On a melancholy Friday, ‘Paint It, Black’

Thank you…and, if I may make a suggestion, folks, let’s remember why we come here on Friday. Despite it all, life is good…it may be hard to remember that, but it is…

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SECOND!

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This one comes to mind…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-cZiu8osE8

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K’chak

Good choice!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRsJlAJvOSM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFU27E1wlE4

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Most of us are sad
No one lets it show
I’ve been shadows of myself
How was I to know?

Tell me scarlet sun
what will time allow?
We have brought our children here
Who can save them now?

Weeping woman try to smile
Like the coming dawn
Most of us are sad it’s true
Still we must go on

Love was here today
Oh the sun was bright
I will sing you faraway
Love is here tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI5dJEjDwHo

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This is an old song which, unfortunately, is all too relevant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLsElbW9Xo

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I was shocked to see Paul McCartney rock out with Nirvana (did not see that coming).

It was a surreal spectacle and the song is pretty good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnI96ILENrg

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Yes Jay, that concert was exhilarating! A night of rock royalty!

Did you catch the unedited Pete Townshend tell the crowd to “have a f&cking beer!” after they ended their set with the song Tea and Theater! And then he told them “You’re doing good work!”

Its only Sandy wasteland…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS1JZOAI-vo

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAbzlj3nf4E

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wDHvmCVRxU

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS91knuzoOA

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TBs, love The Seeker. (I can relate!).

Its not that easy tonight, but let the FNM festivities play on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg7HvF3a_Iw

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A very appropriate song. I was always a Beatles and Moody Blues guy except for this one and a couple of others. Senior year in high school. Wow am I old; but, I’m alive and too many others aren’t as a result of violence.

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Grew our first full head of broccoli would be the correct way to describe it.

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Back at ya, TBs.

Entlewhistle goes dark too…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p0m2E7eQKA

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BOTH
@ 6:31

Great minds…had it pulled up…beat me to it…

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josef

Great selection at 6:32

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVZBio8NJNs

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8lFmsCXhg

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQo6zpVzt8

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1v_7T6p8U

The crowd at the start of this clip will surely give you a few chuckles as you groove on this awesome tune

Everyone have a great night and an even better weekend

Peace out Bookmanites……..

Later

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ZamVet

Well, if we’re going back to that time…saw this one on the sidebar of your @ 6:45…haven’t heard it a long time…I think it was drug related…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QexOuH8GS-Y

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Is it OK to have a little fun?

Watch in full-screen mode.

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Louis Amrstrong Wonderful World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPcgM1MnDnI

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I saw this band at Knebworth…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giiYDlqRQs

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and now for something completely different…don’t know why it came to mind…it just did

from the 47% to the 1%

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqF28gsYHks

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Excellent choice, Mr. Bookman.

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josef – take your 47% ++++ and shove it up your 90% a$% – jackwagon!

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USA

For the love of Pete. t*rd in the punchbowl of a FNM, it was done in JEST…do you know what that is? Jeeze, Louise…lighten up…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsf9rBhPhMU

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Corbin, nice calls. I was too young to really appreciate them.

But not this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2WzocbSd2w

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Corbin, Moonbat

Hello…

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josef,

You are the “evil rich”

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josef

but..but..but…but…but…when I did that, you didn’t thing I was just

“in jest”.

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indigo

When you did what…?

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One of my least favorite Stones songs but I agree that their resiliency is something to behold.

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USA…

Okay, if that’s what you say…whatever floats YOUR boat…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9xD_sdLeHw

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kayaker

I’m convinced they’re the portrait of Dorian Grey on stage….

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I do love getalife’s sense of humor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiiZrZTrOFY

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We demand there be no Christ in our schools and then we’re shocked when we see what fills the void.

Evil is not the opposite of Christ, its the absence of Christ.

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moonbat
@ 9 10

If I had to pick a favorite of his…that would be it…

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rb,

You have no moral compass with your unhinged behavior this last decade so don’t try that gomer plyle bs here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwfMT7hcF-0

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AWESOME Johnny Cash clip.

RB, rather than striking out, perhaps you could deal with this tragedy in a healthier way. Your withering animosity of non-believers does not portray your faith in Jesus in a favorable light. It reminds me of Islamic hatred for infidels and the intolerance of cult leaders.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

Love is the answer.

