This And That *Open Thread*

Ebola, ISIS, upcoming elections, all of these and more, are in the news pretty much non-stop this week. It is certainly understandable given the concerns they all raise.

Let’s take Ebola, for instance. We now have people with Ebola spread across the country, from the DC area to Nebraska. Awesome. But what does Obama have to say about all of this? Oh, you’re gonna love it. From Pat Dollard (h/t Facebook friend):

“But let’s keep in mind that as we speak, there are children on the streets dying of this disease, thousands of them. And so obviously my first job is to make sure that we’re taking care of the American people, but we have a larger role than that. We also have an obligation to make sure that those (African) children and their families are safe as well because ultimately the best thing we can do for our public health is also to extend the kind of empathy, compassion and effort so that folks in those countries as well can be rid of this disease.” – Barack Obama (To read the rest and see the video, click HERE.)

And Obama is president of WHICH country, exactly??? Yeah, never mind the security and safety of American citizens. We need to make sure that these African nations are not isolated, or have their economies threatened. You know, because that is the focus. So, no travel ban from these Ebola stricken countries. Nope.

Meanwhile, ISIS continues to take over, raising their flag over more areas, just today over Kobani. And Lt. Col. Peters had something to say about our efforts there on Megyn Kelly’s show Fox:

KELLY: Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters is our FOX News strategic analyst and Ralph, we saw it happen in Fallujah. We saw it happen in Mosul. We saw it happen in Ramadi. And now we see the Islamic flag over the town of Kobani. Which they say is a strategic and important location for these fighters. Tell us why.

LT. COL. RALPH PETERS, FOX NEWS STRATEGIC ANALYST: Well, it’s important symbolically and practically. It extends the caliphate. And the Islamic State caliphate, Megyn, is real and it’s now no matter what the President says. And extends right up the border of Turkey, secure of vast threats at Northeastern Syria. It’s symbolic, it’s important because the Kurds, it’s an important Kurdish State and the Kurds have been fighting hard to hold onto it. And it really is a battle for a Syrian Kurdistan. So, symbolically practically is very important. Senator McCain is right. There will be a massacre. They’re still fighting the streets. The Kurds haven’t given up. They’re fighting house-to-house and block-to-block. But our president who launched this phony air campaign, this air campaign basically to a absolve him of any blame to get him through, his party through the November elections.

This air campaign has been paltry from the start. He warned them we were coming. He hit empty buildings in the dead of night. Empty camps. We’re sending in jet fighters with small — low yield precision immunizations, basically guided hand grenades to blow up individual pickup trucks to kill three terrorists here. Four there. Outside Kobani where the terrorists from the Islamic State were out in the open in mass with their vehicles, their persons, it was the perfect target for serious air power. B-52s doing area saturation bombing. But this president will not do it. He doesn’t want casualties, not only civilian casualties, he doesn’t even want a lot of dead terrorists. This is all a fraud and those people in Kobani among so many others are going to pay a tragic price for our President’s outright cowardice. […] (Click here to read the rest.)

“Cowardice.” That is a strong word, but it seems to be the case, does it not? ISIS is on the move, and we are not doing a whole helluva lot about it, apparently.

But, hey – Obama has been busy on the golf course (again), as well as PSAs, so how we can we expect him to actually focus on issues like Ebola and ISIS?? Now, the PSA was important and all – it was about stopping sexual assault. But what might surprise you is the response his appearance made at a Michigan State football game. Check out the Tweets in this Gateway Pundit piece, “Woah. Obama BOOED LOUDLY at Michigan State Football Game – Led By Student Section.” A friend who attended Michigan State mentioned this at Facebook, and was mighty proud of his alma mater. So, yeah – maybe there is hope yet?

And finally, I have to share a photo I saw on Facebook just because it absolutely cracked me up. I figure we can all use a good laugh today, am I right? From doodlekisses.com:

How funny is that?? Oh, my – too cute.

Okay – feel free to talk about any or all of the above, or whatever else is coming down the pike today.