Coal technologies are dying and have been dying. No Republican rescued them.

In West Virginia the Republican US Senate Candidate is running on COAL. West Virginia has had among the worst outcomes to the coal industry.

January 10, 2014

Lewis County businesses (click here) are feeling the effects of the water contamination further south in West Virginia.

Although their water remains clean, BFS Foods in Weston is running short on supplies as those in the effected area travel in search of reinforcements. People from as far away as Charleston have come to the store to stock up.

"It's been crazy," said Bev West, the assistant manager of the store. "People have been getting three-to-four cases of water at a time."

The store had not run out of water as of earlier this afternoon, but West was ordering more just to be safe.

"We've just had people calling in to see how much water we've had so they can stop by and purchase water," West said. "We will be getting in plenty of water for that purpose."

The pursuit of clean water doesn't stop in Weston. Lumos employee Dewayne Collins said he traveled up to Clarksburg for supplies. The Charleston-based company intends to give that water to its employees to share with their families.

"I got 36 cases of bottled water and 12 gallons of water," Collins said. "So a little over a thousand pounds of water."

West Virginia's job growth is occurring without the coal industry. West Virginia needs better PAY RATES for their citizens. The natural gas industry can afford far larger pay rates and West Virginians are being taken advantage of by the petroleum industry for profits.


October 3, 2014

A new economic report (click here) from West Virginia University's John Deskins shows that the state is predicted to have solid job growth for the next few years, but that the coal industry will continue to cut jobs before leveling off.

The report indicates that job growth should be around 1% in West Virginia over the next few years, but that the coal will likely only employ 15,000 workers by 2019 compared with near 30,000 a few years ago.

Even still, the overall news of job growth is encouraging to Deskins.

"We believe that these losses are at an end and that West Virginia's economy will add jobs in the near terms, posting around 0.9% job growth annually in the coming years."

The report also indicates strong growth in natural gas, which should increase in output annually until 2019.

There were some concerns though. West Virginians make on average less money then the rest of the country. The report shows that people in our state make four dollars for every five that the average American makes....

The coal industry is going by way of the Dodo and no one can stop it. A US Senator that supports coal as the future to any state will only cause job loss and not job gains.

President Obama's Executive Branch has been saving lives while still increasing economic growth..

Republican legislators, when in majority, are disastrous to not only economic growth, but, the health of citizens. They don't care and a recent vote by the NC Legislator proves it. And, oh by the way, whom leads that legislature? 

Tillis and McCrory are still padding the treasury at Duke Energy at the cost of the health of North Carolinians. Republicans across the board practice corruption when they have a free hand to do it.

October 3, 2014
By Michael Biesecker

RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal environmental officials (click here) spurred North Carolina regulators to reverse a policy allowing Duke Energy to drain massive amounts of polluted waste water from its coal ash dumps directly into the state's rivers and lakes, according to documents.

The Southern Environmental Law Center released documents Friday showing that the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources on Aug. 28 quietly signed off on Duke's plan to start emptying liquids from all of its 33 coal ash dumps across the state through existing drain pipes at the facilities....

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/03/4204567_feds-override-nc-on-draining-coal.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

The 2014 election is about President Obama's policies?

US industrial production still hasn't recovered since the Republicans held a majority in the US House from January 2011 going forward. It was doing better than most sectors without the Republican majority.

You'll excuse me, but, every bill that was passed after 2010 which the President signed was compromised by Republican legislation methodology and policies. The economic recovery was slow and stalled from time to time because the Republicans in the House and Senate.

When President Obama states this election is about his policies, it isn't about the success of a Congress committed to administer this policies, it is about a House that continually wrangles with him and forces him to the Executive Office to protect the people and country.

If these comments are about US Senator Kay Hagan in order to defeat her, nearly every Republican commercial I have seen, which is most if not all, the words are twisted to deceive. The Republican campaign ads are based in misinformation and not fact.

October 3, 2014 9:53 am

President Obama (click here) made a lot of red-state Democrats in difficult Senate battles cringe Thursday when he declared while his name wasn’t on the ballot in 2014, the policies he champions are.

“Now, I’m not on the ballot this fall,” he said. “Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”

That’s news to Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, although it’s well-established that she and Obama aren’t in sync on just about anything....

