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a more local yikes - bad tour bus/mutli-vehicle crash in s.f.'s union square. nm but: -- (link*) - b. Nov 13, 15:45
Eagles of Death Metal lead singer has escaped.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 13, 15:45 3
- who are they? are they American? -- nm - loosi at home Nov 13, 15:45 2
  - check your pm... -- nm - Remlik Nov 13, 15:50
  - Yeah. Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) side project -- nm - con_carne Nov 13, 15:48
Hey guys. It looks like the "relevant" hashtags right now are #bataclan and #leshalles. -- nm - loosi at home Nov 13, 15:42
Rob Lowe should probably just stop tweeting now -- nm - jangles Nov 13, 15:37 3
- Is he trying to be funny?? -- nm - amoxy Nov 13, 15:45 1
  - no. -- nm - b. Nov 13, 15:45
- *sigh* -- nm - Reagen Nov 13, 15:39
Trump would have nuked Mosul already I think. -- nm - Jovian Nov 13, 15:36
"France is our oldest ally, and the French people have stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States time and again." -- nm - prayformojo Nov 13, 15:35 6
- I hope Americans understand how important France was to the creation of the US. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 15:37 3
  - I swear that I was talking about that this afternoon with the guy at my bagel store. I hadn't heard about the attack at the time. - Krusty Nov 13, 15:52
  - agreed. -- nm - loosi at home Nov 13, 15:42
  - Yeah, that was a terrific inclusion -- nm - prayformojo Nov 13, 15:38
- I was just reading that at ML's link below - also that ISIL supporters have a supportive hashtag on twitter, but they haven't claimed responsibility. -- nm - b. Nov 13, 15:36 1
  - that = obama's statement. unrelated, the trending topics at twitter are such a combo. -- (edited) - b. Nov 13, 15:40
French forces reportedly storming the venue. God be with them all. -- nm - ML Nov 13, 15:31 2
- yup -- nm - Beaker Nov 13, 15:51
- yes. -- nm - b. Nov 13, 15:33
Hey BBC, consider your margins -- (link) - Max Nov 13, 15:29
Eerie. Eagles of Death Metal posted a pic of themselves playing onstage earlier tonight -- (link) - con_carne Nov 13, 15:26 1
- SITWAP: Initial reports indicate the bands who were playing Bataclan are OK and not among the hostages or dead. Hope this is true. -- (link) - con_carne Nov 13, 15:29
hostages being killed one by one, multiple reports (mostly tweets) -- nm - mud Nov 13, 15:25 7
- There's a report of an explosion now at the club venue -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 15:29 3
  - Oh, "five" explosions. Could be flashbangs. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 15:35
  - The terrorists must know that if they start shooting the hostages, the police would go in. Was it a trap? -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 15:31 1
    - Could have been. Hope not, though. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 15:31
- twitter.com/ -- (link) - mud Nov 13, 15:27 2
  - fwiw, they do not have that on their twitter. they do have a request from authorities to not retweet unconfirmed information, suggesting sources for - b. Nov 13, 15:32 1
    - (unfortunately, none of the suggested accounts are having frequent/detailed updates.) -- nm* - b. Nov 13, 15:34
WWE: NXT trainer Billy Gunn has been future endeavored for using ped's. -- nm - Remlik Nov 13, 15:23 1
- ZZ: employed. Billy Gunn: not employed -- nm - Tim Nov 13, 15:24
Eep, I think I've hit a really bad Fallout glitch. -- nm - Tim Nov 13, 15:20 5
- All part of the challenge. -- nm - Spawndroid Nov 13, 15:22
- ? -- nm - ML Nov 13, 15:21 3
  - One of my companions seems to have completely vanished. -- nm - Tim Nov 13, 15:24 2
    - I'm not sure I believe you. Bethesda games aren't known for being glitchy. -- nm - ML Nov 13, 15:27 1
      - you have a license for that sarcasm, mister? -- nm - Reagen Nov 13, 15:38
My ex-wife (math genius) and I just had an extensive discussion about how our 5th grader is doing algebra and it's *HARD*. - Mop Nov 13, 15:17 8
