Words cannot express my disappointment with the East Coast.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Yelling at the WBC is an okay thing to do as long as you and everyone with you can keep your cool and you go full-on dadaist at them. You can't address their issues, they don't have any. Spending any time talking about their problems is just giving their problems more airtime. No, you go and you call them cousin fuckers and make fun of their terrible photoshop skills. Ask them if they're inbreeding in hopes of spawning some mutants with extra arms to hold more signs, since it's always one or two guys with eight signs these days. Ask them when Battletoads is coming out for the Wii. They have volunteered for a game of "let's you and me yell at each other" and some days that's a fun game to play.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Would really rather hang onto the fact that the crowd ran into the blast zone to help, than know that some big-britches were advocating violence afterward.

It was something to see.  That piece of footage is worth watching (The rest is gore porn).

Somewhere, the ghost of Kitty Genovese is smiling.  Just saying.

[Suu]

This guy. This made me cry. Right down to the blood soaked flag.


http://boston.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/interview-with-the-hero-who-tried-to-save-the-guy-whose-leg-got-blown-off/

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17773869-the-man-in-the-hat-at-boston-marathon-finish-line-carlos-arredondo-didnt-set-out-to-be-hero?lite

This man lost his son in Iraq, lost another to suicide...pretty much lost everything and STILL gave selflessly.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This guy. This made me cry. Right down to the blood soaked flag.


http://boston.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/interview-with-the-hero-who-tried-to-save-the-guy-whose-leg-got-blown-off/

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17773869-the-man-in-the-hat-at-boston-marathon-finish-line-carlos-arredondo-didnt-set-out-to-be-hero?lite

This man lost his son in Iraq, lost another to suicide...pretty much lost everything and STILL gave selflessly.

Did the guy in the wheelchair make it?  I can't see the first article, and the second article and its linked articles don't say.

[LMNO]

He may have.  In an odd stroke of luck, the closest hospital has a world class bone and trauma center.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

He may have.  In an odd stroke of luck, the closest hospital has a world class bone and trauma center.

Thing is, the guy in the hat is holding one of his arteries, keeping it shut.  This indicates early and VERY large blood loss, and the guy looks shocky as hell.  And the article said "tried to save".

[P3nT4gR4m]

Yelling at the WBC is an okay thing to do as long as you and everyone with you can keep your cool and you go full-on dadaist at them. You can't address their issues, they don't have any. Spending any time talking about their problems is just giving their problems more airtime. No, you go and you call them cousin fuckers and make fun of their terrible photoshop skills. Ask them if they're inbreeding in hopes of spawning some mutants with extra arms to hold more signs, since it's always one or two guys with eight signs these days. Ask them when Battletoads is coming out for the Wii. They have volunteered for a game of "let's you and me yell at each other" and some days that's a fun game to play.

If I saw a WBC protest my first instinct would be to start making out with the nearest guy who'd let me. Pretty sure that's the most effective troll you could pull.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Yelling at the WBC is an okay thing to do as long as you and everyone with you can keep your cool and you go full-on dadaist at them. You can't address their issues, they don't have any. Spending any time talking about their problems is just giving their problems more airtime. No, you go and you call them cousin fuckers and make fun of their terrible photoshop skills. Ask them if they're inbreeding in hopes of spawning some mutants with extra arms to hold more signs, since it's always one or two guys with eight signs these days. Ask them when Battletoads is coming out for the Wii. They have volunteered for a game of "let's you and me yell at each other" and some days that's a fun game to play.

If I saw a WBC protest my first instinct would be to start making out with the nearest guy who'd let me. Pretty sure that's the most effective troll you could pull.

It is a classic 

Oh, and just so I know I posted this somewhere here: go donate blood if you can. Red Cross is encouraging people to schedule appointments now for the coming weeks.

[Cainad (dec.)]

forming a mob and stomping them

In addition to what you said, this is exactly what they want, anyway.

