Arizonas Mental Health Budget Crunch

There's a New Sheriff in Politics
The Thread is an in-depth look at how major news and controversies are being debated across the online spectrum. Tags: blogs, Internet, Media, tuscon shooting In his Speech in Tucson Wednesday night, President Obama called on Americans to expand their “moral imaginations” and “remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.” Well, never hurts to aim high. For now, at least, the president seems to have put an end to the...

DUPNIKS DUPLICITOUS DIATRIBE
In the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s tragic shooting at the Tucson shopping center, the one person that citizens would expect to focus on a quick response to the violence, conduct a thorough investigation, and focus on finding the culprit is none other than Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik.  Certainly, this occurred within his jurisdiction, therefore his office is the primary Law Enforcement agency to deal with this crisis.   Jared Loughner’s actions, the takin...

Photos Show Loughner Wearing G-string with Glock semi-automatic pistol
The latest news coming out about Jared Loughner is becoming more bizzare. Now we find out the Tucson shooter posed for photos wearing a bright red G-string holding a Glock semiautomatic pistol. Authorities say they have photos of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner posing with a Glock 9 mm and wearing a red G-string. TUCSON, Ariz.(AP) — The suspect in the Mass Shooting in Arizona posed for photos with a gun, dressed only in a bright red G-string, and had the film developed on the eve...

Police describe accused Arizona gunman's night
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Jared Lee Loughner, charged with killing six people and trying to assassinate a U.S. congresswoman in Arizona, checked into a motel, bought bullets and had photographs developed on the night before the shooting, police said on Friday. The New York Times said the roll of film had "multiple photos" of the 22-year-old College Dropout posing in red G-string underwear with a Glock semi-automatic pistol. FBI sources told Reuters they could neither confirm nor deny the repo...

Police describe accused Arizona gunman's night
By Tim Gaynor and Brad Poole TUCSON, Arizona | Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:45pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Jared Lee Loughner, charged with killing six people and trying to assassinate a U.S. congresswoman in Arizona, checked into a motel, bought bullets and had photographs developed on the night before the shooting, police said on Friday. The New York Times said the roll of film had "multiple photos" of the 22-year-old college dropout posing in red G-string underwear with a Glock semi-automatic ...

Epic Fail
Posted by John at 7:17 PM This Quinnipiac Poll provides more evidence that hardly anyone buys the Democratic Party's spin on the Tucson murders. When asked "What do you think is the main reason for the Arizona shooting; failure of the Mental Health system, lax Gun Control laws, overheated political Rhetoric, or do you think this is a situation that could not have been prevented?" respondents answered: * Mental health system: 23% * Gun control laws: 9% * Political rhetoric: 15% * Couldn't have b...

Official: Ariz. shooter posed in G-string with gun
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Law Enforcement official says authorities have photos of the suspected Arizona shooter posing with a gun, dressed only in a bright red G-string. Authorities said Friday the suspect, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, took the film to be developed on the eve of the rampage that killed six people and critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The Pima County Sheriff’s Office says Loughner picked up the film a few hours later from a Walgreens. The Law Enforcement offici...

Loughner Posed in G-String with Gun
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The suspect in the Mass Shooting in Arizona posed for photos with a gun, dressed only in a bright red G-string, and had the film developed on the eve of the rampage that killed six people and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, authorities said Friday. The most detailed timeline of Jared Loughner's busy 11 hours before the shooting was released by the Pima County Sheriff's Office. It begins with Loughner dropping off the 35mm film at a Walgreens at 11:35 p.m. Jan. 7, t...

Wounded Victim Pam Simon Recalls Shooting
Like this Story? Share it: Another of the wounded in Tucson who was released from the Hospital is 63-year-old Pam Simon, who does community outreach for Congresswoman Giffords. Katie Couric spoke with Simon about the shooting. Pam Simon, a survivor of the Tucson shooting, in an interview with Katie Couric, Jan. 14, 2011. (CBS) (CBS) One of those wounded in the shooting in Tucson last week, Pam Simon, 63, was recently released from the hospital. Simon does community outreach for Congresswoman Gi...

Cops Finds Photos Of AZ Shooter Posing With Gun While Wearing Red G-String
Investigators today said that they've received a bizarre series of photos of mass murderer Jared Lee Loughner. The photos show Loughner wearing a red g-string with a Glock pistol next to his naked buttocks. The photos were turned over to the police by Walgreens, where Mr. Loughner had taken the 35-mm film to be developed on Jan. 7, the day before the shooting. In some of the photos he is holding the gun near his crotch, and in others, presumably shot in a mirror, he is holding the gun next to ...

Shooting victim tries to visit Loughner's parents
Source: Arizona Republic/AZCentral.com Eric Fuller, one of the Victims wounded in the Tucson shooting that killed six and critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, paid a visit to the home of suspected shooter Jared Loughner's parents Friday. Fuller told 12 News that he was there "to forgive them and possibly their son," but the couple wasn't home. The younger Loughner remains in jail and has been denied bail. Suffering from a bullet-wound to the knee, Fuller got out of his car and limped to t...

The Tucson Shooting; Where do we go from here?
The tragic shootings in Tucson, Arizona have spawned a constellation of political quakes, accusations of guilt and attacks on Constitutional Rights. Behind the political blame game, though, there are human interest elements to this story that illustrate the true strength of the human spirit. For instance, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' fight for her life.  Giffords, who was shot in the head, and her battle to recover from this unspeakable act of violence, is a display of the most inspira...

