Now we can add a nine year old to the list.

Dead ... Christina-Taylor Green was a student council member eager to meet her congresswoman.

...Her mother, Roxanna, (click title to entry - thank you) told The Arizona Star: "She was born back east. September 11 affected everyone there and Christina-Taylor was always very aware of it. She was very patriotic and wearing red, white and blue was really special to her.''
Her mother said her daughter was aware of the inequities in the world. "She was all about helping people and being involved. It's so tragic. She went to learn today and then someone with so much hatred in their heart took the lives of innocent people."
Christina-Taylor's father, John Green, told the newspaper his daughter had just been elected to the student council at Mesa Verde Elementary School and had been interested in politics....

The other five were:

The Giffords aide was identified as Gabe Zimmerman, her community outreach director; the 30-year-old was engaged to be married.

U.S. District Judge John Roll, 63, the chief judge for the District of Arizona, was killed while apparently attending a public appearance by Giffords outside a Safeway store north of Tucson, U.S. Marshall David Gonzales confirmed to the Associated Press.

The other victims include Dorwin Stoddard, 76, Dorthy Murray, 76, and Phyllis Schneck, 79.

The death by shooting of a state Democratic Chairperson isn't politically motivated? Really.

...The state chairman (click title to entry - thank you)  of the Arkansas Democratic party was shot and killed today at his Little Rock office by an assailant who later died after being shot by police.
Democratic chairman Bill Gwatney was attacked by a man who insisted on speaking with him before firing three shots and fleeing, according to local media reports. Gwatney was taken to the hospital after his secretary made an emergency call from a nearby flower shop, but he later died of his wounds....

I guess the shooter thought he was robbing a candy store, huh?

The killing of "Liberal Values."

...A man who shot (click title to entry - thank you) and killed two parishioners during a children's play at a Tennessee church yesterday attacked the congregation because of its outspoken socially liberal and gay-friendly beliefs, police said....

Oh, it is just an random act of violence ENFORCED by hate speech of Right Wing Politics.

No Conspiracy, JUST FACT.

Richard Poplawski, the murderer of there Philadelphia police can be directly connected to the rantings at Murdoch's Media.

...An ADL (click title to entr - thank you) investigation has revealed that Poplawski, the man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers on April 4, 2009, was an increasingly troubled young man who exhibited growing rage against racial minorities, Jews, the government, and police....

They are always 'trouble' men with the SAME TROUBLE !

Political connections denied. Just another 'nut case.'

Bombing Suspect Eric Robert Rudolph Captured  (click title to entry - thank you)

MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA - JUNE 2: Multiple bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph, center, is escorted by law enforcement officials from the Cherokee County Courthouse and Jail in Murphy, N.C., June 2, 2003, to a Federal court hearing in Asheville, N.C. Heavy security was present after the arrest of long-time bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph earlier in the day. Rudolph, is a suspect in at least three bombings, including the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta.

Political motivations denied by every Right Wing pundit.

...For more than 30 years (click title to entry - thank you) the anti-abortion movement threw everything into driving Dr. Tiller out of business, certain that his defeat would deal a devastating blow to the "abortion industry" that has terminated roughly 50 million pregnancies since Roe v. Wade in 1973.
Dr. Tiller was shot to death in Wichita, Kan., May 31, 2009, in the foyer of his longtime church as he handed out the church bulletin. Scott Roeder, an abortion opponent, was arrested for the shooting and later testified that he had shot Dr. Tiller in order to prevent him from carrying out abortions. On Jan. 29, 2010, Mr. Roeder was convicted of first-degree murder....

Everytime the Right Wing Extremists turn to violence their political organizations always state, "It was a nut case." I agree.

...Von Brunn's quiet death contrasts sharply with the brazen violence he unleashed June 10 in what prosecutors have described as a suicide mission, an attack that shocked the nation and sent tourists scattering for cover on a busy downtown street....

