So many American bodies are sprayed with blood, their own, their lover’s, their mother’s and father’s, their brother’s and sister’s. Oh we are so certain of our innocence, but we are a nation tattooed in crimson, eyes to belly, with Jackson Pollock’s The Deep

Update on the condition of shooting victims from the University Medical Center in Tucson, AZ.

Sez Erik Son of Erik Erik Erik:

“The left and media, in perpetuating the lie that the shooter was a tea party activist, may wrongly incite violence against the right.”

By now, you have probably heard that USDOJ has issued a subpoena to Twitter asking for various types of information from the Twitter accounts of Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Rop Gongrijp[sic], and Birgitta Jonsdottir. Here is the subpoena. It was originally issued under seal, which means that Twitter could not tell anyone that it had received this subpoena. Twitter could have simply complied with the sealed subpoena and none of the people listed above even would have known about it.

When our most irresponsible political right wing proponents speak out calling for taking back America, they are speaking to a varied contingent. One similarity all those listeners have, though, is the ability to purchase and carry firearms never intended for public safety.

The horrific shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, Judge John Roll, Christina Taylor Green and others in Tuscan Arizona yesterday has changed the originally scheduled lineups on many of these shows.

Here is Giffords reading the First Amendment during the House’s Constitution read-in Thursday. Chilling. (h/t Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire.)

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The Wise Little Hen. This Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoon was released on June 9, 1934. Grab your popcorn, put your feet up on the coffee table, and try to keep the spitballs off the screen please. This is Late Late Night FireDogLake, where off topic is the topic … so dive in. What’s on your mind?

Officials have released the name of the 9 year-old girl killed in the shooting of Gabby Giffords and 18 others in Tucson today. Her name is Christina Taylor Green, who was born on 9/11 and was included in the book “Faces of Hope, Babies Born on 9/11.”

For myself, I have no observation beyond that irrational resentful violence is the air we breathe, the water we swim in. We are an irrational, violent nation, and that’s the way we like it, maybe because we manage to export the worst of it.

House Minority Leader Eric Cantor will suspend all votes for next week because of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a supermarket in Tuscon, Arizona today.