We got ourselves a good ol' fashion terrorist attack in Colorado

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"Everyone"? Who is this everyone? The neighbors who typically say that a mass murderer "seemed like such a nice person"? Nobody has a clue what goes on in their neighbor's home unless they are intimately acquainted.
"Everyone" meaning those who knew him (or thought they knew him). Sometimes people say, "He always seemed weird." But not in the case of the Boston bomber. He was a college student, a popular guy on campus, and the college girls thought he was cute. That's why RollingStone magazine featured a glamour shot of him on their cover.

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I said that warning signs for mental illness are typical with non-Islamic terror attacks. I didn't say that it's always the case. In the case of Timothy McVeigh it was Nazi ideology. But it's still not what the left was hoping for since they hope to pin it on Christianity.
Even the Christian left?
 
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I said that warning signs for mental illness are typical with non-Islamic terror attacks. I didn't say that it's always the case. With Timothy McVeigh, it was Nazi ideology. But it's still not what the left was hoping for since they hope to pin it on Christianity.
As the Left I like to distinguish between Christianity and racism...
 
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All that MikeK is saying is that the defense speculated AFTER the incident that they may have had mental illness. But the point is that BEFORE the incident, there were no warning signs. BEFORE the incident everyone thought they were normal. And it's typical that a defense attorney will try to claim for the client that they were insane in order to avoid the death penalty.

Then you didn't read the articles posted. Each of the brothers and their Father showed certain signs of mental problems that others took note of long before the bombings.

Granted, I didn't bring anything to the conversation that began to approach the stellar journalistic credentials of Rolling Stone magazine...
 
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Generally, yes. Are you going to say, "But I don't believe that, and I consider myself on the left"?
I said what I was going to say. So the Christian left generally wants to blame non Islamic terrorism on Christianity (surprisingly instead of on extreme racism or political ideology)but non Islamic terrorists are generally mentally ill anyways (well, except for three of the major ones). Got it.
 
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Then you didn't read the articles posted. Each of the brothers and their Father showed certain signs of mental problems that others took note of long before the bombings.

Granted, I didn't bring anything to the conversation that began to approach the stellar journalistic credentials of Rolling Stone magazine...
Which article does it say that in?
 
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Doubtless, Planned Parenthood will milk this for every drop of MSNBC type sympathy it can get in order to deflect from the reign of terror that organisation has brought to unborn babies...
As opposed to the milking of the alleged "body parts" videos by the usual suspects.
 
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The first and second. I omitted the article about their father. Would you like more articles detailing their behaviors that were noted by their peers as strange?
Can you quote the part of the article you are talking about and provide the link again?
 
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As opposed to the milking of the alleged "body parts" videos by the usual suspects.
Are you are saying that you don't believe what the Catholic bishops have said about those videos? Here's what Cardinal O'Malley said about Planned Parenthood (in light of them getting busted):

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"Pope Francis has called abortion the product of a 'widespread mentality of profit, the throwaway culture, which has today enslaved the hearts and minds of so many.' The recent news stories concerning Planned Parenthood direct our attention to two larger issues involving many institutions in our society. The first is abortion itself: a direct attack on human life in its most vulnerable condition. The second is the now standard practice of obtaining fetal organs and tissues through abortion. Both actions fail to respect the humanity and dignity of human life. This fact should be the center of attention in the present public controversy." - Cardinal O'Malley (July 29, 2015)

And here's what it says about it on the USCCB's website:

Planned Parenthood: Setting the Record Straight

In 2015, a series of undercover videos showed officials of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) discussing how they perform abortions and traffic in the tissues and organs of abortion victims. The officials' matter-of-fact comments on destroying unborn human life, and on altering abortion methods to obtain more "intact" organs, have led to a public debate on Planned Parenthood's role as a "women's health" organization receiving large government subsidies. Here are key facts.

1. PPFA is the largest abortion provider in the U.S.

In 2013, the last year reported, Planned Parenthood affiliates performed 327,653 abortions, both surgical and "medical" (using the abortion drug RU-486). [1] PPFA's share of the abortion "market" has expanded steadily over the years: It performed one in five of all abortions in the United States in 2005, but now performs about one in three.

2. Every Planned Parenthood affiliate must perform abortions.

In 2010, PPFA announced that by 2013 every affiliate must have one or more clinics that perform abortions on-site. A few affiliates left PPFA rather than comply with the new abortion mandate. [2]

3. Planned Parenthood provides 16 times more abortions than birth-oriented services.

While PPFA says abortions make up 3% of its services, this is misleading. PPFA says it served 2.7 million patients (women and men) and performed 327,653 abortions, indicating that 12% of everyone entering a Planned Parenthood clinic receives an abortion. And PPFA provided only 18,684 "prenatal services" and 1,880 referrals for adoptions at other agencies. So 94% of its services for pregnant women are abortions, outnumbering other options 16 to 1.[3]

(Read more)
The United States bishops had also let us know in 2009 that it's immoral to use human tissue obtained by direct abortions:

"Catholic health care institutions should not make use of human tissue obtained by direct abortions even for research and therapeutic purposes." - USCCB - Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, page 33
 
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Are you are saying that you don't believe what the Catholic bishops have said about those videos? Here's what Cardinal O'Malley said about Planned Parenthood (in light of them getting busted):

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"Pope Francis has called abortion the product of a 'widespread mentality of profit, the throwaway culture, which has today enslaved the hearts and minds of so many.' The recent news stories concerning Planned Parenthood direct our attention to two larger issues involving many institutions in our society. The first is abortion itself: a direct attack on human life in its most vulnerable condition. The second is the now standard practice of obtaining fetal organs and tissues through abortion. Both actions fail to respect the humanity and dignity of human life. This fact should be the center of attention in the present public controversy." - Cardinal O'Malley (July 29, 2015)

And here's what it says about it on the USCCB's website:

Planned Parenthood: Setting the Record Straight

In 2015, a series of undercover videos showed officials of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) discussing how they perform abortions and traffic in the tissues and organs of abortion victims. The officials' matter-of-fact comments on destroying unborn human life, and on altering abortion methods to obtain more "intact" organs, have led to a public debate on Planned Parenthood's role as a "women's health" organization receiving large government subsidies. Here are key facts.

1. PPFA is the largest abortion provider in the U.S.

In 2013, the last year reported, Planned Parenthood affiliates performed 327,653 abortions, both surgical and "medical" (using the abortion drug RU-486). [1] PPFA's share of the abortion "market" has expanded steadily over the years: It performed one in five of all abortions in the United States in 2005, but now performs about one in three.

2. Every Planned Parenthood affiliate must perform abortions.

In 2010, PPFA announced that by 2013 every affiliate must have one or more clinics that perform abortions on-site. A few affiliates left PPFA rather than comply with the new abortion mandate. [2]

3. Planned Parenthood provides 16 times more abortions than birth-oriented services.

While PPFA says abortions make up 3% of its services, this is misleading. PPFA says it served 2.7 million patients (women and men) and performed 327,653 abortions, indicating that 12% of everyone entering a Planned Parenthood clinic receives an abortion. And PPFA provided only 18,684 "prenatal services" and 1,880 referrals for adoptions at other agencies. So 94% of its services for pregnant women are abortions, outnumbering other options 16 to 1.[3]

(Read more)
The United States bishops had also let us know in 2009 that it's immoral to use human tissue obtained by direct abortions:

"Catholic health care institutions should not make use of human tissue obtained by direct abortions even for research and therapeutic purposes." - USCCB - Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, page 33
None of which is remotely relevant to the hysterical "organ harvesting" beat up.
 
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