Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Won't Discuss Thomas Eric Duncan's Treatment

Well, it doesn't sound like it's going toO well for Mr. Duncan.

He's not getting experimental treatment, which seemed to do wonders for the Americans who were rushed back to the U.S. a few weeks back. So far officials are saying that the drugs "either are not available or could worsen his condition in the short term."

Yeah. Right.

At Dallas Morning News, "Ebola containment ‘going well’ in Dallas despite new monitoring glitch."

PREVIOUSLY: "Report: Thomas Duncan Has Died; First U.S. Ebola Patient, Lied About Exposure to Disease - UPDATED!!"

VIDEO: New Jersey Boy Dies from Enterovirus, First Fatality in Growing Infectious Threat

Man, infectious diseases might be the leading election issue one month from now, the way things are going.

At Reuters, "New Jersey boy's death is first linked directly to enterovirus."

Vigil Planned for Five Teenagers Killed in Fiery Irvine Crash

A really sad story, at the Los Angeles Times this morning, "Five killed, one seriously injured in Irvine freeway crash."

Also, "Teens killed in Irvine freeway crash recalled as 'good boys,' athletes," and "Two girls killed in Irvine crash identified by friends and family."

The driver, identified as 16-year-old Bradley Morales, did not have a driver's license.

Reminds me of the Newport Beach crash that killed five students at my son's high school, about a year ago.

CBS News has the report on the planned vigil:

Vigil Planned For 5 Teens Killed In Fiery Irvine Crash http://t.co/2F62Wcm9tA

— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) October 6, 2014

WaPo's Got It Going On!

From David Carr, at NYT (via Mediagazer), "Washington Post Regains Its Place at the Table."

Even the New York Times has to marvel at the way the WaPo has been killing it in recent months: http://t.co/YIg9rKYhaZ

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) October 6, 2014

Indigenous People Day!

Coming to a local public school district near you!

At Blazing Cat Fur, "Seattle school board replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous People Day."

And at Twitchy:

So Seattle is changin Columbus day to indigenous people day? WTF?? This country is goin to hell in a handcart

— Brad (@AlphaHunter72) October 5, 2014

Angels Fan Beaten in Parking Lot After Friday Night's Playoff Game

I'm just now seeing this, at KABC-7 Los Angeles, "ANGELS FAN BEATEN IN ANGEL STADIUM PARKING LOT - EYEWITNESS NEWS EXCLUSIVE":

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- An Angels fan is in critical condition after being severely beaten in the parking lot of Angel Stadium after Friday night's playoff game.

Two witnesses, only identified as Sandra and her 15-year-old daughter, Morgan, spoke to Eyewitness News on Saturday about what they saw.

Both are diehard Angels fans. But they say they will never forget the brutal beating.

The vicious assault happened around 10:30 p.m. in the preferred parking lot outside Angel Stadium.

Sandra and Morgan said the victim and his cousin were leaving the game when the 43 year old was suddenly attacked from behind without warning.

"This man started running towards another, and just started beating this guy. He had two punches, the guy went down, he was out cold, and then he started beating his face really bad on the pavement," Sandra said.

The beating terrified Morgan.

"He continued to punch him while he was on the ground, and that's what got me a little bit upset and a little bit scared. When he had ran a few steps away and came back, I started to get even more worried. Is he going to come after me and my mom, or go to anyone around, a witness?" she said.

As the suspect ran off with two other men, Sandra and Morgan rushed to help the victim.

More.

BREAKING: BooMan, a.k.a Martin Longman, Has Not Died!

Well, no further word on Thomas Duncan yet, although I can report that BooMan, a.k.a Martin Longman, of the Booman Tribune, has not died.

It's been totally hush-hush over there regarding Martin's condition. Steve M. has been totally discreet with the information coming out of the Booman household. But here's Martin's comments at the blog the other day:

Hello folks.

As of about 12:30 I got my computer back and an internet connection.

So far, I've made a first-pass plow through my email and looked at what's been going on on the front-page.

I still have to wade through my Washington Monthly stuff, my Facebook and my Twitter.  Then I have to catch up on the news.

I had a bit of a health scare on the 17th and checked myself into the hospital.  I needed some R & R but I don't have any serious health issues.  I need to take better care of myself and be more careful about what I put in my body.  Beyond that, I don't really want to get into the details.

I'm sorry that I gave you all a bit of a scare, but I was pretty scared, too, and this is the price I pay for not being anonymous.

I'd like to thank everyone including especially Steve for stepping up to the plate and keeping this place humming.  How wonderful to see an old soul mate like Man Eegee come out of the woodwork to help us out!  That really brought a smile to my face. I love you, Manny.

And for everyone else who contributed, I can't thank you enough.  I truly know who my friends are.

It may take me a little bit to get back in the swing of things because I've been in a media blackout since the 17th, but I be back at full speed soon.