Phelps is a lawyer, with experience in the Civil Rights movement.  The Church funds its protests from legal fees from people who assault them.  It costs the WBC $250k annually to attend the protests they do, and they typically protest six different locations a day.

In addition to the freedom of speech issue, if you really want to strike a blow against the WBC, the best thing to is totally ignore them.  Without zealous idiots forming a lynch mob, their source of revenue dries up, and they wont be able to afford to protest.

Keeping THAT little tidbit of info in my back pocket. It's easy enough to say "don't give them attention, that's what they want," as a truism, but reminding people that being full-time public assholes is an expensive thing to do, and that the money has to come from outside an organization of 40-ish people,  seems like it would be more effective.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

He may have.  In an odd stroke of luck, the closest hospital has a world class bone and trauma center.

Thing is, the guy in the hat is holding one of his arteries, keeping it shut.  This indicates early and VERY large blood loss, and the guy looks shocky as hell.  And the article said "tried to save".

I thought that looked weird and skinny for a tourniquet. It's like my brain blocks this stuff and I have to override it.

The initial reports said two dead, then a little later, three, right? I'm guessing he was alive at that time? And I saw something saying that the hospital did a LOT of amputations. Lots of people on the critical list.

[Suu]

Yelling at the WBC is an okay thing to do as long as you and everyone with you can keep your cool and you go full-on dadaist at them. You can't address their issues, they don't have any. Spending any time talking about their problems is just giving their problems more airtime. No, you go and you call them cousin fuckers and make fun of their terrible photoshop skills. Ask them if they're inbreeding in hopes of spawning some mutants with extra arms to hold more signs, since it's always one or two guys with eight signs these days. Ask them when Battletoads is coming out for the Wii. They have volunteered for a game of "let's you and me yell at each other" and some days that's a fun game to play.

If I saw a WBC protest my first instinct would be to start making out with the nearest guy who'd let me. Pretty sure that's the most effective troll you could pull.

It is a classic 

Oh, and just so I know I posted this somewhere here: go donate blood if you can. Red Cross is encouraging people to schedule appointments now for the coming weeks.

Yes. They have plenty for now. RI Blood Center said to keep donating regularly to keep it on the shelves. Don't rush in today because it won't be good when they need it in a couple of weeks.

[Suu]

He may have.  In an odd stroke of luck, the closest hospital has a world class bone and trauma center.

Thing is, the guy in the hat is holding one of his arteries, keeping it shut.  This indicates early and VERY large blood loss, and the guy looks shocky as hell.  And the article said "tried to save".

I thought that looked weird and skinny for a tourniquet. It's like my brain blocks this stuff and I have to override it.

The initial reports said two dead, then a little later, three, right? I'm guessing he was alive at that time? And I saw something saying that the hospital did a LOT of amputations. Lots of people on the critical list.

Per Facebook: The man with the leg blown to bits is my friend's cousin. He had surgery last night and is currently in stable condition. His life was probably saved by that tourniquet.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

He may have.  In an odd stroke of luck, the closest hospital has a world class bone and trauma center.

Thing is, the guy in the hat is holding one of his arteries, keeping it shut.  This indicates early and VERY large blood loss, and the guy looks shocky as hell.  And the article said "tried to save".

I thought that looked weird and skinny for a tourniquet. It's like my brain blocks this stuff and I have to override it.

The initial reports said two dead, then a little later, three, right? I'm guessing he was alive at that time? And I saw something saying that the hospital did a LOT of amputations. Lots of people on the critical list.

Per Facebook: The man with the leg blown to bits is my friend's cousin. He had surgery last night and is currently in stable condition. His life was probably saved by that tourniquet.

There's no probably.  Between the tourniquet and the pinched artery, he didn't bleed out.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Yes, critical but stable http://sandrarose.com/2013/04/jeff-the-man-in-the-wheelchair-is-in-critical-but-stable-condition/

[Suu]

If there is an upside to this, is that there was no shortage of amazing hospitals in the area with top trauma centers.