These men and others -- the Tea-Truthers as they are known -- are dedicated to the principled, ethical investigation of all things Tea Party.
Because we simply must stop the vitriol, hatred and uninformed commentary. We must do it for the children.
These men and others -- the Tea-Truthers as they are known -- are dedicated to the principled, ethical investigation of all things Tea Party.
Because we simply must stop the vitriol, hatred and uninformed commentary. We must do it for the children.Don't know if you saw this or not.
Her [Giffords'] Youtube page has only two subscriptions, one links to the shooter's page (lower left corner, name classit10)
Now, her own political page links back to this youtube site, so it must be hers.
I don't know if someone has hacked this page or what. Strange to say the least.
Disgusting Partisanship on Display After Shooting: AceQOTD: "...the same people who insisted in November 2009 that people should not rush to judgment about the potential connection of radical Islam to the Fort Hood shooting practically broke legs trying to tie an apparent paranoid schizophrenic who hailed Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto to Sarah Palin." -- Ed Morrissey
The unmoored rhetoric of fools like Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas is not only divisive, it's destructive.Operators of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, shut Jan. 8 while a leak is repaired, can’t say when the pipeline that carries 15 percent of U.S. crude oil output will be flowing again.The shutdown has forced oil companies including BP Plc to suspend 95 percent of production from the North Slope area. The system, an 800-mile network crossing the northernmost U.S. state, was closed at about 8:50 a.m. Alaska time Jan. 8, operator Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. said in a statement... Oil futures in New York jumped as much as 2.2 percent to $89.98 a barrel, advancing for the first time in three days.
• Not several unnamed Democrat operatives, reported to have said, "[we] need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers... Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people" and "[there is a] climate of bitter and virulent rhetoric against the government and Democrats."...Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told reporters Saturday night "he has mental issues".The 22-year-old was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, and hasn't been seen publicly since... 9 On Your Side spoke with a young adult who went to school with Loughner in middle school and high school. The friend, who did not want her name used, told KGUN9 News, "When I knew him he was odd. Not psychopath, just odd. Most kids at 12, 13, 24 are weird. He was odd, but not that weird."
She went on to say, "When I heard it was him that did it, it was shocking. He never said creepy, psychopathic things. He would listen to hard core, heavy metal music. But when I knew him he wasn't like crazy our anything. Just odd. It was kind of weird to see this transformation from someone who is like a little bit odd, to like, crazy, 'I'm going to kill a bunch of people."
Loughner as posted some bizarre videos on his YouTube channel. The most controversial video shows someone in a mask lighting an American flag on fire. It's titled "America: your last memory in a terrorist country".
...Loughner has a criminal history and that campus officials at Pima Community College had difficulties with him on campus... What appears to be Loughner's myspace page was captured by website Good Politics before it was deleted. In one of the last messages left this morning, he wrote "Goodbye friends. Please don't be mad at me. The literacy rate is below 5%. I haven't talked to one person who is literate. I want to make it out alive. The longest war in the history of the United States. Goodbye. I'm saddened with the current currency and job employment. I had a bully at school. Thank you. P.S. --plead the fifth!"
Loughner went to Tortolita Middle School in Marana. A district spokesperson says that Loughner spent his freshman through junior years at Mountain View High School. Then, he withdrew from school before his senior year.
Pima Community College issued a statement about Loughner Saturday at 7:35 p.m. The statement described Loughner as a former student who withdrew from the college in October after being suspected for code of conduct violations.
"From February to September 2010, Loughner had five contacts with PCC police for classroom and library disruptions at Northwest and West campuses," the statement read. "On September 29, 2010, college police discovered on YouTube a Loughner-filmed video made at Northwest Campus. In the video, he claims that the College is illegal according to the U.S. Constitution, and makes other claims."
The college said it told Loughner that if he wanted to come back to school, he must "must resolve his Code of Conduct violations and obtain a mental health clearance indicating, in the opinion of a mental health professional, his presence at the College does not present a danger to himself or others." ...The college said it had no further contact with him after that...
