This monster is not fit to have human company, inside or outside of a jail cell. The statement of his wife was awkward to say the least, like a cover up statement to contain what is obvious to the world.
You are going to put a gun to three young people’s head and kill them because of a parking space. That makes no sense at all. I will say it over and over and over and over again, I do not believe it.
Every time I think about Deah, Yusor, and Razan, or see their pictures, my heart breaks again because they were so young. It makes your brain rattle and everything within you shake, that such wonderful full of potential life could be snuffed in the blink of an eye.
A parent should not have to bury his or her child. That is not the order of life; and my heart breaks for their parents who have had this horror visited upon them. I fervently hope the universe surrounds them with so much love and comfort and that their children rest in eternal peace.
Nerdy, this tribute is so beautiful, it’s hard for me to take it in without crying. How absolutely glorious the young bride looked on her wedding day with everything good and hopeful ahead of her and what good hearts and loving spirits they all had. The family and friends who speak of love and not delivering fire for fire are so far beyond the understanding of haters that they are truly living in a more evolved and humane world. Would that we all were! Thank you for keeping on through all the long hours of this day and giving us so much.
Nerdy, thank you for giving voice to this most heinous of hate crime. We are beyond stupid in this country allowing the gun fetish the NRA has created to feed the hatred and the hate becomes a murder.
Just imagine – 3 young Muslim students did not complain to the police about a white guy – I can just imagine the response they would have got from the police – who aren’t known for siding against the white guys
So out of the loop am I, I didn’t realize that another Republican presidential-candidate-in-training had taken a trip to London.
………………………………………….
Eventually, Republicans are really going to have to stop going to London.
When Mitt Romney went to the British capital, it was a disaster. When Bobby Jindal went to London, he became a laughingstock. When Chris Christie crossed the pond, he managed to stumble on vaccinations, of all things.
And so, when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) arrived in London yesterday, there was a lingering fear: how exactly would he manage to screw this up? Now we know.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Wednesday dodged a question about whether he believes in evolution. Speaking at the Chatham House foreign policy think tank London, Walker was asked: “Are you comfortable with the idea of evolution? Do you believe in it?”
“For me, I am going to punt on that one as well,” he said. “That’s a question politicians shouldn’t be involved in one way or another. I am going to leave that up to you.
If you watch the video of the exchange, note that the interviewer prefaces the question by saying the issue is of particular interest when posed to “senior Republicans when they come to London.” The subtle – or perhaps not so subtle – implication is that the British just don’t know what to make of GOP extremism in the 21st century.
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What has always amazed me about the Repubs is that they repeat the same mistakes over and over – I guess it works for them in that their stupidity becomes accepted in the end! Wonder who will be the next one heading for London? The sad thing will be that the next one may be *marginally* better in answering questions posed to him, at which point he’ll be lauded as being brilliant.
But-but-but what about Jebby’s FP creds? I mean, flying over to Europe and answering a few media questions is the ideal way to burnish those all important creds.
All this senseless murder sickens me and how the media taunts us to say you and your life does not matter. We tell you what to watch, whose life is important. What do you expect from a media who barely cares when 20 one year olds are murdered when the murderer is white. I pray that the couple rest in eternal peace together. Three beautiful lives cut down in their prime.
They need to be held accountable for the impact of that speech…as the President has said…Words have meaning…and i add that they also have impact..Those that.Hate Monger have to held accountable
Just the other day, I watched what I assume was Bob Simon’s last 60 Minutes segment, interviewing Ava Duvernay, director of Selma
Here starting at:26.05 to the end.
One will never know what will be said in the making of the words and/or deeds in front of that little “-” placed between those two set of numbers that brought one into this world and will carry one out of this world. Live those times between that ” dash” on either side of those eight numbers with great care and grace. Amen. May love rest within our souls tonight in the midst of such sorrowful space within our world.
Thanks for this page, Nerdy W. Your deeds of grace and love shall carry our hearts with a measure of love for the hours and days to come.
