What did the hard left do after the bombing? Demonize people who bomb federal buildings? Call McVeigh crazy? My memory doesn't recall the left generating a lot of political capital out of the bombing.

That's when all the oppression of the White Christian Males BEGAN.

For the record, sometimes I delete submissions when I want to post them as a photo or something, rather than the original link.

Yeah, I sometimes suspect I'm your most annoying submitter because I'm so lazy, and I never put descriptions or embed the video or whatever. I'm pretty much cut link, paste link, done! Good news achieved!

On the shooting, I wish we could just have a day or two to grieve the victims and think about the families and survivors and stuff before we had to delve into the politics. I realize that's not how it works when it's political figures involved and in the era of the 24 hour news cycle, but I wish we could just have a day to be sad about the nine year old. You know?

This is an honest question, did it ever work that way?

This is a political assassination. Well, attempted - so far. I remember people talking about Jim Brady being shot along with Reagan but Reagan was deffinately the focus and I'm pretty sure I remember Brady because of his subsequent activism. I don't even recall if there was a fatality.

I think the assumption that the motivations are political is a fair one. If that turns out not to be the case then so be it, but its a reasonable place for the freak-out to begin.

The girl was exactly the same age as Deena's Kara.

Thinking about how pointless her death is keeps sending me off crying.

This is an honest question, did it ever work that way?

I don't think it ever has. Which doesn't mean it's not how it ought to be. Our world and species is really depressing a lot of the time.

Oh, we suck. Loads. Never doubt it.

This is an honest question, did it ever work that way?

Yeah, I'm not saying it's even possible, but it just makes me sad.

::snuggles Liese::

I feel sad! But I like snuggles!

This is basically the conclusion I came to earlier in the evening when Seabiscuit was all, "I can see you are upset! Therefore I will vigorously encourage you to play! And also to pet me! Because then you will feel better!"

And he was right.

The whole shooting thing makes me want to curl up in a ball and never leave my house. I don't want to hear the political quarterbacking that will be going around the office on Monday. I don't want to run into random stupid people making idiotic remarks at the grocery store.

I want to think I'd feel this way regardless of the political leanings of the intended victim. I'm heartsick over the whole thing.