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abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)
21. My right wing family is the same
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 03:24 PM
Feb 2013

My mother even posted a vile rant in the local paper wailing that liberals were using Sandy Hook to take her guns. I was and am so completely ashamed.

Glad I live on the other side of the country from them though!

Before Congress votes PADemD Feb 2013 #1
Exactly. Loons wave pictures of fetuses outside of women's clinics. onehandle Feb 2013 #2
+1,000,000!!! 2naSalit Feb 2013 #8
Again, a million times over. No more covering it up. freshwest Feb 2013 #57
Great idea! LibGranny Feb 2013 #65
But that would be like looking at photos of war, and we know Congress doesn't give valerief Feb 2013 #4
I agree. Not photos - they should see actual human beings affected by their legislation. Matariki Feb 2013 #29
I think they should be published in the NYT Greybnk48 Feb 2013 #5
Absolutely marions ghost Feb 2013 #23
Ill do you one better... Volaris Feb 2013 #46
Yes, 26 OPEN caskets in the Rotunda. Auntie Bush Feb 2013 #61
HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Feb 2013 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author mokawanis Feb 2013 #6
That picture always makes my heart stop progressoid Feb 2013 #14
It really gets to me too mokawanis Feb 2013 #20
Just no words. Chorophyll Feb 2013 #22
No words here, either. I'm getting little Grandson Nay (age 6) this afternoon, and every Nay Feb 2013 #32
... Chorophyll Feb 2013 #41
Thanks for the hug...I just took the little fellow home to his parents for his bath and bedtime. Nay Feb 2013 #63
What a sweet little boy! smirkymonkey Feb 2013 #60
Mother courage Hekate Feb 2013 #7
Flag draped caskets were too much for America! SCVDem Feb 2013 #9
agreed sad-cafe Feb 2013 #36
No. That was a BushCo edict so we would not protest the useless carnage. WinkyDink Feb 2013 #43
This made me cry all over again lunatica Feb 2013 #10
It's not strange, it's mother courage tavalon Feb 2013 #54
This made me cry again, too mike dub Feb 2013 #11
same here. BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2013 #28
You have humanity tavalon Feb 2013 #56
At the very least, publish color photos of the classrooms after the bodies were removed. mountain grammy Feb 2013 #12
especially that little Vietnamese girl HockeyMom Feb 2013 #16
1972...long after the turning point in Vietnam alcibiades_mystery Feb 2013 #27
You think? 1972's election wouldn't be evidence of any "turning point". WinkyDink Feb 2013 #45
Hell yes, just responded on another thread about that photo. libdem4life Feb 2013 #47
I'd go with that marions ghost Feb 2013 #24
Anyone who has seen the Zapruder film (unedited version) HockeyMom Feb 2013 #34
So do you think the public should see the pix of the location marions ghost Feb 2013 #39
Without the bodies? YES HockeyMom Feb 2013 #49
Agreed, without the bodies of children-- marions ghost Feb 2013 #53
I saw Bud Dwyer kill himself on live TV (graphic text) justiceischeap Feb 2013 #52
I've said it a couple of times here. SheilaT Feb 2013 #13
This mother's courage also contrasts with the selfishness of the right wing-nuts mike dub Feb 2013 #15
My right wing family is the same abelenkpe Feb 2013 #21
I'm sorry to hear this...... BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2013 #30
My brother too riverbendviewgal Feb 2013 #42
Women who want abortions are forced to have ultrasounds they don't need and look at kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #17
Yes, photos yesphan Feb 2013 #33
Of course the RW cabin have it both ways Tagish_Charlie Feb 2013 #55
I think it's about time that these families that have the courage to show what the damage southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #18
Courageous mother Gin Feb 2013 #19
That's my son's name. tblue Feb 2013 #25
No one needs a fucking assault rifle still_one Feb 2013 #26
Real legislation would be dealing with guns and gun owners glowing Feb 2013 #31
I like your thinking. Thinkingabout Feb 2013 #68
I've been so impressed by the Sandy Hook Elementary parents. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #35
I would not be so calm sad-cafe Feb 2013 #37
I marvel at them. I really do. Chorophyll Feb 2013 #44
It just breaks my heart. blackspade Feb 2013 #38
If it were my son riverbendviewgal Feb 2013 #40
Sadly, I would have done so, also. libdem4life Feb 2013 #48
+1000 HockeyMom Feb 2013 #50
I have to say, this is turning into a nation of cowards. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #51
I'm not so sure that "we" are afraid to look. Glamrock Feb 2013 #69
Bless her heart.. That's what Mothers do. Cha Feb 2013 #58
Joe Madison on Sirius XM said this at the time Alcibiades Feb 2013 #59
right to life protests. guss Feb 2013 #62
Just like Emmett Till's mother did in 1955. Let them see what they did to my boy. nt Claybrains Feb 2013 #64
YES! Publish the photos! MsPithy Feb 2013 #66
I also had to see my dead son Disconnect Feb 2013 #67
They reap what they sow .... King_Klonopin Feb 2013 #70
Its NEW-TOWN not newt-on. Newtown, CT nt bonniebgood Feb 2013 #71
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