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link Heroic Giffords Intern Could Be Asked For Papers Under Arizona Immigration Law.

Apologies in advance for referring to a Huffington Post article, but the inanity of this piece was just too glaring to ignore.  Yes, that Huffington Post, where the truth is merely an inconvenience.  Even before the smoke clears on the shooting rampage in Arizona, this writer of the linked article feels compelled to spin the story with a political angle. 

One of the heros in the aftermath of the shooting was congresswoman Giffords’  aide, Daniel Hernandez,  who heroically stemmed the bleeding from the congresswoman after she had been shot.  Now, the insightful writer muses that Mr. Hernandez may be required to prove he is not an illegal immigrant in accordance with a proposed Arizona law. 

So what? If you buy booze in a liquor store, you have to prove that you are of age. If you want to go to country club and have drinks there, you are expected to provide  proof of membership.  If you want to drive a car, you need a license. If you want to be a resident of the state of Arizona, you need to have proof of citizenship.  But in none of the above cases would exclusion from those groups prevent someone from acting as any humane person would in an emergency situation such as the one that transpired in Tuscon. 

That is a question of morality, not of legality.  Is the author implying that illegal immigrants would be less likely to save people from a burning building because their immigration status may be at stake?  While this is possible, I think this implies a cynicism on  the morality of the people who may find themselves in that predicament bordering on insulting. Only the rabid left would be thinking of political ramifications in a life and death circumstance.  Would someone like Hernandez be less inclined to help because he owed back taxes? Or was tardy in child support payments?  Most rational people are not concerned with left or right politics in making day to day life decisions.  That prism of life is left to the underemployed nutbars who pose as journalists and pundits. 

There’s an old joke in the financial business that goes; what’s the difference between a bond and a bond trader?  Answer, a bond matures.  I wouldn’t bet that on Huffington Post scribes.  Heaven help people like this writer if the world actually operated as cynicially as she depicts.  Imagine if she were ever to be wheeled into a “conservative” hospital during an emergency and the doctors asked, ” okay, who was the republican vice presidential candidate in 1963, we only need initials?”.   That’ll learn her.

link A Right to Bear Glocks? – NYTimes.com.

First of all, this is an op-ed from the New York Times, so it’s not as if it’s a real news piece.  However, the sentiments expressed are a sample of the knee jerk response from “progressives’ in the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Arizona.  The shooter in this case, Jared Loughner, is by all accounts of people who knew him beforehand, mentally tenuous as many ex friends and even a teacher have stepped forth to claim.  Why he was able to acquire the arsenal of weapons and ammunition given his well known mental state is something the regulators will have to address.  Regardless, the gun control crowd have appeared like drunks at a wake to cite this as another reason to restrict firearms for the law abiding public.

On the same page in google news today is the horrific story of a gay murder in New York in which another disturbed man, this time a young gay model, castrates and kills his older sugar daddy with a wine corkscrew claiming that he was cleansing the older gentleman of homosexual demons.  Try as we might, we don’t find any op-ed pieces condemning this act as one made possible by the ample availability of corkscrews and certainly not playing up the fact that these two players were gay.

The fact of the matter is, the world is populated by mentally tenuous people.  We pass by them every day although they do not always betray their shortcomings.  Some occupy positions of influence in our society and there is evidence that some of the most deranged wind up in politics or the media.  In the Arizona shooting case, the rational, non partisan media have drawn a laugh out loud comical connection between Sarah Palin and the tragedy.  While rational people will dismiss this as juvenile  and partisan finger pointing, there are those not as familiar with logical thinking that will embrace this opinion as being valid.

Jared Loughner, the crazy shooter, apparently took inspiration from such great works of literature as The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, classics for any mentally unstable person.  The fact that he was a left wing nut has been somehow overlooked by the objective media.  In fact, acquaintances have characterized him as a left wing pothead.  Somehow those aspects are ignored and the focus is on the gun.   It was quite inconsiderate that a left wing wacko would go on a shooting rampage.  The media would have you believe that’s the purview of the right.    Good thing he didn’t read Adam Smith or Ronald Reagan.  Supposedly, there are regulations which are designed to prevent the mentally unstable from owning firearms, yet no filters for people who want to become journalists.  Hint for all the brilliant journalists out there;  reading the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf are more a clue of derangement than owing a gun.