MRC broke up. Good riddance to bad garbage.
But I really doubt that we'll stop hearing their self involved, sexist and racist tweets. Usually when someone in the spotlight says some sexist or racist thing, they get called out and they eventually apologize. Sometimes they are sincere and sometimes they're just catering to the masses to get the media and fans to stop harping on them. When you think of people like Mel Gibson and Michael Richards, they apologized. But do you really believe them? I don't think those people actually learned a lesson.
Did MCR learn a lesson? Definitely not. Frank Iero using the N word in Twitter, then telling people they were "imbeciles" when they told him that wasn't cool. Gerard saying vile and violent things to and about women on his Twitter and then getting his fan sheep to harass those women, with gender based slurs. And the gender based slurs he used to degrade women on Twitter and on stage. Frank Iero's abortion jokes. Ray Toro saying that women shouldn't be allowed to use public toilets. The list goes on.
These comments were never addressed. MCR breaks up and leaves this as their legacy to those of us who know better. They were never forced to apologize, because, I think, they were never famous enough in the media to garner a huge outcry.
And don't forget... MSI is still out there, spewing racist lyrics (and telling people it's okay for white people to do that, because it's "satire"), homophobic lyrics, and violently misogynistic lyrics, making jokes about sexual abuse of children... The two bands are exactly the same.
Yes, I am glad that MCR broke up, but they never apologized for their racism and misogyny. And they are still, sadly, the same exact racist, sexist people they were before they broke up.
BUT... at least they did break up! So go out and celebrate. :-)
With that out of the way I want to wish everyone a healthy and prosperous spring season, or whatever season it is where you live.
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After all that has happened, I can't help but feel that maybe what Mikey has been up to was just the final nail in the coffin.
I think Gerard's ego is probably out of control. I can see him thinking he can have a ~solo~ career. LMAO.
I don't think Mikey's extracurricular activities had anything to do with MCR breaking up. Bands survive affairs, divorces and sex scandals every day. I think Gerard's letter explained that it was just time to end the band and move on to other things. They always said that they'd know when it was time.
I think most people knew it was over when MCR released Conventional Weapons instead of a new album last fall. They had all of last spring and summer free. They had more than enough time to make a new album. The romance was gone. Instead of faking it they ended it on their terms.
Frank and James have already moved on with DeathSpells. They're touring with MSI.
Well isn't that the best way to end anything, on your own terms?
3:22 no doubt, with much assistance from his wife and friends.
I agree it had a lot to do with Mikey. I really think that Lindsey wasn't going to abide Mikey's company anymore because she's friends with Alicia.
This is going to make family dinners very difficult for them, isn't it.
Notice how Gerard is tweeting all the time like he's realized he's gonna dry up out of the spotlight and needs to keep getting attention somehow.
The two bands are exactly the same
The two bands are nothing alike.
Good riddance to bad garbage.
I'ts good riddance to bad rubbish.
They were never forced to apologize
You can't force anyone to apologize for anything.
lol
They always said that they'd know when it was time.
Too bad they didn't do what they always said. It was time before they put out the commercial flop that was Danger Days.
I used to love this band, but Danger Days was so fucking bad. Not so much the record itself, but the concept. They made themselves seem so damn foolish with their recycled from a bad YA Dystopian novel bullshit. Teeny little dweebs running around with neon colored plastic water pistols. It was a total embarrassment.
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Gerard acts like he's in the middle of a manic episode. Right now he's all about starting over and throwing out all the old bits of his life. I went through that with my bipolar husband many, many times. Nothing good will come from this.
Good luck to him.
To me it looks like he's a man who's relieved and happy with the decisions he's made recently. Big decisions like ending MCR. I don't think he's thrown out all the old bits of his life. If anything he's returned to some of those old things that made him happy. He's rediscovered old interests and found new ones. That's a good thing.
Whatever...
Kapunua, love to read your thoughts after you watch the series.
Oh and Kapunua, Professor Brian Cox made a series a couple of years ago for the BBC called Wonders of the Universe.
Worth watching, along with the Richard Feynman lectures :)
Stick to the topic of the blog.
Not interested in that topic.
Fan of ex-band @ 1:32, go run along and tweet your hero or something...
I've read some of Feynman's lectures, and I've seen bits of them on youtube, but I've never watched the whole series at once. Feynman is actually my favorite. :D
Aargh. I liked the blog better when we didn't talk about MCR. Not that I'm trying to tell people what to talk about -- this has always been a place where we talk about all kinds of things. It's just that for me, MCR was over ages ago.
Exactly 11:26, I don't really see where the problem is if no one mentions them.
I don't see what the problem is if some one does mention them.
See I don't understand why anyone would continuously talk about a group of people they don't give two hoots about.
I agree with 11:26, it better when there is talk about other things.
There isn't a problem.
Wow, talk about desperation.
Oh well.
I've read some of Feynman's lectures, and I've seen bits of them on youtube, but I've never watched the whole series at once. Feynman is actually my favorite. :D
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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
My favourite quotes are from Neil deGrasse Tyson
"We are all connected;
To each other, biologically.
To the earth, chemically.
To the rest of the universe atomically.”
And
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it"
Ha!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/14/stupid-humans-smart-enough-to-know-it
I wonder what the guys are going to do when the money starts drying up? Let's face it, Gerard's comic book career isn't going to make him millions, I don't see Frank's new band taking off and I don't even know what the other two are doing right now. I think they'll get back together eventually.
