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Gabby Giffords Embraces 'Second Chance' in 5 Years Since Shooting
NBC news ^ | Jan 8 2016 | AP

Posted on 01/09/2016 12:01:09 AM PST by This_far

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NBC has made her out to be quite the advocate and continuing representative.

Perhaps I'm reading it wrong.

Previous stories of barry's visit claim that she awoke after he visited.

(is he gone yet?)

1 posted on 01/09/2016 12:01:09 AM PST by This_far
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To: This_far

Mark Kelly’s “Charlie McCarthy”...


2 posted on 01/09/2016 12:03:51 AM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: kiryandil

an excellent thought about confusing Nanny Pelosi with McCarthyism and Charlie McCarthy

Wouldn’t it be precious to have Nanny P have to confront Donald T?


3 posted on 01/09/2016 12:08:31 AM PST by This_far
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To: This_far

Buckley, before he came out as a RINO idiot, wrote an article that if ALL roads were to have 5 mph speed limits, deaths would decline tremendously.

If cars were BANNED, there would be NO car deaths.

Point being, it is absurd.

Guns are a recreational piece of gear that are VERY VERY statistically small in number, used to commit mass murders.

my mother’s neighbor, Greta, slipped in the tub and hit her head and died. Bleeding on the brain. She was 80 but Strong. It happens much more than one would think.

Several poor people I know have type 2 diabetes from years of taking in lots and lots of sugar. hate to see them suffer.

lots of people with lung cancer from smoking have died. Took my DEAR TO ME uncles Ralph and Sonny.

And PLANE CRASHES!! doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it’s usually a sure bet everyone on board dies.

What are we to do....?


4 posted on 01/09/2016 12:21:57 AM PST by dp0622 (i .)
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Guns aren’t recreational but can be used as such.

You have a point where causes of non natural deaths can be categorized and it’s not done.

I crashed a plane and survived (PIC), on takeoff, never committed.

What do we do?

Mostly challenge the media, then those who are elected and then those who may be among us (sorry).


5 posted on 01/09/2016 12:34:56 AM PST by This_far
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To: This_far

I’m from NYC/USSR but trying to get a permit. in the process.

i’m 47, shot my first guns a few months ago, i’m ashamed to say, and it was GREAT!

M4, SCAR and Glock.

M4 was incredible.

But after shooting it, I wonder how ANYBODY left a battlefield with hundreds of men having these and AKs.

One soldier told me in the heat of battle, a lot of shots are errant, it is not constant shooting, at least among the professional soldiers, they try to get cover behind safe quarters, and a few other things I forgot.

I know that once I got jumped by three guys. Got pummeled and lost ALL my courage. Just wanted to get away.

Same when a guy attacked my cab with a baseball bat.

Was ashamed of how I acted in both cases later on.

Have held my own in a number of one on one fist fights, but when the threat of severe damage or death was there, I folded twice.

took boxing to defend myself and it helped in some one on ones.

but I fear I might have folded and run in a military engagement.

GEEZ, our soldiers are TOUGH and DISCIPLINED and GOOD


6 posted on 01/09/2016 12:53:48 AM PST by dp0622 (i .)
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To: dp0622

Calm down.

You’ve a lot to learn about and from this board.

Take a month and go back in the archives.

(you wouldn’t believe some of the names you see posted, never mind some that are behind those that are posted)


7 posted on 01/09/2016 1:07:08 AM PST by This_far
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To: This_far

I get over excited. it’s the Italian in me :)

I KNOW I have a lot to learn.

could fill pages with what I have learned already.

any archives in particular?


8 posted on 01/09/2016 1:15:38 AM PST by dp0622 (i .)
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To: dp0622

Hurtgen Forest, it’s deep!

Use FR search or goog/bing


9 posted on 01/09/2016 1:17:21 AM PST by This_far
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To: This_far

thanks :)


10 posted on 01/09/2016 1:22:50 AM PST by dp0622 (i .)
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To: This_far

going to start reading about it now.

found nothing on FR but lots on the internet.

it boggles my mind that Western Europeans and their descendants and relatives in America fought each other!!!

Or that Europeans fought each other! only 70 years ago!!!!

I’m 47. not young but born 43 years after the war.


11 posted on 01/09/2016 1:29:37 AM PST by dp0622 (i .)
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search Hurtgen forest Free Republic (google/bing)

Go to the thread with the earliest date


12 posted on 01/09/2016 1:33:00 AM PST by This_far
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To: This_far

thanks again. I’ll get to ya in a couple of days :)


13 posted on 01/09/2016 1:34:08 AM PST by dp0622 (i .)
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To: dp0622

ok


14 posted on 01/09/2016 1:35:29 AM PST by This_far
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To: This_far

If she had half a brain she could run for president...


15 posted on 01/09/2016 5:06:04 AM PST by null and void (Not quite parallel, more like skew...)
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To: This_far

Who F’ing cares what she does?


16 posted on 01/09/2016 5:36:29 AM PST by paul544
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To: dp0622

You’re a good egg, dp.

I enjoy your posts.


17 posted on 01/09/2016 5:41:00 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: dp0622

I would have done the same in the situations you describe. I’m now getting to the age where I will require a gun as an equalizer. Therefore I will do my duty and become well regulated (armed and trained). I don’t look at the second as a right, but as a responsibility and one I have been mostly ignoring.


18 posted on 01/09/2016 5:55:33 AM PST by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: This_far
One lasting take-away from this episode was how the media was successful in making an obscure congresswoman from a western state a household name and making a large number of American "think" they knew her.

The news outlets initially referred to her as Representative Gabrielle Giffords then switched to simply "Gabby" in a day or so. Creepy orchestrated psy-ops.

19 posted on 01/09/2016 7:45:34 AM PST by Oratam
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To: This_far

James Brady redux.


20 posted on 01/09/2016 7:50:41 AM PST by Rebelbase
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