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Mama told me, when I was young

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYiCjMOipn0

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Well, I’m sorta out of my depth with the Rolling Stones and some of these other folks. Heck, I never even heard of the Beatles till I got into Pearl Harbor on a ship from Guam in 1964. So I’ll just stick with redneck songs, like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmPXH_YRV10

Have a good weekend everybody.

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Well said, jonix.

Back at RC with some post Charlie Rich, psychedelic blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQr-U410JOw

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“It reminds me of Islamic hatred for infidels and the intolerance of cult leaders.”

You are deceived, Jammie. Where the Islamist would have you beheaded for not beleiving, the Christian simply prays for you to believe. If you can’t see the difference in those two, perhaps you have already lost not your head, but your mind.

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What’s up Kam?

One more and I may be done.

No – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK23GQo7q6E

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Perhaps our “leaders” could start setting a better example and show respect for the President Of the United States of America.

I remember after Gifford survived her assassination, they were going to be civil. That lasted about three days.

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@getalife, perhaps this is not a time to think about the President, perhaps…..

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Yes, we must think about how Obama can capitalize.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOnkaZjFHss

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You cheer the killing of a million children every year under the guise of “choice” and feign outrage over the murder of 20????? Your beliefs are seriously inconsistent. Look inside, kammie, and admit that inner voice is in conflict with you.

Too funny!

The first sixteen years of my life was immersed in the Baptist Church.

Three bible study classes a week.
Three worship services a week.
Choir practice twice a week.
A weekend at Rock Eagle choir competition once a year.
Family supper every Wed. night.
RAs (GAs for girls) once a month
Four revivals every year.
Two weeks of bible school at the beginning of every summer.
Another week at my Grandmother’s church in rural east Ga.
Billy Graham’s crusade every time he came to ATL.

The passive/aggressive guilt trip aboard the shame train that you’re tying to book me on has been tried before by far more competent individuals than you.

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“Too funny!”

That’s just plain damn sick. Seek professional help ASAP.

Just damn.

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RB

Your Jesus is looking for LION Christians, not the Lying Christian you know yourself to be….

Live it or leave it but quit being a punk

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It looks like the so-called conservatives are trying to include food stamps, disaster recovery aid for the Northeast USA, union busting in the name of reform (right-to-work) and more attempts at voter restriction, all in the name of “ensuring that there is balance between revenue and expenditures by the Federal government.”

It is breathtaking and stunning that they think people are going to support this, even their supporters.

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shut your face Black Label.

If RB was a Muslim you’d be saying have tolerance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

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Moonbat

You cry much…. You big drunk baby

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“@getalife, perhaps this is not a time to think about the President, perhaps….”

So, stop crying about taking your guns.

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haha get

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOO4VZeH4-g

I could tell ya, but I’d have to kill ya afterward. lol

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oh yeah, get.

hopefully, you can circumvent the bs ads:

rock on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkFqg5wAuFk

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I had other priorities yesterday and couldn’t participate, but Jay, excellent choice.

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As for the 800# gorilla in the room?

Hey, I’ve got an idea. Let’s cry and pray and not actually do anything as a nation about access to weaponry until the next time a score of children are slaughtered, at which time we can cry and pray and not actually do anything as a nation about access to weaponry.

Think that’ll work?

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Stands, I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again. Let’s start answering some prayers of the families of victims of this senseless and take sensible steps to reduce gun violence. We don’t need an act of God, we need acts of law and reason.

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New day — New Dreams and New hopes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jsw_r0hILQ

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Wow, woke up this morning with a huge lump on my head. Must have been where RB beat me up with his Bible. LOL.

For such an enraged and pugnacious guy, his religion sure doesn’t seem to bring him much peace or understanding.

Even at this time of year. Maybe this will help…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg7HvF3a_Iw

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Good morning Jam..

I guess the main reason I don’t believe, I can’t believe, is what happened yesterday in Newtown. What God, if He existed would let that happen to children? What is He anyway? A scorekeeper who shouts GOOOAAALLL! when you do something good, but red cards you when you mess up? Does He hand out “attaboys” when you are good, but gives you an “awsh*t” he you are bad? Does one “awsh*t” wipe out all the “attaboys”? I have Grand Kids and Great Grand Kids the ages of those kids and I can only imagine the pain…

I want a Banner flown asking the NRA and all of these other “Gun Rights” nuts “Are These Kids a Human Sacrifice to the God of the Second Amendment?” It’s time we had a serious talk about assault weapons and semi-automatic hand guns. They make lousy hunting weapons and their only reason for existence is to kill people. It has to stop!

