Dr. Phil

That overrated blowhard has weighed in to, thanks to Game Politics for the transcript.

DR. PHIL: Well, Larry, every situation is different… The question really is can we spot them. And the problem is we are programming these people as a society. You cannot tell me - common sense tells you that if these kids are playing video games, where they’re on a mass killing spree in a video game, it’s glamorized on the big screen, it’s become part of the fiber of our society. You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath or someone suffering from mental illness and add in a dose of rage, the suggestibility is too high.

And we’re going to have to start dealing with that. We’re going to have to start addressing those issues and recognizing that the mass murders of tomorrow are the children of today that are being programmed with this massive violence overdose.

I think I speak for the MILLIONS of video game players around the world who don't go on a killing spree when I say, fuck you Phil fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

Fred Phelps

Apparently the most disgusting man in America weighed in on the VA Tech Massacre. From Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church website…

WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror -- yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is 'horrified' by it all. You know nothing of horror -- yet. Your true horror is coming. "They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads" (Eze. 7:18).

Why did this happen, you ask? It's simple. Your military chose to shoot at the servants of God today, and all they got for their effort was terror. Then, the LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children. Was God asleep while this took place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants.

Never mind the fact that this man looks a lot like the preacher from Poltergeist 2. He is as equally horrifying if not more so. Least that guy stuck to a house, this living pile of shit is the infamous man who goes to soldier funerals proclaiming they died because, "God hates fags". I can only hope the Hells Angels who have been protecting those funerals can come over to the east coast and protect the upcoming funerals of those who were killed this week.

People ask me why I have a problem with Christianity and all I have to do lately is point them towards men like Fred Phelps and the nutjobs up at Jesus Camp. Yes, I know that this is not the majority, but it's quickly getting that way. You would think that in this day in age ignorance would reduce, not raise, but hey is wishes were rainbows and unicorns we'd all live peacefully.

A Shooting In Blacksburg

VA Tech had a shooting this morning in one of their dorms closing the school today.

The state university posted an advisory on its Web site advising students that a shooting had occurred at a residence hall and a "gunman is loose on the campus." The university also told students to stay in their homes away from windows.

My co-worker I think said it best, "How much money do you want to put that the gunman's last name is Vick."

There may be more news as there appear to be reports that there may have been another shooting there. In all seriousness it's sad that we cannot keep the shootings only to high schools these days, as they are permeating to higher levels of education. That or VA Tech is just trying to be like UT, and that's just really sad.

In all seriousness, thoughts, prayers and what not go out to the friends and family of those who died today.