Operation Rescue Founder Launches ‘Defeat Sotomayor’ Roadshow
Operation Rescue Founder Launches ‘Defeat Sotomayor’ Roadshow
Randall Terry, founder of the right-wing extremist group Operation Rescue, has announced a twelve-city tour intended to convince senators that “[t]o refuse to filibuster [Sotomayor] is to bow in abject obedience to the Angel of Death.” The graphic depicted to the right is taken from a flier promoting the event, which claims:
“We must stop permitting this hypocrisy, cowardice, and treachery in our midst. Pro-life voters are calling on pro-life Senators to filibuster Sotomayor.
“A Senator cannot say, ‘I want to overturn Roe,’ and then vote to confirm a Supreme Court Judge that will uphold Roe. A vote to confirm Sotomayor is a vote to uphold Roe.
“Many senators use pro-life rhetoric to seduce us; they get our money, our volunteer labor, and our votes. But once an election is over, they discard us like an embarrassing mistress. . . . Whether they ‘have the votes’ to sustain a filibuster or not, they need to fight to stop her, for the sake of the babies who will die under her judicial reign.“
Sadly, such rhetoric is relatively tame by Terry’s extremist standards. Terry refused to condemn the recent killing of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, instead calling him a “mass-murderer” who “did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God.” Terry also once went on the radio to pray for a Colorado abortion provider to be executed; two days later, that doctor was found dead.
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Welcome to 21st century America, courtesy of the Republican Party.
They may not be directly sponsoring this hateful trash but they certainly have worked hard to make it the American way.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:38 pmYEAH!!! We don’t want activist judges – unless they are going to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:40 pmTherein lies a frightening hypothetical:
If Sotomayor is killed by an extremist due to this kind of rhetoric, what steps will be taken?
The FBI went about half-assed with Tiller…should a person with this much media exposure fall victim, the response would be immense
July 6th, 2009 at 1:40 pm“But once an election is over, they discard us like an embarrassing mistress. . . ”
Sounds pretty appropriate with all the Goppers that are having adultry issues lately.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:40 pmComparing himself
July 6th, 2009 at 1:41 pmTo embarrassing mistress
Seems kind of weird though
“they discard us like an embarrassing mistress” says a lot about what they think about women as a whole. It just rolls off his tongue sooo easily.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:43 pmThat graphic isn’t intended to persuade senators of anything. It’s intended to incited on crazed gunman to shoot Judge Sotomayer. I hope she has security.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:44 pm.
Randall Terry’s flier said:
“Many senators use pro-life rhetoric to seduce us; they get our money, our volunteer labor, and our votes. But once an election is over, they discard us like an embarrassing mistress. . . .
The proper analogy would be “discarded like an aborted fetus…
But really,
We all know, the right to life ends after birth.
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July 6th, 2009 at 1:46 pmjust WOW!
July 6th, 2009 at 1:46 pmIsn’t the Angel of Death, um, God’s employee?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:47 pm[Hannity smirk] Why does Randall Terry hate God so much?
Repiggie evangelicals are at the bottom of this, as usual.
Evangelicalism is the fastest growing mental illness in this nation. It is now synonymous with the repiggie party.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:48 pmRight-wingers, winning hearts and minds!
I can’t even agree with Mr. Terry’s analysis in the third paragraph quoted above — while most right-wing Senators value their corporatist constituency more than their religious extremist constituency, having a Republican Congress and a Republican President through most of this decade did get the pro-lifers their intact D&E ban.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:48 pmWhy is it that the male species is always the loudest when it comes to anti-abortions. Why should they be the judge concerning what a womans does with her own body. This guy is way out there.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:49 pmMaybe this is a good time to point out that a) embryos and fetuses are not babies, b) if wingnuts *really* thought abortion is murder they’d be asking for the prosecution of the women who undergo the procedure, and c) this poster shows, once again, wingnuts crave a Bible-based theocracy.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:52 pmBig govt Republicans want the Federal government to be so large and intrusive as to be able to control a woman’s uterus.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:52 pmYes, that is exactly the image we need from Mr. Terry when it comes to voting on something.
I can only imagine what this has made some gun-toting anti-abortion heretics consider doing.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:53 pmJeff Bovine Says:
Sure they can! In fact, it used to happen quite often. Before Roe was decided and the right to choose was legal, many, many children (under age females) died from botched back-alley abortions.
Of course, many, many legal age women did, too.
But I suspect my point is not the point Mr. Terry was trying to make.
PEACE
July 6th, 2009 at 1:53 pmRandall Terry is a disgusting human being.
