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erudne
He was just showing the king his neck in case the Arabs/muslims ever rise to power in the U. S.
It would save them the effort of measuring for the proper length knife . .

Sheldon
 
Remember he is the CIVILIAN LEADER, he is not, nor has ever been military. Even if you were to take his position as the CiC into account, he's not in uniform.

According to VMI here are their saluting rules which mirror the military rules:

  1. Engaged in work if the salute would interfere.
  2. Indoors, except when reporting to a senior or when on duty as a sentinel or guard.
  3. Carrying articles with both hands or being so occupied as to make saluting impractical. Carrying a coffee cup or soda can in one hand does not qualify. An armload of books, however, does. At VMI, it is customary to halt, come to attention, and offer a verbal greeting if a hand salute cannot be executed.
  4. When saluting is obviously inappropriate.

http://www.vmi.edu/Content.aspx?id=36657

What's ham-handed about this, is he returned the salute badly. This is one of the world's biggest nontroversies, If you want to get bent about other gaffes he's made there's always bowing to the saudi king... And this is to make no mention of joe biden.

About the tradition, Ronald Reagan said, "I never ceased to enjoy reviewing our men and women in uniform and hope I started a new tradition for presidents. As Commander In Chief, I discovered it was customary for our uniformed men and women to salute whenever they saw me. When I'd walk down the steps of a helicopter, for example, there was always a Marine waiting there to salute me."

Reagan%20Salutes.jpg "I was told presidents weren't supposed to return salutes, so I didn't, but this made me feel a little uncomfortable. Normally, a person offering a salute waits until it is returned, then brings down his hand. Sometimes, I realized, the soldier, sailor, Marine, or airman giving me a salute wasn't sure when he was supposed to lower his hand. Initially, I nodded and smiled and said hello and thought maybe that would bring down the hand, but usually it didn't. Finally, one night when Nancy and I were attending a concert at the Marine Corps Headquarters, I told the Commandant of Marines, "I know it's customary for the President to receive these salutes, but I was once an officer and realize that you're not supposed to salute when you're in civilian clothes. I think there ought to be a regulation that the president could return a salute inasmuch as he is commander in chief and civilian clothes are his uniform." "Well, if you did return a salute," the general said, "I don't think anyone would say anything to you about it."

"The next time I got a salute, I saluted back. A big grin came over the Marine's face and down came his hand. From then on, I always returned salutes. When George Bush followed me into the White House, I encouraged him to keep up the tradition."

- See more at: http://www.texasgopvote.com/militar...itary-hand-salute-002816#sthash.Xw2lUPZv.dpuf
 
I am sure that except for the morons that voted for Obama twice,, Every one else realizes there is nothing but lies spew from Obamas mouth . He is the breath of the beast.
 
I'm sure that he is speaking the truth this time!
"Ebola risk low in the U.S."
That's right the risk is low and that troubles Fearless Leader! Since the thread started he's had to import some!
 
I think I mentioned this elsewhere, but I once had a patient who was a local news director. When one of the bird flu scares was going around (I think anthrax scare as well), he demanded I prescribe a year's worth of Tamiflu and cipro for him. I thought it quite irresponsible that we allow people to stock pile huge amounts of meds that we have no idea would work for a then fictitious virus (it might mutate!).

When I said no, he said that he hoped that me and my family would die waiting in a FEMA line for cipro.

That's the kind of person that brings you the news. Holy crap they should have background checks for news directors

So far its been like 13 years and still having been killed by the crazy bird flu he said was coming. Survived bird flu, bird flu 2, SARS, pig flu, bird flu 3... Perhaps ebola will get me! Better than pooping on myself in some nursing home.

Be patient.
The chances of your wish coming true are increasing by the day.
Of course you will still die pooping on yourself but it won't be in a nursing home, probably your own homeo_O

This is from yesterday and is already totally outdated:
There could be as many as two dozen people in the U.S. infected with Ebola by the end of the month, according to researchers tracking the virus with a computer model.
The actual number will probably be far smaller and limited to a couple of airline passengers who enter the country already infected without showing symptoms, and the health workers who care for them, said Alessandro Vespignani, a Northeastern University professor who runs computer simulations of infectious disease outbreaks. The two newly infected nurses in Dallas don't change the numbers because they were identified quickly and it's unlikely they infected other people, he said.
The projections only run through October because it's too difficult to model what will occur if the pace of the outbreak changes in West Africa, where more than 8,900 people have been infected and 4,400 have died, he said. If the outbreak isn't contained, the numbers could rise significantly.
"If by the end of the year the growth rate hasn't changed, then the game will be different," Vespignani said. "It will increase for many other countries."

