memeorandum: Help Needed — I find myself in deep financial trouble. (Diane/cab drollery)

10:40 AM ET, January 16, 2011

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Death threat at ABC-TV Town Hall event Saturday — Reporter: Forrest Carr Web producer: Sheryl Kornman — TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) -The meeting room at St. Odilia's Catholic Church on the city's northwest side was packed with local dignitaries, witnesses to the mass shooting Jan. 8 …

John Hayward / Human Events:

Meet Eric Fuller — The Left finds a new icon. — Trackback Link (Loading. . .) — You might be seeing a lot of Eric Fuller over the weekend. He's one of the people injured in Jared Loughner's shooting rampage, taking rounds in the knee and back. He's also a vicious bigot …

Discussion: NewsReal Blog, American Power, The Sundries Shack, NewsBusters.org blogs and Media Matters for America

Associated Press:

Tucson victim arrested for threat — TUCSON, Ariz. — In an unexpected twist to the Arizona shootings, a man wounded in the attack was arrested and taken for a psychiatric exam after an outburst at a town hall meeting, during which he took a picture of a tea party leader and yelled “you're dead,” authorities say.

Discussion: Gothamist

Frank Rich / New York Times:

No One Listened to Gabrielle Giffords — OF the many truths in President Obama's powerful Tucson speech, none was more indisputable than his statement that no one can know what is in a killer's mind. So why have we spent so much time debating exactly that? — The answer is classic American denial.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs, Daily Kos, Prairie Weather and Booman Tribune

Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:

Tucson Shooting Victim Charged for Death Threat to Tea Party Leader — Welcome to Bizzaro World — even the local station couldn't help but make note of the sad irony. — From KGUN9 in Tucson: … According to the story, Fuller was charged with one count of threats and intimidation and at least one count of disorderly conduct.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys and NewsBusters.org blogs

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:

ABC World News Reports Threat at its Tucson Town Hall, Omits it Was Made to a Tea Partier — As NewsBusters previously reported, a survivor of last week's Tucson shootings issued a death threat to a Tea Party member Saturday in the middle of a taping for a town hall meeting to be aired on ABC's “This Week.”

Discussion: Arizona Republic, New York Times, ABCNEWS, The Caucus and Weasel Zippers

Sify.com:
Arizona survivor blames Palin's ‘crosshair’ posting for shooting mayhem

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Weasel Zippers, Cubachi and Outside the Beltway

New York Times:

Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay — The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel's never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. — Over the past two years …

Discussion: Challah Hu Akbar, American Thinker, Weasel Zippers, TPMCafe, YID With LID, Israpundit, FrumForum and Pajamas Media, more at Techmeme »

Diane / cab drollery:

Help Needed — I find myself in deep financial trouble. My hours have been cut once again, which means I'm done, ruined, forked, at least for the short term while I try to find another source of income. It appears, given the current job market and my age, that the other source will have to be early Social Security.

Discussion: The Jawa Report

Tyler Durden / zero hedge:

Guest Post: How Many Senators Does It Take To Screw A Taxpayer? — How Many Senators Does It Take To Screw A Taxpayer? … - Ron Paul — When bipartisanship breaks out in Washington DC, check to make sure your wallet is still in your pocket. Every time you fill up your car this winter …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Annie Groer / Politics Daily:

Michael Reagan Rips Half-Brother Ron Over Book and Alzheimer's Claim … Michael Reagan blasted as “falsehoods and lies and conspiracy theories to sell books,” the suggestion by half-brother Ron Reagan that their father may have had Alzheimer's disease while still in the White House.

James Hohmann / The Politico:
Michael Reagan calls brother an ‘embarrassment’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

David Gibson / Politics Daily:

Is the Black Church Dead? Debate Flares Among African-American Christians … LITHONIA, Ga. — Under a sparkling blue sky, thousands of worshipers in cars and SUVs streamed into the mall-like parking lots at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a sprawling campus just off I-20 in this suburb of Atlanta.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Religion Dispatches

Allan Hall / Daily Mail:

EU sends out £4.4m diaries to schools which list Muslim, Chinese and Hindu holidays... but miss out Christmas and Easter — The European Union has sent millions of diaries to schools which list the dates of Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish and Chinese festivals - but omit any mention of Christian celebrations.

Discussion: The Jawa Report and theblogprof

Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times:

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords taken off ventilator — Surgeons at Tucson's University Medical Center removed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from a ventilator Saturday and inserted a tracheotomy tube into her neck to assist her breathing, according to the center. — Removing her from the ventilator …

Discussion: Mediaite, American Power and FrumForum