*Sigh*

For the love of all that is good and holy would someone who actually CARES about Sarah Palin SHUT HER UP??? At least give her a dictionary or NOT give her a forum to make a damn fool of herself. Just let the President do the talking, that's HE'S the President. So mama moose's newest faux pas:
Sarah Palin said that those who have called out her inflammatory speech and graphic hot list are guilty of spreading a blood libel. That, "Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn." I'm not Jewish she's not a Gentile child: "What's a blood libel?"
Perhaps she can stuff envelopes in a closet.

I've always thought that we take a tragedy and we look at who was shot and why? Columbine and the other school shootings have given us insight into the fact that people who are made to feel worthless, bullied, and called names can be deadly. We need to take a look at how we teach our children to treat others. Teach them empathy.

When Matthew Shepherd was beaten, tortured, and left to die hanging on a fence in rural Wyoming. The impetus for such hatred was the fact that he was gay. His family fought for an act against hate crimes. James Byrd Jr. is attached to that bill. His crime? He was black. Three men put a logging chain around his feet and for the first two miles he was alive and conscious, until his body hit a culvert that severed his arm and head. The families of these two men fought together to have a hate crime bill passed which it was by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009. Not counting the crazy amount of suicides caused by bullying, most notably in gay young people but just flat out bullying. Before I took a crazy interest in politics (yeah I admit it's crazy but I truly mean well and all of this is important to me) it was important to me that my children not discriminate against race, religion, beliefs, or anything that makes people different. Shouldn't we all look at the people we know and love that are ignorant to the hatred they share?

The fact is, congresswoman Giffords was a target. Number 4 on a list of politicians that "needed to be taken out" was shot at a political event that was announced ahead of time. By a man who was radical. There were warning signs around him as is often the case, that were ignored. But to say we can't assign blame isn't true. The media personalities, individuals who take the vitriol so lightly need to take a look at themselves and what they've said. They need to think about the fanaticism they see at their rallies and what they've done to tone it down. I've seen some pundits apologize for things they've said that crossed the line and apologize again in light of this tragedy. They've made it a goal to change their rhetoric. Good for them. I continue pray for the victims and their families in this time of tragedy.