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7 dead, 7 wounded in Santa Barbara shooting rampage

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by mpcincal, May 24, 2014.

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  1. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    If calling a grandstander a grandstander makes me an asshole ...

    I'm sorry about what happened to Chris Martinez. Blaming people who had nothing to do with it seems pretty silly. And insisting that the rights of law-abiding people should be infringed is even sillier.
     
  2. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    I'm sure you meant that you'd love to buy me a drink.
     
  3. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Who the fuck are you to declare that parent who just lost his child to murder is "not grieving"? How could you even know? Holy christ, what a repugnant statement.
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    It's weird, at the beginning of the thread tony raged in the mistaken belief that the guy speaking was the killer's dad. Then he apologized. Then he decided, naw, fuck it, that guy and his grief can go shit in a hat.
     
  5. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Is this where you try to get someone fired Napolean?
     
  6. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    You're posting like you've had a few. Log off. Take a few days. It's a message board.
     
  7. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Believe all the lies that keep you going.
     
  8. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Let's put it this way: For your own safety, do not get between him and a microphone.

    Do you think that's how people grieve? No one I've ever seen grieves that way.

    I understand that's not a popular opinion. But no one has been able to honestly say that he's not grandstanding. Everyone's argument seems to be "How dare you?" That's not an argument.
     
  9. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    If you guys look at Kincannon's Twitter feed, you'll know where tony is getting his inspiration as a hateful, horrible troll.

    Todd Kincannon @Todd__Kincannon ยท 3h
    Somewhere in Hell, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-KKK) is bitching that they let Maya Angelou in.
     
  10. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Again,ask him if he'd rather be up there "grandstanding" as you put it with his son dead or home living an anonymous life with his son alive and well?
     
  11. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    I don't doubt he wishes his son was still alive. But in the five days since it happened, Mr. Martinez has been seeking out every camera he could find to blame people who had nothing to do with his son's tragic death. In that time, we've hardly heard from him about how good of a person his son was and why the world is a lesser place with him gone. The story I was just reading had to quote old roommates to actually give me a picture of what a good kid he was. I mean, geez, on the very first night he said for about a split-second that Chris was a great kid, then spent the next 40 seconds blaming people who had nothing to do with it, including the obligatory shot at the NRA. I can understand that it was fresh and he was in shock. But over the next four to five days, he has done nothing but blame, blame, blame everyone except the loser punk who actually did it.

    He's made almost all of the follow-up coverage about himself. Does anyone even know the names of the other five victims? Tonight I actually had to go looking for information on them to actually find out they were something other than "the other five."
     
  12. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Difference is I'm not motivated by politics. That is ALL that motivates you. You don't care how horrible a person is or what awful thing he or she does as long as he bows to your beloved GOP. Anybody who pays attention here already knew that, but you have proven it beyond a shadow of a doubt with this latest disgrace.

    I'm not standing on a dead kid's body, but you damn sure are pissing on it by supporting that piece of garbage from South Carolina.

    Aside from that, I do hope the moderators address your blatant disregard for board policy by publicly sharing the contents of a private message and give you the time you a time out. Not just because I am sick of reading your crap, but because you really do need the time to take a good look at yourself. You are that far in the wrong this time and the sad part is you still don't even seem to realize it.
     
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