Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 30 November 2014

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Neil Bruntrager, attorney for Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson; Daryl Parks, attorney for the family of Michael Brown; Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League; former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; Ayrshire Farm owner Sandy Lerner.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Benjamin Crump, attorney for Michael Brown’s family; Sens.-elect Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Gary Peters, D-Mich.; Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago.

THIS WEEK (ABC): St. Louis alderman Antonio French; former New York police commissioner Ray Kelly; Jelani Cobb, writer and University of Connecticut associate professor.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Federal Aviation Administration administrator Michael P. Huerta; Thomas Manger, police chief of Montgomery County, Md., and vice president of the Police Executive Research Forum; Malik Aziz, deputy Dallas police chief and chairman of the National Black Police Association; Detroit Police Chief James Craig; Bernard Kerik, a former commissioner of the New York Police Department.

Fear mongering, huh?

DEMOCRAT quotes:

“Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand,” she said, using slang for a backhanded slap. “I know that is stark. I know that is direct. I know that is reality.”
—Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)

May 19, 2011: Yahoo News: And meanwhile a new political ad from the left end of the spectrum is seeking to amp up progressive outrage over the plan with an over-the-top message that appears to equate the GOP Medicare plan with, well, pushing defenseless seniors over a cliff.

Before the Bush Medicare Extension Part D (Prescription drug benefit) many dems where stating that “Republicans want the elderly to have to eat dog food rather than get subsidies to any help for their medicine and healthcare.”

There are thousands of links (so I won’t post or quote them here) where democrats and the DNCMedia made claims that the Republicans want women to be forced to have babies even if it kills them, make birth control pills illegal, and be forced into second-class citizenship. They even had a collective name for it: The Republican War on Women.

“So when Governor George W. Bush refused to support hate-crime legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.”
— Renee Mullins, daughter of James Byrd, black man slain by being drug from a chain hooked to a pickup truck, who’s murderers Bush had put to death for their crime.

“This is what they used to do to keep us from voting,” proclaims the brochure, featuring a photo of a 1960’s snapshot of a firefighter hosing a colored person. “Now Attorney General John Ashcroft is trying to prevent African Americans from voting at all. Don’t let them do it again.”
—Missouri Democratic spokeswoman Sarah Howard

“Black churches will burn if you vote Republican!”
—Election 2000 democrat flyer.

Salon ran a picture of a virtual Uncle Sam gazing at a startled library patron under the headline, “ Under Bush’s Patriot Act, he’ll know what you’ve been checking out.”

Just consider Global Warming and now Climate Change—the awful things that are supposed to happen if we don’t let government tax us more and destroy the fossil fuel industry are bad enough to curl your hair! Sea levels rising 100 feet! The whole country turned into a baking desert. Polar bears extinct! Penguins starving! Eskimos homeless! The horror, the horror!!! (insert Marlon Brando photo from Apocalypse Now! here)

The list is almost endless. But did Todd EVER call a single democrat for fear-mongering? Has ANY journ-0-list?

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I copied AB’s ping list to send this to all of you to, I dunno....share this bit of craziness.

In one post on the talk show thread I’d written about having to go to a fellow choir member’s funeral, nice guy who lost his battle with cancer of the jaw.

So today was the funeral mass, choir is singing, sad, sad.

We hugged the widow, who is also in the choir, sang the prelude....on to communion. The priest was Father MArk, a great guy, gave a great homily in honor of Merle.

When I sing in the choir I sit in the front row pew directly in front of the priest. Father Mark blessed the bread and wine and was giving out commun ion.

Suddenly....BOOM! A loud noise. I look directly in front of me, so close I could reach out and touch him, laying on the floor...FATHER MARK DROPPED DEAD!!!!

All hell broke loose. A doctor came forth and gave him CPR. They tore off his vestments but I ain’t no doctor but I could see he was dead.

Somebody found a pair of shock paddles, shocked him....nope. father Mark was dead.

They found a priest from a nearby parish who came over to finish the mass but the Deacon sent him to the hospital to administer last rites. The Deacon finished the mass, they got a Eucharistic minister to finish the communion.

Paramedics came from all over the place....chaos, with me hanging on to Birdie, our choir conductor, sobbing. “Birdie he can’t be dead!” I kept sobbing.

“I’ve done CPR on many people and this man’s heart is NOT beating,” Birdie told me, hugging me tight.

Just got the text message that Father Mark was pronounced dead at shortly after noon today at Beebe Medical Center.

Just like that, no clutching of his heart for the pain, one long moan he made but somebody told me that was his chest letting out the air in the lungs.

I’ve known Father Mark for 12 years, since I’ve moved here.

And he died, dropped dead, right in front of me.

I’m a mess but I feel like I got to work this out of my psyche.

Just got the following by email:

It is with a heavy heart that we inform you of the passing of Father Mark Connelly this afternoon. Please keep Father Mark and his family in your prayers. When we have more information on his services we will inform everyone.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

The Staff at St. Jude The Apostle Church

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