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http://www.wisepolitics.com/christina-green-9-year-old-killed-in-arizona-shooting-3006.html
According to her uncle, Greg Segalini, Christina Taylor Green was invited to the “Congress on Your Corner” event by a neighbor. The neighbor thought Green would enjoy the event, which was held outside a Safeway.
This was an opportunity for constituents to meet the recently re-elected Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. However, 22-year-old gunman Jared Lee Loughner had other plans. He opened fire, hitting Giffords in the forehead. He also hit nine year old Green.
Green was pronounced dead at the hospital. She went to the event hoping to learn more about politics. Green had been elected to the student council at her school, Mesa Verde Elementary.
Her uncle described her as “real special” and “real sweet.” Local outlet reports stated that her family had described her as “the best daughter in the world.” Green was born on 9/11 and was featured in the book Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11.
Family members stated that Green was excited about life. Green was involved in a number of extracurricular activities, including ballet and baseball of which she was an avid fan. She also was involved in horseback riding and swimming.
Her mother told MSNBC, “I just want her memory to live on, she’s a face of hope, a face of change. Stop the violence, stop the hatred.”
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Dorwan Stoddard
Dorwan and Mavy Stoddard had known each other as children in the Tucson area. They moved away, married other people and had children. After both were widowed, they reunited in their hometown and married nearly 15 years ago. Dorwan, 76, a retired construction worker and gas station owner, was killed as the couple stood in line to meet Giffords, whom Mavy admired.
The couple kept busy in retirement, taking a motor home to fishing holes in Oregon and Colorado and volunteering at the Mountain Avenue Church of Christ.
"They got into people's lives," said Jody Nowak, wife of the Stoddards' pastor, Mike Nowak. "They didn't sit on the pew and do nothing."
The Stoddards often befriended couples who sought assistance from the church, and delivered food and flowers to the sick. Dorwan was a familiar face at the church, as was his black dog, Tux. He spent hours fixing leaks and doing other maintenance jobs. Over the years, he had fallen through a roof and off a ladder but always laughed off his bruises and scrapes.
In a corner of the church's sunlit worship area is a small, soundproof room that Dorwan built so parents could soothe their crying children and still hear the piped-in service. Named for him, it is called Dory's Room.
Nearby, two scratches mar a wall. Dorwan's ladder made the marks when he tumbled off it just before Christmas. Nowak said she thought they would leave the scratches there, in memoriam.
On Saturday morning, Mavy heard blasts that sounded like fireworks, and the couple dove toward some chairs as Dorwan tried to shield Mavy with his body, Nowak said. Mavy was struck at least once in each leg.
"She didn't realize she'd been shot," Nowak said. "All she felt was his weight on her."
"That would be something Dorwan would do," Mike Nowak said. "He would have protected her."
Before Dorwan died, Mavy told Jody, she was able to say goodbye to her husband.
Added at: 08:24
Phyllis Schneck
The East Coast winters drove Phyllis Schneck, 79, and her husband, Ernie, to Arizona a decade ago. The couple, who met as teens in New Jersey, spent the final years of a 56-year marriage in a quiet retirement community in northwest Tucson, where she was known as an expert quilter who liked to pop by friends' houses with her homemade lemon curd.
Schneck headed to the Safeway on Saturday to meet Giffords. Though Schneck was a Republican, she had recently listened to Giffords on a conference call and hoped to shake her hand.
Schneck's friends remembered her as a kind and caring neighbor. She had run a women's club in New Jersey and became active in her Presbyterian church in Tucson — often donating her handmade aprons and needlepoint projects to benefit food banks and children's charities. One neighbor saw her recently at a neighborhood luau where she arrived in a green floral muumuu, with her famous pineapple upside-down cake.
Her world revolved around her three children, seven grandchildren, 2-year-old great-grandchild and her husband, who was the brother of her childhood best friend. Schneck once did administrative work at Fairleigh Dickinson University, but was mainly devoted to raising her children and her community work, said her daughter Betty-Jean Offutt.
