Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Congress woman Gabby Giifords has been shot.

Tell me, exactly what right wing republican would call "Mein Kampf," the "Communist Manifesto," "Animal Farm" and "Brave New World." their favorite reads? Those are books about socialism and complete government control.

You're absolutely right. We always--almost always--get to be the good guys, and the COs have to be the bad guys. Occasionally we see or discover something unsavory about a prisoner, but more often our experience of them is all good and no bad. We get that.


Expert what?

Certainly I have never represented myself to be an expert CO: I'm no kind of CO. I couldn't do what you do.

However, it's just as true that because you do what you do and know what you know, you could never do what I do.

We'll both get more productive work done if we each hold off a bit on running the other guy down and concentrate on the work that has been vouchsafed us.

And incidentally, I have no idea whether you're a hardass thug. Some COs are; some are pretty much regular folks; and a very few have such a gift for the job that everybody loves them, from the prisoners to the volunteers to the other COs clear on up to the warden. I've met two such in my twenty-some years of volunteering. As far as I know now, you could be in any of those categories.

Never read Mein Kampf or The Communist Manifesto, but have read Animal Farm and Brave New World. Clearly seemed like warnings of the left (communist) future, to me.

But then I don't think of myself as a left leaning schizophrenic and that might have warped my view if I was.

From what I heard the Judge was passing by on his way to the Safeway and stopped to take a look. Wrong place at the wrong time.

But, then I suppose that's enough reason for Barak to...

................Hey Barack! Those wounded and killed today regardless of your warped analogy, did not deserve this! Whether you agree politically or disagree, human life is human life.

I notice that your user name happens to be the first name of that big spending marxist, socialist, anti-capitalist, anti free market and growth, anti Constitutionalist azz hole who happens to occupy the White House!!

How appropriate!!!

I don't think a pack of starving dogs would approach that bitch if she had a side of beef hanging from her neck.

As another member pointed out to me in a PM, there's an interesting dynamic going on here.

Lots of folks here believe that the State will eventually push decent folks far enough that violence will become the only viable option, and it's one of the reasons many of us have as many guns as we do.

However, that being said, there does seem to be a surprisingly strong knee-jerk reflex around here to squirt instant sympathy for any State figure or entity that can be successfully portrayed by the State's intellectuals as a victim.

I wonder how those two attitudes will play out when the time comes.

If you wish to address me in a respectful manner I will return the favor, otherwise I shall ignore your insolence.

I have seen dead people not look as bad as that nasty thing.

Dink

Its a damn shame no doubt. call me an idealist but I believe those who step up to become politicians/State Representatives do so with the intent to serve the people and their Country.
She sure as heck didnt deserve this.

The question that now comes to mind is how this guy with a known/documented mental case could have bought a firearm.
With California's 10 day wait/DOJ back round check, I doubt this guy would have been able to buy.

Barak's portrayal of the victims being deserving and the shootings being a rational reaction to today's political environment is beyond astounding... That he is allowed to remain here with his uncomprehendable dialog is more astounding.

Kent

I think the politicians and the media are gonna have a hard time dealing the spin on this one actually. Although she has liberal views on some issues, she supported more border security and was one of the stronger 2nd amendment democrats. In a way, she was the kind of democrat, that the democrats love to hate. The irony is that they will use her anyway to try and push their anti gun law agenda. You can't make this stuff up.

Barack,
The shooter was crazier than a chit house rat. His motivation was born out of his sickness, not his political beliefs.

Brian.

Barak's already painting him as a patriot.

Barak

What would you be thinking right now if your wife had been an innocent bystander and had been killed in a similar incident? Would you just say "Oh well, things like that happen in these times"?

True, but politicians are only politicians.


Not quite. The word sounds very similar in Hebrew and Arabic; it means "lightning." Of course, it looks very different, because Hebrew and Arabic have wildly different alphabets. But when the word is transliterated into English from Hebrew, it's traditionally spelled "barak," and when it's transliterated from Arabic, it's traditionally spelled "barack."

Hence the spelling difference.

But of course I've been using this screen name since long before anyone knew who Barack Obama (or Ehud Barak, for that matter) was.

And if you're seriously comparing me politically to Obama, you need to stick around and read a post or two. The only thing you got right is that I'm anti-Constitutionalist. The rest of it is dead wrong.

Careful, careful--your credibility's all you have on the Internet; if you lose that, you're in bad shape. Here's what I actually said about him:

Of course not.

Me reading what you write doesn't do any good if you don't read what I write.

Anytime you wish to compare my credibility to yours here, feel free to post a survey.