The Connecticut State Senate just passed a ban on machine guns for kids under 16 years of age. The bill now moves to the House of Representatives, where it is expected to pass according to MSNBC . Ummm, are we kidding? What kind of a society would let children under 16 handle any types of guns? I mean seriously. And this is Connecticut, not Podunk, USA. It’s Connecticut, you know the state sandwiched between Boston and NYC. "For a young person, a minor, to handle an automatic weapon … it’s like saying that it’s OK to pick up a rattlesnake and that it is somehow going to be safe," said Senate President Donald E. Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn. "It’s not going to be safe and it should not be legal and I would think that a lot of folks would be shocked that there was not a law." Yes Mr. StateTheObvious, color me SHOCKED. But, really, I have to say it again, why just "automatic weapons"? Now, I don’t want to hear from another person who says "where I come from there is a long history of gun ownership"… blah, blah, blah. Well, so do I. I come from New England, you know, where the Minute Men started (and I mean the real Minute Men, not the right wing whack jobs that "patrol" the border).
Just when I think humanity has sunk as low as it can possibly go, I get a stinging, shocking, reminder that we have further that we can sink. This article in National Geographic, which admittedly is a few years old, was the latest thing to re-awaken me to how violent, sick, and depraved the human race can truly be. The article, and there were several other articles from around the world as well, states that some fishermen on the French-controlled island of Réunion us both live and dead dogs and cats as bait for catching sharks.
Bright Automotive in Anderson, Indiana today unveiled a 100-mpg delivery van called the IDEA. Forget Detroit and their half-assed hybrid SUVs that get barely better gas mileage than the gas powered version. Innovation in this field is going to come from small start-ups in this country and others. Kudos to the Energy Department for offering significant grants towards the goal of super high efficiency vehicles, Bright Automotive has applied for a grant of $450 million to begin production. They plan to start filling orders by 2013. When I was a teen I was a car nut, just like so many of my friends,
The “Ticking Timebomb” scenario suggests that in circumstances where lives are at stake, and we have no other means at our disposal, we may, and should, torture a person if doing so produces information that would save lives. It assumes that torture is an effective means of gaining information and the pain and suffering inflicted on the individual tortured is of far less importance than the loss of benefit to those who will die if we do not torture. Therefore, we are not only morally justified in using torture, we must do so.
The path to Inner Peace… If you can start the day without caffeine, If you can get going without pep pills, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it, If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time, If you can take criticism and blame without resentment, If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend, If you can conquer tension without medical help, If you can relax without liquor, If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, …….Then You Are Probably The Family Dog! I bet that you thought I was going to get all spiritual.
To paraphrase Jack Nicholson in the original Batman movie, "This country needs an enema!" It is absolutely amazing that the masses do not rise up and take control of their lives. Virtually every system in America is designed to raise the very few privileged onto the backs of everyone else. I’ll give you an example. If you are a poor working stiff who has a credit card, and you pay your bill on time most of the time but, one month you are late. Boom, you get whacked for a $20 or more late fee. So, thinking you are a good customer you call said bank to ask for a waiver of the fee since it is the first time and they make a ton of interest off you at 18-25%. "We are very sorry but because it isn’t a bank error we cannot waive that fee." click! Why, because they know they have you over a barrel, after all what are you going to do pay off the $2k balance? I don’t think so.
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