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One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 ce). Covering issues such as duty, forgiveness, brotherhood, strength in adversity and the best way to approach life and death, the Meditations have inspired thinkers, poets and politicians since their first publication more than 500 years ago. Today, the book stands as one of the great guides and companions - a cornerstone of Western thought.
"The Royal Treatment"
No subject is bigger than reality itself, and nothing is more challenging to understand, since what counts as reality is undergoing continual revision and has been for centuries. The quest to pin down what's real and what's illusory is both philosophical and scientific, a metaphysical search for ultimate reality that goes back to the ancient Greeks. For the last 400 years, this search has been increasingly guided by scientists, who create theories and test them in order to define and redefine reality.
"Good overview of multiple areas of science"
At some point every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history.
"Entertaining and informative"
In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right.
"Required reading... with one caveat."
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
"Deja vu for me"
We've all had the experience of reading about a bloody war or shocking crime and asking, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, the best-selling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. In fact, we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence.
"Violence is decreasing everywhere. Who knew?"
In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security....
"Best Read in Print Format"
Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
"Transformative to the point of being revolutionary"
Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced violent, unreliable leaders and recruits.
On February 28, 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus 30 years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. From the moment of his arrest, Syed has consistently maintained his innocence. Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, always believed him and has never given up the hope that he might someday be released. By 2013, however, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, things looked bleak.
"Fascinating. Heartbreaking. Informative."
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
"You don't have to be a psychopath to like this."
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
"Captivating (if not an outlier)"
If you think ghosts are only responsible for hauntings, think again. The Demonologist reveals the grave religious process behind supernatural events and how it can happen to you. Used as a text in seminaries and classrooms, this is one book you can't put down. For over five decades, Ed and Loraine Warren have been considered America's foremost experts on demonology and exorcism. With over 3,000 investigations to their credit, they reveal what actually breaks the peace in haunted houses. Don't miss the Warrens in the new blockbuster movie The Conjuring.
"Scary fun."
Author Benjamin Hoff shows that the philosophy of Winnie-the-Pooh is amazingly consistent with the principles of Taoism and demonstrates how you can use these principles in your daily life. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey.
"A True Must Read"
Recounts the tragic events that followed the arrest of Fred Coe, a conservative, clean-cut young man, for a series of rapes committed in the city of Spokane and led to revenge and murder.
"Psychopathy Born or Made?"
You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality - except we're not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of 15 more ways we fool ourselves every day. This smart and highly entertaining audiobook will be wowing listeners for years to come.
"Not a lot of guidance"
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.
"An essential read. A horrifying reality."
It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world have begun to recognize three startling truths: Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we think it is. And the drug war has very different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens for so long.
"A Must if the drug war has touched you at all"
Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man's primary motivational force is his search for meaning.
"I will isten again and again"
Listeners to Dr. Savage's top-rated radio talk show, The Savage Nation, know him to be an articulate and engaged spokesman for traditional American values of borders, language, and culture. Now, after eight divisive years of Barack Obama, Dr. Savage lays out an irrefutable case for how our nation has been undermined by terrorists from without, by anarchists from within, by a president and politicians with contempt for the Constitution and the law, and by a complicit liberal media.
"No sugarcoating"
Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day. Did you know that silly once meant "blessed"? Or that ought was the original past tense of owe? Or that the suffix -ly in adverbs is actually a remnant of the word like? And have you ever wondered why some people from New Orleans sound as if they come from Brooklyn?
"Fascinating aspects of language"
In a thrilling narrative showcasing his gifts as storyteller and researcher, Erik Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Also available abridged.
"A Rich Read!"
At the core of this book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Weaving the story of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren with a clear-eyed look at Mormonism's violent past, Krakauer examines the underbelly of the most successful homegrown faith in the United States, and finds a distinctly American brand of religious extremism.
"Makes you think"
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells, taken without her knowledge, became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first immortal human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than 60 years.
"Amazing Story"
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America - addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland.
"American Nightmare that is Necessary Reading"
Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men - John Chatterton and John Mattera - are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. While he was at large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the 17th century, Bannister's exploits would have been more notorious than Blackbeard's, more daring than Kidd's, but his story and his ship have been lost to time.
"Pure Gold"
When someone we love is grieving, we want to be there. But it's easy to feel paralyzed, worried that we might say or do the wrong thing. Nancy Guthrie has personal experience dealing with pain and knows what words of encouragement are helpful and what words are harmful. Drawing from her own life experiences - including the loss of two young children - Guthrie has written this helpful resource for Christians who want to be better friends to those who are suffering.
