tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post7119216969551928986..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: Cellphones more deadly than ISIS jihadistsBud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-14899425577936884192015-12-08T11:50:09.890-08:002015-12-08T11:50:09.890-08:00I'm only guessing but, I believe the average A...I'm only guessing but, I believe the average American citizen is more at risk from a mass shooting by a young "Christian" white man with mental issues who legally purchased a semi-automatic assault rifle, more so than they are from a foreign Muslim pledging an allegiance to ISIS. Of course, if Iran gets a nuke, that could change. But for the time being, most Americans are more at risk from someone who is texting-while-driving. But the mainstream media is driving the ISIS fear (and playing in to the ISIS strategy) by their constant 24/7 micro-reporting of terrorism — because that drives advertising ratings. But it also gives ISIS a lot of free publicity, which only helps their recruiting efforts.Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-43188477592784524092015-12-07T11:30:31.704-08:002015-12-07T11:30:31.704-08:00We are more afraid than ever of gun violence, but ...We are more afraid than ever of gun violence, but the truth is, the murder rate is at a 50-year low ... Social media, the internet in general, and the 24-hour news cycle only feed these fears.<br /><br />http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/6/1456358/-We-are-more-afraid-than-ever-of-gun-violence-but-the-truth-is-the-murder-rate-is-at-a-50-year-lowBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-1739043349768231142015-11-26T15:09:55.179-08:002015-11-26T15:09:55.179-08:00Mark Twain wrote:
There were two “Reigns of Terro...Mark Twain wrote:<br /><br />There were two “Reigns of Terror” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-90830499447283622752015-11-26T15:09:43.476-08:002015-11-26T15:09:43.476-08:00UPDATE: According to the National Highway Traffic ...UPDATE: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are 1.07 fatalities per 100 million miles driven.<br /><br />* Drunk driving crashes continue to represent roughly one-third of fatalities, resulting in 9,967 deaths in 2014.<br /><br />* Nearly half (49%) of passenger vehicle occupants killed were not wearing seat belts.<br /><br />* The number of motorcyclists killed was far higher in states without strong helmet laws, resulting in 1,565 lives lost in 2014.<br /><br />* In 2014, there were 726 cyclists and 4,884 pedestrians killed in motor vehicle crashes.<br /><br />* Distracted driving accounted for 10 percent of all crash fatalities, killing 3,179 people in 2014.<br /><br />http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/2015/2014-traffic-deaths-drop-but-2015-trending-higher<br /><br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-17919047680906004412015-11-24T13:28:59.429-08:002015-11-24T13:28:59.429-08:00Vladimir Putin announced Russia will resume export...Vladimir Putin announced Russia will resume exporting nuclear technology to the Iranian regime. Russia has also contracted to supply Iran with S-300 surface-to-air missile systems.<br /><br />And Iran wouldn't share this with ISIS -- who blew up Putin's airliner? So it's odd that the Russian attacks have heavily targeted rebel groups seeking to bring down Assad, who is closely allied with Russia and Iran.Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-47558508568138588282015-11-23T11:00:47.944-08:002015-11-23T11:00:47.944-08:00Terrorism in the United States — the very short li...Terrorism in the United States — the very short list below — long before we had Islamist terrorist attacks:<br /><br />On 9-11 (1857) during the Utah War, Mormon militias attack the Baker–Fancher Party wagon train, killing everyone older than 7 years old. Some 120 people were murdered in what is called the Mountain Meadows Massacre — making this attack the single deadliest act of terrorism on US soil until the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995.<br /><br />The Los Angeles Times bombing on October 1, 1910 was done by the McNamara brothers. The explosion started a fire which killed 21 newspaper employees and injured 100 more. It was termed the "crime of the century" by the L.A. Times.<br /><br />On November 24, 1917 a bomb exploded in a Milwaukee police station, killing nine officers and a civilian. Anarchists were suspected.<br /><br />The 1920 Wall Street bombing was done by a horse-drawn wagon filled with explosives, which was detonated in front of the J. P. Morgan bank on Wall Street, killing 38 and wounding 143. The perpetrators were never caught.<br /><br />During the Tulsa, Oklahoma race riot (May 31 and June 1, 1921) a group of whites attacked the black community of Tulsa. There were reports that whites dropped dynamite from airplanes onto a black neighborhood in Tulsa, killing 39–300 people and destroyed more than 1,100 homes.<br /><br />May 18, 1927: The Bath School bombings killed 45 people and injured 58. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth grades. Their deaths constitute the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history. (The perpetrator was school board member Andrew Kehoe.)<br /><br />A Boeing 247 was destroyed in mid-flight over Indiana on October 10, 1933 by a nitroglycerin bomb. All seven people aboard were killed. This incident was the first proven case of air sabotage in the history of aviation. The identity of the perpetrator and the motive for the attack are unknown.<br /><br />In 1960 the Sunday Bomber detonated a series of bombs in the New York City Subway and ferries during Sundays and Holidays, killing one woman and injuring 51 other commuters.<br /><br />Charles Whitman, the "Texas Tower Sniper", killed 16 and wounded 32 at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966 before being killed by police.<br /><br />1969-1987: The Weather Underground committed dozens of bombings and other terrorist activities over this time period.<br /><br />1995 (April 19) The Oklahoma City bombing: A truck bomb shattered the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Right-wing terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were convicted in the bombing.<br /><br />Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow's air strikes over Syria would go on as long as necessary to punish those guilty of blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt last month where 224 people were killed. (Unlike the Paris attack, that was not on the news 24/7)<br /><br />Terrorism in the United States<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States<br /><br />List of Islamist terrorist attacks<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks<br /><br />List of (non-state) terrorist incidents<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%28non-state%29_terrorist_incidents<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.com