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Funny how it was the navy seals who killed Osama, but it was the guns that killed thes children. You can’t have it both ways, libs.

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Morality,
I think I understand now why you have a question mark behind the word “:morality”. It’s because you have none. You are just a tool for the myth.

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It was Seals with guns that killed OBL, its was a person with a mental issue with a gun that killed those children. The common factor is a gun. The uncommon factor is that one was part of an act of stopping a criminal the other was a criminal act.

So you see, RB, your simple minded misdirection is proven wrong and really was immature and childish. Are you getting these “talking points” from a nursery school?

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The NRA doesn’t put guns in the hands of people. The NRA advocates for the rights of law abiding citizens who own firearms legally. This heinous mass murder at Sandy Hook was committed by a mentally deranged individual with evil in his twisted mind. A blogger yesterday made the observation that these crimes of mass murder are committed by people with mental issues. An examination of our mental health systems would be the place to start in order to minimize if not eliminate the mass murder of innocent people and in particular children. People with various mental issues need to identified and included in the data bases of people who should not be allowed to purchase or possess firearms. Banning weapons or onerous gun control laws isn’t the answer to this problem. This tragedy yesterday was perpetrated in a state with some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Georgia is among the states where firearms can be easily purchased so long as one can pass the criminal background check and to the best of my knowledge we haven’t had incidents on the order of Columbine or Sandy Hook. The problem is possession of guns by criminals and mentally unbalanced individuals not gun generally.

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Good morning brother Corbin.

As the irreverent but wonderful George Carlin observed:

Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of sh*t you’d expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

No woman could or would ever f*ck things up like this. So, if there is a God, I think most reasonable people might agree that he’s at least incompetent, and maybe, just maybe, doesn’t give a sh*t. Which I admire in a person, and which would explain a lot of these bad results.

I can’t even imagine the horror for those parents and families in Connecticut. And I refuse to take some prurient interest in their suffering. So I will avoid any and all stories about this incident for some time. Until my soul can bear such a load.

It breaks my heart that one well armed deviant can cause so much destruction.

But as a nation addicted to violence and destruction this is our tragic legacy.

There’s a life full of pain and a life full of glee
So you see that the rain doesn’t mean much to me
For I know that it pays making light
of living’s tragedies
Make your days be as bright
Take a few of these, the sweeter memories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvoweUS2lDA

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Well Morality, so far I have not seen your God stop any bullets or save these children. My understanding is that God gives man a brain with a power to act. So, unlike you, I will use a God-given brain and act with laws and with government to take sensible acts. Please stop posting idiotic buffoonery on a serious subject unless you can actually say something to contribute.

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Keep: Spouting off that somehow this was because God has been removed from our schools is not only a misdirection and fails to account for so much, but it gives his poor simple mind an “answer”. It works for him but it does not address reality.

Word. Case in point, is this “comeback” by RB –

RB: Funny how it was the navy seals who killed Osama, but it was the guns that killed thes children. You can’t have it both ways, libs.

Simple minds indeed.

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People kill people ……….. that gun did not kill anyone. A person pulled the trigger. People on drugs kill people. Why don’t you put the blame where it belongs instead of blaming God and guns? Your belief system is warped and misguided. That is because you worship the gub’ment instead of the real creator – God.

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No Recon,
The problem with guns is that there are too many of the wrong type of weapon out there and that they have no “waiting period” for the insane.

Assault weapons have no place in a civilian environment.

I have decided that I will support, contribute to, and walk door to door if I have to, to get assault weapons out of our lives once and for all. This kind of tragedy has to stop. All you “Christians”, should be all over that…peace lovers that you are.

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“I have decided that I will support, contribute to, and walk door to door if I have to, to get assault weapons out of our lives once and for all”

and why the vendetta agains a type of gun that wasn’t even used yestereday? That’s the same kind of mindset that attacks Iraq because we were attacked by Saudi Arab citizens. Any vengence is “good” vengence…even when it has nothing to do with the actual crime.

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No Morality?…YOUR belief system is misguided. Can’t you see that if there were no guns, there would be no trigger to pull? You are a hypocrite.

Someone mentioned yesterday about the incident in China with the guy who slashed 22 children with a knife. Don’t you think that if Mr Adam Lanza had only a knife, someone would have taken the little twerp down? It was the guns he carried that made him “brave”.

