By his Avatars you shall know him

Posted on October 31, 2014 by On the North River

In computing, an avatar (usually translated from Sanskrit as incarnation) is the graphical representation of the user or the user’s alter ego or character.

Barry’s latest front man.  Kaci Hickox, the nurse who insists she is Ebola-free after assisting in the treatment of Ebola patients in West Africa.Kaci Hickox

How does she “Know” she is Ebola-freee?  I’m sure the nurses in Dallas thought they would not get the disease, they wore protective suits and unlike Ms. Hickox when they left the hospital they were not exposed to an environment of potential exposure.  The taxis the Dallas nurses took weren’t used by other people who were potentially exposed to Ebola, the restaurants didn’t have customers and waitresses with family members exposed to Ebola.  In West Africa, every seat and every surface outside the hospital or clinic she worked at could have been exposed to Ebola.  How does she know she is free of Ebola?

There is no test at this time that can rule out actual exposure, if her blood hasn’t yet shown known Ebola antibodies that does not mean that she is actually free of infection.  Yet.   There is no vaccine, there is no proven cure.  There is hope but we need time and Ms. Hickox is chipping away at that time by her irresponsible behavior.  I tried to find a figure for the price tag (to date) for tracking down all the possibly exposed people in the Duncan case, best answer is “God Knows”.

Ms. Hickox isn’t just an Obama supporter, she is Obama.  The rules don’t apply to her, the rules and the Constitution don’t constrain him.

On another front, Pajama Boy, a metrosexual hipster in a plaid onesie who wants you to spend your precious Christmas days talking to him about the president’s vision for health insurance.pic_giant_121813_Pajama-Boy-The-Obama-Machines-IdNot one sentient being in the Universe could ever envision an American President allowing as pathetic an image as this to get linked to his policies or his name.  (notice his name in the web address, uh huh!)

John F. Kennedy had a killer line in his, “Ask not what your country can do for you …“,  Barack Obama has, “Wear pajamas“.    Word,    Word!

Speaking of J.F.K., he had Jackie O and Marilyn.   Barry Soetoro has;

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Melowese Richardson, convicted of vote fraud for voting six times for Barack Obama in the 2012 election while a poll worker.

ObamaPhone

Obama-phone Lady.

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Girl he come with, Mochelle.

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That one ain’t bad, but sorry, you got to leave with the one you came with.

The last four are not exactly Avatars, but I couldn’t resist.

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Happy Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2014 by On the North River

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Porta Potty torture

Posted on October 28, 2014 by On the North River

BREAKING: Ebola Nurse’s Ties to CDC Scrubbed From Website – Is Far Left Progressive & Obama Supporter

Quarantined Ebola Nurse, Kaci Hickox is a card carrying Progressive and CDC EIS Officer.

The Ebola nurse who attacked Governor Christie for putting her in quarantine after returning from Africa is a Progressive with ties to the CDC.

Her LinkedIn profile was scrubbed this weekend.
Natural News reported:

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was quarantined in New Jersey over her high risk status as a possible Ebola carrier, has ties to the CDC which have been deliberately hidden by the mainstream media.

Right now, a war is waging between states like New Jersey, New York and Illinois — which have all decided to quarantine travelers at high risk of Ebola infections — and the federal government which is adamantly opposed to border security, medical quarantines and travel bans.

Kaci Hickox emerged in the center of this debate just yesterday when she complained of being “interrogated” and held in violation of her civil rights. Kaci’s LinkedIn.com profile, which described her links to the CDC, was scrubbed from the web earlier today, and even Google cache has strangely been cleared of her profile which previously detailed her ties to the CDC.

The now-famous DallasNews.com article [1] which published Hickox’s complaints failed to mention the nurse’s ties to the CDC.

It turns out that Kaci Hickox is a registered democrat and Obama supporter who works for the CDC. “The nurse currently quarantined in New Jersey is an employee for the Centers for Disease Control and a registered Democrat with a history of left-wing advocacy,” reports GotNews.com.

