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Welcome back, AA. Maybe I

Michael Maiello — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:52:41 +0000

In reply to Oh my, I just hafta break my

Welcome back, AA. Maybe I have become cranky somewhere between Hebdo and this. I'll get over it. Consider it a more emotive response.

With all due respect to my

jollyroger — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:08:33 +0000

In reply to Oh my, I just hafta break my

With all due respect to my fellow Daggers, the discourse is pleased to announce its immanent elevation. Happy (and relieved).

If the latest reports about

Peter — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:57:12 +0000

In reply to Florida Shootings -- Stop Missing the Point

If the latest reports about this murderer are accurate all this hand wringing about tolerance, homophobia, religion and the IS may be misplaced. This tragedy appears to have been gay on gay violence with this guy actively seeking gay partners and visiting this club before.

Welcome back, AA! Maybe you

Michael Wolraich — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:09:51 +0000

In reply to Oh my, I just hafta break my

Welcome back, AA! Maybe you can whip Maiello back into shape. He's pretty far gone.

PS We've had our share of horse-race meltdowns, but it's cooling off I think

I just caught this at TPM;

Richard Day — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:34:35 +0000

In reply to Florida Shootings -- Stop Missing the Point

I just caught this at TPM;

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/roger-jimenez-steven-anderson-pastors-praise-orlando

Then it hit me.

I mean there must be Trumpeters who are happy that radical Islamists are killing gay folks.

Then we all catch T-Rump blaming Obama for the terrorism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/13/donald-trump-suggests-president-obama-was-involved-with-orlando-shooting/?tid=pm_politics_pop_b

Of course my President is not born of this country and is secretly a Muslim.

And of course, my President is secretly working with Jihadists.

I still believe that the KKK, the organization that backs T-Rump, must love the idea of Jihadists killing gays?

We cannot do anything about religion. We really cannot.

But we could do something about military weapons available to any psycho who decides that God or Allah or aliens are telling him that his enemies must be destroyed?

This is a really strange year.

I'm just glad you're OK, I

Bruce Levine — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:12:59 +0000

In reply to Oh my, I just hafta break my

I'm just glad you're OK, I hope. Forgive me for never being able to escape the fact that behind every avatar is a person (or a bot but you know what I mean).

Welcome back. I really missed

Oxy Mora — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 02:50:33 +0000

In reply to Oh my, I just hafta break my

Welcome back. I really missed your participation. Hope all is well.

Oh my, I just hafta break my

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 02:23:28 +0000

In reply to Florida Shootings -- Stop Missing the Point

Oh my, I just hafta break my lengthy hiatus to say: who brainwashed Maiello while I was gone?!

He has turned into a E.U. style cultural policeman? Doncha believe in first amendment hate speech as a safety valve anymore? Freedom of religion? With rule of law to punish those who take hate speech into action or try to insert religion into gummint? (The latter the goal of ISIS sympathizers, BTW.)

Personal note: nice to see who is participating on the comment thread here and that there is no TPMCafe-style horse-race meltdown going on because there's a presidential race. No doubt due partly to Wolraich's moderating skills. No I don't wanna talk about why I was away. Yes, I had to give up being a news junkie for a couple years.

No one (almost no one)

Michael Maiello — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 22:56:06 +0000

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No one (almost no one) tolerates murdering gay people in this country.

Yes, of course. But we do give undue space to religious-based objections to other people's sexual lives. People get a bit of a pass for their religion-based intolerances.

We need to stop tolerating

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:04:00 +0000

In reply to Florida Shootings -- Stop Missing the Point

We need to stop tolerating intolerance.

Yep

That, not the NRA is the real issue at hand.

Mmm, not sure about that. There are many examples of Americans tolerating intolerance, I just don't think this is one of them. No one (almost no one) tolerates murdering gay people in this country. And no matter how tolerant we become as a nation, we will never completely eliminate deranged extremists who want to kill people.