Binghamton Rampage Leaves 14 Dead, Police Don’t Know Motive<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n By 10:33 a.m., the shooting was over and 14 people — including the gunman — lay dead, the chief said.<\/p>\n At least four people were listed in critical condition. Earlier, sources said as many as 26 people were wounded.<\/p>\n 3 Pittsburgh officers killed; suspect taken after standoff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n An ambush that resulted in the shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh policemen was precipitated by an emergency call from the gunman’s mother over a dog urinating in the house.<\/p>\n …later identified as Richard “Pop” Poplawski, 22. A dishonorably charged Marine, he adhered to a number of right-wing conspiracy theories and expressed fears of a “Zionist nation” revoking his right to own guns.<\/p>\n Breakup ignited dad’s deadly rage in Graham<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n He jumped in a car with oldest daughter Maxine, 16, who tracked her mother through a cellphone global-positioning system.<\/p>\n They homed in on a convenience store 20 miles away in Auburn, north of the Muckleshoot Casino. James confronted his wife, who was with another man. He wanted her home. She said she wasn’t coming back.<\/p>\n He stormed home, consulted relatives and calmed down. Maxine went to bed about 11 p.m. with her four younger siblings. She sent a classmate a text message from her cellphone: “I’m tired of crying. I’m going to bed.”<\/p>\n Within hours, James Harrison, 34, grabbed a rifle and shot each child multiple times. Four were found in bed. One of the girls died in the bathroom after a violent struggle.<\/p>\n Armed with a second rifle, he returned to Auburn on Saturday morning, perhaps in hopes of finding his wife. Perhaps to kill again. Instead, sitting inside his running SUV, he turned the rifle on himself. His body was discovered about 8 a.m. by children playing in the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Welcome back to Realityland Bruce…<\/em><\/p>\n Oh…and the Iowa Supreme Court Unanimously<\/em> decided that not letting same sex couples marry was an unconstitutional denial of equal protection. \u00a0 I should be happy about that and I am, but I dread reading the news accounts because inevitably they have to give the gutter a chance to spit on gay people, happy couples, and all their hopes and dreams. \u00a0 But more and more I’m seeing words like these, finally<\/a>…<\/p>\n There was a time, not that long ago, when it was possible to imagine, however inaccurately, that gay sex was in and of itself a self-destructive pathology, something no happy, healthy person would willingly engage in. That time is past. The evidence of stable, loving relationships between well-adjusted, successful people is all around us. Indeed, this abundant evidence–and not the tides of the sexual revolution, which peaked more than three decades ago and have since receded–is the reason that gay rights, and in particular the question of gay marriage, have moved so quickly in recent years.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That time is past…<\/em> \u00a0 Yes, for the people willing to let reality speak for itself. \u00a0 I am of a generation of Americans who were taught all kinds of horrible, filthy lies about gay people, and not simply in school, but in church, in the movies, in magazines and newspapers, and on TV. \u00a0 Where we were not dangerous sexual psychopaths we were contemptible faggots. \u00a0 When I was 17, and just beginning to grasp that I was gay myself, I got the message about how people felt about homosexuals from just about every direction I looked…<\/p>\n Mad #145, Sept \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc71, from “Greeting Cards For The At the beginning of James Burke’s PBS series The Day The Universe Changed<\/em>, he tells a story of some students of philosophy, bragging to the teacher about how ignorant people were to think that the earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun orbited around the earth rather then the other way around. \u00a0 How ignorant, said the students, when all they had to do was just look up and observe the sun rising as the earth turned. \u00a0 Yes, said the teacher, but I wonder how it would have looked to them had the sun actually been orbiting the earth?<\/em> \u00a0 The point being that it would have looked the same. \u00a0 Sometimes what we see is what our knowledge tells us we’re seeing. \u00a0 And for generation upon generation, people have been taught to see gay people as monsters…sick, perverted, disgusting, pathological monsters.<\/p>\n Which was how we saw ourselves for so very long. \u00a0 That time is past.<\/em> \u00a0 And years of living openly and proudly are having their effect on anyone open to the evidence. \u00a0 But there’s one more movement to go in this civil rights dance…<\/p>\n Gay Bashing Suspect: ‘The Faggot Deserved It’<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A 62-year-old man assaulted in an alleged hate crime in a Vancouver gay bar remains in hospital care.<\/span><\/p>\n In the wake of the attack, the local GLBT community has mounted protests against the attack, as well as a string of earlier incidents that may also have been anti-gay hate crimes.<\/p>\n![\"](\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/images\/mad-145_to_a_gay_lib.jpg\")
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