The man arrested on suspicion of [the shootings] tried to manipulate his dreams and posted rambling messages on the Internet... A former classmate of Loughner at Pima, from which he was suspended Sept. 29 for code-of-conduct violations, said he was "obviously very disturbed."
"He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts," said Lynda Sorenson, who took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College's Northwest campus... Dupnik said the suspected shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers. The threats weren't against Giffords, Dupnik said.
...As a middle school student, Loughner was "kind of an outcast," said Shannin Macey, who said via e-mail she attended Tortolita and Mountain View with him. In high school, Loughner was in jazz band and played the saxophone but he dropped out in junior year, said Tommy Marriotti, who was a high-school friend of Loughner.
At the time he dropped out, Loughner was having drug problems, Marriotti said, but he seemed to do well once he started taking classes at Pima... Loughner attended Pima courses from summer 2005 until he withdrew in October after his suspension, the college said.
He tried to enlist in the Army in 2008 but was rejected, said First Sgt. Brian Homme, who oversees Army recruiting in Tucson. Loughner was sent to Phoenix to take a test and physical, but "he was found to be unqualified," Homme said... Loughner registered to vote for the first time in 2006, said Chris Roads, Pima County's registrar of voters. He registered as an independent and last voted in the 2008 general election.
Sorenson, Loughner's classmate at Pima, said he was asked to leave the pre-algebra class several times and eventually was barred from class... Another Pima classmate, Lydian Ali, said Loughner would frequently laugh aloud to himself during the advanced-poetry class they attended. Only about 16 people were in the class, so Loughner's behavior stood out, Ali said... "It almost seemed like he was on his own planet, because his comments would have nothing to do with what we were talking about," Ali said.
Loughner's online accounts contain some political comments but are dominated by bizarre discussions of his desire to establish a new currency and his disdain for what he considered the public's low literacy rates. He also wrote threatening and despairing messages... "WOW! I'm glad i didn't kill myself. I'll see you on National T.v.! This is foreshadow .... why doesn't anyone talk to me?.." he posted on MySpace Dec. 14. [The day before,] he wrote: "I don't feel good: I'm ready to kill a police officer! I can say it." ... In a posting on YouTube, Loughner wrote repeatedly about a new currency.
Loughner has had at least two minor run-ins with police, online court records show... In October 2007, Loughner was cited by the Pima County Sheriff's Department for possession of drug paraphernalia, a charge that was dismissed in November 2007 when he completed a diversion program... One year later, in October 2008, Loughner faced a "local charge" in Marana Municipal Court. That charge was also dismissed following the completion of a diversion program in March 2009.
[He] was a former PCC student who voluntarily withdrew last October after he was suspended for code of conduct violations...
...PCC says Loughner and his parents met administrators on October 4, 2010, and Loughner indicated he would withdraw from the College.
...Search warrants were served in the Tucson area, including the home of Loughner's parents in the 7700 bock of North Soledad Avenue, Pima County Sheriff's department spokesman Rick Kastigar said...
Deputies recovered a pistol with an extended handle [Ed: probably an extended magazine], Kastigar added...
Further information on what was seized by deputies was not immediately available.
Loughner's YouTube channel has three videos detailing his opinion on government failures.
Here's a look at Loughner's MySpace page, which has been restricted from public view.
The New York Times' Paul Krugman writes, "You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers."
Turns out, however, that making political hay out of this tragedy -- while par for the course for the Leftists -- is so far off base that it's quite literally sickening.Jared Loughner, Alleged Shooter in Gabrielle Giffords Attack, Described by Classmate as "Left-Wing Pothead"
A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as "left wing" and a "pot head" in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon... [she] paint[s] a picture of Jared Loughner as a substance-abusing loner who had met Giffords before the shooting. She says, Loughner described the congresswoman as "stupid and unintelligent."
...Parker "tweets" that she and Loughner were in the band together and were friends until 2007 when he became "reclusive" after getting alcohol poisoning and dropping out of college... She describes him as "quite liberal" and as a "political radical."
