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10 Things More Likely To Kill You Than Islamic Terror
Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
Guided by talking heads, American armchair warriors spout vitriol, increasingly calling to either treat Muslims like Jews in the Third Reich or simply bomb them into oblivion — and their cognitive dissonance is glaring. These contradictions are evident not least in the paralyzing fear so many ‘Mericans feel toward Muslims who courageously call for soldiers to do their bidding in the Middle East. Their crippling fear of Islamic terror, itself, is cloaked in contradiction.
According to an analysis by the New America Foundation, Islamic terror attacks in the United States have led to the deaths of 45 people since 9/11. While 45 deaths is 45 too many, the dizzying fear of Islamic extremism currently sweeping the nation is objectively overblown.
Considering Islamic terror killing an average of 3.2 Americans per year (45 deaths divided by 14 years) since late 2001, here are ten causes of death more worthy of their fear:
1. Television: TV might be linked to earlier deaths among those who watch more than a few hours a day, but more concretely, the devices themselves kill 176 people a year. Literally. They fall on people. That’s 55 times more deaths than Islamic terror claims annually.
2. Fireworks: According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, celebrating the 4th of July might be more deadly than Islamic terror attacks. The organization reports an average of 7.1 deaths per year — meaning Americans are more likely to blow themselves up than be eviscerated by the jihadist bombers they so fear.
3. Cows: Yes, cows. According to the CDC, cattle slay an average of 20 Americans every year. While these deaths occur mostly among farm workers, dogs kill 28 Americans per year, spiders kill seven, and venomous lizards and snakes kill six. All of these animals are still more likely to kill an American than the caliphate and other Islamic boogeymen.
4. Elevators: While the fear of dying as a result of an elevator malfunction has probably plagued many Americans at one time or another, such a worry is likely fleeting. However, if Americans are truly concerned with “common sense,” a virtue Donald Trump frequently touts, they would do well to readjust their phobias. Elevators kill 27 Americans per year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
5. Choking: Americans will sooner perish from choking on food or other objects than from an Islamic terror attack. At least 2,500 people per year are killed by this type of asphyxiation — 781 times more than from a jihadi assault. Hot dogs are particularly menacing. Perhaps we should ban them in the same vein as Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims. Then again, killing fewer cows to grind up for beef dogs might lead to an uptick in cattle-on-human violence. America is at a perilous crossroads.
6. Lightning: People often quip that one is “more likely to be struck by lightning” when they want to highlight an event’s improbability. However, even as the number of deaths from lightning decreases over the long-term, it is still higher than the number of people killed by Muslim terror attacks each year. Forty-nine people per year die from being struck by lightning — more than 15 times the rate of death from Islamic extremist murders.
7. Car accidents: Though most Americans are aware of the high risk of death by car accident, this knowledge doesn’t mitigate their extreme Islamophobia. The Association for Safe International Road Travel estimates about 37,000 Americans die each year in vehicular accidents, over 11,562 times the number killed by Muslim fanatics.
8. Heart Attacks: Heart attacks are one of America’s leading killers, claiming 190,625 times more American lives than Islamic terror. 610,000 Americans die from heart attacks per year. Cancer kills 589,430 Americans annually, and diabetes is the main cause of death for 69,071 Americans per year. They are responsible for astronomically more fatalities than radical Islamic terror.
9. Police: According to a three-year average of American police killings logged by killedbypolice.net — a more comprehensive database than the federal government’s — police killed 998 people on average per year from 2013-2015. That’s roughly 312 times the average annual number of people killed by Islamic extremists since 9/11. The average number of people killed by Islamic terrorism in the last three years is 7.7 — including the recent shooting in San Bernardino — and by that parallel measure, police are still about 130 times deadlier than terrorists.
10. Prescription Painkillers: The CDC estimates that 44 people die per day from overdosing on pharmaceutical painkillers. Never mind that that number is almost 14 times the number of Americans killed by Islamic terrorism each year. Based on the CDC’s figure, about 16,060 Americans die annually from painkillers — making the Big-Pharma money-makers 5,019 times more deadly than the Islamic terror that has Americans trembling whilst hiding under their blankies.
Other notable risks of death greater than an Islamic terror attack include scalding tap water, which kills 100 American per year; bad medical care, estimated to be responsible for at least 100,000 deaths in the U.S. annually; and hypothermia, which kills 1,340 Americans per year. Oh, and don’t forget Christmas trees. Fires caused by Christmas trees kill roughly ten people every year. Are Christmas trees conspiring with their lights to traitorously wage war on Christians via suicidal self-combustion?
While the Washington Post has previously cautioned against making comparisons between events that inherently cause death (for example, a terror attack) and events that may cause death (like driving a car or riding in an elevator), it remains that being caught in the throes of a terror attack is just as coincidental a fate as choking — or rather, less coincidental, based on the data. One could die from a terror attack at an office building, but they could also die from an elevator accident in the same location.
Either way, many of the most pervasive forms of death — like heart attacks, cancer, and painkiller overdoses — are preventable, at least in part, through lifestyle choices. If Americans were as passionate about ending these killers as they are about battling ostensible Islamic terror, millions of lives might be saved.