The kitchen was the center of activity in the Schneck home, her daughter said. Ernie, who worked as a sheet metal fabricator in New Jersey, was always home at 5 o'clock so he wouldn't miss Phyllis' cooking. "When the food is good, you go home," said Offutt, who described her mother's macaroni and cheese as "top shelf."
Ernie and Phyllis Schneck shared a sharp sense of humor and often bowled together. They spent summers in a small lakeside community in New Jersey, Offutt said. Ernie died of cancer several years ago.
"They had a wonderful, happy marriage for 56 years," Offutt said, adding that her mother "would give you the shirt off her back. If you didn't have anywhere to go, she'd invite you over to dinner."
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Dorothy Morris
George and Dorothy Morris of Oro Valley, Ariz., met as high school students in Reno. Ever since, friends say, they were at each other's side.Both were shot Saturday morning. Dorothy, 76, died at the scene. George, hit in the chest and leg, is expected to leave intensive care Monday, said his longtime friend, Bill Royle."They seemed like they were on their honeymoon," Royle said. "They were always together."
George, also 76, was an airline pilot, first for Pan Am based in Germany and later for United. He had a side job selling real estate, and long after he retired from flying about 1995, he continued to work. Dorothy worked as his secretary and bookkeeper. They have two daughters, both of whom live in Las Vegas.The two enjoyed retirement. They had a home in Pinetop, Ariz., a small community in the White Mountains, and an another in Panama they would visit about twice a year. Guests were always flowing into their home for regular get-togethers."They were people who were easy to get along with," Royle said. "They had their opinions, especially in politics, [but it was] nothing too radical."
Gabriel Zimmerman
When Gabe Zimmerman visited Washington in 2009 for President Obama's inauguration, he immersed himself in the monuments to American history, one of his passions.
"When we went to the Lincoln Memorial on a cold, damp January morning, the wind whipped through the place and it was freezing cold, but Gabe had to read every single word of the Gettysburg Address," said C.J. Karamargin, who worked with Zimmerman in Giffords' Tucson office.
That intensity was evident in every aspect of Zimmerman's life, including his devotion to his job helping Giffords' constituents, his search for the perfect engagement ring, his newfound zeal for the Byzantine Empire and his hours spent on the Stairmaster.
"He put his all into his work, he put his all into his life," Karamargin said.
Zimmerman, 30, died at Giffords' Congress on Your Corner event, which Zimmerman helped organize.
He joined Giffords' first congressional campaign in 2006, and joined her staff the following year.
Zimmerman's mother, Emily Nottingham, said he loved helping constituents solve problems. "He was always a caring child. It was a good career for him," Nottingham said in her Tucson home.
After graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a bachelor's degree in sociology, Zimmerman worked for Arizona's Children, a treatment facility for troubled youth. He earned a master's degree in social work at Arizona State University.
"Gabe was unfailingly patient with people. He presided over thousands of constituent cases," Karamargin said. "He was helping World War II vets get medals, people with Medicare benefits, veterans with benefits issues. … He was determined to just do the best he could."
That determination was evident outside work as well.
"We belong to the same gym, and we would do the stair mill together and, you know, when we were done, I had a couple beads of sweat on my brow and Gabe was drenched," Karamargin said. "You could count the number of stories you climbed. I would do 132 in 30 minutes — Gabe was, like, 190. He was running up those steps."
Zimmerman ran marathons and had hiked the Grand Canyon multiple times. In 2012, he planned to marry Katie O'Brien.
U.S. District Judge John M. Roll,
who was killed in the Tucson shooting rampage, appeared to have been an innocent bystander Saturday, but was the target of death threats in 2009 when he emerged as a central figure in Arizona's bitter disputes over illegal immigration.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik said Roll, 63, who was a close friend of U.S. Rep.Gabrielle Giffords, had just attended Mass at a nearby church and decided to stop by and say hello. A gunman opened fire, killing six and wounding 12, including Giffords.
"Unfortunately, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Dupnik, who praised Roll as a brilliant jurist and cherished friend.
