Running shooting thread 2023

[Jake from State Farm]

NY Times is taking some heat over linking the two events. I'll just say it's not a real good look.

ESPN did the same thing
They ran a Nasser story with Izzo and Dantonio saying they didn’t know him
Display had pictures of them with a Nasser headline

 

[Jake from State Farm]

 

[jr/shotglass]

I'm going to put myself out there and assume that is legitimate. And if so, I understand the shock value of that opening paragraph, but it's beneath a state legislator. He needs to put on his big-boy pants.

 

[Azrael]

I'm going to put myself out there and assume that is legitimate. And if so, I understand the shock value of that opening paragraph, but it's beneath a state legislator. He needs to put on his big-boy pants.

I think it's legit.

I also think the big boy pants of decorum, dispassion and emotional distancing is at least part of what got us here.

We're killing our children. It's OK to be impolite.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I'm not going to turn my pearls into dust over it, but flying in the face of decorum can be the "thing" for another generation. Not mine.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Anyone know when the first shipment of thoughts and prayers arrive in East Landing? Should be a big help.

 

[Azrael]

I'm not going to turn my pearls into dust over it, but flying in the face of decorum can be the "thing" for another generation. Not mine.

Our generation is the one that encouraged and allowed this.

So I'm OK with pitching the fake sympathy, prayerful insincerity and empty politesse over the side.

Maybe rudeness can save some lives.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

The previous generation gave rise to Howard Stern and Morton Downey Jr. The tree may be in full bloom now but those seeds were planted a decades ago. Generation Z was -20 at the time.

 

[Azrael]

The previous generation gave rise to Howard Stern and Morton Downey Jr. The tree may be in full bloom now but those seeds were planted a decades ago. Generation Z was -20 at the time.

I'm 65. Ranjeev Puri is 38.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Let's see if he gets censured for that.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

The rock on the MSU campus

 

[dixiehack]

https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...tthews-sandy-hook-newtown-tiktok/69902925007/

There are students now on their second mass shooting.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

More upset that some guy wrote **** YOUR PRAYERS than some guy shot up a school and some other guy shot up a school and some other guy shot up a school and some other guy shot up as school ...

 

[dixiehack]

He’s performing for his base the same as the Republicans who glom onto cultural Christianity. Not sure why I’m supposed to find either flavor inspiring.

 

[Azrael]

It's a death cult, but it's OK because he's wearing a necktie.

 

[jr/shotglass]

More upset that some guy wrote **** YOUR PRAYERS than some guy shot up a school and some other guy shot up a school and some other guy shot up a school and some other guy shot up as school ...

I don't know how many times this needs to be spelled out ... but it doesn't have to be one or the other. It can be both.

 

[UPChip]

https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...tthews-sandy-hook-newtown-tiktok/69902925007/

There are students now on their second mass shooting.

There was one man who, after surviving the Hiroshima bomb when he was in town on a business trip, got home to Nagasaki just in time for that one. The world's only* double 'hibakusha,' such is the Japanese term for an atomic bomb survivor. I thought about him last night.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi: The Man Who Survived Both Atomic Bombs | Tokyo Weekender

*Others from his company probably qualified but just weren't officially recorded. Also, amazingly, he lived until 2010, to the age of 93.

 

[Bubbler]

I don't know how many times this needs to be spelled out ... but it doesn't have to be one or the other. It can be both.

Hmm. Words someone is uncomfortable with vs. three dead and five wounded in East Lansing.

Those are both on totally equal ground.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Hmm. Words someone is uncomfortable with vs. three dead and five wounded in East Lansing.

Those are both on totally equal ground.

Doesn't change a thing I said. You can bust your nuts trying to twist it, but a fact's a fact. You can condemn both.

 

[Starman]

Let's see if he gets censured for that.

Nope. The Dems control both houses.