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I was voicing how frustrating I find true blood - everyone is always on the verge of overcoming something, yet if nothing goes wrong they manage to screw it up themselves...and hearing my words I realized I had been sucked into a soap opera. Hot people having sex, drama and insantiy, with vampires. A vampire soap, and I fell for it.
NOTE - when our dumb bro is dancing with a mask on - the song in the background is Jonny McGovern's "Soccer Practice"
Another mass shooting: George Sodini http://abovethelaw.com/2009/08/kl_gates_shooter_george_sodini.php#more
Decent looking guy who quite openly went on a rampage because he couldn't get a date. It's getting curious that we live in a world where any lone disenfranchised actor can take out their wrath on dozens to thousands. This one with two guns and 9 months of planning only took 3 lives and then his own - it must be harder than it looks. He seems unusually frustrated with only one thing - he felt like a loser and I can understand the mentality "If I can't have it, at least I can take it away." Lonesome guy, terrorist, with technology it's past the point where you can prevent someone from killing a bunch if they're willing to sacrifice their life in turn. Of course the wingers are out saying if it was easier to get guns then this sort of thing wouldn't happen...as if the girls in the latin aerobics class were all strapped and loaded when he walked in with a gym bag.
If everyone who gives up hope, who is frustrated, who directs their frustration as anger towards others, can kill...do we just accept that mass shootings are a fact of life? How can they be prevented? Even if you take guns away people can make their own bombs (some already do this). What's the solution?
NOTE - when our dumb bro is dancing with a mask on - the song in the background is Jonny McGovern's "Soccer Practice"
Another mass shooting: George Sodini http://abovethelaw.com/2009/08/kl_gates_shooter_george_sodini.php#more
Decent looking guy who quite openly went on a rampage because he couldn't get a date. It's getting curious that we live in a world where any lone disenfranchised actor can take out their wrath on dozens to thousands. This one with two guns and 9 months of planning only took 3 lives and then his own - it must be harder than it looks. He seems unusually frustrated with only one thing - he felt like a loser and I can understand the mentality "If I can't have it, at least I can take it away." Lonesome guy, terrorist, with technology it's past the point where you can prevent someone from killing a bunch if they're willing to sacrifice their life in turn. Of course the wingers are out saying if it was easier to get guns then this sort of thing wouldn't happen...as if the girls in the latin aerobics class were all strapped and loaded when he walked in with a gym bag.
If everyone who gives up hope, who is frustrated, who directs their frustration as anger towards others, can kill...do we just accept that mass shootings are a fact of life? How can they be prevented? Even if you take guns away people can make their own bombs (some already do this). What's the solution?
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True Blood is a fantastic "vampire soap"--mainly because everyons is so good at self-sabotage. Infinitely better than the last couple of vampire shows we've gotten on TV (Moonlight just sucked and there was one on Lifetime... we can all guess how that was).