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Houston, Texas

A Bellaire police officer and an innocent bystander were shot and killed by a suspect in a southwest Houston parking lot Monday, officials said.

Investigators said Cpl. Jimmie Norman, 53, was chasing a suspect when they drove into the parking lot of a Maaco body shop at 5611 Bellaire Blvd. at Alder at 8:55 a.m. Witnesses said the suspect got out of his vehicle and began firing shots.

“The guy stands up out the car and just starts shooting. The gunshots continued even as I ran off. After the first 10, I was thinking, ‘What kind of gun does this guy have?'” witness Stephanie Pacheco said.

The officer was hit, police said, and the suspect continued shooting. A man who walked out of the auto shop was then shot at close range. He died at the scene. He was an employee of the shop.

Norman was taken to Ben Taub Hospital, where he died a short time later. He did not exchange gunfire with the suspect as originally thought, HPD said.

“The saddest thing is that (Officer Norman) didn’t even get an opportunity to pull his weapon and defend himself. That’s how fast it all happened,” said John Cannon with the Houston Police Department.

It’s Christmas Eve, Wayne.

I really don’t know what else to say.  Except, tell me when enough is enough, Wayne.

You gonna suggest an armed guard at every fire?

Oh Dear God, help us all.

I did not realize the Mormons were taking Romney’s loss so hard.

A conservative U.S. senator from Idaho who has said he doesn’t drink because of his Mormon faith has been charged with drunken driving.

Sen. Michael Crapo, a three-term Republican with a reputation as a social and fiscal conservative, registered a blood alcohol content of .11 percent after police pulled his car over in this suburb south of Washington, D.C., authorities said.

But, to be perfectly honest, to believe the conservative junk he believes I’d have to get pretty drunk pretty often myself.

Thanks to Laura for the heads up.

So, Yahoo! has a story this morning saying poo on all of you because Mitt Romney never wanted to be President anyway.  So there.

Mitt’s son, Tagg, says the whole deal was a set-up to screw the Koch Brothers out of money.

“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to . . . run,” said Tagg, who worked with his mother, Ann, to persuade his father to seek the presidency. “If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . he would have been ecstatic to step aside.

Okay, okay, Tagg didn’t say the “screwing the Koch Bothers” but that’s exactly what happened.

Now, let’s see about the someone else part —-

So, I just want to thank Mitt Romney for his sacrifice.  I am certain that Karl Rove, Sheldon Adleson, the Kochs, and all those folks who spent their money trying to get Mitt elected join me in saying, “Oh, so that’s what happened!”

But, come to think of it, nobody ever asked him, “Do you want to be President?”

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Okay, I just watched Wayne LaPierre on Meet the Press, which ain’t really Meet the Press, it’s Meet David Gregory.

Anyway, Ole Wayne has loco camped out in his eyeballs.

Y’all, this man is not sane enough to have a gun.  Hell, I wouldn’t give  him pointed scissors.  Or maybe even scissors at all because then he could cut his way out of the straitjacket we need to order for him.

Ole Wayne is calling for a national database of people suffering from mental illness, like that’s something you can see, you know,  like psoriasis.  Okay, maybe that’s not the point I want to make since Ole Wayne’s mental illness is … well, camped out in his eyeballs right there for everyone to see.

I’m willing to bet monkeys that Ole Wayne is right this minute forming a new capitalism enterprise of “Rent-A-School-Cop.”  They have a line like, “We know it didn’t work at Columbine, but our guards have cannons and crap.”  Ole Wayne can retire to someplace nice where they don’t need stinkin’ school guards because they don’t have stinkin’ guns everywhere.

Ole Wayne was real insistent that we needed to get guns out of the hands of drug dealers.  Okay, let me count here.  How many drug dealers have gone in and shot up schools?  Ummm … exactly none.

The NRA has 3 million members.  There are 36 million members of the AARP.  I say we take ‘um.  We have canes, scooters, colostomy bags, medical marijuana, and the entire Rolling Stones.   I say we can take them and get in line for the Denny’s early bird special by 5:00.

Meet up over at the Arthritis Clinic at noon tomorrow.  Hell, we stopped a war in Vietnam.  We can do this.