"If by the end of the year the growth rate hasn't changed, then the game will be different," Vespignani said. "It will increase for many other countries."
Staying Rational
The model analyzes disease activity, flight patterns and other factors that can contribute to its spread.
"We have a worst-case scenario, and you don't even want to know," Vespignani said. "We could have widespread epidemics in other countries, maybe the Far East. That would be like a bad science fiction movie."
The worst case would occur if Ebola acquires pandemic status and is no longer contained in West Africa, he said. It would be a catastrophic event, one Vespignani says he is confident won't happen.
"Let's be rational for the next couple of months," he said. "We aren't going to have an invasion of cases. After November, we need to reassess the situation and see what is the progress of containment in West Africa."
It's reasonable to expect one or two more imported cases in the next couple of months, plus related infections in health care workers, he said.
It's unlikely that Ebola will ever exceed 20 cases in the U.S. or Europe because of their extensive health care infrastructures, said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, a non-profit think tank in Washington, D.C. The problem in the developed world will center more on the economic impact, he said.
Two Nurses
"The damage is not as much in the number of deaths as much as in the panic it creates and all the disruption it creates in trade and travel," he said. "It's important for public health officials to strike a balance between being serious and certainly not creating panic."
"It's not going to be like the movie 'Contagion,'" he said.
The infection of two nurses who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., has some worried that the virus may be mutating and becoming more infectious. When trying to extrapolate those cases, people should remember five other Americans were flown to the U.S. for care, said Eli Perencevich, professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. None of them transmitted the virus.
Average Americans shouldn't see any risk from the virus outside of the medical community because patients aren't terribly infectious until the disease peaks, Perencevich said. In industrialized areas like the U.S., those people will be in the hospital, he said. Health care workers, though, are uniquely vulnerable.
Hospital Fears
"There's a high probability that there will be another person who comes in, no matter what we do, but the risk is in the hospital," he said in a telephone interview. "As long as people who know they have been exposed to the virus get themselves quickly to the hospital, even after they have started a fever, it should be OK because they aren't that infectious."
Getting to the hospital could be difficult for some people, said Maria Cristina Garcia, a professor of history at Cornell University, who has written extensively about refugees and immigrants. While any international traveler could import Ebola, Garcia worries that the outbreak may give Americans another reason to fear or lash out against immigrants.
"An immigrant, like any other person in the U.S., is concerned about cost and confidentiality," she said. "If he cannot afford a hospital stay, he might avoid seeking treatment until it's too late. He might also fear coming forward for fear of stigma. Those of us who lived through the 1980s remember how Americans responded to the AIDS crisis during the early years."
It's possible that a handful of infected travelers could spread the virus to new areas, especially given its long latency period, said Jeffrey Shaman, who is modeling the outbreak at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The models that show a possible range of cases in various countries are a good place to start, although there are so many variables that to some extent they are flying blind, Shaman said.
"Human folly and human nature plays into this," he said in a telephone interview. "All these chains of human error can lead to these things emerging in little clusters. The real question is can we contain it."
Rapid Detection
For that to happen, people have to limit close contact with anyone who might have an infection and quarantine those who have been exposed, said Wayne Getz, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies environmental science and is modeling how the Ebola outbreak can be contained.
The U.S. has the health-care infrastructure to prevent an epidemic, as long as the disease is detected early.
"It's very important to rapidly detect and isolate cases," Getz said. "If this isn't done properly, we have a big problem in the United States. If it is done properly, we can control the spread."
The real risk is that Ebola continues to gather steam in Africa and expands globally, said Irene Eckstrand, director of the NIH Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study. A consortium of about 100 scientists, based at the National Institutes of Health, mobilized in July to model the virus' spread.
"At the moment Ebola is spreading exponentially," Eckstrand said. "There's no convincing evidence that it's beginning to slow down. It can get out of hand very fast."

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