[DearAbby]

Injured and dying children is not hype. I suggest you put your heart in order.

[ItCanHappenToYou]

My thoughts are with the kids and their families.

[ChemistCat]

I don't know what it is lately, but you can't find a single thread where SOMEONE isn't trying to shut down discussion by saying it's hype or irrelevent or not important or treason or a waste of bandwidth or....

How is it "conservative" to try to shut other people up all of the time? When tornadoes hit Cordell OK the thread filled up with smarta** remarks because at first, nobody was thinking, "Wow, a real tornado, or six, actually on the ground now tearing up people's houses."

Then there's the faction that wants only cookie-cutter opinions and ridicules anybody who has a "feeling" about anything, even dead kids. They're the ones who bring out the high rhetoric like "treason" and "Pro-terrorism" to describe anyone they disagree with. I don't know about you, but I believe their tactics were lifted straight out of the Clinton White House etiquette manual.

The Thought Gestapo is just getting a little too busy around here, and they have too often shut off and scared away useful comments and questions.

Thanks DearAbby for being on the better side of it.

[#3Fan]

Injured and dying children is not hype. I suggest you put your heart in order.

I agree it's not hype to the people directly affected. 30 children a day die in traffic accidents. Are we going to place these in the "Breaking News" column 30 times a day and knash our teeth? I honestly am beginning to think this is a conscious effort by the media to flood America with bad news due to a liberal bias. When a Dem is president,all is well. When a Conservative is president, every bit of bad news makes the front page.