I know almost nothing about Ms. Giffords, but I’m trying to learn.
According to On The Issues:
- She strongly pro-choice
- She favors requiring the hiring of women & minorities.
- She strongly favors same-sex domestic partnership benefits.
- She opposes teacher-led prayer in public schools.
- She’s neutral on the death penalty.
- She strongly opposes mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws.
- She supports the absolute right to gun ownership.
- She strongly favors more federal funding for health coverage.
- She’s neutral on privatizing social security.
- She opposes school vouchers.
- She strongly favors replacing coal & oil with alternatives.
- She strongly supports the drug war.
- She opposes allowing churches to provide welfare services.
- She favors making taxes more progressive.
- She strongly opposes allowing illegal immigrants to earn citizenship.
- She opposes expanding free trade.
- She strongly opposes the expansion of the armed forces.
- She strongly favors strict limits on campaign funds.
- She strongly opposes the Patriot Act.
NPR says she has died.
Her husband and his twin brother are astronauts. The brother is on the space station right now and her husband is scheduled to go up on the next shuttle.
It gets worse.
Are you fucking kidding me. Jesus Christ.
This is terribly, tragically sad.