Good Night/Morning to my TOD family.HZ
Recently watched a documentaryabout him on PBS – fascinating. He was so precocious as a child that he once (I think he was around six years old) sat on a goose egg for six hours, to see if it would hatch. (I remembered that part because of my little precocious great grandson, I admit it!)
That curiosity and interest in exploring the world around him as a child (and the adults in his life nurturing that in him or at least not stifling it) led to him becoming the scientist we all know now.
That tweet was deleted by the message is that a ‘final statement’ from the Minsk meetings is to be issued at Noon Kyiv time which is 1 hour and 55 min from the time stamp of this post
Dear TOD friends and lurkers, look at those faces. Never in the history of our species have we been more instantaneously enabled to view the unfolding of human interactions that could undermine our evolution.
Most, if not all, of the TOD community is asleep – and that’s as it should be!! – but when each of you awaken please take time to look at the three images in that tweet. You have NEVER seen anything like it before.
The Obama Diary 
Hello
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Hello back at you
Hi and Congrats NCLB! 🙂
That’s my philosophy every day.
Good Evening TODVille!
My heart goes out to the parents of these young people.
There is no justice that can be done to this hateful man for taking the lives of these 3 beautiful and aspiring students.
May he be found guilty and thrown away forever in a single jail cell.
This monster is not fit to have human company, inside or outside of a jail cell. The statement of his wife was awkward to say the least, like a cover up statement to contain what is obvious to the world.
Karen Hicks said she was “shocked” by the attack but said her husband Craig, 46, had parking disputes with many neighbours, of all religions.
wtf does it even mean? I am white & atheist and I am entitled to all these parking spots?
Parking dispute? Sounds so fake that it’s hard to believe.
parking dispute & mental health issue – her lawyer !!!
amazing.
ut posted some great tweets two threads back on this whitewash.
You are going to put a gun to three young people’s head and kill them because of a parking space. That makes no sense at all. I will say it over and over and over and over again, I do not believe it.
Forget the atheist – “I am white” and entitled.
99ts – >< right here
Couldn’t agree with you more NCLB. I hope the cell they put him in is very dark so he never again sees the light of day.
what a sad story. in prime of their lifes. plucked away by a bigot.
Beautiful
Every time I think about Deah, Yusor, and Razan, or see their pictures, my heart breaks again because they were so young. It makes your brain rattle and everything within you shake, that such wonderful full of potential life could be snuffed in the blink of an eye.
A parent should not have to bury his or her child. That is not the order of life; and my heart breaks for their parents who have had this horror visited upon them. I fervently hope the universe surrounds them with so much love and comfort and that their children rest in eternal peace.
So young and full of promise.
Funny how the media interviewed the shooters girlfriend but not so much with the people that were close to the family.
and the family themselves apparently.
Media ALWAYS interviews the white folks
Nerdy, this tribute is so beautiful, it’s hard for me to take it in without crying. How absolutely glorious the young bride looked on her wedding day with everything good and hopeful ahead of her and what good hearts and loving spirits they all had. The family and friends who speak of love and not delivering fire for fire are so far beyond the understanding of haters that they are truly living in a more evolved and humane world. Would that we all were! Thank you for keeping on through all the long hours of this day and giving us so much.
while most of america is kind & generous, it’s the dark ugly underbelly that is defining americans now for the rest of the world.
A wonderful tribute to these young people and their families. Love is indeed stronger than hate, and also stronger than death.
Blimey – WP has been spamming me – and then I tried to reply to Dr Bobf and my computer crashed. WP does not like us at all
Nerdy, thank you for giving voice to this most heinous of hate crime. We are beyond stupid in this country allowing the gun fetish the NRA has created to feed the hatred and the hate becomes a murder.
Can’t watch after 2:41 minutes… moved to tears. Finally the media has started to interview friends and family of the people murdered.
Anyone find it interesting that the police new nothing about this festering feud that the shooters girlfriend claimed existed?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/chapel-hill-police-shooting-craig-hicks_n_6665722.html
Just imagine – 3 young Muslim students did not complain to the police about a white guy – I can just imagine the response they would have got from the police – who aren’t known for siding against the white guys
Even if they complained I am thinking the police would have laughed at them.
