http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mo...tings-reaction

I highly recommend watching this. It's about 9 minutes and it is mostly serious, but Jon Stewart does his usual excellent job of expressing the conflicting feelings and thoughts that we have following a tragedy.

AOII Pam Simon makes it to the Memorial Service
 

Pam was in the audience at the Memorial Service!

Watching Nightline, apparently Pam Simon snook out, unbeknown-st to her doctors, to see the memorial at UMC with all of the flowers.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...20066075.shtml

(CBS/AP) PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is mentally incompetent to stand trial, putting the criminal case against him on hold indefinitely.

I'm not the least bit surprised.

Dude purposely tried to assassinate a public official in broad daylight in front of hundreds of witnesses. Nothing about that scenario says "sane" to me.

http://offendedblogger.com/wp-conten...psychopath.jpg

He believes that he killed her from what I heard.

On the positive side, all that means is they medicate him until he is sane and then they try him.

Unless he has a fixed delusion. When I did a fieldwork in a state mental health hospital there were a lot of Incompetent to Stand Trial patients who were NEVER going to stand trial. Although, they were also never going to leave the hospital.

True, but the latter point there is also key. If he's really that effing crazy, he's never going to go free anyway. From what I've heard about the case, I suspect he was, although mentally ill, perfectly aware of the consequences of his actions while planning/carrying out the murders. As such, I suspect he'll eventually, with medication, stand trial. It's possible he had a 'psychotic break' and will never return to 'reality' but that's less likely in general.

From what's being reported here in AZ and specifically, Tucson: two independent diagnoses (psychiatrist and psychologist) of schizophrenia.

Loughner had to be removed from the courtroom during the competency hearing.

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crim...cc4c03286.html

Pima Community College released hundreds of emails that documented Loughner's bizarre behavior while enrolled as a student there.

Rep. Giffords continues to undergo intensive inpatient rehab in Houston. She has had the open head wound surgically closed with plastic (the preserved skull was contaminated with gunshot residue) and a shunt placed to relieve the fluid buildup in the ventricles. If you know neuroanatomy, you can read between the lines. She has switched to using her left hand for writing; she continues to receive speech, physical and occupational therapies as well as other rehabilitation services.

First photos of Giffords released since shooting

link

Gabrielle Giffords just arrived on the House floor to vote on the debt bill. Welcome back Gabby.

So glad she was able to recover enough to make it back for a vote!

Extremely moving just to see her on the floor of the House. That was a complete wowza as far as I'm concerned.