If Americans’ fear of death were rooted in data and objectivity, they might drop their calls to ban Muslims. The recent rash of attacks against peaceful Muslims might wane. Eighty-three percent of registered voters might not fear an inevitable terror attack. A majority of Americans might not call for further military escapades in the Middle East, which will most assuredly kill countless innocent civilians — all so the ‘free and the brave’ can do their Christmas shopping sans an irrational fear of being blown up at the mall (though previous invasions have done little to quell that panic).
Rather, Americans might consider changing many elements of their everyday lives. They might alter their diets to reduce heart attacks, tackle their addictions to pharmaceuticals, remove their televisions from their homes, and, er, avoid the dangerous bovine masses they have come to resemble so closely.
"I am not terrified of the terrorists; i.e., I am not, myself, terrorized. Rather, I am terrified of the terrorized; terrified of the bovine masses who are so easily manipulated by terrorists, governments, and the terror-amplifying media into allowing our country to slip toward totalitarianism and total war." – Dan Sanchez
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"the dizzying fear of Islamic extremism currently sweeping the nation is objectively overblown."
Well, Fucken-A!
Why don't we just specifically import ISIS members and show them what a great bunch of folks we are; I'm sure it will change their hearts.
PS> It's "irrational fear" when ONLY 45 OTHER PEOPLE DIE...when #46 comes up, let's all hope that's your number..and we'll see how "irrational" your fear is...
The beetus will kill you faster than HIV!
Don't get fat, people. Can't have a sharp mind without a sharp body.
Islamic terrorism might not be a statistically meaningful threat--yet-- but it's ridiculously easy to control: stop letting these Islamic shìtbirds into the country!
All Muslims aren't terrorists, but all terrorists ARE Muslim.
"I am a warrior for the babies!"
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/robert-dear-yells-warrior-babies-c...
Dozens of cellphones purchased at the same time by muslims in MO Walmart, several remote controlled cars stolen by "middle eastern looking men" from Florida hobby store, dozens of reports of jihadis attempting to buy "assault rifles".... The death by muslim terrorist toll is about to rise dramatically in the US. And no lectures about the hidden hand allowing this to happen, we are painfully aware of it.
How long this Islamophobia can delay collapse, I don't know but when hunger and poverty strikes not Muslims but 0.01%ers will be looking at the barrel of the gun.
You guys are missing the thing that really matters. Who was the third shooter in Riverside?
I favor Arnold. Got a bit bored in retirement. Demonstrably knows how to hold a full-auto weapon and mow down the masses, albeit he prefers a minigun to an AK.
Words are used to alarm us and disarm us. Everything is about risk....the correct assessment of risk. There is no doubt that our immediate risks from Islamic terrorism is very small, but our concerns should be pointed towards prevention of increased risk.
The fact that we might smoke for twenty years with no ill effects even while being constantly reminded of the risks, does not disprove the risks, and to finally quit once we actually start feeling our lungs weaken, does little to mitigate the effects of decades of ignoring the risks.
If we are to wait until Islamic terror is rampant and common place, our fear will be justified but our ability to minimize or eliminate the risk is gone. Fear is useless if it only predicts a forgone conclusion. Fear, the rational recognition of risk, is only useful when it predicts, not state the obvious. On the other hand, if we are to use fear to predict a lie, like climate change, it is simply a manipulative means of control.
The Islamic threat is real, even if minimal today. We understand the nature of the Muslim religion and how it enables terrorist behaviors. We understand that the west has done everything possible to alienate and foster hate within the Muslim world. And we understand that many of the Islamic immigrants do not desire societal integration and deliberately set themselves apart.
Our assumption has been that those who chose to immigrate to western societies were principally moderate and seeking to escape the fundamentalist societies, but now we see people flooding borders around the world, people not seeking a more moderate or western lifestyle, but survival and potentially the expansion of the caliphate. All of this predicts real problems in our future, with or without immigration, but it is fucking nuts to deliberately bring them into our societies, especially considering all of the other challenges we face, and even more especially when they are trying to sell it to us as confirmation of our "American values".
I say we close the borders for the next 20 years. No one new comes in unless he or she is the parent or child of someone already living as a citizen in the US. Too many people can't find jobs as it is.
As far as terrorism goes, well... Terrorism is scary, and it's true that it could get much worse, but all you have to do is look at murder statistics in this country to get the bigger picture. American citizens are still far more likely to be killed for any number of reasons by other American citizens than by terrorists who are religiously motivated, and despite that disturbing fact, I'm not prepared to turn this country into a bigger police state than it already is.
As you said, "Words are used to alarm us and disarm us." Part of me thinks the folks in charge finally realized they couldn't cram gun control down our throats based on violence committed by everyday Americans. But if the violence is committed by "the other," by people who are considered outsiders, Americans might be more willing to accept the loss of liberty in the name of security. It will be interesting to note how many future terrorist attacks involve guns instead of bombs, etc.
This article is fucking ridiculous. So let's throw open the borders because the statistical significance is negligible. What?
This was like the stupid asshole consultant my company hired who claimed I could do my job with 100% accuracy. I said what you ask is impossible. He countered I have driven to work for 10 years and never got into an accident as " proof" to his argument. What I said to him afterward almost got me fired.
Miffed
Well, that was an anti-climax. I was expecting you to tell us what you said...starting with a diatribe on confirmation bias &c. And if all you did was tell him to fuck off, so what? I've done that regularly...even to customers. [and that convo went something like this:
branch mgr: What are we going to do about Kiwi telling that south african to "fuck off back to south africa and take your shitty yarpie attitude with you"
regional mgr: Nothing. I hate that cunt as well.
