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Speakers’ Corner at London’s Hyde Park has been Logorrhoea Central since 1872. Tonight, we look at a sampling of the perspectives aired out on one particular day in 1986.
As the old saying goes, opinions are like apples: everybody has one. Or something like that.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

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  2. Re: The speakers corner.
    I’ve never been to London, however I did attend a similar gathering at ”La place du Tertre” in Paris and in that era. Amazing what some of those bozos can come up with. It would be a good place for someone to set up shop and study the genetics of schizophrenia!!
    In rural Sasktchewan, we throw tomatoes at them!

  10. Rev…my deepest sympathy. Such a shock. Lucky Lori always presented great comments. Sometimes it feels like family around here.
    What a comfort that she knew Jesus as Saviour.

  11. “Americans have learned quickly where the blame belongs. In 2010, CDC had finalized its quarantine regulations designed to protect Americans from epidemics, including Ebola. The project was conceived in 2006, in the Bush administration. USA Today reported that President Obama had scrapped the proposed regulations. The airlines and the ACLU had opposed them, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services withdrew the plans.”
    http://www.allvoices.com/article/100001538

  17. EBOLA OUTBREAK? Stock Market Plummets
    A second health care worker who treated Mr. Duncan has now come down with Ebola. This has so concerned the President that he has cancelled a fund raiser and a golf game and will hold a cabinet meeting concerning public health.
    Meanwhile, confidence in the competence of the government, which has repeatedly assured us that all the necessary protocols for preventing an Ebola outbreak in the United States are already in place, has collapsed and the stock market reflects that.
    http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/ebola-and-the-competence-crisis/
    OK, now we know he’s serious, he cancelled one golf game.

  18. A small mountain of Vancouver garbage rotting on the Manila waterfront has morphed into a diplomatic row as Philippine authorities demand Canada repatriate its “junk.”
    The saga began last February when the Philippine Bureau of Customs inspected a batch of 50 Canadian shipping containers declared to contain “scrap plastic materials for recycling,” and instead found them packed with household garbage, soggy paper and even used adult diapers.
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/15/mountain-of-vancouver-garbage-that-ended-up-in-manila-has-philippines-demanding-canada-repatriate-its-junk/

  20. O’bola.
    “He will be remembered as President Ebola, the man who willingly imported a plague into the United States.”
    …-
    “‘Ebola Cancels Another Trip to Deal with #Ebola’”
    “Carter came to be defined by Iran. The public concluded that he was simply not up to the task. They could forgive a lot, but the cumulative effect of his failures eventually collapsed his presidency. Bush the Smaller was undone by Katrina. It was not fair and most people were sane enough to get that, but it still came to symbolize the problems of his presidency.
    Obama, on the other hand, has made his own mess. He will be remembered as President Ebola, the man who willingly imported a plague into the United States.
    —“President Ebola,” the Z Blog, in a post timestamped 2:24 PM today.”
    http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/10/15/president-ebola/

  22. “‘Who’s the idiot with the clipboard?’
    Disbelief and panic as mystery man WITHOUT a hazmat suit helps second Ebola nurse board her plane to Atlanta, disposes waste and then climbs aboard
    Man casually dressed in shirt and pants seen on TV walking with Ebola patient Amber Vinson
    He carried a clipboard and walked alongside Ms Vinson and healthcare workers who were ALL dressed in hazmat suits
    The man is said to likely be a CDC employee
    Miss Vinson walked onto the plane in Dallas and the man without protection also boarded the plane, flying with her to Atlanta, Georgia
    Social media has dubbed him the ‘clipboard man’ – expressing shock that he came so close to an infected patient and unprotected
    As of Thursday morning, he remained unidentified. The ambulance service and Emory University Hospital said he was not with them”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2794854/what-thinking-mystery-man-without-hazmat-suit-seen-helping-2nd-ebola-nurse-board-plane-atlanta-joining-them.html