With all his “moral” superiority he is doing nothing more than seeking his 15 minutes of fame.
If he and his following were really for “Right to Life” they would not just ignore the lives of children that come into the world unwanted.
How many of the poor defenseless fetuses that have been born unwanted has he adopted? How many children have the fanatics that follow him adopted?
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. ~Florynce R. Kennedy, 1973
July 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pmThey should NEVER be referred to as ‘pro-life’, they should only be called ‘pro-forced-birth’
July 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pmAnyone remember Terri Shiavo? This is a sick man who would keep the hearts of dead people artificially beating in perpetuity.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pmDoes this flyer seem like a subtle means for inciting some armed wingnutter to turn Ms. Sotomayor into a skeleton?
PEACE
July 6th, 2009 at 1:55 pmI disagree, it is not subtle at all.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:55 pmI’m taking bets: how many poor, minority children would Terry be willing to adopt if they would otherwise be aborted? (My money? Hint: less than one)
July 6th, 2009 at 1:56 pmTerry is a detestible gasbag if ever there was one. He’s lucky he is on the anti-choice side of the debate, though, since pro-choice supporters aren’t inclined to kill off their opponents as are Terry’s butt-buddies.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:56 pmI can only hope that his antics will backfire on him. Then he can just go away.
Randall Terry already has the blood of gynecologists on his hands. That photoshop job is intended to incite the batshit insane to take a shot at Judge Sotomayor.
When will the FBI or DHS arrest him?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:56 pmI guess to use the nomenclature of the old IRA, Randall Terry is part of the “political wing” of the anti-choice terrorist movement.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:57 pmRandal Terry is a shining example of why it is dangerous and inhumane to allow people to continue suffering from the mental condition known as religion.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:59 pmCOProgressive Says:
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. ~Florynce R. Kennedy, 1973
July 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
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If our Members of Congress continue drinking Potomac river water, this statement may soon come true.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:00 pmabortion is the termination of pregnancy. Abortion is not “murder,” it is the termination of pregnancy. Abortion is just another form of birth control. Without birth control, our cities, towns, counties, and states would be even more overcrowded with people, people and more people. Humans need to stop reproducing by from 90% to 99% to give the planet a rest and give it some time to recover from the abuse of human over-population.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:01 pmFor these clowns life begins at conception and ends at birth. After that your on your own…ie. death penalty, war, lax gun laws.
I cannot respect ANYONE that has no problem being passionately anti-abortion and pro-war at the same time.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:05 pmI believe that this strategy, like their strategy of killing doctors at church, will ultimately backfire against the religious zealots.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pmWouldn’t you think they’d want to get some idea whether Sotomayor was actually pro-choice or not before going with the crazy skull graphics? I don’t believe that’s even been determined.
I mean, if they want to be taken seriously. But at this point they’ve just lost they goddamn minds.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:07 pmHMMMMMM, let’s see, IMHO . . .
Billo the Clown has more credibility than ‘flim flam man’ Randall Terry!!
Anyone know if Terry has accepted his son’s homosexuality yet?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:08 pmThat graphic is obscene! These thugs love to use shocking, disgusting pictures to scare people, when they totally abandon unwanted babies once they are born; then they’re the spawn of “welfare queens” and “illegitimate births” of loose women (and BLACK PEOPLE!). As noted by COProgress, If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. ~Florynce R. Kennedy, 1973
This is similar to what I ‘ve always said: If men could get pregnant, there’d be an abortion clinic on every corner.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:09 pmRandall Terry, August 1993:
“I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good . . . Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time. We don’t want pluralism.”
Why would anyone ever listen to or, worse, bother to constantly update the never-ending nonsensical drivel that defines Randall Terry? In the near sixteen years since he, in effect, equated Christianity with ‘a wave of hatred,’ his thesis has apparently evolved to the point where today it seems that to be an acceptable “Christian” demands hatred of all whose point of view differs from from the (deviant) Biblical interpretations which are oh, so common to the nutcase realm.
Spare me.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:09 pmIt is obvious that these religious nut-jobs are calling for the assassination of anyone they disagree with.
Their followers are just crazy enough to follow thru with these vile acts of violence.
They should be held accountable and the FBI needs to take a good look at what these hate-mongers are saying in code to their even sicker followers.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:10 pmLizCoro Says:
Anyone know if Terry has accepted his son’s homosexuality yet?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I think that will happen about the time Phyllis Schlafly and Alan Keyes accept their children’s homosexuality. :D
July 6th, 2009 at 2:11 pmOnly God knows when life begins.