I wonder what the guys are going to do when the money starts drying up? Let's face it, Gerard's comic book career isn't going to make him millions, I don't see Frank's new band taking off and I don't even know what the other two are doing right now. I think they'll get back together eventually.
These guys are in their mid-thirties and they found success by being an emo boy band that capitalized on their looks. Gerard and Mikey don't have the best genes when it comes to aging, so their days of looking "hot" are numbered. They better not wait too long to reunite, or it will be a waste of time.
Of course they could always do a reunion tour and play the state fair circuit.
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade...then add some vodka to that shit.
“Drink up. Whiskey’s God’s way of letting us he loves us and he wants us to be happy.”
— Lix Storm - The Hour
^Fuck. I just pasted an copied that quote and it got messed up.
"Whiskey is god's way of telling us he loves us and he wants us to be happy."
-- Lix Storm
Tink ♥ Lynz? 0_o
mad Tink?
A match made in heaven. ^_~
The veil is lifting.
http://news.yahoo.com/food-stamp-nation-090000155.html
"a federal program that began as a last resort for a few million hungry people has grown into an economic lifeline for entire towns. Spending on SNAP has doubled in the past four years and tripled in the past decade, surpassing $78 billion last year"
When life hands you lemons
You make lemon, lime and bitters. Yum.
WTF in Boston?
Damn. Why do people gotta do such awful things?
Doctors are "pulling ball-bearings out of people' in the ER, suggesting bombs were designed to propel shrapnel. on.cnn.com/139ikHp
Three killed – including 8-year-old boy – in bomb blasts near finish line of Boston Marathon, officials say. Area hospitals say at least 132 are injured, including eight children.
[Update, 8:55 p.m. ET] A Saudi national with a leg wound was under guard at a Boston hospital in connection with the bombings at the Boston Marathon, but investigators cannot say he is involved at this time and he is not in custody, a law enforcement official said Monday evening.
[Update, 8:54 p.m. ET] Three people were killed in the bombings, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told reporters Monday night, raising the toll by one.
[Update, 8:52 p.m. ET] The FBI is taking the lead in the investigation, Rick DesLauriers, FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Boston field office, told reporters.
[Update, 8:44 p.m.ET ] The Boston Celtics home game against the Indiana Pacers, originally scheduled for Tuesday, was canceled, the NBA announced. With the regular season almost at its end, the contest will not be made up.
[Update, 8:36 p.m. ET] Investigators have warned law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a "darker-skinned or black male" with a possible foreign accent in connection with Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon, according to a law enforcement advisory obtained by CNN.
The man was seen with a black backpack and sweatshirt and was trying to get into a restricted area about five minutes before the first explosion, the lookout notice states.
[Update, 8:35 p.m.] Hospital workers have treated 141 people after the Boston Marathon bombings, officials at those facilities said Monday night. Two people died in the terror attack, including an 8-year-old boy, a state law enforcement source said.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/15/explosions-near-finish-of-boston-marathon/?on.cnn=1
What kind of monsters do this? How could it happen again?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/fbi-boston-marathon-bombing-investigation_n_3089106.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003#slide=2340778
So tragic.
Martin Richard was standing near the finish line, waiting for his father to complete the grueling Boston Marathon on Monday, when an explosion took his life.
He was 8 years old and in the third grade.
Neighbor Jane Sherman told WCVB that Martin was a typical little boy, who loved to ride his bike and play baseball.
Fucking asshole sons of bitches who did this horrible thing. How can they live with themselves?
London Marathon will go ahead as planned on Sunday.
"I think this is one of those incidents where the best way to show solidarity with Boston is to continue and send a very clear message to those responsible." Hugh Robertson, Sports Minister.
Dreadful news regarding the Boston Marathon. Evil bastards. Any death is absolutely awful, but the death of a child is particularly abhorrent.
Great anti sexism twitter page here celebrating its one year anniversary by encouraging tweets regarding everyday sexism. It's very much still alive.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/what-is-false-flag-attack-boston-bombing/64260/
The conspiracy nuts didn't waste any time. Just like after 9/11 and the Newtown shootings. It was the administration that did. Bush did it to start a war for oil, get revenge for his dad and further a capitalist agenda. Obama did it to get stricter gun control laws , take away more civil liberties and further a fascist agenda.
Alex Jones, Michael Moore, Dan Bidondi. All nuts.
"Government officials said there were no credible threats before the race "
http://www.local15tv.com/mostpopular/story/UM-Coach-Bomb-Sniffing-Dogs-Spotters-on-Roofs/BrirjAzFPUKKN8z6eSDJEA.cspx
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/mystery-man-on-roof-boston-bombings-photo-_n_3091189.html
Fucking asshole sons of bitches who did this horrible thing. How can they live with themselves?
Whoever was responsible has no empathy, no conscience.
I cried when I read about the little boy.
It's so terrible I can't even contemplate.
An arrest has been made in the unrelated ricin attack.
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130417/NEWS/130417028/Paul-Kevin-Curtis-KC-approve-message-
http://www.ripoffreport.com/political-cover-ups/north-mississippi-me/north-mississippi-medical-cent-z8efd.htm
More tragedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOaS34JtkT4
Kapunua, William Gibson is around your parts on Friday.
