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Quote for today… “I know there’s not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.” – Barrack Obama, President of the United States, speaking on the mass shooting at the Connecticut school yesterday.

• Crazy times – “An intruder with a ‘rage’ against the Mennonite religion invaded a Clay Township home and assaulted and tied up three elderly women on Friday, police said.” – LancasterOnLine

• Sandy Hook vigil in Lancaster tonight – LancasterOnLine

Photo source: Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Ah, Joe time to go! Our guy in the US House of Representatives is blaming everyone (media, the other guys, the “entitlements”) except himself (he’s been a part of the legislature that has been spending the bucks for the past 1997) for the “fiscal cliff” debacle. He’s been “entitled” for a lot longer, and his “entitlements” will keep on giving … to him. After reading Joe’s Memorandum on the Fiscal Cliff and wiping the tears from your eyes from all the smoke-blowing, we think you may agree with his invitation to “draw your own conclusions.”

• Restrictive gun laws won’t help – There’ll be the usual post-incident clamor about “gun laws” following horror. Connecticut’s “tough gun laws” provided “no stopping the person.” York Daily Record

• Editorial – “Guns alone don’t kill people. People kill people. But in this era in which people open fire in schools, movie theaters, malls, gyms, grocery stores and other public places, we owe it to ourselves and our loved ones to have an open and honest discussion about whether all Americans need such easy access to certain types of guns.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Columbia drug arrest – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• “Clarence Tyrone Taylor, of Columbia, “an associate pastor of a Lancaster city church is behind bars charged with soliciting sex from a boy in his congregation.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• High School Basketball: Columbia girls top Manheim Central, 50 -44; boys lose, 47-33