In Girl Defined, sisters and popular bloggers Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird offer women a countercultural view of beauty, femininity, and self-worth. Based firmly in God's design for their lives, this book helps women rethink what true success and beauty look like. It invites them on a liberating journey toward a radically better vision for femininity that ends with the discovery of the kind of hope, purpose, and fulfillment they've been yearning for.
If you have been watching the election cycle on the news here in the United States, you will know that Donald Trump is turning everything upside down. This is not necessarily a bad thing, our political system needs a jolt, but I was wondering if there was not something more going on here. Something seems wrong. Is Trump serious about becoming president? Or is he trying to destroy the Republican Party on behalf of the Democrats? Open your eyes to the truth. Trump and Clinton are allies, not enemies.
A case is made that so-called international law is law in name only and, moreover, that although bona fide international law is theoretically possible, it would not be desirable.
"cogent and beautiful"
A look at the ongoing elections paints a very different picture from the truth. What many don't know is that the media's obsession with Donald Trump is a well-crafted scheme by the Democrats to maintain focus away from them. This may seem like an outrageous claim at first but it will become clear as you continue to listen to this audio book. One way of ensuring that people don't start questioning Hillary Clinton's achievements and the people destroyed by her ways, is keeping the spotlight away from her as much as possible.
Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late 19th century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning carcasses in the form of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath.
In 1971 Paulette Cooper wrote a scathing book about the Church of Scientology. Desperate to shut the book down, Scientology unleashed on her one of the most sinister personal campaigns the free world has ever known. The onslaught, which lasted years, ruined her life and drove her to the brink of suicide. The story of Paulette's terrifying ordeal is told in full for the first time in The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.
This is a call to arms. Are you aged zero to infinity? Finished with the sexist status quo? Ready to kick ass and take names? Welcome to the Feminist Fight Club. You have lifetime membership. Feminist Fight Club provides an arsenal of weapons for surviving in an unequal world. You will learn how to fight microaggressions, correct unconscious bias, deal with male colleagues who can't stop 'manterrupting' or 'bro-propriating' your ideas - and how to lean in without falling the f**k over.
The ideal of freedom is at the heart of our political and economic system. It is foundational to our sense of justice, our way of life, our conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are? In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez brings together a torrent of mind-expanding ideas, facts and arguments to dismantle sacred myths central to our society - myths about free will, free markets, free media and free elections.
The American aquarium boom can be reduced to this equation: aquarium + shopping malls = urban renewal. Where's the education in that?
In defense of depressing literature.
Despite the France-baiting, the coast-baiting, and - worst of all - the incessant brunette-baiting, Sweet Valley High's world of flat superlative descriptions proves inescapably seductive.
Spiritualism may have lost its original steam-punk appeal, but it continues to thrive in Lily Dale, the town that talks to the dead.
In 1902, Sadakichi Hartmann attempted to transport a theater full of people across a vast ocean using only perfume and an electric fan.
Hypocrisy, explosive listening, and the fear of death at the World Championship of Public Speaking.
Kooshyar Karimi had two careers in Iran, one as a doctor and one as an award-winning translator. Until he was kidnapped by the Intelligence Service. Behind his professional success, Kooshyar was a rebel on several fronts. Marginalised since boyhood as a Jew in a fundamentalist Islamic state, he was a member of a political group that opposed the government. He'd also been using his medical skills illegally, to save unmarried pregnant women from death by stoning.
V. C. Andrews and the secret life of girls.
A Parisian collective fascinated by the possibilities of literature beholden to mathematical rigor keeps half a century's worth of documents in a surprisingly questionable state of alphabetization.
In fundamentalist Iran, new life sometimes means certain death. When Leila comes to see Doctor Karimi, both are in danger. Born in a slum to a Muslim father and a Jewish mother, Kooshyar Karimi has transformed himself into a successful doctor, an award - winning writer, and an adoring father.
Freud, Dora (no, not that Dora), and surfing's secret Austro-Hungarian roots.
It's the 21st century, and although we tried to rear unisex children - boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks - we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. And everywhere we hear about vitally important "hardwired" differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is a validation of the status quo.
"Gender differences are exaggerated"
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected here from various sources (including the Guardian and GQ America) are the best of his adventures.
"Like a Collection of TAL Episodes"
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the world and how best to live in it.
"Good Listen"
Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.
"Good self-help book; not well-suited for audio."
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
"Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation"
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.
"Colossus: The Forbin Project is coming"
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from 45 to 72 years. The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era.