But we know one thing for certain: pro-lifers are murderers.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:13 pmone day our country will grow out of the childish belief in religion. that is, if its childish belief in religion doesn’t destroy it first.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:13 pm“Many senators use pro-life rhetoric to seduce us; they get our money, our volunteer labor, and our votes. But once an election is over, they discard us like an embarrassing mistress. . . .
There’s a reason for that, Randall: you’re embarrassing.
But I generally agree that the R’s should stop lending these wackjobs the appearance of political legitimacy in exchange for votes.
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JvS Says:
Anyone remember Terri Shiavo? This is a sick man who would keep the hearts of dead people artificially beating in perpetuity.
That’s because – and I’m being quite literal about this – “pro-life” people do not understand what brains are for. If they did, they’d realize that living + human DNA =/= a person.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:14 pmRandall Terry, that stalwart “defender” of traditional morality, is himself an adulterer. He dumped his older previous wife for a younger, sleeker model twenty or so years younger than him.
“Whatsoever God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.”
It’s always entertaining to watch the holy roller fundamentalists wiggle around this one when trying to justify their own adulterous conduct and many divorces.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:14 pmif god were real, god could tell us
July 6th, 2009 at 2:14 pmOval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:
Humans need to stop reproducing by from 90% to 99% to give the planet a rest and give it some time to recover from the abuse of human over-population.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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Exactly. Do these “pro-life” idiots have any idea what this country would be like and how bad the economic catastrophe would be if our population had an extra 50 million unwanted people?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:15 pmI just hope that when Sotomayer is confirmed to SCOTUS that she is given adequate protectection from this American Terrorist.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:16 pmPolitics of hate. Is this what this person wants to teach the American public? Is this “morally superior” to abortion? I think this person should rather use his money to support a center to feed poor children. Maybe then, and only then, some women would rethink their very legitimate abortion decision.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:17 pmRandy has no problem aborting any sane thought that might enter his brain.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pmOf course, the “pro-Choice” crowd’s all-life-is-sacred creed doesn’t extend to abortion providers, or the actual, out-of-the-womb children.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pmConcerning the statements about if men could get pregnant, well if only men got pregnant instead of women the human race would have ended a long time ago!
July 6th, 2009 at 2:21 pmHow many fetus’s have received a number from Social Security?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:21 pmI want the republicans to keep the fundamentalists in their fold. The fundamentalists are the best thing that could happen to republicans because they are reaping what they sowed. They made their party into the party of religion instead of the party of politics. I’m enjoying their antics to the max because they have no idea the price they’re going to pay at the voting booth. By going after Judge Sotomayor like this, they are alienating a lot of hispanics. They have already alienated most blacks. They do not understand that by opposing her for frivilous reasons, they are shrinking the size of their “tent” and the number of members they will have in congress. Works for me.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:24 pmWhy is this American Taliban terrorist still allowed to walk freely on our streets, call for the murder of American citizens and not in jail or Gitmo?
If he was an Islamic cleric rather than a raving loonatic Christian, he would be.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:27 pmranus69 Says:
I just hope that when Sotomayer is confirmed to SCOTUS that she is given adequate protectection from this American Terrorist.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I hope she has it NOW.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:28 pmGregor Samsa Says:
Of course, the “pro-Choice” crowd’s all-life-is-sacred creed doesn’t extend to abortion providers, or the actual, out-of-the-womb children.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I’m sure you mean “pro-life.” :)
July 6th, 2009 at 2:30 pmZooey,
Oops!! yes, I meant “pro-life”… doh!
July 6th, 2009 at 2:33 pmLet me get this straight. According to Reichwhiners, “fatwas” are good if those who issue them wear a cross?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:34 pm…
oh my gawd.
i just clicked away another screen which exposed the TP shot above…
it literally took my breath away… how extremely horrible…
those people are just sick.
sick.
and stupid.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:37 pmanything is good to them if they can wrap their religious delusions around it
July 6th, 2009 at 2:37 pm“Many senators use pro-life rhetoric to seduce us; they get our money, our volunteer labor, and our votes. But once an election is over, they discard us like an embarrassing mistress. . .”