The question remains what gave him license to kill?  Do I have to answer that question or is it completely obvious?

Murdoch's Maniacs are using the tried and true methodology of justifying their hatred and bigotry.

Surveyors still call them CROSSHAIRS and they look nothing like the rifle scope crosshairs on the blog that TARGETS Democrats.  The Murdoch Media Industry and Right Wing Media is culpable in a hate crime.  Political hate is still hate.

There is a lot of symbolism in politics.  Buttons and the like.  They are legitimate venues to create loyalities and insight on election day.  The crosshairs that Murdoch justifies todays are a common symbol of killing.

 When the Left Political Wing of the USA targets candidates they do it with cupcakes.  When the Right Wing does, it is with crosshairs.  I think there is a big difference there.

There are a myriad of symbols the Right Wing could have used and DIDN'T.  They advocate guns and violence and even the disarming of police officers to turn the tables on them.  When is this going to stop?

News agencies can theorize all they want to protect their own territory, but, Rove won't stop.

His white boards and hateful rhetoric got him a majority in the House and he won't stop nor change the tone.  Something needs to be done about the 'tone' of this party and their right wing media.

The 'power' involved with the potential of this current standard is matched with the past wrongful use of the USA military should they continue on this path of hatred and bigotry.

They will refuse to change their attitudes and platitudes.  The media can dilute the reality of these circumstances all they want, but, it won't change me.

The assassinations that occurred in Arizona were unlike any murders before.

This was not an attack by the likes of Timothy McVeigh motivated by hatred of the government attacking a government building.  This attach was not like that of the unibomber chosing his victims based on deep seated hatred.  This attack was not predatory in the way the Zodiac killer carried out his murdering spree.

This attack on innocent people was the work of a angry and hatefilled political party that would like it all to go away, but, it won't.  Not this time.  The work of the Murdoch media has killed in the past.  George Tiller is dead because of the rantings of the people at Murdoch media networks.  They may not have their triggers on the finger, but, they certainly supply the ammunition.

There were targets over US Congressmen and Congresswomen on another website affiliated with Murdoch.  When is the FCC going to recognize hate and hate mongering and stop calling it freedom of speech.  A person is not allowed to scream fire in a theater causing fear, panic and injury because when that word is uttered the results are already known.

What occurred in Arizona was due to the political dedication of a misguided man intent on carrying out the deaths of people attending a Democratic gathering.  A gathering intended to relieve the burden of citizens of traveling any distance at their own expense to 'be heard.'  The words the people at the Democratic Gathering are now silenced.  What about THAT freedom of speech?  What about the freedom of speech we will no longer hear? 

What occurred in Arizona was more than a 'nut case' with a gun.  It was an assault on the First Amendment.  The freedom to assemble, solicite the government for grievances and the freedom of speech.  It was intended to silence the citizen and inflict fear beyond the assassinations themselves.  

Today there are people silenced and unable to carry out their constitutional rights because a man decided it was his duty to kill 'a nation of terrorists.'  Those words, 'a nation of terrorists' comes directly from the political influence of the Right Wing Media, their attacks upon the President placing a 'Muslim Overlay' to his identity and removing the respect due him.  

There is no way the Right Wing Media and their hate speech is going to be viewed as mirely 'their right to freedom of speech' while they turn this country into a blood bath.  It is time they are held responsible for their hate mongering along with the pawns that have and intend to carry out the violence.

The assassinations that occurred in Arizona yesterday were spawned by 'Infotainment.'  There needs to be severe penalites for the media for 'lies' and 'spin' within political content.

Until tomorrow. 

No, no, no, no. This is NOT a mental health issue. He made threats. That is not instability, it is hatred enough to kill.

This was a premeditated attack at its earliest convenience.

This violent USA culture where hatred is allowed to fester political tides and politically toned environment is responsible for these attacks and it needs to stop NOW !

