Thursday, December 3, 2015

Open Thread

There's so much happening right now that seems so important, but, as my piano teacher once wrote a a piece of music I was learning, "if everything is important, then nothing is important". So let's open up the floor to whatever you want to talk about. What is important to you? Sports, old family recipes, interesting hobbies, the endless Presidential campaign? Let's get that much touted "conversation" going on any issue you want to converse on...

On your mark, get set...Goooooo!

UPDATE - This was the ill-conceived front page of the New York Daily News. Interestingly, the Republicans and Christians have been quite vocal about Islamic jihad, but this of course came out before it was determined that the shooter was not Jimmy Bob, the RCRWNJ the liberals were so praying for (ironic, isn't it?)...


Also, please feel free to comment on any of the other post from this week, if the mood strikes.
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15 comments:

  1. ScottDSDecember 3, 2015 at 8:09 AM

    Learning the piano is somewhere on my bucket list. A next-door neighbor tried to teach me years ago but I lost interest. (I was 10!)

    Well, re: San Bernadino, I never have anything to say about these things. And I don't know what's worse: the politicians who insist we must do "something" or the ones who sit back and do nothing.

    Uh, what else... I watched the first two episodes of Marvel's Jessica Jones... it's good, and much darker than anything else Marvel's done. This one isn't for the kids.

    Oh, and I quit my day job so if anyone needs a freelance graphic designer, you know where to reach me!

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  2. KitDecember 3, 2015 at 9:12 AM

    Some points about yesterday:

    Since the early-90s attacks on abortion clinics have killed 11 people.
    Yesterday, it seems 3 jihadists killed 14 people.

    Number of abortion-related terror attacks in 2015: 1
    Number of Islamist terror attacks in the west in 2015: 4 (3 in France, 1 in US*)

    The man who carried out the single abortion-related terror attack lived in the woods and made Ted Kaczynsky look like a bastion of mental health and proper hygiene.
    The individuals who carried out the recent San Bernadino terror attack dress and shave like any other young Southern Californian.

    Question: Given these facts, which religion do you think has a terrorist problem and which religion does not have a terrorist problem?

    *The attacks:
    Charlie Hebdo
    French Train attack
    Paris Attacks
    San Bernadino

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  3. tryanmaxDecember 3, 2015 at 9:24 AM

    All good points, Kit.

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  4. BevfromNYCDecember 3, 2015 at 10:14 AM

    Scott - There is no time like the present to take up the piano. I am thinking of picking it back up myself. Studies show that it helps with memory.

    Also - I am not exactly sure what we are supposed to do? Take guns away from everyone? Ban assault weapons? Somehow I doubt Mr. Farook bought his gun and bomb stash at the local Walmart. It might have saved 14 lives if his neighbor who saw 1/2 dozen people dressed in assault-style cloths with weapons wasn't so cowed by fear of being called a racist that she decided not to alert the police. But that's just me...

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  5. tryanmaxDecember 3, 2015 at 10:30 AM

    Bev, you might enjoy this, one of my favorite rants: LINK

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  6. KitDecember 3, 2015 at 10:42 AM

    Tyranmax,

    That is one of Cooke's best rants.

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  7. KitDecember 3, 2015 at 10:44 AM

    Oh, the officer who was killed in the Planned Parenthood shooting? Yeah, he was pro-life.

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  8. BevfromNYCDecember 3, 2015 at 11:43 AM

    Tryanmax and Kit - I agree...that is the best rant on the 2nd Amd I have read and I am going to link it every time someone blathers on about "enough is enough".

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  9. AnonymousDecember 3, 2015 at 12:42 PM

    Tryanmax - Thanks for that.
    GypsyTyger

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  10. AnthonyDecember 3, 2015 at 2:52 PM

    The latest terror attack was certainly unusual. They killed a lot of people, but sounds like they could have killed a lot more if they hadn't tried to escape (unusual for jihadists).

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  11. BevfromNYCDecember 3, 2015 at 3:29 PM

    Anthony - Perhaps they realized that killing people wasn't as much fun and gratifying as they were led to believe...

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  12. EPorvaznikDecember 3, 2015 at 5:03 PM

    Hot damn and thankee kindly, tryanmax! Wrapping up my lunch with a share of that rant on a unicorn & rainbows friendly friend's post featuring an anti-gun pic. Always nice seeing Youngstown and Pittsburgh mentions, too!

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  13. CritchDecember 3, 2015 at 9:21 PM

    Hillary's mouth went into high gear about guns within an hour, too bad she didn't react that fast with Benghazi..

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  14. AnonymousDecember 3, 2015 at 10:33 PM

    Critch; At this point what does it matter? :0
    GypsyTyger

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  15. CritchDecember 4, 2015 at 8:58 AM

    The Left Wing is near hysterical over gun control...but let me add this little tidbit. It is illegal in California to use a hi-capacity magazine in a rifle or pistol...it is illegal...along with making bombs, killing and maiming people etc. And as far as that idiot in the White House, he wouldn't say s&*t if he had a mouthful...he is trying everything to keep from saying "terrorism". How the Hell can they vet thousands of Syrian refugees? The stupidity in DC is rising to unexpected levels...

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