Just to show how absolutely stupid Phyllis Schlafly is...

[Archae]

A timely bit of radio commentary from Phyllis Schlafly: "Of all the examples of incompetence and failure to protect Americans that the Obama Administration has displayed, its failure to keep Ebola out of our country may be the worst."

http://blog.eagleforum.org/2014/12/obama-fails-to-protect-us.html

[Shrike47]

1. It's just terrible the way Americans are dropping like flies from Ebola.

God, she's stupid.

[kwassa]

2. I saw her at an ERA debate in the early 70s.

I thought she was old then. She must be 200 by now.

[Kalidurga]

3. Just for the record

Liberians love us. Probably not all of them. Don't ask me why they do either a Liberian lady in her blog tried to explain and I still didn't get it. Any who love us or hate us shouldn't be the criteria of whether or not we help someone, maybe it's a factor if we have two entities and we can only help one sure help your ally first.

I think after seeing what happened with Ebola patients in this country that our assumptions about Ebola were wrong at least mine were. This is what I got from the media a couple decades or more ago when I first heard about it:

1. If you get Ebola you will die and you will be bleeding from all your orifices.

2. It's extremely easy to catch you just have to be next to someone that has it.

3. While you die quickly it's the most painful way to die.

4. AHHHHHHHHHHH we are all going to get it.

This is what I think now

1. If you get the Ebola virus and get treated at the first onset of symptoms you are more than likely to recover, I think the cure rate in the US for patients that fit this criteria is 100% and a few that waited maybe a day or two longer than first onset of symptoms were cured.

2. If you get the Ebola virus or you have been where the virus is active there is a 100% chance a whole lot of people are going to over react, panic, and put you under tent arrest.

3. Even if you catch the disease quickly it's still a very horrible thing to get and the treatment is a hard thing to go through.

4. It is not hard for medical professionals or caregivers to get, but for all other people not in the general area of the patient, it is.

5. In the United States you have a better chance to win the Power Ball than contract Ebola because a couple hospitals accept Ebola patients to treat them.

[okaawhatever]

4. Here is why Liberians generally love America and Americans:

Liberia is born
In the early 1800s, as the United States debated the status and rights of its Black population, the government made its first stand with regard to Liberia (known at the time as the Grain Coast): Congress would help provide funding to send freeborn Blacks and emancipated slaves there to establish a colony.

SNIP

And so in 1822 the first Black, American settlers crossed the ocean and arrived on the Grain Coast, their voyage the first thread of a complex web that would link Liberia to America over many decades. The settlement was named Monrovia, after U.S. president James Monroe, and the colony became Liberia. Over the next 40 years, 19,000 African Americans, Africans recaptured from slave ships, and a small number of West Indians, would settle in Liberia.

SNIP

In 1847, Liberia became a republic, with a constitution and flag modeled after America's. The relationship of the U.S. to Liberia changed from one of control to one of assistance. Settler values, however, still dominated, especially as settlers benefited from an educational advantage, often having attended missionary schools in Liberia or gone to school in America. The first president, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, and his Cabinet were all American, born and educated in the U.S.

American, but Black. And this was an important fact. In 40 years, Liberia had gone from being a white-run colony of America to a Black-run republic, with formal diplomatic relations with the United States. Despite this transformation, however, Liberia still relied on, and expected, financial assistance from the U.S.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/liberia/essays/uspolicy/

[Kalidurga]

5. Sort of like Japan

Except Japan never relied on the US much for the education of it's leaders. But, they seem to like us for our efforts at rebuilding their country. I think it is good we have allies. I think it would be better if we did more to earn their respect. Like if we lived up to our hype that would be a start.

Sorry, still reeling from the disillusionment of finding out our police force is more about force than upholding the law or law enforcement.