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San Bernardino

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Inky_Wretch, Dec 2, 2015.

  1. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    In a social media post some time back, guy described his hobbies as reading religious books and backyard target practice. If a terrorist, he was a distinctly American one.
     
  2. Dyno

    Dyno Well-Known Member

    Reminds me of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert leaving their kid with a babysitter before heading out for the 1981 Brink's robbery in NY.
     
  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Good remembering.
     
  4. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    How do you even bring this topic up in a relationship?

    Him: I like to cook.
    Her: Me too!
    Him: I want to travel more.
    Her: Me too!
    Him: You know what else I would love to do?
    Her: What?
    Him: At least once just to see what it's like.
    Her: Tell me.
    Him: You probably would hate it.
    Her: Seriously, tell me!
    Him: Gun down a bunch of people.
    Her: Oh, thank God. I was sure you were gonna' say anal.
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I don't think that they were living like Ozzie and Harriett, and then decided, "Hey, let's shoot up your workplace."

    Much more likely they initially bonded over radical Islam.
     
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  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Yeah, because Muslims around the world have no fascination with guns, and read a wide variety of works.
     
  7. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Ya think?
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Dude was making $70,000 a year inspecting restaurants and swimming pools:

    Online records indicate he was paid about $70,000 a year.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/us/san-bernardino-shooting-syed-rizwan-farook.html

    And, since his wife was still with him, I suppose this means the media will skip the sob story theories of financial difficulties and a broken heart that they tried to sell us after the attempt to detonate a bomb in Times Square.

    I'm guessing we'll be told that his co-workers were insufficiently respectful of Islam/the Prophet/the Koran.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    What was the online dating site where they met? JihadDate.com?
     
  10. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Craigslist.

    Those fuckers have everything.
     
  11. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    33,000 people die to guns every year in this country. Homicide, suicides, accidents. That's about the same as die annually in car wrecks. For perspective, that's more than die of Aids, drug overdoses, wars, and terrorist attacks put together.
     
  12. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    By far the leading cause of firearm death in this country is suicide. Most by white men.
     
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