Thursday, July 14, 2016

"'30 dead' after truck crashes into crowd at Bastille Day celebrations"

UPDATE: "The Nice prosecutor's office has been quoted by iTele TV channel as saying around 60 people have been killed."

77 comments:

ndspinelli said...

Horrible. Look for more simple attacks like this. I foresee snipers like the DC sniper. Remember the terror that shitbird and his son caused? Much of the country was not affected but for folks in that metro area it was life changing. I also foresee arson. A terrorist with gas cans and a fucking pack of matches. It's time to take off the gloves. Make some glass in the desert Mideast. Tactical nukes.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

time to ban trucks.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Did the Angry Christians do it?

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I was ready to nuke Mecca years ago.

Third Coast said...

Hate to make political comments while the bodies are still warm, but in the long run, this is going to help Trump. Even most idiots can deduce that bringing in more potential terrorists from the Middle East isn't a smart thing to do. Fuck the "It's not who we are" crowd of bought and paid for politicians (can you hear us Paul Ryan?).

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Death toll rises... "At least 73 people are reported to have been killed"

edutcher said...

Bastille Day is a big day for the Frawgs. They may be ready to actually do something.

Third Coast said...

Hate to make political comments while the bodies are still warm, but in the long run, this is going to help Trump.

Clearly.

The Demos - all of them - make excuses or blame white people/Christians/heterosexuals/fill in.

People are fed up.

ndspinelli said...

Horrible. Look for more simple attacks like this.

And the BlackLives nitwits will scream when they block half the country at rush hour in 90 degree heat tomorrow and somebody gets justifiably fed up.


I also foresee arson. A terrorist with gas cans and a fucking pack of matches. It's time to take off the gloves. Make some glass in the desert Mideast. Tactical nukes.

Nuke Holder and Sharpton?

I can dig it.

edutcher said...

For those interested, Nice: IS in a truck with grenades and guns.

Time to teach the world to play Cowboys and Moslems.

edutcher said...

Off Fox, Trump postponing VP due to Nice.

Smart.

Third Coast said...

NPR due to report on fear of backlash against Muslims in this country at any moment.

The Dude said...

The DC snipers were John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, not a father and son act.

Just another couple of Mo's.

The got caught near my brother's house - he actually heard the helicopters as the state troopers closed in.

But a brief perusal of the wiki page shows me that perhaps I should get an EOTech sight and some more range time.

edutcher said...

Drudge has a tweet saying fire at the Eiffel Tower.

Bet the Euros wish that cowboy was in office now.

bagoh20 said...

There are a lot of ways to kill an unarmed citizenry without the tiniest bit of logistic help from anyone. There is no way to prevent such mindless savagery other than making it very painfully counterproductive, if you know what I mean. You kill 70 of ours - we kill 700 of yours, and so on until it stops or you're all dead. It's up to you, but that is the only deal we offer. We start with the ISIS targets and then on to palaces and ministries of sponsors of terrorism. Yea, I know that's terribly unfair, but that's all we could come with, so your move.

The Dude said...

Just who do you think would do that, Bags? Obama is on their side. Hillary wants to bring them here. So for all of this big talk, the America of WWII vintage is gone. All we do now is acquiesce to the demands of our enemies.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Contre nous de la terrorisme,

L'étendard sanglant est levé....

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The use of a truck to plow people like snow after a winter storm, makes the attack "workplace violence", according to Obama rules.

Don't upset the apple cart.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Obama: In many states getting a truck is easier than getting a book.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I like Bagoh's ratio idea.
Lets kill them with math.

AllenS said...

It probably wasn't even an electric vehicle.

edutcher said...

Sixty Grit said...

Just who do you think would do that, Bags? Obama is on their side. Hillary wants to bring them here. So for all of this big talk, the America of WWII vintage is gone. All we do now is acquiesce to the demands of our enemies.

Sixty, Dubya was doing all that. Too bad he listened to Rove and let the Lefties have their way.

You know why a lot of people like Trump?

Because they see him not doing that.