How anyone would take the life of another is something I will never understand.

You only go around once. Fashion is a great place to experiment with sex appeal.

The following designers (click here) are making waves not only for their collections but also for their level-headed approach to running a fashion label with real potential.

Yes Ladies, sex appeal. There actually is a real reason why Victoria's Secret does so well. Now, with a thriving economy it seems as though finding joy, happiness and fulfillment is returning to the American landscape.

Women don't just like to look pretty, they like to make a statement and distinguish themselves from each other. It is called personality. 

1. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — L Brands Inc., the owner of Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works, said profit in its latest quarter increased 10 percent on stronger sales. The Columbus, Ohio-based retailer earned$156.9 million, or 53 cents per share, in the three months through May 3.

There is no casual approach to Ebola. It is a very dangerous virus. Panic, though, is more dangerous.

Sometimes during the process of copying the RNA or DNA of the virus, small errors (substitutions in nucleotide base pairs) occur in the copy. These errors are replicated into subsequent copies. If the change isn't fatal to the virus and causes it to stop replicating, then the virus has resulted in a mutation. If that mutation results in a changed protein that enables the virus to survive, infect or replicate better the virus will become more infectious.

With all do respect, no one should be minimizing the danger of this virus to the public. People have a right to know the dangers that are ahead of them. I am confident the USA will bring this under control, but, a great effort has to be given to this. The Ebola virus is probably the most dangerous problem the world has right now. The danger is immediate. 

The longer a virus exists the more of an 'opportunity' it has to mutate.

October 4, 2014

The Ebola virus (click here) could become airborne if the epidemic is not brought under control quickly enough, the chief of the United Nations Ebola mission warned yesterday.

Anthony Banbury, the UN secretary-general's special representative, said aid workers were racing against time to bring the epidemic under control in case the virus mutated and became even harder to deal with.

"The longer it moves around in human hosts in the virulent melting pot that is West Africa, the more chances increase that it could mutate," he said. "It is a nightmare scenario [that it could become airborne], and unlikely, but it can't be ruled out."

He admitted that the international community had been "a bit late" to respond to the epidemic, but that it was "not too late". Banbury, who has worked with the UN since 1988, said that the epidemic was the worst disaster he had witnessed....

Koch a typical old world company where paying fines and civil suits is still their answer to exorbitant profits.

Nothing stops these companies. Fortunately, most are no longer disregarding laws, but, there is a profound reason Koch Industries in held tightly as a private enterprise able to break every law on the books while continuing to rack in profits. They care for no one besides their family laced company.

September 24, 2014
By Tim Dickinson

The enormity of the Koch (click here) fortune is no mystery. Brothers Charles and David are each worth more than $40 billion. The electoral influence of the Koch brothers is similarly well-chronicled. The Kochs are our homegrown oligarchs; they've cornered the market on Republican politics and are nakedly attempting to buy Congress and the White House. Their political network helped finance the Tea Party and powers today's GOP. Koch-affiliated organizations raised some $400 million during the 2012 election, and aim to spend another $290 million to elect Republicans in this year's midterms. So far in this cycle, Koch-backed entities have bought 44,000 political ads to boost Republican efforts to take back the Senate....

...Koch touts only one top-line financial figure: $115 billion in annual revenue, as estimated by Forbes. By that metric, it is larger than IBM, Honda or Hewlett-Packard and is America's second-largest private company after agribusiness colossus Cargill. The company's stock response to inquiries from reporters: "We are privately held and don't disclose this information."...


...Under the nearly five-decade reign of CEO Charles Koch, the company has paid out record civil and criminal environmental penalties. And in 1999, a jury handed down to Koch's pipeline company what was then the largest wrongful-death judgment of its type in U.S. history, resulting from the explosion of a defective pipeline that incinerated a pair of Texas teenagers....

...Koch's climate pollution, meanwhile, outpaces oil giants including Valero, Chevron and Shell. Across its businesses, Koch generates 24 million metric tons of greenhouse gases a year....

Koch Industries is directly involved in the Canadian Tar Sands. That is how bad Koch Industries is to the American landscape. They don't care what occurs or who is killed along the way, their wealth simply buys them out of any tight spot and this is the primary financiers of the Republican Party.

