I give all the credit to the little girl who played dead. Somewhere, someone in her life taught her that trick and it wasn't God.

On Sunday, Noah's aunt, Victoria Haller, tweeted to Delta and JetBlue asking for help getting letters from her 5-year-old son, who lives in Seattle with her, to Connecticut in time for today's funeral. Both airlines responded. Delta tweeted back a phone number to its cargo department. JetBlue tweeted Haller back asking for her number so they could get in touch with her.

Using the hashtag #LoveForNoah, Haller tweeted, "My friends at JetBlue really took a risk taking on this huge responsibility and we will all be eternally grateful. #LoveForNoah." JetBlue quickly sprang to action and got the letters from Haller's family onto the red-eye flight from Seattle to New York to make it to Noah's funeral in time. JetBlue tweeted to Haller, "Again, we here at JetBlue find it a privilege and an honor to have been a part of this. #LoveForNoah from our family to yours!"

Good job by Jet Blue. They were much more proactive than Delta who simply tweeted back a phone number - who knew if their cargo dept would even comply.

thought I was nearly over crying about the Sandy Hook kids, until I heard someone cite the first favorite class of the boy being buried tomorrow:

recess

what male who's ever been a 1st grader doesn't recognize a compadre in that

god damn. rest easy, kid

Are there any Westboro stories yet?

mayor of topeka apologized to newtown. seems unnecessary

anonymous is off-base here. attacking westboro is just what they want, and also misses anything. it gives solace to no one and only serves to feed our basest instincts as animals.

are you serious? that phrase is so empty, "gives them what they want". More and more people attack them now, and it's a small group at these things of mostly the family. fucking find out about it and go after them. it's not a national organization you don't want to lend validity to. it's a small group of assholes that doesn't profit by this. keep broadcasting, and hopefully there are angry people at each event that continue to attack them.

anonymous put out their home addresses. that is too far, in my view.

yes, i'm serious, or i wouldn't have posted that. i don't think this is the way to 'attack' them. the way to attack them is to never mention them. ever. or, to simply joke protest them as has been successfully done before, which is far more cathartic than some entirely negative action which heals nothing.

I'm not gonna lie. I called the Dominos in Topeka and ordered three pizzas for one of the Phelps clan.

and apparently they either don't have ID or didn't care that it was ordered from a 570 area code.

But not mentioning them does the same thing, they just do this. It's mostly a small group/sick family, so let know so they can be prepared when they come to their famiy's/friend's funeral . Anonymous posted public information.

Rev_Beezer wrote:I'm not gonna lie. I called the Dominos in Topeka and ordered three pizzas for one of the Phelps clan.

now that's just torture. Dominos?!

The Dude wrote:But not mentioning them does the same thing, they just do this. It's mostly a small group/sick family, so let know so they can be prepared when they come to their famiy's/friend's funeral . Anonymous posted public information.

i see your point. i just disagree with nationally broadcasting it.

but it doesn't matter. it's like saying "don't pay attention that the fish can breathe underwater, he'll keep doing it".

she makes a good point in about a minute about trying to remove the tax-exempt status of Westboro. That might hit them more than anything. she leans on your end, fwiw.

pacino wrote:

Rev_Beezer wrote:I'm not gonna lie. I called the Dominos in Topeka and ordered three pizzas for one of the Phelps clan.

now that's just torture. Dominos?!

twisted baptists getting prank pie from twisted catholic's pie hole

Beez is some kind of performance artiste

yep, definitely gotta pay attention to them

pacino wrote:anonymous put out their home addresses. that is too far, in my view.

yes, i'm serious, or i wouldn't have posted that. i don't think this is the way to 'attack' them. the way to attack them is to never mention them. ever. or, to simply joke protest them as has been successfully done before, which is far more cathartic than some entirely negative action which heals nothing.

Why is that too far? They've made a conscious choice to engage in reprehensible, yet legal, behavior. They voluntarily travel from their hole in Kansas to badger victims who unwillingly became a national news story. Why should they remain anonymous while the victims and their loved ones cannot? We're not talking about their bank accounts or social security numbers here... this is public information.

They are fully permitted to exercise their First Amendment rights. Yet there can (and should be) consequences for the irresponsible use of those rights. No one should engage them violently, but perhaps a large group of people could legally picket outside of their houses. Perhaps they should receive telephone calls from people who disagree with their view of the world at all hours of the day. Perhaps they should receive stacks of (non-threatening) hate mail.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

pacino wrote:anonymous put out their home addresses. that is too far, in my view.

yes, i'm serious, or i wouldn't have posted that. i don't think this is the way to 'attack' them. the way to attack them is to never mention them. ever. or, to simply joke protest them as has been successfully done before, which is far more cathartic than some entirely negative action which heals nothing.

Why is that too far? They've made a conscious choice to engage in reprehensible, yet legal, behavior. They voluntarily travel from their hole in Kansas to badger victims who unwillingly became a national news story. Why should they remain anonymous while the victims and their loved ones cannot? We're not talking about their bank accounts or social security numbers here... this is public information.

They are fully permitted to exercise their First Amendment rights. Yet there can (and should be) consequences for the irresponsible use of those rights. No one should engage them violently, but perhaps a large group of people could legally picket outside of their houses. Perhaps they should receive telephone calls from people who disagree with their view of the world at all hours of the day. Perhaps they should receive stacks of (non-threatening) hate mail.

Agree with this. They use their protected free speech to annoy people and get under their skin. What is the harm I returning the favor?