He does not apologize, he goes after his enemies. That, I think, is what this country wants and needs.

The fight is there, but you have to have somebody willing to stand against the Left. Dubya did it, he won in Iraq, but then he let the Lefties lie their faces off and said nothing.

It's not that the country is that wrong, it's the people in charge.

chickelit said...

Obama is on their side. Hillary wants to bring them here.

This will not play well for Frau Merkel, who wants to import even more. This is not good for Franco-German unity.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Donald J. Trump · 1 hour ago

"In light of the horrible attack in Nice, France, I have postponed tomorrow's news conference concerning my Vice Presidential announcement."

I don't think Trump really wants to hire anybody for this gig.

The Dude said...

ed, is Bush running for anything? Did I mention him? Did you mistake me for April?

Who elected Obama? The people. Plain and simple. Drunken law professors and their gay sons. Urbanites who are lifelong democrats. Government employees. If you think they will vote for an American you really need to think again.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The hashtag #PrayForNice is... unfortunate.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Lets kill them with math.

These were the douchebags who invented algebra after all, or so they say.

Give 'em a 10x of their own fucking medicine.

People give Israel a hard time for destroying the houses of terrorists. But unfortunately, retribution and vengeance is all their culture can understand. France should/could randomly kill 10 times the number of deaths they suffer under every attack - disproportionately aimed at the killers' families, and then that would be progress of sorts. But the country of Rousseau and Descartes would never do that. Or maybe just do some reverse sharia and amputate ten times as many random limbs.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

This will not play well for Frau Merkel, who wants to import even more. This is not good for Franco-German unity.

Everything I hear about Merkel does more to convince me that she's the one who's fucking up Europe.

Leland said...

We need sensible truck control legislation. Anyone can buy a truck.

Alas, the next time BLM protests on a highway and someone doesn't figure it out until too late; they'll be labelled a terrorist for plowing into the protestors.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Oh, that's brilliant Leland.

Just when you guys were on a roll.

edutcher said...

Sixty Grit said...

ed, is Bush running for anything? Did I mention him? Did you mistake me for April?

No, but I get awfully sick of the "The Republic is over", "We're not the country that won WWII" whining.

Who elected Obama? The people. Plain and simple. Drunken law professors and their gay sons. Urbanites who are lifelong democrats. Government employees. If you think they will vote for an American you really need to think again.

No, not the people. Some people, not all by a damned sight.

The people who aren't like that will vote for an American. Whine in your corner if you want.

Lots of people are ready to vote for an American for a change.

The Dude said...

So you get sick, and I am supposed to care? I don't.

As for voting, get back to me after the election.

chickelit said...

Everything I hear about Merkel does more to convince me that she's the one who's fucking up Europe.

If the Germans really need people to sustain their way of life, they should be exclusively importing wombs -- err, women -- and not the current crop of Islamic men w/ peak testosterone. Seriously, it makes me wonder if she's doing it because she's a woman.

The Dude said...

Are you drunk, ed? What the hell - is there anyone you won't pick an internet fight with? Jesus, sleep it off. You are spewing non sequiturs worse than Lem before he pretended to get sober.

chickelit said...

Under current German law, refugees aren't even allowed to work. They can only fester and suckle benefits. Maybe the Germans should try building camps to concentrate the refugees and keep them away from the public.

The Dude said...

chickelit said... "Seriously, it makes me wonder if she's doing it because she's a woman."

A childless woman. That is more to the point - she doesn't care about the future as she is not invested in it.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Brilliant, chickie. Absolutely relevant to whatever.

IN any event, Merkel did to the PIGS what the Allies did to Germany after Versailles.

Greece is retaliating by letting the immigrants up, and through to her country. However, she claims to not mind.

Europe is falling apart. Merkel is overcompensating for something while ironically repeating the same mistakes that were done to her country.

I have a feeling the history books will judge all the Eurocrats at fault for what's going on. But she will get a good several pages of discussion all to herself.

Go speak German to her or work whatever magic spells on her that you do when affricating your plosives, and using umlauts, etc.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Are you drunk, ed?

