Knoxville, Tenn. police has released a statement that a letter in the car of church shooter Jim D. Adkisson reveals that he targeted the congregation due to its liberal views on civil liberties and women’s and gay rights. Adkisson killed two people at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in the middle of a children’s performance.
Chief Sterling Owen IV said Adkisson had a “stated hatred of the liberal movement.” He is now charged with first-degree murder. Among the complaints against the church was its founding of a chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The children were performing “Annie” when Adkisson decided to kill people in the name of the true faith. According to reports, Greg McKendry, a 60-year-old usher and board member at the church, blocked the killer and was his first victim, click here.
It is simply astonishing that even a demented killer would think that God would want him to mow down Christians who are not sufficiently conservative, including children. Some reports indicate that he had problems with Christians in general, click here. It takes a lot of hate to walk into a scene of children performing in a religious sanctuary and turn it into a place of massacre. Of course, as with the Virginia Tech massacre, the story also reveals the best of humanity in those adults who confronted his man at the risk of their own lives. Had he not been restrained by church members, the death toll might have been much greater.
Ironically, the ACLU and these church members would likely be the first to defend Adkisson’s rights as he faces a potential death penalty for his alleged crimes.
For the latest on the story, click here.
The real irony here of course is if I’m not here, Batty Patty and Messpot are the two busiest commenters, easily dominating the threads.
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I guess hubris is blind.
I know why.
Why is it, that whenever Patty the brainless wonder comes in to attack me and to tell me what to say, mespot, is always, and I do mean always, right there to follow?
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wonder why that is?
There is no reasonable basis for you to post 3 times within 15 minutes on the same artcle! You take up 1/3 of the space available for all of us on one article and you don’t stop there.
My guess is you don’t work and have nothing else to do all day,
except post, here – adfinitum.
However, most of us are working professionals and arrange our working schedules and personal lives, appropriately, otherwise.
You may not realize it, but you have very rudely interrupted our blog and it’s NOT appreciated.
There is no nice way to say it. The best way to do it is maybe
‘after hours’.
KNOCK IT OFF!
I’d consider upgrading your processor.
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Maybe add some ram.
mespo727272
1, July 29, 2008 at 1:29 am
I move that we limit ourselves to one thought per comment
As if it wasn’t enough to be the comment police. Now mespo thinks he’s the thought police.
So you’re saying your brain is only capable of processing “one thought” per comment?
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Odd. Mine does more.
At least now I know why this blog had such a miserably low post count per thread when I first came in. All I saw was you two mostly, and rafflaw when he could get a word in edgewise.
I knew it couldn’t be because Professor Turley isn’t popular. Everyone knows who he is now from his appearences on Countdown. So I knew it had to be something else.
And now I know.
You and Hotlips there have been driving anyone new out by playing Blog Bouncer Bureau.
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No one was aware that they were allowed to speak.
In fact, you can do it here.
Just keep your snide comments to yourself, and mind your own business.
If you don’t like my comments, don’t read em.
But until this blog posts rules saying we are limited to your ridiculous one comment per hour rule, at which time this blog will cease to be a blog and become the Patty and Messpo Reichstag Room, then I will post reasonable responses to the comments made to me, and other thoughts on the topic of the thread, which my comments usually are on, unless answering a questions or comment made by another blogger.
And if you don’t like it, then I suggest you and Hotlips there take your case to Col Blake, and see if he’ll institute some rigid post restrictions not found in any other major blog so he can stifle any hope of real discussion so you two can chat with each other about the weather your vacations and such.
Until then Major Burns, I’ll continue to mock your presumptive demands.
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Which are readily mockable.
You two should really consider getting a room.
A “chat” room.
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Then you can boss each other around all day.
Well Patty C, we tried! Over and out.
And the same goes for your 2nd in command there too Herr OberFuhrer.
You can tell your Unterfuhrer, D.E.N.I.E.D.
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You have a nice day.
Oh, and before I forget,… request denied.
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DENIED.
Patty C:
“I have a request.
I would like you, Bartlebee, to limit yourself to one post an hour
– or less!”
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I second that emotion, with one amendment. I move that we limit ourselves to one thought per comment and that the posting be concise and complete unto itself. We’re getting some that, in the words of Churchill, “by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.” It’s a pipe dream I know, but we can ask.
Tell you what, Patty.
I have a request for you.
Until someone appoints you blog czar, I request that you limit one of your requests to me, to one per century.
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Better make that one per millenium.
Wouldn’t want you wearing out your welcome.
Nor was I aware that the presence of my comments precludes the presence of yours.
Patty C
1, July 29, 2008 at 1:10 am
I have a request.
I would like you, Bartlebee, to limit yourself to one post an hour
– or less!
I would appreciate the opportunity to blog with my fellow ‘turlees’
as I, and we all did, before you showed up…
You are taking up to much space.
hmmmm….too much “space” you say?
You mean like that multi page spamjob you did over in the Goodling thread?
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Gee, I wasn’t aware there was a limited number of pixels available to display this page.
Or that we were “running short on space”.
I have a request.
I would like you, Bartlebee, to limit yourself to one post an hour
– or less!
I would appreciate the opportunity to blog with my fellow ‘turlees’
as I, and we all did, before you showed up…
You are taking up to much space.
Susan:
Nom deplume is your classic baiter. He wants to provoke replies with foolish statements that actually disprove his premise on its face. For example, his assertion that the left seeks to marginalize its opposition by locking them out of employment comes on the day we learn that Bush et cronies did just that at DOJ. His assertion that we accept responsibility for a murderer because of our marginalizing of the perpetrator smacks of the 9-11 hijackers’ rationale. He is either a fool or an instigator, and your thoughts may be better used to respond to real arguments on real issues.
I’d just assume all of them.
Bartlebee, the entire statement made by “nom deplume” gave me the creeps, and that was putting it the mildest terms. To be more blunt, it is the kind of scapegoating of “liberals” that one typically sees from right wing shills like Ann Coulter, which practically invites (or should I say inCites) these kinds of lunatics to shoot anyone they don’t like. It’s freakin’ scary, because we don’t know how many more of them are out there with guns.