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Skjellyfetti wrote:Pima Count Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik:
But again I’d just like to say that when you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain people’s mouths about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And, unfortunately, Arizona I believe has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry.

Congratulations, Arizona. You have just taken the torch from Michigan and Montana.


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Cap'n Cat wrote:
Skjellyfetti wrote:Pima Count Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik:

Congratulations, Arizona. You have just taken the torch from Michigan and Montana.


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Grizalltheway wrote:
Cap'n Cat wrote:

Congratulations, Arizona. You have just taken the torch from Michigan and Montana.


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Fokk you, Cappy. We treat our 3 black dudes like princes. :nod: :nod:

Plus, Grizo loves the black snake.

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Grizalltheway wrote:
Cap'n Cat wrote:

Congratulations, Arizona. You have just taken the torch from Michigan and Montana.


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Fokk you, Cappy. We treat our 3 black dudes like princes. :nod: :nod:

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Fokk you, Cappy. We treat our 3 black dudes like princes. :nod: :nod:

Plus, Grizo loves the black snake.

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I am from the Tucson area and live in Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords' district. I worked like a dog for her elections when she was in the Arizona House, surrounded by rightwing nutcases.

Fast forward to this election season. A weirdo asshole named Jesse Kelly who advocated ELIMINATING Social Security and was a tea bagger favorite got the GOP nom to run against her.

I am gay and had been married and my spouse left me January 15, 2010. I shot myself in the mouth in a serious suicide attempt, because of that. Barely surviving, I spent two months in the hospital and still have some paralysis. I did receive a severance from my employer, as i had been laid off in December, 2009. That may have been part of the reason my spouse left me.

Anyway, after months of physical and mental rehab, I got back into the political scene and started working for Gabby once again. I raised over $100,000 for her and maxed her out myself out of my severance, even though i still don't have work and could not qualify for state aid because of my severance.

She wins her re-election and told me she was still a supporter of Speaker Pelosi at her victory party.
Today, just a little while ago, I saw on Andrea Mitchell Reports (out of the one eye in can still see out of) that Giffords
voted AGAINST Nancy Pelosi as our Minority Leader.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is dead to me now. I won't lift a finger, make one phone call, nor will i EVER vote for her in the future. And why did she do this? Giffords never told me she was conservative Democrat.
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It's always sick fvckers from one side or the other that does things like this, but none of us ever knows any of them.

Even the wackiest, seemingly most impressionable person who posts on this board would not be capable of something like this.

I think we ALL need to sit back and consider that there have always been a microscopic minority of human beings who are willing to take human life with impunity and cruelty.

We also need to consider that if someone if off their rocker enough to be motivated by political punditry to kill, then perhaps that person would have eventually been set off by anything, to include the alien rays coming from their television.

Either way, pretty classless to immediately start pointing political fingers before the bodies are even cool.
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mainejeff wrote:
death dealer wrote:Palin has no direct connection to this person.
How the hell do you know???

Your investigation is already complete? :roll:

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Well if you want to play that game how do we know that you didn't have any direct connection to this person? :coffee:
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death dealer wrote:
UNHWildCats wrote:My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of today's tragic shooting in Arizona.

On behalf of Todd and my family, we all pray for the victims and their families, and for peace and justice.

- Sarah Palin

you pray for peace Mrs. Palin? Please... it's people like you that wind these lunatics up.
Palin has no direct connection to this person. As much as I dislike her and her politics, I don't ever recall her directing any of her horde to kill anyone. I think it detracts from this tragedy and is disrespectful to the victims to start pointing fingers and using this as a platform to vent about politics. Bad form on your part. I include MJ and KY in this as well.

Those poor people. I can't imagine what their families must be going through. **** A.
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death dealer wrote:I include MJ and KY in this as well.
WTF did I do?
Well, you've got about 4 posts on the 1st 2 pages insinuating blame should be cast on Palin and/or the Tea Partiers. :ohno:
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Really sad stuff in this thread, multiple people dead and it seems like one side was just giddy to use it to place blame on the other side. Pathetic, just completely pathetic.
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BDKJMU wrote:
mainejeff wrote:
How the hell do you know???

Your investigation is already complete? :roll:

:coffee:
Well if you want to play that game how do we know that you didn't have any direct connection to this person? :coffee:
How do I know that YOU have no direct connection to this person?

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FargoBison wrote:Really sad stuff in this thread, multiple people dead and it seems like one side was just giddy to use it to place blame on the other side. Pathetic, just completely pathetic.
"Giddy"???? :roll: :roll: :roll: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

Why do I have a feeling that this thread would be no different with the same cast of characters on opposite sides, if a national Deomcrat had released a "target list" and a Republican Congresswoman was fighting for her life??? :roll: :roll: :roll:
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FargoBison wrote:Really sad stuff in this thread, multiple people dead and it seems like one side was just giddy to use it to place blame on the other side. Pathetic, just completely pathetic.
Giddy?! You think I'm giddy?!?!

