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2018-03-27 Home Front: Politix

"39 Days": How Parkland shooting survivors turned grief into action

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Categorized under "Politics" as that is what this is.
Yes, it is, though Home Front: Culture War would have been equally valid.

or 'Terror Networks'

Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-27 04:45|| 2018-03-27 04:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Many more die from drugs. No comparison. Marlboro is making big push with marijuana cigarettes for some time now in Europe. Huge investments here now. No media attacks. No negative news. Politically connected are in on this game just as they did with solar power with Tip O'Neil with his son. Wind power I'd bet also. They know where the money goes.

Posted by Dale 2018-03-27 08:17|| 2018-03-27 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Remember, to the Left, "authentic" means exactly the opposite of what it actually means.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-27 08:26|| 2018-03-27 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 David Hogg is as much a "survivor" of the Parkland shootings as the Coward County deputy who hid outside during the shootings. Hogg was in a different building.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-03-27 09:30|| 2018-03-27 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Will we be hearing from Rob O'Neill naxt ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-27 09:36|| 2018-03-27 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 When I was young we didn't have all these laws and regulations. The results seem to be everything has gotten worse. The core of it seems that the family is being destroyed. The village can't raise a child.

Posted by Dale 2018-03-27 09:55|| 2018-03-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 On the day of the shooting, I got my camera and got on my bike and road as fast as I could three miles from my house to the school to get as much video and to get as many interviews as I could because I knew that this could not be another mass shooting."

Let me get this straight. Assuming his recording of crawling around and hush asking questions in a classroom under lockdown was not pre-recorded...

He was home either playing hooky or school punishment because a sick person could not make the odyssey of:

Receiving notice of a school shooting. Making a snap decision to go get footage. Riding a bike 3 miles through traffic, incoming EMTs, outgoing Sheriff Deputies, through out-of-county LEOs moving toward shooting, and into a classroom, and getting footage while still under lockdown; as in classroom door is locked and do not open at all for any reason.

All in 15 minutes or so.

I don't think straw boy could make that trip in time with a Boward County Sports Patrol Vehicle, but a bicycle? Looks like he would cramp up using chop stick.

And all this, because it could not be a mass shooting?

This is why I wanted Moar Hogg. Between this and his horrible, wonderful, golden Olde People rant, all these childrens come off as not crises actors, but unabashed failed child actors unqualified to be extras in the remake of E.T. the Emigrant Terrestrial.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-03-27 13:40|| 2018-03-27 13:40|| Front Page Top

#8 "Well, that's easy. It doesn't matter what a Tide Pod eater thinks. Especially when the ones being genuflected before weren't even at the shooting, they were in a completely different building. That's like saying. "I wasn't in combat, but I was on the base near where it happened and I talked to a bunch of shooters, so my opinion on what rifle to use is important!""

Posted by newc 2018-03-27 15:51|| 2018-03-27 15:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Steve King just opined that if you don't think guns are appropriate for 18 year olds, maybe voting isn't either. The response from our wet-behind-the-ears betters is deliciously predictable.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-27 16:11|| 2018-03-27 16:11|| Front Page Top

#10 From YouTube:

Posted by Kojo Elmock6072 2018-03-27 16:14|| 2018-03-27 16:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Apparently, he was at school.

Posted by Frank G 2018-03-27 16:49|| 2018-03-27 16:49|| Front Page Top

#12 swks - Completely share your general skepticism, but I gotta disagree re feasibility of the Midday Ride. Wouldn't be crazy about doing it amidst responder traffic, especially on a fixie (just guessing), but it's totally doable, speedwise. I used to trundle crosstown in tropical weather on a POS gaspipe bike with 20-30 lb in a basket up front. Could've dumped half my stuff, set Hoggie in there, and made the 3 miles with minutes to spare.

Posted by Skunky Pelosi7469 2018-03-27 17:11|| 2018-03-27 17:11|| Front Page Top

#13 I got into trouble on Facebook the other day. Somebody posted a picture of Hogg doing the Nazi salute, and commented "Sieg Heil!". Apparently that violate Facebook's community standards or something.
So apparently you can use all kinds of profanity, say you support Louis Farrakhan, anything. But not the German words for Hail, Victory

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-03-27 18:29|| 2018-03-27 18:29|| Front Page Top

#14 I think if you typed "whoremonger" under a picture of Trump, farcebook would be just fine with that. I'm reading now that some of the little darlings are not happy about being commented upon negatively, and some reporters are shocked, shocked that such a thing is happening.

I mean, nothing like that has ever happened to a public figure ever before...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-27 19:11|| 2018-03-27 19:11|| Front Page Top

#15 SP7469, totally agree and do-able, had my time urban biking. I'm just saying the only thing Hogg has in common with Lance Armstrong is the lack of balls.

I remember his shtick was he was in a classroom interviewing students using video. To get into a classroom before evac would be some likity split thinking and moving. Likely he meant something like 'after I got home, I got my camera...'

In which case he could move at the leisurely pace of a vulture so he could carpe corpses.

Camera, what teenager today says camera? Sounds like something his old ass parents would say.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-03-27 21:15|| 2018-03-27 21:15|| Front Page Top

#16 Re "camera," these are some media-savvy little monsters. I'm just now catching up with the March, working back toward the shooting, and YT "recommended" this clip of Garth's girlfriend at her day job:

I'm guessing the rest are wall to wall Glee types, temperamentally and politically, too?

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-03-27 23:34|| 2018-03-27 23:34|| Front Page Top

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