Know what her favorite vegetable was? Her husband Jim.
BearApril 3, 2015 4:33 pm
-hears little voice from the past- “If you can’t say anything nice…”
-crickets-
Oh hell. I hope she’s sharing a roasting spit with Lautenberg. Sue me.
ClaireApril 3, 2015 4:55 pm
“Oh hell. I hope she’s sharing a roasting spit with Lautenberg. Sue me.”
I hear ya, Bear. I had the same little twinge of conscience before posting “ding dong.” Then I decided what the hell. It’s just too bad that Shannon Watts was standing right there to replace her in the public mind. And Watts may be even worse.
Kent McManigalApril 3, 2015 6:08 pm
I admit I felt a thrill of hope and excitement when I saw this post- hoping it meant what I was sure it meant. Yeah, I’m flawed.
I know I am a bad person but that song was the very first thing that went through my head when I heard the news on the radio driving home from work today. At least I seem to be in good company.
UnReconstructedApril 3, 2015 6:49 pm
Nah, I have absolutely no twinge whatsoever.
I’m glad the vile old harridan is dead, and I hope there is a Hell that she can spend eternity in. Maybe she and Jim can share some searing hot lava with Teddy.
I only wish this happy event had occurred 40 years ago.
Now, about Chuckie, Babs, and Diane.
Ding dong, indeed!
UnReconstructedApril 3, 2015 6:51 pm
and thanks for breaking the news, Claire. I’m glad I heard this from you ! It feels fittin n proper……
BearApril 3, 2015 9:07 pm
Kent said: ” Yeah, I’m flawed.”
The ability to recognize evil is a feature, not a bug.
I can’t see any way to get exact numbers, but I’m — pun warning — dead certain that waiting periods and flawed background checks have gotten a lot of people killed. Some cases have been documented… and yet that evil [female dog — apologies to actual canines] never recanted/apologized/made restitution.
The nicest thing I can say about her is that she made a sick sock puppet of her allegedly beloved brain-damaged hubby to blame millions of innocent people for the action of one clearly-and-legally-recognized-as-such lunatic.
Kinda like straw-purchasing Mark Kelly and Gabby “Oh. Look. At. The. Pretty. Tele. Promp. Ter.” Giffords.
Jim B.April 3, 2015 10:21 pm
I have to admit that when I first heard the news from your link, I actually got out of my chair and did a little dance, though I’m not sure it would be a jitterbug. : )
As for Shannon Watts? So what? As every President proved, each subsequent one proved to always be worse than the one before.
Kevin WilmethApril 3, 2015 10:33 pm
The article I saw first called her an “Anti-violence activist”.
On another note, here’s one about the unemployment stats.
If the number of people unemployed today were to be the same people living in the U.S. at the time of the Great Depression, there would be no one working at all. According to the 1933 figures, they would have to actually increase the population just to match our current unemployment figures. Think about that.
Good choice of words for the header! Not only a familiar song lead-in, but also a synonym for cuckoo!
The announcement mentioned her ‘hard work in the trenches’. I have to wonder how hard it is to make up lies in order to smear good Americans for the purpose of preserving your own cash flow. She was no more or better than the race-baiters Sharpton, Jackson, & Obama.
JoelApril 4, 2015 8:09 am
For some people, ‘speak no ill of the dead’ makes a certain amount of sense. Revile not lest ye be reviled, and all that.
For some people, screw it. In Sarah’s case I cannot contain my desire to pilgrimage to her grave and have a nice dance and a nice long pee.
BobApril 4, 2015 11:23 am
Yeah, she was no fan of gun owners, that’s for sure. I’ll stack my pro- gun credentials against any one, but I guess I expected a little more class from this blog regarding her demise. Seems we’re all pretty much the same no matter which side we take.
ClaireApril 4, 2015 12:05 pm
Well, Bob. It was the best I could come up with in the 30 seconds after I heard the news. I just wanted to get it out there quickly.
Later I may write something more thoughtful, in-depth, and classy. But then someone of some other school of thought will criticize me for … oh, giving her more attention than she deserves or using the wrong verb or something.
