September 18, 2015

Refugees from Syria keep eating death cap mushrooms.

"The death cap, formally known as Amanita phalloides, bears a resemblance to mushrooms that grow in the eastern Mediterranean. Its unassuming shape and white coloring are easily mistaken for edible species, and its taste is innocuous, even delicious...."
The fear is that, after days on the road with little to sustain them, refugees have resorted to foraging for food. It is the middle of its three-month growing season in Europe, and the poisonous mushrooms could sicken still more people.  Dr. Michael P. Manns, chairman of the department of gastroenterology, hepatology and endocrinology at Hanover Medical School [said] that 12 patients remained hospitalized on Thursday, three of them in critical condition....

24 comments:

Nichevo said...

Pick them all up and fly them first class to the Gobi Desert until things settle down and they can go home.

MadisonMan said...

You'd think they'd use a better picture of the deadly mushroom. The one they have lacks the characteristic mantle around the stem just below the cap.

tim in vermont said...

"fear"? Don't they mean "hope"?

Hagar said...

I think the migrant stream is part refugees from the war zone of Syria, part deliberately encouraged emigrants from other parts of the Middle East.

Thank you, Obama!

Etienne said...

Nature has a way of attracting fleeing cowards to their death.

Robert Cook said...

The refugee crisis is a direct result of the destruction we and our allies in Western Europe have wreaked in the middle east by our illegal wars, smashing states and destabilizing what were once stable areas. This is a catastrophe which promises to grow worse.

phantommut said...

So, do they get free liver transplants?

Etienne said...

The funny thing is, the millions the migrants are paying the human traffickers is aiding their countries downfall.

Etienne said...

One of the reasons Hafez al-Assad suppressed all the Sunni's, and kept them in the sewers, is they are crazy fuckers who are kept illiterate by warlords and their imams. You can't reason with them.

They breed like rats though, and sooner or later you're going to have to massacre them in great numbers. Killing all of them would be nice, but it would be like killing all the rats - there's just not enough bullets.

Another good idea is chasing them to Europe, and watching London, Paris and Berlin deal with the rats.

CWJ said...

"Refugees from Syria keep eating death cap mushrooms."
I had to laugh when I first read that title. You'd think they'd stop after the first one.

Hagar said...

It ain't funny, McGee!

Flooding Europe with Moslem refugees is not in the United States' interest.

Hagar said...

Though there was one article about a group that said it was ready to convert to Christianity in a mass ceremony. That was strange. Apostasy is something Moslems do not joke about.

tim in vermont said...

The refugee crisis is a direct result of the destruction we and our allies in Western Europe have wreaked in the middle east by our illegal wars, smashing states and destabilizing what were once stable areas. This is a catastrophe which promises to grow worse.

Well, smashing them and then cutting and running, per the Obama policy in Iraq, Syria, and Libya.

Hagar said...

Turkey now finds itself squeezed between Iran and Russia without an ally near or far.
This is not going to go well either.

Michael K said...

The news here in Britain is just about 24/7 "migrants" and the hysteria created by the idiots who encouraged this.

It will be interesting to see what happens. It won't be pretty.

tim in vermont said...

It wouldn't be the first time that Britain was overwhelmed by invasions of settlers. Of course in the old days there was plenty of land and they just gave the invading Danes some of it. Not an option anymore.

Rusty said...

Hagar said...
Turkey now finds itself squeezed between Iran and Russia without an ally near or far.
This is not going to go well either.



If only somebody had introduced a stabilizing influence in the area that wasn't Israel. A country maybe.
I guess we'll never know.

James Pawlak said...

Most of them "eat" much more dangerous material---The contents of the Koran.

n.n said...

The first crisis was caused by a premature evacuation and an opportunistic "Spring". The second crisis was mass emigration, a "trail of death [cap mushrooms]", while leaving the majority and a wasteland. The third crisis is mass immigration and murder, rape, and dislocation of native people.

I wonder if Obama's supplication to Iran and Russia by proxy will pay dividends to extract us from his anthropogenic global quagmire.

Achilles said...

Robert Cook said...
"The refugee crisis is a direct result of the destruction we and our allies in Western Europe have wreaked in the middle east by our illegal wars, smashing states and destabilizing what were once stable areas. This is a catastrophe which promises to grow worse."

They weren't running when we were there. They were voting. Girls were going to school. People in that country were getting a chance at liberty that you take for granted.

Then you pulled us out.

Now women are being sold as sex slaves. The only schools are madrassas. The christians have been completely wiped out. They are all trying to get out of the hell hole you created.

I hope you suffer the same fate as the people of Iraq. God I wish you would get the fuck out of this country. You are a disgusting cowardly wretch.

Chuck said...

This is really going to be an interesting story to follow. The anger and the vigilance seen at that rally was really something. The demand for "justice" and the fury in some of the faces depicted in the news photographs.

What if the rapist turns out to be an African-American? Or an illegal immigrant?

What is "Rape Culture"? Can anybody describe "Rape Culture" in 25 words or less? In 100 words? Was there an overlap, of people who protested the death of the black teen in Madison (Tony Robinson) and people who were at the "Rape Culture" protest?

Sammy Finkelman said...

They don't have to be starving to try those mushrooms - just campaing out.

Sammy Finkelman said...

CWP: You'd think they'd stop after the first one.

Different people keep trying them out. The crowds change. But the same hospital or at least region may encounter this over and over again.

Unknown said...

Chuck: What is "Rape Culture"?

A narrative created by intersectionalist feminists to support the equally fake "War on Women" narrative (created by Democrats to sucker white, progressive women into supporting the abortion and sale of black babies).

The parenthetical doesn't count toward the "25 words or [fewer]" as it is describing "War on Women", not "Rape Culture".

What does this have to do with picking mushrooms in a foreign country and stupidly eating them?