AND IN THE REAL WORLD – AT 10:05 A.M. ET:  While we're winding down an election campaign, our enemies are revving up their campaign against the West.  From Breitbart:   

Spanish intelligence has intercepted messages passed between jihadists online discussing the weaponisation of the deadly Ebola virus for use against the West, while a blackmailer in Prague has threatened to unleash the virus unless the Czech Republic pay him one million bitcoin, a volume of online currency worth over £200 million.

The national secretary of state for security in giving evidence to the Spanish Senate revealed online jihad propagandists had issued an edict to followers to kill Westerners by any means possible. Some of the methods suggested included “deadly chemical products from laboratories”, “poisonous injections” and “Ebola as a poisonous weapon”, reports theLocal.es.

Rumours of Ebola as a weapon have long circulated among the international intelligence community, as speculation arose over the potential successes of the former Soviet Union's extensive biological weapons programme in the last century. It is thought that at least one terrorist organisation, the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult has attempted to cultivate the Ebola for attacks. The cult killed thirteen on the Tokyo subway in 1995 with a release of potent nerve agent Sarin gas.

COMMENT:  I'd take this seriously.  People who will behead innocent journalists will do many other things.  There is no moral "off" switch.  Chemical weapons, when the right ingredients are available, are relatively easy to make.  It can sometimes be done in a bathtub.  Biological weapons are more difficult, but the knowledge is out there.

Remember that the basic knowledge about how to build an atomic bomb was actually known to physicists before World War II.  It took an engineering project to prove out the ideas and bring them to reality.  Fortunately, we got there before the Nazis did.

We have one of the weakest presidents in American history in the White House.  We have foreign-policy appointees who behave like children, referring to allied leaders in obscene terms. 

I hope we get a change of leadership...before it's too late.

October 31, 2014