]
When did I say I told him to fuck off? I'm not so crude as that and flinging poo only results in a boomerang scenario. I pointed out the fallacy of his argument as well as how it was unworkable in a hospital setting, unlike manufacturing which was his specialty. He disagreed. But I made a very public showing that I had no faith in his methods which were shown to be too time consuming, expensive and ultimately were discarded as in effectual. Just as I predicted.
His basic premise was error was found in processes not people. I countered, with highly qualified people, success could be made even with poor protocols. Start with good people and then improve the process.
I was laid off from that job a few years later and soon after the company went bankrupt.
Miffed
i didn't say you did, it was posed as a question....and there was an 'if' in there.
There's no point being effective in corporate environments, it just creates enemies. laid off down the track? surprise.....? Sometimes crudeness is more effective.
I'm in complete agreement with you about people vs processes ; I would put the emphasis on general competence rather than qualifications , however.
Miffed my pal. Please get fired and let's go mining. Tell Mr. to bring a some beer.
Angus, I'm your girl. Give me a leanto, some honest work that I can have the fruit of my labors and time with great, like-minded guys drinking by the fire swapping stories and laughing. That's all I want. The rest, I'd flush in a heartbeat. I'm a stranger in a strange land, an enemy combatant in my own country.
You are living my dream and I am behind a glass admiring. God speed dear friend, my heart is with you, my fellow rugged individual. Someday.... I dream.
Miffed;-)
Fuck me, they're armed with toy cars now?
Now I'm really scared.
If that wasn't sarcasm Depends, your handle is well chosen.
Fuck me, they're armed with toy cars now?
Now I'm really scared.
If that wasn't sarcasm Depends, your handle is well chosen.
1000x more dangerous & likely to occur would be??? How about an article on "10 tribes more likely to conspire to steal your money than (insert plethora of tribes on planet Earth hell bent on stealing your money here)"
Meh, nevermind... The list would only require one entry*
*I refer to the Clovis Indian TRIBE, of course, who, with their paper money system & Cadillac Escalades, 10,000 years ago, were clearly at fault for melting the Polar Ice sheets due to dastardly 'unmonetizable' carbon emissions
No, we aren't treating them like the Germans treated the Jews, we WANT TO start treating them like Jimmy Carter treated the Iranians. No-one is proposing god damn death camps here.
Yeah, the author's premise seems to commit the logical fallacy of "denying the antecedent."
A. Islam is an existential threat to survival of non-Muslims in America (et al.)
B. Car crashes, hot dogs, cows, heart attacks, fireworks, and TVs are threats to the survival on non-Muslims in America.
C. There's nothing we can do about B, therefore there's nothing we can (or should!) do about A.
FAIL.
#9. I feat the Pure Evil Fascist Militarized Police everyday of the week & twice on Tuesday. It's now the main reason I now leave the house strapped everyday.
The problem the liberals have is that at most you will be able to convince 30% of the population that the political movement/religion of Islam, which justifies murder and enslavement of women, is morally superior to the Enlightenment principles this country was founded upon. Those who praise "the religion of peace (TM)" as the bodies pile up do so at much political risk.
Those who praise "the religion of peace (TM)" as the bodies pile up do so at much political risk.
But even more bodies are piling up from lighting strikes and falling furniture. Why have you not declared jihad on those things? What is the purpose of running around like a frightened chicken over an unlikely scenario while completely ignoring more likely scenarios?
Billy, exactly how many times would you need to hear of someone being killed by lightening before you refrained from standing outside in a storm? Radical Islam has a history, a bloody history around the world. If we are to ignore that simply because we don't personally know someone who has been killed by them (or lightening), we might as well just ignore everything. There is nothing wrong with being aware and cautionary, especially when it costs us nothing. You are using flawed logic and the childish challenge of calling those who take this threat serious as chicken. Why not just suggest to "hold my beer and watch this" next?
Or you could just dare us...or double dare us to ignore the Islamic elephant in the room.
Look, who needs an argument for enslavement and murder of women? seriously, you want to see what happens to women with 'equal rights' ? come to nz. land of ugly women, bad makeup, and a feminazi sense of entitlement that one must constantly evade to maintain peace of mind.
I will hold the US's ugly women, bad makeup, and a feminazi sense of entitlement up against any on the planet. Fortunately, they are a smaller percentage of the population and concentrated on the coasts.
I bet it would puncture a tire if you used one for a speed bump while looking for a parking space, though.
If the pen is mightier than the sword - bad writing like this article that confounds accident with intent, and inanimate objects with crazy people - is poisoned purple mental Koolaid.
it confounds nothing. it's just a comparison of probabilities. get over it.
In Iraq, what was the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack before Bush invaded vs today?
The American government has many terrorists. Obama kills from a distance but he's killed many more innocents than Muslims have.
Let me see if I understand :
If a Murdoch paper reports that a muslim goes nuts and kills a bunch of people, they are 'terrorists'.
However, Murdoch will call an Amerian who goes nuts and kills a bunch of people', they are 'ordinary folks having a bad day'.
The NYTimes will call the first 'killers' and the second 'gun violence'.
Ordinary folks having a bad day kill a lot more people in America than terrorists, it seems to me. Shut down the schools and pharmacies, not the borders.
