Virginia Tech shooting.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:24 am

I fear for the future. Too much bullshit gets presented as fact, and people who should... or do... know better reinforce the bullshit to their own ends.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:28 am

I'm glad Jesus Obama is not using this shooting as an opportunity to score political points:

"There's also another kind of violence that we're going to have to think about. It's not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways," he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of "violence."

There's the "verbal violence" of Imus.

There's "the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country."

The sad part: there was probably a crowd of people there just eating that up.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:46 am

Don't forget the violence of raping other people's emotional vulnerabilities to promote yourself.

DoctorChaos · Post by **DoctorChaos** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:43 pm

I think I'm going to be ill. Let's just hope that speech destroys all credibility with Obama.

I like the blogger's extension of that logic.

How about the violence of disrespecting the dead and their families to promote yourself or your twisted agenda.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:07 pm

I revise my earlier statement.

I wish everyone would STFU.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:57 pm

This man is now my hero. Not because of what he is espousing, but because he said this:

The member of the Virginia Assembly who championed the measure attempting to overturn the university's ban, Mark Cole, wouldn't address the matter yesterday. In a written statement, he said it was "inappropriate to engage in discussions" about the measure at the moment. "Later this year, when the investigation is completed and all the facts surrounding this unthinkable crime are known, we will be in a far better position to have an informed discussion on what additional measures might be taken to deal with such unforeseen tragedies."

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:41 pm

The solution will probably be........ more surveillance. If nobody has anything to hide, nobody should be worried.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:33 am

The solution: ban barrel shrouds, even if you have no idea what they are.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:21 pm

thibodeaux wrote:The solution: ban barrel shrouds, even if you have no idea what they are.

Typical bullshit from a politician, but it is refreshing to see a journalist push on the non-answer.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:41 pm

Exactly.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:13 pm

No video games found in the crazed wacko's room.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007....rs-dorm

The only logical* conclusion is that lack of game playing <s>makes Jack a dull boy</s> causes one to go on killing sprees.

<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>*Jack Thompson logic</span>

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:51 pm

Amen.

Irony alert: That was the front page of ABCNews.com

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:06 pm

Media criticizes those rushing to profit from tragedy.

It never fails. No matter how horrific the tragedy, within seconds there always seems to be merchants selling you the tragedy-themed wares.

Like incessantly plugging things over and over agin on TV?

Post by **TPRJones** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:12 pm

Yeah, isn't the media the first people to profit from every tragedy? I guess they don't like the competition.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:09 pm

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:37 pm

thibodeaux wrote:Stupid, stupid, stupid.

In the wake of Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech in which a student killed 32 people, Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg has limited the use of stage weapons in theatrical productions.

Students involved in this weekend’s production of “Red Noses” said they first learned of the new rules on Thursday morning, the same day the show was slated to open. They were subsequently forced to alter many of the scenes by swapping more realistic-looking stage swords for wooden ones, a change that many students said was neither a necessary nor a useful response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech.

They are missing the obvious solution.

Replace the prop swords with walkie talkies.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:18 pm

If only professional actors have real swords, then... uh.....

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:19 am

Student government asks media to leave as classes resume today.

Meanwhile, Virginia Tech's Student Government Association issued a statement Sunday asking the news media to respect the privacy of students and leave by the time classes resume Monday.

"Our students are ready to start moving forward, and the best way we can do that is to get the campus back to normal," Liz Hart, director of public relations for the SGA, said in an interview. Students don't want "anything external to remind us it will be a difficult road. We know that."

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:14 am

[url=http://]Gingrich blames video games and liberals[/url]

I do agree with his last point, though, regarding insane people and guns.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Gingrich said young people are being dehumanized by violence in video games, and liberalism has created a "zone of not being willing to talk about any of these things."

"We don't have any discussion about what's happened to our culture because while we're restricting political free speech under McCain-Feingold, we say it's impossible to restrict vulgar and vicious and anti-human speech," Gingrich said.

The potential GOP presidential contender commended President Bush's handling of Virginia Tech and touted "legitimate concealed carry" as his solution to last Monday's massacre.

"In states where people have been allowed to have concealed weapons," Gingrich said, "there have been incidents of this kind of killer who was stopped because, in fact, people who are law-abiding, people who are rational, and people who are responsible had the ability to stop them."

Gingrich also agreed for the need for more thorough background checks in gun purchases, in reference to states like Virginia not sharing mental health records with the federal database.

"I think that a person who is certified by a psychiatrist as potentially dangerous to others, that information should come up and that should block them from acquiring weapons," Gingrich said. Though he was quick to point out that "in the great cities of this country, where you have the most gun violence, it is by people breaking the law who manage to buy an illegal gun."

unkbill · Post by **unkbill** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:03 pm

TPRJones wrote:Yeah, isn't the media the first people to profit from every tragedy? I guess they don't like the competition.

Must be profits. It's unrelated but we just had a tragedy in our small town. A local carpenters scaffold on the new Toledo bridge project collapsed and he fell 90 feet to his death. A news van was in his front yard about 4 hours after it happened. My first thought was WTF are they bothering the widow for.