Roll's death is a rare killing among federal judges, the last occurring more than 21 years ago, said David Sellers, a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Roll became the target of conservative anger two years ago when he ruled that a $32-million civil rights lawsuit filed by illegal immigrants could go to court. The suit was filed against rancher Roger Barnett of Douglas, Ariz., and alleged that he violated the migrants' rights when he detained at gunpoint those who crossed his property and then turned them over to U.S. Border Patrol agents.
The U.S. Marshals Service put Roll and his wife, Maureen, under 24-hour surveillance after talk-radio accounts of the judge's role in the case led to hundreds of anonymous threats. A federal investigation identified four people who had lodged threats, but Roll decided against pressing charges, on the advice of the Marshals Service.
"It was unnerving and invasive" being under armed guard, Roll told the Arizona Republic in a July 2009 interview in which he praised the federal protection force.
Roll was named to the federal judiciary in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. He had been Arizona's chief federal judge since 2006.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called the killings senseless and said they "inflicted tragic loss on dedicated public servants."
"We in the judiciary have suffered the terrible loss of one of our own. Chief Judge John Roll was a wise jurist who selflessly served Arizona and the nation with great distinction, as attorney and judge, for more than 35 years," Roberts said, calling the judge's death "a somber reminder of the importance of the rule of law and the sacrifices of those who work to secure it."
U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski described Roll in a statement as a "widely respected jurist, a strong and able leader of his court, and a kind, courteous and sincere gentleman. He worked tirelessly to improve the delivery of justice to the people of Arizona."
Kozinski's predecessor as 9th Circuit chief, Judge Mary M. Schroeder of Phoenix, said Roll was "famous for being able to say so many genuinely nice things about people without having to consult notes, for he so genuinely loved people and had such a remarkable mind."
Judge Raner Collins of Tucson is expected to succeed Roll as chief judge for the Arizona district that has 12 active judgeships, three of which are now vacant, the appeals court statement said. Phoenix-based U.S. District Judge Mary H. Murguia was confirmed to a seat on the 9th Circuit last month, and Judge Frank Zapata left for semiretired senior status in August.
President Obama, whose judicial appointments have bogged down in the Senate amid Republican opposition over the last two years, has not yet nominated replacements for Zapata and Murguia, which Kozinski recently said has left the busy Arizona federal court short-handed.
Throughout the 20th century, three federal judges were assassinated. The most recent was in 1989 when Alabama Judge Robert Smith Vance of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was killed by a mail bomb, traced to a man convicted in racially motivated attacks.
In 2005, a man angered by the dismissal of his malpractice case killed the husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow of Chicago.
Born Feb. 8, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Roll earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Arizona and a doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, he served as a judge of the Pima County Superior Court and on the Arizona Court of Appeals, and had been an assistant U.S. attorney for Arizona.
The judge is survived by his wife, Maureen, three sons and five grandchildren.
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http://www.wisepolitics.com/christina-green-9-year-old-killed-in-arizona-shooting-3006.html
According to her uncle, Greg Segalini, Christina Taylor Green was invited to the “Congress on Your Corner” event by a neighbor. The neighbor thought Green would enjoy the event, which was held outside a Safeway.
This was an opportunity for constituents to meet the recently re-elected Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. However, 22-year-old gunman Jared Lee Loughner had other plans. He opened fire, hitting Giffords in the forehead. He also hit nine year old Green.
Green was pronounced dead at the hospital. She went to the event hoping to learn more about politics. Green had been elected to the student council at her school, Mesa Verde Elementary.
Her uncle described her as “real special” and “real sweet.” Local outlet reports stated that her family had described her as “the best daughter in the world.” Green was born on 9/11 and was featured in the book Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11.
Family members stated that Green was excited about life. Green was involved in a number of extracurricular activities, including ballet and baseball of which she was an avid fan. She also was involved in horseback riding and swimming.
Her mother told MSNBC, “I just want her memory to live on, she’s a face of hope, a face of change. Stop the violence, stop the hatred.”
Added at: 08:23
Dorwan Stoddard
Dorwan and Mavy Stoddard had known each other as children in the Tucson area. They moved away, married other people and had children. After both were widowed, they reunited in their hometown and married nearly 15 years ago. Dorwan, 76, a retired construction worker and gas station owner, was killed as the couple stood in line to meet Giffords, whom Mavy admired.
