Connecticut Elementary School Massacre

[Wombaticus Rex]

Anyone see "Cabin in the Woods"?

Yes, a superb documentary.

[justdrew]

now it looks like it was ryan's younger brother aron. also mother, not father found dead at home in newton. so she wasn't at the school, in the room... checking out on this for awhile

[153den]

Hmm... I'm sad & I'm mad at the same time, what the fu(k is wrong with this world anyway? Who's to blame here, Ryan Lanza or whoever supplied the weapons? Anyhow my deepest sympathy to all those families who lost members. I personally have a 2 & 1/2 years old grand child and I can tell you it would be major nightmare to loose her.

[hava007]

Anyone see "Cabin in the Woods"?

Yes, a superb documentary.

i got the "cabin in the woods" at home, started the first half hour, got the gist, felt PTSD symptoms, and left it at that. Is it worth the agony ? anything new ?

[yathrib]

Really?! I'm no fan of Joe Lienberman or Israeli policy, to put it mildly, but is your first impulse really to somehow link it to the Jooos? Oh, maybe the PA system has something to do with the Palestinian Authority! Another synchronicity! Call Vigilant Citizen!

e. Another coincidence: Joe Lieberman, also of CT, gave his farewell address to the US senate on Wednesday, and today, on the same afternoon as the CT shooting, Avi Lieberman announced his forced resignation:

Hard-Line Israeli Foreign Minister Is Stepping Down | By JODI RUDOREN | Published: December 14, 2012

JERUSALEM — Facing indictment for breach of trust and fraud, Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, resigned his post Friday afternoon amid mounting political pressure, upending the campaign landscape five weeks before national elections.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/world ... .html?_r=0

Apparently the PA system was on the entire time so students could hear the shots and screaming. New twist.

hava? Any thoughts on this?

[seemslikeadream]

mother's legally bought 2 guns were used by son to kill 26

[8bitagent]

quick reminder of 'we need to talk about kevin", saw it recently, excellent movie IMHO. to the point.

Chilling film. Way more disturbing than The Omen. Btw there was a recent school massacre involving a crossbow weapon here in the states.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Is it worth the agony ? anything new ?

No. It is targeted at young men and women who grew up on 80's horror - a specific statement for a specific audience.

[lupercal]

probably the technology of MK is now at the disposal of numerous parties, so its really part of life now, or social life, we will get used to that too, I suppose. and if digressing, how come this board did not deal with Burma/Obama ? his speech there was embarrassing. It the US planning some creative chaos in Asia now ?

hey thanks hava, now here's another weird thing: in the US they spell the Leiberman the same way and refer to Avigdor as Avi, rhyming with "abby," or at least on NPR. So what do you think the second grade teacher interviewed at length on a local NPR station and then repeated on the national show is named? Right, Abby Clements, who added the bit about the PA being on so students could hear gunshots and screams while she read them stories:

Larry Mantle talked with second-grade teacher Abby Clements, who was evacuated from the Sandy Hook Elementary School after a shooter opened fire, killing multiple children and adults
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/20 ... nnecticut/

The whole things seems to have been at least an hour. Just another coincidence I suppose, like hurricane Sandy and Sandy Hooks elementary. What gives me pause is that Aurora also happened on a day of dismal news for the anti-Assad crowd, as Assad basically ran the "opposition" out of Allepo on the very day they planned to close their pincers and send Assad and his government to the next world. Didn't happen, and then kaboom, Aurora, at nearly the exact same moment. Very strange.

p.s. 28 dead now per NPR, which also ran a story saying there have been 61 mass shootings in the last 30 years, and seven this year alone, this year being the biggest for fatalities. Personally I don't think there's anything cosmic or coincidental about it but I doubt that any of us could stop 8bit from reaching his predictable conclusions yet again. . . .

[Wombaticus Rex]

I doubt that any of us could stop (insert who the fuck ever) from reaching his predictable conclusions yet again. . . .

Maybe that's the only problem RI faces as a forum, eh?

