Terrorist attack in South Carolina

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Now the Civil War monuments are under fire.

Stupidity does not limit itself to race.

[Onkel Neal]

Well, if people are going to use civil disobedience, this makes a lot more sense than rioting and looting.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Well, if people are going to use civil disobedience, this makes a lot more sense than rioting and looting.

True, admittedly, but frustration (and opportunism) finds its way out in multiple forms.


I should, for the sake of fairness and parity, point out that we in the UK have also recently had what would under my initial definition count as an attempted terrorist incident.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-n...wales-33252264

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

True, admittedly, but frustration (and opportunism) finds its way out in multiple forms.


I should, for the sake of fairness and parity, point out that we in the UK have also recently had what would under my initial definition count as an attempted terrorist incident.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-n...wales-33252264

I'm pleased you pointed this out...saved me the bother

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I'm pleased you pointed this out...saved me the bother

I do my best to be equal to both sides, things like these are rarely problems in just one part of the world.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Now the Civil War monuments are under fire.

Sad. I draw the line at trying to erase or bury history. While I still think there's something very odd about flying a rebel flag from a government building, so it seems to make sense to me to take it down from an official display, but it's hard for me to get worked up over a coffee cup with a Confederate battle flag on it, or a privately sponsored Confederate monument. I feel even more nervous about efforts to purge unpopular symbols than I feel about the symbols themselves. They're part of history. The men who fought for the Confederacy fought for slavery, sort of, but for the most part they fought because it was their state. It was their home town, or maybe as was quoted in the movie, Gettysburg because they were bored at home and it looked like fun.

Come to think of it, I wonder if someone have to go through the CDs at the Gettysburg Battlefield gift shop and get rid of "Dixie" or "The Bonnie Blue Flag". And what about "Marching Through Georgia? It seems like we always go to far in the other direction in this country when we make a course change.

Abraham Lincoln famously said, "Let the band play Dixie". In somewhat the same spirit, I say let Southerners put that flag on a coffee cup. It just isn't as big a deal as getting it off a government building.

[em2nought]

Thailand or Ecuador is looking better and better.

[Oberon]

"Smoke seen rising near US Capitol"



https://twitter.com/SweeneyABC

[Betonov]

Looking at the picture it seems the Canadians succesefully invaded.

BBC and CNN have nothing, could be a local fire

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Looking at the picture it seems the Canadians succesefully invaded.

No. Canadians are BBQing just to the north.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Looking at the picture it seems the Canadians succesefully invaded.

BBC and CNN have nothing, could be a local fire

Probably is, I just thought I'd bring it up just in case it turned into something else. One can never be sure these days, especially at the moment, also I wasn't quite sure what thread to put it in and didn't want to start a new one so I plonked it here.
Doesn't look a particularly big fire anyway.

[August]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Probably is, I just thought I'd bring it up just in case it turned into something else.

Jumping the gun again Oberon?

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Doesn't look a particularly big fire anyway.

Just some members of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference burning their Confederate flag.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by August

Jumping the gun again Oberon?

Well, it's that time of year, and considering what date it is next week it's a bit of a jumpy time. Still, I guess they were just electing a new pope, so it's nothing to worry about.

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Just some members of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference burning their Confederate flag.

[em2nought]

That's just methane gas burning on top of the cesspool.