The couple kept busy in retirement, taking a motor home to fishing holes in Oregon and Colorado and volunteering at the Mountain Avenue Church of Christ.
"They got into people's lives," said Jody Nowak, wife of the Stoddards' pastor, Mike Nowak. "They didn't sit on the pew and do nothing."
The Stoddards often befriended couples who sought assistance from the church, and delivered food and flowers to the sick. Dorwan was a familiar face at the church, as was his black dog, Tux. He spent hours fixing leaks and doing other maintenance jobs. Over the years, he had fallen through a roof and off a ladder but always laughed off his bruises and scrapes.
In a corner of the church's sunlit worship area is a small, soundproof room that Dorwan built so parents could soothe their crying children and still hear the piped-in service. Named for him, it is called Dory's Room.
Nearby, two scratches mar a wall. Dorwan's ladder made the marks when he tumbled off it just before Christmas. Nowak said she thought they would leave the scratches there, in memoriam.
On Saturday morning, Mavy heard blasts that sounded like fireworks, and the couple dove toward some chairs as Dorwan tried to shield Mavy with his body, Nowak said. Mavy was struck at least once in each leg.
"She didn't realize she'd been shot," Nowak said. "All she felt was his weight on her."
"That would be something Dorwan would do," Mike Nowak said. "He would have protected her."
Before Dorwan died, Mavy told Jody, she was able to say goodbye to her husband.
Added at: 08:24
Phyllis Schneck
The East Coast winters drove Phyllis Schneck, 79, and her husband, Ernie, to Arizona a decade ago. The couple, who met as teens in New Jersey, spent the final years of a 56-year marriage in a quiet retirement community in northwest Tucson, where she was known as an expert quilter who liked to pop by friends' houses with her homemade lemon curd.
Schneck headed to the Safeway on Saturday to meet Giffords. Though Schneck was a Republican, she had recently listened to Giffords on a conference call and hoped to shake her hand.
Schneck's friends remembered her as a kind and caring neighbor. She had run a women's club in New Jersey and became active in her Presbyterian church in Tucson — often donating her handmade aprons and needlepoint projects to benefit food banks and children's charities. One neighbor saw her recently at a neighborhood luau where she arrived in a green floral muumuu, with her famous pineapple upside-down cake.
Her world revolved around her three children, seven grandchildren, 2-year-old great-grandchild and her husband, who was the brother of her childhood best friend. Schneck once did administrative work at Fairleigh Dickinson University, but was mainly devoted to raising her children and her community work, said her daughter Betty-Jean Offutt.
The kitchen was the center of activity in the Schneck home, her daughter said. Ernie, who worked as a sheet metal fabricator in New Jersey, was always home at 5 o'clock so he wouldn't miss Phyllis' cooking. "When the food is good, you go home," said Offutt, who described her mother's macaroni and cheese as "top shelf."
Ernie and Phyllis Schneck shared a sharp sense of humor and often bowled together. They spent summers in a small lakeside community in New Jersey, Offutt said. Ernie died of cancer several years ago.
"They had a wonderful, happy marriage for 56 years," Offutt said, adding that her mother "would give you the shirt off her back. If you didn't have anywhere to go, she'd invite you over to dinner."
Added at: 08:26
Dorothy Morris
George and Dorothy Morris of Oro Valley, Ariz., met as high school students in Reno. Ever since, friends say, they were at each other's side.Both were shot Saturday morning. Dorothy, 76, died at the scene. George, hit in the chest and leg, is expected to leave intensive care Monday, said his longtime friend, Bill Royle."They seemed like they were on their honeymoon," Royle said. "They were always together."
George, also 76, was an airline pilot, first for Pan Am based in Germany and later for United. He had a side job selling real estate, and long after he retired from flying about 1995, he continued to work. Dorothy worked as his secretary and bookkeeper. They have two daughters, both of whom live in Las Vegas.The two enjoyed retirement. They had a home in Pinetop, Ariz., a small community in the White Mountains, and an another in Panama they would visit about twice a year. Guests were always flowing into their home for regular get-togethers."They were people who were easy to get along with," Royle said. "They had their opinions, especially in politics, [but it was] nothing too radical."