The familiarity of contempt.

I'm just grateful nobody's done the obligatory "OH SURE THERE'S A MASSACRE AND NOW THE BOARD IS BUSY" post.

[lupercal]

^ no objection, in fact the predictability of these shootings is what I find most disturbing, and we haven't seen yet what the intended or actual effect will be on various matters political including Syria, the budget drama, BO's defense sec pic which in another coincidence has become its own drama, a spin-off of Benghazi and we're off to the races....

[Laodicean]

Fuck Everything, Nation Reports

WASHINGTON—Following the fatal shooting this morning at a Connecticut elementary school that left at least 27 dead, including 20 small children, sources across the nation shook their heads, stifled a sob in their voices, and reported fuck everything. Just fuck it all to hell.

All of it, sources added.

“I’m sorry, but fuck it, I can’t handle this—I just can’t handle it anymore,” said Deborah McEllis, who added that “no, no, no, no, no, this isn’t happening, this can’t be real.” “Seriously, what the hell is this? What’s even going on anymore? Why do things like this keep happening?”

Continued McEllis, before covering her face with her hands, “Why?”

Despairing sources confirmed that the gunman, armed with a semiautomatic assault rifle—a fucking combat rifle, Jesus—walked into a classroom full of goddamned children where his mother was a teacher and, good God, if this is what the world is becoming, then how about we just pack it in and fucking give up, because this is no way to live.

I mean, honestly, all 315 million Americans confirmed.

“Well, I suppose we have to try to pick up the pieces and make some sort of sense of this tragedy and—you know what? Fuck it, I can’t do this,” said Connecticut resident Michael Zaleski, his remarks understandable given the circumstances, because, holy shit, what else can one say? “I’m sorry, but I can’t fucking do this. Can you? Can anyone?”

Witnesses said the gunman fired at least 100 rounds during his deadly rampage, which, according to children in the school—goddamnit, how? How? Twenty children. Dead. In a fucking school.

No. No, no, no.

“I just feel so [why does it even matter what this person said when no words can bring 20 dead kids back to life?]” said some person who, just like everyone else, is completely unable to process or handle any of this. “It’s awful. Just too awful to bear.”

Americans reported feelings of overwhelming disgust with whatever abhorrent bastard did this and with the world at large for ever allowing it to happen, as well as with politicians, with the NRA, and above all with their own pathetic goddamn selves, sitting in front of a fucking computer instead of doing fucking anything to help anyone—Christ, as if that were even fucking possible, as if anyone could change what happened, as if the same fucking bullshit isn’t going to keep happening again and again and fucking again before people finally decide it’s time to change the way we live, so what’s the point? What the hell is the goddamned point?

“I…” said Tom Miller, 27, after reading an article about the tragedy online. “I just…”

“…” he added.

At press time…screw it, there’s nothing else to say.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-e ... rts,30743/

[8bitagent]

So...I wonder how many tears President Barack Obama has shed over the hundreds of Pakistani and Yemeni children he's slaughtered with drone strikes? Yeah, I said it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-gr ... 24627.html

"“The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful, little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old,” Obama said. “They had their entire lives ahead of them, birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. "

Dear Obama, I sadly agree 1000%. But this should also apply to kids with brown skin who live half a world away from Connecticut.

[8bitagent]

Anyone see "Cabin in the Woods"?

Yes, a superb documentary.

i got the "cabin in the woods" at home, started the first half hour, got the gist, felt PTSD symptoms, and left it at that. Is it worth the agony ? anything new ?

Well the reasoning behind the whole thing that is revealed was quite the fun little kicker. The movie reminded me of the best of Hugh's rants and even some of my esoteric rants. I called
it the Ultimate RI movie because it reminded me of Jeff's most frighteningly entertaining blog posts that start off about deep state mil intel spookery and ends up talking about bizarre Forteana.

[Luther Blissett]

The second most powerful gun lobby in the country is located in Newtown, Conneticut