Probably would have arrested them
more likely, they would have been thrown in jail for being terrists.
Roger that!
So out of the loop am I, I didn’t realize that another Republican presidential-candidate-in-training had taken a trip to London.
………………………………………….
Eventually, Republicans are really going to have to stop going to London.
When Mitt Romney went to the British capital, it was a disaster. When Bobby Jindal went to London, he became a laughingstock. When Chris Christie crossed the pond, he managed to stumble on vaccinations, of all things.
And so, when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) arrived in London yesterday, there was a lingering fear: how exactly would he manage to screw this up? Now we know.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Wednesday dodged a question about whether he believes in evolution. Speaking at the Chatham House foreign policy think tank London, Walker was asked: “Are you comfortable with the idea of evolution? Do you believe in it?”
“For me, I am going to punt on that one as well,” he said. “That’s a question politicians shouldn’t be involved in one way or another. I am going to leave that up to you.
If you watch the video of the exchange, note that the interviewer prefaces the question by saying the issue is of particular interest when posed to “senior Republicans when they come to London.” The subtle – or perhaps not so subtle – implication is that the British just don’t know what to make of GOP extremism in the 21st century.
…………………… //
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/walker-latest-fall-london-quicksand
London: the place where all the thugs go to kill themselves.
What has always amazed me about the Repubs is that they repeat the same mistakes over and over – I guess it works for them in that their stupidity becomes accepted in the end! Wonder who will be the next one heading for London? The sad thing will be that the next one may be *marginally* better in answering questions posed to him, at which point he’ll be lauded as being brilliant.
most likely jebby won’t make that pilgrimage tour (pun intended), he will be hailed as the one who ‘bucked the trend’ and so will be the anointed one.
But-but-but what about Jebby’s FP creds? I mean, flying over to Europe and answering a few media questions is the ideal way to burnish those all important creds.
shrubs don’t need no steenking fp creds. They are born with it. murkans will buy it.
You may be right. Do you know if GeorgieBoy visited England before running (have no idea since I never was interested in Pol before PBO)?
don’t know if that war criminal made that ‘tour’. but sure do remember his parting gift(s) at eyerack. what an asshole.
Aren’t they all (what you said at the end)?
yup. you can say it.
😀
#copout
#amgettingfreelawyer #tiredofyourslander
I will do it. #100bucks
🙄
All this senseless murder sickens me and how the media taunts us to say you and your life does not matter. We tell you what to watch, whose life is important. What do you expect from a media who barely cares when 20 one year olds are murdered when the murderer is white. I pray that the couple rest in eternal peace together. Three beautiful lives cut down in their prime.
children, blacks, muslims, asians, native americans – where does the gun nuts’ entitlement stop?
When we end it ….
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/565724223596154881
Yes We Can
WP sucks ….
sorry, Bob. it does.
they need to get over their hangup over usage of @’s
They sure do, amk
Bottom line ….
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/565727143817396224
yup. riling up the bigots under the guise of freedom of speech is the reason for these killings.
Absolutely, amk!
YES….
They need to be held accountable for the impact of that speech…as the President has said…Words have meaning…and i add that they also have impact..Those that.Hate Monger have to held accountable
I have a friend who’s an atheist and is far from this killers views as you can get.
awaiting moderation …
agreed
And of course, this couldn’t go by without Richard Dawkins being Richard Dawkins.
sally kohn’s tweet is the perfect reply to this bigot.
Ok peeps, off to configure some stuff. Great post, Nerdy. See everyone tomorrow.
And leaving just in time, as it seems WP is having issues. Nite all.
A toucan in Costa Rica which lost the upper part of its beak after being attacked by youths looks set to be fitted with a prosthetic replacement.
Four Costa Rican companies that have volunteered their help say they possess the skills to create a prosthesis for the injured bird.
They say they will use 3D printing to create the first prosthesis of this kind in the region.
In the US, prosthetic beaks have been created for an eagle and a penguin.
