HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT THAT THE WORLD IS MAD?

  
"Membership in a terrorist organization does not prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives under current federal law," 

the Government Accountability Office said in 2010.

The law prohibits felons, fugitives, drug addicts and domestic abusers from purchasing firearms in the United States ...

But people on the consolidated FBI Terrorist Watch List --

folks who are placed there when there is reasonable suspicion that they are a known or suspected terrorist — can freely purchase handguns or assault-style rifles.

That's not a recipe for tragedy or anything is it?  :-(

Yet the FBI asserts we are safer here than in Paris.  

their spokesman said,  

"Safer here than there? Yes.We are separated by an ocean. Without a doubt, we are safer here than over there.”

 Because of limited resources, the FBI must constantly reevaluate 

which targets are a priority when it comes to closely following top-tier terrorism suspects. 

“It’s daunting,” said a former senior FBI official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the bureau.

 He said. “It’s a hard time for the bureau. Only on TV is it easy to follow people.”

Politicians are making political hay from their stance to prevent Syrian refugees from entering our country.

Did you know that only 5% of Americans during Hitler's rise (July 1938) wanted to allow Jews to flee fascist terror?

Of course, none suggested that the Jews might harbor spies as Trojan Horses either.

Is Isis demented?  

Of course, in one aspect they are, for murdering innocents.

 By claiming devastating attacks on French and Russian targets in recent days,

 the Islamic State has embraced what appears to be an irrational strategy: 

It has angered and provoked two military powers 

that had been reluctant to engage in an all-out war with the self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

 Expanding the conflict may seem like a self-destructive move. 

But to some analysts, 

it is squarely in keeping with what the group advertises as its overriding, apocalyptic mission: 

to lure the world’s unbelievers into Syria for a final, Armageddon-like battle.

Obviously, they believe they can jump-start the horrors of Revelations early. 

 When Charlie Sheen spoke out Tuesday on the "Today" show, the big news wasn't that he is HIV-positive.

 It was that he had been blackmailed for upwards of $10 million 

by people who threatened to reveal the information to the public. 

"I release myself from this prison today," the actor said.

 In the past few months, there have been a number of prominent hacks that involved stealing medical data.

It would appear that what we once thought was sacred -- our medical records -- are vulnerable ... 

and so are we.  Sigh.

STOP ISIS: CENSOR THE INTERNET?

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) wants the federal government to shut down the Internet — 

or at least, the parts of it that are being used by the Islamic State.

 "They are really trying to use the Internet and all the social media to intimidate and beat us psychologically, he said.

 "Isn't there something we can do to shut those Internet sites down?"

I have another question: 

"When is a democracy 

no longer a democracy?"

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?

Mother sang a song to me at night when very young.

When my father deserted me on the streets of Detroit,
I sang it to myself at night in the corner of
what seemed the safest alley.

HUNTER'S MOON

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