And what good is it doing? ;)


This just in,

And what good is it doing? :D

If we had all this detailed targeting information, why weren't these targets already taken out before; unless, it wouldn't have done much good? :rolleyes:

Observed a minute's silence at 11.00.
I admit I really don't like these. I only observe them out of courtesy.
YES on Remembrance Sunday/ 11 November. And YES I understand them at football matches where someone closely connected to the club has died.
But otherwise they stick in my craw slightly. Still, makes it easier to stay silent :rolleyes:

As you will see from my earlier posts, I was genuinely affected by the murders. Having lived closely with terrorism it always will be an issue for me when it's in a place I know.
It's just random silences I can't be doing with.
They're the Facebook messages (or Clod's husband's chain email) of real life - they're arranged to make people feel like they've done something when in fact they've done nothing.

At least a memorial service, or a candlelit vigil gets you up off your seat.
Opening your house to strangers who can't get home is amazing and helpful.
Giving blood (they had to turn people away - some were waiting for three hours to donate) is important and decent and wonderful.

Shutting your yap for a minute?
Doesn't do much.

Except that French news programmes will likely report that Britain, and other countries observed a minute's silence. It's not much, but it sends a message of solidarity and support.

Jeez.

It's doing what isis wanted, a boost in their recruiting campaign.

NSFW language follows...

This young man is doing his thing on 11/13/15
He mocks others who he projects as only saying:
“Don’t forget about me.”

But who is "me" ?

In this case, "me" has the initials A J
And, aside from getting to say the word "fucking" several times in public,
A J has used his time to produce a routine worth just what he says: “fucking nothing”.

Forget Axxxxxx Jxxxxxx

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My thoughts and prayers with Lamplighter.

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Watch the many servicemen confronted by strangers who say, "Thank you for your service." They don't want that. It clearly makes them uncomfortable. But they are also happy and appreciate discussing their service - just as you are happly to discuss events - good and bad - that happened to you.

A minute of silence is about whether the letter is capitalized or lower case. We do it to be nice or respectful. What really matters is what we do aftter the fact to learn from that history lesson. To remember why extremsits are the greatest threat to all humans. And to remember that the informed are often attacked by uneducated and therefore both emotional and violent extremists.

I heard some French dude being interviewed for a story on NPR this morning. He said that he felt good seeing pictures of all the buildings around the world lit up in the colors of the French flag, but that those good feelings were tempered by the fact that Paris was the victim of an attack.

So the various forms of expressed solidarity, whether they be lights on buildings or even just public posts on social media do have the positive benefit of making that French dude and probably his fellow countrymen feel just a little bit better. And the "don't forget about me" FB people can feel like they are involved.

After 9/11, I noticed that sometimes the people furthest away from the impact of the events felt more of a need to talk about it than those who were directly involved. Kinda weird, but that's somehow part of the human condition.

Social media is the way people communicate with "friends", so it would be natural to go there to commiserate too. The electronic back fence to gossip over.

I haven't posted anything about my personal thoughts on facebook, but I have posted lots of links for all my red neck friends to read to try and educate them about who they think is responsible for most of the terrorist activity lately.

GOP Governors (and 1 Democrat) are running scarred of the Syrians.
... at least until the War on Terror has ended :rolleyes:

States Whose Governors Oppose Syrian Refugee Resettlement
NPR - 11/17/15
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/17/456336...yrian-refugees

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ETA: Sorry, I've lost the link to the second pic

They're probably concerned that resettled Syrians would be taking jobs away from our domestic terrorists.