I'm fucking mad as hell. That's what I am. For months you people labeled me, Congresswoman Giffords, the President of the United States, and just about everyone else who dared to disagree with dearest Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck as "socialists" or "people that hate America" or people that "hate the Constitution and all it stands for". And the Right was warned TIME AND FUCKING TIME AGAIN -- that while your intentions might not be violent, while your language might not be meant to rile up violence, while you may not have *wanted* someone to harm Congresswoman Giffords -- you failed to realize that there are crazy lunatics out there. And those crazy lunatics were more than willing to take your words and run with them.

You think I'm fucking giddy?!?!

I can't go into my in-laws home without having my President called the 'n' word. Without being called a socialist myself. Without having to be told that I somehow want them to pay for a black kid to sit on welfare and do drugs. That the Obama Administration is somehow using my fucking XBOX 360 Kinect to spy on me. That every Arab in this country, citizen or not, is a terrorist.

The Professional Right has made the people that were once center-right (which I'm willing to admit this country once was) into far right lunatics. And they've made people that were once far right lunatics into outright killing machines.

You think I'm giddy?! No, my friend. Far from giddy. I'm pissed.
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They have had target maps


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Bronco wrote:They have had target maps


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IF you can't see the difference between that, and rifle scopes on a particular person, then there really is no room for a discussion.
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CID1990 wrote:It's always sick fvckers from one side or the other that does things like this, but none of us ever knows any of them.

Even the wackiest, seemingly most impressionable person who posts on this board would not be capable of something like this.

I think we ALL need to sit back and consider that there have always been a microscopic minority of human beings who are willing to take human life with impunity and cruelty.

We also need to consider that if someone if off their rocker enough to be motivated by political punditry to kill, then perhaps that person would have eventually been set off by anything, to include the alien rays coming from their television.

Either way, pretty classless to immediately start pointing political fingers before the bodies are even cool.
Now that, is the post of the year. :nod:
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GSUAlumniEagle wrote:
FargoBison wrote:Really sad stuff in this thread, multiple people dead and it seems like one side was just giddy to use it to place blame on the other side. Pathetic, just completely pathetic.
Giddy?! You think I'm giddy?!?!

I'm fucking mad as hell. That's what I am. For months you people labeled me, Congresswoman Giffords, the President of the United States, and just about everyone else who dared to disagree with dearest Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck as "socialists" or "people that hate America" or people that "hate the Constitution and all it stands for". And the Right was warned TIME AND FUCKING TIME AGAIN -- that while your intentions might not be violent, while your language might not be meant to rile up violence, while you may not have *wanted* someone to harm Congresswoman Giffords -- you failed to realize that there are crazy lunatics out there. And those crazy lunatics were more than willing to take your words and run with them.

You think I'm fucking giddy?!?!

I can't go into my in-laws home without having my President called the 'n' word. Without being called a socialist myself. Without having to be told that I somehow want them to pay for a black kid to sit on welfare and do drugs. That the Obama Administration is somehow using my fucking XBOX 360 Kinect to spy on me. That every Arab in this country, citizen or not, is a terrorist.

The Professional Right has made the people that were once center-right (which I'm willing to admit this country once was) into far right lunatics. And they've made people that were once far right lunatics into outright killing machines.

You think I'm giddy?! No, my friend. Far from giddy. I'm pissed.


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dbackjon wrote:
Bronco wrote:They have had target maps


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IF you can't see the difference between that, and rifle scopes on a particular person, then there really is no room for a discussion.
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Really? Well then please explain the difference to me.
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Baldy wrote:
Really? Well then please explain the difference to me.
Uh, well if the scopes are on a person vs. on a state, that would be a difference. Kinda harder to shoot a state than a person (well and have it hurt the state, I guess you could shoot the ground). If you were to hang a target around the neck of a picture of a person, I'd say there's no difference. The picture I saw though had scopes on districts and then a list of names. Any difference there doesn't matter to me, anyway.
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GSUAlumniEagle wrote:
FargoBison wrote:Really sad stuff in this thread, multiple people dead and it seems like one side was just giddy to use it to place blame on the other side. Pathetic, just completely pathetic.
Giddy?! You think I'm giddy?!?!

I'm fucking mad as hell. That's what I am. For months you people labeled me, Congresswoman Giffords, the President of the United States, and just about everyone else who dared to disagree with dearest Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck as "socialists" or "people that hate America" or people that "hate the Constitution and all it stands for". And the Right was warned TIME AND FUCKING TIME AGAIN -- that while your intentions might not be violent, while your language might not be meant to rile up violence, while you may not have *wanted* someone to harm Congresswoman Giffords -- you failed to realize that there are crazy lunatics out there. And those crazy lunatics were more than willing to take your words and run with them.

You think I'm fucking giddy?!?!

