Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2002 [Another Shooting?]

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[Peach]

Let's keep a live commentary thread gonig again today.

[MTCJK]

The Moose droppings were scheduled for 4:00 PM but are being held up for unknown reasons

They are still translating the Arabic message into english

[Hatteras]

I was listening to WTOP via the computer yesterday, that girl that does the traffic was an obnoxious bore. That's with a B.

[valleygal]

That's OK, my husband can't find anything in the kitchen, either. Makes mean chinese dinners, but can't find anything in here.

But when I go into his office which is too small and just a mess, he says,
"DON"T touch anything! I know where everything is!:)

[ninenot]

Would that be the Cross-Your-Heart platex gloves? :-)

Given the predicate, I would call them "cross your fingers" platex gloves...

[Miss Marple]

LOL! News sources were Stars and Stripes, Radio Free Europe,Armed Forces radio network, German papers, and letters from home, with an occasional Time magazine thrown in. Talk about being out of the loop!

[Chemist_Geek]

Ok, so give me a quick summary of what's happened since noon.

The entropy of the Universe has increased by a small but detectable amount.

:-P

[mitchbert]

They keep saying "any minute now..." HA!

WTOP did this nonsense for almost 45 minutes before the "noon" press conference. Literally every 15-30 seconds. My speakers almost went through my office window. I'll bet I can leave the office now and make it home before they start (20 minute drive if good traffic).

[alisasny]

My inlaws vote right to life party straight. They are afraid the RTL line may be taken off the ballot..whatever that may mean. I understand why they do what they do but it makes no sense. A solo RTL candidate will never be elected.

[antidisestablishment]

I lived in West Berlin during the 1968 Czechoslovakian crisis

You don't look that old. ;)

[tomkat]

And MAYBE some day I'll learn to type

[valleygal]

Will be praying for you and your family. "headshot"...my sister said she hoped the same thing. That is so sad that we even are saying such things.

[MTCJK]

The Mrs. keeps a real tight reign on the snacks--after 10 years of marriage, i am totally mystified as to her stashing strategy, and the kids know better than to tell me

[aristeides]

I keep thinking about that tarot card that surfaced in the arab newspaper last week -- the one with the words "curfew" written out in bullets.

And remember that that cartoon appeared on Oct. 1, the day before the sniping spree started in earnes.

[swarthyguy]

Slowly, the blowdried one seem to be acknowledging more than the zodiac mantra they've been on. Perhaps.

[Miss Marple]

I have the secret to eternal youth. It is dry gin martinis and a good husband. I offer this information as a public service.

[LisaFab]

Well, let's just say there's no accounting for taste.

[MTCJK]

Sometimes we forget just how "civilized" we have become, or how easily our technology can be used against us

[valleygal]

I don't watch Oprah! LOL. Just the home decorating or in some cases home wrecking shows. (not to be confused with another woman type home wrecking.)

[aeronca]

"Or maybe, we were just one of the last families on earth to get a color TV...

LoL..no--we were!

[aristeides]

A Freeper in the DC area yesterday mentioned the newly formed habit of the residents in the Beltway was to come out en masse after a killing to get all their public business done, because they feel it is a safe time to do so. Thats a tough way to live

I bet the sniper will soon foil that tactic by firing in two different places in quick succession.