Cartoon event in Texas - gunmen killed!

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by nailer

I was just thinking that and am wondering if they weren't all hyped up on some shit to give them the false courage a person would need to do such a thing.

I guess religion really is an opiate.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by nailer

Anyone else notice what a good shot that Garland cop is?

Radio just told me that SWAT bullets played a role in the takedown.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Huh? Don't get the reference, could you be plain?

OK...plain enough?

Originally Posted by merrylander

Don't worry about it Bob, John and DQ have become the arbiters of all posts and sadly seem unable to keep their noses out of anything.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by nailer

They say you're guaranteed to get lucky during a second stay at band camp.

Dude, over the nine years that I have been posting on various internet political forums I have been to band camp so many times that I've lost count.

[HarmanKardon]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Pretty ridiculous comment in this context. Suggesting that American "conservatives think killing people is a great solution to anything" in a thread about Muslim fanatics shooting up a cartoon convention. Here I'll pick just one of thousands of Islamist terrorist attacks...ISIS lopping off 15 innocent heads on a beach in Libya. That alone beats the pants off any random conservative killing I've heard of.

I suppose that don stumbled into the generalization trap. That happened once to me in this forum as well but now I'm trying to avoid it.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Dude, over the nine years that I have been posting on various internet political forums I have been to band camp so many times that I've lost count.

Being pretty much apolitical blues here, I'm fairly certain my first political forum will be my last. It's calmed down a lot around here since I unknowingly dove headfirst into the maelstrom PC was at that moment.

[HarmanKardon]

Come on folks - American Conservatives - okay, there are incredible sick creatures amongst them for sure.

One of my best friends at AK is a very conservative American. He hates Obama fanatically. He is a practising Catholic. Hey, that is hard stuff for me. Anyway - he really likes me so he is not very xenophobic, which is untypical for a conservative American. His knowledge about turntables is huge, his knowledge about Jazz and Soul is impressive. He sent countless private pictures of his garden, family etc. and so he shares with me daily American way of life. In the last years he sent about 200 private messages to me, and I sent about the same number back. We even sent nonvirtual gifts to each other via airmail.

The majoriy of American Conservatives may be unbearable, but I think there are quite a lot of people amongst them like my AK friend anyway.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

OK...plain enough?

Fine, you and Rob both don't like what I have to say sometimes, and make unflattering characterizations in response. Was there anything further you want me to know?

(I thought that was a really neat pic of the leaping lemur, taken as a thing in itself. I used it a bit sarcastically, but i hope you dug the beauty of it nonetheless.)

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

I suppose that don stumbled into the generalization trap. That happened once to me in this forum as well but now I'm trying to avoid it.

Amend my observation to 'many conservatives often think killing people is a great solution to anything.' Yes, my 'conservative death wish' is a generalization, but it's not based on my imagination. Wassillaguy's comment is only the latest in many many examples seen online. The attitude often comes out in discussions of the death penalty; many conservatives rather frankly lust for the deaths of certain wrongdoers, and think there is something wrong with anyone who doesn't. And I do think that setting-up a death-trap and baiting violent Muslims into it is this very attitude, taken past talk and into action.

As a generalization, it's a thing that seems typical, but I don't mean to suggest universal--or that non-conservatives are in all cases immune or anything. But you yourself say that your non-xenophobic conservative friend is 'untypical.'

[nailer]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Come on folks - American Conservatives - okay, there are incredible sick creatures amongst them for sure.

One of my best friends at AK is a very conservative American. He hates Obama fanatically. He is a practising Catholic. Hey, that is hard stuff for me. Anyway - he really likes me so he is not very xenophobic, which is untypical for a conservative American. His knowledge about turntables is huge, his knowledge about Jazz and Soul is impressive. He sent countless private pictures of his garden, family etc. and so he shares with me daily American way of life. In the last years he sent about 200 private messages to me, and I sent about the same number back. We even sent nonvirtual gifts to each other via airmail.

The majoriy of American Conservatives may be unbearable, but I think there are quite a lot of people amongst them like my AK friend anyway.

Bravo, well said.

BTW, I experienced half of Haydn's String Quartets Opus 20 for the first time tonight and am looking forward to hearing the other tomorrow. I want to say I was in a state of blissful contentment at the end, but this is inadequate.