"The book is a great review of how we got to where we are today"
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Now available for the first time in unabridged audio, the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime is brought to life by acclaimed narrator Scott Brick.
"Everything I remembered about the case was wrong.."
Tribes are groups of people aligned around an idea, connected to a leader and to each other. Tribes make our world work, and always have. The new opportunity is that it's easier than ever to find, organize, and lead a tribe. The Web has enabled an explosion of all kinds of tribes - and created shortage of people to lead them. This is the growth industry of our time. Tribes will help you understand exactly what's at stake, and why YOU can and should lead a tribe of your own.
"a bit too repetitive"
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives. In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life.
"Finding your inner stoic"
From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you'll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.
"Statistics is like a high caliber gun, very useful"
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she wrote, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.'
"Good History, Was Hoping For More Insight"
Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, Enrique's Journey is the timeless story of families torn apart, the yearning to be together again, and a boy who will risk his life to find the mother he loves.
"Missing Chapter 8 and Epilogue!"
From elicitation, pretexting, influence and manipulation all aspects of social engineering are picked apart, discussed and explained by using real world examples, personal experience and the Science & Technology behind them to unraveled the mystery in social engineering. Kevin Mitnick - one of the most famous social engineers in the world - popularized the term social engineering. He explained that it is much easier to trick someone into revealing a password than to exert the effort of hacking.
"Social Engineering Savvy"
Something is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his 10 years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. In The End of Alchemy, he offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance.
"Two books in one, both very fine"
The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year after the infamous verdict, Jeffrey Toobin's nonfiction masterpiece tells the whole story, from the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman to the ruthless gamesmanship behind the scenes of "the trial of the century".
"I wanted more after the 2016 mini-series..."
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work.
"You'll never look at public shaming the same way"


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I've been to a lot of dispensaries, and this is the one I always come back to. Hands down, the best. Even the new 520 toll hasn't stopped me from crossing the lake to get here, it's worth it.
First of all, the staff is really knowledgable, friendly, and helpful. They really know their stuff, and if you're new to medical marijuana, that means a lot.
Their selection is amazing, and this is really what keeps me coming back all the time. They clearly label their strains, so you know what your getting. And I love how they lay them out like a spectrum: Sativas at one end, Indicas at the other, with all the hybrids in between. It's like a weed rainbow!
And then of course, this is the absolute highest quality bud around (the other big deal). I actually had the opportunity recently to try the same strain from both SMMA and another dispensary at the same time, and the other one just did not compare to the SMMA quality. The other stuff may as well have been street dirt weed by comparison.
I'll start with the good, the staff are friendly and helpful, and the facility is comfortable and spacious, so there is a lot of potential here. And the glass shop with an ATM next door is very handy.
Now for the bad, or let's just call it "less good", stuff. My primary beef is that there were really no details about the weed to be found anywhere, and the staff didn't seem terribly knowledgable. They organize their weed by top shelf, middle shelf, and bottom shelf, which is fair, but they could at least tell me what's in it. At a minimum, they could at least separate the sativas, indicas, and hybrids. Other dispensaries go to great lengths to inform me about the strain: whether it's a sativa, indica, or hybrid, the THC content, the CBD content, and all kinds of helpful info to help me make my selection. By contrast, Kind Alt has a bunch of jars with green stuff in them, and that's about all you know.
It's sort of like going to a liquor store and not having any labels on the liquors, so you can't really tell the rum from the tequila. Or better yet, the canned food aisle of a grocery store, but with no labels.
That's really my only complaint, though. If you only care that it's green and smokable, this is a fine dispensary.


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Skip to comments.Student's death brings out theories, fears (Norman bomber-spin alert)
Posted on 10/09/2005 11:22:54 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl
NORMAN - University of Oklahoma officials, the Muslim community, students and others are waiting for the FBI to connect the dots in last week's public suicide of an OU student.
Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, was killed Oct. 1 in an explosion that officials say he caused not far from a packed Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
But the dots cannot be connected, at least at this point, said Stephen Sloan, a former University of Oklahoma professor who is alarmed that far-right extremist groups have taken to the Internet with conspiracy theories attempting to link the actions of Hinrichs to the Muslim community of Norman and to the Middle East.
The FBI has provided little information about its investigation but said last week that there is no known link between Hinrichs and terrorist or extremist organizations. But questions linger as to Hinrichs' intent before he died in an explosion while sitting on a park bench in front of the George Lynn Cross microbiology building about 100 yards west of the stadium.
"No doubt there are a lot of questions to be answered," Sloan said. "But it is unfortunately logical to think that he was trying to get into the stadium."