Now, you tell me, with a financial backer like Koch Industries will the Republicans actually demand them to clean up their act? No. When voting for a Republican anyone in the electorate are voting for villains and scoundrels that will poison their air and water and add to the velocity of the next tornado or hurricane. The Kochs are old money that keeps getting dustier and dirtier with every passing day.

Petroleum coke, a waste byproduct of refining oil sands oil, is piling up along the Detroit River.

May 17, 2013
By Ian Austen

...And no one knows (click here) quite what to do about it, except Koch Carbon, which owns it.

The company is controlled by Charles and David Koch, wealthy industrialists who back a number of conservative and libertarian causes including activist groups that challenge the science behind climate change. The company sells the high-sulfur, high-carbon waste, usually overseas, where it is burned as fuel.

The coke comes from a refinery alongside the river owned by Marathon Petroleum, which has been there since 1930. But it began refining exports from the Canadian oil sands — and producing the waste that is sold to Koch — only in November....

The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway have received more than it's fair share of pollution over the decades. That was decades. Pollution from these industries has been ended a long time ago, ie: The Love Canal (click here), but, not for David and Charles Koch. After the American people have spent billions on rehabilitating the Great Lakes, the Kochs completely disregard the will of the people and continue to dump their toxic soups.

Yes, the Love Canal. That is how long Koch Industries have exceeded the capacity to be controlled while other PUBLIC companies came into compliance. 

...Mr. Masse wants the International Joint Commission, the bilateral agency that governs the Great Lakes, to investigate the pile. Michigan’s state environmental regulatory agency has submitted a formal request to Detroit Bulk Storage, the company holding the material for Koch Carbon, to change its storage methods. Michigan politicians and environmental groups have also joined cause with Windsor residents. Paul Baltzer, a spokesman for Koch’s parent company, Koch Companies Public Sector, did not respond to questions about its storage or the ultimate destination of the petroleum coke....

With Koch backing Republicans and seeking to control the legislature at the federal level is there any doubt any and all environmental controls will be rolled back and even worse dissolved to allow Koch to continue it's draconian practices that literally kill people with the pollution they produce.

Voting for a Koch Republicans is like voting for your own death. This family is heinous and continues their practices long after they have been outlawed by any other business. They simply pay fine, the lawsuits and continue to break the law and destroy lives.

How did we get to the place where it was wrong to leave Iraq?

The USA had no control over corruption. Afghanistan has been corrupt since the beginning of the war there. This is ridiculous. The USA left Iraq on December 15, 2011. Today is October 2, 2014 and the Islamic State didn't manifest in Syria until about year ago according to most sources. The Syrian Civil War was bearly started when our troops left Iraq and the Iraqi military was considered stable AS IT WAS EVER GOING TO BE. 

October 2, 2014
By Jennifer Rubin
...We debated (click here) with al-Maliki even as we debated among ourselves, with time running out. The clock wound down in December, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter continued to argue our case, extending the deadline for the Iraqis to act, hoping that we might pull out a last-minute agreement and recognizing that once our forces left, it would be essentially impossible for them to turn around and return. To my frustration, the White House coordinated the negotiations but never really led them. Officials there seemed content to endorse an agreement if State and Defense could reach one, but without the President’s active advocacy, al-Maliki was allowed to slip away. The deal never materialized. To this day, I believe that a small U.S. troop presence in Iraq could have effectively advised the Iraqi military on how to deal with al-Qaeda’s resurgence and the sectarian violence that has engulfed the country....

The United States of America illegally invaded Iraq. The numbers of civilian deaths is enormous. Where does anyone get the idea the USA troops were welcome in Iraq? Oh, wait, I forgot, the USA can invade and occupy any dam country it wants to.
Panetta can go straight to hell. I am sure his GOSSIP war revelations will well for him.
Iraq is not stable and it will never be stable. Iraq wasn't stable when the USA was occupying the country. There were killings all the time in Iraq and it wasn't with USA or Iraqi troops, it was between each other. Forget it, there was no staying in Iraq and at the time we finally left, the American people were ready to carry out a civil war themselves for the cost of the two lousy wars. 
Panetta needs a job. I hear that McDonalds will provide at least part time jobs to nearly anyone.

The Super-panamex are too big. Their displacement is too wide.

