Brussels explosions, at least 13 dead

So they're examining Sanchez AND RGIII.

 

Denver Int'l Airport ‏@DENAirport 1m1 minute ago


.@DenverPolice has cleared the suspicious items. No threat found. West terminal will open to the public in a few minutes.

 

I feel so much better now

 

I am indifferent to Islam as long as its adherents respect the individual rights of people who don't give a shit about Mohammed.
And I recognize and respect their right to feel the same way about me.
People can worship albino chipmunks if they wish, just stay off my property.

 

The leader of the free world spent the day taking in a baseball game.

Take me out to the ballgame
Take me out to the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks
I don't care about terrorist attacks

 

Well, I suppose he could have rushed over to Brussels. But then he'd be creating another security issue. And the Ted Cruzes would then whine that he's using the victims as props for a photo op.

 

Actually, Ted Cruz blamed Trump.

 

About the worst kind of President imaginable one would be one who spent all his waking hours in the situation room daydreaming about playing war leader. Agree with it or not, the trip to Cuba was an important priority for Obama. He had to follow through. Works both ways. The people who snipe at Bush for sitting in that elementary school during 9/11 are full of shit, too. What was HE supposed to do, tell a bunch of six years olds he had to leave because there was a national emergency he couldn't tell them about?

 

Uh, something like that would have been nice.

"Sorry kids, I've got to do my job. I'm the president, you know."

 

I agree.

And while I would have liked to have seen Obama give a little more time to addressing the Brussels situation (it's part of the job description), I didn't expect him to cancel all his plans to spend the day rocking back and forth in the corner sobbing. Plus, he probably doesn't care and I really had to post that poem somewhere.

Related, bigpern's concern about callousness is displaced. We can't stop our lives for these animals, and some people joke about/make light of a serious situation as a way of coping with tragedy and the like.

 

I haven't gone all the way back through the thread, but in the last few pages, lighthearted threads were limited to the Denver airport situation, which if it hadn't been for Brussels, the airport wouldn't have tweeted about at all. I'll bet there are many suspicious, i.e. unattended, packages, bags, etc. confiscated and examined at every US major airport every day.

 

My photo was more of making light of someone I know posting a Belgian flag shaped like a heart and posting a picture of the TV tuned to the Beavis and Butthead movie a few minutes later.