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People kill people ……….. that gun did not kill anyone

Guns don’t kill people.

People WITH guns kill people.

BAN PEOPLE!!

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People on drugs kill people.

Yes, including the god drug.

Fortunately, we have relegated most of them to being little more than televangelist carnival barkers in their circus of the demented.

Corbin, you may want to get involved with this organization. There is an amazing woman (again, apparently because most of our “men” are just boys) who runs it…

http://www.csgv.org/

I suspect that they are going to be a the fore of effectively dealing with nightmares like this one…

(Or you could just beat people over the head with a Bible in lieu of actually doing something constructive! LOL…)

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Doggone,
If I could I’d take away every kind of gun out here, but assault weapons are a scourge fit only for the military.
And the report I saw was he carried two semi-automatic hand guns and an “Assault type rifle”.

This is very personal to me for various reasons, one being that I have relatives up there and another is I know of two incidences where children were shot down in Viet Nam. That has stayed with me for all these years and yesterday ripped off the scabs. It has to stop.

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“People on drugs kill people – yet you are alright with legalized drugs and you voted for the Croak -caine Prez”

so do people on alcohol…shall we try banning alcohol? Again? Because that worked out SO well that last time.

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I don’t beat anyone over the head with The Bible – you are the one beating people over the head with your opinions. If you don’t want to believe then God isn’t beating you over the head to believe….. He gives you free will to decide to invite Him in or out. No one beat you over the head to believe so don’t beat us over the head to not believe. Your opinion is just an opinion – not a fact.

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Keep,

I’m familiar with Perimeter Mall I was referring to shootings in schools where public outrage gets much greater coverage because it involves innocent children. The NRA has advocated for a national data base that’s well maintained and includes the groups you mentioned. Of course we need sensible laws but we don’t need restrictions on firearms or accessories such as magazine capacity or ammunition etc. Such restrictions would only create underground trafficing of these items. We haven’t been able to control illegal drugs or once upon a time alcohol, so we would only have the same problem with firearms and related products.

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“And the report I saw was he carried two semi-automatic hand guns and an “Assault type rifle”.”

And the report *I* saw said the rifle was found in the CAR.

“If I could I’d take away every kind of gun out here, but assault weapons are a scourge fit only for the military”

And you are letting your personal emotions get in the way of the way of your reasoning ability. You sound just like Filch in Harry Potter after his cat was petrified. “I want so see some PUNISHMENT” Filch didn’t care WHO was punished, and neither do you. You just want to see some PUNISHMENT.

Did you call for all rental trucks to be banned after the Murrough Building was blown up by a truck bomb?

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Morality: If he is invited out don’t blame him for not being there. Blame yourself and the politicians you elected to censor God.

Here’s thought — What if it was the DEVIL who made these things happen and NOT God? What if the DEVIL influenced all of these killings lately and they had, and this is the radical point here, “absolutely nothing to do with God!”

The bible speaks of The End Of Times, and the Devil, who knows his time is short, is trying to take as many down with him as he can?

Revelation 12:12 : But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.”

The bible speaks of the devil being like a roaring lion seeking to destroy all in his path:

<1 Peter 5:8: Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

We always want to blame GOD when things go wrong, but if you look closely those that do that are following the DEVIL’s plan. We’re blaming God and absolving the devil of his actions.

God had nothing to do with what happened yesterday — give the blame to whom it belongs.
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Corbin: It was the guns he carried that made him “brave”

The most astute point yet. Thanks.

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War on drugs has not worked. War on guns will not work.
Concentrate on police protection for the vulnerable first, then
the public. Metal detectors, i.d.s, and profiling.

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“We always want to blame GOD when things go wrong”

That’s not quite what I see. Mostly what I see is blaming God for not preventing it…not for causing it.

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“No, it was his depraved mental condition and the evil in his mind”

And “bravery” – with or without quote – has nothing to do with it. Desperate people are not brave. They don’t need to be, they have desperation in it’s place. And it doesn’t matter if their desperation in non-sensical to sane people…they are still desperate.

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“No Morality?…YOUR belief system is misguided. Can’t you see that if there were no guns, there would be no trigger to pull? You are a hypocrite.”

Exactly, because before guns were invented, nobody was ever killed. It just started with that gun thing.

And where exactly did God promise there would be no death and misery on this earth? Where did he promise he wouldn’t take children home before adulthood?