Thanks to everyone who reached out with concern.

So, what do we make of it? My guess is that Martin went on an epic drug and alcohol binge, probably involving cocaine and various amphetamines. He checked himself into the hospital after reaching the stage where you want to jump over the railings because you can't come down. So, yeah he does "need to take better care" of himself. Again, just guessing, but no doubt if the truth were to get out it'd be pretty embarrassing.



Also, while scrolling through the updates on Martin, Steve D., a.k.a No More Mister, revealed that he's 58-years-old and bisexual. However, he's married and has remained faithful to his wife. Why it was necessary to reveal that much personal information was not stated, but with leftists identity and victimology are crucial, so Steve D. no doubt had to get his authenticity bona fides out there into the arena.

But let's face it: Either way these idiots are all messed up and consequently you can rest assured that no one takes seriously the crap they post at their blogs.

Frankly, I was just checking in on Martin to get some lulz on his "Democrats are going to hold onto the Senate" hallucinations, heh.

No doubt we'll still be seeing some of those, so all is not lost.

CORRECTION: I confused "Steven D." with "Steve M." A thousand pardons! See, "My Bad! By Bad! Steve M. at No More Mister Is Not Bisexual — NTTAWWT!!"

Report: Thomas Duncan Has Died; First U.S. Ebola Patient, Lied About Exposure to Disease - UPDATED!!

UPDATE OCTOBER 8: All the big media outlets are now reporting that Duncan has died. See: "Dallas Ebola Patient Thomas Duncan Has Died --- For Real This Time!"

*****

This is being reported at Arutz Sheva, "First US Ebola Patient Dies":

Thomas A. Duncan, who became ill with Ebola after arriving from West Africa in Dallas two weeks ago, succumbed to the virus today (Sunday), reports Reuters. Duncan was fighting for his life at a Dallas hospital on today after his condition worsened to critical, according to the director of the US Centers for Disease Control.

The Dallas hospital that admitted him did not recognize the deadly disease at first and sent him home, only for him to return two days later by ambulance.

Reuters has not posted the latest news to its website. Here's what's up there now, "Ebola patient in Dallas 'fighting for his life' says CDC head."

The Obama-enabling press is going to delay full reporting on this story, to protect the Democrat Party from the massive backlash against its craven political capitulation to the epidemic.

Duncan lied to get into the country.

Ebola Patient in Dallas Lied on Screening Form, Liberian Airport Official Says http://t.co/UWK6acuDXn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 2, 2014

Expect updates.

UPDATE:

Heh, everybody's in a tizzy over this post. So, to be clear: There is no confirmation of Duncan's death beyond the Arutz Sheva report. Caleb Howe tweeted that so far the report of Duncan's death is a rumor:

I keep seeing people on Twitter saying Ebola patient Thomas Duncan is dead. According to his family and the hospital, that is a false rumor.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) October 5, 2014

@AmPowerBlog No. CNN talked to uncle though. Also Reuters doesn't seem to have any story saying he is dead.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) October 5, 2014

More later.

From the thread at Godlike Productions. Ain't it the truth:

"They don't want to let us know he's dead. Everyone is going to panic." http://t.co/3jbQCFVOGC #Ebola #ThomasEricDuncan #ThomasDuncan #DEMS
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) October 6, 2014

Dallas Homeless Shelters 'Don't Have An Ebola Plan'

Lovely.

At Breitbart Texas.

Smokin' Sunday Roundup of the Roundups — And Some #Rule5 Too!

Let's get this party started with Pirate's Cove, "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup," and "If All You See……is a wonderful tree sucking up all the carbon pollution from Other People’s fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist."

At the Other McCain, "Don’t Do It, Ben Affleck!"

And at Dana Pico's, "Rule 5 Blogging: Basic Training and an #Ebola Rant."

Also at Conservative Hideout, "70% Of Obama’s Illegals Are No-Shows for ICE Appointments."

At Lonely Con, "Why Did The White House Have The Koch Brothers’ Tax Information?"

Biff Spackle, at Director Blue, "BRUTAL: The Plot Against the Middle Class."

From Regular Right Guy, "Labor Participation Hits 36-Year Low."

And Da Tech Guy, "The Super PAC war on Marilinda Garcia."

Now at iOWNTHEWORLD, "Cockamamie “Experimental” Vermont College Honors Cop Killer With Commencement Speech."

Also from Drunken Stepfather, "STEPLINKS OF THE DAY."

At the Mad Jewess, "Don't Talk to Me About Bad Things."

And from Proof Positive, "Hot Cheerleaders: 2-2 Niners vs. 2-2 Chiefs," and "*Best of the Web*."

Randy's Roundtable, "Hot Cheerleaders: The Texans visit the Cowboys today..."

Gator Doug has "The Daley Gator Babe."