- if it makes you feel better, young brains are MUCH better at higher math. it's about brain development. -- nm - loosi at home Nov 13, 15:44
- Hmmm. Logan has those and he is in 3rd grade. -- nm - Spawndroid Nov 13, 15:24 1
  - Fine. Your kid's a genius. I'll tell my son to ask Wolfram Alpha. -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 15:26
- I'm not sure there's a "new" or "old" way to do algebra problems, there's just algebra - Reagen Nov 13, 15:21 1
  - yah. the issue for me, with second gen. kids and then mensa-calendar type things, is that it's like another language. - b. Nov 13, 15:24
- Man, I wish I had algebra in the fifth grade. - Beryllium Nov 13, 15:20
- V1 and V2 both have a Latin curriculum at school. I'm useless. -- nm - ML Nov 13, 15:18 1
  - French here and same for the most part -- nm - Beaker Nov 13, 15:25
They're now confirming three separate attacks. - David Nov 13, 15:11 4
- nyt correspondent who focus on AQ/ISIL says a colleague watching french tv news has them saying 7 locations. nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 13, 15:50 1
  - (she also has a multiple post thread re: unlikelihood of it being AQ vs ISIL or other.) -- nm - b. Nov 13, 15:51
- Has anybody claimed responsibility yet? -- nm* - amoxy Nov 13, 15:18
- wtf... -- nm - Tim Nov 13, 15:12
Claremont McKenna College Dean Resigns After Protests Over Racial Issues -- (link) - con_carne Nov 13, 15:09 3
- Lots of protests as well at Purdue today -- nm - Remlik Nov 13, 15:14
- I'm sorry con_carne. You just don't fit the mold for ST. Or you'd know that I had already posted this this morning. -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 15:14
- anything happen at ithaca yet? iirc, they were having some serious issues there even before mizzou's. -- nm - b. Nov 13, 15:12
Brian Williams is now on MSNBC. It's impossible to take him seriously at this point. -- nm - David Nov 13, 15:07 11
- It could be worse -- nm - Chuck Todd Nov 13, 15:09
- He sort of is. He used the phrase, "soft target" in a really inappropriate way (can't remember the quote now) and I was ready to turn. - Mel Profit Nov 13, 15:08 9
  - other experts are saying 'soft' targets. -- nm - Remlik Nov 13, 15:26 1
    - it's a common phrase, but it needs to be used correctly. -- nm - b. Nov 13, 15:28
  - He was William Hurt in Broadcast News long before the lying stuff came to light -- nm - jangles Nov 13, 15:10
  - You have to respect journalists and find them credible. He's ruined. -- nm - David Nov 13, 15:10 5
    - yep. - b. Nov 13, 15:13
    - He read news in the morning for Today Show. Other than being competent at that, what did he ever do to earn Brokaw's chair? -- nm - jangles Nov 13, 15:12 1
      - That jaw. Those eyes. The hair. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 15:12
    - I recommend a career in politics. -- nm - Roger More Nov 13, 15:10
    - agreed. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 15:10
"BLANKET curfew (as opposed to a few streets) has just been imposed in Paris for first time since Allied Forces were fighting Nazis in WWII" -- nm - ML Nov 13, 15:02 1
- France apparently "Closed" the border per Al Jazeera. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 15:06
AP reports they just declared a national state of emergency and closed all the borders. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 15:01 1
- (One of my coworkers is on vacation in france right now - in the Nice area) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 15:01
Watching Al Jazeera America. - Mel Profit Nov 13, 14:47 7
- remind me how long a meter is? -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 14:52 6
  - I'm playing a dumb American. - Mel Profit Nov 13, 14:55 4
    - No, I get it. - Reagen Nov 13, 14:57 3
      - We're working on that. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 15:01
      - our beer has alcohol, for example. -- nm - mud Nov 13, 14:58 1
        
        So does ours! I bought and drank some 12% beer a few weeks ago and didn't realize that it was that high... - Remlik Nov 13, 15:08