He usually acts that way.

Life in an open society is getting to him.

bagoh20 said...

"Just who do you think would do that, Bags?"

Of course Obama won't. Bush did. Much of the GOP field promised toughness with Cruz being the most severe by talking about turning the desert into glass. Hillary was pretty enthusiastic about bombing Libya, and I think she would have no problem bombing ISIS, she will just be incompetent, incomplete and inconclusive about it, especially if it gets messy. Trump has said that he's against our middle east military adventurism past and future, while still saying he'd be tough and smart - whatever that means. I have no idea what he would do, especially if it gets messy, expensive, and unpopular.

I was never a fan of Bush's domestic policy, but he stayed the course in the face of overwhelming difficulty, criticism and unpopularity until we won a very expensive beachhead and control rod only to have Obama throw it away with wide popular support from all sides. I was in favor or winning and staying, by force if needed, and few agreed with that then or even today. Weakness has consequences, like leading in the long run to even more war than toughness does. I blame the American people for being fickle, and believing hope is a strategy against evil. We need to be dangerous - reliably so. Trump could bring that, but he's not convincing me yet.

chickelit said...

@R&B: I reckon that Frau Merkel plays the way she plays because she thinks it inoculates Germany from the scourge of terrorism. This is how Obama wants to play it too. Play nice, appease.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

I blame the American people for being fickle, and believing hope is a strategy against evil.

I thought that was your policy for economic growth?

The Dude said...

Cruz is pro-open borders. He would do more damage to this nation than Hillary. Plus, he is a loser with too many girl friends and a whack job of a wife.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

This is how Obama wants to play it too. Play nice, appease.

I think that's over-simplified. He was getting around to giving imams and mosques the Bill Cosby "pull up your pants!" speech but got spooked by Drumpf's bellyflops and switched back over to defending the American communities that report more terrorists to law enforcement than any other.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Tebow is not speaking at the convention.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Hillary will do jack unless there's money in it for her, or is she's being blackmailed into it.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

America must unite the whole civilized world in the fight against islamic terrorism

~Sam Harris quoting Donald Trump.


Sam Harris is doing a better job of this than Donald Trump is.

The American president is not King Henry VIII. He cannot reform a religion.

edutcher said...

Ritmo, spare us your oh, so witty sophistries and find a nice quiet corner where you can attempt to summon up a soupcon of empathy and compassion of the hundred or so casualties in Nice.

Because you really are a fool.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Democrat policy for economic growth is to lie, then open up the treasury and the cozy covers for the top 8 mega health care insurance companies, and give those big donors, (oh pardon) ( I mean insurance companies) a taxpayer bailout when it all goes to shit. All while we pay more than ever for health care with less access and actual care.

Economics!

chickelit said...

Sam Harris is doing a better job of this than Donald Trump is.

Maybe Sam Harris can get some of recalcitrant intellectuals on board, but that's about it. In the end, you have to talk about these things at a 4th grade level.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Awww ed. Do you feel better now?

I sure hope your uncontrollable and completely unwarranted anger with me makes you feel better about all your shortcomings.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Maybe Sam Harris can get some of recalcitrant intellectuals on board, but that's about it. In the end, you have to talk about these things at a 4th grade level.

Oh, right. The Newt Gingrich calculation.

Well, not that I'd ever accuse Gingrich of being self-serving. But I didn't realize that religions are reformed through presidential elections.

Maybe 4th graders like ed prefer that sort of talk from Trump. But theology isn't changed by elementary school children.

Not that there's much difference between what a 4th grader knows and what the average voter knows.

chickelit said...

He was getting around to giving imams and mosques the Bill Cosby "pull up your pants!" speech but got spooked by Drumpf's bellyflops and switched back over to defending the American communities that report more terrorists to law enforcement than any other.

It's interesting that no one reported that imam in Orlando urging mercy killing for gays. Even more interesting: it was recorded and hit the news so quickly.

Sorry to be putting Orlando out there with Nice, but they are related topics.

