'It would be easier for me to adequately respond to your text messages if they would make some sense. Could you please at least try to make an effort to type a message in such a way that you yourself would know what it means when someone sends it to you?'
'What do you mean?'
'For one: your spelling is often so bad that it's even hard to figure out if a word you typed is a word in Dutch or in English. Or whatever other language. Second: before you reply it would be practical if you first answered the question I asked you, following your own previous message before you asked me a new question and when I answer it by saying you didn't ask me a question but simply made a statement. Third: please, when you mean one thing, don't say that you mean something else. You would do the world a great favour if you would make it a habbit of reading your own message before you click send. Could you at least try? Please!?'
'I don't know what you're talking about. Show me an example.'
'Okay, here's an old message I received from you. In your own words: what does it say?'
'Let's see...well...er...auto correct probably messed up. I think that third word is French but I missspelled because my phone's keyboard settings are set to English so autocorrect should have corrected it. And here, where I say 'Electric' I meant 'Gas' but it's your fault you didn't know because you should have asked. I don't remember what I meant with the rest of the message because I wrote it so long ago.'
'This message is from 16 minutes ago.'
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Gunsense and school shootings
In November 2019 there was another school shooting in the land of the 'free'. In Santa Clarita a 15 years old boy tried to kill his classmates. Luckily he 'only' managed to kill one of them.
A man by the name of Andrew Pollack (click) responded to the tragedy with this tweet:
I really don't understand how anyone can blame someone for 'politicicing' a gruesome act but has no apparent difficulties with monetizing (click) the death of his own daughter who was killed in a school shooting. Can anyone explain? To me it seems mr. Pollack tells people it's not okay to gain political benefit from the death of a high shool student but it's a good thing to personally gain from it financially.
Mr. Pollack is adamant in defending his daughter's killer right to carry guns ánd wants schools and politicians to do more to prevent gun homicides. If it was up to him every school in the world would have bullet proof windows, metal detectors, armed teachers and students wearing kevlar school uniforms. He forgets what sane people know: if you want to fight a disease, aim your attention at the cause, not at the symptoms, let alone the consequenses.
Fellow gun nuts claim drugscontrol is the only way to stop people from getting drugs! And guncontrol doesn't work because criminals will get their hands on guns anyway!
What do you think: is control a good or a bad thing?
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A man by the name of Andrew Pollack (click) responded to the tragedy with this tweet:
In case the tweet got deleted, here's a screenprint with my replies next to it:The Democrats will now use use the victims of the Santa Clarita shooting (like they did my daughter) to try and take away your rights!— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) November 14, 2019
Who uses the death or injuries of children as political weapons?
Sick people!
I really don't understand how anyone can blame someone for 'politicicing' a gruesome act but has no apparent difficulties with monetizing (click) the death of his own daughter who was killed in a school shooting. Can anyone explain? To me it seems mr. Pollack tells people it's not okay to gain political benefit from the death of a high shool student but it's a good thing to personally gain from it financially.
Mr. Pollack is adamant in defending his daughter's killer right to carry guns ánd wants schools and politicians to do more to prevent gun homicides. If it was up to him every school in the world would have bullet proof windows, metal detectors, armed teachers and students wearing kevlar school uniforms. He forgets what sane people know: if you want to fight a disease, aim your attention at the cause, not at the symptoms, let alone the consequenses.
Fellow gun nuts claim drugscontrol is the only way to stop people from getting drugs! And guncontrol doesn't work because criminals will get their hands on guns anyway!
What do you think: is control a good or a bad thing?
Want to read (more of) my short stories? My author page: Terrence Weijnschenk at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00K4007NG
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
Terror and media
'A list of 78 terrorist attacks has not been reported by the media!', Mister Trump said. 'My boss meant those attacks have been underreported.', a spokesperson clarified. Have they? First question: if 'the media' are not reporting on terror attacks, how come you and I know about them?
If you think Trevor Noah is 'left and thus wrong and when you laugh about something it's not real or serieous', here's a more serious piece of reporting on the Trump administration terror attacks are not - or under-- reported by the media:
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If you think Trevor Noah is 'left and thus wrong and when you laugh about something it's not real or serieous', here's a more serious piece of reporting on the Trump administration terror attacks are not - or under-- reported by the media:
Want to read (more of) my short stories? My author page: Terrence Weijnschenk at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00K4007NG
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