Someone needs to explore terry’s background for discarded mistresses. Seriously.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:39 pmThe Senators that are the target of Randall Terry’s 12 city tour need to be made well aware that if they give in to this man’s desires then the terrorists have won. See, these terrorists hate us for our freedoms and we must stand firm in our resolve not to be swayed by fear.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:51 pmAll kidding aside I find it hysterical that the fundie feels slighted by the Repiglickers. Did he finally realize that Republicans have been taking religious fundementalists for a ride for at least twenty five years or so? This domestic terrorist seems to be just waking up to the fact that the Repugs held the Presidency and both Houses of Congress for six years and never mentioned Roe v. Wade even once. I’ve been laughing at the way the Right has used the fundies for votes for decades and it took the nomination of Sotomayor to make these idiots see their representatives for what they are, a lying sack of elephant dung that would promise their mother’s soul for a Republican vote. Face it Terry, you and your religiou zealot buddies have been pwned by the Republicons, they’ve been laughing at your ignorance for a long, long time. Where’s Ashton Kutcher with his trucker cap and handheld camera when you need him?
Past few months have made me wonder why the hell anyone wants to go anywhere near politics anymore. I won’t even volunteer for my home owners association. People get emotional and crazy about the dumbest things.
We need to learn how to disagree about things in a civil manner. Jesus.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:51 pmSotomayor doesn’t even have a track record on abortion, despite many years on the bench. So the only reason for this scare marketing by Randall Terry is because Sotomayor is an Obama nominee. And we can expect this sort of thing from Terry for EVERY nominee of Obama’s — even if he nominated the Pope.
I suspect most of the Republican senators aren’t going to waste their indignation on the Sotomayor nomination. They recognize that being the party of “NO” will only hurt them. And if they are going to have to pick and choose their battles as a result, they would much rather fight against a very definitely liberal pick replacing somebody like Scalia.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:57 pmUntil ‘conception certificates’ are required for licenses, voting, etc., and until miscarriages are legally defined as involuntary manslaughter, and until ‘pro-life’ comes out for more than one wedge issue, there is no ‘right’. The pre-born have no rights. You have to be born to enjoy any rights.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:08 pmThis is both dangerous and ridiculous. Operation Rescue needs to be shut down by the DHS. I’m sure the group has already earned a spot at the top of the DHS terrorist watch list.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:08 pmThey go after George Tiller, they go after Judge Sotomayor because it skirts the reality.
And they can’t stand up to the reality.
The reality is that every aborted fetus or embryo’s life was ended BY THE MOTHER.
The doctor is only an accessory–and the judge even more tangential.
They yap about a holocaust–but for their wept-over millions there is in a near one-to-one correspondence a similar number of women.
If you really believe that abortion is murder–and you shout it at the top of your lungs, so you probably do believe it–do you stand ready to imprison and/or execute these millions of women?
These murderers?
No, you shoot the accomplices.
Confront the core of this reality, and your movement would be over in a week.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:29 pmTwo things. 1. I wonder if Randall “The Terrorist Traitor” Terry realizes quoting yourself on a document you released makes you look like a total egomaniac/dickweed. 2. Isn’t Doctor Tiller’s clinic still private property? Why is his family allowing this man to cause them more pain and use the clinic as a symbol of victory? Make no mistake. Randall Terry sees Doctor Tiller’s assassination as a victory in his “war”. We must make him realize otherwise.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:31 pmCan any of the right wing trolls let me know whether you consider a fetus killed by a bomb dropped from a plane to be an abortion? I can’t get a straight answer about that one out of any wing folks..
July 6th, 2009 at 3:42 pmTerry doesn’t seem to care about the flowing blood of his victims.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:43 pmYou won’t get an answer until you clarify the question Chocolate Jesus, is the fetus killed by your bomb a Christian or not?
July 6th, 2009 at 3:55 pmnanlichi Says:
July 6th, 2009 at 3:57 pmYou won’t get an answer until you clarify the question Chocolate Jesus, is the fetus killed by your bomb a Christian or not?
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What difference does it make if it’s a Christian or not?
It doesn’t to me but the question was posed to the right wing trolls, who support killing Muslims with abandon, even celebrate the killings. Ask them.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pmnanlichi,
It’s called Pro-Choice and I will fight until the end of time for this as I have always done and will continue to do.
Levi please do tell us if getting Bristol’s baby aborted was an option or was Bristol mandated to keep the baby aganist her will by her “incompetent” mother Palin the wicked witch of the north?
July 6th, 2009 at 4:06 pmRandall Terry is a TERRORIST.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:13 pmA “Christian” blog where I occasionally lurk has a thread about Dr. Tiller. 1,600 pages of praise for the man who assassinated him.
They also had a thread about the N. Korean missiles where, among other disturbing musings, they seem to be bemoaning the fact that the missiles didn’t hit anyone and cause a retaliation.
I can’t help but think that they worship bloodshed above their God.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:14 pmranus69,
I too will fight to the end for Pro Choice. Always have and always will.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:47 pmIsn’t it said that one picture is worth a thousand words.
