Second Person In Dallas Being Monitored for Ebola/Watch Live Gov Perry Press Conference

Only yesterday CDC Director Tom Frieden was telling reporters that he had  no doubt the first U.S. ebola case would not spread…

Now, according to the director of Dallas County’s health department, health officials are closely monitoring a  second potential Ebola patient “who had close contact with the first person”  diagnosed in the U.S.

All who have been in close contact with the man diagnosed are being monitored as a precaution, Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, said in a morning interview with WFAA-TV.

“Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: The fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient,” he said. “So this is real. There should be a concern, but it’s contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment.”

The director continued to assure residents that the public isn’t at risk because health officials have the virus contained.

Timeline on the ebola patient:

The patient left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in Dallas the following day. On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Two days later, he was admitted with more critical symptoms, after requiring an ambulance ride to the hospital.

The patient, whose condition was upgraded to serious Wednesday, was in contact with several children before he was hospitalized, health officials here said.

Each of those children have been kept home from school and are under precautionary monitoring, Thompson said.

Good lord.

 Stanley Gaye, president of the Liberian Community Association of Dallas-Fort Worth, said the 10,000-strong Liberian population in North Texas is skeptical of the CDC’s assurances because Ebola has ravaged their country.

“We’ve been telling people to try to stay away from social gatherings,” Gaye said at a community meeting Tuesday. Large get-togethers are a prominent part of Liberian culture.

Knowing that the disease has an incubation period of 21 days, the Obama administration should have put travel restrictions on people traveling from West Africa. Obviously, a person feeling fine getting on and off the plane could be infected. Why was this not done as soon as it was clear that the disease was spreading quickly in effected countries?

Why on earth was a man from Liberia – the epicenter of the disease – allowed to get on a plane and come to the United States without any restrictions what-so-ever?

Via KGBT Action 4 News: LIVE VIDEO: Rick Perry Ebola Virus Press Conference:

 

Watcher’s Council Nominations – When Justice Just Is Not Edition

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

The Council In Action!!

The Noisy Room’s Terresa Monroe-Hamilton is now affiliated with a new group, the Stop Qatar Now Coalition along with a number of other journalists, national security experts, publishers, and independent researchers. I urge you to drop by, read their report on what amounts to a narco-terrorist enabler and find out what this is all about.

Virginia Right’s Tom White continues to be a major source when it comes to Virginia Politics. This week, he was cited by a local CBS affiliate WTVR in a report on a controversial video being shown to local schoolchildren that essentially blames 9/11 on America..his fine piece this week goes into further details.

This week, The MidKnight Review, The Pirate’s Cove and The Elder Of Ziyon earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

To bring something to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (mandatory, but of course it won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out on Wednesday morning

Simple, no?

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have for you this week….

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – Bloody Jihad Comes To Oklahoma
• The Independent Sentinel – Mexican Woman Sues to Strike Down US Immigration Law
• Joshuapundit–Obama Soils Himself At The UN With Weakness, Appeasement And Israel Bashing
• Simply Jews – Idle thoughts on Scottish independence and whether it’s good for the Jews (of course)
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Jihad By The Book
• The Razor – Pill Heads in the Waiting Room
• Nice Deb – Jonathan Karl And Josh Earnest Spar Over Obama’s JayVee Comment: “He Clearly Was Talking About ISIL”
• Bookworm Room – Is it time to dig out the bullets packed in pig grease? (And let’s identify the real Islamophobes.) *UPDATED*
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Will School ‘Heckler’s Veto’ Ruling Get Shot Down by the SCOTUS?
• The Glittering Eye –Care
• Rhymes With Right – Speaking Of Racist White Democrats
• VA Right! – Hanover Schools Teaching Students to Blame America for 9/11 With Classroom Video
• The Right Planet – What’s a Khorasan?
• Ask Marion – William Deresiewicz on the Disadvantages of an Elite Education

Honorable Mentions

• The MidKnight Review – First beheading in the US because of a newly converted Muslim?
• The Pirate’s Cove – How Often Has Obama Missed His Daily Presidential Briefing?
• The Elder of Ziyon – Arabs terrorize Jewish kids next to Mount of Olives (video)

Non-Council Submissions

• Mark Steyn –Winning Heads And Minds submitted by The Noisy Room
• Sultan Knish –It’s time to kick ISIS members out of here submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• The Weekly Standard – Allah And Woman At Yale submitted by Joshuapundit
• Mick Hartley – Just Happen To Be Muslim submitted by Simply Jews
• Joel Kotkin/Orange County Register – Choosing fortune over freedom submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• National Journal –Obama’s Pass-The-Buck Presidency submitted by The Razor
• Camille Paglia –The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil submitted by Nice Deb
• National Review/ Matt Continetti–Journalists for Hillary Clinton submitted by Bookworm Room
• Douglas Ernst – Neil DeGrasse Tyson gets caught lying by The Federalist; disciples at Wikipedia go full-Orwell submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• JustOneMinute – Border Security Begins (Or Ends) At Home submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Outside The Beltway – Ben Carson: ‘Strong Likelihood’ I’ll Run For President submitted byRhymes with Right
• Media Research Center – Over 300,000 Face Deadline to Prove Eligibility for ObamaCare Subsidies; Nets Omit submitted by VA Right!
• The Federalist – Neil DeGrasse Tyson and the Science of Smug Condescension submitted byThe Right Planet
• Amity Shlaes/NRO – Progressives Enthroned submitted by The Watcher
• Dennis Prager/Townhall – What The Arab World Produces submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!And don’t forget to tune in Friday for the results!

New Pat Roberts Ad: “That’s an Interesting Question”

Conservatives have every reason to feel peeved at the Republican establishment in Washington for pouring big bucks in the Kansas primary race in order to defeat Milton Wolf – an excellent conservative candidate. This strategy of reelecting incumbents who are way past their prime –  by any means necessary – needs to be retired because it has led to bad blood within the party and a lot of disgruntled conservatives.

A recent PPP poll showed the “Independent” candidate Greg Orman leading  Senator Pat Roberts 41 percent to 34 percent. Now the party has to spend precious resources in a race that should be in the bag for Republicans in a Republican state like Kansas.

The good news is – there are still a lot of undecideds in this race, and many who currently favor Orman  just need to be educated about him.

This brutal new ad put out by the Roberts campaign does just that, highlighting Orman’s refusal to answer a Kansan’s question about repealing ObamaCare. “That’s an interesting question,” he answered as he scurried away.

Via The AoSHQDD:

 

Enough said.

…Or Not.

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Jim Geraghty of Campaign Spot has a message for the Loud ‘I’m Staying Home This Year’ Conservatives