INEPT BUFFOONS WHO CALLED THE WORLD ALARMIST

YEARS AGO THE "ALARMISTS" TOLD US TO PREPARE;
NOW OUR SOLUTION TO OUR SITUATION IS TO GROUND AIRPLANES
BECAUSE WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT!

This is Katrina all over again.  Ray Nagin lives!  Quick, circle the busses.  Shut down the escape routes so that people can't get in, or out.  Can't let escaping people go the wrong way on a freeway that is not being traveled now can we?  
I think of the government agents who were ignored  when they warned central HDQTRS that there was a danger that airplanes would be used to wreak havoc in our air. (Ooopss, those are alarmist conspiracy theories, right?)  Yep.  3,000 souls later the inept buffoons who should have taken the alarms seriously have to have some explanation.

So now that we have one misdiagnosed African dead and two of his nurses dying (maybe) we suddently realize that this is serious.  So, instead of analyzing the facts, studying the logic and the logistics, we find our elected buffoons running for the solution that is the easiest and the most visible, and the most stupid ... stop travel to and from West Africa.  Why?  Because in the United States, every problem can be solved by an easy mechanical fix.  Everything, from cancer to ebola.  From radiology to airplanes.  From the voting box to gerrymandering.  From religious persecutions to vicious and cruel dictatorships we propose the military solution.  Oh, yeah. Bomb 'em back to the middle ages.  It's simple.  Just ask Senator John McCain.

We don't need alarmists who tell us that the planet is going to burn up.  It'll never get to that point.  It's pure hogwash.  
So to keep the alarmists happy. We devise cap and trade.  That wonderful bait and switch policy that says that I'll buy your share of the clean air left over from your production by-product that goes into the atmosphere  so that I can keep pouring the same amount of my garbage dross into the atmosphere.  That'll fix it.  The sea level will never rise if we do this right.  (e.g. I pay you enough.)

Oh, we gotta get back to the airplane story.  

The brilliant dropout from the Rhodes scholar program, you know the one, the illustrious ex-candidate for president from Texas.  You know, the one who got to keep his job as governor of that illustrious state?  He's all in favor of grounding the airplanes.  What is he going to do when the ship carrying a potential ebola patient wants to drop anchor in Galveston?  That's gonna be a good one.  You going to put wings on that one so he can't unload on your soil?  Mexico turned him away.  Show some testosterone Rick.  Live up to your convictions.  Be tough.  Contribute to the solution of the problem with the tactic that you propose.  Oh, I nearly forgot, this is not an African, Rick, this is a real, warm blooded Texan.  I know.  Send them to the CDC in Atlanta. Do they have a deep water port there?
Naw, never mind, Rick, I know that as a true politician you're going to remind me that ships don't fly.  

Yes, my fellow citizens, we have some cultural traits that should prove to us that our exceptional arrogance about our summa cum laude exceptionalism is buffoonery at its best.

Me, the Crusty Kurmujjin

PS:  Anonymous, thanks for giving me the inspiration for this response to your comment.

TOTAL TRAVEL BAN ENACTED -- WESTERN AFRICAN PEOPLE FORBIDDEN FROM FLYING TO UNITED STATES

The leaders of Siera Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Senegal have instituted a complete and total shutdown of travel from their country to the United States.  
The ban was enacted because it was deemed too dangerous for the people of the region to take the chance of being exposed to ebola while in the United States.  The frightened Western Africans were driven to their decree by the extraordinary and exceptionally high percentage of transferal of the disease in the continental United States.
It is exceptionally remarkable that in the United States total ineptitude is rampant in the presence of the disease.  The statistics of death and contagion are exceedingly frightening in the light of recent events. One Western African ebola patient was initialy misdiagnosed when he first presented himself to the professional medical practitioners at a hospital emergency room intake area in the great state of Texas.  When he returned two days later, his condition had deteriorated so badly that it was but a matter of time before he succumbed to the onslaught of the merciless virus.
In the process of treating the poor victim, two of the nurses who worked to try to save him were infected in the process and are now fighting for their own lives.

The Western African nations in question where thousands of ebola patients are presently awaiting the quasi inevitable outcome of their condition despite the best efforts of their care givers are not only afraid to come to the United States but are being forbidden to do so because of the patent ineptitude of the medical community of the country.  There is a fear that the ratio of death and contamination displayed by the health care profession of the United States would contribute to the decimation of the Western African population.  The U.S. citizens already in Western Africa are being held there by the ban in a humanitarian effort to protect them from the dangers that they face at home.

This is a first rate case of American Exceptionalism on display.