GinandTonic
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Government cannot interfere with freedom of speech, period.
They can and they do, every day. Silly hyperbole is silly.
Government cannot interfere with freedom of speech, period.
According to BBC radio news earlier, Sarah Palin has said the symbols on the map weren't sniper sight crosshairs, but a surveyor's symbol.
So that clears that one up folks.
According to BBC radio news earlier, Sarah Palin has said the symbols on the map weren't sniper sight crosshairs, but a surveyor's symbol.
So that clears that one up folks.
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All that said, this exchange between Palin aide Rebecca Mansour and Palin-supporting radio host Tammy Bruce is completely absurd. Bruce begins by describing the map of SarahPAC's 20 midterm election targets -- members of Congress in districts that went for McCain/Palin in 2008 who voted for health care reform -- and referring to the targets on the map as "surveyor's symbols." Mansour points out that "targeted districts" are part of political parlance -- obviously true -- and says this. (It starts at around 11:40 in the clip.)
MANSOUR: I just want to clarify again, and maybe it wasn't done on the record enough by us when this came out, the graphic, is just, it's basically -- we never, ever, ever intended it to be gunsights. It was simply crosshairs like you see on maps.
BRUCE: Well, it's a surveyor's symbol. It's a surveyor's symbol.
MANSOUR: It's a surveyor's symbol. I just want to say this, Tammy, if I can. This graphic was done, not even done in house -- we had a political graphics professional who did this for us.
This is deeply stupid. Here's the map:
Among the people who gave the impression that these were targets: Sarah Palin. When she announced the list in a tweet, she wrote "don't retreat, instead - RELOAD!" I'm not an expert surveyor, but I'm not sure what sort of tools need reloading. Jonathan Martin points out that after the election, Palin tweeted about her success (18 of the seats went to the GOP) by saying "remember months ago 'bullseye' icon used 2 target the 20 Obamacare-lovin' incumbent seats?" Throughout 2010, when Palin was criticized for the target map, she either didn't respond or mocked the "lamestream media" for interpreting her gun metaphors as calls for violence. At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, for example, she got big applause when she said "Don't retreat, reload -- and that is not a call for violence!" The media wasn't going to force her to stop using the gun line.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/we...ox-targets-on-sarahpac-map-were-actually.aspx
They can and they do, every day. Silly hyperbole is silly.
No, because I never saw reason to think that Hasan was schizophrenic.
C'mon people, schizophrenia is an actual disease. This man's condition is an indictment of our mental health services more than anything.
edit: if he's schizophrenic, which I think is likely.
I had no idea that momma grizzlies were so into math.According to BBC radio news earlier, Sarah Palin has said the symbols on the map weren't sniper sight crosshairs, but a surveyor's symbol.
So that clears that one up folks.
According to BBC radio news earlier, Sarah Palin has said the symbols on the map weren't sniper sight crosshairs, but a surveyor's symbol.
So that clears that one up folks.
So the 'Don't retreat, reload' phrase is just refering to reloading camera film into the surveyor tool?According to BBC radio news earlier, Sarah Palin has said the symbols on the map weren't sniper sight crosshairs, but a surveyor's symbol.
So that clears that one up folks.
According to BBC radio news earlier, Sarah Palin has said the symbols on the map weren't sniper sight crosshairs, but a surveyor's symbol.
So that clears that one up folks.
Thanks!I remember a lot of discussion regarding Hasan's mental health, and some questions being raised as to his supervision. Example.
Kind of a side topic, but is it off base to just go ahead and assume that, generally, folks that go on killing rampages probably suffer from some kind of mental illness?
You strongly imply that it may be the cause. Stop trying to deny what you are alleging here.
In more bad news, our "friends" at the Westboro Baptist Church are going to "attend" the 9 year old's funeral.
Because, as they said "God Sent the Shooter"
Ugh.