From the YouTube site:
This was made entirely by Newtown Students, Danny Bittman and Sarah Clements. This video is a dedication to all of our 26 neighbors, demanding that we change our attitude towards others. The Sandy Hook Promise group, like the video's message, is open minded, and is not trying to attack, or support just one side of any argument.
Out of the mouths of babes.
The media could do all of us a great favor if every day they listed the number of people wounded and killed with hand guns, rifles, and assault weapons, here in the United States. I remember when they used to describe how many people died in auto accident over the Labor Day Holiday, or Memorial Day, or the 4th of July. Those announcements were supposed to be warnings to drive carefully over the holiday weekend. Why not do the same thing by reporting deaths by gunfire? Let's scare people into taking action.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but off topic, but might be of interest. Sarah's tin hatted followers at Sea4Pee (Conservatives4Palin), are all up in arms tonight over the "unfair treatment" she has received this weekend from Collin Powell and the Golden awards ceremony. They are also wondering why she hasn't left any messages on Twitter or her Facebook account in over a month. Some say it's the "calm before the storm", and some say she's only waiting for when the time is right. They're also wonder why she hasn't voice her opinion on the current gun control talk, and are wondering why she so far hasn't responded to the recent criticism on her. Rush also made a comment today that Sarah has left politics, and they are saying he wrong and that she hasn't left politics. But, the poor delusional freaks still believe she should start a third party, and believe that is why her brother recently stated on C4P that a third party is needed. They believe he's putting out feelers for Sarah to find out how much interest there is. Many have also stated that the "underinformed" voters need to become aware of Sarah so they can increase her "base".
ReplyDeleteJust a note as to let you know they're going nuts at C4P and there is alot of entertainment there right now.
I almost feel sorry for them, he he he....
DeleteWhat a splendid video! Thank you, Newtown students for showing your couurage, love and service to others.
ReplyDeletei can't wait for the nra to say it was the kids fault for not being armed, in the usa everyone has a gun...
ReplyDeleteWisdom beyond their years. Please spread this link.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uljoGDiuW0Q
That was profoundly touching! The kids are alright!
ReplyDeleteEveryone should go to their site and make the promise -
http://www.sandyhookpromise.org/
Rachel had an interview with one of the families on the one month anniversary, the mother said that she promised to protect her son, and couldn't, but when he died, she didn't stop being a mother, and she's joined the promise site to advocate for all kids.
I'm glad that VP Biden moved his report to the anniversary AND glad that President Obama delivered his last press conference of his first term. He threw down the gauntlet!
Thanks for posting this Grygh, these are the words that can't stop, and also to recognize that gun control needs to be legislated. Americans need to fight this strongly like nothing else. The U.S. and the world can never stop thinking about what innocence was lost here. Please keep on doing what you do Grygh and put this kind of thing for front. It's so important.
ReplyDeleteOT Sorry to be OT during a serious post, but I suggest that you take a look at Bristol's latest blog. (I really think when the post is that long that Nancy French writes it. It does have some of Bristol or Sarah's input, especially the never-ending victimization of the Palins. This time it's about child rape.)
ReplyDeleteDavid Letterman's interview with Oprah was aired on January 6. Why did it take so long for the response to Dave's comment that he apologized publicly about his inappropriate joke because he wanted to be able to continue to make jokes about Sarah Palin. Any comedian would make sure that he could continue to make fun of Palin. She's good material.
It's a funny remark, and it doesn't detract from his apology. The joke was based on several things: ARod had affairs with attractive stars (Madonna, Kate Hudson, Cameron Diaz) and it was public knowledge. The sex was consensual.
Every night, Dave made fun of ARod having sex with another public figure. When Palin attended the baseball game, it announced that she attended with her daughter. Maybe Dave really did think that it was Bristol, but it doesn't matter. The joke, like many of his jokes, was in bad taste. Dave said that he apologizes on a regular basis. It's his style. If you don't like him, don't watch him. And in Bristol's case, don't go on his program to publicize a book. However, before he joked about a Palin daughter, he had joked about the ARod's other gals.
The question is-- what took so long for the outrage? Wilow was 14. Would you really call her a child? She was old enough to break into someone's empty house and trash the place, along with some friends (by the time she was 15). By the time Bristol was 15, her My Space comments tell pretty juicy story. Willow was also involved in writing homophobic slurs on some kid's Facebook page.
