Someone calling himself a Christian and an American is praying for the death of President Obama.

A shooter enetered the Holocaust Museum earlier and opened fire. It looks right now as if the shooter and security guard were severely injured, while a third person may have been injured in the firefight.

As the number of foreclosures go up and up, so does the number of homeless, including a large increase in the number of homeless families. And as much as we’d all like to shove the homeless off to some remote corner and pretend that they don’t exist, when there are this many, that gets hard to do. They have to go somewhere.

From the “not really news to those who’ve been paying attention” files comes this little ditty from UPI:
 
An investigation of the U.S. Interior Department found serious flaws related to 15 decisions on policies for species at risk of becoming extinct, said the report delivered to Congress by Inspector General Earl E. Devaney.
One of those decisions involved reducing the number of waterways considered critical habitat for the endangered bull trout, The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported Tuesday.
The report describes “something akin to a secret society residing within the Interior Department that …

Following up on the posts about economic bad news and our current lack of leadership, a great quote from the administration.  Why can’t we have foreclosure relief?  According to an anonymous White House official, “We’re done in two months. The next administration can try to find a way out of that maze.”
Yeah, no worries. It’s not like there’s a crisis or anything. (h/t TPM)

For the last couple months, many members of my generation (known as The Youth) have been feeling an odd sensation, correlating closely with Obama’s rise in the polls and subsequent election win. After being raised on a steady diet of Simpsons, irony and cynicism, and after 8 years of Bush, we’ve started to feel something I understand is called “Hope.” Hope for our future, hope that we may not be irreversibly screwed, even hope that there may be jobs available next year. It’s a really great sensation, and I’ve been …

The past few weeks we have heard of any number or horrendous things being yelled out at Palin/McCain rallies, and seen any number of racist demonstrations from the crowd.  So far, however, Sarah Palin, John McCain, and “official” Republican outlets have tried to stay away from the precipice.  No more.
Sacramento County Republican leaders Tuesday took down offensive material on their official party Web site that sought to link Sen. Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and encouraged people to “Waterboard Barack Obama” – material that offended even state GOP leaders.
And, …

Washington Mutual became the largest bank to fail in American history, dwarfing the IndyMac failure earlier this year.  I don’t have much to say about this in general except that I am beginning to lose confidence in the American banking system.  Oh, and that all the money for the international assistance programs my organization runs are kept at WaMu, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens there.  Luckily we’re a small group.  I don’t think we could’ve been too over the FDIC limit.
I did, however, want to draw attention …