Crap. My frozen TV dinner thingie seems to have been thawed and refrozen at some point. I should have just returned it. But I'm tired and don't want to walk back to the grocery store.
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Oct 06, 2006 8:44:41 am PDT #2432 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gudanov - Oct 06, 2006 8:48:44 am PDT #2433 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
it's rumored though not confirmed that the family members of the victims have insisted that some of that money go to the widow and children of the shooter.
That's really something.
I gotta admit I feel sorry for that guy's kids, that has to be such a horrible thing to live with.
Kathy A - Oct 06, 2006 8:49:10 am PDT #2434 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The mother of one of the girls buried yesterday invited the shooter's widow to the funeral, which I find even more incredible than the money--such a level of forgiveness is just...wow.
Connie Neil - Oct 06, 2006 8:53:11 am PDT #2435 of 10001
brillig
That whackaloon Phelps, who's been protesting at soldiers' funerals, was going to turn out for the Amish funerals. He was talked out of it, apparently by the bribe of an hour's air time on a nationally syndicated radio show.
How he can call himself Christian in the face of the Amish I have no idea. You'd think God would reach down, grab him and say, "Dude, I'm a patient God, but you're getting on my last nerve."
Kathy A - Oct 06, 2006 8:54:56 am PDT #2436 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Phelps is going to burn in hell for sooo long, and at a temperature rarely matched.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 06, 2006 9:00:16 am PDT #2437 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I tend to think of it as more being alone in the dark forever with NO ONE to ever pay attention to him again.
The truth is, even if he had life insurance, it's not going to pay out. He committed suicide.
Theoretically it should, unless the policy started within the last two years.
sarameg - Oct 06, 2006 9:00:25 am PDT #2438 of 10001
Well, fuck. January might be off. I've got a query from hell and I can't make sense of the data, much less the metadata. It's still raining.
Should've stayed in bed.
Amy - Oct 06, 2006 9:01:28 am PDT #2439 of 10001
Because books.
The truth is, even if he had life insurance, it's not going to pay out. He committed suicide.
Theoretically it should, unless the policy started within the last two years.
Really? I thought all suicides negated an insurance payoff. But that could just be from watching too many TV shows.
tommyrot - Oct 06, 2006 9:01:49 am PDT #2440 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Still more:
Oct. 5, 2006 — The oldest of the five Amish girls shot dead in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse is said to have stepped forward and asked her killer to "Shoot me first," in an apparent effort to buy time for her schoolmates.
Rita Rhoads, a midwife who delivered two of the victims, told ABC News' Law and Justice Unit that she learned of 13-year-old Marian Fisher's plea from Fisher's family.
What's more, Fisher's 11-year-old sister, Barbie, who survived the shooting, allegedly asked the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, to "Shoot me second," Rhoads said.
"They were amazing," Rhoads said, "absolutely amazing. There was a tremendous amount of calm and courage in that schoolroom."
Gudanov - Oct 06, 2006 9:02:47 am PDT #2441 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
From CNN:
Thousands of Iraqi police officers have been wounded or killed in the last two years, the U.S. commander in charge of police training in Iraq said today. Since September 2004, about 4,000 officers have been killed and 8,000 injured, said Maj. Gen. Joseph Paterson.
Holy sh*t. In a way I'm not surprised, but damn, that's not good.