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catbyte

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27. I was a babysitter starting when I was 12 for several families & never heard that once.

Reply to Johonny (Reply #16)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 10:32 PM

Dec 2012

Give me a break, please.

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So, Nancy Lanza was a doomsday "prepper" & survivalist: [View all] LeftinOH Dec 2012 OP

I agree fully and got my head bitten off because I feel she is also responsible. we can do it Dec 2012 #1

You got your head bitten off for stating what needs to be stated? LeftinOH Dec 2012 #2

I do too. She is even more responsible IMO from what is known so far. we can do it Dec 2012 #5

AMEN! catbyte Dec 2012 #3

That babysitter's probably been having nightmares the past few days. we can do it Dec 2012 #7

I think that's pretty much the advice of any mother to any babysitter of a 9 year old Johonny Dec 2012 #16

I never said that to a babysitter when my child was nine. xmas74 Dec 2012 #23

I was a babysitter starting when I was 12 for several families & never heard that once. catbyte Dec 2012 #27

She warned the babysitter not to turn her back because Adam could get seriously hurt Catherina Dec 2012 #35

We don't have all the details but some facts suggest themselves..... Swede Atlanta Dec 2012 #4

mental health reteachinwi Dec 2012 #19

The one thing she failed to do was to survive. Some survivalist! Speck Tater Dec 2012 #6

GOP, TeaParty, RW media mainstreamed these views so they became much more widely accepted blm Dec 2012 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author Horse with no Name Dec 2012 #32

Those self-fulfilling prophesies bite Tsiyu Dec 2012 #9

She was getting $250K & change a year in alimony WolverineDG Dec 2012 #10

She was getting $250K per year and was afraid of economic collapse??? How frikkin' crazy Nay Dec 2012 #30

Has anyone heard this from anyone other than this one aunt? X_Digger Dec 2012 #11

The single source comments do not agree with other data points ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #20

There's also a lot of thinly veiled racism in the prepper movement Nevernose Dec 2012 #12

I think you've keyed into the basic "mental health" issue.... AntiFascist Dec 2012 #17

I agree - the mother "was" responsible quiche Dec 2012 #13

"Normal" people don't stockpile food unless for a winter storm? Huh. uppityperson Dec 2012 #14

What we think of as a stockpile and what the xmas74 Dec 2012 #24

Its not much of a stockpile and it is not what a typical hardcore prepper would have ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #21

Notice the careful phrasing: "hardcore prepper". Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #26

What adjective would you prefer? ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #31

She wasn't very bright, that's for sure nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #15

Be ready to recant these words. Separation Dec 2012 #18

I heard some of that as well ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #22

This stinks to high heaven. mizz pibb. Dec 2012 #25

Actually some of it is understandable and IMO its mostly ignorance, not malice ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #33

One of her neighbors said she didn't trust the government. I guess that would mean inparticular Raine Dec 2012 #28

My girlfriend's husband doesn't trust the government womanofthehills Dec 2012 #29

all these nuts do not fall far from the crazy trees it seems........... lunasun Dec 2012 #34