The terrorism expert said the size of the explosion indicates that it was designed to hit more than Hinrichs. He said it seems more than coincidence that this occurred on the Saturday night of a football game.
A student, Adam Smith, related last week that he learned from a ticket taker at Gate 6 on the north side of the football field that a young man had tried to gain entrance. The ticket taker wanted to examine the man's backpack, which prompted the man to sprint away, Smith said he was told.
The FBI reportedly has confirmed that its review of surveillance cameras in the stadium did not reveal that Hinrichs tried to gain entrance. However, OU President David Boren declined at midweek to say whether cameras are mounted at all entrances.
The FBI has kept mum about the explosive that Hinrichs used and declined to comment on reports that large amounts of explosives were in his apartment.
The explosion that killed Hinrichs also burned a large area around the bench. If the explosion had occurred inside the stadium, it could have killed fans, prompting the question of whether that was Hinrichs' intent all along.
A suicide note apparently has not been found. Hinrichs' father, who had conversations with the FBI, told The Associated Press that his son did not leave a suicide note.
Joel Hinrichs Jr. told the Tulsa World that he knew his son was troubled, but he had no idea he wanted to die.
"I would have been there within whatever the speed limit would allow me to be if I had any inclination that he was this unhappy," the father said from his family's home in Colorado Springs the day after the explosion.
It remains unanswered as to whether Hinrichs could have concocted the explosive device on his own, although there are no indications he acted with others.
Those who knew of him -- from his high school teacher in Colorado Springs to fellow engineering students at OU -- said he was typically a loner who sat by himself in the classroom. He was among the National Merit Scholars whom Boren has attracted to the OU campus.
His father told the Colorado Springs Gazette that at an early age, Hinrichs was fascinated with science. At the time of his death, he was a third-year engineering student at OU.
Boren has said it appears this is an "individual suicide," noting that Hinrichs waited until people were inside the stadium before he took his life.
University officials say they have no record of Hinrichs having a season ticket or purchasing one for the OU-Kansas State game.
OU Vice President of Communications Catherine Bishop added, however, that the university has no way of knowing whether Hinrichs could have purchased a ticket from someone outside the stadium, where many people typ ically sell tickets on game day.
Sloan said the public should note the fact that if Hinrichs did try to get into the stadium, he was stopped.
"If Hinrichs was turned away, that is a positive mark in terms of security awareness," he said.
While Hinrichs' individual actions are still being probed, the Islamic community of Norman is on edge, fearful that this troubling event is somehow linked to Muslims.
"Haven't we learned from the bombing of the Murrah Building (in 1995) in Oklahoma City, when the first reports tried to tie the bombing to a foreigner from the Middle East?" Sloan said. "But that proved to be false.
"It is much too early to render a full judgment," said Sloan, who regrets that some people already are convinced this is a conspiracy.
Hinrichs lived at Parkview Apartments, just a few blocks from the mosque of the Islamic Society of Norman. Also fueling the link to some kind of Middle East terrorism is the fact that Hinrichs' roommate, Fazil Cheema, is from Pakistan. Acquaintances of Cheema's say he is not a practicing Muslim and never attends services at the mosque.
Muslims who attend the mosque also say they are not aware that Hinrichs ever set foot in the mosque.
The quest for the truth, however, has been hindered by the fact that Cheema himself has not made himself available to the media since the incident occurred. He has left the apartment where he lived with Hinrichs, although he is still believed to be in Norman.
Acquaintances say that Hinrichs and his roommate have in common the fact that both could be called loners, and possibly ended up as roommates at Parkview because neither of them had other friends, so they were assigned to live together.
Tariq Alzoubi, a Muslim who has been part of the Islamic community in Norman for several years, said when he found out that the individual who died was white and not Middle Eastern, "I was not happy, but I was relieved. Then the issue came up that his roommate might be Pakistani."
Originally from Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Alzoubi said Muslims have been on edge when something like this happens ever since Sept. 11, 2001.
"Before 9-11, I knew 30 Saudi students at OU; all but two of them left," he said.
"My only concern in all of this is that we stay away from collective punishment for something bad that happened here," he said.
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LOL..Told you I could connect him to George Soros...google search: Lots of political contributions to DEMS on that link as well. Go figure...(rolling eyes)
Well, they went to very great lengths to describe how much he was fascinated by explosives and ammunition. I think we are supposed to infer that his fascination simply led to his gathering and keeping explosives in his apartment. I'm not buying it.
Don't know about you... I saw the video of the bus driver who said it was three minutes before halftime when he had just walked past him and there was the explosion. He said he had a brand new bus and at first he thought the rear of the bus was on fire or something, so he walked back... you know the rest.
