Not sure if this has been posted, but don't really care. It's a sliver of optimism. From Patton Oswalt's Facebook:
Boston. Fucking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."
But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem -- one human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.
But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evildoers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
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my belief is that him not mentioning the word "terror" was deliberate, for two reasons:
1) they don't want to begin mass panic
2) they don't want an anti-mideastern people sentiment to erupt
3) they don't want to say it happened on their watch. Just like fort hood wasn't terror, just like Bengazi wasn't terror.
Can you give it a rest for even just a little bit when it comes to things like this? Please!!
People are dead.
The President made the right call.
Peace, Love.
"To question your government is not unpatriotic --
to not question your government is unpatriotic."
-- Sen. Chuck Hagel
I was watching CNN last night and when they went to commercial I flipped over to Fox. It took Hannity about 2 minutes to politicize this thing. Its sad. He was talking to Mark Fuhrman (who is more credible than Mark Fuhrman right?) and said I don't wanna make this political, I hate to make this political but I gotta say... and then they both went on about how gun control is pointless because people can make bombs. :fp: Just reminded me why I don't watch that globe headed idiot. Seriously, he has a huge head. Its like orange on a toothpick.
I was watching CNN last night and when they went to commercial I flipped over to Fox. It took Hannity about 2 minutes to politicize this thing. Its sad. He was talking to Mark Fuhrman (who is more credible than Mark Fuhrman right?) and said I don't wanna make this political, I hate to make this political but I gotta say... and then they both went on about how gun control is pointless because people can make bombs. :fp: Just reminded me why I don't watch that globe headed idiot. Seriously, he has a huge head. Its like orange on a toothpick.
the picture of the "mystery man on the roof" has been making its rounds all over the internet. of course it could be a member of the media, a spectator, the building's superintendent. when i originally saw the picture, i thought someone maybe photoshopped him in, but he is visible in the videos that keep replaying the blast from a certain angle.
none the less, gave me the chills and is pretty eerie.
the picture of the "mystery man on the roof" has been making its rounds all over the internet. of course it could be a member of the media, a spectator, the building's superintendent. when i originally saw the picture, i thought someone maybe photoshopped him in, but he is visible in the videos that keep replaying the blast from a certain angle.
none the less, gave me the chills and is pretty eerie.
Seems like an enormous jump to conclude that this guy had anything to do with it, without more information.
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2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2 2018-06-18 London 1 2018-08-18 Wrigley 1 2018-08-20 Wrigley 2 2022-09-16 Nashville 2023-08-31 St. Paul 2023-09-02 St. Paul 2023-09-05 Chicago 1
the picture of the "mystery man on the roof" has been making its rounds all over the internet. of course it could be a member of the media, a spectator, the building's superintendent. when i originally saw the picture, i thought someone maybe photoshopped him in, but he is visible in the videos that keep replaying the blast from a certain angle.
none the less, gave me the chills and is pretty eerie.
the picture of the "mystery man on the roof" has been making its rounds all over the internet. of course it could be a member of the media, a spectator, the building's superintendent. when i originally saw the picture, i thought someone maybe photoshopped him in, but he is visible in the videos that keep replaying the blast from a certain angle.
none the less, gave me the chills and is pretty eerie.
Seems like an enormous jump to conclude that this guy had anything to do with it, without more information.
true..but everything seems suspicious right now..they need to check every photo,video,person,pikcture,eyelook,whatever to find the ones did that horrible thing..
and actually,it doeasnt matter what media say or think..the authorities matters what they doing
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Sources told FOX 25 there was an American Airlines flight that was headed to Chicago. There were two men on that plane – not sitting next to each other – and speaking Arabic.
There were some concerned marathoners on the flight so the plane was brought back to the gate and the two men were escorted off the plane.
I was watching CNN last night and when they went to commercial I flipped over to Fox. It took Hannity about 2 minutes to politicize this thing. Its sad. He was talking to Mark Fuhrman (who is more credible than Mark Fuhrman right?) and said I don't wanna make this political, I hate to make this political but I gotta say... and then they both went on about how gun control is pointless because people can make bombs. :fp: Just reminded me why I don't watch that globe headed idiot. Seriously, he has a huge head. Its like orange on a toothpick.
like god damn sputnick.
I feel sorry for people who immediately think this way. This isn't about gun control, this isn't about bomb making supplies control.
Our first thoughts and actions as a nation should be to help in whatever way we can
Second response should be to figure out, after catching them, why they did it and making sure to punish them appropriately (hanging by toe nails, hot spikes in uncomfortable places, etc).
3rd, try to see where the security break down occurred, not to run someone up the flag pole and get people fired, but to see if there was something that could have been done differently.
4th and final, after we figure out what could have been done differently, get back to petty politicization of all things so the terrorists don't win.
