We can actually do something of substance trying to prevent terrorist attacks. Climate change is a whole other animal. We can pollute less, but the climate will change with us or without. No doubt this thread is about to be hijacked by FC.
Same logic holds for terrorist attacks. We can spend more to reduce their frequency, but never completely end them.
Obama and his minions have managed to politicize pretty much the entire government. They identify committed leftists like Lois Lerner and put them into important positions, from where they can act like soviet political commissars, monitoring the bureaucracy for anything potentially damaging or directing attacks on opponents. There have been too many accounts of whistle blowers being shut down and retaliated against for it to be coincidence. Today's WashPost has a long article about a White house advance guy who was involved in the prostitute scandal in columbia. His father was a big donor and lobbyist. The DHS covered up his involvement, despite a lot of evidence. It infuriated the Secret Service, because several of their people got fired or censured over the same thing. Basically, you cannot believe anything they say. They are all liars. It's hard to think of a single issue they haven't lied about, eg Fast and Furious, IRS, Benghazi, immigration, the economy, Obamacare, VA, now ebola.
Here's a short list of your lies, from 2012. Naturally, it will have ballooned since Romney ushered in the era of, "this campaign will not be dictated to by fact checkers". "President Obama wasn't born in the United States" •• "President Obama is a Kenyan" •• "President Obama is Indonesian" •• "President Obamais soft on terrorism" •• "President Obama is a terrorist" •• "President Obama won't protect the country" •• "President Obama is a Muslim sympathizer" •• "President Obama is a Muslim" •• "President Obama is an Atheist" •• "President Obama is an Israeli" •• "President Obama is a socialist" •• "President Obam is a Marxist" •• "President Obama is a communist" •• "President Obama is a fascist" •• "President Obama is a pussy" •• "President Obama is gay" •• "President Obama is a bully" •• "President Obama is a dictator" •• "President Obama will take your guns" •• "There is no "War on Women" •• "Women in the same jobs as men make the same money" •• "Women aren't victims of violence" •• "A zygote is a person" •• "Slut" •• "Prostitute" •• "There is no sexism in the United States" •• "There is no ageism in the United States" •• "There is no racism in the United States" •• "All of our problems are caused by undocumented workers" •• "All of our problems are caused by public workers" •• "All of our problems are caused by unions" •• "All of our problems are caused by Fannie / Freddy" •• "All of our problems are caused by Barney Frank" •• "The media is liberal" •• "Voter fraud is rampant" •• "We Republicans are fiscal conservatives" •• "We in the Republican Party stand for reducing the size of the federal government" •• "Our heritage is Christian" •• "Evolution never happened" •• "War on religion" •• "War on Christmas" •• "FEMA Camps" •• "Smoking gun-mushroom cloud" •• "There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" •• "We are fighting terrorists in Iraq" •• "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" •• "We must stop radical judges legislating from the bench" •• "Social Security is going broke" •• "Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme" •• "Health-care reform will kill jobs" •• "Health-care reform will bankrupt the country" •• "Health-care reform will cut Medicare payments" •• "Death Panels" •• "Class warfare" •• "Distribution of wealth" •• "There is no income inequality in the United States" •• "Income inequality doesn’t matter because in America ambition and hard work can make a pauper a millionaire" •• "Anyone who believes in income inequality is just jealous of success" •• "Cutting taxes has always led to an economic boom" •• "Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves" •• "The Bush Tax Cuts Didn't Add to the Deficit" •• "The Estate Tax Devastates Small Businesses and Family Farms" •• "Taxing the rich will slow economic growth" •• "Taxing the rich would not raise much money" •• "Cutting taxes on the rich creates jobs" •• "The Rich Pay Too Much in Taxes Already" •• "The price of oil is based solely on supply and demand" •• "The XL Pipeline will create hundreds of thousands of jobs" •• "Cuts in wages and benefits create jobs" •• "Regulations kill jobs" •• "The Government can't create jobs" •• "There are too many Government jobs" •• "Public education is turning our children into liberals" •• "Public education is turning our children into homosexuals" •• "Public education is turning our children into Atheists" •• "Entry level janitors make twice as much as entry level teachers (Gingrich)" •• "The word "Palestinian" is an invented word first used in 1977 (Gingrich)" •• "Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded, (Brewer)" •• "Sputnik bankrupted the Soviet Union (Palin)" •• "The Founding Fathers really tried to end slavery (Bachmann)" •• "Teddy Roosevelt was a socialist (Beck)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Troy King R-Alabama - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Richard Curtis R-Washington - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Glenn Murphy, Jr. R-Indiana - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (David Dreier R-California - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Bruce Barklay R-Pennsylvania - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Roy Ashburn R-California - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Jim West, R-Washington - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Larry Craig R-Idaho - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Ed Schrock R-Virginia - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Robert Allen R-Florida - outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Mark Foley R-Florida (outed)" •• "'Homosexuals are perverts' (Phillip Hinckle R-Indiana - outed)"..
Can any of you Liberal fucks tell me how many illegals aka anonymous people crossed the border since 2001? Take a guess. 6 million. Nobody knows who these people are, you stupid fuckbags. Many years ago, I worked at a Turkish-Kurdish owned place in my city and over 6 of them, that I knew PERSONALLY, all snuck over the border from Mexico into the States, then snuck into Canada, then claimed refugee status. Hundreds of thousands of completely anonymous people sneak into the States every year, yet Liberals are certain none of them are terrorists. How do they know this? Because they have no way of knowing, but just know. So lets take their word for it.
Too bad that "can do" attitude wasn't there on 9/11, after which there was "a shrug of the shoulders and the who knew look".
I didn't say end, I said prevent. We can do things that make terrorist attacks more difficult for them to pull off. Things that are of substance. What we're trying to do with climate change is of no real significance. It's a spit in the ocean type of deal. The real problem is that we have a president who is willing to commit more resources to climate change than he is to fighting terrorism. Terrorism is an immediate and clearly defined threat. Fighting climate change at best is decades, maybe centuries away, and is extremely subjective as to what any actual threat may be. Doesn't matter what the temp is a hundred years from now to the woman who just had her head chopped off last week. Doesn't matter to the tens of thousands that ISIS is enslaving and/or slaughtering as we carry on this discussion. Ebola is killing people today. There is no cure for it at the moment. It's rapidly spreading abroad. Both Ebola and terrorism are too easily transported across our borders, so one might think it prudent to shore up our otherwise very porous border. Frankly I don't see what the debate is.
Terrorism has been "an immediate threat" for decades. Republicans had thirty+ years to "seal the border". Why is this suddenly Obama's fault?