Maybe muslim terrorism won't kill me, but the muslim resident of 1600 PA Avenue sure will.
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Speaking of "irrational fear"
Risk of Dying next year: Explosions Unintentional firearms discharge 1 in 57,588,244"Irrational Fear" is driving the "Ban Guns" fanatics...instead, they should focus on "BANNING OBJECTS"!
Risk of Dying next year: Struck by objects unintentionally Hit by some object 1 in 333,265http://www.riskcomm.com/visualaids/riskscale/datasources.php
Risk of dying next year: Assault by firearm 1 in 24,342
Risk of Dying next year: As a Car occupant 1 in 17,625
You left out government "hit" teams, many of whose killings are reported as suicides (Phillip Marshall), accidents (Michael Hastings) or heart attacks (Andrew Breitbart). You will find all of these targeted killings on Obama's secret kill list. But if you find the kill list, your name will be added onto it in the "to do" list section.
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best quote is from Helen Keller..
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
If you're not living in danger, you're not living bitchez. Now go get your christmas tree and light the thing up with electrical lights!
The "living in danger" life is cliff jumping and such adrenalin pumping activities.
Inviting people with a polar opposite Religion, that directs them to convert or kill you, is suicide.
Take Helen Keller, and her children, to a grocery store with Muslim women wearing tents…then inform her of how such women have been used in the past as suicide bombers wearing explosives…and watch her scuttle herself and her children out of the store.
Helen Keller was a better man than you.
Offensive joke alert: Know why Hellen Keller couldn't drive? Because she was a woman.
you know why she had yellow legs?
her dog was blind too.
Fuck McMolotov, I thought she couldn't drive because she wore out her finger tips trying to feel the road and navigate.
I am still trying to guess how Helen Keller knew they were muslim before you told her
she smelled their left hands.
Pathetic.
disclosure: long Serta, Simmons & Sealy; 'muricans need something to hide under.
I love how godwins law is actualized on every anti nationalist article here.
It is impossible that this is in error.
The us is peopled by idiots who may leave the planet soon because of their vapid stupid maliciousness.
I bet it comes from religious 'belief' which is more a mental illness than a true godly religion...
Nationalism makes so much sense under current macro conditions that that's the only arrow left in the globalist quiver.
Look, chief, I don't advocate bombing anyone and I never have. But I also don't advocate throwing open our borders and saying "come on in and get some revenge if you like". Since when have limiting immigration/migration/refugee policies equaled a totalitarian state?
And, frankly, I don't see anyone going out on Muslim lynching sprees in the US. I don't see any great fear of Muslims round here, either, despite recent events. What I do see is a lot of people pissed the fuck off at their own government for doing everything they can to ignore the Constitution, the will of the majority of our citizens and with a blatant indifference towards their well being.
Go stick that pointy literary knife of yours in the proper rib cage. It's our own government that's the problem much more so than "The Muslims" or "terrists". And everyone out here in in the real world knows it. Only those of you in the MSM and inside the beltway are missing the point. And I think missing it intentionally.
Its the Whabbi Scum Fucks that should be dealt with. Not "Radical Islam" which is just some fancy marketing made up term like "ISIS."
It's all PsyOp & Ponzi, remember that.
The Saudi Wahabbist scum, given a free pass by the US government.
The Ponzi Petro Dollar must be protected at all costs. Thus, the spread of Wwahabbism & Destabiliaztion of the ME. The arming, funding & training of Al CIA duh terror organizations must & will continue. And, the terrorizing of the American People via manufacturing artificial fear / False Flags.
The primary problem is this:
When confronted with the failures of our current government, it's answers to create a foreign bogeyman instead of addressing the real problem(s).
Since the US has been doing this for the better part of 50 years, And has the media thoroughly consolidated behind it for the last 25 years, it's hard to maintain any level of hope that anything is going to change.
The most lethal terrorists very well may be concentrated in Washington DC.
NoDebt: I'm more terrified of the visions I have of running naked through the living room with a pair of scissors and slipping on spilled salad dressing and accidentally re-circumcising myself than I will ever be of any muslim or the fucktards that run .gov
.gov stays in power via FEAR and incredibly stupid supporters (sheep)... end of story.
It is not death from Islam that I object to it is life under Islam that is abhorent. I am very tired of Islamic apologist acting in function though not in message as the meat shields of the imams.
"It is not death from Islam that I object to it is life under Islam that is abhorent."
Exactly! I am from Europe myself and even if we ignore the disproportionally high Muslim crime rates here, their demands are changing our society in a huge way. We in Europe have millions of people who are Hindu, Sikhs, Buddhists....they integrate well and dont conflict with the wider society, none of them demand special rights that affect all of us. Even our Christmas celebrations are "offensive" these days also.
No need to remain ignorant, we have a wonderful exploration machine called 'the internet'. Using a search engine, you can find many enlightening aspects of life around the world.
http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/11-08/the-girls-guide-to-traveling-sol...
One of billions of examles you apparently have not sampled.
It is not death from Islam that I object to it is life under Islam that is abhorent. I am very tired of Islamic apologist acting in function though not in message as the meat shields of the imams.
Please list the occasions on which you have been forced to live under Islamic Law.
Every time you go to an Islamic or mostly Islamic country.
So then Americans don't have to worry. Just as I thought.
