Posted on 09/01/2010 11:13:25 AM PDT by Braak
A barricade situation involving a gunman who may have taken at least one person hostage has been reported at the Discovery Communications Building in Silver Spring, Md. Police have shut down several roads, including Georgia Avenue, around the building at One Discovery Place. All employees at One Discovery Place have been alerted to the incident and are seeking shelter or have been evacuated from the building. Hazmat teams, bomb squads and SWAT teams have been called to the building. Twitter user @wasroykosuge tweeted out the following: "A bunch of cops w guns and machine guns drawn surrounding the #discovery corporate building." More info is coming out via Twitter at #discovery. Stay with NBC4 and NBCWashington.com for more information.
Pray this isn’t Billy the Exterminator.
Man described as Asian male.
Hmmm?
An FYI: Walter Reed Medical Center isn’t too far down the road from this location. (Just the way my mind works. . . .)
Prayers for the safety of our troops and for the hostages.
Let’s be sure to talk him down gently and for heaven’s sake,
don’t hurt his feelings.
My arse, Snipers please...
They say short man with green shirt??? With a revolver, silver, and a tank on his back
Discovery Channel is showing right now an old episode of “Orange County Choppers”................
Lost on Cash Cab?
Just going by the description, but could it be this guy?
http://www.savetheplanetprotest.com/protest.htm
Just going by the description, but could it be this guy?
http://www.savetheplanetprotest.com/protest.htm
A local radio station announcer who was reporting the story here in Phx said a friend of one of the people who works at the station got a text message from one of the employees at the building.
She text messaged that some of the employees are hiding in closets and that they did hear ‘pop’ ‘pop’ ‘pop’ earlier, (gun shots).
Palestinian suicide bomber protesting Obama’s slow implementation of Sharia law in the US???
You thinking of how the Brits describe those from the middle east, too?
Jon Ate Kate Then the 8?
Can’t take another episode of Cake Boss.
Let’s hope he Discovers that he got shot.
The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
1. The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael” pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other’s inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn’t, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)
6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don’t build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!
7. Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. Talk about Evolution. Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people’s brains until they get it!!
8. Saving the Planet means saving what’s left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You’re the media, you can reach enough people. It’s your resposibility because you reach so many minds!!!
9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.
10. Stop all shows glorifying human birthing on all your channels and on TLC. Stop Future Weapons shows or replace the dialogue condemning the people behind these developments so that the shows become exposes rather than advertisements of Arms sales and development!
11. You’re also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.
Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what’s left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.
For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human’s lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!
It is the responsiblity of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution. NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis. Even one child born in the US will use 30 to a thousand times more resources than a Third World child. It’s like a couple are having 30 babies even though it’s just one! If the US goes in this direction maybe other countries will too!
Also, war must be halted. Not because it’s morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
The humans? The planet does not need humans.
You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!
I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.
These are the demands and sayings of Lee.
I was wondering that. Is this how we describe a middle easterner...or...is this code for the way the brits describe them?
Wonder what his name is?
wusa9
1. RT @FixWMATA: Evacuating Discovery http://twitpic.com/2kahc5 1 minute ago via web
2. The gunman’s demands can be found here: http://savetheplanetprotest.com/ 2 minutes ago via web
3. Live streaming coverage of the Discovery Channel situation: http://bit.ly/9AlLwc 3 minutes ago via web
4. Appears he had some sort of explosive device, according to Cpl. Dan Friz with MoCo Police. Has taken at least one hostage. 13 minutes ago via web
5. @DaAnGrYASiAN can you call us at 202-895-5588? 26 minutes ago via web in reply to DaAnGrYASiAN
6. We’re hearing about a possible hostage situation at the Discovery Channel. If you have info or know someone there, please @reply us 29 minutes ago via web
Wow good call. It will be interesting to see if you are right. Any idea on the book, My Ishmael? (Ishmael is the beginning of islam)
Jamie or Adam mad that carrie got her own show?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3qhNYaxNMec/R3OKn7IKnWI/AAAAAAAAACM/DwuLiyx5Whc/s1600-h/photo30.jpg
It’s Mike Rowe isn’t it.
A caveman?
Lunacy. He loves the planet so much he hates human beings (and therefore himself).
Tonight on the Discovery Channel; the science of ballistics.
Disgruntled? Maybe his only crime is that he has a penis.
The planet does not need Lee.
Apparently the trigger-happy Mod is on the other thread full time.
From the description, I’m thinking Grant.
Hmm... Link already broken.
They asked Grant Imahara to test one too many nausea myths.
I think this is the way the brits describe them, and it might be that our newstalkers have been told to do the same.
But, that is just speculation, and time will tell.
It's easy to see why this guy has a special empathy for
squirrels.
From Amazon, book review of “My Ishmael”:
From Kirkus Reviews
Another irresistible rant from Quinn, a sequel to his Turner Tomorrow Fellowship winner, Ishmael (1992), concerning a great, telepathic ape who dispenses ecological wisdom about the possible doom of humankind. Once more, Quinn focuses on the Leavers and Takers, his terms for the two basic, warring kinds of human sensibility. The planet’s original inhabitants, the Leavers, were nomadic people who did no harm to the earth. The Takers, who have generally overwhelmed them, began as aggressive farmers obsessed with growth, were the builders of cities and empires, and have now, in the late 20th century, largely run out of space to monopolize. Quinn’s books have not featured many memorable characters, aside from Ishmael. This time out, though, he invents a lively figure, 12-year-old Julie Gerchak, who is tough and wise beyond her years, having had to deal with a self-destructive, alcoholic mother. Julie responds to Ishmael’s ad seeking a pupil with an earnest desire to save the world (a conceit carried over from the earlier novel). Once again, the gentle ape shares his wisdom in a series of questions and answers that resemble, in method, a blend of the Socratic dialogues and programmed learning. Moving beyond his theories about Leavers and Takers, Ishmael presents a detailed critique of educational systems around the world, suggesting that their function is not to usefully educate but to regulate the flow of workers into a Taker society. This is all very well, but what does Ishmael/Quinn suggest be done to redeem the Takers, and to save the earth? Quinn seems to want to sketch out how change might come about, but it’s never fully explored. Instead, the novel is increasingly taken up with the mysteries surrounding Ishmael’s travels and fate. This is the weakest of Quinn’s novels, but his ideas are as thought-provoking as ever, even so. (Author tour) — Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. —This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Whoops!
You watch. The MFM will pull one paragraph out of that kookpile tonight and report this guy as an “anti-immigration terrorist” instead of what he really is, which is an eco-kook.
}:-)4
What are we turning into England?
Sounds like dirty job to get him out....
Calling Mike Rowe!
I worry more about the like-minded people that will still around when he assumes room temperature.
But-but tree-huggers are peace loving, I’m told.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)
* Deep Ecology
* Jared Diamond
* Limits to Growth
* Permaculture
* Ecosophy
* Anarcho-primitivism
* Eco-anarchism
* Green anarchism
* Evolution of societies
* Cultural diversity
* Intentional Community
Cops with “machine guns”? The police now have belt-fed automatic weapons?
Well, you first, Lee. Then I'll get around to thinking about it sometime.
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