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Oct 20, 2014 08:42:24   #
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
The government watchdog group Judicial Watch alleged Friday the Obama administration is formulating plans to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States for treatment.

The group, which cited unidentified sources, said the administration would aim to bring Ebola patients into the United States for treatment within the first days of diagnosis, and that it’s not clear who’d pay either for the t***sportation or treatment, although it is expected that taxpayers would fund the bill.

The group alleged the plan for treatment includes special waivers of laws and regulations that ban the admission of non-citizens with a communicable disease; Judicial Watch cited its source saying the administration has not told Congress about the plan, and that it would be implemented via "executive order" without congressional approval.

“The source is concerned that the proposal is illegal; endangers the public health and welfare; and should require the approval of Congress,” Judicial Watch stated.

President Barack Obama has repeatedly made it clear he opposes any travel bans or restrictions to stop Ebola spreading from West Africa into the United States, noting Thursday “history shows that there is a likelihood of increased avoidance (that could lead to) more cases rather than less,” Fox News reports.

“The problem is that — in all the discussions that I’ve had thus far with experts in the field, experts in infectious disease … a travel ban is less effective than the measures that we are currently instituting,” Obama said. He did not state any specifics or name any experts supporting his view.

The government watchdog group Judicial Watch alleg... (show quote)

Does nobody else see the problem with what could charitably called "doublethink" in the article above. An anonymous source is taken as gospel, while the President's use of uncited sources is evidence of his lying nature. Come to think of it, it isn't "doublethink", since this gives a bad name to "think".
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Oct 14, 2014 18:18:02   #
pounder35 wrote:
One more screw up with this administration. :twisted:



So, the Republican right stonewalls the President's nominee for Surgeon General on ideological grounds having nothing to do with the job of Surgeon General, and it is the President's fault? Interesting...but stooopid.
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Sep 25, 2014 11:44:20   #
is always the camera you have. When I saw this scene my first thought was that I was going to miss it because I didn't have my D7100 with me; then I realized that I had a cell phone, and grabbed this shot. Technically, not perfect (or even very good), but still, IMHO, a great shot, and I'm happy.


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Sep 11, 2014 11:22:45   #
boberic wrote:
I am also a watch lover. I have Breitling, Corum, Tag Heuer, Jaques Lemans. a couple of Invictas (my every day watches), Omega, and Movado. I want a Breguet Tourbillion, but I don't have a spare 300 grand lying about. A Patek Phillipe minute repeater wouldn't be bad either. I think thats called WAS (watch aquisition syndrome) When we were burglarized my wife lost a lot of her mothers jewelery and I lost a few watches. It still bothers us when we remember.
The Breguet Tourbillion is magnificent, but I would settle for anything from Breguet, I just need a lot more money and permission from my wife (perhaps another grandchild).
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Sep 11, 2014 11:14:38   #
Well, there's 5 minutes and 55 seconds of my life wasted, and unrecoverable. The only important number in that entire waste is the number of times Braden claims to be a scientist, exceeded only by the number of times he makes the same claim on his web site, which seems to be the only site that takes this charlatan seriously.
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Sep 4, 2014 14:47:15   #
New York Steve wrote:
The IWC Portugeuse is a nice one!

A few years ago they came out with the Portuguese Yacht Club. I tried one on, and the skies parted and the angels sang.

It's an amazing piece but, fiscally, not for the feint of heart...


About 15 years ago I saw an IWC Portugeuser on a billboard in Austria, and fell in love. I finally got my grail watch last year by convincing my wife that it was just the perfect classic to be handed down to our new, first, grandchild since all of my other watches have been promised to my son.
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Sep 4, 2014 10:08:26   #
Yeah, I have been fascinated by watches since high school, when I actually took a course in watch repair (after that I never had the nerve to do a repair). I currently rotate through a 1890 American Waltham gold pocket watch, a Xenith Chronomaster T in rose gold, an IWC Portugeuser chronograph, and an IWC Mk XVI Spitfire, and for fun, a Tommy Bahama Relax. I have several other watches dating from the 1930's-1950's, most of which run, but I don't wear them. I just started to work on my macrophotography skills in order to get good captures of the entire collection.
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Jul 6, 2014 09:55:31   #
nimbushopper wrote:
Welcome aboard from another retired NY'er. Where in NY are you from?
I'm "from" Philadelphia, but have been a Long Islander for the past 40 years. But I'm still an Eagles fan.
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Jul 5, 2014 18:34:03   #
TrainNut wrote:
He owes it to the country to let us know. Every other president has.


This keeps being said in this thread, and it is false. Past Presidents have not given permission to have their college transcripts released, and it would be illegal for anyone affiliated with their colleges to release any information about any student without that student's permission. Before you site George Bush's release of his transcripts, they were not released, but someone illegally leaked them.
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Jul 5, 2014 12:34:28   #
I am 5 days into retirement, and am planning on resuming my deep interest in photography. I worked my way through graduate school as a photographer, but became discouraged when a burglar stole all of my equipment. For the past 40 years I have been a snapshooter, but in the last few years I resumed my landscape and nature photography interest, and will focus on that in the future, I'm looking forward to being critiqued here, and maybe lending some insight of my own. I'm attaching one of my favorite captures.


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