BobApril 4, 2015 1:43 pm
Claire,
Not coming down on you for “getting it out there quickly”. But the entire range of comments seemed a bit inappropriate to me. Us pro-gunners probably could have made a more positive statement if we just remained quiet about it. Sometimes it seems there’s no difference between “us and them”.
p.s. Never thought I’d find myself defending anything associated with Sara Brady.
ClaireApril 4, 2015 3:30 pm
“Sometimes it seems there’s no difference between “us and them”.”
I hear ya. Few in the gunblogosphere (including me) are being gracious about the late Mrs. Brady. OTOH, there’s a couple of great big differences: none of us go on Twitter or F*c*b**k to express a wish that our political opponents — and their children and their pets, etc — would die violently.
People on the other side say things like that about us regularly.
UnReconstructedApril 4, 2015 4:44 pm
‘No fan of gun owners’, Bob?
She wanted to EXTERMINATE us. She believed that many if not most of the people reading this blog should be locked up and their property seized by the state. And their firearms melted.
She did everything she could to destroy the entire gun culture.
She believed it was better to see a woman raped and strangled with her own panty hose rather than defend herself with a legally owned gun. (Apologies to LNS)
She believed that only the police and military should have guns. AND SHE TRIED WITH ALL HER MIGHT to make that true.
“No fan of gun owners”?
Bob, you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
But this ‘conversation’ on firearms ownership went FAR beyond civility long, long ago.
It is unknowable how many thousands of people got murdered, raped and/or robbed by the laws that this ‘no fan of gun owners’ was instrumental in enacting.
At best, AT BEST, she was a statist thug of Brobdingnagian dimensions.
At worst…..
Paul BonneauApril 4, 2015 7:35 pm
I don’t understand why we should be “gracious” (a euphemism for keeping our traps shut) for dead people, when no one (that matters) would have been bothered about the same comment before she kicked the bucket. Nobody automatically grows a halo when they die. She was evil before; she’s evil now. The only difference is that she has lost any power that she still had left, to harm others.
Kent McManigalApril 4, 2015 8:42 pm
Is it classy to grieve the death of an unrepentant mass murderer? Or a serial rapist? Sorry, but if that’s the case I don’t want to be around “classy” people. Nope. Those who want to kill me- or help others do so- get what they get. If they are going to threaten me with violent extermination, I will party when they die. To pretend to be saddened- even a little- over the demise of that harpy is dishonest and frankly more than a little “quislingish”.
Pretending that she was even a slightly decent person, worthy of grief at her death, spits in the face of all those she harmed. I won’t do it.
And, I hate to tell you this, but those on her side hate you and want you to die even if you offer an olive branch over this harridan’s death. Why side with the enemy, even a little, when it won’t make them like you one iota more?
BearApril 5, 2015 9:43 am
Bob: “But the entire range of comments seemed a bit inappropriate to me. Us pro-gunners probably could have made a more positive statement if we just remained quiet about it. Sometimes it seems there’s no difference between “us and them”.”
Tell you what- If I should become a sociopathic murder, you have my permission to speak ill of me when I die.
There is a difference between us pro-freedom types and the deathmongering evil beasts like Brady and Lautenberg (since I mentioned him earlier). I haven’t gotten anyone killed. They have; and I’ll be damned if I’ll show respect for the SOBs who got my brother murdered because he couldn’t get a defensive firearm.
A.G.April 5, 2015 3:58 pm
Thanks for the wry smile that your post’s title gave me.
It may be a Cold [Un]Civil War we find ourselves in, but it is indeed a war. The sooner those who are serious about their belief in freedom realize this, the sooner they will see that only a surrendering enemy deserves mercy.
Paul BonneauApril 6, 2015 7:48 am
[And, I hate to tell you this, but those on her side hate you and want you to die even if you offer an olive branch over this harridan’s death.]
Kent, this may be overstating things a bit. I think a significant fraction, likely a majority of people on her side, are truly nonviolent (if naive). That is why why the gun control movement is failing; many on that side are discovering that gun control is not a non-violent proposition. It’s a hard sell if they get the suspicion that eliminating guns will inevitably come at the cost of war, and will fail anyway.
But yeah, there are also plenty of foamers-at-the-mouth over there too.
