Amy Davidson begins: "On the Island of Utoya, seven girls came to talk to Gro Harlem Brundtland, who, in 1981, when she was forty-two, had become Norway's first female Prime Minister. This was last Friday, just before the shooting started ..."
A woman mourns in Sundvollen, close to Utoya island, 07/26/11. (photo: AP)
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At the risk of being misunderstood, it is in a sense sad that people like Glen Beck tend to inspire "lone gunmen" rather than attract them. If the latter was true, the problem would long since have taken care of itself.
There's nothing to respect, let alone admire in these ass-kissing, water-carrying, poll-driven racketeers, who vote like hogs at a trough on corrupt bills written and interpreted for them by lobbyists, the same deep pockets that pay for their weasley campaigns and secret perks-dining at upscale restaurants, golf trips, "junkets", resort vacations, "consulting fees" for wives-make empty speeches to an empty chamber after hours, stand behind their "leadership" like lawn jockeys during press conferences, and never, never say anything that isn't scripted, glued to daily talking points, and then run through a PR scrubbing operation before being OK'd for public consumption. The whole thing makes any reasonably intelligent person want to switch to Turner Classic Movies.
But sure, it's just fine to send kids to political camp.
Beck is just an opportunist making a buck from people's fears and prejudice. His politics are probably for sale to the highest bidder and so far the fascists have been the highest bidders for Beck's services and he has no qualms about taking their money.
I spent some time in the 1970's with the religious right that Michele Bachmann came from. Now one has to be a Republican to be a Christian. The message of Jesus is passe...replaced by right wing extreemism with a message that contains no peace, hope or love.
I would prefer to completely ignore Glenn Beck and his ilk, but these people are now encroaching on international relations in addition to U.S. pot stirring. Civilized people should now speak out against this barbaric media.
No Beck didn't defecate on innocent people. He defecated only on himself.
We put our nose into others lives. It is not a time for judgement but sorrow. GOP have no hearts so how would they understand the needs of the families and friends anywhere.
I look at Youth Camps and Shudder too many are very Hitler oriented. Children should be allowed to be children, being an adult comes soon enough and not for the better
The Dems had a majority after the 2008 election, and we were just as thrilled and hopeful as all of you must have been about Obama and the new Congress...now, I haven't been this disappointed since JFK and RFK were murdered. The gap between Obama's campaign rhetoric and his serial capitulations in office, especially when he had the Congress, is at best embittering.
The GOP has morphed into a bonafied cult that controls the Speaker of the House, the RNC (that drone Preibus running the RNC is a Tea Party zombie) and most of the MSM. Progressive actions are no longer given news coverage, as if they aren't happening.
I've done my thing; now it's your turn. If you're so committed, neutralize these Tea Party neo-Nazis, or at least drive them back under the rocks they came out from, and I'll get off my ass and stop "whining".
When important issues and votes come up, they will click and inform us to get on the phones to our representatives and MAKE them vote with us........IT NEVER HAPPENED???
I was so dissappointed, and when the disgusting summer of the ugly townhall??? meetings wore on with all the STUPID people talking about killing grandma holding signs saying KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE??? I was devastated..
The republicans now are preparing to not only kill grandma, but the entire middle class and poor people.
A POX ON THEM AND THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS
I would NEVER mention the Bible and Glen Beck in the same sentence. He is an EVIL LITTLE MAN, who has seduced a group of followers, who were already boiling on the inside with what he's fomenting over the airwaves, and scripting with his "lying literature," that HE believes are documents of truth. Anyone who has thoroughly studied and familiarized themselves with the Bible, would know that if the Jesus describe in it WOULD NOT be in step with these extremists like the RIGHT WING, TEA PARTY, and the other NUT CASES who try to paralell their pathetic lives with. In fact, these people would (if he were walking the earth today), would CRUCIFY HIM ALL OVER AGAIN, WITHOUT RESERVATION. He would not be compliant with "their agenda." of hatred fearmongering, theft, oppression, world division, and dictatorship. These are the SAME "indoctrination camps" they claim to "be afraid" that the government is setting up.
Tom Walsh
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