One of her left-wing positions is that Drug or Pharmaceutical companies should be prevented from selling their products including new vaccines for a profit.  Especially in Africa and including any new drugs or vaccines that are developed to stop Ebola.   How she thinks those companies are supposed to stay in business or why they wouldn’t abandon all research under those conditions she doesn’t mention.

Part of the cruel and inhumane treatment that Kaci had to endure (in durance vile) was using a “Porta-Potty”,  a comment I read on InstaPundit put it well, “Thank God these girls weren’t at Normandy on D-Day, we would have lost the war before the Army Corp of Engineers could have constructed acceptable bathrooms.”.

Now, one last thought to ponder.  She has been released after “testing negative for Ebola”.  ???  Did someone develop a 100% effective and quick test for Ebola infection with 0% false negatives while I wasn’t looking?    I didn’t think so.

Here’s an idea; put her up at the White House (while Barry’s in residence) to finish out her quarantine.   Works for me.

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Geeky stuff

Posted on October 27, 2014 by On the North River

I’m an old, retired (well still officially unemployed, oops! make that “out of work”. ) Telcom Engineer.  So this stuff gets me hot.

First, in the beginning there was Telegraph and on land the speed of transmission was limited mostly by the skill of the telegraph operator sending messages by hand.  Various men, tinkerers and scientists, including Thomas Edison developed means of increasing the speed and recording the dots and dashes of the transmissions.  “Morse Code”  could be read and transmitted at a various speeds, skilled operators (aka Telegraphists) could do so at 40 words per minute (wpm= 5 characters, spaces and punctuation).  The first undersea telegraph cables (due to the length of the cable and retardation of the signal caused by little understood electrical resistance of the water) could take two minutes to send one character.   And yet for the British Government the £60,000 they contributed became a bargain when one message sent across the ocean to Canada prevented a entire army from embarking on a useless voyage to India when the Great Indian Mutiny ended before they could leave and shortly after the successful crossing of the Atlantic by the first transatlantic cable.   (Let’s speed this up a bit.)

Almost fifty years ago, at college, I had my first computer science course.  We learned Fortran, and our sole piece of computer equipment was a TTY (Teletype printer) that connected to a computer mainframe at 110 baud (the other available speed was slower, 75 baud) over a timeshare link. If I remember correctly, the bit rate was 450bps.  About a decade later I bought my first modem for personal use at home.  300 baud and it used a acoustical coupler.  Then I bought a 300 baud auto-dialer.  Then I bought a 1200 baud modem.  After that a 2400 baud modem and it plugged into a slot inside my PC.  After that I had (in order); 9600 BPS external modem, 14,400bps internal modem, a 28K internal and last (modem-wise) a 56K external. 

Then I got cable service from (never to be sufficiently damned) Comcast.  That was in 2006 when we moved back into the newly rebuild house.  The first available speeds were less than one Meg, or 1,000,000 bps.  Later I paid extra for the “Performance” speed tier, roughly 3 to 5 Meg.  Today, still with Comcast, after upgrading the cable modem to docsis 3.0 when I check the status on the WiFi connection link I see 300Mbps.   Of course when I run Speedtest by Ookla the results are (today and before the neighborhood kiddies get home from school) 24.96Mbps. That is very close to the 25Mbps I pay Comcast for.

So.  The big geek news for today.

First, remember when we worried about the government spending billions of our taxpayer dollars until they started spending trillions?   Before Fiber Optic cables were developed, over copper wire and microwave the transmission rates for data and voice were measured in Kilobytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes.  Well, today most of the commercial and personal data use is transmitted over Fiber Optic cables.  And the current standard data rate is 4-8 Terabits/s.   The big news today is a new type of fiber and a new record transmission rate of 255 Terabits/s.  Over 21 times faster.  Wow, isn’t that amazing?  I bet you’re really excited..right!  Um, Right?  right…well here’s the news release.

255 Terabits/s: Researchers demonstrate record data transmission over new type of fiber

Dr. Chigo Okonkwo: “At less than 200 microns in diameter, this fibre does not take noticeably more space than conventional fibres already deployed. These remarkable results definitely give the possibility to achieve Petabits/s , which is the focus of the European Commission in the coming 7 year Horizon 2020 research programme. The result also shows the key importance of the research carried out in Europe, and in particular at TU/e with other well-known teams around the world in high-capacity systems.”