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Rhythm and Balls said...

The American president is not King Henry VIII. He cannot reform a religion.

If he makes their actions costly enough, he can.

Rit, do you have anything intelligent to say, or is this the best you've got? Because you're truly proving my point.

PS Trump on Greta tonight. Nicely expressed.

The Hildabeast has yet to say a word.

Trooper York said...

It is true that this is not the America of WW2.

We need the America of Hiroshima back. We need to do it to them first. Because when they can they are going to do it to us.

chickelit said...

Sixty Grit said...Cruz is pro-open borders. He would do more damage to this nation than Hillary.

Many Republicans in power are pro-open borders as well -- it's because a majority of businesses are too. Their mistake was to accelerate things too quickly and the deal breaker was the outsourcing of highly skilled professions. Open boarders is a commitment that many Americans bought into as well -- hey, who doesn't hate overly-paid union workers?

Open boarders is the current business plan. That's why American business needs a businessman to show them how to slow things down before the backlash is truly damaging.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

"The American president is not King Henry VIII. He cannot reform a religion."

If he makes their actions costly enough, he can.


Which actions? Believing what they want to believe? I didn't know any American could force anyone else to believe or not to believe certain things. That's what religion's for.

Rit, do you have anything intelligent to say, or is this the best you've got?

If you think that protesting with this nonsense that Trump the candidate or Trump the training-wheel president can reform the religion of almost 2 billion then you're deluding yourself. No one finds that to be intelligent talk. It's world-class dumb.

Because you're truly proving my point.

Yes, the apex at the top of your head really is pointy, Beldar.

The Dude said...

I hear that when a house has open boarders they hang a red light outside.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Lol.

And thin red or pink neon tubes all along the building when they have open, well, other things.

chickelit said...

boarders/borders/shmorders

Hey, "boarders" sorta works in the Germany case. They are getting free [lebens]room and board.

edutcher said...
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edutcher said...

Trooper York said...

It is true that this is not the America of WW2.

We need the America of Hiroshima back. We need to do it to them first. Because when they can they are going to do it to us.


Give the country provocation and tell the Lefties to take a flying leap and the America of Hiroshima may be a lot closer than most people think.

Rhythm and Balls said...

Which actions? Believing what they want to believe? I didn't know any American could force anyone else to believe or not to believe certain things. That's what religion's for.

How's 'bout flying planes into high rises because infidels don't deserve to live.

How's 'bout walking into a disco and murdering everybody there because they have the freedom to do openly what you don't.

How's 'bout walking into a magazine office and cutting down everybody there because they made a joke.

How's 'bout driving a truck full of armed men through a crowd just having fun and killing over a hundred.

I'd ask you to let us know when we get to something that hits a nerve, but you are incapable.

chickelit said...

It should be Constitutionally easier for a President to temporarily ban immigration (direct or indirect) from war zones. No need to even name religions.* This should be Trump's position. It could Rodham's too but she feels guilty for having helped create so many refugees, so she's willing to adopt the baby along with the dirty bathwater. I don't recall us taking in refugees from countries until after hostilities have ceased.

*The worst will just lie and say they aren't Muslim and avoid a Trump Muslim ban.

The Dude said...

Administer the bacon and football test.

edutcher said...

chick, I'm going to disagree with you on that.

I understand your thinking, but consider this:

It's easy to pass "temporary" legislation that never gets repealed or doesn't specify a time limit other than cessation of hostilities. Lots of dictators start that way.

Right, wrong, or indifferent, the Constitutional way, clunky as it can be, is the smart and safe way to do it. The problem is we have too many Lefties who just wnat to stuff the ballot boxes.

BTW, the Hildabeast finally broke her silence and says we need to launch An "Intelligence Surge".

Whatever the Hell that might be.

ndspinelli said...

There's a diner I go to sometimes that has regular and turkey bacon. The waitresses would ask me if I wanted turkey or regular bacon when I ordered a bacon and Swiss omelette. I would not answer, I would just give them "the look" as my kids call it. Even the dumb waitresses didn't need a verbal answer. Now they all know not to even ask.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

How's 'bout flying planes into high rises because infidels don't deserve to live.

