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So about two years ago I made a satirical fan page about Obama having been assassinated because everyone was being stupid and worrying about it happening. Over the past 48 hours, said page caught the attention of some far left (I mean insane left, like literally insane) and the page soon became a war zone. Dozens (perhaps hundreds?) of posts were made and the page was apparently reported almost 500 times. Posts were made against the creator (unknown to them: me, but they wildly accused anyone who posted) which included death threats, hacking, DoS, ISP termination, etc. :rolleyes: FaceBook terminated the page and I have received notice from FaceBook and put on warning, and notice of a possible ban from FaceBook.

L. O. L. I love when satire is blown out proportion.

I made a "desperate" plee to FaceBook claiming it was a memorial page to a friend of a similar name who had died and demanded they restore the page. :rolleyes:

A ban would be totally worth it if I could just get some more raging liberal extremists fired up over NOTHING. Wouldn't be surprised if it hit MSNBC, some small time talk show was one of the groups calling for the dismantling of the page.
 
It's inappropriate from either side of the political spectrum to joke about something like that.
 
datadyne007 said:
It's inappropriate from either side of the political spectrum to joke about something like that.
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Had you seen the page you would have brushed it off.

You can't tell me that the panic about Obama "possibly" being assassinated was not over the top back when that was going on. Any president could be. Plenty of people hated Bush with extreme passion, too.

People take things too seriously. Especially on a page which was clearly old and dated and has absolutely nothing on it.
 
The panic about his impending assassination was over the top. The other side of the spectrum needed to be the "bigger man" and end it, not joke about it.

As a bleeding heart liberal, I personally hated Bush, but never partook in any commentary involving killing him or him dying. After all, he is the president, and deserves respect, whether or not I agree with him. I can calmly and maturely dissent from his ideologies in other ways, editorials, political cartoons, etc. In this violent and volatile political climate, the aggression needs to be calmed down on both sides.
 
I never made any threats, calls for action/violence, or suggested anything though. The title simply implied he was already dead. Hilarious? No. Just some stupid fake "news".

Oh, that small time talk show, BTW? Apparently it *was* MSNBC. The Ed Shultz show or something like that. I wonder if that might be what started it, but I'm not sure.
 
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wtf, is this real? When was this?
 
ANOTHER bank is opening up in the Pru (former Franklin Covey spot in the Huntington Arcade next to 111). It should just be renamed the Banking Center.
 
FYI, when you're in NYC:

Architecture and design bookstore opens on 22nd Street
By Sabina Mollot, Town & Village

With local branches of bookstores such as Borders and Barnes & Noble closing in Manhattan and elsewhere and consumers switching to e-readers such as Kindles and iPads, opening a new brick and mortar bookstore might seem like a strange move.

But Van Alen, a nonprofit institute aimed at supporting the architectural and design industry, saw a need, and on April 25, it opened a bookstore and public reading room in the Flatiron District. The somewhat cozy space of 600 s/f will be located at the ground floor of a building Van Alen owns, at 30 West 22nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

?We wanted to create a situation where people immerse themselves in books, and have a physical encounter with books,? said Olympia Kazi, executive director of Van Alen. ?That?s what you?re missing when you don?t have a bookstore.?

On shopping for books online, Kazi said, ?There?s this illusion that we know everything. But if you don?t know what you?re looking for you?ll never find out.?
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More: http://www.rew-online.com/2011/05/06/architecture-and-design-bookstore-opens-on-22nd-street/
 
Here's a real estate / economics question that has me flummoxed - why is "new housing starts" such an important indicator of economic health? I understand that it speaks to the demand for construction services and so forth, but, it seems to me that

1) A disproportionate amount of these new housing starts are in unsustainable exurbs
2) Meanwhile, demand for single family exurban homes is dropping and will continue to drop as boomers retire and downsize
3) In the recent past demand for these starts may have been fueled by the subprime loans that fed the crisis - if credit has tightened, then we shouldn't be surprised if demand drops
4) Entire sunbelt neighborhoods (term used loosely) are sitting abandoned and foreclosed - if demand for exurban single family homes exist, wouldn't this be the logical market rather than new starts?

In which case, if new housing starts rises I might see it as an indicator of economic waste and inefficiency rather than economic health. Thoughts?
 
Just wanted to put this out there...

If you type without capitalization or punctuation I will forever read your post in the voice of a 14 year girl.

If you type with random words written in ALL CAPS, I will forever read your posts in the voice of the screaming, crazy, cardboard sign wielding guy on the street corner.

This, of course, doesn't apply to occasional mistakes and typos, of which I make plenty.
 
^ Word.

Hey AB gang, I just wanted to put it out there that you'll be able to see me on live, national TV this Sunday night playing with my band, Gentlemen Hall. We won this Billboard Battle of the Bands competition out here in Vegas, and that means we get to play a song on their Awards show this Sunday night, 8pm on ABC. I don't know when our time slot is yet, but I'll let y'all know so you don't have to sit through the whole thing.

So yeah....things are going pretty crazy in my world....Vegas, hookers, red carpets galore (actually no hookers).

http://www.billboard.com/news/gentl...l-wins-billboard-s-battle-of-1005185972.story

PS, here's yours truly accepting the award from Mark McGrath haha
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A subtle ArchBoston sticker somewhere on your equipment would be a worthy plug.

-Just sayin'
 
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