Billy the raghead deserves the Tariq Aziz Award, 2nd Class, for his efforts on ZH to minimize the threat posed by Islam to the American way of life.
Yes, there are things more likely to kill you than Islam. The HUGE difference among them is that Islam is that is ISLAM and ISLAMIC TERRORISTS are actively working to kill you unless you are a Muslim.
They kill Muslims too. If they are sitting on top of a sea of oil.
Has Israel suffered any ISIS attacks?
No Hezbollah and Palestinians have that war zone covered.
Hezbollah fights ISIS while Israel provides ISIS with military and medical aid.
Im terrified of the neo-zio-cons......
# cause of Americans death = false belief they have access to a good doctor under Obamacare
For Fucks sake, Knock it off with that ObamaCare bullshit!
ObamaCare is NOTHING MORE than a TOOL the CAPITALIST Health Insurance Companies are using to FORCE YOU to buy thier OVERPRICED PRODUCT!
And if you can't afford their price, then the CAPITALIST Health Insurance Companies FORCE THE GOVERNMENT to pay the bill FOR YOU!
ObamaCare isn't "Socialized Medicine" or any such BULLSHIT.....OBAMACARE if CRONY CAPITALISM ON STEROIDS!
You Rightwingnut Fuckheads should be very happy about ObamaCare anyway as it allows PRIVATE COMPANIES to MAXIMIZE THEIR PROFITS! So what if it bankrupts you, the EXECS still get their "Compensation Packages" and isn't that what "Private Enterprise" is all about?
Compensation for 7 CEO's of Health Insurance Companies in 2008:
* Aetna, Ronald A. Williams: $24,300,112 ($66,600 a day!)
* Cigna, H. Edward Hanway: $12,236,740
* Coventry, Dale Wolf: $9,047,469
* Health Net, Jay Gellert: $4,425,355
* Humana, Michael McCallister: $4,764,309
* U. Health Group, Stephen J. Hemsley: $3,241,042
* Wellpoint, Angela Braly: $9,844,212
That's ~$68,000,000 per year ($186,300 a day) just in CEO pay for 7 people!
Stop bitching and pay your fucken health insurance premiums; and smile knowing that you're keeping the "Crony Capitalists" rolling dough!
Oh, one more thing, if you "repeal ObamaCare", you will pull $100,000,000,000 OUT OF THE POCKETS of the "Health Insurance" industry...what do you think happens then? They're just gonna say "oh well, it was good while it lasted; guess we'll have to lower prices now"...are you that fucking stupid?
If you're rates are high now, just wait until you "repeal ObamaCare"...
I'm finding it difficult to imagine a scenario in which healthcare is more expensive than under Obamacare. Help me out here, under what conditions would prices be higher than when people are compelled by law with the IRS enforcing it to buy in?
"compelled by law with the IRS enforcing it to buy in?"
Ummm...that's an easy one.
You will "Compell" yourself!
The "Health Industry" will give you the choice of "PAY THE PRICE OR DIE!".
Businesses exist to make a profit; remove "Government Regulations" from the "Health Industry" and what is stopping them from setting the "price" at "how much do you have?".
How much would you pay to stay alive? You don't think these executives would run their business with that motto?
That's always been the nature of health care as a business, so it's a constant in the equation. It was true before there was any law regarding the industry at all. However, in a free market, the price would be far lower due to competition - someone is going to offer a better price, as long as it's profitable to do so, which limits how high the price can go.
The variable that is and has been causing the price to skyrocket is the involvement of government.
Using the wonderful exploration machine of the internet, you could easily find examples of people who pay an MD $50 in cash for treatment that would have cost $600 on insurance through a big office. That particular example had the first done by the MD and the 2nd done by the office's PA.
No need to be ignorant in this age of the Internet.
Capitalism depends on freedom in the marketplace. A system which favors the status quo isn't capitalism. Capitalism is a dynamic system which rewards innovation from any source and encourages social mobilty.
Obamacare was enacted because a slight majority of "stupid voters" (Gruber) thought they were going to get something for nothing. That's an appeal to socialist sympathies not capitalism.
"Obamacare was enacted because.."
Total IGNORANT bullshit.
"Obamacare was enacted because" CORPORATE LOBBYISTS spent $500,000,000 "Shaping" the ACA to their liking.
The "Health Lobby" was not fighting to "Kill the ACA"...they were fighting to MAXIMIZE THEIR PROFIT FROM IT'S PASSING!
Pull your head out!
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"The health-care industry spent over $243 million lobbying on health care issues through the first six months of 2013. No other industry sector spent more lobbying Congress and the federal government. The industry is on-pace to match its 2012 lobbying of around $500 million."Do you think that money was spent to "Repeal ObamaCare"...and pull $100,000,000 out of the thier pockets...or to MAXIMIZE their cut of the spending?
"Elizabeth Fowler, who directs health policy for Johnson & Johnson and was a chief architect of the law"
Corporate America WROTE THE ACA you morons!
https://www.linkedin.com/title/vice-president%2C-global-health-policy?tr...
Corporate America is a national socialist institution you moron.
Lobbyists provide money to politicians so that they can propagandize the voters with promises of "free" stuff. Those who seek freedom in the marketplace and elsewhere (aka capitalists) don't fall for such propaganda.
Idiot, if they repeal Obamacare and insurance is too high, I won't buy it. Do you get it idiot?