Saturday afternoon, police surrounded a house at 7700 N. Soledad Ave., which is the address listed by a man with the same name on a variety of online accounts and in the volunteer registry for the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books. The home is near West Magee Road and North Thornydale Road on the northwest side, about five miles from the shooting scene... The suspected shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers, but the threats weren't against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Dupnik said. The suspect is unstable, Dupnik said, but the sheriff would not say he is "insane."A former classmate of Loughner at Pima Community College said he was "obviously very disturbed... He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts," said Lynda Sorenson, who took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College's Northwest campus... Sorenson doesn't recall if he ever made any threats or uttered political statements but he was very disruptive, she said. He was asked to leave the pre-algebra class several times and eventually was barred from class, said Sorenson, a Tucson resident.
Another Pima classmate, Lydian Ali, said Loughner would frequently laugh aloud to himself during the advanced-poetry class they attended. Only about 16 people were in the class, so Loughner's behavior stood out, Ali said.

And Democrats -- including Kos -- routinely use bullseye symbols in their graphics.
The poison spilled by Krugman and Kos is harmful to society, for they are happy to use pure evil and madness to advance their political agenda.Democrats plotted to blame the tea party patriots for yesterday’s slaugher in Arizona
A democratic operative admitted this to The Politico. Of course, Politico buried it in their story.One veteran Democratic operative, who blames overheated rhetoric for the shooting, said President Barack Obama should carefully but forcefully do what his predecessor did.
“They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”Another Democratic strategist said the similarity is that Tucson and Oklahoma City both “take place in a climate of bitter and virulent rhetoric against the government and Democrats.”
This Democrat said that the time had come to insist that Republicans stand up when, for example, a figure such as Fox News commentator Glenn Beck says something incendiary.
The shooter was a pro-Marxist, anti-flag, anti-Constitution, anti-religious crackpot. He was hardly a tea partier.
So… Is this why DHS is going after a hate group that just happens to have Gadsden Flags ads on their website?… And, the media is trying to link the pro-Marxist lunatic to the tea party?
Illegal cit. arrested for sex assault
CLINTON, Conn. (WTNH) - An arrest was made after a four month investigation involving a 19-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by illegal citizens.
Police say two men who are both from Ecuador have been arrested for the crime.
William Matute 36, and Carlos Celi 29, originally from have had federal detainers placed on them pending their deportation back to Ecuador.
The investigation alleges that Celi assisted Matute in the crime, but did not have sexual contact with the victim.
Both Celi and Matute will be arraigned in Middletown Superior Court on Jan. 10.
Update: The Sheriff has cleared the second man "of any involvement in an attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords" (via American Digest).
Pima County Sheriff's Deputies are asking for the publics help in locating a person of interest in connection with the mass-shooting and assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.Jason Ogan with the Sheriff's Department told KGUN9 that they are trying to find a 40-50 year old male with dark hair. Authorities say the man was last seen wearing blue jeans and a dark blue jacket.
If you have information on the identity of the individual, please call 9-1-1, 88-CRIME, or the FBI at 520-791-6974.
An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo quoted by FOX News Channel revealed the gunman - named by the media as Jared Loughner, 22 - is "possibly linked" to American Renaissance... The group subscribes to an ideology that is "anti-government, anti-immigration, anti -ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government), anti-Semitic," according to the DHS memo.
Two Sicknesses On Display in Arizona: LegalInsLittle information is known immediately about Laughner — such as his background or a possible motive in the attack... U.S. officials who provided his name to the AP spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release it publicly.






Tyler Durden reports that Loughner lists Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto among his favorite books.Name: Jared Lee Loughner
Channel Views: 271
Joined: October 25, 2010
Website: http://Myspace.com/fallenasleep
About Me: My name is Jared Lee Loughner!
Hometown: Tucson
Country: United States
Schools: I attended school: Thornydale elementary,Tortolita Middle School, Mountain View Highschool, Northwest Aztec Middle College, and Pima Community College.