I envy you if you are attending his talk.
I saw he was going to be in NY, but I think it's the city. I'm at the point where I can't do a 2.5 hour train ride. :(((((( (And I'm supposed to stay close to my hospital "just in case," which is kind of bunk, because I'm still going to work which is an hour away from the hospital.)
Let me tell you, if I could comfortably get into the city, I would to to Brooklyn to watch Tom Hardy film his movie and maybe get a chance to say hi to him. :D
FBI releases pictures of 2 Boston bombing suspects and asks for the publics help in finding and identifying them.
http://www.wthr.com/story/22017916/fbi-release-two-photos-of-boston-bombing-suspects
fbi.gov
http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-releases-images-2-men-boston-marathon-212445470.html
They've probably already left the US.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/gunman-reportedly-shoots-police-officer-mit-boston-034906627.html
The baby is more important Kapunua.
Maybe next time.
I'm also very excited for you!
The man who was forced face down on the street and forced to strip in the street and walk naked to a police car in front of news cameras needs to sue everybody from the police to the FBI to the administration for violation of his civil rights. I haven't witnessed such a gross public violation of civil rights in ever. Disgusting. Pathetic. Shameful. Sickening.
I can't even be glad that one of the bombing suspects was killed after what happened to that innocent man who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. If it happened to him it can happen you or me next time.
No agency should have the power to force a person to strip naked in the street in front of other people and news cameras. None. They took it too far.
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Notice how Gerard is tweeting all the time like he's realized he's gonna dry up out of the spotlight and needs to keep getting attention somehow.
Hee hee, "help me, I'm drying up".
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We've been seeing a lot about the Boston bombing on our news. Why oh why do these people do these things? What on earth do they think they are gonna accomplish? What tragic, pathetic point do they think they are making? That poor little boy gone, so sad.
Anonymous said...
The man who was forced face down on the street and forced to strip in the street and walk naked to a police car in front of news cameras needs to sue everybody from the police to the FBI to the administration for violation of his civil rights. I haven't witnessed such a gross public violation of civil rights in ever. Disgusting. Pathetic. Shameful. Sickening.
Not seen anything about this on our news though. Shocking.
The amount of Arabic descent and Muslim and just plain old darker skinned people getting harassed, threatened, in some cases assaulted over this is out of control. Just today they confirmed that the suspects are caucasian and all over Twitter people are still howling for the blood of anyone with dark skin. People are so stupid and hateful.
Misty, I just saw a picture of that little boy, holding up a sign that says "Stop hurting people." Way too sad. I swear I will neve runderstand why people do things like this. Nor do I want to understand.
Because events like this make some people more paranoid and digs up old prejudices Kapunua.
Because events like this make some people more paranoid and digs up old prejudices Kapunua.
I wanted to say the same.
To fight their anxiety and to be able to keep on living without having to fear death and assault everytime they're leaving the house, they need to quickly find a scapegoat to blame for all of this and to be able to identify as the enemy.
Fear makes ignorant.
And then there are the ones with an agenda who use this fear to their own advantage.
On a lighter note;
I was downtown the other day at the central station with an international press store and I had to take a look into that recent Kerrang issue. You know, the one with the huge MCR hommage, "about four pages long".
I was really interested in knowing which credible rock band/music artists would dare to admit that they liked their music and would miss them.
NOBODY, HAHAHAHAHA!
The only ones who admit to having liked them is Mark Whatshisface of Blink 90210 (and as far as I remember, he only talks about how 'nice' they were, nothing about the music) and some dude in a band I've never heard of.
The rest is two Kerrang editors and about ten Kerrang readers.
Nobody of importance gives a fuck about their break-up. Embarrassing, right? Right!
The suspects were light skinned and they were Muslim. They were brothers. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. They were from Russia.
The family was granted US asylum in the early 2000's. The younger brother became a US citizen on September 11, 2012. The older brother never obtained US citizenship.
The older brother was known to the FBI. He had been reported to the US gov't as being an extremist by the Russian govt last year.
They murdered 4 people, injured over 170, bombed the Boston marathon and terrorized the town of Watertown Mass.
http://news.yahoo.com/stories-2-brothers-suspected-bombing-124623274.html
http://news.yahoo.com/final-shootout-then-boston-bombing-suspect-caught-112744657.html
A neighbor described how heavily armed police stormed by her window not long after the lockdown was lifted — the rapid gunfire left her huddled on the bathroom floor on top of her young son.
"I was just waiting for bullets to just start flying everywhere," Deanna Finn said.
Terrifying.
The brothers had built an arsenal of pipe bombs, grenades and improvised explosive devices and used some of the weapons in trying to make their getaway, said Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Watertown resident Kayla Dipaolo said she was woken up overnight by gunfire and a large explosion that sounded "like it was right next to my head ... and shook the whole house."
"It was very scary," she said. "There are two bullet holes in the side of my house, and by the front door there is another."
What tragic, pathetic point do they think they are making? That poor little boy gone, so sad.
It is. It's more than tragic and sad. It's hateful, evil and done to cause death, destruction and instill fear.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10002469/Boston-Marathon-bombs-April-20-as-it-happened.html
Scroll down to 12.04 (07.04) for
One of the last pictures of 8-year-old Martin Richard (circled in blue) next to his father, sister (green jacket), and older brother (leaning on the railing to the left), with the second suspect, three rows behind him.