"Idiot, if they repeal Obamacare and insurance is too high, I won't buy it. Do you get it idiot?"
THEN YOU WILL DIE...get that...Idiot?
Pay all you've got or die...that will be the choice.
There will be two prices...if you have insurance and if you don't...just like today...
Penicillin with insurance: $50 co-pay.
Penicillin without insurance: $5000 up front!
Sorry little Johnny, Daddy don't got $5000; let's go pick out a pine "play chest" for you.
The cost of penicillin on the open market is $50, not $5000. Very cheap stuff, actually.
The prices are created by the structure of the industry.
Stnard sequence : gov passes a program and regulations, costs go up, pass a program for subsidies for the poor, prices go up some more, more sequeals of protest and more subsidies and rules and regulations, prices go up some more, repeat as often as possible.
i think this confirms the 'bad medical treatment costs more lives than even suicide or car accidents' theory. even at the conservative estimate of 100,000 per annum, that's 45,000,000 daid from medical badness since 1970. and while your example rests on an administrative ledge, it is sufficiently within the penumbra of 'medical' that we can assert a *financial* advantage in keeping those punters alive .
revenue stream, bitchez.
Cows? Everyone around that fat pig Scum Fuck Christe from NJ better watch out.
But terrorism is GROWING, are these non-Islamic causes of death on the rise?
Fiorina, Cuomo in testy exchange over Trump’s media domination
http://tinyurl.com/zwhwvnc
Thing is, pretty much everything Trump said is true regarding Muslims in Europe.
UK police are afraid to walk in areas with a large Muslim population and are advised to not wear their uniform:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/09/uk-cop-there-are-areas-we-hav...
UK police told to not wear their uniform, risk attacks from Islamists:
http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/17/police-told-not-to-wear-uniform-on-way-to-...
Look at these stats when it comes to supporting suicide....in order to "defend" Islam in Muslim majority countries, hard to imagine that they change their views once they arrive in Europe or USA etc...:
http://www.pewglobal.org/files/2014/06/PG-2014-07-01-islamic-extremism-1...
The British Police are here to maintain the status quo. If the status quo is to have a terrorist threat then you can bet your arse they'll say things to back it up.
If they want to know about real danger they should talk to their colleagues in Belfast about the old days in the RUC to see what a terror threat looks like.
US-financed IRA bus bomb Aldwych London 1996
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2102/1967303806_e53bae3304_b.jpg
US-financed IRA bomb Bishopgate London 1993
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/a1/06/66/a10666d2e4b45535...
US-financed IRA bombing Hyde ParkLondon 1982
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Hyde_Park_Bombing.jpg
Maybe the Brits should have bombed the US back into the Stone Age. </sarc>
It's Wayne Madsen investigated reported FACT the Pure Evil Scum Fuck DHS Rep. Peter King was a heavy supporter of the IRA.
In my view, people defending their homes against a foreign conqueror cannot be considered in the same class as those who go to a foreign land and commit violence in the name of conquering it. It's the difference between self-defense and aggressive violence.
No, terrorism is not growing. Statistics, please.
The amplification of the incidents continues to grow, however. Exactly as for the home-grown crazies that kill people in bunches.
Wonder why that would be?
ISIS flag, decoded
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/isis-flag-decoded-upside-down-guy...
Zombie-islamic-cop-gypsy-eskimo-cat-mexican-subway-spokesmen ...
(that's what I'm most afraid of)
http://iamsully.com/?p=15311
Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture as by Terrorism
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/americans-are-a...
The Atlantic? Really? Blecccchh!
This is exactly the kind of rhetoric that got us into this "boiling frog" situation in the first place. Ignore the fact that the terrorists have declared war on us long ago and that we are so special and removed from the situation that we can ignore it because odds are we won't be effected. Tell that to the families of 911/San Bernodino/Ft Hood/Paris.So sit back and ignore it further if you want to end up suffocated by no-go areas in your own country because it's coming soon.
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2010/09/what-non-muslims-dont-like-about-i...
he Quran is Islam's most holy book. Sixty-one percent of the Quran is about non-Muslims. Writings about what Muslims should do is religious. Writings about what non-Muslims should do or how Muslims should deal with non-Muslims is political. Therefore, based on Islam's most holy book, Islam is more political (61%) than religious (39%).
There are 245 verses in the Quran that could be considered "positive verses" about non-Muslims. Every single one of those verses have been abrogated (nullified, overridden) by later, negative verses about non-Muslims. Not one positive verse about non-Muslims is left.
In contrast, there are 527 verses of intolerance toward non-Muslims, and 109 verses specifically advocating violence towards non-Muslims. Not one of these verses has been abrogated.
My conclusion: Non-Muslims who like Islam don't know much about it.
The Quran is Islam's most holy book. Sixty-one percent of the Quran is about non-Muslims. Writings about what Muslims should do is religious. Writings about what non-Muslims should do or how Muslims should deal with non-Muslims is political. Therefore, based on Islam's most holy book, Islam is more political (61%) than religious (39%).
There are 245 verses in the Quran that could be considered "positive verses" about non-Muslims. Every single one of those verses have been abrogated (nullified, overridden) by later, negative verses about non-Muslims. Not one positive verse about non-Muslims is left.
In contrast, there are 527 verses of intolerance toward non-Muslims, and 109 verses specifically advocating violence towards non-Muslims. Not one of these verses has been abrogated.
