You mean if they join Daesh AND go to Syria to be with the rest of that smelly lot. If they were instead to join Daesh and remain here and decide to act out their fantasies, then it very much becomes our problem.

You don't understand our government, it isn't they want us to be terrified, it is that they are terrified of a terrorist incident on their watch. It tends to get pols de-elected and agency heads demoted. The government generally hasn't said squat about terrorism other than answer questions posed by the Press. Hell, Obama cannot even utter the words Islamic Terrorism.

Al-Shabab is not ISIS, last we heard, they claimed to be al-Qaeda...unless I've missed the memo switching their allegiance. One thing I think we need to keep in mind is the Mid-East, North Africa, and S. Asia capacity for talking out of their ass..."We gonna kill y'all with 1000 deaths!!!"...maybe they're from Texas. Most likely this is simply a call for attention, their mothers dropped them on their heads during their formative years and now Western hand-ringers are supposed to let them know they are still wanted.

Really? How about Grandma? She can come and live with you, right? She doesn't need no stinking government sending her SS checks or taking SS out of your pay to pay her. BTW, she'd like a ground floor suite and she'll be needing some live in help to get through the day and put her to bed at night...change her diapers. Unless...hey, you could do that. Hint, the safety pins go on the outside of the diaper.

Hmmm...come to think of it, Bert's Drug and Fishbait Shop has some magic pills they'd like to sell to members of your family. They're probably safe so there's no need for FDA oversight...since you won't pay for that. Your family wouldn't mistakenly buy these on the buy-one-get-one-free sale down at the local pharmacy...but if they do and have a bad reaction, they can live with you and Grandma.

You brother would also like a room, recall he's the one injured on the job and can no longer work. But it is okay, he'll take a second floor suite.

Your Aunt Essie was recently divorced from her alcoholic husband and has no current work skills and will be out on the street unless you give her a room too.

Hey, this is really just like old times with the extended family all looking to you to provide for them. Please be generous, they are your family, ya know.

It also gives you a leg up on redistricting which happens every 10 years.

No, it shows that a judge in Texas is screwed up. Arguing from a single point to an entire set of points is generally a hard argument to make, I suggest you take Logic 101.

Nah, Mel Brooks is refilming Blazing Saddles on Mars to keep it secret before it hits the movie houses.

ALIENS!! Cue the Greek guy with the electric hair, he'll want to have a team at Roswell to welcome them.

Nah, old Bolsheviks can't die, Lenin is alive and well...well embalmed...now we just call him Putin. Ever notice how Putin's a bit on the pasty side, he should be for a man over 150 years old.

In my opinion is it much worse. It encourages an ADHD attitude. A book requires imagination. The idea of spending a few days getting to the bottom of a math problem is lost on kids because they expect to push a button and find the answer, or push many until they stumble into it. Bill Gates and his ilk are a plague on education, he should just STFU and go back to spending his billions on health care for the poor.

I'm guessing, but given how preloaded stuff has a bad air about it, like a public lavatory that is never properly cleaned (thanx Rowling), MS might not be doing themselves a favor here.

Yes, but this is Chinese manufacturing we're talking about with no American company worried about their image and quality control. I very much doubt any Chinese knockoff is going to be as good, they'll cut corners anyway they can.

Well gollllllly, Sargent, I didn't mean to, but they asked real nice.

The poor souls being killed will be the ones who have lost touch with reality.

There's a secondary effect to the ostracism from social circles, girls are much more socially adept and interested in social interaction than boys. The general effect is likely to impact girls more than boys.