Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby 1911fan on Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:27 pm

Regarding a minor tone I detected. Mentally ill people are not by definition, stupid. Fairly often they are exceptionally bright and quite able to manipulate the system they live in up to a point.

For some the illness strikes their ability to be social, for some it affects their ability to learn, others yet are affected in their whole lives and some can be artistic and creative yet be unable to decerne the difference between good ideas and bad.

So remember that being nuts does not necessarily prevent someone from creating and effecting a solid plan of attack.
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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby hammAR on Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:35 pm

So the Judge says to Mickey, "Sir, I can not find any reason to believe that Minnie is crazy, thus I can not grant your divorce."
Mickey says to the Judge, "I didn't say that she was crazy, I said that she was F***ing Goofy!"................
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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby JoeH on Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:09 pm

hammAR wrote:Well the fact is that in the big wide world out there that there are evil, nasty people that will kill, dismember and torture for a variety of reasons....
call it mental illness, genetics, heredity, religion, cultism, culture, IQ, nature vs nurture, or whatever you want,
but understand that it is there and there is not a damn thing that you can do about it............
except protect yourself and loved ones........


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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby mrp on Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:17 pm

tman wrote:There has been some whining on the Left over Palin's use of crosshairs in some "targeting" ads.

I give you this, which is purported to be from the DNC, circa 2004. Don't hear much about it now..n but those look like BULLSEYES to me.

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You're just seeing what you want to see. If you enhance the image and zoom in, you can clearly see that these are not bullseyes, but rather peacepointers(tm). Not the same thing at all.

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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby tman on Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:32 pm

mrp wrote:
tman wrote:There has been some whining on the Left over Palin's use of crosshairs in some "targeting" ads.

I give you this, which is purported to be from the DNC, circa 2004. Don't hear much about it now..n but those look like BULLSEYES to me.

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You're just seeing what you want to see. If you enhance the image and zoom in, you can clearly see that these are not bullseyes, but rather peacepointers(tm). Not the same thing at all.

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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby hammAR on Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:04 pm

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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby xd ED on Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:10 pm

hammAR wrote:Image

Nice optics :P
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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby hammAR on Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:13 pm

xd ED wrote:Nice optics :P


Yea, it's easy on the eyes.............. ;)
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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby gyrfalcon on Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:30 pm

hammAR wrote:
xd ED wrote:Nice optics :P

Yea, it's easy on the eyes.............. ;)


She just has to make sure the belly jewelry doesn't get caught on the pistol when she draws it mexicano style. :lol:
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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby nyffman on Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:35 am

macphisto wrote:
nyffman wrote:
macphisto wrote:I don't see the names of individual politicians on there; that's very different from Palin's map. Not that I think Palin, Beck, Rush, or anybody else but the shooter is responsible for what happened.
That's very perceptive of you.
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What are you trying to convince me of? I was just sayin' it's kind of a weak comparison.

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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby Pezhead on Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:27 am

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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby Pinnacle on Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:25 am

hammAR wrote:
Pinnacle wrote:Sometimes there is no reason for what happens other than well...............................


Well the fact is that in the big wide world out there that there are evil, nasty people that will kill, dismember and torture for a variety of reasons....
call it mental illness, genetics, heredity, religion, cultism, culture, IQ, nature vs nurture, or whatever you want,
but understand that it is there and there is not a damn thing that you can do about it............
except protect yourself and loved ones........


A tangible reason - people snap, and there is nothing that can be done about it.

Just look out for yourself.
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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby westhope on Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:40 am

She just has to make sure the belly jewelry doesn't get caught on the pistol when she draws it mexicano style.


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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby DeanC on Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:55 am

mrp wrote:You're just seeing what you want to see. If you enhance the image and zoom in, you can clearly see that these are not bullseyes, but rather peacepointers(tm). Not the same thing at all.

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Re: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in AZ

Postby macphisto on Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:24 am

DAMMIT, DEANER, STOP THIS VIOLENT SPEECH NOW!

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