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To: zax who wrote (903767)	11/30/2015 9:19:47 AM
From: Land Shark	1 Recommendation Recommended By zax Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575119

Carly Fiona has blood on her hands for sure.

To: zax who wrote (903767)	11/30/2015 9:44:04 AM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Recommended By Bill FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575119

"No More Baby Parts" killer clearly inspired by right wing hate mongering lies Ooops....what lies? PP was caught red-handed selling baby parts in violation of federal law. Its on videotape...

To: zax who wrote (903767)	11/30/2015 9:46:33 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1575119

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign will get a boost from billionaire investor Warren Buffett next month. Clinton will campaign in Omaha, Neb., on Dec. 16 with the help of Buffett, the Omaha-based investor. The Omaha World-Herald writes the visit by the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination is an effort to organize grassroots support before the state’s Democratic caucuses. Clinton is expected to talk about tax reform with Buffett, one of her outspoken supporters. Nebraska Democrats hold presidential caucuses on March 5. Rove opens Rolodex for Carson: Republican strategist Karl Rove helped set up a meeting between top fundraisers for GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson and casino mogul Steve Wynn, Bloomberg reports. Rove told Bloomberg he acted as a go-between for the Carson camp and Wynn, who sometimes competes in business with Donald Trump, the rival Carson has been battling for the GOP nomination. Rove said he introduced the parties but did not attend the meeting. Trump scraps endorsement event: Trump, meanwhile, has canceled a press conference in which his campaign said he would be endorsed by as many as 100 black evangelical religious leaders. The Associated Press writes many of those invited to the event said they had no intention of endorsing the billionaire businessman. A Trump spokeswoman said the candidate would still hold a private meeting with the group Monday.

To: zax who wrote (903767)	11/30/2015 11:58:41 AM
From: jlallen	4 Recommendations Recommended By Bill FJB robert a belfer TideGlider Respond to of 1575119

The On-Again, Off-Again Arguments about ‘Dangerous Rhetoric’ Leading to Violence Morning Jolt... with Jim Geraghty November 30, 2015 Let me get this straight. In the eyes of the Left . . . . . . criticism of Planned Parenthood means something like the shooting in Colorado “ was bound to happen“ . . . . . . but chants where people describe police as “pigs” and call for them to be “fried like bacon” don’t lead to attacks on police . . . . . . when an event by Pamela Geller is targeted by an Islamist shooter, it is “not really about free speech; it [is] an exercise in bigotry and hatred” and the attempt to kill her means she has “achieved her provocative goal” . . . . . . while at the same time, investigators contend we may never know what motivated a 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez to kill four Marines and a sailor in an attack on Chattanooga’s U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center last July . . . . . a shooting by a diagnosed schizophrenic, who believed that grammar was part of a vast, government-directed mind control effort, is characterized by the Southern Poverty law Center as having views that are the “ hallmark of the far right and the militia movement” . . . . . . while the shooter who opened fire in the lobby of the Family Research Council in downtown Washington in 2012, who planned to target the Traditional Values Coalition next, does not spur any need for a broader discussion or societal lessons about the demonization of political opponents . . . . . . a California killer, who was treated by multiple therapists and already had police checking on him after posting disturbing YouTube videos, is a reflection of “ sexist society” . . . . . . but there’s little reason to ask whether the Oregon shooter’s decision to target Christians reflects a broader, societal hostility to Christians, or whether it reflects his personal allegiance to demons . . . . . . when white supremacist Dylann Roof commits an act of mass murder in an African-American church, Salon declares, “White America is complicit” and the Washington Post runs a column declaring, “99 percent of southern whites will never go into a church, sit down with people and then massacre them. But that 99 percent is responsible for the one who does” . . . . . . but the Roanoke shooter’s endless sense of grievance and perceptions of racism and homophobia in all of his coworkers represents him and him alone . . . Do I have all that right? And does that make sense to anyone? Wouldn’t Occam’s Razor suggest that those already driven by a desire or compulsion to kill other people are going to do so, and will merely latch on to whatever “reason,” justification, or excuse is at hand or is most convenient? Isn’t it ridiculous to expect sane people to watch what they say and restrict what thoughts they express in order to prevent a rampage by someone with an inherently illogical, literally unreasonable, not-sane thinking process? Isn’t “don’t say what you think, because it might set off a crazy person” the most insidious form of censorship, because none of us can really know what prompts a crazy person to go on a violent rampage?