To fight their anxiety and to be able to keep on living without having to fear death and assault everytime they're leaving the house, they need to quickly find a scapegoat to blame for all of this and to be able to identify as the enemy.
That's so true. Unfortunately, it just adds to the problem.
The whole thing is so terrible and it brings out the worst in some people. Not all, but some. (Especially on Twitter, GOD.)
According to a family member, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was kicked out of his uncle's house because of his increasingly extremist views.
http://news.yahoo.com/boston-bomb-suspect-alarmed-russian-relatives-extremist-views-163600939--abc-news-topstories.html
"When he came back he starting posting more radical jihadist YouTube videos and started becoming more of a fundamentalist Muslim," Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told ABC News Friday.
"My concern is that he may have gone over there to visit his father and he received training and then became radicalized and then came back. Something happened in that period of time. He was not like that before," McCaul said.
The FBI, meanwhile, also looked into Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011.
the bureau said it investigated Tsarnaev on behalf of a foreign government, though it did not reveal which one.
"The request stated that it was based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country's region to join unspecified underground groups," the FBI statement said.
The bureau said that in response to the request it combed through its databases and interviewed the man and members of his family, but did not find any evidence he was tied to terror groups.
"
They have their evidence now when it's too late for the four people that were murdered and the dozens maimed and injured.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/president-obama-boston-bombing-speaks_n_3120024.html
Among the "many unanswered questions," Obama said, were why these men, "who grew up and studied here as part of our communities," resorted to such violence.
He asked, "How did they plan and carry out these attacks and did they receive any help?"
Obama said he had instructed the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to continue the investigation into whether the brothers had help.
"We will determine what happened. We will investigate any associations these terrorists may have had," he said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/2-pals-accused-boston-bomber-custody-article-1.1323004
Why are all of these suspected terrorists driving around in expensive cars? They're college students. Where are they getting the money for Mercedes and BMW's?
Celebrations from Boston and Watertown residents.
http://watertown.patch.com/articles/elation-at-scene-of-watertown-capture-of-second-marathon-bombing-suspect#video-14065529
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/boston-celebrates-capture-marathon-bombing-suspect-19005819
http://video.xin.msn.com/watch/video/boston-celebrates-arrest-of-boston-bombings-suspect/yq7vkb3f?from=gallery_en-sg&cpkey=530c214a-bc80-416e-ad04-03cd7fbbd314%257c%257c%257c%257c
You know, the one with the huge MCR hommage, "about four pages long"
lol
Embarrassing, right?
As embarrassing as hooking up with...
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/16/lets_hope_the_boston_marathon_bomber_is_a_white_american/
David Sirota got half of his wish. One of the brothers was white in skin color and an American citizen since September. He went to MIT so he was privileged. A privileged white male just like asinine David Sirota hoped.
http://twitchy.com/2013/04/16/salon-contributor-david-sirota-has-fingers-crossed-for-white-male-marathon-bomber/
When sane people and journalists were hoping that the suspects were caught and brought to justice insane journalists and people where hoping that the suspects were from a particular race, religion, region or political group.
If you hoped that the suspects were black, white, brown, muslim, jewish, christian, Arabic, American, Asian, African, left wing or right wing you're a bigoted ass.
Federal investigators are hurrying to review a visit that one of the suspected bombers made to Chechnya and Dagestan, predominantly Muslim republics in the north Caucasus region of Russia. Both have active militant separatist movements. Members of Congress expressed concern about the F.B.I.’s handling of a request from Russia before the trip to examine the man’s possible links to extremist groups in the region.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/boston-marathon-bombings.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/20/boston-marathon-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-mirnada-rights
Nut.
Send the drones.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/15/us-usa-drones-court-idUSBRE92E0NW20130315
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/anti-drone-activists_n_2966447.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/faith-groups-obama-drones_n_3095443.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/opinion/the-drone-question-obama-hasnt-answered.html
" ‘Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?’ ”
the attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., wrote to Mr. Paul. “The answer to that question is no.”
What, exactly, does the Obama administration mean by “engaged in combat”? The extraordinary secrecy of this White House makes the answer difficult to know. We have some clues, and they are troubling.
"
http://news.yahoo.com/bombing-suspects-may-led-whom-001538013--spt.html
Why did their parents move back to Russia a year ago after seeking political asylum in the USA a decade ago?
Why did Tamerlan go to Russia for six months last year and then go back to the US?
Why did Dzhokhar go through with becoming an American citizen on Sept 11, 2012 when he tweeted "a decade in america already, i want out" six months before on March 24, 2012?
So many unanswered questions.
Carlos Sadovi and Alicia Fabbre, Chicago Tribune
April 21, 2013
An 18-year-old Aurora man with ties to a foiled attempt last year to bomb a downtown Chicago bar was arrested as he was about to travel to the Middle East to join al-Qaida, federal officials said Saturday.
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, a U.S. citizen, was held without bail Saturday after he was arrested Friday night at O'Hare International Airport, where he was about to board an airplane to Istanbul, FBI officials said in a press release.
The arrest had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon bombing, officials said. Tounisi had hoped to eventually join a jihadist militant group operating inside Syria called Jabhat al-Nusrah, according to a federal complaint unsealed Saturday and filed in U.S. District Court.