I notice that the guys over at Western Rifle Shooters were having some fun with this. So disrespectful! 🙂
TXCOMTApril 8, 2015 8:52 pm
So after reading in some old back issues of several different gun titles, I learned how Dodd, the former Connecticut senator who brought us the GCA of ’68, died. In short, his life went to hell after that bill became law. Well, here’s yet another story with a happy ending! Ding, dong, indeed!
Didn’t know she was still alive.
Know what her favorite vegetable was? Her husband Jim.
-hears little voice from the past- “If you can’t say anything nice…”
-crickets-
Oh hell. I hope she’s sharing a roasting spit with Lautenberg. Sue me.
“Oh hell. I hope she’s sharing a roasting spit with Lautenberg. Sue me.”
I hear ya, Bear. I had the same little twinge of conscience before posting “ding dong.” Then I decided what the hell. It’s just too bad that Shannon Watts was standing right there to replace her in the public mind. And Watts may be even worse.
I admit I felt a thrill of hope and excitement when I saw this post- hoping it meant what I was sure it meant. Yeah, I’m flawed.
I didn’t get the “ding dong” until I’d read the article – then I had a good lol. I say good riddance. They might want to look into getting a good supply of super-hydrophobic paint for her grave – http://weburbanist.com/2015/03/05/backsplash-deflective-peeback-walls-fight-public-urination/
lol, Claire. lol.
I know I am a bad person but that song was the very first thing that went through my head when I heard the news on the radio driving home from work today. At least I seem to be in good company.
Nah, I have absolutely no twinge whatsoever.
I’m glad the vile old harridan is dead, and I hope there is a Hell that she can spend eternity in. Maybe she and Jim can share some searing hot lava with Teddy.
I only wish this happy event had occurred 40 years ago.
Now, about Chuckie, Babs, and Diane.
Ding dong, indeed!
and thanks for breaking the news, Claire. I’m glad I heard this from you ! It feels fittin n proper……
Kent said: ” Yeah, I’m flawed.”
The ability to recognize evil is a feature, not a bug.
I can’t see any way to get exact numbers, but I’m — pun warning — dead certain that waiting periods and flawed background checks have gotten a lot of people killed. Some cases have been documented… and yet that evil [female dog — apologies to actual canines] never recanted/apologized/made restitution.
The nicest thing I can say about her is that she made a sick sock puppet of her allegedly beloved brain-damaged hubby to blame millions of innocent people for the action of one clearly-and-legally-recognized-as-such lunatic.
Kinda like straw-purchasing Mark Kelly and Gabby “Oh. Look. At. The. Pretty. Tele. Promp. Ter.” Giffords.
I have to admit that when I first heard the news from your link, I actually got out of my chair and did a little dance, though I’m not sure it would be a jitterbug. : )
As for Shannon Watts? So what? As every President proved, each subsequent one proved to always be worse than the one before.
The article I saw first called her an “Anti-violence activist”.
Which pissed me off.
On another note, here’s one about the unemployment stats.
If the number of people unemployed today were to be the same people living in the U.S. at the time of the Great Depression, there would be no one working at all. According to the 1933 figures, they would have to actually increase the population just to match our current unemployment figures. Think about that.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/americans-not-labor-force-exceed-93-million-first-time-627-labor-force
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1528.html
One down… far too many to go. 🙁
Good choice of words for the header! Not only a familiar song lead-in, but also a synonym for cuckoo!
The announcement mentioned her ‘hard work in the trenches’. I have to wonder how hard it is to make up lies in order to smear good Americans for the purpose of preserving your own cash flow. She was no more or better than the race-baiters Sharpton, Jackson, & Obama.
For some people, ‘speak no ill of the dead’ makes a certain amount of sense. Revile not lest ye be reviled, and all that.
For some people, screw it. In Sarah’s case I cannot contain my desire to pilgrimage to her grave and have a nice dance and a nice long pee.
Yeah, she was no fan of gun owners, that’s for sure. I’ll stack my pro- gun credentials against any one, but I guess I expected a little more class from this blog regarding her demise. Seems we’re all pretty much the same no matter which side we take.
Well, Bob. It was the best I could come up with in the 30 seconds after I heard the news. I just wanted to get it out there quickly.
Later I may write something more thoughtful, in-depth, and classy. But then someone of some other school of thought will criticize me for … oh, giving her more attention than she deserves or using the wrong verb or something.
