Gabby Gifford (AZ rep) shot

[BadBeast]

It's like BadBeast is channeling Enki, Yatto, PurpleEris and hirley all at the same time.  

Yet still retaining that distinctive gravitas, and razor sharp wit we know so well.


Maybe.

It's not easy bein' a "channel" in a four way split like that one!
I would have thought.

Eta, Thanks Rog, I've always known I made something, now and again, but sense? I must be back in the room again! This whole thing goes a lot deeper than it appears to,  didn't it Alice?   

[BabylonHoruv]

The Arizona Legislature is expected to pass legislation Tuesday that will bar protesters at funerals from getting within 300 feet of services, a spokesman for the state House said. The action, according to House spokesman Daniel Scarpinato, is in direct response to a controversial church's announcement that it will picket the funeral of Christina Green, the 9-year-old who was among six people killed during Saturday's attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona.
{snip}
In addition to the expected legislation, some Tucson residents are planning an "angel action" -- with 8- by 10-foot "angel wings" worn by participants to shield mourners from picketers. Angel actions were created by Coloradan Romaine Patterson, who was shocked to find the Topeka church and its neon signs outside the 1999 funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man beaten and left on a fence to die in Laramie, Wyoming.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/11/ari...ex.html?hpt=T2

I'll be damned.

My friend who is friends with Rep Giffords and her husband are planning to be angels for Christina.

ETA:  Apparently the angel positions were already filled by the time they applied, but my friend is going as a legal observer and her husband is going to be one of the people lining the street.

[Adios]

The Arizona Legislature is expected to pass legislation Tuesday that will bar protesters at funerals from getting within 300 feet of services, a spokesman for the state House said. The action, according to House spokesman Daniel Scarpinato, is in direct response to a controversial church's announcement that it will picket the funeral of Christina Green, the 9-year-old who was among six people killed during Saturday's attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona.
{snip}
In addition to the expected legislation, some Tucson residents are planning an "angel action" -- with 8- by 10-foot "angel wings" worn by participants to shield mourners from picketers. Angel actions were created by Coloradan Romaine Patterson, who was shocked to find the Topeka church and its neon signs outside the 1999 funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man beaten and left on a fence to die in Laramie, Wyoming.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/11/ari...ex.html?hpt=T2

I'll be damned.

My friend who is friends with Rep Giffords and her husband are planning to be angels for Christina.

Good for them, seriously. I hope the whole fucking city shows up.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Whether or not the shooter is linked to the Tea Party, the scrutiny of violent rhetoric is appropriate.

[the last yatto]

Indeed instead of whining woe is me, they could have denounced wbc

[Jasper]

They should've, but they're too busy behaving like pawns.

[Adios]

Indeed instead of whining woe is me, they could have denounced wbc

They get more mileage from bad press.

[the last yatto]

Indeed instead of whining woe is me, they could have denounced wbc

They get more mileage from bad press.

So your agreeing with the Tuscon Terrorbaggers playing the victim card
Vs we may disagree but at least we aren't those guys

[Phox]

Indeed instead of whining woe is me, they could have denounced wbc

They get more mileage from bad press.

So your agreeing with the Tuscon Terrorbaggers playing the victim card
Vs we may disagree but at least we aren't those guys

No, he's saying that they know that people are going to go fucking nuts over this and say "LOOK AT THIS SHIT!". If they were nice, it would be ignored.

[Adios]

Indeed instead of whining woe is me, they could have denounced wbc

They get more mileage from bad press.

So your agreeing with the Tuscon Terrorbaggers playing the victim card
Vs we may disagree but at least we aren't those guys

No, he's saying that they know that people are going to go fucking nuts over this and say "LOOK AT THIS SHIT!". If they were nice, it would be ignored.

This ratchair.

[the last yatto]

Isn't don't retreat, RELOAD

Very simular to toaster dogma of always attack, never defend?

[the last yatto]

Indeed instead of whining woe is me, they could have denounced wbc

They get more mileage from bad press.

So your agreeing with the Tuscon Terrorbaggers playing the victim card
Vs we may disagree but at least we aren't those guys

No, he's saying that they know that people are going to go fucking nuts over this and say "LOOK AT THIS SHIT!". If they were nice, it would be ignored.

This ratchair.

Politics is different, ignoring the troll only goes so far

[Adios]

Indeed instead of whining woe is me, they could have denounced wbc

They get more mileage from bad press.

So your agreeing with the Tuscon Terrorbaggers playing the victim card
Vs we may disagree but at least we aren't those guys

No, he's saying that they know that people are going to go fucking nuts over this and say "LOOK AT THIS SHIT!". If they were nice, it would be ignored.

This ratchair.

Politics is different, ignoring the troll only goes so far

The press doesn't cover nice.

[Jenne]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/11/arizona-shootings-tea-party

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST 

Trent Humphries says there is another innocent victim left by Jared Lee Loughner's killing of six people and wounding of 14 others in his assassination attempt against Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. It is his Tea Party movement and, more particularly, his family. The killings, he says, are evolving into a conspiracy to destroy his organisation and silence criticism of the government.

This made me throw up in my mouth.

Trent Humphries can blow me.

[Cain]

Collateral damage (of a sort), Anthony Miller, GOP district chairman for Arizona, who narrowly beat a Tea Party candidate backed by Sheriff Joe for his post, is quitting.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2011/01/11/20110111gabrielle-giffords-arizona-shooting-resignations.html#ixzz1AowZXHq1

Miller said when he was a member of McCain's campaign staff last year has been criticized by the more conservative party members who supported Republican opponent J.D. Hayworth. The first and only African-American to hold the party's precinct chairmanship, Miller said he has been called "McCain's boy," and during the campaign saw a critic form his hand in the shape of a gun and point it at him.

"I wasn't going to resign but decided to quit after what happened Saturday," Miller said. "I love the Republican Party but I don't want to take a bullet for anyone."

Four of his lieutenants also resigned their posts.