At Tounisi's home in Aurora, family members declared his innocence, saying Tounisi was set up by federal agents.
"I know my kid is innocent," said his father, Ahmad Tounisi. "I know a lot of Muslim kids are getting set up."
Ahmad Tounisi said he last saw his son Thursday and he thought his son was going to a mosque for three days. He added that his son didn't have money to buy an airline ticket to Turkey.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-aurora-terrorism-case-20130421,0,685358.story
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/obit-officer-sean-collier-0419.html
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/04/21/boston-officer-critical-but-stable-after-shootout-with-bombing-suspects/
If you hoped that the suspects were black, white, brown, muslim, jewish, christian, Arabic, American, Asian, African, left wing or right wing you're a bigoted ass.
Welp, I'm gonna disagree with that, because of the way society treats things like this. If terrorists are white, they are deemed "mentally ill" and white people go along as usual. No one racially profiles them, spews random hate at every white person, threatens the lives of random white people or outright kills them.
Take a look at Twitter sometime and see the THOUSANDS of people threatening Arabs and other POC because of the actions of a few. And those same stupid people *still* think that these kids were "dirty desert people" and "sand n*****."
White people do terrorist crimes all the time, and other white people are not held accountable. If a POC does a crime, many white people turn violent against ALL POC in retaliation.
Where is Obama?
White people do terrorist crimes all the time, and other white people are not held accountable.
Who are these white people who do terrorist crimes all the time? When and where was the terrorist attack and what other people haven't been held accountable?
You can't be talking about Timothy James McVeigh the Oklahoma city bomber. He was a terrorist and he was called a terrorist. He was tried, convicted and executed for his act of terrorism.
You can't be talking about Richard Jewell either. He was a white man who was falsely accused for the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing. He was presumed guilty and tried by the media.
Eric Robert Rudolph, also a white man, was eventually caught, tried and convicted of the Olympic City bombing. He was not deemed mentally ill. He was deemed and is known as a terrorist. He is currently serving 4 consecutive life sentences.
Richard Jewell was a hero whose life was ruined by false accusations, shoddy investigative work and the media's rush to judgement.
If you're talking about the Newtown shooter Adam Lanza was mentally ill. He had Aspergers syndrome and had been under psychiatric care.
James Holmes, the Aurora theater shooter, was also mentally ill and under psychiatric care. Court documents show a psychiatrist warned ahead of time that James Holmes was mentally disturbed and dangerous.
There is a difference between criminal acts and acts of terrorism.
"Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terror." Barrack Obama
If a POC does a crime, many white people turn violent against ALL POC in retaliation.
When and where did this happen in US in this century? The last race riots in retaliation for anything to do with race in the US that I remember were in Los Angeles in 1992. The Rodney King Riots.
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King Riots, the South Central Riots, the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Disturbance, and the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, were a race riot and subsequent looting and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles, California in 1992 following a police brutality incident. It was among the largest riots in US history.
The riot was first started in South Los Angeles and then eventually spread out into other areas over a six-day period within the Los Angeles metropolitan area in California during April in 1992. The riots started on April 29 after a trial jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers of assault and use of excessive force. The mostly white officers were videotaped beating an African-American named Rodney King following a high-speed police pursuit. Thousands of people throughout the metropolitan area in Los Angeles rioted over six days following the announcement of the verdict.[1]
Widespread looting, assault, arson and murder occurred during the riots, and estimates of property damages topped one billion dollars. The rioting ended after soldiers from the California Army National Guard, along with U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton were called in to stop the rioting after the local police could not handle the situation. In total, 53 people were killed during the riots and over two thousand people were injured
I don't blame the community of Los Angeles for being upset with the verdict but their reaction, the riots, looting and murders that followed the verdict were just as criminal as the beating of Rodney King.
They were criminal acts not acts of terrorism.
Received today my Gollancz 1st print hardcover of Count Zero!
Yaaayyy!!!!
aND
Preordered the new Daft Punk album on vinyl.
Kapunua, have you had your baby shower yet and how did it go?
By May 16, 1992, 51 men and 7 women were dead because of the riots and the Los Angeles Coroner's Office listed 50 of the 58 people dead as homicide victims.[93] Forty-one of the victims were shot to death, seven were killed in traffic accidents, four died in fires, three were beaten to death, two were fatally stabbed, and one died of a heart attack.[93]
Nearly a third of the rioters arrested were released because police officers were unable to identify individuals in the sheer volume of the crowd.
Such a horrifying week in American history. Made worse by the fact that the criminals were never brought to justice. Was even one person charged in any of those 50 murders? Most of the victims were Korean and Latino Americans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRc_FlmW2Jc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9loSB5zMaoQ&feature=fvwp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQjrB5RT6K4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRgaRtTURdY&feature=endscreen
I don't fault those police and fire dept for not stopping in the middle of that. Those police were shitting their pants. The national guard should have been called in sooner before so many people were killed and so much damage was done. They should've been called in as soon as the verdict was read. Tensions were running high before the verdict. Lessons were learned. It's tragic that the cost of those lessons was so many lives and so much destruction. That wasn't civil unrest. That was indiscriminate violent thug mentality.
Shooting firefighters. That was a new low.
what happened to the previous comment? was it deleted by vv?