...Pima County Sheriff Clarence (click title to entry - thank you) Dupnik said there's reason to believe Loughner has "a mental issue" and described him as "unhinged." Dupnik said he believed Giffords was the target of the attack.
"As we understand it, there have been law enforcement contacts with the individual where he made threats to kill," Dupnik said during a press conference Saturday evening. But he wouldn't say who those threats were aimed at.
Police are also seeking a second, older man who may have had a role in the shooting.
Clues Online?
Loughner apparently was the source of six videos posted to YouTube in recent months. The most recent one, titled "America: Your Last Memory In A Terrorist Country!" shows a hunched-over man in a hooded sweatshirt burning an American flag in a desert landscape. The soundtrack is a song called "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor."...

"TOXIC Political Environment in Arizona." Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik

Arizona is NOT the only state in the union with a TOXIC Political Environment and there is a reason for that. 

All one has to do is look to Murdoch's Maniac Political Networks. 

When is this going to stop? 

This is MY country, not the Plutocrats.

This is outrageous!

It isn't as though President Obama wasn't trying to defuse the problems existing because a Governor wouldn't be honest and do what is best for all the people of her state either.

There is too much hatred and bigotry in this country 'toyed' with as political fodder for the Right Wing and their media. 

Enough!

President Barack Obama meets with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in the Oval Office, June 3, 2010.

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

No more public events. Democrats are on lock down.

If they can't kill them under the Capital Dome, they'll kill them any other way.

By JUDITH ANDERSON

Published: December 2, 2007

The bride, an avid recycler, borrowed the gown.

...So after the ceremony, (click title to entry - thank you) Mr. Reich was inspired to toast their spirit: “To a bride who moves at a velocity that exceeds that of anyone else in Washington, and a groom who moves at a velocity that exceeds 17,000 miles per hour.”
But theirs was not a whirlwind romance.
“We met four years ago in China, as young leaders selected by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations,” said Ms. Giffords. At that time she was an Arizona state senator and was seeing someone else; Mr. Kelly was married, living in Houston and between space shuttle missions....

I want to know if she was expecting?

My deepest sympathies to all for their loss. 

This is going to come to an end. 

NO MORE !!!!

The Democrats need to find secure places within their districts and otherwise where they can 'meet and greet' and make that a permanent 'Town Hall' meeting place.  Magnatometers, dogs, security personnel otherwise there won't be a gathering.

Homeland Security needs to mandate a standard for the public contact of elected representatives to the government.  There were too many innocent people involved in this to allow it to happen again.  Before you know it there will no voters showing up at gatherings and/or voting booths.

I want to know who the gunman is and a profile to his affiliations and activities.  He massacred people today and it was very well planned.

If the gunman is at all linked to any 'movement' spawned by the Murdoch Media Industry, I want indictments!

Who did it! It probably was done to trigger 'mimics.'

I want to know what was going on in the media that contributed to this !]

Very pretty lady.  The hospital must have some kind of word about she and the five others.  I sounds like whoever did it planned who exactly was going to receive the bullets.

Probably a six bullet revolver and a very good shot.

The shooter wanted to kill her and those surrounding her.

US Congresswoman Shot In Head In Arizona (click title to entry - thank you)

Carole Erskine, Sky News Online

US democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been shot in the head during an event in Tucson, Arizona.

According to a report from an eyewitness there are six people dead and covered with sheets at the scene.  There are another 12 people wounded.  What the heck?  An assault weapon? 

I want gun control and I want the assault weapons ban put back and I want this mess to stop !!!!

There was no way this Congresswoman, her staff or any of the people that came to hear her speak were prepared stop someone with a 'dead aim' and a power weapon.  This is outrageous !!!

The Speakers "Hammer." Attitude is everything, law be damned.

"...,which is large than most gavels here, but, the gavel of choice by Speaker...."

Sessons and Fitzpatrick have caused a Constitutional Breech. I believe it was intentional to begin unprecedented assault against the document itself.