You sit here demanding gun control out of one side of your mouth because 20 children died while you demand millions be allowed to die through abortions out the other. Talk about hypocrite…

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Again – for God to prevent an event in your life He has to be IN your life. The Bible says there will be trials and tribulations. Why hasn’t your precious gub’ment prevented this tragedy? The reality is that the gub’ment isn’t going to save you. That’s why I have a gun in my house – ’cause those drug addicts that the gub’ment won’t/ can’t control are going DOOR TO DOOR.

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Deranged so-called Christians like the ones here do crack me up. I remember as a boy, when their stranglehold on this country went virtually unchallenged.

Thank god (get it?), we changed all of that.

They just need another good old fashioned genocide to make them feel happy again!

Oh father high in heaven – smile down upon your son
whose busy with his money games – his women and his gun.
Oh Jesus save me!
And the unsung Western hero killed an Indian or three
and made his name in Hollywood
to set the white man free.
Oh Jesus save me!
If Jesus saves – well, He’d better save Himself
from the gory glory seekers who use His name in death.
Oh Jesus save me!
I saw him in the city and on the mountains of the moon
His cross was rather bloody
He could hardly roll His stone.
Oh Jesus save me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7jLiXeFm_E

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“I don’t really want to get into religious discourse ”

and then procedes to get into one

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If you don’t want God in your life he won’t be there but the gub’ment ain’t going to get you to heaven.

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Talking morality with M?/Towncrier is a joke.

Might as well talk celibacy with Heidi Fleiss…

People, what have you done?
Locked him in his golden cage, golden cage
Made him bend to your religion
Him resurrected from the grave, from the grave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kmq9uM4Mq0

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“As you know, by ‘over ploughing” the fields, is one of the causes of the Dust Bowl”

As we know NOW. That consequence was not apparent at the time that plow was introduced. It was only AFTER the conditions were studied that it became clear how much it contributed. But it was not the only factor, and one thing I disliked about that series…and I’ve watched it several times – was that it did not also discuss the issue of “clean farming”, which was a significant factor in the Dust Bowl causation also.

At the time, farmers were encouraged to keep their farms “clean” be clearing their fence rows of brush and trees, and to plow their fallow fields before winter to keep weeds from growing. Both of those practices contributed significantly to the ability of the wind to carry topsoil for greater distances. And one of the many things done to alleviate the Dust Bowl conditions was to plant trees, which they DID mention. MILLIONS of trees were planted.

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“I see it’s only acceptable when you do so. Got it.”

Did I say it was unacceptable? No, I didn’t.

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“can auto locks be installed to stop advances from class to class ? you know things that can be done, and quickly”

And that would effectively stop first responders from ALSO getting in quickly. Beware unintended consequences.

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Doggone/GA
And that would effectively stop first responders from ALSO getting in quickly. Beware unintended consequences.
………………………..
and auto responders can’t have auto keys???

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“and auto responders can’t have auto keys???”

Certainly, but then you’re talking about possibly up to hundreds of people having one – depending on the size of the city. The more people who have one, the greater the chances of once being lost or stolen…and used to commit a crime.

Yesterday we heard calls for “sensible” discussions. Well, this is what a sensible discussion looks like. Present your ideas and see if they can be beaten down. Because if someone HERE can think of a way around it, then so can someone determined to commit just such an atrocity as occurred yesterday.

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Morality – 9:15

So your “God of love” allowed little children to be murdered because the Supreme Court and Government, all adults, “invited God out”?

Since there is not a shred of evidence God(Gods) even exist, it would take a delusional religious nut like you to believe such a fantastic tale.

Of course, if you have hard scientific evidence your God actually exists, why haven’t you shared this with all of us so we can be true beleivers?

Give us your hard, irrefutable evidence, if you have any. If not, don’t go away mad, just go away.

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Of course, if you have hard scientific evidence your God actually exists, why haven’t you shared this with all of us so we can be true beleivers?

Uh oh!! I’ve seen INdigo do this before!

It’s a trap! Don’t fall in Morality!!

Danger! Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!!

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Does anyone have proof that God can actually damn America ?

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Morality spoke directly about God being taken out of schools, etc and a link to murder and tragedies..

When asked to reconcile per capita murder rates of 100 years ago (ie the facts) with today’s per capita rates, he ran as fast as he could.

Nothing against your faith Morality, however it would be nice if you were able to back up your posts when provided the facts you left out.