  - ~3 1/3 ft. -- nm - Reagen Nov 13, 14:52
Obama speaking -- nm - con_carne Nov 13, 14:46 1
- "This is an attack on all of humanity" -- nm - David Nov 13, 14:48
Jebus! Apparently I missed a lot of news today; France, SCOTUS taking an abortion case and Russia getting banned from track - Krusty Nov 13, 14:44 5
- Russia actually got banned? My theory is that they're happy with this because it means they don't have to go to Rio. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 14:58 4
  - Can we get banned too? -- nm - Russian Swimmers Nov 13, 15:18
  - Yup. Though, it can be overturned if they make the recommended changes. I expect they'll be reinstated before the Olympics. -- nm - Krusty Nov 13, 15:01 2
    - "Shit." -- nm - Russian Team Captain commenting on Rio concerns Nov 13, 15:03 1
      - Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Nov 13, 15:05
now reported gunfire at a shopping mall near the Pompadeau/Louvre -- nm - jangles Nov 13, 14:41
Apparently, it's a series of drive-by shootings in Paris, and it's still happening. The shooters have reached central Paris. -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 14:40
France 24 live stream in English. -- (link) - Mop Nov 13, 14:29 11
- Let me ask you this: Where does France 24 broadcast in English? How much demand is there for this? -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 14:32 10
  - Why does the BBC have a World Service? Or RT and Al-Jazeera English-language broadcasts? -- nm - Roger More Nov 13, 14:35 3
    - exactly. nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 13, 14:40 2
      - So, do they have a Chinese feed? -- nm - psilotum Nov 13, 14:58 1
        
        I just knew someone was going to say something like that. ;) - - b. Nov 13, 15:10
  - it probably auto detects your region and gives you the English version/feed -- nm - jangles Nov 13, 14:33 5
    - my point is, why do they even have an English language service. -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 14:40 4
      - English is a pretty worlwide language -- nm - eag Nov 13, 14:42
      - because nearing a billion people worldwide understand it, and they want what they offer to be available to as many people as possible? -- nm - b. Nov 13, 14:41
      - It's presumably their world news service separate from their national service. CNN, BBC, Russian news all have them - ty97 Nov 13, 14:41
      - So French values and thinking can reach beyond a French-speaking audience. -- nm - Roger More Nov 13, 14:41
ST Poll: Is your cat afraid of cucumbers? -- nm - Dano Nov 13, 14:21 6
- I don't feed my cats vegetables. - Krusty Nov 13, 14:46
- I don't think any of my mom's are afraid, nor were mine - they don't shy away like many do from citrus, for example. -- nm - b. Nov 13, 14:42
- I ... I have no idea. I'll have to test this theory. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 13, 14:41
- I don't agree with catc*mber -- nm - prayformojo Nov 13, 14:28
- Not yet. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 14:23
- whole or sliced? -- nm - Max Nov 13, 14:23
"Police say 100 hostages at Paris theater, 35 dead" -- nm - David Nov 13, 14:20 1
- 60 now reported for dead. :( - - - b. Nov 13, 14:39
Wow. I let Abby pick the pizza for dinner tonight. She chose chicken alfredo pizza. Not something I would have chose, but this is delicious -- nm - prayformojo Nov 13, 14:15 1
- She's going to win a Michelin Star someday. -- nm - David Nov 13, 14:18
Comparing news headlines: - David Nov 13, 14:14 2
- ... I didn't expect Fox to be the bastion of sane reporting in those headlines -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 14:23
- the same network that gave us such stagecrafted news shows as 1991's "War In The Gulf"? -- nm - jangles Nov 13, 14:20
"How the f*** did he clean these clothes after the imaginary food fi- ahh." -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 13, 14:12 [youtube]
this is supposedly a picture from inside the stadium right now. -- (link) - Andie Nov 13, 14:09 7