Their right to maintain their office needs to be examined and the basis of that examination needs to be then filed as a hostile act against the USA Constitution followed by impeachment and/or a challenge in the Supreme Court.

"Grown-Ups need to be treaeted as Grown-Ups" and not simply slapped on the wrist and sent to the time out chair.

..."Our absence on the House (click here) floor during the oath of office ceremony for the 112th Congress - while not intentional - fell short of this standard by creating uncertainty regarding our standing in this body," they said. "We regret that this incident adversely affected House proceedings and apologize for any individual inconvenience our actions may have caused."...

There are also strong ethical considerations. 

Mr. Sessons spoke at great length before any votes were cast when he should not have even been on the floor of the House.  The entire vote has to be thrown out and the bills rescinded.

...On the very first day of the 112th Congress, (click here) three members were missing when Speaker John Boehner administered the oath of office to members-elect. One Democrat, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), had an excused absence because of a meeting in his district about a local veterans hospital. Two Republicans just flat-out missed it.


Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and incoming Rep Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) cast their votes in favor of John Boehner for Speaker, but then made their way down below the basement of the Capitol to the Capitol Visitors Center, where Fitzpatrick's constituents were waiting....

One Congressman had respect for the Constitution and the Swearing In Ceremony by requesting an excused absence for circumstances beyond his control.  THAT is grossly different than simply dismissing the constitutional ceremony as if a matter of inconvenience.  When is Speaker Boner handle his authority correctly rather than dividiing his loyalty to the country and its constittion along party lines?

If the answer is never, then there needs to be a review of all these issues by the Democrats to record one of the most irreverent Congress Sessions of modern times and what exactly has to be done about it.

The Repuglicans are not capable of governing.  They have been.  Today the GOP is so debased the competency and integrity of the House Proceedings is severely in question.  This is more of the Tom DeLay "Hammer" mess and we all know where he is today.

The 'illogic' of the argument of the Repuglicans is plain as day and basically has NOTHING to do with individual freedoms.

Vehicle insurance is about liability costs when a person is involved in an accident.  Those liability costs are enormous in relation to the average American's ability to pay.  Most vehicle accidents would result in sincere loss of wealth/home/savings and would cause hardship on both the person causing the accident and the other party.

If there were no vehicle insurance it would immobilze society.

Health insurance is also liability insurance.  The difference here is that when people access the emergency room or otherwise without insurance, it impacts a large pool of 'value' if you will.  In other words, the doctor or hospital or 'care center' has some degree of value that cushions it from the loss of an occassional person unable to pay.  Is that the way it should be?  Is that moral?  Is it moral from the standpoint of forcing those that are unable to obtain and keep health insurance to forego care?

No matter how one looks at it the morality of the Accordable Health Care for Americans Act is more moral to all parties than any other alternative.  It is moral to the institutions, the practitioners, the patients and the people that are employed in the practice of health care.

It is not moral of a populous to expect a hospital to accommodate those that are unable to pay for services they do not have a choice in needing to absorb all those costs and 'write it off.'  Writing it off by a non-profit institution is hideous.  Many health care institutions are non-profit which means they should be practicing 'fairness' in their costs.  To impose a social standard that requires health care institutions, no matter how one defines that, to absorg their losses is not only immoral but dooms vital institutions to failure in the long run.

No matter how one tries to analogize 'car insurance' with 'health care insurance' it doesn't apply.  There are very different paradigms that exist in both instances. 

If a society is going to say they value high quality health care, but, then qualifies it for a 'class' of citizen that can afford it, that is an egrigious standard.  It 'sets up' certain classes of citizens to a predetermined outcome in their lives.  That LACK of morality demands that citizens in lower socio-economic classes in the USA are disposable and are not necessary for a society to value.  Basically, why demand health care for all if certain classes of people aren't worth the effort or the 'moral standard.' 

The immorality of allowing people to exist in life without the ability to access quality care in the USA is a Plutocratic value that diminishes the importance of human life and places on a 'value added' scale. 

