[gdani]

That will take some explaining. As the US goes, so goes the world.

If you want to talk about truly catastrophic times, I'll offer something like The Black Death, which wiped out 1-2 million people across the planet, over some crazy idiots currently in the Middle East.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Ebola...coming to a town near you...

[Brother Cracker]

The Black Death in Numbers

From 1347 to 1350 the Black Death struck Europe:

· In less than two years 30% to 60% of the population of Europe was wiped out.

· Nearly 75 million died in western Europe alone.

· 18000 people died in London in the course of three years.

· Almost 1/3 of the worlds population had died from the plague by 1350.

· Estimates go from 100 to 200 million deaths worldwide.

· The mortality rate of the bubonic plague was 30% to 75% percent.

· Within 1-7 days the first symptoms occurred, including fever, nausea, headache and an infection the lymph nodes.

[chesley]

On the other hand, the Black Death is not a moral issue. Islam is.