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B T — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 03:14:51 -0000

I think that if we stop it abroad and bring the troops back inside the 50 states, that it would not affect the insanity in America. It is too ingrained and many of those coming home would bring it with them.

Killing is meaningless in America today. You have been brainwashed by every media outlet to accept it as normal. Only when it serves some purpose for the Elite do you hear about it in the news. There averages 90 murders a day in the US, 100 auto deaths, and who knows how many from drugs and other unnatural causes yet you never hear about them. And this is not new. It has been going on for decades. Just putting it into perspective.

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Sundome — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:20:33 -0000

He got 6 weeks in Juvie. I don't know what happened to him later - if he got into more trouble with other crimes. I do know it was supposed to be taken off of his record by the time he was 18. He's probably about 18 now. Oh, and that 6 weeks - by the time the judge decided he'd get 6 weeks, he was let go right away since they applied time served.

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rosemariejackowski — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:38:44 -0000

Gardenernorcal....Thanks, that worked.

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gardenernorcal — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:26:34 -0000

Perhaps they are. I think many times they are.

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gardenernorcal — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:24:39 -0000

Tap the discussion button at the top under the first comment box and select newest.

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gardenernorcal — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:21:44 -0000

Santa definitely wouldn't follow the mold.

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gardenernorcal — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:18:40 -0000

What happened to the killer?

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40degeesSouth — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:55:08 -0000

I'm not sure what your point is here. I think the two-page spread from the newspaper at the top of this thread asks the pertinent question. As for the answer? Can a nation be psychotic? I'm sure people in the rest of the world DO wonder, really, what IS wrong with the USA? Were you in truth a bastion of, a flag-carrier, a model for civil secular democratic society, 'OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people'? If we are what we eat (read, watch, are fed), then surely the diet needs to be examined.
But how can the symbiotic self-serving juggernaut Pentagon/Business/Hollywood/Advertising/Consumerism nightmare be stopped? Or even slowed? I'm sure I don't know.
Successive Australian governments have followed the lead of the US into various war quagmires, past and current. Many of us here are not proud of this, and continue to speak out in protest. Unfortunately we also have duopoly in our political system, Tweedeldum and Tweedeldumber, which makes it difficult. Capitalist/Imperialist running dogs was Mao's description of states like Australia. Perhaps MLK best described the US as "...the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." And that was in 1967. Who knows what he might say today?
One thinks of Imperial Rome, at the apparent height of power just before the dissolution, strutting and fretting abroad spreading 'Pax Romana' among the heathen lesser races (extracting tribute all the while), meantime decaying at the core, corrupt and venal and bloodthirsty with bread and circuses (replaced today by TV?) keeping the mobilus vulgaris occupied.It wasn't safe on the streets there either.
Vulnerable people, saturated in violence, brought up on a diet of 'effective violence' (where the 'good guys' win) are very liable to flip out it seems, cross the line into psychosis, grab hold of the nearest weapon and attack the nearest people, fearful, vengeful, frustrated and angry. Perhaps they are modelling the behaviours they've seen thousands of times in movies, on TV, in those ghastly obscenely violent video games...

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40degeesSouth — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:05:08 -0000

Firstly, 'here' is the etheric cloudspace of the internet, as close as my keyboard, and I've been following threads on this site and others, Znet and Counterpunch to name but two for quite a long time. We're surprisingly literate downunder. As for the devils? The Tasmanian Devil is a rare and wonderful creature, somewhat noisy, and an endangered species, prone to a kind of mouth cancer. There are some disease-free populations though. The Tasman Peninsula (wherein sits Port Arthur, scene of an horrific mass killing of children and adults in 1996, prompting serious gun control in Australia) is one such. That's more information than you really wanted probably...

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rosemariejackowski — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:22:38 -0000

Thanks, Revier...Even the public tax supported library banns some political books. The First Amendment has been suspended.Please read this one.

http://mwcnews.net/focus/po...

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jimmyjgee — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:50:11 -0000

I thought you were going to say Valentine's Day.

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jimmyjgee — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:44:45 -0000

Great that you should find us here all the way from Tasmania.

Have you seen many devils lately?

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jimmyjgee — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:33:42 -0000

My bad.

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RevierBorusse — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:01:20 -0000

An article like this being banned ???
So they, too, think, you hit the nail on the head ?
Unbelievable - its frightening to see, how far-spread fascism is in the US !

