OF COURSE, THE NEWS in my state is the mass shootings in Lewiston, the closing of schools, government facilities, lock downs, etc.  The suspected killer is a weapons instructor with the Army,  one who was sent to a mental unit for a couple of weeks last summer and, apparently released.  Such is the state of mutual protection and domestic tranquility under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, etc. Such is the reliability of psychology, psychiatry and the mental health industry. 

Of course I could go on with what's wrong but almost anyone reading this knows exactly what's wrong and they know that the courts, the goddamned Supreme Court, the Congress, state legislators and governors are not going to fix it, out system is corrupt and corrupted and we live under the gun industry, their actual enforcers, the NRA, things like the Sportsmen's Alliance of Maine (I've called them Sons of SAM for a long time) and various other venues of preventing gun deaths in this benighted country.  

I haven't looked to see what Susan Collins has said, no doubt something like "hope and prayers,"   It's clear after decades of such prayers that God doesn't listen to Republican prayers.  I'll give it to you in the ol' KJV because the gun nuts worship that thing without ever reading it.

From Proverbs:  The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

or John 9:31, Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

Clearly all those Republican-fascist hopes and prayers are, at this point, symptomatic of the state of their foul souls.  

I haven't dared look to see the names of those shot and killed, I know people who live in that area.  

I don't have anything else to say right now except that all of the above can go to hell.   Oh, and the ACLU has declared that Judges trying to keep Trump from inciting violence and intimidation and jury tampering is unconstitutional.   I've been telling you the ACLU is a fascist tool for quite a while now, how much evidence does it take?