If this is true:

Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Amy Loughner is a Natural Resource specialist for the Pima County Parks and Recreation.

Read the whole thing.

If true, then he and his department are culpable in these deaths. And it is folks like them that make the NICS check worthless.

Will the MSM bother to investigate?
OK, stop laughing….This is not funny.

Y’ see….I had a Ipod. The “Classic” model….. I liked it…then a few years ago, I got an Ipod Touch for Christmas…I liked that even better. I liked the apps, I liked the Wi-Fi. I liked a lot of the features.

So when my phone began to die, I naturally wanted an IPhone. I even waited, because there was no way in hell that I was going to sign up again with ATT for another 2 years (one experience with them was MORE than enough, thank you). I liked my current carrier, Verizon….I eagerly searched every rumor on the net to find out when your current contract exclusive with ATT expired….I waited for 6 months, hanging on every rumor that even hinted that Verizon was going to get the IPhone…..When I read that you had signed up again with ATT for another year of exclusivity, I stopped waiting.

I researched for alternatives….I needed another phone, and since I couldn’t get an IPhone on the carrier of my choice (Verizon), I looked at their offerings. I found Android. And It Was Good.

7 months ago, I purchased a DroidX…I liked it. It does everything I wanted my IPhone to do. It even syncs up to my ITunes library really nicely.  2 mouse clicks more, and I have all my music.  What do I need an IPhone for?

You ass. You could have had me become a real IPhone fanboi. Yet you teased, and hinted too long. I grew tired of waiting. I grew tired of the hints and the delays. I grew tired of feeling like the guy on a date with the c–ktease girl. I asked another girl to dance…..

Now Google Android phones are in the market. Once again, much like Apple computers were years ago, you will be relegated to a niche market. You let the world discover another option. Android will beat you. Your once world-class IPhone is now just another choice out of many. You could have been king of the world, yet you chose to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. You will sell many IPhones. No doubt the customers of ATT are salivating for the chance to jump to another carrier. Many of them will buy a Verizon-enabled IPhone. But the (millions?) rest of us have tasted the Android system. And we no longer want an IPhone. You pissed away a chance to dominate. I hope that ATT gave you lotsof cash to forgo all the money that you could have made from folks like me. I bet they didn’t pay you enough. The rest of us will buy Android. And you will lose more market share.

You are a fool. And you have lost. You just don’t know it yet. The downfall of the IPhone will become an example in Marketing 101 on How To Fail.   In 5 years or so, you will follow Blackberry and RIM into oblivion in the phone market.

You didn’t have to.  But you will.

First of all: I think that the shooting in Tucson is a tragedy. No matter who did it, no matter what the reasons, no matter what the  political affiliations of ANY of the parties, at no point can I see any reason or set of circumstances where this is in any way justified. 

My condolences go out to the victims and to the families of the victims, both the survivors and the others who were not lucky enough to survive.

I’d point out that the perpetrator (alleged) of the incident was apprehended not by police, but by bystanders. By people who chose not to run, or to hide, or to crouch down and hope that they were missed, but rather chose to DO SOMETHING, and in doing so, put themselves into harms way to stop this.

While I think it is a tragedy that the Tucson shooter did what he did, one thing stands out in the press reporting of the incident:

He doesn’t fit any of their preconceived notions. None. They tried to link him to the right, and that wouldn’t fit or fly…..No links to Palin, Bush, the NRA, GOA, Rush Limbaugh, or anything else that fit their preconceived notions of who would be the type of person who would do such a thing. None of them. Despite their questioning of every classmate, of every neighbor, of every person who might have served coffee to this individual, they cannot find anything that points Right…nothing….Yet they keep trying. The spin machine is chugging merrily along, yet can’t seem to get any traction. One would almost think that there was a playbook for such incidents. I find that thought sad and disturbing…….but sadly not impossible. The sad fact is that he was a leftist (if anything)…He was a flag burner, whose favorite books were “Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto…His classmates describe him as “extremely liberal”….. Yet they blame the Right for this….I would hope that the Left would decry his actions as strongly as the Right does….

