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Good Lord.
These terrorist strikes have to become political in some respects, but the British rational approach is much more effective. People calmly go on with their lives knowing a thorough investigation is underway. Compare this response to the U.S. game show host who Amps up hatred for the least infringement by any person who looks or thinks differently than him, while at the same time leading cheers for murder by his base.
There was an article in the Daily Fail yesterday. People in the vicinity were opening up their homes for restroom breaks, charging stations and a much needed “cuppa.”
Compared to them we Americans a bunch of cry babies.
Today, in Parsons Green, life is back to normal. Did enjoy this comment:
"Come Monday morning, however, he said that he might alter his behaviour a little for his daily commute: “I’ll probably leave the earphones off and take a bit more notice of what is around me, to be honest.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/16/parsons-green-terror-attack-underground-station-local-residents
o/t - but meanwhile Tillerson still plans on degrading er merging the Dept of State with USAID. Found this thread via Laura Rozen’s Twitterfeed, which highlighted a David Frum tween - touting this thread:
https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/909033667183423493
That’s not so different from how people responded to Harvey, too. Everyone pitch in, and when Joel Olsteen didn’t he was rightly excoriated. There are good people everywhere.
When the baseline assumption is that terror doesn’t work, it doesn’t succeed even when people are killed. Panicked over-reaction is the goal, more than killing people or even (in the case of OKC and NYC) changing the landscape. When a country’s leadership and people are goaded into overreaction, to pointless wars and to deterioration of its most precious institutions of governance, that’s a sign of weakness. We keep falling for it.
I like boobs! And when terrorists are arrested.
I was thinking, legally a man, but in reality just a stupid fucking kid.
Emphasis mine.
Anyway I’m pretty sure there is a smiling Russian Oligarch who’d be willing to lend a hand with those pesky IT issues, lol. He’d probably even give Tillerson a good price for the job.
O/T Anyone know why sometimes pictures appear in the feed and sometimes they’re just a black “x” that has to be clicked? I uploaded this one so it’s local to TPM, but still a link.
When you upload a picture, look at the line of type and when yousee the letters png change them to jpg
That usually takes care of the issue.
I imagine that things might have gone quicker or smoother if Hair Furor hadn’t tipped the suspects off with his tweets.
Also file size plays a factor.
Totally OT—but hilarious.
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They mated with the dinosaurs, duh!
Changing the extension worked - thank you!
“We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning,” said Neil Basu, Senior National Co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing.
“This arrest will lead to more activity from our officers,” he said, suggesting there could be more arrests and house raids to come. “For strong investigative reasons we will not give any more details on the man we arrested at this stage.”
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“However, we suffer from no delusions that Donald Trump will keep his fat mouth shut and honor the integrity of the investigation.”
It also says that Adam lived for 800 years after the birth of Seth and “had other sons and daughters” (Gen 5:4).