BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: Slag
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 10:03 PM

Bobert, I think your onto something! Instead of Facebook we could have "FaceOFFbook" where any looney could rave to his hearts content and do it under a pseudonym, a cleverly made up name, like uh? well, Slag or Bobert or Little Hawk, er...uh...?

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 09:25 PM

This guy had an apartment on Pennsylvania Ave recently just several blocks from the White House. But when he was arrested for disturbing the peace outside the Discovery building back in 2008 he said he was homeless. He demonstrated in 2008 12 hours a day for a week.
On the last day he threw several hundred dollars in 5's and 10's high into the air that caused a crowd to go wild chasing the blowing money. He said he wanted more attention.

I have not heard if there was any evidence of a real bomb or even a real gun in today's incident. Suicide by cop is something depressed people do.

ITs all still pretty sketchy but the police are claiming heroism and success while Fox cable mentions a warning not to call distorted political incorrectness as just a crazy person. (Which I do not get at all.

No reporter either heard a shot or saw police enter the building in the 3 hour ordeal. When told it was all resolved and the gunman was shot with all hostages safe, the 30 reporters audibly gasped in complete surprise. I guess the cops went through the basement.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 08:16 PM

Discovery still does have 'some' good stuff...usually in non-prime hours. I am retired, so I can watch at midnight if I wish.
   They just seem to think that the more hype, the more viewers. I really DID consider going down there and asking about their programming philosophy.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 08:08 PM

Well, I ain't condonin' what this guy did but...

...geeze louise... Doesn't seem that we have too many outlets for folks to feel like they are being heard... Yeah, there's the innernet but it is so vast fir guys like this...

Maybe we need to work on this... Lotta the worold's problems are the result of folks feeling like thy don't have a way to communicate their ideas... I mean, ya' write so company about the fact that their "Smart Popcorn" is great but if the bag gets near any flame it becomes an inferno and what do ya' get back??? Nuthin'!!! Or a coupon fir another bag of inferno "Smart Popcorn"...

I donno... I think we are disenfranchising people left and right and it seems like these folks end up doin' some stupid stuff... Maybe we all just need to slow down a little and quit thinkin' that every day is another day to beat someone???

It's always sad when obviously misunderstood, but intellegent, people self destruct because there are no outlets for them...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 08:02 PM

well, I'm no longer pleasantly surprised...

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:56 PM

I haven't had cable for a couple of years now so I haven't seen the Discovery Channel. It used to have some pretty good stuff. I'm sorry to see it has slid into lowest common denominator mediocrity.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:24 PM

If his cause was really overpopulation, he succeeded by 1 less guy on Earth.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:23 PM

Ah, Bill?? At one time he may have had reasonable concerns about over population. But the guy was seriously advocating an end to all human procreation and all civilization. I wouldn't characterize that as "Some perfectly reasonable ideas taken to extremes" . More like stark raving madness.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:19 PM

You can bet your bippy that I won't be cowering in a corner waiting to be killed if that ever happens in Maine.
A sword, in its scabbard, keeps another so.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:18 PM

A few years ago President Bush signed a bill to allow retired law enforcement officers to carry weapons as a sort of unpaid cop. What ever happened to that?

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protester message good, means not
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:55 PM

wow...his manifesto got pretty far out! Some perfectly reasonable ideas taken to extremes and couched ad 'demands'.
It's always hard to know how someone gets that far from reality.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:49 PM

How sad.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:43 PM

Officially dead
Unfortunately Discovery channel probably will continue with the idiot programming misrepresentation of its purpose and that will include the Palin show.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: beardedbruce
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:37 PM

text of his manifesto

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:34 PM

Ice Road Truckers- I know the route, having done field work up there in the summer. I always wanted to ride with one of those truckers on the ice road and I watched a couple of episodes.

When a gun is used to get people to do something, he is asking for a serious response. (all the teenagers speak of serious something-or-other so I'll use it too).

More history on BBC, NPR, the Canadian TV5 than on Discovery or History channels. Also National Geographic seldom has a good program.

I think there are some 150 channels (without going into expensive sports channels or foreign networks). Sometimes nothing worth watching on any of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:32 PM

Thats how it goes sometimes.

I find the best cure for a peasant living in an over capitalistic world is to meet with Dr. Carlo Rossi out back My Piasano!

Works for me.

Conrad

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:19 PM

My impression is that a guy with guns and explosives either doesn't intend to do much 'negotiating', or he's beyond rational considering about what HE can actually get a big company to do.
They say he was beginning to wave his gun toward the hostages....(they were watching him on closed circuit TV)

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: olddude
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:12 PM

Knock it OFF !!!   I like Ice Road Truckers :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:06 PM

The guy is dead!!!

Hostage negotiators didn't do tto good of a job, I'd say...

Purdy shamefull...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: Slag
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:00 PM

Mean snot? well, yes, maybe but!

The guy is/was unhinged about something of little consequence if he is on about the TV station's programming. But I would share the sentiment. What a lousy waste of a great forum. Discover what?Pablum? Less than that.

And History? Yup, the world revolves around crabfishermen and truck drivers. Who knew before the History Channel pointed it out to us. What a Modern Marvel it is. Makes me want to puke.

But back to the guy who feels he can't get a hearing, either by throwing money away or by the taking of hostages. Why is it that the imagination always breaks down with the cause celeb? I geuss, when one reaches the end of their rope and desperation sets is it always devolves into some act of violence. Ah! We humans!

Do something in a postivie vein or at least be a martyr, not a murderer. They never stop to think. Think: What good will doing this be for the promotion of idea "X"? It's not going to win many converts and the ones it DOES appeal to are not really who you want in your seminal ranks of the movement.

So, if you are on the verge of going nuts over your unheeded message of warning about whatever, please stop and think (while you still can) who am I helping by doing this? Who am I hurting and will this really do anything to alter or alleviate the situation?

It was kind of a slow news day anyway. Next, for your entertainment value, Hurricane Earl! brought to you by the Weather Channel!

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 05:52 PM

Hey, he's alive, that's better than I expected.

Unusually, not a WASP...

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 05:37 PM

well.... they shot the guy. Really sad to see that kind of end to that kind of issue.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: pdq
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 05:18 PM

The first thing I heard was that the protest was about our (the US of A) lack of response to the ravages of Global Warming. Of course, there are none, but the news media can whip people into a frenzy at will.

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 05:10 PM

Nope...he is rabidly against overpopulation, and is royally pissed at the programs about "19 kids & counting" and "Katie plus 8" and seeing no programs which seriously advocate population control... honest, that's what they're reporting.

(I live about 4 miles from there...always had a notion to drop in myself and nag them about programming. I think I'll not bother.)

Subject: RE: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: gnu
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 04:26 PM

"Poor guy probably tuned in to discovery one time too many to find them running american chopper or history to find yet again ice road truckers."

Hahahahaa

Subject: BS: Discovery Protestermessagegoodmeansnot
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 04:23 PM

Protester takes hostages and shuts down discovery channel headquarters silver spring maryland.

I can not support any form of violence however these days you dont find much environmental program on discovery, history programming on the History channel or learning on the learning channel

Something really should be done to ensure that customers get the programming advertized.

Just like folk music. I go to publicly funded folk event to find that the music played is more fusion than folk. Play what you advertize.

Maybe we need a million person march on washington to get cable programming corrected.

Poor guy probably tuned in to discovery one time too many to find them running american chopper or history to find yet again ice road truckers.

Hope he lands safely.

Conrad