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-10-terabitss-transmission-fiber.html#jCp

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The Ebola epidemic is, above all, a damning repudiation of the big government solutions so blindly embraced by Mr. Obama, particularly when it comes to health care.

Posted on October 26, 2014 by On the North River

Read the title, now can we have an Amen?

AMEN!

Obama Prepares for the Ebola Election

At every turn the past few weeks (months after the epidemic had become an acute crisis of global proportions), American voters have watched authorities within the administration spinning madly to minimize, downplay and dismiss a deadly, incurable disease already on the verge of claiming 4,500 lives worldwide.

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Bad things happen when an organization transits from the Professional to Political

Posted on October 25, 2014 by On the North River

The CDC Doesn’t Have A Funding Problem. It Has A Mission Creep Problem

…if the CDC needs additional funding to deal with legitimate health scare like Ebola, it should certainly be available. What shouldn’t be forgotten, though, is that CDC’s budget and purview have swollen over the past few decades as it has seen an infusion of funding due to temporary health scares and  trendy crusades that often go well beyond any mission it should be pursuing.

The CDC, an agency whose primary mission was to prevent malaria and then other dangerous communicable diseases, is now spending a lot of time, energy and money worrying about how much salt you put on your steaks, how often you inhale second-hand smoke and how often you do calisthenics.  Though the CDC has done an admirable job in managing the panic surrounding Ebola, it is, historically speaking, a national leader in unscientific panic mongering. You might remember when top CDC scientists declared the “epidemic” of obesity would soon be the leading contributor to preventable death in the United States? The CDC claimed it obesity deaths had risen 33 percent between 1990 and 2000. It claimed that 400,000 people would die from being overweight. It turned out these numbers were made up, and the CDC was forced to revise the estimate by a mere 1,400 percent.

Why exactly is it necessary for organizations like the CDC to have political appointees running them?

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Your Second Amendment

Posted on October 24, 2014 by On the North River

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Weymouth, before and after the rain.

Posted on October 24, 2014 by On the North River
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Front and Federal Street in Weymouth

Been a very (very) dry summer, haven’t seen any of these in a long time.

IMG_0447 mushroomOver three days, over five and a half inches of rain.

P1000104 rain guage wed to thurOn Thursday I had to empty the rain gauge and start over…

P1000105 rain guage thur to friQuite a storm, again, been a long time since we’ve had a Wind/Rain storm like that.  I stopped at the gas station during the rain and found that the prices have dropped a lot.  I had the cash in hand; two twenties, and a ten. When the guy finished and said,” thirty-nine”, I just looked at him.  He repeated, “thirty-nine”,  I shook my head  and said, “Sorry, I couldn’t believe my ears.  A pity we couldn’t have had those gas prices and this rain two months ago.”   He agreed.

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Who else needs a laugh?

Posted on October 24, 2014 by On the North River

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Life and death…Carry on.

Posted on October 24, 2014 by On the North River

‘Why did they kill Excalibur? He wasn’t to blame for anything’: Husband of Spanish nurse who recovered from Ebola says she is distraught to learn her dog was put down

Javier Limon (pictured with Excalibur), has said his wife, Ebola survivor Teresa Romero, is heartbroken that their beloved dog was put down when she was quarantined.

Waiting for his master who will never come home: Murdered Canadian soldier’s forlorn dogs look out for his return after he was gunned down by Muslim convert gunman

A day after the 24-year-old Canadian reservist and single dad was gunned down in Ottawa on Wednesday, his forlorn dogs could be seen peering out from his family’s home in Hamilton, Ontario. Nathan Cirillo was devoted to his animals, posting image after image of him grinning beside them to his Instagram feed. Friends also recounted the story of him recently finding an abandoned, emaciated puppy that he nursed back to heath and then re-homed. Cirillo, who was shot dead as he stood guard at the National War Memorial outside the Canadian Parliament on Wednesday, also leaves behind a six-year-old son.

In Spain a woman who survived morns for her friend.   In Canada a dog waits for a friend who will never return.  In my opinion, both were preventable.

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