10-4, that's good work. Clumsy cover-ups are harder to accomplish due to good work done by folks like FReepers. Lots of resources here, excellent.
Interested folks should always carry a camera in their cars, maybe two, a video and a digital still camera. Extra media sticks for each in case of confiscation, not paranoia here, this is today's world, believe me.
I went into PI work after retirement, this is NOT rocket science, just good ol' gumshoe stuff combined with a little technology. It's so great to be able to download camera shots to a hard drive or CD, make several copies, file them away for safe keeping. Compact and easy to file and review, wonderful technology these days.
I was first on a small twin-engine plane crash in a ranch, couldn't do anything for the pilot, it was in full bloom. Others arrived, as plane melted down a large mound of small bales of MJ appeared. I was the ONLY one taking photos (35mm film camera--70s). My photos verified who was there and what they were doing; there were wild rumors of "weapons". Photos showed that what people were seeing were not weapons but deformed and half-melted airframe parts, looked strange though.
Small pocket spiral-bound notebooks for notating details, details, details; time, date, weather, etc., etc. So many folks have camera phones, learn how to use them, know what they will do and not do. Simple stuff really but who knows in today's climate of terrorism what might be prevented?
"I don't know that we know for sure that there was a slip of the tongue"
Guess I should have put quotes around "deemed," because I don't believe it was an error, either.
"It has one of the roofs that was not metal on the outside but kind of a leather like material -- I cannot think what they are called."
Landau top, carriage roof or vinyl top, depending on how elaborate it is, and what part of the country you're from, lol. Those old, square Lincoln Town Cars often have the half-vinyl roof with coach lights on the pillars, meant to look like the old limos from the 30s that had an open passenger compartment and an enclosed driver compartment. Very baroque.
"I think we are supposed to infer that his fascination simply led to his gathering and keeping explosives in his apartment."
And that it was Hinrichs alone, not involving Cheema.
Great job, penelopesire. Wouldn't you know.
See Post #96 -- report on video surveillance cameras.
Vinyl top!
And all along I thought FR stood for Free Republic instead of Far Right. Silly me. ;-)
To the MSM, anybody to the right of Michael Moore is a "far-right extremist".
Great report PhiKapMom. Couldn't you just guess that OU authorities would put out the info that Hinrichs wasn't seen on any video surveillance cameras. Duh, maybe they just forgot to mention that there weren't any video surveillance cameras.
Wow, what a brilliant statement.
The trouble with these "experts" is that they think everyone else is just plain stupid.
Only old ones I saw were pointed toward the back of the ticket booths so technically they could say they had them -- just didn't point them toward the gates!
Just for laughs..I found the profs pic..(similar to Jihad Joey)..scroll down on the page. I would post it here(for laughs)..but have not figured out how to post pics here yet.
The lies continue.....!
"Only old ones I saw were pointed toward the back of the ticket booths so technically they could say they had them -- just didn't point them toward the gates!"
Well, I don't mean to put a chill on your excellent efforts, but if those cameras are operational, you're known now. I'm pretty certain FR has been monitored by quite a few people in Norman; students, faculty, administration and law enforcement. As an example, the Norman PD seemed to issue a new press release within hours, with new spin, every time anyone questioned the behavior of that officer at Ellison Feed & Seed. This happened three times.
"Wow, what a brilliant statement.
The trouble with these "experts" is that they think everyone else is just plain stupid."
My fav part of the article was when he lambasted 'right-wing' bloggers for digging into the story and then said, to paraphase: 'Unfortunately, WE WERE LOGICAL'!! Laugh of the day! He is just a policy wonk from the old days. The days when no one wanted to look at the elephant in the room. I am sure he knows alot about the terrorism of old..but unfortunately, logic tells many of us it is a new ballgame. (rolling eyes)
Very possibly they do not want to be seen as extremists and draw attention to themselves
Note that the video cameras didn't pick up Joel exploding himself, either. Doesn't mean it didn't happen.
UPDATE ON THE PROF IN THE ARTICLE: Here is an interview with him from Sept.18, 2001. Pretty spot on for the most part(imho). My guess is that he said much more in that article and the liberal press cut and pasted what fits their own agenda.
"Well, I guess he and his roomie have a huge dorm room. If the "stuff is in question as to who it belonged to, I wonder why the other one didn't report it to the authorities."
This is the central question to the WHOLE STORY(imho). Blow this one wide open and the whole house of cards fall.
You be careful when you're out and about doing recon! Try to take a big Oklahoman with you or something (the hairy-legged variety).