  23. President Ebola.
    “He said he had personally hugged and shaken hands with nurses who cared for Ebola patients, insisting that the risk is minimal”
    …-
    “Obama promises Ebola SWAT team in ‘much more aggressive’ response to deadly outbreak, admitting the CDC hasn’t done all it could to stop the spread in US
    President promises Ebola ‘rapid response SWAT team’ from the CDC to ‘go in as soon as a new case is diagnosed’
    ‘Much more aggressive’ promise is similar to CDC chief Tom Frieden’s pledge on Monday to ‘double down’ – insisting his agency wasn’t already pulling out all the stops
    Obama was slated to travel to NJ and CT for Democratic Party events but canceled them for an all-hands-on-deck cabinet meeting
    He said he had personally hugged and shaken hands with nurses who cared for Ebola patients, insisting that the risk is minimal”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2794375/obama-cancels-political-fundraising-trips-emergency-ebola-meeting-white-house-panic-grows-second-home-grown-case.html

  24. I think Obama should travel to west Africa to bolster the sentiments of the risk being minimal, to all those front line volunteers helping to clean up the mess there. What a great photo op – he can show the world the leadership that got him the Nobel prize. Better yet, send them all, Obama, Biden, Clinton, Jarrett, Holder… Would make a great class of 2014 photo…
    Do I really need to add /sarc?

  25. If O’bola has hugged any infected people I certainly hope he is the next one infected. It would be a kick in the ass to the US government to take this whole thing seriously if their god were to succumb to the disease.

  26. “He said he had personally hugged and shaken hands with nurses who cared for Ebola patients”
    I cry bullcrap. POIDH. Where? When? Did someone fly a charter plane to pick the nurses up and transport them just to hug the President?
    If I thought he really had hugged a potentially inflected person, I would be having the same kind of evil thoughts that I had when Jesse Jackson was helping with Duncan’s family’s race hustle.
    Remember the reaction of US politicians when a few envelopes containing unknown powder were mailed to them during the Anthrax scare a few years back? Deadly diseases, like onerous taxes and regulations, are just for the little people.

  28. “He said he had personally hugged and shaken hands with nurses who cared for Ebola patients”
    bullshit-
    –
    What is frightening to me about this disease is that these people getting sick and dying are in good health before the infection,
    what about we poor bastards that are already in bad health?
    I take heart med and blood thinners and when it hits one of us we will turn into – The Walking Dead..
    –
    The Son of a Bitch is gonna get us all killed..

  29. Addendum:
    Is the political class maintaining an emergency supply of the experimental Ebola treatment drug for its own use?
    Did the Ebola nurses at Obama’s hug summit treat patients in Africa or America? Why did the Secret Service let him risk his life in such an unnecessary way? The CDC is supposedly tracking all the nurses and other healthcare workers who had contact with Duncan. If they are dangerous, why would they track them? If they are dangerous, why would they let the President hug them? If the nurses were from Africa, how did the hugging not become international news?
    Gee, I wonder why Obama won’t hold a press conference allowing questions to be asked.

  31. Used to get loonies in a downtown Vancouver store I worked in back in the day. Most staff froze like rabbits, but I always ran straight up to them and growled “get the F*CK out of here before I call 911.” It worked, too.
    As Bill Maher said when “Truthers” disrupted his show, “a$$-kicking is what’s called for here!” I don’t agree with him on much, but that was a great moment.

  32. AGW’s Green-Red Fraud Shew.
    …-
    “Plans for 1,000 miles of subsea power lines to cut British energy bills
    Energy regulator says seven new electricity cables connecting Great Britain to France, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Ireland could be built by 2020”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11167804/Plans-for-1000-miles-of-subsea-power-lines-to-cut-British-energy-bills.html
    …-
    “Costly, ineffective and ugly: It is time to confront wind power
    ENERGY sources should be cheap and reliable but wind power is
    neither.”
    “… because they do not work when there is too much or too little wind they cannot be considered reliable.
    The experts say this unreliability has left us at risk of power cuts.”
    http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/522937/Daily-Express-wind-power-tax-cutting-Tories-English-devolution

  34. AGW Snowaloha Update.
    Snow is not deadly; as long as it’s done right.
    …-
    “Early snowfall on the big Island of Hawaii seen on satellite”
    “Here is something you don’t see every day, a satellite image showing a sizable amount of snow cover on the big island of Hawaii.
    While snowfall on the big island is nothing new, commonly seen on the mountains on Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, (top and bottom arrows respectively in the photo) seeing snow this early in the season on the mounatins is somewhat rare.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/16/early-snowfall-on-the-big-island-of-hawaii-seen-on-satellite/

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