Hero:

Kimberly Munley, hero and civilian police officer, saved lives when she put an end to the rampage by shooting Major Hasan 4 times, even while Officer Munley herself was wounded.

Grrl power. Never thought I’d see Egalia mention that someone armed was a hero.

Another mass shooting, in Orlando.

More info here. Suspect still at large.

Roberta:

In other news, 3,699 to 13,999 Muslims serving in the U. S. military didn’t go on a shooting spree yesterday.

It’s not the religion. It’s not the guns. It’s the crazy. And no one group has a lock on crazy.

By most accounts, it’s looking like a case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Seems the shooter was upset about being deployed overseas, which makes you wonder about his career choice since that line of work stands a better than average shot at being deployed overseas. Witnesses report he shouted allahu akbar while shooting.

And there’s that whole matter of him being investigated for his online postings of threats and suicide. So, why wasn’t he investigated? If not that, why not at least inform his commanding officers of his tendency to talk about suicide bombing? The hints were there. Another in a line of fatal intelligence failures, I suppose.

Also, Pattycakes tells us that the narrative is shifting. I think after this incident, most folks won’t approve of that kind of PC scrubbing. The press is loathe to speculate about the shooter’s religion and that being a factor. But within minutes they were speculating about stressed out soldiers going crazy. No one should be saying that Muslims are inherently violent. That’s wrong and bigoted. But tiptoeing around the issue that violent acts that have been committed by someone whose religion influenced them is not. It’s called reporting. And the press needs to stop acting like it doesn’t exist.

Of course, the press couldn’t get the guns right. In less than 44 minutes, the guns went from sniper rifles, to uzis, to M16s, and lastly we learn it was handguns. I’m surprised the press didn’t throw in a gratuitous AK-47 reference for consistency.

Shifted to a lone gunman narrative. Several folks report lots of shots and rifle fire in different areas. 2 suspects released. Supposedly a fourth person in custody. Shooter was killed by police. Keeps changing so no more posting on it until we actually, err, know stuff.

Shooter was a psychiatrist

Odd. Also, seems they haven’t let out much info on the other two suspects. I’ve heard reports that they don’t know if they were involved. And reports they were part of an ambush.

Also, the guy may have shot himself. That doesn’t sound very Jihad.

Voters of Maine vote for bigotry.

Israelis stop tanker full of weapons

In response to school violence in Germany, they’ve set up a text and phone system to alert people.

Lou Dobbs says people shot at his house. I’m sure bloggers and news columnists will be out there blaming a political ideology for this one, right?

Two shot in LA synagogue. Still on the loose. Little speculation on this one in the press.

And the FBI killed the leader of a mosque in a raid. While the NYT won’t tell you a lot of things, Moe Lane will.

But let’s make sure we continue demonizing Oath Keepers, who the press will tell you are domestic terrorists despite not terrorizing anyone.

Update: Looks like Dobbs was the victim of a rule four violation.

I am amazed at the amount of PSH coming from the press and the boneheads at the Southern Policy Law Center about the Oath Keepers being right-wing, neo-Nazi, racist, radical extremists and terrorists. They’re not. They have simply stated they will not violate their oath to the constitution by following orders that go against it. Granted, some of their pledges are for events that are quite unlikely to occur. That, to me, makes them a bit quirky but not inherently dangerous. They’re just following in the fine tradition of refusing to take orders.

More on the morons at SPLC from Jesse Walker.

This made me tear up a bit.

Walgreen’s 10-K footnotes:

The Federal government has been considering proposals to reform the U.S. health care system. These proposals may increase government involvement in health care, increase regulation of pharmacy services, result in changes to pharmacy reimbursement rates, and otherwise change the way we do business. The effect of these proposals could have an impact on our results of operations.

Via Ben, who notes it’s not just Walgreen’s.

Sniper Muhammad to die by lethal injection.

Not just for gun rights folks.

Money is worth less. But it costs more.

Seems the DOW isn’t really worth more. Money is just worth less.

Today, we’re bombing the Moon. That’s as far as I’m willing to take it. The last thing we need is to get involved in a ground war there.

Rampaging raccoons are all the rage: A pack mauls a woman. And blogger raccoon sightings here, here and here.

The better to eat you with: that is one big wolf.

Folks are buying American. Weed that is.

80% of Puerto Rico Murders Called Drug-Related

Wow:

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

Hope and change.

Heh.

BB with the funny: The ego has landed.

Update: Ouch:

Perhaps the video of Chicago teenagers being beaten to death during gang riots had more of an impact than the celebrities Daley sent there.

Or, as Dad says, the IOC is racist.

Evil CEO who sits on board of libertarian think tankdoes the unthinkable: something incredibly kind-hearted. I’ll probably start using FedEx when I can now.

Trapping iguanas. There’s a cookbook for iguana.

Also, five year old shoots giant gator.

Cameron Aulner tackled a man who abducted a child. Cameron is in a wheelchair.

Now better, when coupled with the ability to disarm the oppressive patriarchy.

CostCo now sells a 6 Month-4 Person food supply for about $2K.

A point I’ve made before is that insurance is not care. Insurance companies do not deny you health care because they don’t provide it.

I was going to comment on how the FBI basically held little Johnny Jihad’s hand and walked him through how to blow up a building so they could arrest him later. And how we’re all supposed to be impressed by that. I mean, gee, brainwashing an impressionable youth into doing something stupid is so hard. I held off that comment until I realized other folks were having the same thought.

Facepalm.

Four police officers shot in no-knock raid. I thought the justification for no-knock raids was so they wouldn’t get shot and so evidence couldn’t be destroyed.

A census worker has been found dead from hanging with the word fed written on his chest. The blame is coming soon.

Via BB.

Comparative chart of the cost of medical procedures in certain countries. I dunno that I’d have the same procedure at 1/10th the cost if it was in India.

The WaPo:

Democrats Target Bank Overdraft Charges

A backlash is brewing on Capitol Hill against banks that charge large fees for overdrafts without asking or telling customers, the latest sign that the financial crisis is shifting the balance of power from banks toward borrowers.

Banks struggling to survive have become increasingly reliant on the fees, which could total $38.5 billion this year.

But congressional Democrats, who pushed through new restrictions on credit cards this spring, now are promising a crackdown on overdraft fees, using words like “criminal” and “rip-off” to describe the practice of letting people overspend and then charging them fees without warning. Most overdrafts are now incurred on debit card transactions.

The result of this will be either interest free loans or not covering written checks. And the fees for bounced checks are usually more because, in addition to a bank fee, the place you bounce a check to probably charges a fee for that.

In Germany:

Ten pupils wounded after student armed with axe and Molotov cocktails goes on rampage at German school

Dildos going to the supreme court.

Coverage from the past here.

Stingray tells us about the excellent service from CMMG

Killing terrorists and that Kanye West is a jackass.

Update: Ashley reminds me he supports a playoff system in college football. So, that’s three.

Looks the folk at the UN want to replace the dollar with something else, since our money’s value is on the decline and no one really wants to buy it anymore.

Legalize prostitution and rape rates drop. A lot.