Laughner Video Released: Rambles on Out Genocide, Illegals Wars, and Mind Control
A campus Police Officer who saw the video “positively recognized the voice and the reflection in the window as Student Jared Loughner,” according to a school Police Report. That same officer had removed Loughner from his biology class Sept. 23 after a disruptive outburst. …In the video, Loughner states, “The war that we are in right now is currently illegal under the Constitution”; “This is my Genocide school. Where I’m going to be Homeless because of th...

Loughner Video Released: Yes, He Was Nuts
He mentions we're in an illegal war. That sounds so familiar.A YouTube video that prompted the suspension of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner in September was released Friday by officials at Pima Community College and included rambling statements such as "We are examining the Torture of Students" and "This is Genocide in America." The video, no longer on the website, was released to The Times following a Public Records request and offers the extended example of Loughner's voice. A camp...

Loughner video with 'genocide' and 'torture' ramblings is released
Source: LA Times A YouTube video that prompted the suspension of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner in September was released Friday by officials at Pima Community College and included rambling statements such as "We are examining the Torture of Students" and "This is Genocide in America." The video, no longer on the website, was released to The Times following a Public Records request and offers the extended example of Loughner's voice. A campus Police Officer who saw the video "positiv...

Police create timeline of Loughner's morning before arrest
TUCSON — In the early-morning hours before he was arrested on charges of shooting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, Jared Loughner attempted twice to buy ammunition and told his friends "goodbye" on his MySpace account, according to sheriff's documents released Friday. The timeline of events, made public by the Pima County Sheriff's Department, pulls together details before and after the Saturday shooting that killed six and wounded 13 outside a northwest Tucson Grocery Store. Lou...

Investigators look over bag suspect may have carried
TUCSON — Authorities are examining a black bag containing 9mm ammunition they believe was discarded by the suspect in the Assassination attempt on a congresswoman. Pima County Sheriff's deputies, working with the FBI to gather evidence from the shooting Saturday, said they believe a black diaper bag found Thursday morning by someone walking a dog was used by Jared Loughner, 22, who faces federal Murder and assault charges. The bag was found near the Loughners' suburban home, Sheriff's Deput...

Should State Of The Union Seating Be Bi-Partisan?
Typically seating in the House of Representatives for the State of the Union addresses by the President is done along partisan lines, with Democrats sitting on one side and Republicans sitting on the other. Now, in the wake of the Tucson shooting, many want the seating to be bi-partisan with members of the two parties mixed in. “”This is symbolic, this is a nice gesture,” Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) says in support. “”I think both sides need to be careful about going bac...

It Did Not'
Jan 24, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 18 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. After a depressing week—a horrible shooting that killed 6 people and wounded 14 others, followed by days of demagoguery and idiocy surpassing even the normal standards of our power-without-responsibility punditocracy—recent days have brought encouraging news. The medical prognosis for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords seems more hopeful than had been thought likely. And the A...

Obama's Tucson memorial speech: A conversation in dissent
In part because there's been such rush to sanctify Obama's Tucson's Speech--not just in Versailles, but online as well--I feel a need to end the week with a reiteration of dissenting opinion. To state my case (perhaps too) succinctly: It's not that I object to a speech that makes people feel good. It's that I object to it in place of a speech that makes people do good. But it's not my case that I'm concerned with, as indicated by the fact that I first asked debcoop to refine her thoughts for ...

Tucson shooting timeline: Pima Sheriff's Office
Source: Washington Post The Pima County, Ariz.,Sheriff's Office on Friday released this timeline for the actions it says led up to the Mass Shooting of 19 people on Saturday outside a Tucson grocery story. Jared Lee Loughner, the man identified by police as the gunman, is facing federal Murder charges in connection with the incident. The sheriff's office says the times are approximate. "11/30/2010: Jared Lee Loughner purchased a Glock Model 19, 9mm Handgun with extended magazine and one box of a...

Dont kill him
Today’s New York Times reports that San Diego Federal Judge Larry Alan Burns was appointed to oversee the Tucson Murder case. Apparently, one factor in his selection was Burns’s experience in federal death penalty cases. Until I read that, I hadn’t thought much about what would happen to Jared Loughner, who committed this atrocity. I don’t oppose the death penalty in all cases, certainly not in all cases of mass murder. I don’t know very much about Loughner’s...

USAT's Neuharth Blames Everyone But the Tucson Killer; MSNBC Response Is a Howler
CBS Touts Dem Congresswoman Using Daughter to Pin Shooting on Rhetoric: 'Mommy, Are You Going to Get Shot?' On Wednesday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), in commenting on USA Today's poor decision to quote a paragraph from a New York Times op-ed by former Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) -- a bad decision because Kanjorski's call for "civility" directly contrasts with his call for someone to shoot Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Rick Scott just a few months ago -- I...

Involuntary Treatment Laws
I agree with the earlier commentators' descriptions of what quality campus Mental Health systems should do--namely, provide campus-wide outreach via education; facilitate rapid access to care; establish intervention mechanisms that keep track of Students at risk; and coordinate with the local Mental Health authorities for Students who need those services. In Arizona, an interested party can petition the court for mental evaluation of a person. But two critical points remain. First, what ac...

UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday, Jan. 15
Published: Jan. 14, 2011 at 11:30 PM St. Louis at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. Pall bearers escort casket containing the remains of 9-year-old Christina Green during her Funeral at the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Tucson, Arizona, January 13, 2011. Green was the youngest Victim of Saturday's shooting in Tucson that left six people killed and 13 wounded including Rep. Gabriella Giffords (D-AZ). UPI/Mamta Popat/Pool Man whose heart stopped for three-and-a-half hours is brought back to life. He's fin...