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WHAAATTT?!!
Published on February 2, 2009 By Rightwinger In Politics

As a kind of corollary to my last post,

Check this out:

http://news.aol.com/article/people-igno ... eet/325776



Wow...and here, all this time, I thought that Obama's ascension to the Throne and its accompanying do-gooder vibe was supposed to suddenly make us all care about each other, and help each other, and want to stand around holding hands, singing "Kum ba Yah"...and here, we have this. What went wrong?

And gosh! It happened in DC! Right from where the awesome power of Ob the Great and Powerful emanates----where it should have been strongest!

It's sad that no one helped him; poor man. It does say something, perhaps, about how desensitized we've become.

Of course, new laws, recently passed, concerning whether or not a Good Samaritan can be sued or not (they can be), if the victim they help is further injured as a result of their assisting, may have influenced a lot of those passersby.
No good deed goes unpunished; and for some odd reason, the homeless don't exactly have the most trustworthy reputation going.


Comments
on Feb 02, 2009

sounds pretty much what I said in my blog "Morality-Where Do We Find It" that I posted recently using some of the same sentiments as you. 

We have indeed been very desensitized when the sanctity of life means very little today. 

Hmmmmm I wonder why? 

on Feb 02, 2009

This is a sad story indeed. But playing connect the dots to make a tragedy into a political point is in very poor taste. If you're gonna do that, make sure there's a direct link, like in the case of Jim D Adkisson, who walked into a church in tennessee and started shooting people, a church that he targeted because of it's liberal stance (there's no connecting the dots here, Adkisson left a letter in his car stating his hatred of the liberal movement and the church that helped found a chapter of the ACLU)

Now, since Adkisson, a conservative, decided he hated liberal folks enough that he was going to walk into a church and shoot some people dead, does that somehow magically indicate that all conservatives are going to start walking into churches and shoot people dead?

Not at all. What it does mean, is that Adkisson was a nutjob, and has no bearing on the conservative movement.

So too does this event in DC have no bearing on Obama's government, anymore so than it would if it occurred in Texas (and don't tell me no homeless person's ever been left to die while passerbys went about their way in Texas)

on Feb 02, 2009

Artysim
This is a sad story indeed. But playing connect the dots to make a tragedy into a political point is in very poor taste. If you're gonna do that, make sure there's a direct link, like in the case of Jim D Adkisson, who walked into a church in tennessee and started shooting people, a church that he targeted because of it's liberal stance (there's no connecting the dots here, Adkisson left a letter in his car stating his hatred of the liberal movement and the church that helped found a chapter of the ACLU)

Now, since Adkisson, a conservative, decided he hated liberal folks enough that he was going to walk into a church and shoot some people dead, does that somehow magically indicate that all conservatives are going to start walking into churches and shoot people dead?

Not at all. What it does mean, is that Adkisson was a nutjob, and has no bearing on the conservative movement.

So too does this event in DC have no bearing on Obama's government, anymore so than it would if it occurred in Texas (and don't tell me no homeless person's ever been left to die while passerbys went about their way in Texas)

Yes, well; I was expecting something like this. maybe I did go a little far in my commentary. However, the trend towards an avalanche of abortions and the fact of insane Obama worship is a hard fact. A contributor to my local paper, one among many, saw changes in the public mood the day after the election. Everyone was "smiling more" and "seemed happier". The sun was brighter, the angels were singing....blah, blah, blah.....nonetheless, Obama's stimulating effect on our better angels seems to be a myth. Just ask the dead homeless guy.

on Feb 03, 2009

the fact of insane Obama worship is a hard fact. A contributor to my local paper, one among many, saw changes in the public mood the day after the election. Everyone was "smiling more" and "seemed happier". The sun was brighter, the angels were singing....blah, blah, blah.....nonetheless, Obama's stimulating effect on our better angels seems to be a myth. Just ask the dead homeless guy

A "fact" of insane Obama worship is a "hard fact"? Aside from the amazing statement that a fact is a fact, would you care to offer anything to substantiate that (note: I'm looking for a bit more than 'oh, I found one person in the whole world who seems to conduct insane Obama worship')?

