Monday, April 30, 2007
You Know You've Been Out Of Touch...
When you read about a major local event at Ace of Spades. There's been another random shooting spree at a local mall. I go to this mall 4-5 times a year and from the description in the paper, it appears the shooter walked from one end of the mall to the other, firing randomly, yet "only" managed to kill the first two people he shot while still in the parking lot. Bad as it was, this could have been a lot worse.
Monday, April 16, 2007
V Tech Shooting
Oh God. My niece goes to Virginia Tech. I know there are 25,000 students on that campus, but I'd still like to know she's OK.
Update: My mom just called. My niece was on her way to class in that very building when the police stopped her from going on. Now she's got one of those "If I hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee..." stories.
Update: I just talked to my sister. She's just back from a funeral that could have been her daughter's. My niece actually had a 10:00 Spanish class in the same room as the French class that was attacked. She usually got there early and sat in the hall. Sometimes she even sat in on the French class. But since her 9:00 class got out early, she decided she had time to get a cup of coffee. I had been thinking she was stopped by some sort of cordon, but the shooting was in progress when she arrived and the police yelled at her to get back.
Here's a photo of the now famous coffee cup with her message to the victims. It reads:
You know what's so scary about these random shootings? He could have decided to shoot up the coffee shop and then she would have been in the wrong place. There's nothing you can do and not much you can learn from these things.
Update: My mom just called. My niece was on her way to class in that very building when the police stopped her from going on. Now she's got one of those "If I hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee..." stories.
Update: I just talked to my sister. She's just back from a funeral that could have been her daughter's. My niece actually had a 10:00 Spanish class in the same room as the French class that was attacked. She usually got there early and sat in the hall. Sometimes she even sat in on the French class. But since her 9:00 class got out early, she decided she had time to get a cup of coffee. I had been thinking she was stopped by some sort of cordon, but the shooting was in progress when she arrived and the police yelled at her to get back.
Here's a photo of the now famous coffee cup with her message to the victims. It reads:
If it had not been for this coffee cup, I would have been in Norris 251. I can't thank God enough for saving my life, but I will also never understand why yours had to be lost.
You know what's so scary about these random shootings? He could have decided to shoot up the coffee shop and then she would have been in the wrong place. There's nothing you can do and not much you can learn from these things.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Incomprehensible Truthers
There's something I'll never understand about the Truthers' fascination with WTC7. Rosie, in addition to her groundbreaking scientific discovery about steel being impervious to fire, also stated that while planes did fly into WTC1 and 2, WTC7 was brought down by explosives. What are we supposed to believe about this? That the government somehow managed to have planes flown into the Twin Towers, but figured their evil plan just wouldn't be complete if they couldn't bring down that much smaller building that no one outside of the New York area even knew existed? I guess this is why Truthers flood the zone with details of little relevance. Their big picture just makes no sense.
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