My conclusion: Non-Muslims who like Islam don't know much about it.
Thing is, pretty much everything Trump said is true regarding Muslims in Europe.
UK police are afraid to walk in areas with a large Muslim population and are advised to not wear their uniform:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/09/uk-cop-there-are-areas-we-hav...
UK police told to not wear their uniform, risk attacks from Islamists:
http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/17/police-told-not-to-wear-uniform-on-way-to-...
Look at these stats when it comes to supporting suicide....in order to "defend" Islam in Muslim majority countries, hard to imagine that they change their views once they arrive in Europe or USA etc...:
http://www.pewglobal.org/files/2014/06/PG-2014-07-01-islamic-extremism-1...
My conclusion: Non-Muslims who like Islam don't know much about it.
My conclusion: No Muslim has ever injured me in the least. Lots of Christians have screwed me over but I doubt that it has anything to do with the steady drumbeat to kill outsiders found in the Bible.
Christians realized that they needed to reform the religion with the "new testament" Muslims never had that epiphany. Western governments have spent trillions of dollars fighting "terrorism" when in fact they are fighting their own blind ignorance about a religious political culture that will not be satisfied until all humans on earth submit to it. You are being screwed by this situation every day in your pocket book and your lack of freedom. You just happen to be lucky that you haven't paid for it with your life yet because many others have.
You just happen to be lucky that you haven't paid for it with your life yet because many others have.
Did you read the article on which you are commenting? There are far more lives lost to a long list of trivial things than there are to terrorists. I'm simply not as frightened of unlikely scenarios as you are. Man up.
Ahhh yes - the bible - that book with such classics as (this is just the tip of the iceburg):
1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination, Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?
7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?
8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?
9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
Commiting crime is dangerous to your health as well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3338055/Suspected-burglar-stuck-...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/08/burglary-suspect-hides-in-florida-l...
"Terror" has never killed anyone, unless of course a heart attack ensued because of it, although I presume that to be a very rare occurrence. You see Terrorism is a tactic, not a weapon, not a method of death or destruction, not a religious ideology, and not a race or nation. There is no point attempting to engage in a rational debate about any of this shit if words cannot first be properly defined........
Shit, I'm more afraid of the Presstitute Media & the Criminal False Narrative, PsyOp, Propaganda campaigns they engage in 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Store doesn't close.
Exactly. With all that has been revealed if people are still thinking along the lines of a great religious war... there isn't any fixing that shit. No amount of evidence will change their minds. If they can't see that it is all contrived by now they never will.
11.) An angry wife, whose Christmas gift money, was evaporated at the track, casino, or a ex-Bear Stearns managed hedge fund...
(you nailed it)
(she be leaking acid from her cooch)
she be leaking acid from her cooch
your wimmins are very scary...
There are different perspectives on the "death model": http://iamsully.com/?p=14899
Except for #9 all the others are accidental or acts of God. Terrorism is a planned event.
People choose to eat badly or take drugs and so deserve what they get.
Can't say the same about people who die from getting shot or blown up by evil extremists.
you mean Gladio-B (AKA: your own government)
"The only thing to fear is fear itself". FDR at his inaugural address...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/americans-fear-phantom-terrorist-threat-70-...
in his 1933 inaugural address, during the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt said: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Today it’s rogue US governance waging war on humanity at home and abroad – what too few people understand.
Americans are the world’s most over-entertained, uninformed people – largely mindless and indifferent about the horrors committed by their government. threatening world peace.
Instead of getting informed and acting to protect their welfare, they believe the Big Lies they’re told by official sources – repeated by the media, mouthpieces for wealth and power exclusively.
The claim about waging endless wars to protect national security is a complete fabrication. America’s only threats are state-sponsored or ones it invents.
Weird. Put this in a Venn with Chipotle and the overlaps are stunning. McDonalds-brand Genocide FTW!
Too much truth in this article.
Only if one does too little thinking. But then Carey the cuck knows that most asshole are like you and fucking stupid :)
We should take care of the terrorist before they are killing us at a rate of 3,000 per year like they did in 2001. I don't want to see 130 people dead like the terroist did in France.
You really think those idiots did it??? You really think those idiots got the ordnance, ammo, firearms, tactical gear, into the country as well without anyone noticing??? You think those people were smart enough to stage a coordinated multi-target attack without a hitch. Then you think that their target selection was in ISIS's interest vs the regime's? You must be smoking all the drugs if you think that.
In 2015, the only people who don't understand that 9/11 was a false flag operation by our own government are intentionally ignorant, fools or tools.
No one who looks at the evidence of organizations like Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and the military, pilots and scholars equivalents, has any doubt at all.
yes but the police will only kill you if you're acting like a terrorist
I don't give a shit about Islamic terror, what I do fear is Islam as a way of life; coming to Europe soon. I live in the UK and Islam is a day to day reality in almost everything one does. It is shit and only going to get worse.
Well, that's what you get for bringing them in to do your shit work cheaply and then letting them stay.
The day to day reality is that the UK has completely screwed up its society via its welfare system.
Read Dalrymple. It affects all Brits the same way, not just the Pakistanis.
This article falls into the common fallacy of equating "fear" with "despise". The first is irrational but the latter can be completely rational. I despise those who murder in the name of their gods but I don't fear them.
