No. Next question.

In science articles I read in middle school in the mid-90s, they talked about AGW causing winters that were shorter but more intense. This is nothing new or unpredictable to people who were paying attention.

Prednisone is specifically used to suppress the immune system. Not the thing to be taking when you've got a deadly respiratory infection. He very well might die because of this. One can only hope.

This action was almost certainly the result of information given by the Taliban. The Taliban hate ISIS and want to kill them. They also don't want Americans in Afghanistan and don't want to give Americans any reason to stay. The Taliban also obviously have better intelligence on the ground about such operations. By giving America the people responsible for the attack, they can prevent re-engagement of US forces while killing enemies they'll just have to fight anyway.

In order to advance their careers, Republican politicians have been required to kill some number of their constituents as a human sacrifice. This has been the norm for many years now. If you're surprised by this fact, you're either naive or stupid, willfully so, either way.

I hope he dies.

White people don't want to accept that two thirds of their cohort are unreconstructed racists because they don't want to believe that white people, as a group, are, on balance, evil, the weight of history be damned. Racial animosity is the greatest predictor of political affinity. Not income, not religiosity, not region. Other factors only have efficacy as predictors in direct proportion to their correlation with racial animosity. Not acknowledging that fact keeps appropriate strategies from even being conceived, let alone followed.

Earthquakes trigger more earthquakes further down the fault. That particular fault is currently highly loaded and the entire Pacific Northwest is overdue for large earthquakes. Over the next 5-10 years, we're going to get a series of large quakes off the Northwest coast of NA. Including a possible 9.0 off the coast of Washington.