I can't go into my in-laws home without having my President called the 'n' word. Without being called a socialist myself. Without having to be told that I somehow want them to pay for a black kid to sit on welfare and do drugs. That the Obama Administration is somehow using my fucking XBOX 360 Kinect to spy on me. That every Arab in this country, citizen or not, is a terrorist.

The Professional Right has made the people that were once center-right (which I'm willing to admit this country once was) into far right lunatics. And they've made people that were once far right lunatics into outright killing machines.

You think I'm giddy?! No, my friend. Far from giddy. I'm pissed.
I'm glad your pissed, people are dead. Innocent people and a child. What this guy did was sick and twisted.

But being pissed doesn't give anyone the right to just start blaming people who may have had no connection to this. Both the right and left do this crap, it is getting tiring.
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Chemhen wrote:
Baldy wrote:
Really? Well then please explain the difference to me.
Uh, well if the scopes are on a person vs. on a state, that would be a difference. Kinda harder to shoot a state than a person (well and have it hurt the state, I guess you could shoot the ground). If you were to hang a target around the neck of a picture of a person, I'd say there's no difference. The picture I saw though had scopes on districts and then a list of names. Any difference there doesn't matter to me, anyway.
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FargoBison wrote:
GSUAlumniEagle wrote:
Giddy?! You think I'm giddy?!?!

I'm fucking mad as hell. That's what I am. For months you people labeled me, Congresswoman Giffords, the President of the United States, and just about everyone else who dared to disagree with dearest Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck as "socialists" or "people that hate America" or people that "hate the Constitution and all it stands for". And the Right was warned TIME AND FUCKING TIME AGAIN -- that while your intentions might not be violent, while your language might not be meant to rile up violence, while you may not have *wanted* someone to harm Congresswoman Giffords -- you failed to realize that there are crazy lunatics out there. And those crazy lunatics were more than willing to take your words and run with them.

You think I'm fucking giddy?!?!

I can't go into my in-laws home without having my President called the 'n' word. Without being called a socialist myself. Without having to be told that I somehow want them to pay for a black kid to sit on welfare and do drugs. That the Obama Administration is somehow using my fucking XBOX 360 Kinect to spy on me. That every Arab in this country, citizen or not, is a terrorist.

The Professional Right has made the people that were once center-right (which I'm willing to admit this country once was) into far right lunatics. And they've made people that were once far right lunatics into outright killing machines.

You think I'm giddy?! No, my friend. Far from giddy. I'm pissed.
I'm glad your pissed, people are dead. Innocent people and a child. What this guy did was sick and twisted.

But being pissed doesn't give anyone the right to just start blaming people who may have had no connection to this. Both the right and left do this crap, it is getting tiring.

That's pretty brave for a guy who turns on all the lights in the house after his grandmother leaves for the bridge tournament at the Senior Center.........


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GSUAlumniEagle wrote:
FargoBison wrote:Really sad stuff in this thread, multiple people dead and it seems like one side was just giddy to use it to place blame on the other side. Pathetic, just completely pathetic.
Giddy?! You think I'm giddy?!?!

I'm fucking mad as hell. That's what I am. For months you people labeled me, Congresswoman Giffords, the President of the United States, and just about everyone else who dared to disagree with dearest Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck as "socialists" or "people that hate America" or people that "hate the Constitution and all it stands for". And the Right was warned TIME AND FUCKING TIME AGAIN -- that while your intentions might not be violent, while your language might not be meant to rile up violence, while you may not have *wanted* someone to harm Congresswoman Giffords -- you failed to realize that there are crazy lunatics out there. And those crazy lunatics were more than willing to take your words and run with them.

You think I'm fucking giddy?!?!

I can't go into my in-laws home without having my President called the 'n' word. Without being called a socialist myself. Without having to be told that I somehow want them to pay for a black kid to sit on welfare and do drugs. That the Obama Administration is somehow using my fucking XBOX 360 Kinect to spy on me. That every Arab in this country, citizen or not, is a terrorist.

The Professional Right has made the people that were once center-right (which I'm willing to admit this country once was) into far right lunatics. And they've made people that were once far right lunatics into outright killing machines.

You think I'm giddy?! No, my friend. Far from giddy. I'm pissed.
The limits of what is acceptable conduct change with the perception of what is at stake. It's the reason why horrors can be perpetrated in the name of a loving God. What the right has done in this country is to treat the consequences of any disagreement with neoconservatist thinking (defined by you-know-who) as the imminent destruction of America, Americans, and the American way of life. If you don't pass the Patriot Act, al Qaeda will murder you in your beds. If you don't prevent gay marriage your son will start sucking cock on the playground. If you don't oppose the FDA, we'll run out of food.

All they wanted was to impose their own definitions for ideological purity on conservative candidates and vote Democrats out of office. They've done that, but they've also given implicit permission for any nutjob to take matters into his or her own hands. After all, America is at stake. Your freedoms are at stake. Your children's futures are at stake. What would you not do to protect them?

The thing is, it works. It worked for Gingrich and it worked for Rove and its working for the Tea Party. And that means its not going away anytime soon.
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