Looks like a bad one. I wasn’t watching as it happened, but see the guys all on a knee praying with lots of medical people around him, looks like he got his head snapped around.

UPDATE Good News

Murphy was awake and alert and able to wiggle his fingers.

Milwaukee Bucks player Bobby Simmons, who was just signed to a 5 year, $40+ million contract was questioned today. He has been accused of fondling then punching a woman. No charges yet, hopefully we will learn more later today…BTW, it is Media Day for the Bucks, wonder what they will talk about this year?

With all of the outstanding choices for a Supreme Court Justice, President Bush picked none of them. I know he knows his choice, Harriet Miers, better than we do and I pray he has made a good decision, but President Bush, you are really pushing your base hard! The first thing that came to my mind was “cronyism” and David Souter, and when I hears Harry Reid’s reaction, I got another sinking feeling in my stomach.

Harriet Miers spent most of her life as a Democrat, donated money to Al Gore and the DNC and Harry Reid is very pleased with the pick. Rush Limbaugh calls it a “pick made from weakness” and I agree. I hope I, and all of the Conservative talking heads, are wrong.

I agree! The biggest problem Republicans face today are the big spending RINO Democrat wannabe’s that have forgotten their core constituency. We Conservative Republicans are rapidly becoming disheartened by the supposed Republican majority. They need to do more than talk a good game now, thanks to the explosion of the Alternative Media, we are watching them all the time, not only when they are on the campaign trail!

OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
The GOP Could Lose in ‘06
Have congressional Republicans lost their way?

Monday, October 3, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

With Rep. Tom DeLay’s forced departure as majority leader, Newt Gingrich says, the Republican Party stands at a crossroads as important as any it has faced since nominating Ronald Reagan for president in 1980. “It must decide if it is going to be a party that fundamentally reforms government or one that merely presides over existing institutions and spends more money,” he says. Which path the GOP now takes may determine not only how much damage it suffers in next year’s elections but also whether it can hold the White House in 2008.

Mr. Gingrich knows something about dramatic intersections. He helped lead the 1994 GOP takeover of Congress from a Democratic majority that had associated itself with tax increases and a government takeover of health care. In 1996, the Democrats partly recovered when his party let President Clinton seize the moral high ground during a government shutdown. Two years after that, a Republican Congress preoccupied itself with the Monica Lewinsky scandal and adjourned just before the midterm elections by passing a budget-busting spending bill. Demoralized GOP voters stayed home, allowing the Democrats to pick up more seats. Mr. Gingrich stepped down shortly after that, turning over the Speaker’s gavel to Dennis Hastert.

Since then Mr. Hastert and his fellow GOP leaders have skillfully used their narrow majority to win an amazing number of close votes without having to negotiate much with Democrats. But gradually the fear of losing their majority has also begun leading them to behave more and more like the big-spending Democrats they unseated. “Holding the majority used to be viewed as a means to an end-the end being promoting freedom and limited government,” laments Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona. “Now, holding the majority seems to be an end in itself-holding onto power for the sake of holding onto power.”

Go read the whole thing!

Our police officers do so much for us, mostly they go unheralded. It is nice to see one get the kudos that they all deserve.

JS Online: Without fanfare, officer may have saved a life
Alfonso Morales, a lieutenant of detectives for Milwaukee police, quite likely saved a young boy from serious injury or death Thursday night on Milwaukee’s west side.

He pulled his unmarked squad car into the path of fast-moving cars on N. 27th St. to protect the boy, who had sprinted into traffic.

But this story didn’t make the 10 p.m. news, and it didn’t come up at the department’s daily media briefing.

In fact, few in the department heard what happened. That’s because Morales, a 12-year veteran, didn’t tell anyone. Just part of the job, he’d tell you. What any cop would do.

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Morales’ name may be familiar. In May 2002, he shot and killed murder defendant Laron Ball in a Milwaukee County courtroom after the prisoner broke free and grabbed two guns, firing one and hitting a deputy.

The episode on Thursday certainly doesn’t rise to that level. But it more accurately illustrates the day-to-day job of a police officer.

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There was no way to get out, no way to save the boy from what appeared to be almost certain injury, perhaps death.

The scene suddenly slowed down. I can still hear Benny, in the back seat, saying, “No, no.” I felt paralyzed.

Morales was calm.

He pulled his squad into the intersection - into the path of the cars - and hit his emergency lights. Brakes screeched and cars skidded. The boy kept running.