The reality is that few of the people who the MSM’s  first thought to blame are likely to perpetrate such an atrocity. Few Right leaning people are likely to be so violent. Period. While our side of the fence has it’s share of truly psychotic individuals, even those individuals are less inclined to do violence in such a manner than many left leaning folks. If those of us on the Right were half as violent as the left leaning MSM thought, and made us out to be, then such incidents would be greater in scope and significantly more prevalent.

And were they to choose to do so, they are likely to do an even greater amount of slaughter. But it seems that the left has the more violent, sociopathic individuals (and more of them). Why? Is it the lack of accountability in their social morality? Is it a cultural thing, where such violent protest is acceptable and accepted? Is it an admiration of the anarchists that they so revere? Or is it something else? How, in any worldview is such slaughter ever acceptable?

And what does it say about those people with an agenda that they would be so quick to blame their opponents and to use such a tragedy in an attempt to further their own goals even before the blood has been cleaned up? I find that sick.

I hope they fry his ass, slowly. And if, as alleged, he has an accomplice, I hope they catch him or her as well, and fry them too.

You know it did.

Doubt if it will work, but a nice gesture. I think those that would bomb or shoot would consider their fellow muslims to be acceptable collateral damages.

“The Coptic priest was commenting on the now widespread call by Muslim intellectuals and activists upon Egyptian Muslims at large to flock to Coptic churches across the country to attend Coptic Christmas Eve mass, to show solidarity with the nation’s Coptic minority, but also to serve as “human shields” against possible attacks by Islamist militants“

You gotta admire the sentiment, even though it’ll likely get them killed or wounded. 

If I (a CHL holder) were to take employment at a facility, either privately or publicly owned, where the rules of employment (or even presence!) prohibit the carriage of firearms (see also: gun free  victim disarmament zone), and something untoward should happen while working in such area…..

Can I sue for damages if I am injured (or can my surviving kin sue if I am killed) on the grounds that the burden of personal security has been taken from me and is therefore the task and responsibility of the institution which employs me? (or at which I must attend, should it be, say…a university?)

How about if I am robbed while attending such a place…..If I am prohibited from exercising my rights to secure my person, do I have the rights to sue for remuneration from the facility which prohibits the carriage of my personal defense firearm?

How about states or cities which prohibit the carriage of firearms? Or municipal courts buildings and such?

Do those entities which prohibit carriage of firearms for any reason have liability if someone is attacked or robbed in their area of prohibition? Is there a difference between private entities and public entities?

Are there court cases which would set precedence?

Enquiring minds and all that…..

The question is: what cause? Raising money for the charity or supporting the charitable organization?

See HERE. Follow the links. You decide.

See, the issue with any organization, be it a private thing or a government entity…No matter how they start, they become, as they grow, a money hungry self serving ever growing bureaucracy.

I find this really no different than the NRA or the NAACP. Both organizations exist for themselves first. Why should the Komen foundation be any different?

Via AMCGLTD….See this. What is left after years of Blue State governance aided by public sector unions.

Og has invited me to collaborate with him on a new blog….Made In America. Please, as the list grows, take the time to check out our suggestions and, if possible, consider purchasing these products that are “Made in America”.

Please, if you know a product that is competitive with another popular item made in another country, email me and I’ll research it and put it up.

Buying “Made in America” helps our fellow citizens, helps our economy (and trade imbalance), and keeps our industry (what is left of it) inside OUR borders. It helps our country, and ultimately our national security by keeping a manufacturing base inside our borders.

But most of all, it helps keep our citizens employed.

ETA: I am receiving no cash or other value for posting about these products.

May your new year be profitable and fulfilling. I sincerely hope you find happiness and contentment.

This year, please take the time to avoid buying things made in China or other countries when there is an alternative made in the USA. You may have to pay a premium for such items, but we need to make an effort to buy “Made in the USA”. Make you choice to do so known to your retailer. Push for this.