I feel bad for Tamerlan Tsarnaev wife and daughter and for his uncles.
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/who-is-katherine-russell--widow-of-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev--184447769.html
If you're talking about the Newtown shooter Adam Lanza was mentally ill. He had Aspergers syndrome and had been under psychiatric care.
James Holmes, the Aurora theater shooter, was also mentally ill and under psychiatric care.
And this is exactly the problem. When white people commit mass murders, they are "mentally ill." When people of color do it, they're "terrorists."
So that's an extremely racist reaction to mass murders and you just proved my entire point.
Kapunua, have you had your baby shower yet and how did it go?
April 22, 2013 at 4:38 AM
It was yesterday, and it was fabulous, anon, thank you! :D We had about 70 guests. I think I am pretty much covered for baby stuff for the next three years. Aside from diapers (which go fast,) I literally have everything else that I need.
I was shocked to read that Chrissy Amphlett has died of breast cancer.
RIP.
Ladies make sure you have your breast checks regularly.
Current research indicates most cases have no genetic link.
I'm glad you had a good time Kapunua!
Counting the days for 'The Peripheral'
http://news.yahoo.com/police-2-arrested-canada-terror-plot-195131345.html
"This is the first known al-Qaida planned attack that we've experienced in Canada," Superintendent Doug Best told a news conference
What about the IRA? It's made up of mostly white people. Do you consider them terrorists or are they all also mentally deranged?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/23/special-dread-terrorism-muslims-west
IRA, ETA, terrorists or freedom fighters?
And this is exactly the problem. When white people commit mass murders, they are "mentally ill." When people of color do it, they're "terrorists."
When terrorists commit acts of terror they are called terrorists irregardless of their skin color.
Ted Kaczynski, Timothy Mcveigh, Eric Rudolph and John Walker Lindh are some known and convicted white terrorists. They are called terrorists because of their terrorists crimes. They are not called mentally ill mass murderers. All of them expressed radical extremists views prior to their acts of terrorism.
All of them are convicted white terrorists. That's a fact and that fact disproves your point When white people commit mass murders, they are "mentally ill.
James Holmes is called mentally ill because he is mentally ill. He was under psychiatric care prior to his shooting spree in Aurora. His psychiatrist warned campus authorities that he was mentally disturbed and homicidal.
He is a mentally deranged mass murderer who was inspired by The Joker.
Many POC have committed mass murder and they aren't called terrorists because their actions don't warrant that classification. Colin Ferguson is one name that comes to mind. He is a mass murderer. He is mentally disturbed. He is not a terrorist.
The Boston bombers are terrorists just like Timothy McVeigh.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/22/boston-marathon-terrorism-aurora-sandy-hook
IRA, ETA, terrorists or freedom fighters?
I agree with the terrorist classification of both groups. If you kidnap for political profit or bomb and intentionally kill innocent civilians I think you and your group should be called terrorists.
Why is the Fort Hood shooting classified as work place violence mass shooting and not called terrorism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_shooting
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/purple-hearts-fort-hood-victims-pentagon/story?id=18845771#.UXaIo3CCKmQ
Why are drive by shootings where more than three people are shot not called mass shootings or terrorism? They're called drive by shootings no matter how many people are shot and killed.
Racist anon, I urge you to follow a blog called "public shaming" on Twitter, where you'll see literally thousands of examples, by the media and by non-media, that proves that people think only dark skinned people can be "terrorists," and that when a POC commits an act of terror, violence and threats against POCs rise.
After Sandy Hook, you never saw thousands of people screaming for the blood of all white people.
In the UK we have experienced terrorism for decades from the IRA.
7/7 was another kettle of fish.
Anyways, I did put up some baby shower pics. :D
Kapunua you are glowing!!
http://gma.yahoo.com/alleged-bombers-carjack-victim-barely-escaped-grab-161941429--abc-news-topstories.html
Kapunua, You look amazing. All the best for delivery day.
And your Mum must have received all the youthful genes! Mind blown. :)
http://gma.yahoo.com/charges-dropped-against-ricin-letter-suspect-cops-search-220711749--abc-news-topstories.html
What a nasty bunch of people you have surrounded yourself with.
Figures.
(unrelated to anyone here)
Aww thanks so much! Yeah, Mummy K is 66 and she looks so incredibly young. ^_^
You and your family look very cute, K. It's nice you had men at your baby shower too. Good luck..... won't be long now right??
Mummy K is lovely Kapunua!
Just listened to the whole talk at the NYPL with Great D.
It's interesting and he happens to be quite entertaining!
He also reads an excerpt from his new novel which has me intrigued :)
And very excited!!
Exceptional immaturity and dumb reverse logic by some of the 30+ set.
(no one here)
Thanks, guys! :)
6:41, that sounds so fabulous!
It is fabulous Kapunua!
Listen to it on soundcloud :)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/amanda-palmer-poem-dzhokhar-tsarnaev_n_3131925.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-pushed-to-add-boston-bomber-to-terror-watch-list/2013/04/24/cf02b43c-ad10-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_story.html
The CIA pushed to have one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers placed on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list more than a year before the attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
The disclosure of the CIA’s involvement suggests that the U.S. government may have had more reason than it has previously acknowledged to scrutinize Tsarnaev in the months leading up to the bombings in Boston. It also raises questions why U.S. authorities didn’t flag his return to the United States and investigate him further after a seven-month trip he took to Russia last year.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/joe-biden-white-house-id/275289/
Biden unleashing a stream of wholly warranted invective at the Boston Marathon bombers. Speaking at memorial services for slain M.I.T. police officer Sean Collier, he called bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev "two twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadis."