Gabriel Zimmerman
When Gabe Zimmerman visited Washington in 2009 for President Obama's inauguration, he immersed himself in the monuments to American history, one of his passions.
"When we went to the Lincoln Memorial on a cold, damp January morning, the wind whipped through the place and it was freezing cold, but Gabe had to read every single word of the Gettysburg Address," said C.J. Karamargin, who worked with Zimmerman in Giffords' Tucson office.
That intensity was evident in every aspect of Zimmerman's life, including his devotion to his job helping Giffords' constituents, his search for the perfect engagement ring, his newfound zeal for the Byzantine Empire and his hours spent on the Stairmaster.
"He put his all into his work, he put his all into his life," Karamargin said.
Zimmerman, 30, died at Giffords' Congress on Your Corner event, which Zimmerman helped organize.
He joined Giffords' first congressional campaign in 2006, and joined her staff the following year.
Zimmerman's mother, Emily Nottingham, said he loved helping constituents solve problems. "He was always a caring child. It was a good career for him," Nottingham said in her Tucson home.
After graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a bachelor's degree in sociology, Zimmerman worked for Arizona's Children, a treatment facility for troubled youth. He earned a master's degree in social work at Arizona State University.
"Gabe was unfailingly patient with people. He presided over thousands of constituent cases," Karamargin said. "He was helping World War II vets get medals, people with Medicare benefits, veterans with benefits issues. … He was determined to just do the best he could."
That determination was evident outside work as well.
"We belong to the same gym, and we would do the stair mill together and, you know, when we were done, I had a couple beads of sweat on my brow and Gabe was drenched," Karamargin said. "You could count the number of stories you climbed. I would do 132 in 30 minutes — Gabe was, like, 190. He was running up those steps."
Zimmerman ran marathons and had hiked the Grand Canyon multiple times. In 2012, he planned to marry Katie O'Brien.
U.S. District Judge John M. Roll,
who was killed in the Tucson shooting rampage, appeared to have been an innocent bystander Saturday, but was the target of death threats in 2009 when he emerged as a central figure in Arizona's bitter disputes over illegal immigration.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik said Roll, 63, who was a close friend of U.S. Rep.Gabrielle Giffords, had just attended Mass at a nearby church and decided to stop by and say hello. A gunman opened fire, killing six and wounding 12, including Giffords.
"Unfortunately, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Dupnik, who praised Roll as a brilliant jurist and cherished friend.
Roll's death is a rare killing among federal judges, the last occurring more than 21 years ago, said David Sellers, a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Roll became the target of conservative anger two years ago when he ruled that a $32-million civil rights lawsuit filed by illegal immigrants could go to court. The suit was filed against rancher Roger Barnett of Douglas, Ariz., and alleged that he violated the migrants' rights when he detained at gunpoint those who crossed his property and then turned them over to U.S. Border Patrol agents.
The U.S. Marshals Service put Roll and his wife, Maureen, under 24-hour surveillance after talk-radio accounts of the judge's role in the case led to hundreds of anonymous threats. A federal investigation identified four people who had lodged threats, but Roll decided against pressing charges, on the advice of the Marshals Service.
"It was unnerving and invasive" being under armed guard, Roll told the Arizona Republic in a July 2009 interview in which he praised the federal protection force.
Roll was named to the federal judiciary in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. He had been Arizona's chief federal judge since 2006.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called the killings senseless and said they "inflicted tragic loss on dedicated public servants."
"We in the judiciary have suffered the terrible loss of one of our own. Chief Judge John Roll was a wise jurist who selflessly served Arizona and the nation with great distinction, as attorney and judge, for more than 35 years," Roberts said, calling the judge's death "a somber reminder of the importance of the rule of law and the sacrifices of those who work to secure it."
U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski described Roll in a statement as a "widely respected jurist, a strong and able leader of his court, and a kind, courteous and sincere gentleman. He worked tirelessly to improve the delivery of justice to the people of Arizona."