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btw,i have to add that when this happened,and read and saw videos about,i was so sad ..
now the time pass im more pissed than sad..
its so fuckin sick minds the ones just blow people in the air just like that in a sport event..
they need to find them and pay for the murders of innocent people
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
I was watching CNN last night and when they went to commercial I flipped over to Fox. It took Hannity about 2 minutes to politicize this thing. Its sad. He was talking to Mark Fuhrman (who is more credible than Mark Fuhrman right?) and said I don't wanna make this political, I hate to make this political but I gotta say... and then they both went on about how gun control is pointless because people can make bombs. :fp: Just reminded me why I don't watch that globe headed idiot. Seriously, he has a huge head. Its like orange on a toothpick.
Such an assclown.
it is kind of funny to watch him.. because he is so bad. But if you watch too long you begin to wonder how he is still on the air.. then realize there are a whole bunch of people that respect and believe him. If we continue to be afraid to police the airways.. our country will have large groups that are fed information from the likes of Hannity.
Sources told FOX 25 there was an American Airlines flight that was headed to Chicago. There were two men on that plane – not sitting next to each other – and speaking Arabic.
There were some concerned marathoners on the flight so the plane was brought back to the gate and the two men were escorted off the plane.
Sources told FOX 25 there was an American Airlines flight that was headed to Chicago. There were two men on that plane – not sitting next to each other – and speaking Arabic.
There were some concerned marathoners on the flight so the plane was brought back to the gate and the two men were escorted off the plane.
No other details were immediately available.
Good god it must be tough being an Arabic speaking person in this country. There are well over a million Arab Americans in the US, the vast majority of whom are just trying to go about the business of living.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
One of the most horrific pictures from the bombing that I saw was a man in a wheelchair whose legs were blown off. There appeared to be a man running next to them, holding the victims artery or maybe the tourniquet.
Carlos Arredondo is an anti-war activist who was at the race to honor his dead sons -- one of which was killed serving in Iraq. Arredondo was in Boston to hand out American flags in honor of fallen soldiers. By the end of the day, his last flag would be soaked in blood, used as a tourniquet to save one of the bomb victim's lives. (*edit, Carlos was not a victim, he ran to help people)
This is much more of rhetorical question than anything but why is it necessary to put a horrifically violent picture on the cover of newspapers - http://online.wsj.com/itp?mod=WSJ_formfactor
The cover of the Wall Street Journal today resembles some kind of zombie apocolypse.
Is it motivating people to fight for a change? Not yet
Is it just to make people have a pit in their stomaches for the entire day? More likely
It's been said before but this is all becoming way too normal these days.
Pittsburgh 2003/Pittsburgh 2006/Outside Lands 2009/Bridge School 2010/Pittsburgh 2013
the president is addressing the nation again at 11:30ET.
is this streaming somewhere?
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Damn, JP. Another horrific layer in this.
As to the Arabic-speaking folks on the plane, yeah. Must be tough. My mom's gotten "those looks" from those who see her dark features, hear her speaking Persian and draw ridiculous conclusions about her. Had I not inherited my father's German features, I'd likely get the same.
Then again, much of what I've been hearing in the news conferences are about people keeping their eyes and ears open. So, the usual PC-ness aside, what exactly is considered suspect? What's out of line?
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As to the Arabic-speaking folks on the plane, yeah. Must be tough. My mom's gotten "those looks" from those who see her dark features, hear her speaking Persian and draw ridiculous conclusions about her. Had I not inherited my father's German features, I'd likely get the same.
Then again, much of what I've been hearing in the news conferences are about people keeping their eyes and ears open. So, the usual PC-ness aside, what exactly is considered suspect? What's out of line?
At this stage of the investigation, any attempt to pin this on an Arabic speaking person is sheer racism. This is an ugliness we don't need right now.
I'm sorry to hear your Mom gets suspicious looks. That's totally unfair.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Also, Why is it news worthy to have a headline, "Obama calls Boston Marathon and act of terror". What else is he supposed to call it, an "Act of Kindness?" - sarcasm obviously but should make sure everyone knows it
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I think we all have an idea what group is responisable for this but in any case who ever did this it is an act of TERRORISM plain and simple and the death penalty is in order for ALL the persons involved in planting these bombs.
Godfather.
what group might that be!?
i honestly don't know ... from what i can gather - we still don't know ... i think it best still to wait until the facts come in ...
to be fair yes we should wait for the facts but this type of attack is or has been common for a certin group of people (taliban/muslims) and their wanna be followers.
Godfather.
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I think we all have an idea what group is responisable for this but in any case who ever did this it is an act of TERRORISM plain and simple and the death penalty is in order for ALL the persons involved in planting these bombs.
Godfather.
what group might that be!?
i honestly don't know ... from what i can gather - we still don't know ... i think it best still to wait until the facts come in ...
to be fair yes we should wait for the facts but this type of attack is or has been common for a certin group of people (taliban/muslims) and their wanna be followers.
Godfather.
So Godfather, why not be fair and wait until the facts come out? Why jump to conclusions that unnecessarily increase biases?
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
not to stirr up anything Brian but I'll bet the first thing people thought when this happened was the group
I mentioned had done it or at least they came to mind and with all the distruction this group has been causing around the world and here in in the US how can you blame them (me) for thinking that ? I just call it like I see it, it's not like it would be a big suprise if was the group I mentioned.