The Panama Canal can't provide enough water to raise this ship higher so the width is narrower in deeper water. I think it is too tight a fit for these ships.

Lock dimensions of 427 m (1,401 ft) in length, 55 m (180 ft) in beam, and 18.3 m (60.0 ft) in depth. 

New Panamex 366 m (1,200 ft) in length, 49 m (161 ft) wide and 15.2 m (50 ft) draft (waterline).

You have got to be joking. There is a ten foot clearance in depth. Ain't no way. The weight capacity will displace more than 60 feet. The buoyancy isn't there. What the heck were they thinking? The water displacement in 60 feet of water simply isn't there. There is a limit, but, human arrogance never admits it.

The expansion of the Panama Canal cost something like $6 billion. These ships need a lot of water to turn around, too. They need to go down around South America for now or the southern tip of Africa. These canals aren't able to handle them. 

They are playing bumper cars in the Suez. It ain't going to work.

If there was more water under this ship it could rise and would not bring it's width to bear on the lock. But, the water displacement isn't enough to allow a higher buoyancy of the ship. Why do I have a feeling the Army Corp will chime in on this mess.

The cargo weight for those containers runs from 27.5 tons for the 20 footer and up to 26.48 ton for the 40 footer. That is about right when the trailer and truck are added to the over the road weight, it comes close the max of 80,000 (40 tons) for USA roads and bridges. That is a lot of displacement to ask 60 feet of water to handle.

No playing "Chicken" in the Suez Canal.

The Default Setting to all this stuff the right wing burdens the political vapors with has to be spoken to as an insult. Someone has to speak up for the dignity of the generation. This is demeaning and don't think for one minute there aren't parents or grandparents ready to plug into this mess and call their young people lazy and out of touch with a good work ethic. 

This opens with something about the young lady's personal budget. The intent is to intimidate. This generation doesn't need that, they need work they are educated to do. Democrats and Independents should not keep them waiting.

This generation believed they lived in the USA, a country with opportunity. They are waiting for their American Dream and the Republicans never bothered to find the path before them that would guarantee it. These young people are the future of our country; do we want them believing they spent all their time as fools to the University Education Money Machine? 

Everyone of them has promise and they need to be happy within their lives.

"Well when I was a girl, life was hard, but we rose to greet everyday anyway."

That doesn't wash anymore. We promised our children they could grow into great people and have a life full of their ambitions and desires. This is 2014, the country is not going back to the coal mines anymore.

This is condescending. It is again an insult to the young adults in the USA. Just like the Uncle Sam health care slam.

Young people in the USA know their own lives. They not only know their own lives, they can organize to bring attention to them. This is insulting. It pretends young women are shallow and all about themselves. This also sets aside the fact that many young couples don't have a living wage and can relate to an expensive wedding. The biggest expense young couples have today are their college loans, the lack of opportunity in the jobs they are educated to rise to and balancing their desire for a family against their minimum wage incomes.

This generation has been abandoned by 40 years of Republican policy. They came out of their higher education opportunity to nothing. There were no opportunities for them. That is an entire generation ignored by government, except, if they want to go into the military. Does anyone actually think these young people are this shallow? I don't.

This ad is simply something to stir up the base, if there such a thing as a young Republican base.

This is an excellent opportunity for all the Chinese people.

