Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments I agree with your assessment, i have a small personal association to this case. My younger son and I were running together with his mother on Boyleston when the second bomb went off. My older son had finished about an hour and a half earlier and was planning to wait at the finish for us, but decided to wait in our hotel room since he was trashed after the race and it was unusually cold. We didn’t find that out for a couple of hours when we were able to make our way back and re-unite. We had heard the first bomb go off when we were running up Hereford, but didn’t know what it was was. In fact I remember vividly one cop joking to another “Call the Bomb squad!” in a loud, jovial manner as we ran by. The trauma we suffered is only emotional, but I relived it during the trial with crying jags and sleepless nights as well as just freeform anxiety. I can still feel the concussion and remember the smells. Its odd how the brain works. I can only imagine the feelings of those and the families of those that suffered real injury. In my opinion, Its time for this to be over to allow everyone to get on with their lives as best as they can. And not devote any more time or attention to the worthless piece of shit that did this. Forget his name and let him rot in jail,. Don’t allow him to be a martyr to his warped cause. (I tried to post a picture, but couldn’t make that work) » Posted By Dimbulb2 On May 11, 2015 @ 10:07 am Where’s the Headline on Human Extinction? even if we were to do so » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 27, 2014 @ 10:33 am I share your concerns. However I believe that humans will survive, we are pretty adaptable. Cheers » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 27, 2014 @ 8:57 am Republicans to Sue Obama For Not Being Republican concise and factual as usual unfortunately their base has been convinced that their president hates america, is breaking the law and was only elected because of voter fraud » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 26, 2014 @ 12:09 pm Well said » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 13, 2014 @ 12:20 pm Its uplifting to read the thoughts of an optimist. I call myself a realist, other sometimes refer to me as a pessimist And i foresee a future of increasing war. The mass migrations that will occur with climate change and dying countries and regions will assure this. And the sad fact is that even if we had the will to try do something about it, its probably too late. and the fact that half of our country will not even admit to reality makes any meaningful action unlikely to do anything but delay our demise a few years or decades. The earth will survive, but this temporarily infestation by humans will end. Now…… off to enjoy the world cup! » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 13, 2014 @ 9:15 am The Once and Future Impeachment of Barack Obama As do I Thank god Forrest Gump was up late » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 5, 2014 @ 8:11 pm I hope that the democratic reps that wasted their mandate in 2008 by acting like a bunch of 2 year olds fighting over some cat poop in the sandbox, try to actually do something if they ever again gain control of the house. » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 5, 2014 @ 2:01 pm Unfortunately, they are a very small minority And as for “the absolute nadir of righty weirdness”……. BENGHAZI!, Its bigger than Watergate ! (TM) » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 5, 2014 @ 1:56 pm The only hope for the survival of the republican party is an undereducated electorate combined with a right wing activist SCOTUS intent on enabling the purchase of our elections by the 1%. I also “want my country back” » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 5, 2014 @ 11:01 am The Death of “A Good Guy With A Gun” A tank on every corner » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 5, 2014 @ 8:08 pm It appears that SPU won the mass shooting of the day lottery yet the 2nd amendment crowd will continue to fight against limited clip size » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 5, 2014 @ 8:08 pm I am a firm supporter of the 2nd amendment…… I believe that any member of a well regulated militia has the right to own a musket » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 5, 2014 @ 11:05 am Huffington Post Finalizes Its Divorce From Its Bloggers excellent article I am hoping that this site will develop into the community that HPAOL once was » Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 3, 2014 @ 7:45 am Chris Christie Cleared on Bridgegate by Wife well done I re-posted on the fox news site » Posted By Dimbulb2 On March 28, 2014 @ 7:12 am Science and Anti-Science – The Greed and Duplicity of Rupert Murdoch ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND—One hundred fifty of the world’s most powerful people in the fields of politics, banking, business, and media met this past weekend at an exclusive Swiss resort for the 54th annual invitation-only summit where they show each other their penises. This year’s meeting was chaired by a committee that included Rupert Murdoch, former U.S. national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, oil heir David H. Koch, and Japanese finance minister Yoshihiko Noda, all of whom presided over the traditional penis-showing ceremony that has for decades been a banner event for the most influential international power brokers. “I always look forward to this crucial and productive gathering,” said industrialist and banker Jacob Wallenberg of the Swedish Wallenbergs, a prominent European family that has wielded significant clout in global financial and political affairs for more than two centuries. “To see the penises of so many like-minded, forward-thinking men and to show them my own penis—this is what keeps the global wheels of industry and ingenuity turning.” “After all, these are inarguably the most important penises of our