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Lt. Paul Vance of the Connecticut state police said Saturday that the gunman in the mass shooting Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was not voluntarily allowed into the school but forced his way in.

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“They did finally figure out how a bumblebee flies about ten years ago”

Did you know that the Air Force is (or at least was) studying how dragonflies fly…to see if they could use that information to improve manned flight?

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“People in the mental health field can identify people who have, like the shooter, personablity disorders, but they can’t predict who will become violent”

And that is the problem. As I said yesterday, I heard an interview with a psychiatrist about that and he said the millions of people present the same character “tells” but they don’t all turn out to be mass killers.

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The air force should betold that dragonflies fly by flapping their wings
and to go back to protecting the country using planes developed by
airplane manufacturers.

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What kind of idiots want to argue the existence of God on a day like this or any day for that matter?

20 babies loved by 40 parents, countless friends and relatives will never see another sunrise. The community held a vigil at A CHURCH NOT A BLOG.

DISGUSTING!

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The community held a vigil at A CHURCH NOT A BLOG.

DISGUSTING!

Another travel agent with guilt trip tickets for the shame train.

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Tracy
Humans use superstition to deflect fear caused by their vulnerability.
BTW, this is a blog not a church feel free to change locations.

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“Another travel agent with guilt trip tickets for the shame train.”

And I, for one, am not buying what he is selling. We each find solace – if we CAN find solace – in our own way, place and time.

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When God is invited OUT by the gub’ment and “Supreme” Court the schools are void of God. The children in the schools are void of God.

That’s complete bullsh*t of the most impeccable quality. If you are a believer, then God is everywhere. God has not been invited out of nothing. The Supreme Court and the government has simply said that you can’t force your God onto those who don’t believe in him.

As a Christian, I stand in awe at the mass stupidity and misuse of religion by those who supposedly are believers. If you believe, nobody can take that from you, regardless to what the laws or courts say.

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Oscar – “People in the mental health field can identify people who
have, like the shooter, personablity disorders, but they can’t
predict who will become violent.”

Correct. You have no idea how many times A DAY mrsstsimons and
hundreds of others everywhere work frantically to diffuse tortured
minds. She had two incidents yesterday, two squad cars, came
home shaking, in what’s supposed to be the happiest place on earth.
We really have to address and quit ignoring mental health in this
country. That’s all i need to type, i’ve got a 5 yr old.

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also movies and tv..

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The community held a vigil at A CHURCH NOT A BLOG.

DISGUSTING!

Yet, you’re on a BLOG discussing how disgusting that is. Sounds like a serious mental disconnect going on there, Tracy.

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frog

That stuff only affects you if you allow it to.

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I probably shouldn’t be here on the verandah today, but here I am anyway.

Why are we bringing G-d into it? Because we need answers, I would say. Some would blame G-d. Some would reject, not the concept of G-d, but G-d H-mself. Others would seek solace in G-d. And some, alas, would see this as an opportunity to preach their own beliefs or non beliefs, turning a tragedy that affects all of humanity into a pulpit for their own belief or non belief rather than an event which should bring us together in a soul search for order and meaning.

I am a believer. And, yes, this puts that belief to a test of faith. Luckily, I suppose, my own brand allows me the option to be angry at G-d, to question H-m, to demand answers which, we know nonetheless are not coming from H-m on high, but from within ourselves where G-d resides.

It is natural for us to “go there” especially in times like these. And, yes, this is the place to do it. It is a good thing that we have such a venue.

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Because some folks is even whiter than me
Some folks is even blacker than me
I got myself caught in the middle somewhere
And that’s just where I want to be

I’m talking about your outside
Talking bout your inside too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9yB3gAS7o

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I don’t know the exact percentage but I would accept as fact that only a small percentage of the mentally ill are actually prone to become mass murderers. None the less I believe anyone whose being treated for a mental issue or has a history should appear in a data base that prohibits them from purchasing or owning a firearm. Additionally, we need to address the more difficult challenge of identifying those who have mental issues but go untreated. Those suspected of mental illness were once a long time ago reported to mental health treatment centers and could be picked up and detained for observation. Society doesn’t allow that anymore because that practice got so far out of control that anybody could report someone who was perfectly healthy but yet be picked up and detained for observation. While we wouldn’t want to return to those times we have to realize that the system for identifying and assisting those with mental problems has become far too lax.

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