# The Bowling Green Massacre **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895 "2017-02-03T12:08:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/61 "2017-02-03T18:18:22Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > KAC knows exactly what she’s doing when she spouts these lies. All she has to do is wrinkle her nose, say “massacre”, and poof! She just invented a new alternative fact for Breitbart readers. I think “spouts” these lies is incorrect. She obviously cacks them. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/62 "2017-02-03T18:21:59Z")
“Bowling Green Massacre” is almost as catchy as “Boston Molasses Disaster”. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/63 "2017-02-03T18:35:44Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I anxiously await the movie version of this starring Mark Wahlberg. #NeverForget #BowlingGreenStrong. Someone should at least do a poster. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/64 "2017-02-03T18:40:28Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Sure, but the current administration seems highly likely to continue the tactic, does it not? I mean, that’s the very topic of this thread. Our leader, who reminds us that only he can save us, must show he is Doing Something to thwart the grave danger of Radical Islamic Terrorism, after all. When the Obama administration did something, I might agree or disagree (more disagree, in truth) with the action and the goal, but I always believed that the decisions were made in furtherance of a goal and rationally related to that goal. I don’t know if the current administration will continue the tactic. The current administration’s underlying framework of goals is. . . opaque to me. So far as I can determine, Trump is consulting a Magic 8-Ball. “Signs hazy - ask again later.” ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/65 "2017-02-03T18:47:31Z")
"Why don’t the press report on the Swimming Orange massacre, or the Jumping Beige massacre, and Skating Chartreuse massacre? I bet you never heard of those either." Read somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/66 "2017-02-03T18:48:03Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > At least there was photographic evidence of that. I just realized another connection! The draft office was down on Whitehall St, and what’s next to that? Bowling Green! OMG! Conspiracy connection! Obama! ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/67 "2017-02-03T18:49:05Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > When the Obama administration did something, I might agree or disagree (more disagree, in truth) with the action and the goal, but I always believed that the decisions were made in furtherance of a goal and rationally related to that goal. > > I don’t know if the current administration will continue the tactic. The current administration’s underlying framework of goals is. . . opaque to me. So far as I can determine, Trump is consulting a Magic 8-Ball. “Signs hazy - ask again later.” One goal I’ve heard bandied about is the erosion of trust in traditional institutions or to deliberately induce outrage fatigue. CAK makes up some shit about Bowling Green and people rightfully call her out, then she makes up some shit about something else, and so forth. Eventually people are just tired of being outraged and check out, which allows more nefarious things to be done with less scrutiny. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/68 "2017-02-03T18:51:56Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I’ll never forget where I was that day when I heard the news. I was actually killed there, as was my present neighbor, and we have filed suit for the PTSD that resulted. ---
**Author:** ![HookerChemical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@HookerChemical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HookerChemical)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/69 "2017-02-03T18:52:18Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > They also know that, in the very rare circumstances where refugees from Iraq come here intending harm, the system works: they get caught, they don’t get away with it. There’s no need to change the system. They were intending harm in Iraq, so using the incident as justification for keeping citizens safe is pretty damn weak. Also, They did change the system. Vetting Iraqis increased, causing a delay in some kinds of admissions, but other admissions (e.g. reentry of green card holders) continued as normal. I’m at the point that if this administration told me the sky was blue, I’d walk outside and see for myself. If it looked blue, I’d double check that I wasn’t wearing tinted glasses and ask for a second opinion. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/70 "2017-02-03T18:56:05Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > …Trump is consulting a Magic 8-Ball. “Signs hazy - ask again later.” Those are the good days. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/71 "2017-02-03T19:10:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Someone should at least do a poster. There isn’t even a wristband yet (I checked). > [@Bricker](#): > > When the Obama administration did something, I might agree or disagree (more disagree, in truth) with the action and the goal, but I always believed that the decisions were made in furtherance of a goal and rationally related to that goal. > > I don’t know if the current administration will continue the tactic. The current administration’s underlying framework of goals is. . . opaque to me. So far as I can determine, Trump is consulting a Magic 8-Ball. “Signs hazy - ask again later.” Really? I am not sure there is an “underlying framework of goals.” But Trump’s decisionmaking process seems crystal clear to me: 1. Rant about thing on Twitter 2. Gauge response 3. Increase/decrease mentions of thing accordingly 4. Become POTUS 5. Run administration same way 6. ? 7. Profit. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/72 "2017-02-03T19:11:12Z")
I’ll never forget where I was when I heard the news. Brian Williams and I were competing in the two man luge, and we were highly favored to win the Gold. Brian was so overcome with emotion from the news, he had a momentary lapse of concentration, costing us precious milliseconds. We had to settle for Silver, not the Gold we had worked so hard for. The team that took the Gold? Yes, The Kenyan team, cheered on by Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/73 "2017-02-03T19:11:27Z")
And here I thought someone was just getting their state universities in Ohio mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/74 "2017-02-03T19:19:33Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > I remember that massacre. It was after thousands of Muslims cheered in the streets on 9/11, but before Hillary Clinton was caught molesting children in a pizza restaurant. > > Frederick Douglass did an amazing job, by the way. So we have that as consolation. Nonsense. Somebody rightly tweeted that they were shocked and dismayed at Frederick Douglass’s continuing silence about the Bowling Green Massacre. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/75 "2017-02-03T19:29:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I was actually killed there, as was my present neighbor, and we have filed suit for the PTSD that resulted. God bless you. Me and my wife Morgan Fairchild rode our unicorns to the site to look for survivors, but Tupac had already helped them all. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/76 "2017-02-03T19:36:09Z")
> [@C3](#): > > Or malevolence. She could just throw something like that out there, knowing it’s not true, to create doubt and chaos among the people who are already suspicious of the media. Or as a distraction… While everyone is having fun with the B-G massacree (in harmony) Trump and his Goldman Sachs buddies are removing the safeguards put in place following the 2008 economic crash. Sent from my LGLS990 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/77 "2017-02-03T19:39:06Z")
I remember the [The Bowling Green Massacre](https://www.google.com/search?q=bowling+green&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqiaOV1vTRAhXjq1QKHY63Cq4Q_AUICigD&biw=1600&bih=770#imgrc=F8M6BpT2gOg42M:). I think the score was something like 349 to 2. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/78 "2017-02-03T19:39:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And here I thought someone was just getting their state universities in Ohio mixed up. Ah, one of the National Guard’s finest moments. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/79 "2017-02-03T19:47:48Z")
Went to the doctor, had to get some help, having these bizarre hallucinations on my news web sites, stuff too weird to believe. Told the doctor about my previous enthusiastic “experiments” with psychoactive chemicals, wondering if “flashbacks” were even possible after, like, forty years? Because the shit I’m seeing is just _nuts._ Gave me a prescription, said it was all he had that might help. Anyway, not that knowledgeable any more, anyone know anything about this “Xanax” stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/80 "2017-02-03T20:03:58Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > God bless you. Me and my wife Morgan Fairchild rode our unicorns to the site to look for survivors, but Tupac had already helped them all. What, no “thank you for your service”? You wound me, sir. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895.md?page=5)