And at Egotastic!, "Alyssa Barbara Canadian Hot Nipple Pokes in Sextastic Posing."

At Maggie's Farm, "Saturday morning links."

And from Blackmailers Don't Shoot, "Rule 5 Monday with Anna Kendrick."

More at Playboy, "FRISKY FRIDAY WINNERS: 10-03-14."

At 90 Miles From Tyranny, "Morning Mistress."

At Knuckledraggin', "Yay!!! Squishy boob hug!!!"

More from the Last Tradition, "Rule 5 Sunday – Mayoli Sena."

The Hostages, "Big Boob Friday."

At Classy Bro, "Bursting Out Tuesday Will Make Your Week Better."

Zoo Today, "This week, Rachel Williams and ZOO present... Awesome In Undies!"

Odie's, "Gone Fishing ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style."

Double Trouble Two, "Random Hottie's .... ;-)."

Goodstuff's, "GOODSTUFFs BLOGGING MAGAZINE (158th Issue): Kate Mara, the all American girl, hosts this metablog."

In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has the "Friday Pinup."

BONUS: At Soylent Siberia, "MORNING CUPCAKES."

America is Stuck on Open-Borders Stupid

From Michelle Malkin, "Can we end the crazy diversity visa lottery yet?":

Ebola has reached our shores from Africa. Dozens of children are reportedly suffering paralysis from a deadly virus with unknown origins. Medical providers across the country have warned of a looming public health crisis as communicable diseases spread unmonitored and uncontrolled. Other countries are cracking down. But America is stuck on open-borders stupid.

The Diversity Visa (DV) program, to take just one glaring example of government insanity, is still going.

On October 1, the State Department opened the annual DV random lottery to applicants from around the world. Yes, it’s completely random like a Powerball drawing. Up to 55,000 lucky winners will snag permanent residency visas (green cards), which put them on the path to American citizenship ahead of millions of other foreigners patiently waiting to come to this country.

The green card lotto winners’ spouses and unmarried children under 21 all get golden tickets into the country, too, no matter where they were born.

Illegal aliens are eligible if a legal family member wins the jackpot. Applicants don’t even need a high school education. No outstanding abilities, training or job skills are necessary. A handful of countries are excluded if they no longer qualify as “underrepresented.” But if you come from a terror-sponsoring or terror-friendly nation — such as Iran, Syria, Sudan, North Korea and more than a dozen officially designated terror enablers on the State Department’s list — no worries. Thousands from these breeding grounds for jihad will walk through our front doors.

This is what happens when bipartisan panderers in Washington get their way. The visa lottery was championed by left-wing social engineer Sen. Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 to admit more “underrepresented” immigrant minorities into the U.S. Although originally intended to give a leg up to Irish illegal aliens who had overstayed their visas, most of the winners now hail from non-Western terror hot spots and hostile territories.

You know who else will get in? Untold numbers of “diversity” petitioners from Liberia, Sierra Leone and other West African countries where the Ebola virus is epidemic. If you think the feds will ensure that foreign visa-seekers with communicable diseases stay out, think again. The State Department now allows applicants with HIV to apply and enter. Those who suffer from tuberculosis, leprosy or other afflictions “of public health significance” can apply for waivers.

Reports indicate that before his departure from Liberia to Texas last week, Ebola carrier Thomas Duncan lied at the airport about being in contact with someone exposed to the disease. So far, the White House refuses to impose any travel restrictions from West Africa. It’s also not clear whether the U.S. has re-screened West Africans who won last year’s DV game and are flying into the country now...

More.

Homosexual Rights Could Reshape Legacy of Supreme Court

I fully expect the Court to announce a national right to homosexual marriage. The justices had a chance last year to push back against the left's depraved homosexual agenda and caved. The ruling on California's Proposition 8 case was especially craven. I have no confidence that the Court will stand up for traditional values. Indeed, homosexual marriage has jumped the shark as far as I'm concerned. The left prevailed, by any means necessary. I do expect that the culture will shift back in favor of traditionalism (as is already happening, as per the Pew poll out recently on religion in public life), so it's way too early to rule out a comeback for decency and morality.

As I've said all along, the history of the abortion movement provides a classic case of common sense prevailing over the left's horrific culture of death. Given enough time, homosexuality will further destroy the foundations of the progressive consensus on same-sex licentiousness and decay. Common sense will prevail in time, especially should diseases such as HIV, now enormously overrepresented among young minority barebacking homosexuals, break out into an epidemic afflicting more and more of the general population.

But all of this takes times. We'll see how it goes.

Meanwhile, at WaPo, "As Supreme Court term begins, prospect of a gay-marriage ruling looms large":

The 10th edition of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. begins work Monday with the prospect of a monumental ruling for gay rights that could serve as a surprising legacy of an otherwise increasingly conservative court.

