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10818. judithathome - 4/13/2013 5:55:45 PM This is about the media...I have noticed in the last few days how crudely FOX News is covering the gun debate. Sean Hannity is calling the parents of dead children "fake" and "actors" and Rush Limbaugh is parroting right along with him.
Are these guys so far removed from simple humanity that they ridicule parents who have lost their children?
Mitch McConnel bristled to the point of apoplexy that his wife's ehtnicity was mentioned in a tweet but he has nothing to say to the media about his implied plans to ridicule a woman who's suffered from depression ?
I don't know about y'all but I think this is digusting...it shows a severe lack of empathy AND sympathy and a lack of connection to anything remotely compassionate in their natures. 10819. arkymalarky - 4/13/2013 7:14:54 PM I think they're getting desperate for attention they're not getting. They're losing unless they can find more ways to game the system than gerrymandering and their extremes are getting worse. I think they will continue to radicalize and marginalize themselves and people can't resist watching a train wreck, so attention focuses more on them the more extreme they get. No one seems to legitimize them in the discussion any more. They just laugh and point. It still amazes me how fast views on gay marriage have shifted. Unfortunately all this makes states like mine more reactionary. The AR legislature has gone crazy with Koch bought wingnuts. There's a major threat there IMO. The Kochs have spent mega money in rural states to control their legislatures. 10820. arkymalarky - 4/13/2013 7:16:18 PM That's the back door they're trying to exploit. 10821. judithathome - 4/13/2013 8:13:11 PM Arks, did you get my email yesterday? 10822. arkymalarky - 4/13/2013 9:39:39 PM Yes I replied, didn't you get it? 10823. judithathome - 4/14/2013 4:29:10 AM No..... 10824. judithathome - 4/14/2013 6:03:18 AM Johnathon Winters died this weekend...he was 87. Not only funny but a talented artist, too.
Johnathon Winters, RIP 10825. iiibbb - 4/14/2013 1:17:37 PM phrase of the day "bathing in our outrage"
10826. judithathome - 4/14/2013 4:38:29 PM 3i, I have a friend who thinks Woods shouldn't even be playing golf any longer! He is rabid in his hatred of Tiger Woods...thankfully, he wasn't around this weekend but I'm certain to hear about it tomorrow...he raves on and on about how Wooods' antics on the course have "ruined the game" and how he's given golf a bad name...I'm sure he will carry on for half an hour over this incident. 10827. arkymalarky - 4/14/2013 6:11:52 PM It showed as Sent and I just sent it again. Let me know if you don't Get it 10828. judithathome - 4/15/2013 4:38:07 PM Got it...for some reason, it went to junk mail. I made your email "safe" so it shouldnt do that again. 10829. arkymalarky - 4/15/2013 7:09:11 PM Haha! Probably based it on the content. 10830. judithathome - 4/15/2013 7:37:09 PM Well, that has been happening a lot lately and I need to check the junk file more often for "mistaken identity". 10831. judithathome - 4/15/2013 8:23:17 PM WOW...what the hell happened at the Boston Marathon today?
Two huge explosions right at the finish line just as the race was ending. 10832. wabbit - 4/15/2013 9:53:24 PM Two explosions at the finish line at about 2:50pm. Over 30 hospitalized, some critical, and two dead so far. A third explosion at the JFK library, no news about that yet. 10833. wabbit - 4/15/2013 10:07:05 PM News is that the JFK library explosion was just after 3pm in the new wing. Three other devices found, one has been blown up (controlled explosion), two more being dealt with, looking for more.
Evidently there was no warning, no idea this was going to happen.
People are still finishing, they are being sent down Commonwealth Avenue to the Boston Common. People who hadn't gotten past Newton when the first two explosions happened were stopped.
Now there is a report of an explosion at the Tufts Medical Center. 10834. wabbit - 4/15/2013 10:41:40 PM Two pieces of good news...no explosion at TMC and the library may not be related. 10835. thoughtful - 4/15/2013 10:42:21 PM Just terrible. Boston always seemed so safe to me.... 10836. thoughtful - 4/17/2013 2:06:52 PM What? No calls for bans on pressure cooker sales?
Sorry, I couldn't resist. 10837. robertjayb - 4/17/2013 8:30:35 PM I had the same thought. Shame on us.
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