This Week in the Mercury
Friday, November 6, 2009
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Posted by Sarah Mirk on Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Army Killing Spree: The final body count in the shooting spree at Ft. Hood army base is 13 dead, 30 wounded.
Shooter Wanted Out: The Washington Post has a complicated portrait of the shooter, a Muslim army psychologist terrified of being redeployed.
"All American Muslims Taking The Blame." An interesting British editorial on the Ft. Hood massacre.
The Recession is Over! Uh... not quite. National unemployment is at its highest rate in 26 years.
Jobs? Fuzzy Animals? Oil? Environmentalists are split on the best angle to sell landmark climate change legislation in the Senate.
Healthcare Reform: ...so.... close... Feministing has a primer on how to get involved to support its passage.
Restart the CRC Process! Demands a coalition of five big-name groups who want a $4 million independent analysis of how to fix the I-5 corridor, looking also at "non-road solutions." Just for thought, here's a picture of all the roads in the world:
- via Socio Images
Grisly Homicide-Suicide in SE Portland: A terrible-sounding person is suspected of killing himself, his girlfriend and her 4-year-old son in house on SE 132nd.
Sorry today is full of awful news. To make up for that, here's a clip of John Stewart making fun of Glenn Beck during last night's Daily Show.
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Both articles say that the shooter had never served overseas, so please correct the word "redeployed" in the second bullet. I think it's an important change - "redeployed" suggest PTSD, and ascribes experience he didn't have. Thanks.
People are getting all shooty this week: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/orland…
Thanks for the catch, Reymont, I'll change it.
The shooter was a psychiatrist, not a psychologist
There is such a thing as secondary PTSD for mental health professionals.
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