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Does anyone else think that this was crass at best and beyond pale at worst?

To the left you will see a few of the 20,000-some “Together We Thrive” t-shirts that were given away free as “souvenirs” – and that’s being more charitable than it deserves to be called – at last night’s memorial service for victims of this past week’s massacre in Tuscon.

I didn’t watch it on television but a number of people whose reports I have long come to trust have shared a common sentiment: that last night’s event was a meandering mess of narcissistic narcolepsy… with President Barack Obama as the focal point.

(What’s the story about this Native American medicine man that I’m hearing so much bad about?)

Free t-shirts for attending a memorial service supposedly held in honor of those who died in an act of violence. I defy anyone to articulate how this ...

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I cannot be convinced otherwise: that America will NEVER grow into her fullest potential until her people GIVE UP and GET OVER this fraudulent divide between “conservatism” and “liberalism”.

Seriously. “Democrats” vs. “Republicans”? Don’t MOST adults grow up past such childish behavior?

In an honorable nation there would have been NO mention at all of politics or labels in the aftermath of what happened in Tuscon, Arizona this weekend. Instead I have watched TOO MANY of us still fixated on “US vs THEM”.

What a crock of crap that is!! Some of us seemed even oblivious to the fact that innocent people DIED in this senseless act. And we’re supposed to be the most “enlightened” nation on Earth?!

Like %&@# we are!!

I don’t care what the victims believed in. I don’t care what the assailant believed in. This was a CRIMINAL ACT. It does not require explanation. It ...

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