Words of Advice:
"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne
“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *
"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown
“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie
"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul
"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad
"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown
"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers
"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown
"Eck!" -- George the Cat
* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone
7 comments:
Kabul is the headline on the CNN site right now, with Munich in the subsidiary links. I'd say it's just the news cycle.
I'd posit a reason, but it sounds better in the original German.
I know your point is that the German victims are white Christians and the Kabul victims are brown Muslims, but another factor is that while bombings are indiscriminate in their victims, the Munich killer apparently specifically targeted children. That makes any atrocity more newsworthy.
1) More witnesses, with access to media, and video.
2) An evil firearm was used.
I found both acts to be a taking of human life, randomly and without real purpose except self-gratification.
I condemn all of those involved in the killings.
When you go to a cemetery, do you stop at every grave to mourn everybody who ever died, or do your head over to the graves of the people you knew? If the latter, then what's with this primitive finger-wagging at people who do exactly the same?
The odds are vanishingly small that any of the editors of the NY Times, the Washington Post or any other editor of any English-language news orgainization knew any of the victims in the Munich shootings. The chances of any of them having lived in Munich are only slightly less better.
Without a personal connection, then it's not "people you knew", it's racism.
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