"Our very existence makes a lie of their perverted ideology," he said
http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/04/25/biden-honors-slain-boston-officer-calls?videoId=242454735&videoChannel=1
Secretary of State and Mass. native John Kerry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJOd-aOUiAg
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Mr. Kerry’s comments don’t reflect any new information gleaned by authorities probing a Chechnya trip made last year by the elder brother.
“In a situation like this, we ought to let the investigators do their work and not jump to conclusions, as the president said on Friday,” Mr. Carney said.
Mr. Kerry weighed in on the emerging narrative behind the Boston Marathon bombers during a visit Wednesday to Brussels, where he told reporters, “We just had a young person who went to Russia, Chechnya, who blew people up in Boston.”
“He didn’t say where he went, but he learned something where he went, and he came back with a willingness to kill people,” Mr. Kerry said.
At the State Department on Wednesday afternoon, Patrick Ventrell, the department’s acting deputy spokesman, sought to clarify the remarks, saying his boss “was simply expressing broad concern about radicalism and not necessarily offering any more specific information about this case.”
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/24/kerry-says-boston-bomber-radicalized-in-russia/?page=2#ixzz2RTgMfR00
Kerry and Biden mustn't have gotten their weekly white house talking points memo.
Obama's just worried that he can't dodge a shoe as fast as Bush could.
Grieving parents in denial, jihadists or just nuts?
(CNN) -- The mother of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing says she believes the tragedy that killed three people and injured dozens more was staged, that the bombing was fake.
There was no blood, she said. It was paint
How ironic is that on the same day President Obama speaks at the dedication of the George W. Bush presidential library intelligence reports state that Syria has used chemical weapons? Weapons of mass destruction. Just like intelligence reports stated that Saddam Hussein had done in Iraq prior to the war in Iraq.
President Obama has said that if intelligence proved that the regime in Syria used chemical weapons it would cross a red line. It would be a game changer.
Ironic.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/25/syria-chemical-weapons-reversal-hagel/2112377/
When did this blog turn into HuffPo?
I think we're all capable of following the newest developments of the Boston Marathon bombing all on our own, thanks.
So...the President doesn't want his daughters to get tattoos.
Don't blame him.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22305444
What about this 5:06?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/us-bangladesh-building-idUSBRE93N06P20130424
Hiya guys, how are you all?
Misty, I just saw a picture of that little boy, holding up a sign that says "Stop hurting people." Way too sad. I swear I will neve runderstand why people do things like this. Nor do I want to understand.
I've seen that picture too K. Doesn't it just break your heart?
Anonymous said...
White people do terrorist crimes all the time, and other white people are not held accountable.
Who are these white people who do terrorist crimes all the time? When and where was the terrorist attack and what other people haven't been held accountable?
Anon, you are obviously not from my side of the pond or you would know all about the IRA bombings that the white Irish people have been committing for years. Many, many Irish and British people have been killed. But the Americans don't report that as they are complicit in actually funding the bombers. Check out your American, Irish history, it's quite shameful.
Anon, you are obviously not from my side of the pond or you would know all about the IRA bombings that the white Irish people have been committing for years. Many, many Irish and British people have been killed. But the Americans don't report that as they are complicit in actually funding the bombers. Check out your American, Irish history, it's quite shameful.
Couldn't have said it better, Miss T.
Going to visit my good friend in hospital today and meeting her brand new beautiful baby boy!!!!
:D
Everyone seems to be having boys!!!
:D
I just love how certain people make out that they are above a certain behavior when they were practicing the very same behavior themselves.
L is for laughable.
Interesting
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2013/04/macbeth_and_the_shakespearian_roots_of_evil_in_the_boston_marathon_bombing.html
Kapunua I held a little newborn boy in my arms today! Poor little tot still had the forceps imprint on his head!
Makes you realize just how quickly they grow.
And makes me want another baby.
(when my body has healed a little more :)
I haven't held an infant since my goddaughter was born, and that's 20 years ago! I don't think I remember how they work. Boychild was already 10 months when he came home. O_O
You will be holding your own little boy soon Kapunua :) :)
How exciting!!!
And don't worry, you will be fine! It's almost instinctive.
I hope so! I don't want to do anything wrong!
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/bombing-suspects-mother-on-u-s-terror-watch-list-1.5144463
Anon, you are obviously not from my side of the pond or you would know all about the IRA bombings that the white Irish people have been committing for years. Many, many Irish and British people have been killed. But the Americans don't report that as they are complicit in actually funding the bombers. Check out your American, Irish history, it's quite shameful.
I do understand. I do know my history. That is why I agree with the IRA being classified and called a terrorist group along with the ETA and al quaeda inspired groups or people. Check my comment at April 23, 2013 at 5:52 AM.
It's quite shameful for you to assume things about anonymous people. Terrorist are terrorist irregardless of race, religion or ethnicity. Don't you agree?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57581444/times-square-attack-planned-by-boston-bombing-suspects-authorities-say/
"The surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said during an afternoon news conference. "He told the FBI, apparently, that he and his brother had intended to drive to New York and designate additional explosives in Times Square."