There have been way too many facts from Oklahoma's terrorism-laden past to vanish from MSM scrutiny. I include Moussaoui and Berg as well as the 1995 bombing as well. Something is not right. I tried to go to Airman Flight School's website in Norman but the site is down since Sept. 15. Over 2000 others gone there and seen the same message.
Anyone in OK know why Airman Flight School has closed down???
You are absolutely right. He makes good sense in the posted interview that you linked.
"Something is not right"
...something is LEFT..(wink)..THE MEDIA
"Anyone in OK know why Airman Flight School has closed down???"
Are you certain that the flight school is shut down? Is this just on the basis of the website not responding?
OK, the notice on the website http://www.airmanflightschool.com is plain black text on a white background, stating that the school is closed until further notice, with a hit counter at 2028 as of my visit.
So, it is shut down. Since September 15.
u might like this link as well(post on the OU bombing and Boren's 'coverup' ) just 'goggling' tonight..lol. All is not lost in France either:
Have not had time to review the 'French' website..but this article tells me someone in France is not a left winged zealot bent on communism.
See the Wayback Machine at www.archive.org -- it allows you to see an archived copy of most web pages
It has been combined with OU flight school -- article in the Norman Transcript today. You have to check out the link and be sure to look at the picture for the article -- enlarge it.
He looks like he is from India to me..I hope he is Hindu!
I was on the 2nd floor of the parking garage and they are on the ground floor pointing at the back of the ticket booths. My car would have been seen on surveillance tape going out of the parking garage but I was there this week at the bookstore on campus and my daughter had my car parked there when she went to the library earlier today. There were probably 50 cars in the parking garage which is over the bookstore and near the library area.
The one on the SE corner if operational couldn't pick up cars driving by either.
Didn't you love this part:
"OU aviation still trains anyone who wants to fly"
(insert dark humor here)
including suicide bombers and terrorists...lol
These apartments are very small -- no one could do anything without their roommate knowing.
LOL. Maybe they have members on this website?
I felt safe in the parking garage area because I have been there a lot but I got a creepy feeling at those apartments when they kept staring at me. I used the rental car my son and his friends drove to the Cotton Bowl so my car was parked in my driveway. :)
See post #137 -- has a link to a story in the Norman Transcript. Went out of business but OU Flying School is still open.
That is exactly what I had going through my mind as well! Great minds think alike!
I know one station in Norman is covering it, but I spoke to a few Oklahoma fans this weekend in Dallas, they had been to that game and were here for TX-OU. Most had not heard much about it, a few did not know anything. Nothing. I broke the story to them. That's scary. If a bomb blows up outside a school, and no one is injured that is on all the cable networks for at least 8 hrs. This is a coverup.
But the question is--do they also teach them to land?
I think he was just saying he would get there as soon as possible. Don't throw dirt on someone because of things not being said the way YOU want them.
With the exception of channel 9 here, teevee is reporting that Jihad Joey was just some unfortunate depressed lad who happened to die when a bomb went off. I'm not kidding.
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Skip to comments.John Brennan and the Senate: Is anyone in Washington willing to defend America?
Posted on 02/11/2013 8:21:25 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Watching the members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) question John Brennan President Obamas nominee for CIA director drove home the utter unwillingness of so many elected and appointed senior federal officials to defend the United States. For the most part, each senator used his/her allotted time to pose irrelevant questions to man whose answers in many cases were deceptive and evasive, when they were not outright lies. One senator hit a bulls eye when he called Brennan to task for publicly divulging a human operation that had penetrated Al-Qaeda-on-the-Arabian Peninsula but then did not follow up when Brennan took offense at the question. Had any intelligence officer except a senior one like Brennan exposed and thereby destroyed a sensitive ongoing operation as Brennan clearly did he would be joining the former CIA officer who recently went to prison for disclosing the name of a colleague.
Another senator questioned Brennan about the rendition and interrogation of terrorists on the basis of a report prepared by SSCI staffers. The senator said that the study proved that no worthwhile intelligence came from the interrogation of detainees. Displaying his longtime trademark a cowardly switching of sides when the pressure is on Brennan renounced his earlier certainties and agonized with the senator over his claims. As if prepared to descend from Olympus and set things aright at the CIA, Brennan implicitly denigrated the honesty and integrity of such men as Leon Panetta, General David Patraeus Michael Mukasey, General Michael Hayden, as well as each and every CIA officer who has testified under oath to the great and life-saving utility of the rendition/interrogation program. Lapdog-like, Brennan took the side of a senator who is ideologically opposed to defending America and a report prepared by staffers of the same sort. What Brennan did was to display his and Obamas subservience to the far left, anti-American wing of the Democratic Party, as well suggest that he will bring a Senate-approved witch hunt to the CIA against those who have so ably and legally defended the United States despite being led by the sorry likes of Brennan, Obama, Clinton, Graham, and McCain.
