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The American Crash

I’m so sorry nellie.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 9:38 pm

There was a suicide in my family too, a favourite, larger than life, always joking uncle who waited until his wife was out of town and hung himself in their basement where she found him the next day. Even though mu aunt was in poor health, he wouldn’t have ever considered harming a hair on her head.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

Of course neither the spouse or the children would want to die and here in Japan murder/suicide is very common. It always makes me mad that the guy who has lost his job or had a chronic illness would presume that there is no life left for the family, except to live in shame without him. It is a purely selfish act.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 9:16 pm

Again, why kill his wife, did she want to die?

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 9:00 pm

He needs to perform at least one “miracle” before that. Maybe he can drop his pants and make the Repub ladies faint, or maybe not.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 8:54 pm

Sounds like your average, nutty anti-government rage to me, certainly wasn’t suffering as many are in your country

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 8:51 pm

We don’t know if he was mentally ill, that is the way people prefer to think about someone who murders his family, abuses a child, a spouse or an animal or flies a plane into a building, so are the suicide bombers in the ME, Afghanistan, Kashmir and all over the world also mentally unstable?

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 8:48 pm

The party of NO will be hailing him as their Obama before the next election. Laughing too much makes my neck hurt. 🙂

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 8:39 pm

A very nasty and hateful troll, any excuse to blame the “brown” people.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 8:37 pm

Right you are then Khirad, I worry about my use of English sometimes, I have a problem with word order at times. 🙁

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 8:33 pm

Is the trolls learning? No.

The man is dead I presume, no chance to get inside his head anymore. His garbled suicide note may only cover half of what he thought about how many people had wronged him, we will never know of the last trigger that set him off.

With the words “in their right minds” i was referring to his “audience” the people he might expect to view him as a martyr.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 8:14 pm

Exactly my point about protests instead of thoughts of a revolution.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 8:09 pm

I doubt that anyone in their right minds would view what he did as “martyrdom” any more than they would think the same of a fanatical suicide bomber blowing up a group of innocent people eating in a family restaurant with their young children.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 7:58 pm

I have to agree, there are people all over the world far worse off than many of us who have roofs over our heads, food to eat, clean drinking water, access to emergency care if we can pay for it or not, the right to an education, the rights afforded to women, the right to complain and vote to make a difference, a stable country to live and bring up our children.

So whatever his reasons were, they were purely selfish and the number of times I’ve heard that so and so was a quiet man who blended in to describe a person who has committed a heinous act are so many, that if I had $100 for those times, we wouldn’t have to work again for the rest of our lives, and my hubby could play golf every day.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 7:09 pm

Yes bito I was also thinking about your unemployment figures and also the fact that companies might retaliate but I was still thinking about the word revolution that Cher and I were discussing earlier and this could be a non violent way of protesting while hitting the big knobs in their pocket books, where it will sting the most.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 6:59 pm

Of course in the majority of protests labour unions are involved if it’s work related but in other cases I would imagine small groups of people with the same cause agreeing to march together on the same day. Again not impossible but would need dedicated people to lead and make it a reality.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 6:55 pm

That’s what I’m talking about Sue, make the corporations lose some of the only thing they care about, money.

And yes, a day long boycott on buying anything would indeed send a clear message. It would be hard to organize, but not impossible. Humans are very resourceful and where there is a will, there is a way.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 6:28 pm

Yes I see that Cher, still a good crowd of protesters could have been filmed and put on youtube but agree with your last sentence about not having real leadership. That is such a shame and one of the reasons that nothing much changes because it gives the impression that people just don’t care enough

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 6:08 pm

If the Teabaggers can organize a protest in Washington, anyone can. I expected the Dems, Liberals and Progressives to do just that instead of complaining in the media or blogs, was disappointed when it didn’t happen.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 5:53 pm

An apt Mohandas Gandhi quote.

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 5:49 pm

Yes, that is what I meant and is there ever a peaceful revolution, I don’t think the people of Iran would think so.

Maybe everyone should start a massive, country wide protest strike, that’s how many things are settled in Europe.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 5:38 pm

It might be Cher but is it necessary in 2010 and is there not enough individual unrest in your country right now?

I see “revolutions” as part of a growing 3rd world country’s way out, not a country that has always prided itself of being number one in the world, even though that is no longer strictly true.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 5:29 pm

I understand what you mean but do we really have the time to a analyze each and every selfish incident reported in the news and does the average person even care about the reasons some people need to destroy something or others to make a point, I don’t think so. Is understanding the reason going to change anything or stop people like Stark from doing the same, I don’t really think so either.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 5:26 pm

TY nellie. I look at it this way, this wasn’t an overnight decision by Stark, he knew what he was doing and why, he was also rational enough to start a fire at his home and then fly a plane all the way into a building which definitely earns him the name of domestic terrorist. Two people were injured and one person is missing, they have families and lives too.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 5:19 pm

Although I understand that this man had lost his reasoning when he decided to set his own home ablaze before he crashed his plane into a federal building, I always wonder why potential suicides, decide it’s ok to take the lives of others before they take their own.

I remember that not long after coming here after leaving a department store, I heard a commotion and later learned that a man had jumped from the 7th floor of the store, landing on an elderly couple walking below. That day saw 3 people dying unnecessarily because someone chose a public place to take their own lives. Should I chose to end my life, I would do it alone and in a way that would not require a clean up or a search in some remote woods out in the countryside. There must have been warning signs with this man that were missed, a tragic situation for all concerned.

Supposing that everyone who had a beef with their government, decided to do the same thing?

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 4:47 pm

The very sad and complicated story of Mercy the Cat

No problem boomer, happens to me all the time. 🙂

» Posted By Kalima On February 19, 2010 @ 4:23 am

Sorry boomer, “the moral value boat” about what?

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 7:17 pm

Not every abuser is mentally unstable, they chose to abuse something or someone weaker, some people are just born to be cruel.

I have rescued countless cats with injuries that could only have been by human abuse such as an arrow through the head, front and back leg bound with duct tape, barbed wire around the neck, eyes stuck shut with glue and one stomped on so badly, it crushed his spine and pelvis. I saved all but 2 and am now happy that after years of fighting for animal right, Japan passed a law that poses a fine of

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 4:11 pm

The abuse of animals or children is unforgivable. The fact that the man shot himself after receiving threats shows that he knew he had done something awful and was nothing more than most abusers, just a coward. My sympathy is not with the abuser but with the small, frightened animal who wouldn’t have understood why this was happening to him. I have no mercy for any type of abuse, my heart is cold on this issue and I need to put it out of my mind to continue my day.

RIP little Mercy.

» Posted By Kalima On February 18, 2010 @ 3:52 pm

New PlanetPOV Parody Video – Sarah Palin and Intelligent Denial

LOL, “Time Travel” I like that. The problem was he knew which which country he had visited from the Duty Free shopping bag he brought home. Asked if he’d had a good time, he couldn’t remember

» Posted By Kalima On February 16, 2010 @ 11:25 pm