The last two decades has proven the Repuglican 'Value System' that denies citizens access to quality health care is a slippery slope.  It was stopped and now it needs to be appreciated.  There is no valid argument to repeal the law.  There is however a great deal of validity to realizing how ungainly the spending for military prowess is in a world that doesn't really need it anymore.  Now, if someone wants to discuss moral content of a society and the value of peace to offering citizens quality of life, that would interesting.

If transportation, in the year 2011, didn't require a car; then why did this elderly man break the law?

If the analogy between car insurance and health care was remoting correct, every roadway would be open to any moving vehicle at all.  It would have to be and automobiles would have no 'special consideration.'

This law prohibits anything except motor vehicles to go from point A to point B.  Actually, it isn't just motor vehicles, it automobiles correctly registered with the State.

Hello?

The wheelchair is motorized.

Now, what was that about cars being unnecessary?

Elderly man takes wheelchair on joyride down interstate  (click title to entry - thank you)

Posted: Jan 07, 2011 8:09 AM EST Updated: Jan 07, 2011 8:12 AM EST

FAIRFIELD, CT (CNN) - This isn't the best way to deal with rising gas prices.

An elderly man drove his electric wheelchair down I-95 in Fairfield, CT on Thursday.

Although cameras caught the driver mostly on the shoulder, authorities believe he did make it onto the highway at one point.

The man wasn't given a ticket. However, police say traveling on a highway on an electric scooter or wheelchair is illegal.

The Drama Queens in the USA House of Representatives do not have a clear concensus on repeal of any major legislation.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans do not strongly endorse the new Republican House majority's efforts to repeal the landmark healthcare legislation passed last year. A new Gallup poll finds that 46% of Americans want their representative in Congress to vote to repeal the healthcare law, 40% want their representative to vote to let the law stand, and 14% have no opinion....

PURE

UNADULTERATED

POLITICS.

Playing with the country's future is not what I would call a minor issue.  The law took an entire year of debate and procedure, not to mention the years and years of preparation, and in one week the Repuglicans want to repeal it.

Amazing.

The Affordable Health Care for America Act provides for bringing more primary care physicians into practice and more health care workers into the labor force.  Repealing this vital legislation is gross malpractice by the Repuglicans. 

Shame on them.

I heard the argument as to how requiring Health Care is so much different than requiring car insurance.  It goes like this, "You don't have to own a car."

Did you get that right?

"You don't have to own a car."  Therefore requiring car insurance is something the average person can avoid.

That is not only moronic in its logic, the analogy would require someone to NOT have to own health care.

Got that?

In other words, the only reason the Health Care Affordability Act is unconstitutional is because everyone requires health care, it is not an option.

Huh?

Why don't the Repuglicans tell that to the hundreds of thousand dead Americans that died becuase they LACKED health care.  See, according to the Repuglican logic, the dead American is a great patriot for not having health care, the constitutional thing to do instead of purchasing required insurance.

It doesn't get more stupid than that.

If the Justice Department should expect some kind of reply from Ms. Jonsdottir.

Then again, maybe not.  The satellites have been pulled out of Iceland and the USA didn't have much compassion for Iceland when Paulson imploded the global economy.

By Kim Zetter

January 7, 2011  | 

6:14 pm

The U.S. Justice Department (click title to entry - thank you) has served Twitter with a subpoena seeking information on an Icelandic lawmaker who has worked with WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the lawmaker told Threat Level on Friday.
“I got the letter from Twitter a couple of hours ago, saying I got 10 days to stop it,” wrote Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Iceland’s parliament, in an e-mail. “Looking for legal ways to do it. Will be talking to lawyers from EFF tonight.”
EFF refers to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group in the United States.
On her Twitter feed, Jonsdottir said the government is seeking an archive of tweets she sent out since Nov. 1, 2009 as well as “personal information” for her account....