To: zax who wrote (903767)	11/30/2015 12:00:04 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575119

How do you explain she declared herself a woman when she registered to vote? I suspect it was a menopause furled fit of rage.

To: zax who wrote (903767)	11/30/2015 12:22:16 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575119

Interesting family background of the Colorado Springs shooter By Rosslyn Smith . Many outlets have been saying the Colorado Springs shooter was from Western North Carolina, where I live. Since I have been active in the local prolife community, this bothered me. So I did a little snooping on-line. I found that Dear does own property in Buncombe County (Asheville) though he lists his address on the property records for both parcels as South Carolina. The properties are low end. He also appears to have a residence in unincorporated Hartsel, Colorado and was registered to vote there as an unaffiliated voter. I'd say that makes him a Colorado resident. He never registered to vote in North Carolina. Since Dear doesn't seem to have held a regular job, one has to wonder how he paid his bills. Property taxes are probably low on those two parcels, but it still takes ready cash. The family is from South Carolina. I have to wonder if the tax bills go to a relative or trustee there. From a professional point of view, he seems to me like the type of person whose inheritance might be put in a spendthrift trust. And I do suspect there might be some money in his family. One report says Dear listed his occupation as a "self employed art dealer." That's not usually an occupation for someone with middle or working class roots. His full name is actually Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. H is namesake was a WWII veteran and Citadel graduate who was employed by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company for 40 years. During that time the family may have relocated for business more than once, as senior's obituary noted he lived in Florida, Kentucky and Missouri before he returned to his native South Carolina for the last 15 years of his life. Senior was a joiner -- a member of the Honorary Order of Kentucky Colonels and the Citadel Brigadiers Club. Poor people don't tend to be invited into such beneficial organizations. The well-to-do are also more likely to clam up whenever a relative brings disgrace to the family name. So far I have not heard a peep from the extended family and all the names were in the easy to find obituary. Unlike his sire, Dear Jr. is said to be a loner. He had no on-line presence anyone has found. He lived in Walterboro, SC for several years, where he was far from unknown to the local authorities because of a variety of incidents -- complaints of domestic violence, animal abuse, peeping tom. From those reports he seems to be a bit of a paranoid crank, quick to take offense at a neighbors while oblivious to when he gave offense. But he was still middle class enough to call the police to assist him from time to time. Once in SC he claimed his motorcycle was damaged by a neighbor. Another time he called in the law in a dispute with a tenant over installment payments on a truck she had purchased from him and then claimed it had disappeared when he tried to repossess it. The appliances also disappeared when the tenant moved out of the place she had rented from him. The lack of job information for a man his age plus these reports that indicate poor judgment/erratic behavior fits the pattern of a child of the upper middle class who may inherit via a spendthrift trust. I suspect the media may quickly lose interest. He probably doesn't fit a convenient narrative for them, as he seems far more mentally ill than politically motivated. The Asheville Citizen Times, which makes the Minneapolis Star-Tribune look almost middle of the road, has found no evidence of any political motivations in Dear. From what I have found so far, Dear looks like a pretty sad figure, the not quite right in the head child who never grew up. He apparently never got along all that well with people even before he dropped out to live off the grid. I have to wonder if his parents never stopped contributing to his upkeep and that when senior was alive junior was kept on a short enough leash to seem respectable. In Walterboro, Dear Jr. had a wife, at least one child and a home in a day trip tourist town known for historic preservation and quaint antique stores/folk art galleries. Then in recent years his life seems to have gone off the tracks. Perhaps the combination of divorce, the death of his father and an economic environment in which those who are too difficult for other people to deal with simply won't find work was the trigger that sent him into an off the grid shack on Black Mountain. A neighbor in North Carolina reported You can tell his personality is just off. The way he looked at you, the way he talked, he just seemed off,” said James Russell, who lives a few hundred feet down the mountain. “If you talked to him, nothing with him was very cognitive — topics all over place.” There is no information so far on why Dear, Jr. moved to Colorado after apparently spending so many years in the Carolinas. It would be funny if legalized pot has something to do with it. [ It would be funny if legal pot DIDN'T have something to do with him moving to CO. ] He does look like quite a few of the badly aging hippies, many of them scions of respectable, affluent families, who get drawn to low cost of living communities in areas around towns like Asheville or Colorado Springs. [ To me, he seems like rat. A squirrelly gun owning downwardly mobile socially estranged loner living in a rundown rural area known for it's legal access to marijuana. ] Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/interesting_family_background_of_the_colorado_springs_shooter.html#ixzz3sz6Q9DGk Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter \| AmericanThinker on Facebook