- I'm seeing footage of folks walking around the field/pitch/whatever. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 14:18
- That looks like natural light and it's been dark for hours over there. -- nm - Max Nov 13, 14:13 2
  - It's a well-lit stadium. -- nm - TWuG Nov 13, 14:15 1
    - That looks like a dynamic link. The picture that happened to be up when I looked wasn't of the stadium. -- nm - Max Nov 13, 14:17
- maybe you meant this? nm but: -- (link) - b. Nov 13, 14:12 2
  - This is from before that. Shows the game when it was still being played, with a blast in the (audio) background. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 13, 14:14
  - ah, this makes more sense. -- nm - Max Nov 13, 14:14
"Here’s the thing about attacking France: France will fuck you up and not feel bad about it." -- @socratic -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 14:05 6
- When this is over, the clamp down against Muslims in France is going to be so extreme, the world would be shocked. -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 14:26 5
  - does something say it was definitely done by them? -- nm - b. Nov 13, 14:33 1
    - I see now there are reports that one gunman shouted "it's for syria." -- nm - b. Nov 13, 14:34
  - they could have done that after Charlie Hebdo if they wanted to. there are a lot of Muslims in France - jangles Nov 13, 14:29 2
    - They could have but they didn't. That won't happen this time. There'll be public demands for a crack down. - Mop Nov 13, 14:31 1
      - there's about as much chance of mass deportations there as Donald Trump's 11 million here -- nm - jangles Nov 13, 14:37
The club is apparently Bataclan and a death metal band is playing. - Mel Profit Nov 13, 14:04 8
- Eagles of Death Metal are not a death metal band, sheesh. -- nm - mud Nov 13, 14:33 3
  - I loved the wiki description of the music - Mel Profit Nov 13, 14:40
  - is that like saying The Eagles are not a rock band? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 14:37 1
    - It's more like saying they don't soar about in the air looking for rodents to pounce upon. -- nm - mud Nov 13, 14:39
- Thats an old prroject of josh homme. He brings it once un awhile -- nm - Remliks phone Nov 13, 14:08 1
  - Yeah...started in 1998. I had no idea. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 14:16
- wiki says he rarely plays shows due to commitments. not that it matter who is there or not. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 14:06 1
  - and not death metal despite the name - per Wiki -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 14:35
Goddamn, we're overdue for a nice long run of nothing but good news - prayformojo Nov 13, 14:02 3
- Have we ever had that? - Spawndroid Nov 13, 15:29
- As my boss just said, the fact that we haven't had an attack like this in DC is good news itself. - Max Nov 13, 14:18
- I'm having a nice bowl of leftover pinto beans topped with some ripe avocado for lunch. It's pretty tasty -- nm - con_carne Nov 13, 14:06
I've gone almost 2 weeks without pop, but I would really like a coke right now. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 14:02 1
- Drinking mine now. I can barely eat but it is comforting. - Spawndroid Nov 13, 15:47
Somone named Kathy (same last name as me) keeps registering for tons of things using my email address presumably because they think it is theirs - oblique, Head Astronaut Nov 13, 14:01 5
- I get mail for multiple women with my same first and last name. from mortgages to insurance, kid school and doctor stuff, appliance purchasing, job - b. Nov 13, 14:11
- I get pay stubs from the Netherlands -- nm - znufrii needs a job Nov 13, 14:10
- This has been happening frequently with a gentleman who has my same name, but different middle initial. - ReluctantCynic Nov 13, 14:05
- Ashley Madison... -- nm - Roger More Nov 13, 14:04
- This seems to happen a lot with my gmail address. (And FB users may have seen the criminal running around with nearly my name.) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 14:03

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