"Thoughts And Prayers" Is Out; "Comfort And Healing" Is In.

      The horror of Sutherland Springs being a little over two weeks out we were about due for the next mass murder, which was delivered to us two days ago in the small town of Rancho Tehama, California via an angry gunman armed, of course,  with every mass-murderer's favorite, the ever-popular bullet-spraying semi-automatic rifle.
      Four dead, ten others injured including one child badly wounded by a bullet - horrible wounds being the only kind of wound delivered by that particular kind of bullet - and a mother who was driving her child  to school.
     And now, once again, can't you just see all the National Rifle Association Senators and Representatives up on Capitol Hill, shrugging their shoulders, their palms heavenward, their eyes wide with denial of any culpability, and can't you hear their voices quivering with sanctimony as they declare once again, as if it actually meant anything, that to the victims they a send, well not thoughts and prayers this time.
      It appears, as per Mike Pence's standard-issue post-mass murder condolence tweet, that the previous spoonful of insipidity has been tapped-out, retired and replaced with what is likely to  catch on newest post-mass murder catchphrase, "comfort and healing":

    Of course Pence would be doing a solid for his boss if he sent him a memo on the new post-gun violence lingo to be used in future après-tragedy tweets by NRA-owned politicians;

...seems that in the copy-and-paste tweet that Donald Trump recycled from the Sutherland Springs shooting and sent out yesterday as his Presidential response  the Rancho Tehama shooting he forgot to change the name of the  town from "Sutherland Springs" to Rancho Tehama:"

as      So I expect we'll be hearing in the future - the near future if the recent bump in frequency of mass gun violence and murders is any indicator - a whole lot more "comfort and healing" as "thoughts and prayers" is phased out. I expect that this new shibboleth will work as uselessly as the old one and will mix just well with, "It's too soon, now is not the time to be talking about gun control," and "Now is the time to pull together as a nation."
    As for me, I'm about ready for us to pull together as a nation for some gun reform.
    God knows the NRA Senators and Representatives aren't going to pull together for anything except more NRA money.