1. Beijing knows the city of Hong Kong has a specific understanding to what they are looking for in leadership. At the same time Hong Kong is a very important city, both in it's sophistication and it's commerce.
2. Beijing does not want to have adverse outcomes for the people as can occur when government changes in principle as well as persons. China has regard for all it's people and wants to dialogue with the people of Hong Kong. I think this is a magnificent opportunity for existing government to understand the wishes of the people.
3. China has a magnificent history. Recent history is even more gratifying as the people are regarded with investments of companies from around the world. The Chinese have given pause to the nations other than themselves when it comes to economics. The West is a strong partner and can and has offered advice to the development of the Middle Class. The Western nations of people disagree with some of the quality of life in China. The Chinese people and The West are coming closer and closer to being two great nations that have accepted the economics of work and financial advancement. This is a good thing. It is ultimately called peace. 
4. The people of Hong Kong have the burden of bringing together the Chinese government and the wishes of the Chinese people. It is a heavy burden. Beijing understands what it is like to have so many people to look after and continue to move the country forward.
5. With this new willingness "Old World China" and the "Promising Future of the New World China" can begin a dialogue that will transcend confrontation and violence. I am not sure what the platform looks like that Beijing has in mind, but, it seems to me there can be a council that meets with the existing government to discuss how Hong Kong needs and wants to change.
6. China governs in five year plans that have proven to be beneficial to the people of China. I can imagine a council which brings forward an agenda of change for the Hong Kong government as well as Beijing to discuss and incorporate into the five year plan. The people of Hong Kong are doing great things for their country and people. I cannot imagine either the Hong Kong government or the government of China would close off dialogue to advance the future of the country.
7. I wish them all well. The world awaits the open dialogue and the development of the "China to Be," from the China that is.
8. October 2, 2014
9. By Sarah Fowler and Jasmine Coleman
10. 17:01: 
    Welcome to our live coverage (click here) of the continuing protests in Hong Kong. In the last few minutes, the territory's Chief Executive, CY Leung, has given a news conference and refused to step down, despite a midnight (17:00 BST) deadline set by pro-democracy protesters.
11. 17:01: 
    Mr Leung said he would open talks with protest leaders to discuss the constitutional development of the territory.
12. 17:02: 
    But he warned protesters amassed outside two key government buildings against stepping over police lines, saying this would have "very serious consequences".
13. 17:08: 
    "If anyone wants to cross over police lines, police will continue to exercise their maximum tolerance," Mr Leung told the news conference....

Ya gotta love the guy. He knows his people sort of.

September 30, 2014
By Rebecca Nelson

Secessionists (click here) across the world were inspired by Scotland's energetic attempt at independence from the United Kingdom earlier this month. Ron Paul, as it turns out, joined them.

In an essay on his eponymous institution's website Sunday, the former U.S. congressman from Texas wrote that any supporters of freedom should cheer secessionism because it allows for smaller government—a constant mantra for the libertarian and perennial presidential candidate, who didn't previously realize there were more than a handful of secessionist groups in the United States....

Libertarians are hard core autonomous self-sufficiency. There is social program in the world they believe in. So, while secession is unconstitutional: we were already through this about 150 years ago; the 'idea' of complete autonomy does play among the Ron Paul Libertarians. Most aren't that extreme, do love the country and appreciate the military this country has assembled. But, there lives in every Libertarian an anarchist. So, this doesn't surprise me. 

Oh, there is also that Iowa scandal, too. This is a way of testing the LOYALISTS and whether or not they still hear the call of Ron Paul in the wild.

This isn't even an issue to debate.

October 2, 2014

The Turkish parliament (click here) is debating a motion to allow its military to enter Iraq and Syria and foreign troops to use its territory for the operation.

Turkey had been unwilling to fight Islamic State (IS) militants because they were holding 46 Turkish hostages but they were released last month.

Parliament is expected to back the motion.

However Turkey is wary of retaliation by IS and protesters demonstrated outside parliament as the debate began.

The government in Ankara also fears helping the Kurds who are fighting the militants.

Turkey has a porous and vulnerable border with Syria, more than 900km (560 miles) long....

It was always possible for the Syrian civil war to spill over into Turkey. If it has and the government believes troops are necessary to return border security, then it is a matter for NATO. End of discussion.

Turkey doesn't want it's land turned into a war zone and that is what would happen should they declare war that brings them into Syria to stop any infiltration of the country. Turkey would become a staging ground for NATO and the people would suffer changes in their economic focus. Forget tourism because there will be war. 

That is what Turkey has to decide. Is the spill over from Syria and Iraq for that matter enough to move Turkey to commit to troops and war. It is a huge decision and best made by the Turkish government. But, once Turkey commits, if it commits, the picture expands with involvement of NATO. That is a given. That is somewhat the very essence Turkey wants to avoid.

There are social issues that have been abandoned since 2008.

Some of those social programs are drug rehabilitation. They aren't programs that victimize a citizen and abandon them, they are program to improve quality of life.

Right wing politics addresses quality of life differently than most of the country. They address quality of life in dollar signs and a number of zeroes. The rest of the country recognizes certain problems that are social issues and the responsibility of government to move people out of poverty, crime and drug addiction.