Interests: My favorite interest was reading, and I studied grammar. Conscience dreams were a great study in college!
Movies: (*My idiom: I could coin the moment!*)
Music: Pass me the strings!
Books: I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.


On MySpace and YouTube web pages, a man who identifies himself as 22-year-old Jared Loughner posted anti-government messages that talk about mind control and suggested he will soon be adopting a new consciousness.
"Goodbye," Loughner posted on his MySpace account at approximately 5 a.m. Saturday. "Dear friends ... Please don't be mad at me."
Photos on MySpace show a close-up picture of an automatic handgun sitting atop a book or paper titled "United States History." This picture is accompanied by several videos posted to Loughner's Youtube account, including one of a masked man burning a U.S. flag and another with the words, "Don't trust the current government, listener!"
It is unclear if Loughner is the person burning the flag in the video.
Additional pictures show a coded message, Loughner on the street and a close-up of his face.
On both the MySpace and YouTube web pages, Loughner mentions his concern over literacy rates and the fact that few people speak English. He also talks about his distrust of the government and suggests that anyone can call anyone a terrorist.
"I can't trust the current government because of fabrications," Loughner wrote in a YouTube slide presentation. "The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar."
News 4 now knows the identities of two more people killed in the tragic shooting this morning: Gabe Zimmerman, one of Gifford's aides, and Dorwin Stoddard, a pastor of Mountain Ave. Church of Christ... Zimmerman, 30, was Giffords' director of community outreach, and had worked for Giffords since 2007.
Pastor Dorwin Stoddard, 75, was shot while he was in line to speak with Giffords.
It has been previously reported that John Roll, a federal judge had been shot and killed during the incident.









Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of those impacted by this horrific attack.Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shotGabrielle Giffords, 1970- 2011This is Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on her wedding day in 2007. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her husband, family members, staffers and friends.
The Soros-funded Marxist front group known as Media Matters has been busy trying to document a single lie by Fox News. The reason: they want the 1-oz. Krugerrand I pledged to the first person to describe a lie by FNC reporters. The rules are simple and Media Matters, to its credit, did try to follow them. Of the hundreds of other 'progressives' who responded, I think a grand total of two figured out what the grade-school-level rules were.So far one of the most circulated e-mails from the CRU hack is the following from Phil Jones to the original hockey stick authors – Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes [which states] ' I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline...'
...The e-mail is about WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 1999 -report, or more specifically, about its cover image....grafting the thermometer onto a reconstruction is not actually the original “Mike’s Nature trick”! Mann did not fully graft the thermometer on a reconstruction, but he stopped the smoothed series in their end years. The trick is more sophisticated, and was uncovered by UC over here...
...When smoothing these time series, the Team had a problem: actual reconstructions “diverge” from the instrumental series in the last part of 20th century. For instance, in the original hockey stick (ending 1980) the last 30-40 years of data points slightly downwards. In order to smooth those time series one needs to “pad” the series beyond the end time, and no matter what method one uses, this leads to a smoothed graph pointing downwards in the end whereas the smoothed instrumental series is pointing upwards — a divergence. So Mann’s solution was to use the instrumental record for padding, which changes the smoothed series to point upwards as clearly seen in UC’s figure (violet original, green without “Mike’s Nature trick”)....TGIF-magazine has already asked Jones about the e-mail, and he denied misleading anyone but did remember grafting... 'Jones told TGIF he had no idea what me meant by using the words “hide the decline”... “That was an email from ten years ago. Can you remember the exact context of what you wrote ten years ago?”'
Some Republicans have likened the building struggle over budget reconciliation to the 2005 Senate fight over Democratic filibusters against judicial nominees chosen by President George W. Bush.
Frustrated at the opposition, Republicans warned they would invoke the “nuclear option” and change Senate rules to ban filibusters against executive branch nominations. Democrats characterized that as an assault on the very nature of the Senate... But now that they are in the minority, some Republicans have begun suggesting that if Democrats insist on reconciliation, Republicans will gum up the Senate works to the greatest extent possible, using their remaining procedural rights to essentially shut down the Senate.
