11 dead in French satirical magazine shooting

[Sheilbh]

Apparently the Charlie Hebdo editor opened today's editorial meeting with, 'so anything in the news this week?'

[Eddie Teach]

Nobody lives in my backyard.

Maybe you should double-check. Just to be safe.

[Grallon]

Well... now that this eruption of disenfranchised, 'not cuddled & pampered enough', freedom fighters have been dispatched to their long expected heavenly harem, let us all follow the enlightened example of Malthus' & co. 

Verily let us commiserate with the fallen, but even more so with these poorly misunderstood mentally unstable lone wolves, issued from victimized communities, who have been pushed to such desperate acts by a lack of appeasing gestures; so typical, if it needed reminding, of our forever callous western societies...

Indeed let us sit and pontificate and prevaricate, patting our collective egos about our noble intentions; let us endlessly babble about 'root causes' while doing our utmost to never mention the only one that is glaring at us in the face.

In other words, let us be hypocritical, and smug, and condescending, and so very... Canadian about all this.

That is, until the next batch of houri-hungry 'freedom-fighters' soil their unwilling hands with the blood of filthy 'kuffar' like you and me!

But, not to worry, our gaggle of mental eunuchs disguised as fusion-powered-balls-of-light will huddle to the rescue once more, oozing good sentiments in unison, while assuring us all that more appeasement will do the trick next time!



G.

[Jacob]

You do have a way with words grallon. I particularly like the use of alliteration; it's sparse, but it definitely adds a certain quality.

[Admiral Yi]

The real secret is the meter IMO.  His posts are like symphonies.

[crazy canuck]

Apparently the Charlie Hebdo editor opened today's editorial meeting with, 'so anything in the news this week?'

[Razgovory]

You had to go back more than a year to find a quote that could be taken out of context?

That's the thread you first called me "defender of the faithful", since you used the phrase again, and that was the original context, it seemed appropriate.

[Grallon]

You do have a way with words grallon. I particularly like the use of alliteration; it's sparse, but it definitely adds a certain quality.

I believed it's called 'Damning with faint praise' n'est-ce pas Jake?  Not very flattering, yet rather ironic coming from someone whose trade is a form of art itself...  Still in an era where form trumps content, I suppose I should take it as a compliment.


G.

[Razgovory]

Then I'll gladly take that title.

Not until you start standing up for the little guy in America.  It is easy to support the unwashed masses when you do not have to smell them yourself!

  I thought I did.

[Sheilbh]

I believed it's called 'Damning with faint praise' n'est-ce pas Jake?  Not very flattering, yet rather ironic coming from someone whose trade is a form of art itself...  Still in an era where form trumps content, I suppose I should take it as a compliment.

Form always trumps content

[The Brain]

They tried appeasement in the movies and it didn't work.

[Razgovory]

Well... now that this eruption of disenfranchised, 'not cuddled & pampered enough', freedom fighters have been dispatched to their long expected heavenly harem, let us all follow the enlightened example of Malthus' & co. 

Verily let us commiserate with the fallen, but even more so with these poorly misunderstood mentally unstable lone wolves, issued from victimized communities, who have been pushed to such desperate acts by a lack of appeasing gestures; so typical, if it needed reminding, of our forever callous western societies...

Indeed let us sit and pontificate and prevaricate, patting our collective egos about our noble intentions; let us endlessly babble about 'root causes' while doing our utmost to never mention the only one that is glaring at us in the face.

In other words, let us be hypocritical, and smug, and condescending, and so very... Canadian about all this.

That is, until the next batch of houri-hungry 'freedom-fighters' soil their unwilling hands with the blood of filthy 'kuffar' like you and me!

But, not to worry, our gaggle of mental eunuchs disguised as fusion-powered-balls-of-light will huddle to the rescue once more, oozing good sentiments in unison, while assuring us all that more appeasement will do the trick next time!



G.

Yeah, I guess, but we weren't really talking about Quebeci nationalists in Canada.

[Liep]

They've started arresting Danish douchebags applauding the attack on CH online. First time I've been glad about our new "Terrorism Law".

[Admiral Yi]

You can get arrested for cheering?  Not sure I'm too fond of that law.

[The Brain]

A Swedish state radio journalist felt the need to point out that the Charlie victims were not innocent. Sigh.

Swedish response generally has of course been pathetic. But since they didn't stand up to domestic Muslim terrorism it was always unlikely that they would stand up to foreign Muslim terrorism.

Edit: Corrected. I think.