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Originally Posted by dyna mo
yeah al queerda is way out of hand to the point we have to spend billions and billions of dollars and collect comm data of each other:::::::::
terrorist attacks on u.s. since 2010?present[edit]
Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013
2010 March 4: 2010 Pentagon shooting occurred on March 4, 2010, when John Patrick Bedell shot and wounded two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro mass-transit system in Arlington County, Virginia.
2010 September 1: Discovery Communications headquarters hostage crisis: James J. Lee, armed with two starter pistols and an explosive device, takes three people hostage in the lobby of the Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland before being killed by police. After nearly four hours, Lee was shot dead by police and all the hostages were freed without injury. Lee had earlier posted a manifesto railing against population growth and immigration.[62][63]
2012 August 5 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting: 6 killed, 3 injured including a police officer who was tending to victims at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Wade Michael Page age 40 killed himself after being shot by police.[64] The shooting is being treated by authorities as an act of domestic terrorism.[65][66] While a motive has not been clearly defined Page had been active in white supremacist groups.[64]
2013 April 15: Boston Marathon bombings: T
yay, meanwhile our infrastructure is a d- and failing, our schools are a clusterfuck and we dig deep into our pockets to bail out banks.
yeah, your way makes sense rochard, good thinking
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So you are saying no need to make any attempt to protect ourselves, to prevent the next attack? Shouldn't we at least... Try? No matter how many billions it costs?
I'll agree with you that our infrastructure is failing. Every time it snows on the east coast and people go without power, I have to chuckle. I lived on the east coast, on top of a huge mountain; We were always the last to be visited by the plow and nothing moved until then. We were always prepared at all times to spend two - six days without power and unable to leave the house. Setting aside the fact the it's sheer stupidity to live in a place that where you are trapped in your own house for days at a time, did it ever fucking occur to anyone to put all of the power lines underground? I live in a brand new community, and everything is underground. We don't have power outages. (Then again, we also don't have snow.)
Schools... People love to bitch about schools. What did we have then that kids don't have now? And have you been to a school recently? When I was a kid in school we had desks, pencils, papers, books, and chalkboards. On a good day we had an overhead projector that one fifth of the time needed a new light bulb. Thirty kids for each class too. Now classrooms have TVs and computers in every room. No need for an overhead projector - The teach has a camera mounted directly above her desk where she can scribble on a huge pad on her desk and and picked up by the projector. Not good enough? Fine, the teach can hook up a laptop to the same projector - wireless. STILL not good enough? If my kid so much misses an assignment I get an email the same day, and I can look up all of the grades online too. And when the kids run into problems with homework, they can get the answers online via the school's tutorial program. I compare my kid's school to my school, and they are a lot better off now. The problem isn't schools, it's parents who fail to pay attention.