Arizona Congresswoman Shot Through Brain

Gabriel Gifford, a congresswoman from Tuscon, Arizona was the victim of an attempted assasenation by Jered Laughner, a 22 year old mentally disturbed college drop out. The bullet entered the temporal lobe of her brain and exited through the front. The signs are now hopeful that she hasn't suffered permanent damage in these regions. Nineteen people were targeted and six are now dead but that toll may rise. Laughner is one of those people who started off "caring" and "politically involved" but nobody can say exactly what he believed. In my prophecy book I discuss people like Jim Jones who start off as caring crusaders but the Devil gets a hold of them or something and turns their good intentions into dangerous obsessions. You may have heard me refer to my ex housemate Henry as remind me a little of Norman Bates. There is something a little creepy about him, particularly in his relations with women. People remind us that violent attacks can happen anywhere in the world. In 1995 President Clinton in response to the Oklahoma City bombing suggested that we dial down the hate rhetoric because while most of us are stable our words may land in the ears of certain types who don't know how to handle it, and start getting ideas. Violent ideas. I'm not saying we should drug everybody into being a passive zombie or anything, but perhaps some sort of mental screening is in order. We know Charles Manson was violent before but he got freakier in response to the hippy movement and came up with this whole crazy Helter Skelter thing. These people are somewhere in the twilight zone between your garden variety sociopath and scitzophrenia. Perhaps they should coin a new disease for the symptums they exhibit. So many of these "lone nuts" managed to elude detection of their social pathology for years, and then suddenly they just snap.

I think these over-medicated quality certain people in public exhibit, like President Obama may be responsible for our not hearing the truely classic "passionate" speech. If Shakesphere were alive today he'd have to do a massive rewrite on all his plays, if he wrote new ones. Of course Mark Twain would have to take the word "nigger" out of all his books. You know I was listening to Walter Mandale's 1976 acceptence speech at the Democratic Convention for Vice President. Mondale was really good at enumerating the woes people didn't like about the Republicans such as high prices and high unemployment. He says "We democrats got some stuff passed but we could have accomplished a lot more were it not for the President's veto pen". Watergate was a convienient target. But we jump to the 1988 Democratic Convention and Anne Richards delivering the keynote speech. Now there was one expressive broad! She was passionate, and we could use that kind of passion today. She was skilled in the art of rhetoric. She spoke at length of the usual overheard conversations of the grown men about World War II and the government, when she was a child. She she spoke of the divisiveness of the Reagan administration pitting this group against that one. They used to call them "special interests" and they used to call the Democratic Party "a grand coalition of diverse interests". But they don't call Democrats that any more. Why? Because they have all given up in their quests. Certainly the labor unions have. Today if you admit to being pro union you hide your head in shame and speak in apologetic tones. It did not use to be like this. There is alltogether a wholesale lack of passion about everything this President does. When it comes to replacing cabinet members who have left he is careful to make sure that the new appointees are just as unqualified to serve as the ones who departed. They still have to be big bankers and pro international trade and loss of domestic economic productive pride. Now we hear that the unemployment rate has dropped a whole .4%. This is actrually big news, but not for us. It's something I predicted several months ago would happen if the Republicans took over the government. They would be in power but a short time and better economic statistics would be reported out, and the republicans would take credit for it. This is much as Bill Clinton, according to Rush Limbaugh, took credit for the recovery of late 1992 and that had been a result of wheels and processes that had already been set in motion that he had nothing to do with. There was the line "This incoming party is so great just Thinking about them being in power is enough to change the economic reality" - - or whatever. Republicans are passionate. They said on a TV program that when the economy gets better that the tea party crowd will go away and lose their appeal. One can only hope. I don't think it's quite that simple. With the enormous debt we are incurring, the tea party will have a lot to carp about for a long time to come. But perhaps it can get Berock Obama through the next election cycle successfully.