time,” Wallenberg added before unzipping his tuxedo pants and heading back into a scrum of other immensely powerful and wealthy men already gazing contemplatively at one another’s exposed genitalia. As it does every year, the ceremony followed a strict a system of seniority wherein members first reveal their sex organs to the seated committee and assembled invitees before the floor is opened up for general penis exposition. The honor of the showing of the first penis this year was given to billionaire real estate mogul Leonard Litwin, 95, the oldest member in attendance. The penis of Pope Benedict XVI. The annual penis-showing summit has a rich history, having first been held in 1957 at a Lake Tahoe chateau owned by American banker David Rockefeller, Sr. of the hugely influential six-generation Rockefeller oil dynasty. According to Rockefeller, the gathering was born of the simple idea that “the people who hold the most sway over the direction of world affairs ought naturally to have some sense of what each other’s penises look like.” Since that time, power brokers from every continent—including people from backgrounds as widely varied as Hollywood film producer Robert Evans and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein—have attended the summit to see other great men’s penises and to put their own penises on display. “As the most junior invitee, when I had to stand in the middle of the ballroom and rotate slowly to show everyone my exposed penis after everyone else had showed theirs, there was a palpable sense of the history of all the great men’s penises that have been presented here over the years,” 26-year-old billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said. “And of course, to have my penis seen by luminaries such as [Russian prime minister] Vladimir Putin and [Saudi] King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is just such an honor.” “It really makes you feel like you’re having a major impact on the world,” added Zuckerberg, the tip of his penis just peeking out from beneath a crisply starched white dress shirt. (From The Onion (of course) » Posted By Dimbulb2 On March 13, 2014 @ 9:06 am Just another battle in the republican war on women » Posted By Dimbulb2 On January 28, 2014 @ 7:45 am Huffington Post Goes NSA on Its Members Well said, from another former HP(aol) blogger who was there from the beginning. » Posted By Dimbulb2 On December 11, 2013 @ 1:30 pm Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds:
» Posted By Dimbulb2 On June 12, 2014 @ 12:04 pm I am an independent, I have a cat. » Posted By Dimbulb2 On February 6, 2014 @ 12:30 pm Vital to the conservative crusade against reality has been Fox News. Sadly, Roger Ailes, a veteran GOP propagandist and current Fox News manager, will not be able to set up shop in Canada due to a pesky Canadian regulation that stipulates, “a licenser may not broadcast… any false or misleading news.” But back in the US, where false is true, faith is science, and fantasy is fact, Fox News is free to pioneer a brave new genre, unreality TV. 24 hours a day their considerable resources are devoted to manufacturing delusional problems and fictitious threats, for which the solutions are always elect more Republicans, cut taxes for the rich, and remove all constraints on corporate behavior. While making stuff up is their main tactic, generating fear is their chief strategy. And there is a good reason that this is so effective. A recent study conducted by neuroscientists at the University College of London and published in Current Biology found significant brain differences between liberals and conservatives. Liberals are more likely to have a large anterior cingulate cortex, an area important for the management and tolerance of uncertainty, complexity, and conflict. Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to have a bigger amygdala, an area of the brain specialized for the processing of fear and disgust. Given the brain’s plasticity, politics and neuroanatomical differences are each likely to be a cause and an effect. Whether informed by this research or simply guided by intuition and observation, the programmers at Fox have wrought great ratings and political benefit from constantly jerking on the tender, hypertrophied amygdlae of their anxious viewers. “Beware,” they warn. “There is a malevolent socialist/Muslim Kenyan-born terrorist-sympathizing president in the White House who wants to take away our guns, abolish Christmas, force our elderly citizens to appear before death panels, and mandate Koran reading in government-run reeducation camps.” Not waiting for Democrats to establish the new Caliphate, the ever-vigilant Oklahoma Republicans passed legislation banning the establishment of Sharia law within its borders. Thanks to the quick thinking of its conservative leaders, Al Qaeda’s plan for an Islamic Republic of Oklahoma has been foiled. Since then, 13 red states have introduced similar laws. We are doomed by the undereducated underclass falling for the deception of the corporate elite and their fox mouthpiece. » Posted By Dimbulb2 On February 6, 2014 @ 12:22 pmComments Posted By Dimbulb2
It would take 100 years before a discernible effect would be seen on our current climate trajectory
I sincerely doubt that civilization will.
And I expect a massive die off as our resources shrink.
The inevitable conflicts over these finite and shrinking resources will make our world wars seem trite.
I believe that the “Arab Spring” is just the beginning of these wars for diminishing resources.
I agree with Plato: ” Only the dead have seen the end of war”
(snark)
Which is exactly what we have.
its the only way
and, like tucson, the shooter was taken down while reloading
and expanded background checks to try to keep these things out of the hands of lunatics
HP was a wonderful community while it lasted
that should be fun
The resort where the conference was held.
I miss the community that used to be there.
Dogs are too needy.
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