Thinking about how pointless her death is keeps sending me off crying.

Sadder still, that she was there precisely because she cared about her future and her country. Christina Green, by all accounts, was a special little girl.

Ah, I can't decide if it's time to go into the hospital or not. Never actually went to sleep. Hmm. Hmm. Will watch more Justified and then decided, while my Nook charges.

After Oklahoma City, people started looking at the militias suspiciously, wondering what else they might be up to rather than just "we're patriotic Mer'cins, jist wantin' to be ready when them Commies coming stomping down Main Street!" Then people started reading their releases and websites and figuring out what stuff like white pride meant. Darn us liberals with reading comprehension.

Like, was it thought that anti-Reagan liberals has triggered that assassination attempt?

Since Hinckley pretty immediately said he shot Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, it didn't really come up. We were too busy mocking Al Haig for saying he was in charge.

No one thought anyone but "crazy" about the first Ford assassination attempt, since Squeaky Fromme was a Manson follower. Sara Jane Moore did say she tried to kill Ford because he had "declared war on the Left." (She was a little late. Nixon really did.) I would say that almost any act of violence against a government facility or university in that era would have been attributed to anti-war activists.

A friend of mine posted this link on FB: [link] Fascinating and horrifying chronological list of violent incidents and/or rhetoric related to violent insurrection since mid-2008.

Sigh. CNN's religion blog posted something about Giffords being Jewish. The second comment on the post is someone who wants to make it very clear that, since her father was Jewish but her mother was not, she's not REALLY a Jew. Really, people? This is what we're arguing about today? [link]

And two of the first five comments on the USA Today article are the same thing. (One of them exactly the same.) [link]

A friend of mine posted this link on FB: [link] Fascinating and horrifying chronological list of violent incidents and/or rhetoric related to violent insurrection since mid-2008.

That is very depressing.

Yikes!

A male model who had recently been a contestant on a Portuguese reality TV show was taken into police custody hours after his companion, a celebrity Portuguese television journalist, was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York City hotel.

Jesse- it's likely water trapped in your ear. Squirting a little rubbing alchohol in there should help it dry, but it could also be that yr ears aren't draining properly. I've found that if the rubbing alchohol stings or hurts like crazy, that means it's time to go to the dr b/ there's probably an infection. A slight burning sensation is normal.

One of the many things about radiators I adore? How I get blissed out cats lying on them, stoned by the warmth. Really happy cats.

My cats are the same way with my floor heating vents. I put plastic returns over the tops so the air would blow away from the walls (and the desk/bookshelves i placed directly above heater vents...oops) so as soon as they hear the heat kicking in both cats run to flop in front of one of those two vents. Sometimes they fight over who gets best seating in front of the vent under my desk, for it is close to my feet. And then when the heat stops the younger cat tries to beat the vent into producing more heat, but the older one just stays flopped in front, nice and warm, waiting for the next blast of hot air. it is soothing and pleasant to watch them enjoy the heat.

Snow dalek [link]