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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 02:50 PM
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Randi Rhodes blogs about the Tenn Shooter
The Economy is so bad that people are lining up at food pantries and some are beginning to get violent. Really violent. The Tennessee Church shooter Jim David Addison, 58 of Powell, Tennessee wrote a note prior to his rampage that left 2 dead. In it he says that his rampage was spurred on by his inability to find a job, the cut back of his food stamp benefits and a general hatred for Liberals, hence he chose a Unitarian Church for his murder spree.

Is this the beginning of the past?

When Democrats are out of power they work to get back into power. We protest and march, petition our government, write letters to the Editor, now we blog. It obviously works because we won back the House of Representatives after 12 years and we are about to win the White House and Senate. But impatient Conservatives who are out of power deal with things a tad differently.

Unempowered conservatives tend to blow up Federal Buildings, blow up Abortion clinics, shoot doctors and join militias because they imagine jack booted thugs and black helicopters are coming to get them. They sometimes join religious cults that stockpile weapons and molest children and defend those cults to their death. In addition disaffected conservatives have been known to assassinate civil rights leaders, and even Presidents. What may be headed our way is not just a return to power but we may become target practice for unhappy campers who blame liberals even when they’re out of power. What do you think?

How long after our troops return before they become despised by the conservatives who heaped loads of indignations upon them from the get go? Deploying them in insufficient numbers, under arming them, providing them with substandard vehicles, privatizing their supply line, making them degrade prisoners and dehumanizing the people of Iraq in order to be able to do their missions? Then when they did come home they were refused benefits, health care, and disability payments. They were warehoused in Walter Reede and charged $8 a meal on military pay while they were forced to live in squalor.

McCain is claiming only he supports the troops and Republicans in general have BRANDED that expression as some sort of meaningless empty advertising slogan. Aren’t they actually using the GI’s as human shields to protect themselves from their DISGRACEFUL voting records?. Can they be very far from turning on them in public once they do come home all broken and unclean? And will our soldiers be able to keep their rage under control without medical intervention and REAL support?

The next President will have to deal with a really bad economy, a really bad war, really badly injured soldiers and a portion of this Nation who will be seeing black helicopters very soon after the inauguration.

http://blogs.therandirhodesshow.com
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 02:57 PM
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1. Awsome blog
now is the time before winning , a dangerous time indeed .
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:00 PM
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2. I think we should wait until the final verdict is in on this shooter.
I'm not convinced he was sane.

But yes, it's no surprise that the people who advocate violence while in power as a solution to all their problems will turn to violence as the only possible solution when they are powerless. That's why I'm opposed to the death penalty, primarily. When you convince people that killing is the answer, they will apply it to their own questions.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:16 PM
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8. I think he has a good case for insanity
All he has to do is put his home library into evidence; books by hannity, savage and o'reilly.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:20 PM
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10. Yeah, but I mean actuall mental illness.
:)
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:25 PM
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11. Irony
One of his prized books was by Savage suggesting that Liberalism was a mental illness.
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Truth4Justice Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 05:50 PM
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14. Its hate-radio shows like "The Savage Nation" that are responsible for these killings.....
according to these radioheads, everything "liberals" do, think or say is "evil, bad, and insane" this coming from mad-men like Micheal Savage.

Then the "man" has the gall to call his book "liberalism is a mental disease". He should know all about mental diseases, seeing as he is a paranoid freak who belongs in a rubber-room drooling on himself.

This from a self-styled "doctor" (Savage does have a Phd, but he is no physician.) who never served in Vietnam (still haven't figured out how he didn't get drafted, unless it was all that time he spent playing "finger tricks" with children in Polynesia) )or ever donated his time to a charity, but let someone else do some charity work and he wishes harm on them.

Now _who_ is insane?

Its Savage who belongs in a prison cell or an insane asylum for what he has done to stir up the
extremist right-wing gun-tards.

I wouldn't be surprised if the killer of all those Amish girls at school was a listener of that right-wing puke, Micheal Savage!
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DailyGrind51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:32 PM
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12. Doctrinaire anything is a form of insanity.
The oft quoted definition is that "Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different result". People are so rigid in their beliefs that they can't tolerate notions outside their narrow paradigm of consciousness, be they religious, political, ideological, are insane!
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:38 PM
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13. Practicing the clarinet is insanity?
"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different result"

Practicing the clarinet is insanity? :evilgrin:
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Median Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:05 PM
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3. The Cover-up Is That The Shooter Was Totally Into RW Hate Books
If this involved African Americans with a gansta CD, the media would be pushing the idea that music caused the shooting. However, notice that no media outlet is examining whether the RW hate in books by Michael Savage, Hannity and O'Reilly, which were found at the home of the shoorter may have lead to his attack. With writers like Ann Coulter comparing liberal with Nazis, and accusing them of treason, was it not just a matter of time before someone acted on their hate filled rhetoric?
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BanTheGOP Donating Member (596 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:05 PM
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4. The ENTIRE PARTY is dangerous!
I have to admit, I've never understood why the republican party has been allowed to exist. Virtually EVERY one of its positions are crimes against common sense, humanity, and the general good. In my opinion, the republican party should be shut down using RICO statutes, and every officeholder be held in contempt of the American public, their monies seized, property foreclosed to the communities, and in general, they should be banned from the political process.

We have enough diversity in the Democratic, Peace and Freedom, Socialist, Green, and various parties that ensure a rich, progressive exchange of ideas an policies.

When we take over the government, we should do EVERYTHING we can to ensure that NO republican is allowed ANY semblance of implementing their hate-filled rhetoric and policies. DESTROY REPUBLICANS NOW!

And thanks for this site... you guys rock!
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:09 PM
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5. I call them a bunch of sleeper cells. n/t
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:14 PM
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7. No way

In a free society anyone can from any party they want, even shitty ones like the Republican Party. I would never EVER support ANY laws outlawing the Repukes.

Hitler outlawed competing Partys...this is the thinking of a totalitarian. I'm not worried about them. If we can just get equal play on the media, their viewpoints will quickly look bloated and obsolete.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:17 PM
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9. Hell, I'd be happy if the republicans just went back to being
conservatives.

Conservatives I can deal with - it's the neo-nazi neocons who want an American empire supported by US military power, run by the 1% oligarchy, that is the problem.

If there are any conservatives left they'd better fight for their party's soul (what remains of it) or they will go down as the biggest bunch of criminals in American history.

And...
Welcome to DU!
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-08 03:11 PM
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6. Randi Rhodes is all over this on todays show
:hi:
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