Whether the justices will decide that the Constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to marry dominates expectations of the coming term; such a ruling would impart landmark status on a docket that so far lacks a blockbuster case.

And some say it would be a defining moment for a closely divided court that bears the chief justice’s name but is most heavily influenced by the justice in the middle: Anthony M. Kennedy, who has written the court’s most important decisions affording protection to gay Americans.

“If the court establishes a right to same-sex marriage . . . [it] will go down in history as one that was on the frontiers of establishing rights for gays and lesbians,” said David A. Strauss, a constitutional-law scholar at the University of Chicago.

“The rough idea would be that the Roberts court would be to the rights of gays and lesbians what the Warren court was on race issues.”

Keep reading.

Why Do We Assume That Asylum Seekers Have a Right to Resettlement in a First World Country?

"We" don't.

The left turns everything into a RACE and SOCIAL JUSTICE issue because our system is driven by all politics all the time, and the left's motivations are never based on humanitarianism but raw political power.

See iOWNTHEWORLD.

Lyvette Crespo May Have Murdered Her Husband as Revenge for His Alleged Extramarital Affairs

Look, this lady's alleging that she's a victim of domestic abuse so she can get away with murder. I doubted her story from the get go. Remember, the family had financial squabbles as well. She was constantly pestering her husband about money. I mean, who was the abuse victim here? Sheesh.

And now there's allegations of extramarital affairs, as well as claims that Lyvette Crespo sent threats to her slain husband's alleged lovers via text message.

I hope she's charged with murder.

At LAT, "Detectives look at Bell Gardens mayor's reported extramarital affairs."

And at CBS Los Angeles, "Only On 2: Were Explosive Text Messages Sent From Slain Mayor’s Wife to His Alleged Mistress?"

'It is a narcissistic delusion for liberals to believe that somehow we have caused Muslims to hate us when, in point of fact, the Koran and other Islamic scriptures command them to hate us...'

From Robert Stacy McCain, "They Want to Kill Us All":

We cannot negotiate with this hate. We cannot compromise with this hate. No policy of ours will permit us to co-exist in peace with this hate. We cannot choose peace when Islam chooses war, and we cannot hope that “tactical air strikes” will suffice to defeat their deadly hatred. The only option left to us is to give them war without limits, war without mercy, a determined, relentless and unceasing war that will not be satisfied with anything less than complete victory over these murdering Muslim monsters who want to kill us all.

RTWT.

'There is no level of depravity to which they will not sink...'

British Prime Minister David Cameron, referring to Islamic State, not the Democrat Party.

Peter Kassig's Parents Issue Plea for Son's Life in Video

And we know, sadly, it'll be for naught. Their son will be murdered, ruthlessly and mercilessly.

And the hostage Kassig, who was a humanitarian aid worker, converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman --- a lot of good that's going to do him.

At USA Today, "Parents of ISIL hostage issue video plea for son's life."

VIDEO: Dodgers-Cards Benches Clear After Yasiel Puig Hit by Pitch in 3rd Inning of #NLDS Game 1

A rough outing for the Dodgers yesterday.

At LAT, "Clayton Kershaw shanks it again for Dodgers in 10-9 loss to Cardinals."

And at USA Today, "Yasiel Puig hit by Adam Wainwright, benches clear."

Parenting as a Gen Xer: We’re the First Generation of Parents in the Age of iEverything

An interesting, if somewhat pathetic, piece, from Allison Slater Tate, at WaPo:

The truth is, my generation of parents are pioneers here, like it or not. We’re the last of the Mohicans. We can try as hard as we want to push back and to carve space into our children’s lives for treehouses and puzzles and Waldorf-style dolls, but in the end, our children will grow up with the whole world at their fingertips, courtesy of a touch screen, and they will have to learn how to find the balance between their cyber and real worlds. It is scary. I don’t think I even believe there is a “right way” to parent with technology. But acknowledging that what we are doing is unprecedented – that no study yet knows exactly what this iChildhood will look like when our children are full grown people – feels like an exhale of sorts.

RTWT.

Daily Kos: The Real Killer Isn't Ebola — It's Republicans Who Block Medicaid Expansion

Tom Johnson, at NewsBusters, who reads this bilge so you don't have to:

In a Thursday post, Daily Kos writer Jon Perr alleged that Republicans’ refusal to expand Medicaid in twenty-five states “might be the greatest act of political spite in modern American history” and claimed, citing research published earlier this year, that it could lead to more than 17,000 “needless deaths” annually.

Perr contrasted conservatives’ cavalier attitude toward that statistic with the “virulent strain of right-wing outrage” over Ebola and asserted that Americans can strengthen their health-care system by voting Democratic in next month's elections, thereby “kill[ing] the GOPer virus dead in its tracks.”

As the election nears, the left's extremism is ramping up exponentially. They're going to get crushed, and it's hurting already.