Sometimes the greatest hurdle to a person seeking to move into the Middle Class is more than simply the building blocks of capitalism and work. A drug addicted person might be working a job that would qualify as the working poor, but, if they were able to nudge a bad habit, even cigarette smoking out of their lives their upward movement would be assured to them.

A carton of cigarettes depending on the state can cost upwards of $75.00 for ten packs. (click here) Generic can begin at $55.00. Depending on the habit that is anywhere from 3 cartons a month to 9 cartons per month. That is a lot of money, buy simply ending the smoking habit it puts hundreds of dollars back in the pocket of a consumer and provides for better upward movement to the Middle Class.

The social issues of the political right wing is about limiting behaviors that would normally contribute to a person being able to move into the Middle Class. Contraception for women provides a means to limit child bearing and therefore the monies spent to support children either single or married. That cuts the ability of the poor and working poor to change their circumstances.

Education has always been a huge issue for Democrats and Independents. Education is another rung on the ladder of movement upwards. Limiting the interest rate on educational loans is vitally important when one makes it through their program and begins work. The higher the interest rate they have to pay on their loans prohibits the purchase of a home in many instances.

Needle programs simply save lives. It also inhibits the spread of HIV and other blood borne diseases. It is simply the right thing to do. It provides an opportunity for social workers and/or health care professionals to interface with the members of our society that are addicted to substances. 

These programs are all important and require a commitment from legislators to make them happen through law and funding. In a year like 2008 came to be there is little tolerance for such social programs simply because the finances at the dinner table and with the government treasures are very different. But, when the country is recovering at a brisk pace as it has this year, that is the time for a country to recapture programs that remove poverty, addiction and quality education.

To some extent this year should be the year when social programs pursued by Democrats and Independents are revitalized and talked about with the electorate, but due to the difficult times of the country reaching back to the Iraq War we still haven't recovered the importance of strong social programs that provide for less poor and working poor. It is unfortunate the electorate seems to be grabbing onto faux priorities rather than tried and true remedies to improve the lives of our citizens.

Gun control bills are still be fought by the wealthy and the NRA.

Colorado is interesting because Governor Hickenlooper sincerely sifted through the tangled web of politics to deliver good legislation in Colorado. He signed bills that most gun owners approve of, especially the background checks. He also signed more than these three bills, there was the bill that placed armed police at schools for the purpose of protecting the children.

I think the gun rights people are too extreme when they make their arguments. They don't consider the facts, especially in Colorado. There have been some seriously heinous deaths in Colorado by gun violence. 

Some races in 2014 are also to reach a new consensus for the GOP. I think Colorado's governor race is a good example of that. The challenger beat three rivals in the primary. There are less Tea Party candidates running this season. The GOP has a lot riding on these elections just in proving that Tea Party wins have hurt the party and it's brand. If the GOP loses the races where they took the majority in the primaries it will cause Republicans to wonder about their future and the organizations surrounding the GOP. The stalwarts of the party are invested in good outcomes.

March 20, 2013

By Lynn Bartels and Kurtis Lee

Gov. John Hickenlooper (click here) signed three gun bills into law Wednesday, eight months to the day after a gunman opened fire in an Aurora movie theater and four months after he said it was time for Colorado to have a discussion about gun control.

The bill-signing took place in his office at the state Capitol, 22 miles east of where frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody is buried, a tourist attraction in a state noted for its Wild West and independent background.

Later in the morning, as gun-rights advocates and victims' families looked on, Hickenlooper held a news conference in the west foyer to discuss measures he believed can save lives.

One bill limits ammunition magazines to 15 rounds, another requires universal background checks, and the third charges gun customers for the cost of the checks.

Colorado now joins New York as the first states to pass stricter gun laws after the December shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., ignited the national debate over guns.

"This is a fairly significant set of bills that we signed today," Hickenlooper said, adding that none of the measures take anyone's guns away....

This is from the WHO.

Community engagement (click here) is key to successfully controlling outbreaks. Good outbreak control relies on applying a package of interventions, namely case management, surveillance and contact tracing, a good laboratory service, safe burials and social mobilisation.

Early supportive care with rehydration, symptomatic treatment improves survival. There is as yet no licensed treatment proven to neutralise the virus but a range of blood, immunological and drug therapies are under development.