I hope so! I don't want to do anything wrong!
You won't.
I have a lot of faith in you :)
It's very emotional when you get to hold your son for the very first time.
It was for me.
On another note...
I'm in the middle of restyling my dining room and I have images of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 in my head, especially that scene in the end where he is traveling through light and time.
And I've been searching for original Eero Saarinen tulip chairs for a while.
Some teenagers clearly have deductive reasoning skills.
There is hope.
Trance and more trance this morning!
Mr Gibson,
Stop twitting and finish your novel.
Pretty please :)
Signed
One of your most devoted readers.
;)
http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/09/size-does-matter-study-shows-women-judge-male-attractiveness-by-penis-size/?iid=hl-article-mostpop1
Pinch punch and all that jazz :)
How is everyone in the land of blog? Awight? Good.
The sun is shining on little ol' Wales, finally! Gawd it's been a long winter.
Kapunua, how are you petal? I took a peek at your baby shower photos. Absolutely lovely pics. I'll be thinking about you every day from now on. *squeezy hugs* :D
P.S. *squeezy hugs* for Miss T. She might get a bit jealous and hit me in the chops with my bagpipes. Wuv you, miss you :D
we are human
after all
flesh uncovered
after all ♪
Uncovered flesh can be a great thing.
Just not when it's flesh you really don't want to see uncovered. It's gag inducing then. Put that shit back on and cover up.
Science vs. Nature. Nature always wins.
Heyyyy Welshie! Nice to read you. I'm okay, hanging in there. Any day now! :D Still have a few last minute things to take care of (install car seat, for one thing.)
And how are you?
Incidentally, here is a really good piece about how we have to turn terrorists "dark" even if they are white.
We are on the cusp of a new technological revolution that is going to be a game changer in the next 5 to 10 years.
Not google glass, but 3D printing.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/3-d-printer-makes-bionic-ear-130502.htm
Kapunua you're going to be a mummy soon!!!
So excited for you :)
Sorry, I meant a mom
:)
Mummy sounds much better !!!
I like Mummy, too! Or Mama, or Mom, or whichever. :)
I got a little nervous today at the doctor, because the nurse said I'd lost two pounds (I know she weighed me wrong; she was in a huge rush and a bad mood and didn't wait for the weight to stop swinging,) and the doctor said I measured a little small. So I have to go back for another ultrasound on Tuesday to make sure he's still growing and the fluid is okay.
The doc said he wasn't actually worried, because it probably just means the baby is dropping. But of course, I'm a worrier!
I should really get over that useless emotion. :)
Hiya guys, how are you all?
Couldn't have said it better, Miss T.
Thank you 1.38pm April 23rd sweetie.
I haven't held an infant since my goddaughter was born, and that's 20 years ago! I don't think I remember how they work.
I think you are supposed to hold them by the chubby ankle and dangle them at arms length, at least that's my natural reaction LOL. I'm so not maternal.
Terrorist are terrorist irregardless of race, religion or ethnicity. Don't you agree?
I agree anon. There is no justification, no religious grounds, no political grounds, no grounds at all that can be a just argument for doing this. Terrorists are terrorists plain and simple.
The sun is shining on little ol' Wales, finally! Gawd it's been a long winter.
OMG yeah Welshie, we've finally had a couple of days of sunshine. It's been about 2 years since we've had some. At least it feels that way.
P.S. *squeezy hugs* for Miss T. She might get a bit jealous and hit me in the chops with my bagpipes. Wuv you, miss you :D
LOL Welshie *squeezy hugs back attcha*
What you been up to sweetie? apart from playing bagpipes ^_^
I wouldn't worry about losing 2 pounds K if the nurse didn't weigh youn properly. Mind you, you skinny little thing, 2 pounds is about a fifth of your body weight hee hee! Pregnant and still so slim, I'm jealous.
It's normal to feel worried Kapunua!
You have never had a baby before and you care for your son's well being so it's understandable.
Just don't let those worried feelings spin around too much in your head needlessly :)
Mummy K!
Sounds excellent :)
upside, inside out
she's livin la vida loca ♪
Iron Man 3 was fun. Had a very definite Kiss Kiss Bang Bang feel to it. :)
Well, I am STUFFING myself this weekend so that there won't be another "incident". But I still have to have the extra u/s. :/
Heehee thanks Misty. :D It does have its drawbacks sometimes!
I would love to see Iron Man 3! That's gonna have to wait though.
Also, Happy Star Wars Day. May The Fourth be with you!
Fingers crossed Kapunua, everything will be ok :)
I hope someone close to you will be present during the birth as you will want the support Kapunua.
Thanks, guys! I have a doula or two lined up; I just have to interview them. ^_^
I'm excited and happy for you, Kapunua. Good luck with your birthing experience. :)
Kapunua I don't personally know you, but you feel like a friend as I have been reading you since the beginning, which is nearly six years, and I just want to say that I feel so thrilled and happy for you :)
I just know you are going to love having a son and will love him to absolute bits!!
Thank you so much! :D That is extremely kind. ^_^
Kapunua
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dc6Pre77AY
:):):)
i can beeeee
YOUR HEEERO♪
Damn! ♪
;)
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