A third senator nailed Brennan on the failure of the Obama administration to seize the terrorist who apparently participated in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya; the man was detained in Tunisia and then released. Brennan self-righteously explained that the individual could not be detained under Tunisian law, and then launched into the usual cant-of-cowards about America must always stand for law and order and so must abide by the decision of Tunisias Islamist regime. That means, of course, that it is okay if the fellow goes free and helps kill more Americans because the Obama administration has stood up and respected Tunisian law. Not a surprising response from a man like Brennan who with Bill Clinton, the felon Sandy Berger, George Tenet, etc. ensured that bin Laden was alive to destroy two U.S. embassies in Africa, nearly sink the USS COLE, stage the 9/11 attack, and then survive to steadily kill Americans for decade afterwards.
One would have thought that some senator would have been bright enough to ask Brennan why the Obama administration had not used the Special Forces and/or the CIA to kidnap the guy in Tunisia and take him for interrogation to Guantanamo or some U.S. Navy ship after the Islamist Tunisian regime decided to protect him. But none of the senators asked they thereby lined up behind Brennans position that more dead Americans are preferable to breaking Tunisian law and neither did any senator ask Brennan if he was disclosing classified information when he told the senators that Washington knew the likely Benghazi attacker was still in Tunisia. It was surprising, to say the least, that Brennan publicly warned a terrorist a man U.S. forces presumably are hunting that the Obama administration knew his location.
This recap of this feckless hearing could go on, but the important thing to end with is the apparent delusion Brennan and the senators are operating under. That delusion is encapsulated in the constant mantra they used claiming that America is always best defended by taking the moral and legal high ground. This may have been partly true decades ago although the self-righteous mantra even then was backed by a huge nuclear arsenal but today it is a lethal pipe-dream for which there is no basis in fact.
For more than a decade, the world, and especially the Muslim world, has seen that while American leaders from both parties spout and pontificate about their high-moral standards, they are simultaneously engaged in a bipartisan foreign policy of endless intervention in other independent nation-states; in an arrogant and near-racist policy that tries to make their little brown brothers overseas into the image of themselves; that is, secular democrats who are devoid of religion, decency, and commonsense; in a policy of free speech that has fatally corrupted our domestic political system and made Americas media the worlds powerhouse producer of pornography and incitement to murder; and in an addiction to a so-called individual right that has killed 55 million unborn U.S. citizens and has caused no remorse among our political leaders. These men and women who are, however, more than willing to whine and cry crocodile tears because U.S. forces killed a U.S. citizen named Anwar al-Awlaki, a man whose reason for living was to kill Americans. Overall, what the world has seen in recent decades is a brand of American leaders and policies that as a wise acquaintance of mine recently said would give amoral pagans a bad name.
In the world as it is today, Americas security is in no way assured by U.S. politicians mindlessly bleating about our high-moral standards and respect for the rule of law. Sadly, their own actions have devastated and rendered impotent any impact such a perception might have if it was abroad in the world which it certainly is not.
Until this generation of politicians and civil servants of John Brennans ilk pass away, the moral high-ground is to be greatly valued as another wise acquaintance of mine notes but only because it provides U.S. military forces with the best field of fire.
I think Scheuer sums it up nicely here.
plus nobody is even whispering that Brennan is a convert to Islam and defends jihad....
the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
They are too busy cashing their checks,
languishing at their brothel, and laughing
that they imposed DEATH PANELS for all America
except for Islam ... and themselves.
"plus nobody is even whispering that Brennan is a convert to Islam and defends jihad ."
I've seen this mentioned in the past few days here on FR — but is it indeed true?
If so, is it not amazing that we have come to this, only twelve short years after the World Trade Center attack?
Numerous times after that date, I asked the question here on FR, "who's winning?"
When the director of our own CIA is a member of the enemy with whom we are engaged, one thing is for certain: it ain't us.
Even in my wildest dreams after 9/11/2001, I would have never believed The West might collapse so quickly...
If a terrorist knew where a nuclear device was hidden and about to detonate, would you water board him, Mr. Brennan? Well wouldya?
This is probably more often than not a bad thing for America - but in this case it may work to the country's advantage.
The RINOs and establishment see this and recognize that obeying the orders given to them from the media is their safest course of action.