Kozinski's predecessor as 9th Circuit chief, Judge Mary M. Schroeder of Phoenix, said Roll was "famous for being able to say so many genuinely nice things about people without having to consult notes, for he so genuinely loved people and had such a remarkable mind."
Judge Raner Collins of Tucson is expected to succeed Roll as chief judge for the Arizona district that has 12 active judgeships, three of which are now vacant, the appeals court statement said. Phoenix-based U.S. District Judge Mary H. Murguia was confirmed to a seat on the 9th Circuit last month, and Judge Frank Zapata left for semiretired senior status in August.
President Obama, whose judicial appointments have bogged down in the Senate amid Republican opposition over the last two years, has not yet nominated replacements for Zapata and Murguia, which Kozinski recently said has left the busy Arizona federal court short-handed.
Throughout the 20th century, three federal judges were assassinated. The most recent was in 1989 when Alabama Judge Robert Smith Vance of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was killed by a mail bomb, traced to a man convicted in racially motivated attacks.
In 2005, a man angered by the dismissal of his malpractice case killed the husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow of Chicago.
Born Feb. 8, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Roll earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Arizona and a doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, he served as a judge of the Pima County Superior Court and on the Arizona Court of Appeals, and had been an assistant U.S. attorney for Arizona.
The judge is survived by his wife, Maureen, three sons and five grandchildren.
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I swear, people are looking for reasons to continue to be assholes to each other and pretend that talking about crosshairs when a murder occurs is ok.
Come on. I'm not saying that perhaps we shouldn't re-evaluate how politicians present ideas to the public. But to pretend that forcing them to push all their concepts through rose colored glasses will result in less murders? And using a tragedy as an excuse to force this discussion when the corpses are barely even cold?
strawman
Why are you using these murders as a grandstand for your diatribe against crosshairs on maps?
I swear, people are looking for reasons to continue to be assholes to each other and pretend that talking about crosshairs when a murder occurs is ok.
The sort of rhetoric that says the murders wouldn't have occurred if certain right wingers didn't use crosshairs on all their maps?
Come on. I'm not saying that perhaps we shouldn't re-evaluate how politicians present ideas to the public. But to pretend that forcing them to push all their concepts through rose colored glasses will result in less murders? And using a tragedy as an excuse to force this discussion when the corpses are barely even cold?
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*and somehow I doubt that even the politician who said that quote really meant that his constituents should bring a gun to a political fight... but still, its like the Palin stuff, this kind of rhetoric isn't really needed IMO.
Espy
We have to ban all republicans. Duh.
Added at: 22:46
I'm no fan of Bill O'Reilly but I think anyone who, even out of context, thinks that that comment isn't merely an over-the-top way to try and make a point about Sharia law has to be reaching here. It's not like he said, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun"*.
*and somehow I doubt that even the politician who said that quote really meant that his constituents should bring a gun to a political fight... but still, its like the Palin stuff, this kind of rhetoric isn't really needed IMO.
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The Lovely Boehner
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Krisken
Krisken
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Iaculus
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Krisken
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Iaculus
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rabbitgod
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Azurephoenix
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Biannoshufu
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Jay
Nice mugshot. Just in case you thought his shooting spree was driven by anything but pure insanity.
Jay
Nice mugshot. Just in case you thought his shooting spree was driven by anything but pure insanity.
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Krisken
Krisken
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Espy
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Krisken
Krisken
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sixpackshaker
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phil
phil
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GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Krisken
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Tress
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The Lovely Boehner
The Lovely Boehner
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
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strawman
strawman
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Dave
Dave
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@Li3n
@Li3n
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Krisken
Krisken
When explaining yourself doesn't fit into Gas' preconceived notions, it equals backpedaling.
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phil
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phil
phil
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phil
phil
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Espy
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Chibibar
Chibibar
but that would mean that politician have to own up their mistake??? I didn't think they were program that way
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@Li3n
@Li3n
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sixpackshaker
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Dave
Dave
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@Li3n
@Li3n
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Chibibar
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Adammon
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GasBandit
No, it's not their fault for their rhetoric.
Fun fact 1: That "rhetoric" is in use by both sides.