One thing I said early on was that the 'condition' of the patient was vital to fight this disease. I stated the reason so many succumb to this virus is due to the fact they have poor health to begin with. No one should be proud of the fact Americans may fair better than Africans, but, it is a reasonable belief about the outcomes regarding this virus. 

There have been people that have survived in Africa. The difference might be more socio-economic than disease related. There should be some kind of record reflecting the success of the survivors and why they edged out over the progress of the disease.

In patients with poor health on admission to any hospital anywhere may need more than simply fluids, they may need intravenous nutrition as well. The idea is to maintain and/or improve the wellness of the person while the disease progresses and ultimately end due to acquired immunity in the body's fight against the virus.

There can also be secondary bacterial and/or viral infections that occur when a human body depletes it's 'wellness reserves." That also has to be treated until the virus runs it's course. The survivors have a course that was successful, the question is what were the components to their survival.

Udall is having a credibility problem because of a drug arrest in the 1970s. There was marijuana and other drugs. The charges were reduced, but, that isn't really the problem. His record on drugs is hypocritical, especially for marijuana. 

He voted no to pass a bill (click here) that provides $429.1 million in funds for the District of Columbia and approves the District's $6.8 billion budget. Among other provisions, the bill prohibits the use of federal funds for needle exchange programs, prohibits implementing an approved ballot initiative to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana.

Udall is out of touch with the pulse of Colorado and the legalization of marijuana. The approach to drug addiction is more important than control of any illegal aspect.

Udall and other Democrats struggling in their approval rating as well as the electoral polls need to talk policy and the future. The Democrats need to make the point that policy is important. 

It is my opinion that when personal attacks are allowed to dominate the election it is dangerous to the electorate. Policy needs to dominate the discussion for elections and the moral content within that discussion. Personal attacks are important when it is deceptive regarding policy and misleading the public to the outcomes of their hopes for the country after the election.

Social issues need to be separated from policy. Social issues, as with the definition of marriage is primarily a state policy issue and not federal. Many social issues belong in state races, but, really do translate poorly on the federal level. The example of Same Sex Marriage requires an amendment to the Constitution because the federal level is completely dysfunctional due to a segment of the legislature that promotes 'personality' as important.

If Same Sex Marriage, which requires a federal bill to the states ratification, were important the federal election might look different.

I think the states seeing election polls results changing are the undecideds and independent voters weighing in. The candidates need to understand the issues most important to that segment of the electorate.

I had heard about this, but, didn't think it was working

September 25, 2014

By Amanda Albright

RALEIGH — Hundreds of North Carolinians (click here) – and one cat – have received incorrect voter registration information, according to the N.C. State Board of Elections.

The information – an “official application form” – was sent by Americans for Prosperity, a national conservative group with a state chapter based in Raleigh.

Since then, hundreds of people who received the forms have called and complained to the State Board of Elections, said Joshua Lawson, a public information officer for the board.

“It’s unclear where (Americans for Prosperity) got their list, but it’s caused a lot of confusion for people in the state,” Lawson said....

This is more than a mistake, it is negligence. American for Prosperity can pretend this wasn't intentional, but, it is fraudulent. I am trying to remember the part of any legal statute that would characterize this, but, this is not allowed to stand. When an organization, profit or non-profit, proves themselves in competent while accepting donations for it's work, they are in violation of the public trust.

So, let's say that Americans for Prosperity (Every time I hear that name I want to asks, "For whom's prosperity and where is the proof it is succeeding?") made many mistakes. That is just too bad. Mistakes when it comes to disorienting the public is election fraud, intentional or not. There are many people who have intended to so something good, but, failed and are serving time for it. Negligence of detail when the subject carries this much brevity isn't simply "Oops" and the case is closed. Not at all.

Now the issue is before the Election Board, well that takes money out of the peoples' tax dollars to investigate all this. There are deceptions that have real consequences to freedom and the democracy we build our faith in government. There are legal consequences to this and this ain't over.

I also heard the egregious laws passed by the NC Legislature were overturned at the 4th Circuit in Virginia. That is very good. BUT. It is interesting the ruling didn't take place in the State of NC Circuit Court, but, only when it reached the 4th Circuit. It is the way it is in NC. NC is corrupt to the depths of justice.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/25/4181779_voters-mailed-incorrect-information.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy