When Bernie Sanders was asked if ISIS was now the biggest threat...
To quote Ron White, you can't fix stupid.
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The Islamists are fossils from the 7th century. Human industrial activity digs, pumps or otherwise disturbs various fossil layers of the Earth. When the Islamic layer is disturbed, it ejects a stream of morons with terrorists interspersed in it. Thus, human industrial activity releases fossilized terrorists.
My mind conjured up a vision of petro-dollars flowing into the Middle East and a "a stream of morons with terrorists interspersed in it" flowing out! TRUE TRUE TRUE!!
strugatsky, you hit that nail squarely on the head!
Hell, I can't stop laughing! +100 if I could!
I often use an old Red Skelton comment: "There is a limit to intelligence, but no limit to stupidity."
difference between stupidity and genius is that
genius has limits" -
Jan
Lucky has a good point about the climate change scam. :) When 90% of the CO2 (still not a poison) emitted, is generated from natural sources that would not stop even if all the living creatures on earth were dead, it is hard for me to understand how anyone could believe in the hoax. Even if we quit burning all fossil fuel and went back to horse & buggy we would not have an impact on the climate. There would be more horses, (methane gas) and all heat would have to come from wood so we would still be pumping CO2.
Bernie should be backing them!
possibly even Sanders but for the wrong reason.
1. Ranking is of no use in decision making, except possibly for presenting a recommendation to politicians.
2. While the idea of human caused climate change via CO2 is a scam, there is evidence that the earth is cooling, this would be a disaster for food crop production. Consider the great grain growing areas of the central US and Ukraine. With warmer weather crop growing can move north, but with colder weather the Gulf of Mexico and the Black Sea are barriers to a move south. Disaster can be averted by more energy production such as nuclear, and halting facile CO2 restrictions, greater use of coal will produce more plant food.
I agree with your comments on CO2. A while back - circa 1970s - it was "the coming ice age". Then it became global warming. Since the "experts" can't seem to decide whether the long term trend is warming or cooling, it has become climate change. Probably a more accurate term, as this earth's climate has been changing since before the point in time that man inhabited it. What will we do - cower and rely on our benevolent government to keep us safe? Hardly. We will do what we've always done - adapt our living to areas more friendly to comfortable life, crop growth, etc.
Back to the original line of thought. ISIS is here and now. Not recognizing it as an imperative that must be dealt with NOW would be a grave mistake, and would only lead to more tragedies like the one just experienced by France.
"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to the data series...from 1981 onwards, and to 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline." That sentence told me everything I needed to know about global warming.
Sure, it's gona get colder and our wandering poles, solar minimum; ever decreasing magnetic shielding and shrinking ozone layer will make us more and more vulnerable to relatively weak electromagnetic events.
BUT:
I prefer to be without internet, phone and electrical power to that of being blown up or beheaded whether it be isis or some other group that liberal progressive government has pissed off!
What say you?
The price of $850 pesos is about $60 US Dollars. The style is antique but they are new.
This model was the alternative (at more than twice the price): http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/M...
2+2=4+x=9, where x equals 2.
It seems to me that he mistakenly accepted the premise of the question that threats can be put on a clear scale of importance.
Really? After the events in Paris, it's hard to disagree that ISIS is THE clear and present danger today. Methinks Bernie forgot to take his meds.
If we have to rank them, I rank climate change as a greater threat than ISIS. (I do not understand Sanders claim that they're related. They seem like separate problems to me.) I rank ISIS low because I don't think they can do much. I can't imagine them being as deadly as automobiles are, but they're evil is so ghastly. All they can do is try to goad people into over-reacting with their horrific crimes.
I think they're a bunch of lowlifes clinging to power by blaming their problems on the civilized world. They want to pretend like they're at "war" with the civilized world, which is laughable, but some people are happy to go along with that narrative.
The recent coordinated mass murders in Paris were not caused by a Pam Geller video. Those affected by the savagery don't agree that ISIS "can't do much", but watch our for those fascist cars operating with AI to take over over the world. Destroying the fascists (including ISIS) is not "over reacting". The savages at war with the civilized world would be less of a threat if the leaders of the civilized world cared about destroying them instead of pandering to political correctness and treating "veterans and the tea party" as a "threat to the homeland". Normal people don't regard any of it as "laughable".
Sure, when you're affected by something, maybe a rare disease, it's extremely important to you. It doesn't mean it's a threat to the world. ISIS and their allies (in this case, you) want to convince the world that they are something serious like a Nazi state "at war with the civilized world". They and their allies are only a threat to the extent they can convince the world they're at war.
129 deaths in this most recent attack - and the number will likely increase - does not constitute a laughable action.
True if the French have already bombed ISIS back into the stone age.
ISIS is directly attacking us. It is not some slow evolution of the patterns of the Earth - these are people.trying.to.kill.me.
We agree that they are lowlifes.
Jan
The "were global warming true" thing makes no sense because we are in an deglaciating period of this ice age, and the evidence strongly points to human activities increasing the natural deglaciation. This will be a huge net cost to people. If you can't face the basic reality of it, there's no where to go from there. Assuming we do face reality, i's a much bigger deal than a band of criminals. There's no obvious answer to how to manage it and have a world supporting billions of people living an affluent life. I'm sure there's away; we just haven't solved it yet. It's a much much bigger problem than extremist thugs. I predict the state component to it will disappear, and they will exist only as criminals in rural regions of weak gov'ts. I could be wrong about this, though, because I never predicted they could actually take over parts of countries without even hiding how evil they are.
I have, however, pointed you back up to 1 from 0. We disagree, but we are doing so based on disparate data sets not flaming poo flinging.
Jan
You could substitute any peril (cars, rare disease, earthquakes), and if you're following emotionalism, then they're all the greatest threat to humankind.
Boiny thinks terrorists and climate hysteria are related because one of the current PC rationalization fads claims that the weather is driving otherwise innocent people to become frustrated terrorists.
I wonder if the senator really believes that. It sounded like an awkward way of saying he takes mass murder seriously without appearing to dither. OTOH, maybe he believes it. It seems like a bizarre claim to me.
Jan