Oh please, I can’t wait

~ susie

Reince Priebus

Please spend lots of your money trying to win Pennsylvania! It will really inspire our Democratic voter turnout in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh:

PHILADELPHIA — Republican leaders, candidates and campaign strategists are assembling in the City of Brotherly Love to give conservatives from its collar counties a glimpse of the party’s rising stars and make the case for winning Pennsylvania in the 2016 presidential election.

A GOP win in the state would be the first in 28 years.

“We’re making a commitment to Pennsylvania and other crucial swing states across the country,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. “By investing in Pennsylvania early and engaging in every community across the state, we can make the inroads needed to win in 2016.

[…]The 2015 Northeast Republican Leadership Conference is similar to a southern GOP conference, 20 years running and held in Oklahoma City last month.
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A broken home

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Well, there you go. The shooter came from one very fucked up family.

And no, the problem isn’t that we look at mental illness when it’s a white shooter. It’s that we don’t look at it for EVERY violent criminal. The vast majority of violent criminals have serious trauma as children, much of it sexual. (A shrink once told me it’s almost a recipe for violent crime.)

Via the Daily Mail:

The white loner accused of shooting dead nine people at a black church was raised by a violent father who beat up his stepmother and hired a private detective to follow her when they split.
These shocking charges were made in court papers by Paige Mann – the ex-wife of Dylann Roof’s father Franklin – that were obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.

Franklin Bennett Roof, 52, who is known as Benn, bought his son the gun he allegedly used for the massacre. He is also said to have subjected his wife Paige to a ‘pattern of control and mental manipulation’ that ended with a vicious assault.

Exclusive photographs obtained by DailyMail.com show multiple bruises to her body allegedly caused by him. She claims he battered her on the back of the head in 2008 and made her ‘world fall apart’.
Franklin is said to have shredded Paige’s self esteem during their ten-year marriage. He also kept her in a ‘virtual prison’ by calling her several times a day and demanding to know what she was doing.
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Hello old friend

~ susie

I’d borrowed a friend’s lakeside cabin and went away for a week to do some songwriting: just me, my guitar, a Casio keyboard and a tape recorder. Oh, and I also brought this then-new Kim Richey album for inspiration, and I’d just heard from an old boyfriend, so this song resonated: