Elementary school shooting reported in Newtown, Conn.

Started by garbon, December 14, 2012, 11:49:57 AM

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Caliga

Abortions for some, miniature Glocks for others (such as fetuses).
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Grey Fox

Quote from: Syt on December 18, 2012, 10:22:46 AM
Meanwhile my sisters share on Facebook images/quotes against gun control and calling the genocide on unborn infants worse than what guns do. :bleeding:

My father in law is doing the same :bleeding:
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Baron von Schtinkenbutt

Quote from: DGuller on December 18, 2012, 09:58:08 AM
Languish already has an automatic protection built in for such an occasion.  It crashes when the number of visitors exceeds 20.

The server has been up for 471 consecutive days. :rolleyes:

merithyn

And it takes about that long for a page to load, too. :P
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I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
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Martinus

Quote from: Syt on December 18, 2012, 10:22:46 AM
Meanwhile my sisters share on Facebook images/quotes against gun control and calling the genocide on unborn infants worse than what guns do. :bleeding:
:yuk:

AnchorClanker

As per usual, I am troubled by the general idiocy displayed by the hyper-partisans of both sides.

No wonder we can't get anything done.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.  - Reinhold Niebuhr

CountDeMoney

Pfft, bashing Languish load times has always been a bipartisan affair.

Malthus

Quote from: Caliga on December 18, 2012, 10:31:26 AM
Abortions for some, miniature Glocks for others (such as fetuses).

Easy-insert miniature Glocks.   :P
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garbon

Yes we can walk/ reach across the aisle on that issue.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
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Malthus

Quote from: garbon on December 18, 2012, 01:36:44 PM
Yes we can walk/ reach across the aisle on that issue.

I'd have thought minature Glocks for fetuses would have been more controversial.  :hmm:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

garbon

I make no apologies for not quoting when on a tablet. :P
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

derspiess

Quote from: garbon on December 18, 2012, 01:41:16 PM
I make no apologies for not quoting when on a tablet. :P

Ditto.  Trying to edit that shit down is a pain in the ass.  Though in some circumstances I just decide not to post.
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Martinus

Looks like WBC are not the only ones:

QuoteRepublican Mike Huckabee: The Newtown shootings were the fault of gay people

by Joseph Patrick McCormick
18 December 2012, 2:38pm

Fox News presenter and former 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, has made several comments about the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings, seemingly blaming gay people for the massacre.

Mike Huckabee, the ex-governor of Arkansas, seemed to be blaming last week's shootings on gay people through his recently voiced opinions, when he talked about a rejection of "natural law", and "natural family of a father and mother", as the reasons for the killings.

He also went on to cite smartphones, and "abortion pills", as well as the "teaching" that "god was not involved in our origins" as the reasons for the shootings taking place.


Writing on his website, Mr Huckabee said: "We dismiss the notion of natural law and the notion that there are moral absolutes and seemed amazed when some kids make it their own morality to kill innocent children.

"We diminish and even hold in contempt the natural family of a father and mother creating and then responsibly raising the next generation and then express dismay that kids feel no real connection to their families or even the concept of a family."

On Friday, not long after the shooting took place, Mr Huckabee had spoken on Fox News, and asked:

"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"

"Maybe we ought to let [God] in on the front end and we wouldn't have to call him to show up when it's all said and done at the back end," he continued.

At the weekend, Mr Huckabee also blamed "the predictable left" and its "vile and vicious reaction" to his comments. He continued:

"It's the fact that people sue a city so we aren't confronted with a manger scene or Christmas carol ... Churches and Christian-owned businesses are told to surrender their values under the edict of government orders to provide tax-funded abortion pills."

On his blog, he said: "our kids would rather have ear buds dangling from their ears, fingers attaching to a smartphone, and face attached to a computer screen" and "we teach that God was not involved in our origins, that our very lives are biological happenstances."

Writing for Salon.com, Mary Elizabeth Williams, noted that Mr Huckabee had made similar sentiments about the shooting in an Aurora cinema last year. He said:

"We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered God out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose."

This statement was made at a similar time that he declared a national 'Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day', which aimed to celebrate the fast-food chain's stance against marriage equality.

On Saturday, The Westboro Baptist Church, the home of the 'God Hates Fags Church' released a sickening video to explain how that 'God Sent the Shooter' to kill children at the Newtown school.

AnchorClanker

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Razgovory

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