I'm glad the ref's daughter was able to call her father's murderer stupid in the news, but I really think that the little asshole should be asked to pay back all of the funeral expenses for the family. What a little shit.
They're taught that if they come across a couple in the act, don't interfere. People unexpectedly interrupted by a stranger mid-coitus usually get very upset and act unpredictably. Just get out of the immediate area and call the cops.
The republican chickenhawks in congress were pressing for war! war! war! as soon as the chemical weapon news broke. They don't care about the facts, they just want blood, fear, and terror.
@8: No republican leader (or any congressman that I know of from either party) in Congress was calling for "boots on the ground" in Syria. No fly zones and arming the rebels yes - but even the White House considered those options. So your "war! war! war! blood, fear, and terror" quip is simply "hyperbole! hyperbole! hyperbole! hyperbole, hyperbole, and hyperbole".
I feel so, so bad for the ref and his family. What a stupid way to die. I hope there are strong consequences for this. The daughter says she's willing to forgive... later. I'd be, like, I'll forgive you when you're sitting in a jail cell doing twenty.
The article makes some good points about the boorish attitude of the parents. I swear it all starts with them.
@9 That's disgusting! Thank god I didn't live back then! And cleaning pacifiers with your mouth is almost as disgusting. I couldn't love my kid that much.
@10,
Oh yeah, I forgot, U.S. military aircraft shooting down Syrian military aircraft isn't "war," it's just "intervention."
That's so relieving!
It would be so nice if we could avoid something as big as a "war" in Syria and instead describe it as something more pleasing to hear... maybe "police action."
5, the point is that Syria has *actual* WMD and has *actually* used them. You're probably too young to remember, but the GOP heroes Bush & Cheney created a huge budget deficit by invading Iraq because they imagined it to have WMD. Needless to say, they were complete idiots, every stupid Republican, (and some idiot Dems) and they forced their idiocy upon America via non-stop media barrage of ignoring facts, denouncing those who tried to point out the facts, even aggressively silencing those who simply raised questions about their idiocy. The post is a small tid-bit to point out their idiotic hypocrisy.
The GOP hasn't changed a bit, they are still demanding America follow their idiocy, which includes one John McCain. But everything you believe in is based on fantasy. Let's review-- Austerity doesn't work. Increasing taxes & spending is healthy for the economy. Comprehensive sex education reduces teen pregnancy & abortion. A single-payer health care system not only improves the economy, it creates a happier country. Our military eats up far too much of our budget, and could easily be reduced w/o increasing the threats to our national security.
Ok, so let me get this straight, people die in a car fire, and it is too sad for commentary, but people die in gunfire, and that is totally cool to use to support your own political position?
@16 but our founding fathers didn't know we would invent cars! If they could have predicted how fundamental the car would become, they'd have enshrined the right to drive in the constitution. Goodness, can you imagine what it would be like if we could only regulate driving insofar as we can regulate guns? It'd be a nightmare.
It is bad enough that some of the technologies that happened to be in used in the 1700s were given such permanent regard. If I was theist, I'd thank God the founders couldn't predict later tech.
@15 Actually, it was the wedding party aspect of it that made it particularly sad, and kept me from doing an inappropriately snarky headline (not that a bunch didn't occur to me). But yeah, limo fires are different from gun deaths in that they EXTREMELY RARE. If, however, wedding parties and prom dates were frequently being burned alive in malfunctioning stretch limos, my guess is we would likely try to do something about it.
@ 18, the situation in Syria is far more complex than that. Did you know that a religious minority has held dominion over a much larger group for decades? Did you know that this religious minority has the support of Syria's ethnic minorities? They all seem to fear the majority.
None of that is to say that Assad's actions are anything but criminal, or that he deserves anything other than a date with the hangman, but ethnic and cultural strife generally has no good guys. We could intervene and discover that the Sunnis are just as brutal and horrible as the Baathists.
Anyway, there's nowhere near the natural resources in Syria as there is in Iraq, so the US government is truly without motivation to intervene.
How about the next day that a child doesn't shoot another child gets declared a national holiday?
They're taught that if they come across a couple in the act, don't interfere. People unexpectedly interrupted by a stranger mid-coitus usually get very upset and act unpredictably. Just get out of the immediate area and call the cops.
The republican chickenhawks in congress were pressing for war! war! war! as soon as the chemical weapon news broke. They don't care about the facts, they just want blood, fear, and terror.
Thank gawd for blenders.
The article makes some good points about the boorish attitude of the parents. I swear it all starts with them.
@9 That's disgusting! Thank god I didn't live back then! And cleaning pacifiers with your mouth is almost as disgusting. I couldn't love my kid that much.
Oh yeah, I forgot, U.S. military aircraft shooting down Syrian military aircraft isn't "war," it's just "intervention."
That's so relieving!
It would be so nice if we could avoid something as big as a "war" in Syria and instead describe it as something more pleasing to hear... maybe "police action."
The GOP hasn't changed a bit, they are still demanding America follow their idiocy, which includes one John McCain. But everything you believe in is based on fantasy. Let's review-- Austerity doesn't work. Increasing taxes & spending is healthy for the economy. Comprehensive sex education reduces teen pregnancy & abortion. A single-payer health care system not only improves the economy, it creates a happier country. Our military eats up far too much of our budget, and could easily be reduced w/o increasing the threats to our national security.
You are so very cliched. I don't miss you one bit.
Reminds me of Fox News.
to be consistent, the Stranger should demand the creation of safety standards for vehicles as well as requiring registration and insurance.
@13: You spewed all of that from my rather innocuous observation in @5? Relax honey, just relax. Take deep breaths.
It is bad enough that some of the technologies that happened to be in used in the 1700s were given such permanent regard. If I was theist, I'd thank God the founders couldn't predict later tech.
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None of that is to say that Assad's actions are anything but criminal, or that he deserves anything other than a date with the hangman, but ethnic and cultural strife generally has no good guys. We could intervene and discover that the Sunnis are just as brutal and horrible as the Baathists.
Anyway, there's nowhere near the natural resources in Syria as there is in Iraq, so the US government is truly without motivation to intervene.