Death
Reasonable people on both sides of the abortion debate are horrified at the mindless murder of late term abortion specialist Dr. Tiller.  That leaves the whackos on both fringes the whole media playground to demonstrate their ignorance. Naturally MSNBC's Keith Uberdouche lays the blame squarely on the doorstep of rival Bill O'Reilly and Fox News.  And then there's someone named Adele Stan who writes in a Huffington post column:

If the murderer was not a follower of Coulter's, he certainly acted from the sort of hateful sentiment she disseminates in popular and right-wing media. (if you want to RTWT google on your own)

Funny, though entirely predictable, how liberals natural instinct is to blame the political opposition for everything.  That right wing anti-abortion groups like Operation Rescue are the first to condemn the murder has no bearing when there are political points to be scored.  

I have to say though, taking a life is a pretty pathetic, not to mention counter productive, argument against preserving life.  The logic there is so flawed it's proof enough the dude was a whack job.

On the other hand preserving life was not much of a concern for the newly late Dr Tiller, who personally provided about 60,000 late terms abortions. As O'Reilly indicated last night, if the liberals are so much more compassionate than the rest of us why no anguish for those 60,000 babies?  Dr.Tiller made a career, and loads of cash at $5000 a piece, by systematically eliminating fully formed fetuses with all the emotional involvement of popping a zit.

Not saying his murder was justified, only that in the greater scheme of things it wasn't a tragedy.  

For those of you keeping score at home, the body count in the abortion war that began in January 1973: fetuses 62 million, abortionists 8 - not 8 million, 8.

For the record, I am pro-choice. I just happen to agree with Doctors who advise that there are no medical conditions or combinations of medical conditions that intact dilation and extraction would fix.  So not only is it gruesome it is also unnecessary - -  other than convenience of course.

Death.
No doubt we will soon be hearing how it's all Bush's fault that a recent Muslim convert gunned down an Army recruiter and recruit in Arkansas yesterday.  Now THAT is a tragedy.  I am curious if the two thirds polled against bringing Gitmo detainees to American soil will go even higher.


And more death...
And of course there's the death of GM, or perhaps more accurately pumping the embalming fluid of tax money into a rotting corpse.

Cortez DeRussy offers some famiar insight at Pajamas Media here: General Motors: An Autopsy
a snippet:
...It is part of human nature to seek security from change. Citizens, companies, and other interested groups have regularly sought market, pricing, and/or job protections through the intercession of the one institution that can, through the use of legal force, protect those interests: the government. Such protectionism is simply legalized theft in the form of the transference of wealth from one group (taxpayers, consumers, etc.) to another, more favored one (in this case, organized labor).

My comment:

Since blamethrowing seems to the sport of choice here I guess I’ll weigh in too; Plenty enough to go around. Unions 40% management 60%, the latter, after all, agreed to those unsustainable compensation packages right? Thinking Old Soldier above is definitely onto something there. (i.e. mamagement and UAW bosses worked hand in hand at the expense of both rank and file union and customers)

And Mike, you have legitimate concerns and questions about favortism and choices in who we bail out. The difference betweeen banks and GM/Chrysler is fundamental and should be easy to grasp. The geography argument, i.e. Wall St against Detroit, smacks of class warfare and is irrelevent. The entire economy, that would be all of us, everyone, requires a healthy banking system. That same economy can survive perfectly well, and arguably better, without a couple of domestic manufacturers who have proven they have neither the capacity or propensity to compete on a fair palying field.

Sometimes we have to face the hard truth that crushing the skull of mortally wounded roadkill is the only, and most merciful, course of action. GM and Chrysler are wounded roadkill. Boycott them and get it over with.