Four kids & mom of Catholic family die in a house fire.

[Jehanne]

And for rods sake take a tranquilizer or at least a deep breath

I have had a lot of contact with the far right in America over the last 30 years of my life; in fact, my best friend is a far right religious nut, who wants to abolish all welfare, unemployment benefits, social security and medicare.  (Yes, no kidding!)  And, so, the mentality of these people is that there should be NO interference from the government in people's lives, other than law enforcement.  And, I find those POVs to be absolutely repulsive.

When I read it, this news story rubbed me the wrong way, but I would have let things be, if not for the accusations that the Board started making against me, some of which are patently false and offensive, such as I was claiming that "they deserved it".  I have NEVER claimed that, and I have NEVER thought that!!  Admittedly, when I posted my OP, I was pissed, and I suspected that the family in question were far-right religious nuts, but I did NOT state that in my OP!  It only came up after people started making accusations against me, some true (admittedly, I was thinking it, but I had not yet written it!  And, so, some of you were "reading" my thoughts at that point!), but some false.  Maybe I should have just dropped it right then and there and made-up some excuse to make it all go away.

But, yes, I cannot stand people like Ron Paul, nor I can stand the religious right, and if this tragedy had nothing to do with either of those religious, political currents in America today, then I humbly and profuse apologize!!  But, if Dad did have the opportunity to put smoke detectors in his home and/or if he knew of government assistance to do so but simply refused it because of his far right persona (much like my dear old mom refused "free & reduced lunches" for me and my sister, even though we qualified for it), then, yes, he's an asshole in my book!!