This is very bad news for Pakistan and has widespread implications in the ongoing drama of Islam vs the rational world. Another voice of reason silenced.![]()
Sad but not surprising. Recall that the last attempt on her life took out 120 people at a campaign rally.
Holy shiznit!!!





I'm so fucking angry right now! I just woke up to this. I wish I could go over there and fucking kill every organization that had a hand in this EVERY MEMBER should be impaled on a stick!!!!!! That woman was a saint! It's a fucking disgrace and an abomination and Allah will fuck them up for this!!! I hope every good Muslim and good Christian and good Buddhist wipes that SCUM from every corner of their country until they a clean of them!!!
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Not to make light of this tragedy with my selfish western perspective on it, but in probably related news, the price of gas at your local filling station likely shot up about 15-20 cents a gallon, just like that.
Typical ain't it.
Former SCJ now in rehab.
Holy fucking shit. I had a bad feeling after the assasination attempt several weeks ago....Dammit. (*Goes to turn on the news..*)
(ETA- there's some retarded crap on CNN so I must hit the web for this....Sometimes I hate how shallow American news is.)
Next up: Riots, a return to "emergency rule," a delay of the upcoming elections. Oh, and more suicide bombs.
Senator Arlen Specter was supposed to meet with her today (he's on MSNBC via phone).........
I am just disgusted...& Yes I know gasoline prices will shoot up, but they've been doing that all year..





This is awful. I feel ill. Pray for Pakistan.





Pakistan, yet another nation teeming with zealots. I thought she was the only realistic hope for Pakistan. I have a lot of emotional responses on this right now.
Yes, we need some more instability in that part of the world right now.![]()
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Well call me cynical but I don't understand the emotional part.
2 brothers died violently (1 poisoned and for the other one her critics believe she had him killed). Father died violently. General who replaced her died violently/mysteriously. This is all normal stuff for pakistan.
"She has written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer...But this girl, who is to my knowledge very unpleasant and we might even say a high-grade bitch, can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers"
Ernest Hemingway on writer, aviation pioneer and horse trainer Beryl Markham
^^ Amen.





I hate that it's all over every channel. It sucks, really. But the majority of Americans are so ignorant to any of the overseas situations that the huge news casts are just freaking everyone out. They don't understand any of the events surrounding her assassination, it's just creating a terror that's fucking with everything. Gas went up. Why? She has nothing to do with gas prices.





^^^ instability in the region = likelihood gas will be more difficult/pricier to get from there = less supply. Supply < demand = higher prices.
Is it better that Americans remain ignorant of international matters, especially when hundreds of thousands of our young are being asked to leave home because we are involving ourselves in them?





It doesn't matter if it's better or not, it will continue. That's why there's so much corruption and so many problems and nothing changes. It's fucked up, but obviously our lives aren't bad enough that we would do anything like start a revolution to change it, so clearly it's not 'important' on the average American's agenda.
And gas shouldn't be the price it is right now. Oil companies are making mad profit because they're charging so much more than is necessary to turn a profit. If gas goes up, it's only going into the pockets of the already super-wealthy oil moguls. Something like this shouldn't increase the price. I understand why it does. But it shouldn't, that's my point.
I have to agree with PrettyCurlieQ .....except that I "get" the crude oil price.... anything that causes instability there in the general region always affects oil prices. Should it? No. But it does.
Anyways, nothing like this is anywhere on the average American's radar. I bet 99% of my friends don't know and don't care. Since I was about 22, I have watched CNN & Fox News & BBC Online and I've checked various websites to get a solid understanding of the world around me, and NONE of my friends are on the same page. If I were to call them and say anything about this, they'd be like "Wha????"
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so i guess this woman was a big deal?





Let's not forget, please, that this country has nukes. Unfortunately, this means America will back stability over democracy there, and so we'll end up supporting some heavy-handed military dictator.
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