Sarah Palin:

Our children will not have peace if politicos just capitalize on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence.

Michelle Malkin:

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

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Eugene Register-Guard, Sunday, November 18, 1979:

Khomeini orders some hostages freed

No, not that.

Showers

No, not that either. Lower.

Dismal day

If you were among the standing-room-only crowd of 41,235 fans at the University of Oregon-UCLA football game Saturday at Autzen Stadium, you know how wet it was. If you weren’t there, this gives you a good idea of what you missed. For Duck fans, the game was as bad as the weather. The Bruins broke on top early and sloshed their way to a 35-0 victory over Oregon…

Okay, fine. It rained and the Ducks sucked, neither of which was news in 1979. So what are we doing with a generation-old newspaper clipping in the files?

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Title: “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”

Authors: Glenn Beck and Keith Ablow

Rank: 7

Blurb: “The process of finding happiness through personal redemption was not easy, but it left Glenn with a blueprint for how to confront future adversity.”

Review: “I am disappointed in the New Age views of both authors. If you are looking for a Biblical discussion of healing, look elsewhere. As a 7 year listener to the radio show, I like him very much, but now I may question his POV.”

Customers Also Bought: “Unlikely Mormon: The Conversion Story of Glenn Beck”.

Footnote: “He gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported Glennbeck.com and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million.” [Forbes]

The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center talks to Keith Olbermann about Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner’s textual YouTube videos.

Reading through all of his materials, or the materials purported to be his, he sounds quite mad, out of his mind.

But there is a thread through the material that really seems pretty clear: That thread has to do with seeing the government as an enemy. The books you mentioned, there’s a theme that runs through all of them, particularly the Ayn Rand book: The idea of the individual against the state. There are ideas like the idea of the only legitimate currency being backed by gold and silver. It’s a core idea of the Radical Right in this country.

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Stinque correspondent Jamie Sommers reports from the Phoenix candlelight vigil for victims of Saturday’s Tucson shooting.

It’s difficult to tell from the pictures but there were about 200 people there, mostly Democrats and local activists. I got there kinda late so I missed the first round of introductory remarks. The person I did see (Dem Party Chair Don Bivens) was mostly drowned out by some nutjob (haven’t we had enough of them today) calling Russell Pearce, Jan Brewer and “the White House” a bunch of thugs who are responsible for today’s murders. From what I could hear, his remarks were pretty generic “hearts and prayers go out to the families of the victims” type stuff. That was followed by the bagpipe player. Thankfully, the asshole nutjob shut his pie hole during that.

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UPDATE: SIX OTHERS HAVE BEEN KILLED, TWELVE WOUNDED.

UMC Hospital news conference, 4pm ET:

• 10 patients: one died — “a young child” — five critical. (This does not include other hospitals receiving victims.)

• Giffords’ condition is “very optimistic” following surgery.

NPR (updated):

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a gunman at a public event in Tucson on Saturday. There are reports of numerous injuries and the White House said “some had passed away.”

The dead included U.S. District Judge John Roll, U.S. Marshal for Arizona David Gonzales told the Associated Press…

The suspect fired indiscriminately from about four feet away, Michaels said. A congressional official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the gunman was using an automatic weapon…

Giffords’ Tucson office was one of three damaged last March by vandals who targeted Democrats in advance of the U.S. House vote on the controversial health care legislation. A glass panel at her office was shattered, and at the time her staff said that it appeared the window had been damaged by a pellet gun.

The shooter is in custody; he is being described as a “white male born in 1988.” CNN reports that he used a 9mm Glock.

AP:

People familiar with the investigation tell The Associated Press that the gunman held in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and others has been identified as Jared Lee Loughner.

Post being updated as the story develops.

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We’ve long since packed away our Na’vi gags in the Stinque Storage Unit, and really, there’s no point riffing on the Inevitable:

The ultimate alien fantasy has landed. The new Fleshlight Alien is an unworldly experience that will abduct your penis and send it spiraling through in a real milky way! Use the Alien Fleshlight while watching Hustler’s new 3D epic, “This Ain’t Avatar XXX” for the ultimate in E.T. ecstasy.

We must be out of the loop, since “This Ain’t…” seems to be a popular series of Hustler videos, including This Ain’t Glee XXX, This Ain’t I Dream of Jeannie XXX, and… and… this can’t be right…

This Ain’t Curb Your Enthusiasm XXX.

We don’t know about you, but the thought of Larry David, Jeff Garlin and Richard Lewis in a three-way kinda eliminates the need for a Fleshlight.

Alien Fleshlight [Oh so NSFW, via The Nerdist]