are at least six reasons that a controlled, informed panic might be in order.

Thoughts from the ammo line

I’m hoping the next .22 sale is on Christmas Eve to give me a sporting chance. It seems only fair, like when an umpire flubs a call and then later favors the other team in a “make-up” call. But I’m not holding my breath.

Anecdotes from a collapsing civilization.

Bus Driver Organizes Black Mob Violence Against White Family.

St. Louis Walmarts Lock Up Ammunition, Fearing Theft From Rioters

Birmingham woman charged in robbery, beating of 88-year-old Southside resident

Of Mice and Men: CDC Answers 11 Ebola Questions

Interesting answers.

And cops wonder why they're viewed as an unaccountable foreign army of occupation. Parents Of Baby Say SWAT Raid Crippled Their Family

No accountability even from the public via a grand jury, lies at the time of the raid (“He lost a tooth”), failed goals from the raid, a baby almost blown up, lies and coverup by officers of the court during the presentation of facts (i.e., the lawyers), and financially crippled innocent victims. There you have it – that sounds about right for our corrupt and worthless criminal justice system.

Hispanics And Latinos Favor Gun Control

On gun control, 62 percent of Hispanics polled by Pew say they support controlling gun ownership, versus 45 percent for the nation.

NRA fundraising email contradicted by group’s grade for key Senate Democrat

Those are fine words. They ring true, like something gun owners can believe in. Or at least they would were NRA not helping Reid, Schumer and Durbin hold on to power by declining to endorse AQ-rated Republican Dan Sullivan in one of the key races needed to flip the Senate. They would were NRA not giving an inflated grade to Democrat Mark Begich that fails to hold him fully accountable for two Supreme Court betrayals and a host of other bad votes on gun-related issues. They would were NRA not otherwise singing Begich's praises in the press to give him cover.

Fast and Furious: Obama's gift that keeps on killing.

Documents Confirm Fast and Furious AK-47 Used in Phoenix Gang Assault

And Senator Grassley's pissed. But so what? Nothing will happen as long as John Boehner's speaker and the Obamanoids have him by his FBI file testicles. (Assuming of course that he originally HAD testicles.)

More Secret Service Thuggery.

Nashville Police Refuse Secret Service Illegal Search of Obama Critic

James Wesley Rawles on Ebola.

"Consider This Your LAST Wake-Up Call."

All we need now is Topless Nurse Judy and the head of the Armenian Medical Association. Life Imitates Art. Beat the Reaper: More proof of how well big government works for you.

"I don't know how many different ways I can say this: Captain Trips DOES NOT EXIST!" -- General William "Billy" Starkey, commanding Project Blue, in The Stand.

I was talking to David Codrea yesterday morning about how life imitates art. I pointed out that some of the CDC pronouncements were beginning to rival General Starkey's in The Stand for sheer unreality. So know we learn that "Amber Vinson, Dallas Ebola Patient, Says CDC Gave Her Green Light To Fly."

Vinson told CBS Dallas Fort Worth that she was feeling ill before boarding her flight. She had a low grade fever, but she said that officials told her it was okay to get on the plane. Vinson told CBS that she called the CDC several times with concerns.

Ebola is only contagious when a patient is symptomatic. Vinson's 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit fever wasn't high enough to be considered a symptom.

The CDC confirmed to FOX 4 News that they gave Vinson the green light to fly. "Vinson was not told that she could not fly," a government spokesperson told NBC News.

Vinson's comments contradict remarks made earlier today by CDC Director Tom Freiden, who said that she never should have gotten on the plane.

Meanwhile, Media Matters clucks its collectivist tongue when Laura Ingraham stated that Thomas Frieden, the Director of the CDC "is on the verge of becoming the Baghdad Bob of the health care community."

But as Betsy McCaughey points out in an article in Human Events entitled "Ultimatum to Nurses: One mistake and you die," Frieden is falsely claiming hospitals are ready in order to bolster the policy of his boss, President Obama, who refuses to suspend travel visas from affected countries. But how many American lives should be put at risk for the sake of political correctness?

How many, indeed. David and I share, along with others of our generation, a fondness for the old comedy albums of Firesign Theater, and we talked about how if this goes much farther that we could see a replay of Firesign's Beat the Reaper sketch.

Now personally, I'm not ready to panic on Ebola as the real Captain Trips, although I am bemused by the fact that some folks are just now discovering that the federal government doesn't do ANYTHING right. Where have they been? And where's Obama in all this? Why he's worried about "the optics." So, while we wait for the next Ebolian to be revealed and the next big government failure to become self-evident, here's a little traveling music:

Don't Fear the Reaper.