Issues Under Fire: Ebola or ISIS/ISIL; Who'll Get You First?
Its been awhile since a good phony excuse was needed for not showing for work on a Friday, so please forgive the following blatant pack of lies.In the interest of public safety, we're on special assignment today. We've been advised that some 2014 midterm election candidates have been using the headlines to frighten voters and undermine their opponents.
Okay, so that ain't exactly news, but when you're talking Ebola and ISIS/ISIL, a desperate politician can whip up a frenzy that'll be hard to settle down after the last votes are counted. With a seasoned hype-artist like Republican congressmen Duncan Hunter claiming personal knowledge of at least 10 ISIS/ISIL fighters being apprehended at the Texas border and bipartisan calls to ban travel to and from Ebola ravaged West Africa, we thought somebody had to do the math.
Don't you want to know what your chances of contracting the world most deadliest virus? Hell, you could be walking down the street minding your own business, when some sweaty bastard bumps into to you and bam, you got killer cooties. Hell, you could be sitting a movie theater this weekend, transfixed watching "Kill the Messenger" when some ISIS/ISIL inspired jihadist wannabe tries to give you a really close shave. Hell, what if you found yourself being stalked by an Ebola infected wannabe ISIS/ISIL jihadist type? Hey, you never know!
We realize watching weekly beheadings on the Internet and the Ebola infected die in agony on Cable TV can give Chicken-Littles and germaphobe types the jitters, but for the rational, the practical and the sane, the odds of being a victim has got to be huge. How huge you ask? We don't know, that's why we took the day off to calculate the statistical probabilities. C-Ya Monday
BTW, don't fret, you got a really cool episode of Rocky Jordan below entitled "the Fall Guy. As per usual, enjoy and share
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