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Airport Shooting Part of Bush Mental Health Cuts
scrappleface.com ^ | 2005-12-08 | Scott Ott

Posted on 12/08/2005 2:52:14 PM PST by NYTexan

Democrats in Congress today suggested that yesterday’s Federal Air Marshall shooting of a mentally ill man, who claimed to have a bomb on an airplane, could be part of a larger Bush administration strategy to reduce federal spending on mental health programs.

“We’re not publicly saying that Bush is killing off bipolar people to purify the American gene pool and improve the race,” said one unnamed Senate Democrat. “But at a time when mental health agencies are being told to tighten their belts, one can’t help but wonder if that man in Miami died so that the Bush-Cheney cabal and their wealthy cronies can keep their tax cuts.”

Democrats plan to introduce a bill next week that would require Federal Air Marshalls to perform a comprehensive mental health screening on prospective human targets. They’ll also propose an amendment to the public school gun-free zone law that would surround all American airports, and planes in flight, with a 1,000-foot “gun-free circle of safety.”


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To: NYTexan

If Bush cut mental health funding, then it must be the only thing he cut.


21 posted on 12/08/2005 3:01:12 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: NYTexan
Democrats plan to introduce a bill next week that would require Federal Air Marshalls to perform a comprehensive mental health screening on prospective human targets.

It really wouldn't surprise me if they did.

22 posted on 12/08/2005 3:01:18 PM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping List Freepmail me if you want on or off this ping list.)
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To: Nightshift

ping....


23 posted on 12/08/2005 3:01:35 PM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping List Freepmail me if you want on or off this ping list.)
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To: digger48

Makes ya wonder with the loony left the way it is and the MSM following right over that cliff with them....


24 posted on 12/08/2005 3:01:51 PM PST by Peepster (If guns kill people, than spoons make Michael Moore fat!!)
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To: NYTexan
Thanks for the ping, NYT.....the DUmmies are probably already spinning it this way as fact! LOL!
BUSH
MENTAL HEALTH
TARGET

25 posted on 12/08/2005 3:01:57 PM PST by luvie (QUITTING IS NOT AN EXIT STRATEGY IN IRAQ...)
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To: NYTexan
The man was off his meds!. . .

OMG. . .what does it take; this and Katie Couric. . .and the 'Left line' forming. . .

I would ask. ..why was he traveling ( a stressful situation for the mentally healthy) having abandoned his medication. . .

Why didn't his wife refuse to go unless he took his medication. . .why did she not warn airline authorities he was not on his meds as well; they might have more of an eye on him; or found some reason to not let him fly. . .. . why. . .why. . . but why ask.

The sad fact of the matter remains that it was unavoidable at the 'end point'. . .and not just excuseable. . .but in truth. . .a necessary and reassuring, response. . .

26 posted on 12/08/2005 3:02:04 PM PST by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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To: NYTexan
“We’re not publicly saying that Bush is killing off bipolar people to purify the American gene pool and improve the race,” said one unnamed Senate Democrat.

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Isn't that so like the DemocRATS? Purify the gene pool -- another Bush is a Nazi reference.

27 posted on 12/08/2005 3:02:54 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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To: NYTexan

Who else..........WHO else.............could possibly make the insane leap to blaming this on Bush.

Good God in Heaven, next he'll be blamed for the next supernova discovered by astronomers.

What's really amazing to me personally is just how clueless the Dems are about how unbelievably stupid they look when they do this.


28 posted on 12/08/2005 3:03:35 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: Libertina

Scrappleface gets these satires out faster and faster after something happens because they know the Dems will be stealing their thunder, and they want to be able to say, "We thought of it first."


29 posted on 12/08/2005 3:04:17 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: NYTexan

Checked the poster name right away, but it sure did sound like something you'd hear from the dummies.


30 posted on 12/08/2005 3:04:59 PM PST by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: NYTexan

maybe they can squeeze in Howard Dean and John Kerry for an evaluation


31 posted on 12/08/2005 3:06:18 PM PST by vigilante2 (proud parent of a soldier)
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To: Peepster

If you're not familiar with Scrappleface, it catches you off guard.

Always worth the read,


32 posted on 12/08/2005 3:06:39 PM PST by digger48
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To: NYTexan

Naturally it is the Presidents fault!
He is responsible for looney-bin columbian immigrants too.


33 posted on 12/08/2005 3:07:20 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: doug from upland; cricket; RightOnline

It's satire, read the source URL.


34 posted on 12/08/2005 3:07:42 PM PST by darkangel82 (Never underestimate the stupidity of government.)
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To: darkangel82

I can't believe I didn't recognize it. Doh! No, I know why I didn't recognize it. It is too real.


35 posted on 12/08/2005 3:08:59 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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To: RightOnline
Click the link
36 posted on 12/08/2005 3:10:06 PM PST by RedBeaconNY (Vous parlez trop, mais vous ne dites rien.)
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To: doug from upland

You know it's a crazy world when it gets hard to differentiate satire from reality!


37 posted on 12/08/2005 3:13:20 PM PST by GaltMeister (“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

So this is'nt true........pffffft


38 posted on 12/08/2005 3:14:55 PM PST by NYjarcola
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To: NYjarcola

don't say that yet..the Dems have yet to speak up about this incident..I wouldn't doubt they echo some variation though...


39 posted on 12/08/2005 3:15:47 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead 13 year old girls to prove it...)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Heck, there are people who think this up on their own (paging DU...paging DU...pick up the white courtesy phone)


40 posted on 12/08/2005 3:18:56 PM PST by visualops (www.visualops.com)
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