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What a strange, tragic, and surreal day here in Tucson. Anyone paying attention to the television or internet news knows by now that Congresswoman Giffords and 19 other people were shot at a meet and greet event outside a Safeway today. Six people are dead including a nine year old girl and federal judge.
Congresswoman Giffords is my representative. I stop in the shopping center where the shootings occurred a couple of times a month. I corresponded with Giffords' office by email on several occasions during the healthcare debate. My last email to her office was the day after the vote when I heard that her office had been vandalized. I thanked her for voting for the legislation and encouraged her and her staff to stay safe. I received four or five calls from her campaign during this fall's election encouraging me to vote. I assured them that I would be proud to vote for Gabrielle Giffords. I did and I was.
Tonight, she and several of the other victims are recovering in the ICU of the hospital where my partner, David, spent several days last month. The television news is showing a candlelight vigil outside the hospital as I type this.
I am overwhelmed with emotion tonight. The debate over the tone of the political rhetoric in our country has already started. I guess we'll endure the debate. Most of all, I'm just very sad. Congresswoman Giffords is a hardworking public servant, and a kind woman with a positive energy. I'm hoping that she makes a strong recovery.
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A few minutes ago, I was watching videos on YouTube. Then I checked back on LW to find this.
My heart goes out to Congresswoman Giffords and the other victims. The climate of fear we live in--where anyone can be gunned down anywhere for any reason--is sometimes too much to bear. People look for answers as to why a madman acted the way he did. But sometimes there are no answers. Madness and hatred have no answers.
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Prayers to all involved. The thing that gets me is that there are those out there using this to push their hatred even further.
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That's not new, AB. That happens every time there's a shooting.
The assailant appears to be a mentally ill person who needed help and didn't get it. That also seems to be common in these cases.
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"Rev." Phelps and his whackjobs from his Westboro Baptist congregation are planning on protesting at the funeral of the 9-year old girl who was among the six dead...
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I am convinced that they are attention whores and really "like" the attention.
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Yup.
Phelps has always been 57 Varieties of a**. I can't say that I'm surprised.
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Everyone's wise to Phelps' ways now. Westboro won't get anywhere near the funeral and will instead be blocked by a human wall of gays and lesbians making out. I approve of the human blockade, but wish it wasn't necessary.
Prayers for all the families who lost someone or have to worry about someone injured by this lunatic. The little girl and 2 people in their 70s lost particularly hit me hard.
quote:Originally posted by Pov: "Rev." Phelps and his whackjobs from his Westboro Baptist congregation are planning on protesting at the funeral of the 9-year old girl who was among the six dead...
WHY?
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Because he's an attention whore that uses the attention to solicit money from other idiots that believe the tripe he spews. Like P.T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute."
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Phelps is as insane as the 22 year old shooter. He honestly and earnestly believes that everyone in the world except his inbred family/congregation is going to hell.
He in no way, shape or form should ever be confused with an actual example of any sort of Baptist faith.
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It's like rickshaw said. His group like the publicity.I think that they say they are doing it because these deaths are a result of America turning its back on God as evidenced by gay rights. They started out just picketing the funerals of gay people, but then started picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. I got the following quote by "Rev" Phelps from Wikipedia. "Our attitude toward what's happening with the war is [that] the Lord is punishing this evil nation for abandoning all moral imperatives that are worth a dime."
Also according to Wikipedia, their annual travel budget is $200,000. So someone is funding these Blankety-blanks.
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