Comments on: Georgia Rep. Bobby Franklin Found Dead

By: mumsyjr

mumsyjr — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:17:28 +0000

@Verity Khat- AGREED!! Can’t wait to get out of here, either.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:15:12 +0000

I am glad I do not live in the area that actually voted this guy into office. Living in Texas is bad enough.

By: Verity Khat

Verity Khat — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:39:29 +0000

(Oops, hit “submit” too soon in my anger.) Seriously, I get the distinct impression that a very vocal minority of the state’s population and reps would like to send us straight back to [insert era of choice where women and minorities knew their place]. It’s terrifying and I plan to leave as soon as I have the funds.

I’m sure someone somewhere truly loved Bobby Franklin and misses him terribly. But the man’s purpose on this planet seemed to be to cause as much pain as possible to everyone who wasn’t him. It’s funny how those who are, shall we say, overly obsessed with the next life can do so much damage in this one. >_<

By: Verity Khat

Verity Khat — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:25:37 +0000

I know this makes me a terrible person, but I did actually hop up at the breakfast table and do a little dance of vindictive glee as I read the newspaper article announcing his death. Because now I don’t live in an area that has THAT ASSHAT representing it. My blood pressure will be phenominally better for a few months.

And I know exactly why they’re saying all these “nice” revisionist things about him — a frightening number of Georgia politicians secretly wish that they were as “strong” as dear departed Bobby at acting on their principles, and feel that they’ve sold out to us nasty Little People

By: Marie Anelle

Marie Anelle — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:32:18 +0000

@veganmarcy

Next time you have a request on what we should be writing, could you please email one of the Harpies privately? It comes off as really rude when a thread gets hijacked with a “I want to read this, why aren’t you writing about this?” comment, whether you mean it to or not.

Thanks!

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:32:24 +0000

@BG: So Franklin was smug and egotistical enough to assure himself of his own moral worth while attacking the helpless? What a moral exemplar to us all. It’s people like him-and you-that make it very difficult to take the idea of God seriously.

Thanks, Harpies, for putting up this reminder of what the real world is like. It’s good to remember that not everyone is a Harpy…

By: veganmarcy

veganmarcy — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:03:24 +0000

My main rant is when it’s a white Christian it’s a lone madman (anti-choice murders for example), but anyone else is a terrorist. But never a far-right Christian het male. The only thing we call domestic terrorism is, ironically, pacifist environmental and animal rights groups. It’s fucking NUTS.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:54:51 +0000

@veganmarcy: Yes, probably going to do a post on it—I spent enough time arguing about it on FB. Although it’s probably going to be something sarcastic like “White Christians are terrorists too! Conservatives shocked because they have no recollection of recent history!”

By: veganmarcy

veganmarcy — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:41:03 +0000

Speaking of religious extremists try to affect their nation’s politics, anyone here going to do a post on the recent terrorism in Norway? I keep checking but I haven’t seen any posts or even comments about it here. My coworkers have been ignoring it, either it’s too foreign to hold their attention, or they don’t want to acknowledge that they assumed the terrorist would be muslim until he turned out to be blond, white, anti-islam, anti-liberal, a self-proclaimed Christian (which O’Reilly refused to accept) and apparently did a big rant against so-called slutty behavior as per the brief Jezebel post. And now his young victims are compared by Glenn Beck to Hitler Youth despite their liberalness and that the terrorist was a white supremacist. And the terrorist’s manifesto still got praise from far-right nationalist parties in Italy and France for example.

Being someone who’s family includes relatively recent immigration from Norway this has been very shocking and sad. But I would appreciate a post on it, please.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:35:03 +0000

I’m with Marie in saying mourn the human being but not their ideas or the system that spawned them. Fix the system and the humans living in it might come around from their mixed up ideas.