Oh yeah, that thing. I don't know, maybe you could have gotten your guy Bush to do more to prevent things like that.

How's 'bout walking into a disco and murdering everybody there because they have the freedom to do openly what you don't.

How about letting no fly list terrorists purchase as many weapons as they want because the NRA cares more about guns than about people.

How's 'bout walking into a magazine office and cutting down everybody there because they made a joke.

How's 'bout driving a truck full of armed men through a crowd just having fun and killing over a hundred.


Ok, I'm seeing a pattern here. Were you setting policy in France? I didn't know that you were or that any American was, really. But if you ever get a chance to go there, I guess you could immigrate and annoy them as much as you do your fellow Americans. No one's stopping you from going to France and petitioning their government for a redress of grievances.

I'd ask you to let us know when we get to something that hits a nerve, but you are incapable.

Anger is not a policy, ed.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

*The worst will just lie and say they aren't Muslim and avoid a Trump Muslim ban.

Exactly. But Trump was either really dumb and didn't realize that or just cared more about riling up ed types than about articulating an effective policy.

edutcher said...

Obviously, my point is made.

Go home, you are anything but funny.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Obviously, my point is made.

I already pointed out the shape of your head, Beldar.

Go home, you are anything but funny.

Lol. Says the most humorless sycophant since Scaramouche.

You're a comedian's dream. I could see you getting heckled from the stage more embarrassingly than a SJW at a Milo Yiannopoulos talk. You would get tomatoes and watermelons thrown at you.

ed is an anti-social justice warrior. He's about as humorless as one, too.

chickelit said...

Exactly. But Trump was either really dumb and didn't realize that or just cared more about riling up ed types than about articulating an effective policy.

Not really. Trump was just overly broad. That is morally superior to saying nothing at all or going to great lengths to not even utter the first word in ISIL/ISIS or what have you. This is where Obama/Rodham are naive. Or paid-off.

chickelit said...

I'm not getting the "Beldar" joke. Beldar is/was a former Althouse commenter. A big NeverTrumper as I recall.

edutcher said...

Ritmo has nothing but insults. And lame ones, at that

As always.

I guess it's lonely in the gated community.

William said...

It doesn't take much imagination or skill to kill a lot of people. It takes far more imagination and skill to figure out a way to prevent these mass killings. Good luck with that. I would suggest, however, that if an Ethiopian refugee settles here and has trouble adjusting, he would be far less likely to drive a truck onto a crowded pavement than a Somali refugee......What's wrong with discriminating against people who hate us?......Orlando, Dallas, and now Nice. These crimes are not perpetrated by Trump supporters and will not be diminished by Hillary supporters.

chickelit said...

This place could use a little Jon Ericson.

chickelit said...

What's wrong with discriminating against people who hate us?

Bottoms for Rodham say "turn the other cheek."

chickelit said...

How about letting no fly list terrorists purchase as many weapons as they want because the NRA cares more about guns than about people.

Was the Orlando shooter on a no fly list? Has the FBI even found a motive yet?

Trooper York said...

You can ban immigration from problem countries and deport the refugees who have been imported by their fellow traveler Barrack Hussein Obama. Ban immigrants or even travel from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Afganistan and any other third world shit hole were these Muslim terrorist come from. Fuck them. They don't have any right to come to our country. Let them rot in their own fly on the eyes, distended belly freaking camel shit countries until they cut off each others heads.

That will be a good start.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Ritmo has nothing but insults. And lame ones, at that

Oh, I actually had more. But illiteracy will always get you, edwina.

As always.

I guess it's lonely in the gated community.


You tell me, Mr. Let's Build a Wall and it Will Solve All Our Problems.

Looks like you're a pretty big fan of gated communities. As long as they enclose the whole nation.

Either that or it's just another one of your one-trick pony lies about me that you still can't let go of.

What's it like not being able to say something about another person without lying, Baghdad ed?