Just like we need to observe tolerance for the gay and lesbian community, we need to have tolerance for the community of people who hold sincerely held religious belief

Michele Bachmann said this about Jan Brewer’s veto of the Arizona anti-gay bill..

Unbelievable images from

Arizona and tragedy too as 19 elite freighters were killed battling these raging infernos.. Terrible day for the firefighting world— ask any of them, their bond is strong even if they never knew each other..

This is the deadliest day for firefighters in 30 years.. 

As the AP reports:

The “hotshot” firefighters were forced to deploy their emergency fire shelters - tent-like structures meant to shield firefighters from flames and heat - when they were caught near the central Arizona town of Yarnell, state forestry spokesman Art Morrison told The Associated Press.

The fire also destroyed an estimated 200 homes, Morrison said. Dry grass near the communities of Yarnell and Glen Isla fed the fast-moving blaze, which was whipped up by wind and raced through the homes, he said.

Temperatures have been hot all weekend—the West especially with places like Vegas and Arizona soaring above 115 degrees.. 

The nation is baking.

Nature is cruel.. we see that firsthand today with these events..

But humanity is strong..

While we never will defeat nature’s wrath, we can at least battle it. Which is just what these firefighters were doing… 

Boom or bust.

If it is not sinkholes its booms.. A loud boom (some report more than one) was heard in Arizona.. Law enforcement has no answers.. Media has no comments from officials saying they know where it was from or what it was.. 

Just more examples of these noises happening all throughout the United States..

Incidentally, Linda Howe was on Coast to Coast AM last night with someone who believes he has answers to the nationwide boom question: Weapons testing. 
No comment from me on the veracity of that belief.. But I know the noises are all over—even close to my home base as I reported a few days ago, when a loud boom shook several neighborhoods on Northern Schuylkill County, PA..

San Diego paper reports on the power bust

“California’s Worst Power Failure Started In the Arizona Deserts”

Lady Gaga criticizes Arizona immigration laws

This just made chills run up my spine..

Christina Greene, the 9-year-old killed today in Arizona, was born on one of the most important days in our nation’s history:

Born on September 11, 2001, Greene was excited about the political process

The persons dead tonight are gone from earth, and their families now are left to grapple with the aftermath of madness.. But I cannot stop thinking about the significance, in some strange way, of a product of 9/11 being killed during an act of domestic rage..

Raw video of aftermath of shooting in Arizona

Raw video of aftermath of shooting in Arizona