Also your strange leaps of logic that somehow seems to say 'if people were happier, then there would be no murders like this at all, so if there are murders then this stimulating effect is a myth' is ludicrous. Here's a quick example of one leap contained within there: Lets say 1k murders are committed in a year within a jurisdiction. A new government comes into power, and cuts it to 10 murders a year, and hails how they've had a great impact on reducing murders. Someone like you siezes on one of the 10 murders, and says how it shows their murder reduction is a myth, and to just ask the deceased victim (the reason why that's just one of the leaps is because in that example, the murdered person was relevant to the claim of reducing murders).

Also re: no-one helping him, from the article it says he was unconcious, so it's quite possible that some people thought he was sleeping (those that weren't there at the time of the attack). A sad event, made even sadder with the death then being used to support some twisted anti-Obama rhetoric.

on Feb 03, 2009

maudlin27

the fact of insane Obama worship is a hard fact. A contributor to my local paper, one among many, saw changes in the public mood the day after the election. Everyone was "smiling more" and "seemed happier". The sun was brighter, the angels were singing....blah, blah, blah.....nonetheless, Obama's stimulating effect on our better angels seems to be a myth. Just ask the dead homeless guy


A "fact" of insane Obama worship is a "hard fact"? Aside from the amazing statement that a fact is a fact, would you care to offer anything to substantiate that (note: I'm looking for a bit more than 'oh, I found one person in the whole world who seems to conduct insane Obama worship')?

Also your strange leaps of logic that somehow seems to say 'if people were happier, then there would be no murders like this at all, so if there are murders then this stimulating effect is a myth' is ludicrous. Here's a quick example of one leap contained within there: Lets say 1k murders are committed in a year within a jurisdiction. A new government comes into power, and cuts it to 10 murders a year, and hails how they've had a great impact on reducing murders. Someone like you siezes on one of the 10 murders, and says how it shows their murder reduction is a myth, and to just ask the deceased victim (the reason why that's just one of the leaps is because in that example, the murdered person was relevant to the claim of reducing murders).

Also re: no-one helping him, from the article it says he was unconcious, so it's quite possible that some people thought he was sleeping (those that weren't there at the time of the attack). A sad event, made even sadder with the death then being used to support some twisted anti-Obama rhetoric.

+LOL+Yeah; I'm the ONLY one in the WHOLE WORLD who thinks Obama worship is a fact and finds it ridiculous; go here:

https://forums.joeuser.com/337619 and follow the link. Please and thank you.

As to the rest of your post, I was simply alluding to the fact that there are, indeed, many, many people out there who honestly expected our crumbling society and human nature to change, literally with Obama's inauguration. But then, that's just more of that fallacious "Obama worship" stuff I made up out of whole cloth.

And I'm sure that the streaming blood and spreading bruises and whatever other external injuries he had would've convinced passersby that he wasn't just "sleeping".

You know, you libs really do take this stuff too hard; too seriously. I mean, lordy; how long did it take you to dissect my "logic"? There was no intended "logic" to this article; it was intended as a mildly humourous commentary on something very serious. It was never intended as a doctoral thesis, fer cryin' out loud.

 And besides that, for eight years, GWB was a retarded "Chimp", or an irrelevent "fratboy", or whatever other inane monikers they could slap on him. 

But God forbid; let someone say something about Lord Barack, and lookout! Katy bar the door!

How's it feel?

on Feb 04, 2009

"...and this is how we say good bye in Germany" -Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Seems that is starting to apply in the US as well.

on Feb 04, 2009

you libs really do take this stuff too hard; too seriously. I mean, lordy; how long did it take you to dissect my "logic"?

Not long - I type fast. Thank you for your concern though...

on Feb 12, 2009

maudlin27

you libs really do take this stuff too hard; too seriously. I mean, lordy; how long did it take you to dissect my "logic"?


Not long - I type fast. Thank you for your concern though...

 Yeah, okay...that was cute.

on Feb 18, 2009

Umberto Escobar, the man police have accused of committing the second part of the attack, told detectives he struck Sanchez because he had called him a homosexual

It aint my fault gosh dang it, I killed him because he called me a fag!

I don't think this will hold up in court...

 

Anyways, since there was no blood he just looked like a guy passed out, perhaps from drinking. which is a good reason why people would walk on by without calling the police.

on Feb 18, 2009

Anyways, since there was no blood he just looked like a guy passed out, perhaps from drinking. which is a good reason why people would walk on by without calling the police.

I wouldn't call it a 'good' reason.  Passing out isn't exactly healthy- diabetic shock, heart attack, aneurysm...and a whole host of other things can make you land on the ground without external signs of a severe medical issue.

~Zoo