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Woodboot — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:43:32 -0000

I seem to remember women burning their bras in public, and young men burning their their draft cards in the streets for all to see.

It's time that the majority of the NRA members follow this fine tradition and do the same with their membership cards.

Michael Moore, are you up to it?

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Arrby — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:05:40 -0000

All I know is that you're supposed to be able to. You have the option of selecting 'newest' or 'oldest' or 'best'. If that doesn't work, then you've got a problem, but not with Disqus. It could be your browser (I've ditched the newest Firefox for an older version.) You have to do a little work sometimes, but then when you've learned how to do this and that you can also help others. And you'll feel good about a job well done.

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rosemariejackowski — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:14:01 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to read it. It is another of my articles that has been banned in Vermont.

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rosemariejackowski — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:58:24 -0000

RDEIANG TIHS IS ESAY BCEASUE THE BIRAN UALSLUY
SEES OLNY FRIST AND LSAT LTETRES.
Why is that?

The Brain and the environment and mental illness and
rage.... flouride, EMFs, mercury, drugs, dental fillings, X-rays,
etc. What's the connection?

Last week there were important Hearings in Congress
about the cause of Autism. Many scientists gave very impressive testimony against Thimerosol. Graphics were shown showing the effect of mercury on the brain. The hearings can been seen on C-span archives.

Here is a link to another opinion... maybe conflict of
interest in the article????

http://www.medpagetoday.com...

Why is it that most mass murders are committed by males?
(Mad Albright and Hillary Clinton are among the exceptions.)

Why are those with Down Syndrome usually so loveable and non-violent?

Maybe the bottom line is, we just don't have the
answers. The Jury is out (and not expected back anytime
soon).

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rosemariejackowski — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:49:41 -0000

How do I get the 'newest' first???? In the past I could. Can't any more????

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Arrby — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:27:01 -0000

Well, Disqus, solely from a user's standpoint, isn't bad. I've gotten quite used to it (and keep a Disqus link in my bookmarks toolbar for easy, quick access to my multiple discussions). When I didn't like something, I squawked loudly, hoping they'd hear. I try never to squawk in isolation. Use group pressure. If others see you're going through what they are going through (but saying nothing to anyone about), then you give them the power to speak up and suddenly there's pressure where there was none.

I don't know about the company. It's early days. Remember Google?

This commenting feature is actually pretty user friendly. You'll see little buttons and whatnot at the top of every Disqus powered discussion. You can choose, easily, to have the discussion appear with the oldest comments first (my pref) or best (my ego just counts 'likes' on my individual posts rather than 'best' - which is a feature I can live without actually - but I focus on good composition and trying to know what I'm talking about more, likes or no likes). You can choose to have it appear with the 'best' on top or 'newest'. Always read your screen. Granted, geeks can sometimes be antisocial and present us with overly mystifying products in order to make us look stupid ("You don't know that? We do!") I don't have a cure for geekism. And I'm reduced to calling myself a geek when it comes to indie coffee because anything else (expert, connoisseur) sounds pretentious. ;-)

Always read your screen when in doubt. It's work and when your anxious to just function, it can be a pain, but the answer's often right there in front of you.

By the way, So far I have found the Disqus people to be not bad. The one time I emailed them to comlain about something, they promptly responded. They do have a help section, which I linked to in my bookmarks toolbar, but haven't needed since. Hope I was helpful. Good luck. http://help.disqus.com/

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jrp1900 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:04:11 -0000

You are coming perilously close to blaming the victims..

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rosemariejackowski — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:59:59 -0000

Can anyone explain Discus??? Who owns it????
Is there a way to have comments displayed in simple chronological order? I often miss some good ones becasue they quickly are put way, way down in the scroll.
I would prefer to have no 'like ranking system'.... seems too much like high school.

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azy thos — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:58:02 -0000

You point at the gun ad, and you neglect to mention the crocodile-teary picture of the greatest mass killer of them all, i.e. President Obama on behalf of the US. Today we had, yet again, news 9 kids killed by the murderer-in-chief that you campaigned so hard to elect. And all you can point to is some gun peddlers?

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Lorenzo LaRue — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:47:46 -0000

Guns are an absolute waste of time, lives and resources. Screw guns and the horse they rode in on.

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Atomsk — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:02:31 -0000

The only way to curb "car violence", meaning its worst forms, not just when they're hitting people, is to give them up completely. And trying to curb car violence? Ridiculous. Think about trying to tell that to people living fifty or a hundred years from now.