cousin nadin knows a funny thing

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022733732

Oh my.

IdaBriggs (6,115 posts)   Mon Apr 22, 2013, 09:54 AM

Still not "terrorized" by the Boston Marathon bombings (and stuff afterwards).

How?

a) Wasn't there; we live in Michigan.

b) Did not watch television news coverage about it; we use DVR to tape shows, and those that were "interrupted" weren't watched (sometimes days later) - we just deleted them.
 
c) Stayed informed via the Internet. Main sources of information (including "latest breaking") were DU, facebook and the Yahoo main page. Was shockingly up-to-the-minute informed despite only paying attention a few times a day.
 
All in all I am completely impressed by how everyone EXCEPT THE NEWS MEDIA handled these events.
 
Still no burning desire to run out and buy weapons of mass destruction, or curtail civil liberties. Didn't even discuss it with the kids. To be fair, we were watching "Buffy" most of the weekend, as the whole family has been recovering from mild spring misery, so we did offer parental wisdom: "If you see a monster chasing you, RUN!"
 
Hey, did anyone notice that "no regulation" at a fertilizer plant is a bad thing?

SheilaT (12,294 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 10:25 AM

1. Yeah. I complained about the lack of coverage of the Texas explosion and was dumped on here at DU.

Apparently I didn't get how much worse it was to kill three people and injure a hundred and fifty or so, compared to killing dozens and injuring several hundred, along with completely destroying an elementary school and a few other buildings.
 
Clearly, I'm not condoning the Boston bombing, but notice that the kid was finally caught when the lifted the lockdown, shelter in place order. Gosh. What a weird coincidence.

True; we out here west of the Hudson River and east of San Diego were somewhat perturbed by the lopsided coverage of what was going on in Boston as compared with what was going on down in Texas.

We wondered if the primitives even knew we existed.

marions ghost (13,515 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 11:12 AM

3. They can't really be compared by numbers of deaths. That cheapens the life of those killed or maimed, reducing them to head counts.
 
One was an accident (negligence). The other was a premeditated mass murder. The first we can understand & hold the owner (& poor regulation) accountable. The second eats into our imagination as an act of subhuman violence and we need to know some of the answers why, in order to rationalize it and go on. In the Boston bombing, it was not known for a couple of days who the perps might be, and both sides of our political divide had their theories. We always look for who to blame in the case of incomprehensible murder.

The wait in the case of Boston increased the suspense about which fundamentalist religiosity was at work--Xtian or Islamic. And in the end, is the greater problem sociopathic kids who fall into violent ideologies? These Boston Bombers remind me most of the Norway guy.
 
I think they did the best they possibly could in Boston in dealing with this chaotic situation. With the world watching, not easy.
 
You can't compare the Texas event and Boston. There is no undue "preference" for one over the other. The horror of a mass murder has more shock value and more need for psychological integration of some kind especially given the woeful mainstream media coverage, MSNBC excepted which at least showed some restraint.
 
We are neither safe from corporate negligence nor from extremists and sick kids with weapons.

sabrina 1 (33,658 posts)    Mon Apr 22, 2013, 11:19 AM

4. Do you know how many people were killed by the blast in Texas? It's very hard to get any information on those victims. I agree head counts are irrelevant, every single unnecessary death is a tragedy. But for some reason our media doesn't seem interested in the victims of that terrifying explosion. We should at least know how many actually died, were injured and/are now homeless.

SheilaT (12,294 posts)   Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:06 PM

13. A lot more than three, that's for sure.

And one of the reasons we know so little about it is that the news channels are doing wall-to-wall coverage in Boston, but the Texas thing is, Oh, yeah, that's right, something happened but what was it again?
 
Each and every person in Texas died every bit as unnecessarily as those in Boston. But what are the chances of the owners of that facility ever facing charges, let alone jail time?

nadinbrzezinski (119,053 posts)   Mon Apr 22, 2013, 02:49 PM

12. You know funny thing

Due to work I had to follow this closely, incluiding plenty of TV. Perhaps it's because I understand how that's sausage is made, but I was never terrorized either.

[USA4ME]

nadinbrzezinski

Perhaps it's because I understand how that's sausage is made, but I was never terrorized either.

I bet Mohammad calls you "mother."

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[Dori]

IdaBriggs (6,115 posts)   Mon Apr 22, 2013, 09:54 AM

Still not "terrorized" by the Boston Marathon bombings (and stuff afterwards).

How?

a) Wasn't there; we live in Michigan.

Six degrees of separation - you live in the Muslim Capital of the U.S.

[Airwolf]

How is it her job to pay attention to what happens in Boston? There is nothing she could have gotten from any source that couldn't have been obtained from a reliable network news source or from one of the mainstearm papers. Also what ever she could have gotten would have been nothing to use in a free weekly market news rag she works for.

[Freeper]

Where do they get this crap that the fertilizer plant was under no regulations whatsoever?

[GOBUCKS]

Six degrees of separation - you live in the Muslim Capital of the U.S.

That's true, Michigan is crawling with muzzies.

But the UAW has already destroyed anything that might have been worth blowing up.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Where do they get this crap that the fertilizer plant was under no regulations whatsoever?

Because it fits the DUmmy narrative that overregulation is necessary.

[FlippyDoo]

nadinbrzezinski (119,053 posts)   Mon Apr 22, 2013, 02:49 PM

12. You know funny thing

Due to work I had to follow this closely, incluiding plenty of TV. Perhaps it's because I understand how that's sausage is made, but I was never terrorized either.

I asked Tonto once, "You know funny thing?"

Tonto said, "Me know very funny thing. Ben Franklin as woman is very funny thing. Ben Franklin as woman who pretends to know everything even much more funny thing."

[Freeper]

Because it fits the DUmmy narrative that overregulation is necessary.

They honestly believe that more regulations, laws and taxes will make it so accidents will never ever happen.
They also believe that the owners of these plants don't care about safety. The owners have to care about safety, if the plant blows up they are out of a job.

[thundley4]

They honestly believe that more regulations, laws and taxes will make it so accidents will never ever happen.
They also believe that the owners of these plants don't care about safety. The owners have to care about safety, if the plant blows up they are out of a job.

The DUmmies ignore the fact that all the laws and regulations that would be required to make any job perfectly safe would cost so much that no company could afford to follow them.

[longview]

I don't want DUmmies to know what lies from just west of Chicago to the eastern edge of LA.  Nothing here of importance or interest.  Not a thing.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I don't want DUmmies to know what lies from just west of Chicago to the eastern edge of LA.  Nothing here of importance or interest.  Not a thing.

 

H5, couldn't agree more!

[Karin]

I asked Tonto once, "You know funny thing?"

Do you guys remember these guys?



 

[FlippyDoo]

Do you guys remember these guys?



 

Frankenstein: Fire bad!

[AprilRazz]

You know I have noticed the whenever the primitives bring up Boston they only say that three people were killed by these brothers. Funny how they never mention the young police officer that was murdered.