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From Patton Oswalt's Facebook:
Boston. Fucking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."
But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem -- one human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.
But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evildoers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
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2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
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2014-10-09 Lincoln
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2014-10-20 Milwaukee
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2018-06-18 London 1
2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
2022-09-16 Nashville
2023-08-31 St. Paul
2023-09-02 St. Paul
2023-09-05 Chicago 1
Can you give it a rest for even just a little bit when it comes to things like this? Please!!
People are dead.
The President made the right call.
"To question your government is not unpatriotic --
to not question your government is unpatriotic."
-- Sen. Chuck Hagel
Such an assclown.
Jesus, first time seeing that. Shiver down my spine.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Seems like an enormous jump to conclude that this guy had anything to do with it, without more information.
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2009-08-23 Chicago
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2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
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2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
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2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
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2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
2018-06-18 London 1
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I would venture a guess that it means absolutely nothing.
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and actually,it doeasnt matter what media say or think..the authorities matters what they doing
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
There were some concerned marathoners on the flight so the plane was brought back to the gate and the two men were escorted off the plane.
No other details were immediately available.
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Mexico=1, Colombia=1
Upcoming: Sacramento, Vegas x2, Manchester, London, Chicago x2, NYC x2, Fenway x2, Aucklandx2, Gold Coast, Melbournex2
like god damn sputnick.
I feel sorry for people who immediately think this way. This isn't about gun control, this isn't about bomb making supplies control.
Our first thoughts and actions as a nation should be to help in whatever way we can
Second response should be to figure out, after catching them, why they did it and making sure to punish them appropriately (hanging by toe nails, hot spikes in uncomfortable places, etc).
3rd, try to see where the security break down occurred, not to run someone up the flag pole and get people fired, but to see if there was something that could have been done differently.
4th and final, after we figure out what could have been done differently, get back to petty politicization of all things so the terrorists don't win.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
now the time pass im more pissed than sad..
its so fuckin sick minds the ones just blow people in the air just like that in a sport event..
they need to find them and pay for the murders of innocent people
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
it is kind of funny to watch him.. because he is so bad. But if you watch too long you begin to wonder how he is still on the air.. then realize there are a whole bunch of people that respect and believe him. If we continue to be afraid to police the airways.. our country will have large groups that are fed information from the likes of Hannity.
wow
Good god it must be tough being an Arabic speaking person in this country. There are well over a million Arab Americans in the US, the vast majority of whom are just trying to go about the business of living.
Carlos Arredondo is an anti-war activist who was at the race to honor his dead sons -- one of which was killed serving in Iraq. Arredondo was in Boston to hand out American flags in honor of fallen soldiers. By the end of the day, his last flag would be soaked in blood, used as a tourniquet to save one of the bomb victim's lives.
(*edit, Carlos was not a victim, he ran to help people)
Here's the fully story:
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/ ... n_mara.php
and if hannity and the others want to make it political they should talk about the FORTY similar bombings in iraq yesterday.
The cover of the Wall Street Journal today resembles some kind of zombie apocolypse.
Is it motivating people to fight for a change? Not yet
Is it just to make people have a pit in their stomaches for the entire day? More likely
It's been said before but this is all becoming way too normal these days.
is this streaming somewhere?
As to the Arabic-speaking folks on the plane, yeah. Must be tough. My mom's gotten "those looks" from those who see her dark features, hear her speaking Persian and draw ridiculous conclusions about her. Had I not inherited my father's German features, I'd likely get the same.
Then again, much of what I've been hearing in the news conferences are about people keeping their eyes and ears open. So, the usual PC-ness aside, what exactly is considered suspect? What's out of line?
At this stage of the investigation, any attempt to pin this on an Arabic speaking person is sheer racism. This is an ugliness we don't need right now.
I'm sorry to hear your Mom gets suspicious looks. That's totally unfair.
http://bostonmarathonconspiracy.com/
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNkxxonMYTw
SHOW COUNT: (149) 1990's=3, 2000's=53, 2010/20's=89, US=109, CAN=15, Europe=19 ,New Zealand=2, Australia=2
Mexico=1, Colombia=1
Upcoming: Sacramento, Vegas x2, Manchester, London, Chicago x2, NYC x2, Fenway x2, Aucklandx2, Gold Coast, Melbournex2
correct, that was not what I expected
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one of the comments said it may not have been looters ... organizers may have just put it out there ...
to be fair yes we should wait for the facts but this type of attack is or has been common for a certin group of people (taliban/muslims) and their wanna be followers.
Godfather.
So Godfather, why not be fair and wait until the facts come out? Why jump to conclusions that unnecessarily increase biases?
I mentioned had done it or at least they came to mind and with all the distruction this group has been causing around the world and here in in the US how can you blame them (me) for thinking that ? I just call it like I see it, it's not like it would be a big suprise if was the group I mentioned.
Godfather.