I think this picture may be a reflection of Randall Terry’s
soul.
Most mainstream denominations have distance themselves from this garbage. The abortion issue is too sacred to be treated in this manner. This is not the reflection of the right to life movement, just an opportunist at work.
I wonder if anyone bothered to tell Randell Somomayer is Roman Catholic, and the left has not gone screaming crazy. I see a little hypocrisy, and from a moral man? Appears to be a normal state of affairs with the Religious Right.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:36 pmTerry like many others in the right wing, just cannot tolerate the democratic process that allowed Obama to be elected.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:51 pmmisscoleopteramolly Says:
Sotomayor doesn’t even have a track record on abortion, despite many years on the bench. So the only reason for this scare marketing by Randall Terry is because Sotomayor is an Obama nominee.
Precisely. When Operation Rescue starts smearking judicial opponents whether or not they’re pro-choice or pro-life, they’re going to lose their legitimacy in the pro-life movement.
The only reason they’re opposing Sotomayor is because she was nominated by a Democrat. Which means that Operation Rescue is no longer about the pro-life movement, and is only using it as an excuse to advance the cause of the Republican party.
Making the whole situation even more ridiculous, Terry complains in the very same ad about Republicans abusing the pro-life movement, when that’s exactly what his ad does!
I’m tellin’ ya folks, ya just can’t make this stuff up! /Biden
July 6th, 2009 at 5:56 pmThis image is so hateful & vile, it’s hard to find words to describe the disgust I feel about it. Yet it fits the Repub party’s vision lately, with Obama pictured as Hitler, guns pointed at Obama, etc. It’s astounding Repubs can even pretend to be Christian. Terry, who incites violence & prays for people to die, is as anti-Christian as anyone could possibly be. And he thinks Jesus will welcome him into heaven?? Typical deluded right-wing extremist terrorist, that’s Randall Terry.
July 6th, 2009 at 6:08 pmI can understand opposing Sotomayor if you are a Republican because that is just our lovely /snark/ political system at work. Obama could nominate Jesus and the Republicans would likely protest.
However, this just goes beyond the bounds of opposition and into ludicrous dementia. I’m not surprised that someone from the far right would try to pull this off, but it doesn’t get any easier accepting just how evil some people can be.
News flash to the radical right: It is this type of charade that disgusts moderates like me and makes them seek the Democrats.
July 6th, 2009 at 7:31 pmModerate Man Says:
Obama could nominate Jesus and the Republicans would likely protest.
Well, of course. Jesus was for higher taxes on the rich, against war, and his stances on abortion and gay marriage were completely unclear. Why, they’d probably crucify the guy!
July 6th, 2009 at 7:49 pmHate. Murder.
Same side on two different coins.
Death imagery? Scary indeed.
July 6th, 2009 at 8:38 pmWell going after Sonia Sotomayor, could mean a death sentence for the Republicans, the Latino voters, do you think that some of these Republicans who do need their votes, would they get them? Remember, Florida, the border States, my State, New York and many in between, has a Latinos.
Far right wingers who could and would put people in jeapordy, now where is that stupid Patriot Act at now when it is really needed. Ah yeah, it does not work on right wing, miniacle, lunatics who thinks that they are above the law!
July 6th, 2009 at 10:28 pmWell going after Sonia Sotomayor, could mean a death sentence for the Republicans, the Latino voters, do you think that some of these Republicans who do need their votes, would they get them? Remember, Florida, the border States, my State, New York and many in between, has a Latinos.
Far right wingers who could and would put people in jeapordy, now where is that stupid Patriot Act at now when it is really needed. Ah yeah, it does not work on right wing, miniacle, lunatics who thinks that they are above the law!
July 6th, 2009 at 10:28 pmMen can’t argue against abortion until they start having babies.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:11 pmAnd quit starting wars.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:14 pmOh Terry we know where your office is. When will you be there? My “cocktail” wants to know. Oh Terry, you are soo done…crispy I mean.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:10 amRandall Terr(y)orist
July 7th, 2009 at 12:14 amSome day the hunters just may become the hunted and then we will heard the loud cries of religious persecution. How would this clown like someone to constanly dog his ass and put his picture out for all to see? Don’t forget R.T., the left wing has a few nuts of their own!
July 7th, 2009 at 9:10 amsesli sohbet, sesli chat, seslisohbet sesli sohbet sesli chat
July 7th, 2009 at 2:28 pmAt least I’m happy in the knowledge that my God isn’t as hate filled and uncaring as his “god”.
July 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pm