Now It All Makes Sense...

Here is a connection I bet you didn't know about...the head of the hapless CDC...he's the infamous (at least here in NYC) bureaucratic point-man behind Nanny Bloomberg's soda ban.  Yes, Thomas Frieden was former NYC Commissioner of Health...

One name that hasn’t surfaced yet in respect of the floundering by the federal government in the face of Ebola is Michael Bloomberg . Yet it was the former mayor of New York City who gave the nation Thomas Frieden , who is one dangerous doctor and is the middle of the catastrophe. Mr. Bloomberg made him New York City’s [commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene], which is a post that tries to re-educate New Yorkers so that they will accept passively living like socialists.

Now Dr. Frieden directs the Centers for Disease Control, where he wants to do the same thing. . . .

[T]he CDC budget has soared more than 200% since 2000 to $7 billion. The Centers, moreover, are squandering this lucre (which was seized from the American public using the taxes) on regulating motorcycle helmets, video games, and playground equipment, as if any of that has anything to do with diseases. No wonder that when Ebola hits, the CDC seems to be staggering.

Thanks to the NY Sun for unearthing this connection and the WSJ for highlighting it.  Also, kudos to the WSJ for their editorial yesterday that was both on point and hilarious...

On Wednesday the World Health Organization warned of the threat of a global plague, which can cause “vomiting, marked hypocalcemia, metabolic acidosis, convulsions and, in rare cases, even death.” Ebola? No, the WHO culprit is the overconsumption of energy drinks.