The male toucan, named Grecia after the area where it was found, was taken to an animal rescue centre in January.
Pictures of its mutilated beak caused outrage after they were circulated in Costa Rican newspapers and on social media.
A campaign to provide the bird with a prosthetic beak quickly raised thousands of dollars and a number of local companies offered their help.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31409916
on that beak, I’m outta here.
Lovely tribute page Nerdy. They are beautiful. Their loving spirits will generate great things. It’s all that’s left for their grieving parents.
Good night, folks. May we all awaken to a more peaceful and loving/empathetic tomorrow.
O, and have a restful night, CanadaB. May your surgery tomorrow, and your subsequent healing, go extremely well!
VC – Beautiful thought – passing that on to her tonight!
Thank you VC! We all definitely need that.
Wow! OMG! 60 Minutes Correspondent Bob Simon died tonight in a car crash!
One of the few still on 60 minutes that didn’t make me cringe.
Just the other day, I watched what I assume was Bob Simon’s last 60 Minutes segment, interviewing Ava Duvernay, director of Selma
Here starting at:26.05 to the end.
Yes, I believe I saw that was his last. So sad.
One will never know what will be said in the making of the words and/or deeds in front of that little “-” placed between those two set of numbers that brought one into this world and will carry one out of this world. Live those times between that ” dash” on either side of those eight numbers with great care and grace. Amen. May love rest within our souls tonight in the midst of such sorrowful space within our world.
Thanks for this page, Nerdy W. Your deeds of grace and love shall carry our hearts with a measure of love for the hours and days to come.
Good Night/Morning to my TOD family.HZ
HZ – I’m so glad I was still here to see your comment. Well said, and goodnight to you, sweet one.
Beautiful HZ! Your words are a balm for the weary heart. Love you, Dear!
“May love rest within our souls tonight in the midst of such sorrowful space within our world.”
Dear HZ, you are a gift to the TOD Community and humanity.
Thank you for your boundless spirit.
Recently watched a documentaryabout him on PBS – fascinating. He was so precocious as a child that he once (I think he was around six years old) sat on a goose egg for six hours, to see if it would hatch. (I remembered that part because of my little precocious great grandson, I admit it!)
That curiosity and interest in exploring the world around him as a child (and the adults in his life nurturing that in him or at least not stifling it) led to him becoming the scientist we all know now.
Yes, it’s proof positive that love and nurturing are … wait for it … electrifying!
Goodnight, Dudette and TOD – and good luck tomorrow, CanadaBarb4Obama. Love ya.
headdesk, headdesk, headdesk
Cool. My dad named our company after him. We are his great admirers. #brianiestdoodevah
🙂
Sweet Dreams Everybody!
leaving already??? #slacker
Anybody else having trouble with their WP “notifications”? Mine aren’t working. Oh, well, tomorrow is another day!
Goodnight.
Was preparing to depart and try to get a couple hours of sleep and then ….
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/565782437314048001
That tweet was deleted by the message is that a ‘final statement’ from the Minsk meetings is to be issued at Noon Kyiv time which is 1 hour and 55 min from the time stamp of this post
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/565787379667963906
now, good night …..
Was just departing and then this set of images appeared …
Dear TOD friends and lurkers, look at those faces. Never in the history of our species have we been more instantaneously enabled to view the unfolding of human interactions that could undermine our evolution.
Most, if not all, of the TOD community is asleep – and that’s as it should be!! – but when each of you awaken please take time to look at the three images in that tweet. You have NEVER seen anything like it before.
now, good night ….
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/565781482157793281
oh please WP get over yourself ….
good night TOD ….
Yes Anna …
wish you were still awake to see this bobfr! putin announces ceasefire in ukraine. thanks obama!
http://t.co/RQgIBGOrsC
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31435812
sloppy syntax– putin didn’t thank obama; i’m thanking obama 🙂
Understood susanne – we all say thanks Obama – with the possible exception of Putin 🙂
Mooooooooooorning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/02/12/early-bird-chat-473/