Nobody from either political party will come to our defense as the USA has become a country with a ruling elite and the peons who support the elite's lifestyle.
There is only one political party and that is the Government party with a fake left/right wing to give us the impression we have a choice. We do not.
There is a reason vermin from both alleged sides of the aisle will spend millions to get a job which only pays a few hundred thousand. They are being bribed from day one and the vast majority of them eventually leave office multi-millionaires all while being paid a few hundred thousand a year. DO THE MATH.
This is EXACTLY why the Founders went to such great lengths to place strict limits on the Federal Government with a Bill of Rights and Amendments to ensure we could keep them under control.
However, after decades of brainwashing in our government run and communist union filled public schools, we end up with some sub-human genetic debris in the White House who actually thinks and says the Constitution is a flawed document and too limiting.
To: Sprite518 You're right, Michael Scheuer is all over the web:
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Michael Scheuer Watch: The Jewish Conspiracy
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Michael Scheuer: "Both Israel and Saudi Arabia are much more dangerous enemies to the United States than the Iranians are."(comment at 2:08)
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When it comes to layer cakes (birthday cakes in particular), white icing on a black cake creates a great contrast. Not only does it look good, but the white makes a great background for decorations (you can see what I put on the top of this cake here) because everything "pops" against it. For the cake to be used in a layer cake, I look ... Read More »
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Peanut Butter Banana Cupcakes
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Concealed Carry Permit (Iowa)
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February 21, 2011, 01:54 AM
So, Iowa just changed their laws with Concealed carry from a may I state to an, I shall state. Awesome. Now, enlighten me on the steps to obtaining a CC permit the right way and in iowa
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Go to Iowa Firearms Coalition online http://www.iowacarry.org amd check out the info there. Some real good people in the forums too. You can get the law, the training requirements, where classes are. And all sorts of needed and interesting facts.
Hk Dan
February 21, 2011, 09:21 AM
Where are you? I teach the course in NE Iowa but I have contacts all over the state. I can point you to the right person.
Essentially, take the class, get the permit. Iowa now honors all other state's permits, so if you have one somewhere else, it's good here. Also, a DD214 will work, as will proof that you participated in a competitive event.
Tim the student
February 21, 2011, 04:28 PM
The DD214 might be iffy - I just had a guy in Marion (Linn county) tell me that the Sheriff's Dept wouldn't accept his DD214 because it didn't specifically say that he had training with small arms.
He was actually in the same gun shop I was in, and came in specifically to ask about classes.
Obviously, I don't know if his story is true or not, nor do I know what his DD214 says. (Heck, I don't even remember if mine says anything about small arms and/or handguns.)
February 21, 2011, 04:41 PM
Recognition for small arms training can be found on a DD214 in Section 13 (Decorations Medals Badges Citations)
February 22, 2011, 03:53 AM
I am in SW Iowa, Council Bluffs area
February 22, 2011, 07:07 PM
DD214 worked for me. But I also had the sharp shooting rifle and pistol medals lsited on the form.
- Just head to the sheriffs office,
- give them your dd214 if you have one (class completion certificate if you dont)
- pay them the $55, get picture taken and then wait until the very last day (30 days) they are required to respond to get your permit.
February 22, 2011, 07:37 PM
Last 30 days they are required to respond?
February 22, 2011, 07:41 PM
Im in SW Iowa, Cass county, took my DD214 in and had my permit in hand within 15 minutes!
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February 22, 2011, 09:23 PM
I know the sherrif there. I used to live there and play golf with him a lot. Won't be any delays there. Metro counties - Pott.,Johnson, Blackhawk, Woodbury ect. Check the last presidential voting map. Slow processing in the BLue counties.
February 22, 2011, 10:00 PM
Again, I'm confused. Should I just go to the jailhouse and talk to the sherrif? and send me a pm would you please, Mr. Galt
February 22, 2011, 10:59 PM
Going to the sheriffs office or calling them would be the quickest way to find out. Im sure they could give you info on classes in your area.
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February 23, 2011, 12:46 AM
Metro counties - Pott.,Johnson, Blackhawk, Woodbury ect. Check the last presidential voting map. Slow processing in the BLue counties.
Maybe, maybe not. My sheriff in Blackhawk county is a democrat, but had a reputation before the new law as effectively being "shall issue" and quick with permits. I was talking with a local FFL (a deputy incidentally) and I asked him about the Sheriffs stance on guns. He told me the Sheriff was as pro gun as he was and had no problems signing off on permits. Quite the opposite of, oh, say down in Johnson county.
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