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2007-04-20 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Virginia Tech shooters America problem.

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Posted by Mike 2007-04-20 10:49|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This guy sounds more fucked up then Cho...

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-20 11:08|| 2007-04-20 11:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah. We go to church. We go to school. We go to work. We make good lives for ourselves. So shoot us.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-20 14:55|| 2007-04-20 14:55|| Front Page Top

#3 TU - I don't disagree with his premise that there's a pervasive bias against Christianity, et al, among the MSM, academia, and so-called-elites. I just think that trying to link that to the actions of a sick fuck like Cho doesn't work.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-20 16:12|| 2007-04-20 16:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Frank, I respect your viewpoint here, but I can't help but wonder: there's so much America-bashing and God-bashing among our cultural elite, and they're so apocalyptic about it (random examples here, here, and here). If I'm a sicko like Cho, and I see the cultural elite agreeing with my dark impulses, might I consider it a validation? Maybe he would've done what he did anyway, but if he was on the edge, so to speak, might that validation have been the one thing that overcame whatever remaining self-restraint might otherwise have held him back?

Posted by Mike 2007-04-20 17:08|| 2007-04-20 17:08|| Front Page Top

#5 very possibly, Mike. I just think that only those "pre-disposed" would do such a pre-planned blasphemy. The poisonous environment can't be discredited as a factor, I agree. One side here is seriously deranged, and advocating things, without suffering the consequences. Our side should try (and I'm not entirely successful, myself, you might, ~~possibly~~ ~~surely~~ have noticed) to do better. That's one reason, IMHO, that the mods are looking at comments (like Sinse's today. See "sinktrap") so much. I understand Sinse's frustration, but there's "acceptable" and "not", and here, Fred and his Myrmidon Mods makes the rulez :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-20 17:39|| 2007-04-20 17:39|| Front Page Top

#6 (and I'm not entirely successful, myself, you might, ~~possibly~~ ~~surely~~ have noticed)

Bah! Frank, you ridicule with the best of them. That certainly counts for something in this humor-impaired world. Plus, I'm confident that had you the opportunity to design the Three Gorges Dam, flyash would have been a primary ingredient in all aggregate compounds. Prove me wrong!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-20 22:18|| 2007-04-20 22:18|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL - I stick to what I know.... the Chinese Dam is a catastrophe-in-waiting, geographic and weather influences (water!) will overcome Chinese cost-cutting, material-shaving neo-communism..

/Joe M, shift-key-challenged

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-20 22:55|| 2007-04-20 22:55|| Front Page Top

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