Fun fact 2: There are just as many purported left-wing ideologues-turned-murderers as purported right-wing
Fun fact 3: There has been no actual link between this murderer, his acts, and fiery political rhetoric (of either party) other than the baseless mumblings of a sheriff who jumps to conclusions and the incestuous echo chamber of the mainstream media.
This is just like the Times Square bomber. Before there was even a single fact uncovered about that case, leftists were immediately on TV saying they "wouldn't be surprised if this person was somebody mad about ObamaCare." Then, whoops, it turned out to be a muslim extremist and they suddenly got very quiet. They've been looking for an opportunity for *months* to start this ridiculousness.
The truth of the matter is, as I linked in my political thread, "This flood of slanderous sludge is designed for nakedly political benefit: to paint a permanent black mark on conservatives as accessories to murder, and criminalize any expression of conservatism as a dangerous anti-government conspiracy."
GasBandit
Thanks for the clarification, Al. See, Krisken? I was right. At least he didn't backpedal
No, it's not their fault for their rhetoric.
Fun fact 1: That "rhetoric" is in use by both sides.
Fun fact 2: There are just as many purported left-wing ideologues-turned-murderers as purported right-wing
Fun fact 3: There has been no actual link between this murderer, his acts, and fiery political rhetoric (of either party) other than the baseless mumblings of a sheriff who jumps to conclusions and the incestuous echo chamber of the mainstream media.
This is just like the Times Square bomber. Before there was even a single fact uncovered about that case, leftists were immediately on TV saying they "wouldn't be surprised if this person was somebody mad about ObamaCare." Then, whoops, it turned out to be a muslim extremist and they suddenly got very quiet. They've been looking for an opportunity for *months* to start this ridiculousness.
The truth of the matter is, as I linked in my political thread, "This flood of slanderous sludge is designed for nakedly political benefit: to paint a permanent black mark on conservatives as accessories to murder, and criminalize any expression of conservatism as a dangerous anti-government conspiracy."
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rabbitgod
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@Li3n
So you're not at fault for anything that comes out of your mouth?!
Then guess it's not the democrats fault that they are blaming the republican, because the republicans blame the democrats for all sorts of stuff too.
@Li3n
Thanks for the clarification, Al. See, Krisken? I was right. At least he didn't backpedal
No, it's not their fault for their rhetoric.
Fun fact 1: That "rhetoric" is in use by both sides.
Fun fact 2: There are just as many purported left-wing ideologues-turned-murderers as purported right-wing
Fun fact 3: There has been no actual link between this murderer, his acts, and fiery political rhetoric (of either party) other than the baseless mumblings of a sheriff who jumps to conclusions and the incestuous echo chamber of the mainstream media.
This is just like the Times Square bomber. Before there was even a single fact uncovered about that case, leftists were immediately on TV saying they "wouldn't be surprised if this person was somebody mad about ObamaCare." Then, whoops, it turned out to be a muslim extremist and they suddenly got very quiet. They've been looking for an opportunity for *months* to start this ridiculousness.
So you're not at fault for anything that comes out of your mouth?!
Then guess it's not the democrats fault that they are blaming the republican, because the republicans blame the democrats for all sorts of stuff too.
Oh noes, the democrats' rhetoric is gonna cause some crazy people to think the republicans are murderers... run for the hills.
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
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@Li3n
@Li3n
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sixpackshaker
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@Li3n
@Li3n
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Espy
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GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Krisken
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@Li3n
@Li3n
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Espy
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@Li3n
@Li3n
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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@Li3n
@Li3n
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Krisken
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strawman
strawman
It could have been Halforums...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...6075851892478080.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
But it wasn't. He posted on this forum instead: http://forums.earthempires.com/Foru...294856569&z=regarding-jared-loughner-the-game
Disturbing.
Don't any of you go crazy now, ok?
On another note, where is Shego?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...6075851892478080.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
But it wasn't. He posted on this forum instead: http://forums.earthempires.com/Foru...294856569&z=regarding-jared-loughner-the-game
Disturbing.
Don't any of you go crazy now, ok?
On another note, where is Shego?
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@Li3n
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@Li3n
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SpecialKO
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