Both sides should apologize

[Pryderi]

[leftstreet]

1. ...

I know this isn't a time for laughter...but DAMN that's funny

K&R

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. It is always time for laughter

the most inadequate moments are the best... coming from a retired medic... trust me... something like Saturday... WELL AFTER the call and away from Civilians. you can bet some nervous and very inappropriate jokes... critical for stress relief and mental health. I got the studies behind that one... trust me, debriefs after anything like that, are full of very inappropriate jokes. So laugh away, it is good for your mental health.

[tavalon]

24. Yep, those in the medical field are well aware of the inappropriate but necessary

gallows humor.

[MrMickeysMom]

2. Don't forget to include a buckeye removing tweezers...

... You wouldn't want the spray of gunpowder to embarrass the iddow widdy biddy edefant, now would you?

[tomhaverford]

4. Crosshairs

Why is the Palin graphic our #1 go-to example of violent rhetoric?? I don't get it. We have so much dirt on the right, why isn't the left citing it? Just another example of the left's lack of organization. Malkin has a list of lefty violence up and it's getting passed around everywhere. We can't even respond with our own?

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[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Since you asked

http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-democracy-and-freedom/insurrection-timeline

And malkin's list is bullshit by the way...

[Mnemosyne]

8. In case you missed it -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x580967

[scarletwoman]

9. Here you go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=176149&mesg_id=176149

-- July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how "liberals" are "destroying America," walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, killing two churchgoers and wounding four others.

-- October 2008: Two neo-Nazis are arrested in Tennessee in a plot to murder dozens of African-Americans, culminating in the assassination of President Obama.

-- December 2008: A pair of "Patriot" movement radicals -- the father-son team of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, who wanted "to attack the political infrastructure" -- threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.

-- December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear "dirty bomb" in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.

-- January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route to a Jewish community center.

-- February 2009: A Marine named Kody Brittingham is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.

-- April 2009: A white supremacist named Richard Poplawski opens fire on three Pittsburgh police officers who come to his house on a domestic-violence call and kills all three, because he believed President Obama intended to take away the guns of white citizens like himself. Poplawski is currently awaiting trial.

-- April 2009: Another gunman in Okaloosa County, Florida, similarly fearful of Obama's purported gun-grabbing plans, kills two deputies when they come to arrest him in a domestic-violence matter, then is killed himself in a shootout with police.

-- May 2009: A "sovereign citizen" named Scott Roeder walks into a church in Wichita, Kansas, and assassinates abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.

-- June 2009: A Holocaust denier and right-wing tax protester named James Von Brunn opens fire at the Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard.

-- February 2010: An angry tax protester named Joseph Ray Stack flies an airplane into the building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas. (Media are reluctant to label this one "domestic terrorism" too.)

-- March 2010: Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michigan and Ohio are arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.

-- March 2010: An anti-government extremist named John Patrick Bedell walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.

-- May 2010: A "sovereign citizen" from Georgia is arrested in Tennessee and charged with plotting the violent takeover of a local county courthouse.

-- May 2010: A still-unidentified white man walks into a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque and sets it afire, simultaneously setting off a pipe bomb.

-- May 2010: Two "sovereign citizens" named Jerry and Joe Kane gun down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.

-- July 2010: An agitated right-winger and convict named Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.

-- September 2010: A Concord, N.C., man is arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. The man, 26-year--old Justin Carl Moose, referred to himself as the "Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden” in a taped undercover meeting with a federal informant.

Be sure and pass it around!

[kath]

18. please give credit where it is due for that list - it comes from David Neiwert, who

has spent a lot of time tracking right-wing hatred and violence. http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/terror-arizona-just-another-isolated

[scarletwoman]

19. That's why I included the link - it gives the attribution for the list. (nt)

[Raine]

27. THANKS

for posting this, I'm going to print it.

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[tomhaverford]

11. White knight? What?

I want someone on the left to hit back hard without using weak stuff like crosshairs. They can just easily respond with bullseyes of their own. Why is no one mentioning, for example, that death threats on the President are 4x higher for Obama than Bush? That's not worth mentioning?

[Blue-Jay]

12. Oh my! I have apparently drawn the wrong conclusion!

How can I live with myself?

:rofl:

[tomhaverford]

13. Make some sense

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I've seen the CSGV link. We can do better.

[Blue-Jay]

14. How often do you figure that Reagan crapped his pants?

My guess: First term - twice per week. Second term - twice per day.

[bettyellen]

20. what image is more relevant this week to use in this cartoon?

[Petrushka]

23. Here's a link to the most thoughtful and well-written blog entry I've read since the shooting --->

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/01/lets-get-this-straight.html

:kick:

[tavalon]

I think the term Leftist is perjorative

and yet it has been very proliferative around here lately.

[scarletwoman]

28. Well, generally it's rather misused, but when referring to simple binaries,

left and right are okay as shorthand.

In any case, I'm a proud leftist who very much dislikes being mistaken for a liberal, so I guess "perjorative" is in the eye of the beholder. ;)

sw

[BrklynLiberal]

31. +100

[Bluebear]

25. "our" "we"

'Just another example of the left's lack of organization.' :silly:

[Blue-Jay]

6. Also sorry for getting shot:

[pa28]

15. Lol. That's the example I've been thinking of lately.

"I'm sorry. I happened to be in front of your rifle when it discharged and you suffered inconvenience."

In this case "both sides" stands for "B.S."

[Fleshdancer]

21. Holy crap I forgot how bad Cheney f'ed that guy up

He's damn lucky he didn't lose his left eye. Just...wow.

[tavalon]

26. He had a heart attack and a pellet lodged in his heart

He almost died.

[upi402]

16. I'm sorry

that Republicans are twisted freaks who incite the plebes to political assassination.

[Swamp Rat]

17. Yeah, you rite!

:kick:

[Fleshdancer]

22. Thank you for the much needed laugh!

It's posts like this that help keep my blood pressure down. :D

[Kurovski]

29. Kick(nt)

[BrklynLiberal]

30. Aha..the Harry Wittington/Dick Cheney school of logic...