Claire,
Not coming down on you for “getting it out there quickly”. But the entire range of comments seemed a bit inappropriate to me. Us pro-gunners probably could have made a more positive statement if we just remained quiet about it. Sometimes it seems there’s no difference between “us and them”.
p.s. Never thought I’d find myself defending anything associated with Sara Brady.
“Sometimes it seems there’s no difference between “us and them”.”
I hear ya. Few in the gunblogosphere (including me) are being gracious about the late Mrs. Brady. OTOH, there’s a couple of great big differences: none of us go on Twitter or F*c*b**k to express a wish that our political opponents — and their children and their pets, etc — would die violently.
People on the other side say things like that about us regularly.
‘No fan of gun owners’, Bob?
She wanted to EXTERMINATE us. She believed that many if not most of the people reading this blog should be locked up and their property seized by the state. And their firearms melted.
She did everything she could to destroy the entire gun culture.
She believed it was better to see a woman raped and strangled with her own panty hose rather than defend herself with a legally owned gun. (Apologies to LNS)
She believed that only the police and military should have guns. AND SHE TRIED WITH ALL HER MIGHT to make that true.
“No fan of gun owners”?
Bob, you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
But this ‘conversation’ on firearms ownership went FAR beyond civility long, long ago.
It is unknowable how many thousands of people got murdered, raped and/or robbed by the laws that this ‘no fan of gun owners’ was instrumental in enacting.
At best, AT BEST, she was a statist thug of Brobdingnagian dimensions.
At worst…..
I don’t understand why we should be “gracious” (a euphemism for keeping our traps shut) for dead people, when no one (that matters) would have been bothered about the same comment before she kicked the bucket. Nobody automatically grows a halo when they die. She was evil before; she’s evil now. The only difference is that she has lost any power that she still had left, to harm others.
Is it classy to grieve the death of an unrepentant mass murderer? Or a serial rapist? Sorry, but if that’s the case I don’t want to be around “classy” people. Nope. Those who want to kill me- or help others do so- get what they get. If they are going to threaten me with violent extermination, I will party when they die. To pretend to be saddened- even a little- over the demise of that harpy is dishonest and frankly more than a little “quislingish”.
Pretending that she was even a slightly decent person, worthy of grief at her death, spits in the face of all those she harmed. I won’t do it.
And, I hate to tell you this, but those on her side hate you and want you to die even if you offer an olive branch over this harridan’s death. Why side with the enemy, even a little, when it won’t make them like you one iota more?
Bob: “But the entire range of comments seemed a bit inappropriate to me. Us pro-gunners probably could have made a more positive statement if we just remained quiet about it. Sometimes it seems there’s no difference between “us and them”.”
Tell you what- If I should become a sociopathic murder, you have my permission to speak ill of me when I die.
There is a difference between us pro-freedom types and the deathmongering evil beasts like Brady and Lautenberg (since I mentioned him earlier). I haven’t gotten anyone killed. They have; and I’ll be damned if I’ll show respect for the SOBs who got my brother murdered because he couldn’t get a defensive firearm.
Thanks for the wry smile that your post’s title gave me.
It may be a Cold [Un]Civil War we find ourselves in, but it is indeed a war. The sooner those who are serious about their belief in freedom realize this, the sooner they will see that only a surrendering enemy deserves mercy.
[And, I hate to tell you this, but those on her side hate you and want you to die even if you offer an olive branch over this harridan’s death.]
Kent, this may be overstating things a bit. I think a significant fraction, likely a majority of people on her side, are truly nonviolent (if naive). That is why why the gun control movement is failing; many on that side are discovering that gun control is not a non-violent proposition. It’s a hard sell if they get the suspicion that eliminating guns will inevitably come at the cost of war, and will fail anyway.
But yeah, there are also plenty of foamers-at-the-mouth over there too.
I notice that the guys over at Western Rifle Shooters were having some fun with this. So disrespectful! 🙂
So after reading in some old back issues of several different gun titles, I learned how Dodd, the former Connecticut senator who brought us the GCA of ’68, died. In short, his life went to hell after that bill became law. Well, here’s yet another story with a happy ending! Ding, dong, indeed!