It's the same fallacy that gave rise to the falsehood of "homophobia". I don't know of anybody who fears homosexuals but I know plenty of people who despise the practice and want nothing to do with it.
It's like hating a person with a disease, I don't hate that person I want them to get rid of the disease. We quarantine people regularly with infectious disease, should be the same for infectious terrorists.
A man jumps from the 50th floor of a building.
As he passes the 20th floor, things are still AOK. What a view! A little breezy, but still pleasant.
Short term thinking, look where it has gotten PC Europe.... If you follow the Koran, you want infidels eliminated, period.
Now I feel better.
We fight terrorism as we fight cancer, heart diseases, make traffic safer etc.
The risk has to be held as small as possible.
War on cancer = more cancer
War on drugs = more drugs
. War on terrorism = more terrorism
War on heart disease = more heart disease
War on autism = more autism
Can you get the pattern here?
Waiting for this shit show to implode will kill us all faster than Terrrrrism......
Take that diatribe to Somalia and ask the Christians about your ideas.
Yeah, but those ten items won`t increase the defense budget, or the size of government......
Whats wrong with you?.....Scepticism of media hysteria and propaganda is unamerican....Didn`t you know?.....Just ask any politician....
"their cognitive dissonance is glaring."
The irony... So this dummy, Carey the cuck believes that because TODAY, you're unlikely to be murdered by some Jihadist asshole, that tomorrow MILLIONS from WAR ZONES should be imported...
His logical fallacy here with this moronic comparisons is the old texas sharpshooter.
"According to an analysis by the New America Foundation, Islamic terror attacks in the United States have led to the deaths of 45 people since 9/11."
What a fitting name... anyway, keyword there is, IN the United States. The WITS no longer public, but you could search all terrorism cases worldwide in a number of ways and by 'perpetrator group' was good as it show, terrorism is almost entirely a Muslim issue.
http://imagepix.org/images/2015/12/12/6cb4dae8734cfe86e3e5a775f0d40a30.jpg
Who exactly do you think the muslims from war zones have more of a beef with?
A) Soccer Moms and sheeple at a mall, airport, etc etc..
B) People connected to and working for the regime.
This guy strikes me as a mental doppelganger of the pajama obamacare ad guy.
Nice try fella, just because they dont greet me with a machete at the redbox, doesnt mean they dont have 50 stacked librarys floor to ceiling with psychotic butchery.
There are so many examples, i dont even know where to begin.
The one that sticks out in my mind is
"Lady executed for red jacket."
fine, im a prick, thats all i need to see in my mind. I get shot at, i hang around in the mountains, and im probably a better shot then this author. Armchair guys dont type then get shot at guy, then go back for it. Save the typing and passive aggressive snippery for the fat wife and the in laws.
If anyone saw the robin hood 2010 version there is a scene when richard the lionheart asks robin hood what he thinks of his crusades.
Robin hood says that the brits were godless and they should be pitied by some islam lady, and richard says there is your englishman "right there"------------good example
Our government is ran by an iranian born muslim and a flunky trojan horse plant years in the making, muslim brotherhood has infiltrated into anything, the media is owned for a cover story on anything related to them for spin. More false flags on the way for more reason to institute reights being taken under the guise of "terrorism" The bloody oppression and neglect to christians is easily noticeable to a non religious person like me.
Then the question is-------------------Was the world slightly more peaceful and productive under islamic or christian influence and traits?
Your move.
What goat fucking mecca puking moonbat wrote this shit?
there's a world of difference between me dying from my own neglect, stupidity, and bad luck vs. BEING KILLED by a murderous, camel hugging, allah worshippin, sand flea with a dirty bomb strapped to his miniature cock.
I knew that cow was eyeballing me kinda funny.
Surprised doctors didn't make the list.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/tips/a11776/cow-attac...
Standard Disclaimer: It could be worse. It could be zombie cows.
I'd want to know more about #8 (Heart Attacks). E.g.
How many get to "Go with a smile or expression of exhilaration on their face"? Seriously.
Because if this subset stat is higher than the risk of Terrorism, you know which one we should be spending more money on, to get the Boomers off the Gov payments (Soc.Sec., Old Age Security...). --> Give them all Viagra + What's-My-Name-Blue-Crystal, and pair them up.
"How many get to "Go with a smile or expression of exhilaration on their face"? Seriously."
I don't know the total number, but I'm pretty sure Nelson Rockefeller did.
How about guns? Not on the top 10 either but we want to ban them and let more Islamacists in? LOLOLOL stupid fucking liberals.
If Carey Wildler really believed this he should get his buttocks right on over to Syria or Iraq.
11. Slipping on gorilla shit while crossing fifth Ave. and 57th st in Manhattan and being run over by a herd of zebras ridden by Benedictine nuns singing a hip-hop rendition of Granma Got Run Over by a Reindeer in Gaelic.
Okay, okay. So there's only a small chance of being killed by an Islamic terrorist. I get it.
But. There is an even LESSER chance of being killed by an Islamic terrorist if we throw the fuckers out.
Elevators? Who are they kidding... It's escalators... and just in case you needed proof.
Standard Disclaimer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xf3ELqb6kc
Most of the escalator deaths are perpetrated by islamic escalators.
I don't even know any muslims. None of them sure as hell never tried to harm me. My government however.......
lucky you. till now yor gobmit has kept you safe from them, thogh they are looking to fix that for you.