...Republicans have another hurdle as well. The so-called nuclear option represented a change in Senate rules...
Sen. Robert Byrd warned Democratic colleagues against changing filibuster rules in order to advance their legislative priorities... In a "Dear Colleague" letter dated Tuesday, Byrd, the longest-serving member of the Senate, said that the Senate's rules on ending debate shouldn't be changed, but he encouraged forcing senators to actually sustain debate in a real, live filibuster...
The frustration over the filibuster has been especially manifest in the healthcare debate, where all 41 Republicans, sticking together, have been able to sustain a filibuster.
So both The New York Times and Democrat icon Senator Robert Byrd effectively eviscerated this attempt.
Alexander Warns Dems Against Senate Power Grab: HEPresident Obama today called the job numbers released this morning “positive news”... The numbers showed a drop in the nation’s unemployment rate to 9.4 percent in December.“Overall, the decline in the unemployment rate is positive news, but it only underscores the importance of us not letting up on our efforts... We know these numbers can bounce around from month to month, but the trend is clear,” Obama added, noting that this marks 12 straight months of private-sector job growth for the first time since 2006. “The economy added 1.3 million jobs last year, and each quarter was stronger than the previous quarter, which means that the pace of hiring is beginning to pick up.”
The president said they are seeing “optimistic” economic forecasts for the year ahead, in part due to the tax cuts package he signed into law last month, including a payroll tax cut for workers and tax breaks to encourage investment, innovation and hiring in businesses.
The reported unemployment rate fell a substantial .4% to 9.4%. However, much of that that gain is a statistical mirage. The BLS reports a whopping 260,000 people dropped out of the work force. As a result the [labor] participation rate fell to a new low of 64.3%.
Bear in mind, were it not for millions of people allegedly dropping out of the labor force over the last year, the unemployment rate would be over 11% right now...
The official unemployment rate is 9.4%. However, if you start counting all the people that want a job but gave up, all the people with part-time jobs that want a full-time job, all the people who dropped off the unemployment rolls because their unemployment benefits ran out, etc., you get a closer picture of what the unemployment rate is... 16.7%. Moreover, both the official rate and U-6 would be much higher were it not for huge numbers of people dropping out of the workforce.
Things are much worse than the reported numbers would have you believe.
Texas authorities were forced to close part of the Houston Ship Channel Tuesday after 250,000 gallons of beef fat spewed out of a shore-based storage tank. That's right — what you see isn't ice — it's gelatinized beef fat.Approximately 15,000 pounds (or 250,000 gallons) of the animal fat spilled into the Houston Ship Channel this week out of a tank owned by agricultural company Jacob Sterns and Sons. Representatives of the company say the rupture was the result of an employee error.
The Coast Guard and the Texas General Land Office sent workers into the gulf to capture the beef tallow, which thickens in the cold water, by picking up the foot-long thickened bits. These bits aren't the edible portions but rather the bits leftover and used for cosmetics and soap... Here's one more image — just in case you had any thoughts of eating any food for the rest of the day.
Yesterday, Reps. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) failed to take the oath of office on the House floor along with the other 433 members of Congress which caused the GOP caucus to scurry, worrying that some of the congressional actions Sessions and Fitzpatrick took yesterday may not have been valid. This morning, the House passed a resolution to fix this problem by a vote of 257-159 — with 27 Democrats voting in favor, three House members voting “present” (including Sessions and Fitzpatrick), and 16 others not voting. The resolution invalidated any votes Sessions and Fitzpatrick had taken yesterday, but also said that “all other actions the members took would count as if the two representatives were sworn in on the floor.”
After the resolution was introduced, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) took to the House floor to criticize the new Majority for violating its own newly-instituted parliamentary rules. “A new section was created…that required at least three days notice to consider legislation,” he said, adding, “It is particularly important in this case since we’re dealing with a constitutional issue, one that is without precedent.”
Gee, but I thought the Constitution was an anachronism?