Sarah's fans can't hide their outrage at "Game Change" receiving Golden Globe honors. If the book and the movie were lies, where is the lawsuit? Ben Shapiro wrote a book about liberals bullying the poor Republicans. Sarah Palin turned it into a blog about poor Bristol being told that she should not keep her baby. Poor Bristol had been bullied, too. The Letterman interview is old news. And, he continues to makes jokes about Sarah Palin-- as did Tina Fey, Julianne Moore and others at the Golden Globes.
When you run for public office and you can't answer a few simple questions, that invites some late night jokes. When Sarah did provide some answers, such as Putin raising his head or Paul Revere firing those warning shots and ringing those bells, that's more late night comedy. Sarah and Bristol have chosen to be in the spotlight. They seem to like the attention. And, I think that Sarah likes the donations to her PAC. All of that comes with a price.
When your mother trots you out in front of the entire world to announce that you are 5 month pregnant and you are an unwed teen, that's going to invite some comments, too. Maybe Sarah should not have publicized Bristol's pregnancy as loudly as she did. Sarah's purpose at the time was to use Bristol being pregnant at the end of August, 2008 as proof that Bristol had not given birth to Trig. It didn't prove that-- and it didn't prove whether or not Sarah gave birth to Trig. All that Sarah had to do was show Trig's birth certificate. President Obama showed his. We have never seen any proof of Trig's birth.
Oprah's program aired January 6. What took Bristol and Nancy so long? Or, was this just a bad week for Sarah-- being called out by Collin Powell for her racist remark about "shuckin' and jivin." People made jokes about her at the Golden Globes. They made jokes about other people too. Would Sarah like to be ignored? Sarah is always outraged about something. The Palins are always victims. It's getting tired. And, in this case, it's old.
One Month After Newtown Shooting, NRA Releases Shooting Game App With Coffin-Shaped Targets
ReplyDeleteWhen 20 children and 6 adults were gunned down in Sandy Hook Elementary School exactly one month ago today, the National Rifle Association rushed to blame video games, not guns, for inspiring such mass murders. But the gun lobby seemingly lost sight of its target in the past weeks, and over the weekend released a shooting app, called “NRA: Practice Range.”
The app bills itself as a “network of news, laws, facts, knowledge, safety tips, educational materials and online resource.” The NRA reports that it “[i]nstills safe and responsible ownership through fun challenges and realistic simulations.”
But it isn’t all about hunting. It allows players practice shooting at targets — coffin-shaped targets, with red bullseyes at head- and heart-level:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/14/1441701/newtown-nra-shooting-game/
Families of Newtown Victims Organize Violence Prevention Effort
ReplyDeleteNelba Marquez-Greene put her two children on the school bus on the morning of Dec. 14. Only one came home.
Nicole Hockley still finds herself reaching for her son’s hand in parking lots, or expects “him to crawl into my bed for early-morning cuddles before school.”
“It’s so hard to believe he’s gone,” she said.
The grieving mothers and other parents and relatives of victims killed in the Dec. 14 elementary school massacre gathered here at a news conference on Monday to help begin a campaign intended to prevent the kind of bloodshed that has turned this quiet New England community into a national symbol of grief.
In some of their first public statements since the shooting, which killed 20 children and 6 staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the families of 11 of the victims called for a national dialogue on issues of mental health, school safety and what their nonprofit group, called Sandy Hook Promise, described as “gun responsibility.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/nyregion/newtown-school-massacre-families-organize-on-gun-violence.html?hp&_r=1&
SERIOUSLY?! A Gun Show At An Elementary School
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/gun-show-spooner-elementary-school_n_2473941.html
Sandy Hook mother: "His jaw was blown away. I just want people to know the ugliness of it so we don’t talk about it abstractly, like these little angels just went to heaven. No. They were butchered. They were brutalized.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/168707/wrestling-with-details-of-noah-pozners-killing/#ixzz2I0uklguO
Good point that jokes were made about others on late night shows and at the Golden Globes.
ReplyDeleteI remind myself that no movie stars or politicians use or exploit their children then cry victim like the Palins have done. Exploiting children is not protecting them. Also it dumbs them down missing school.