by Gary | Mar 1, 2013 |
Be honest now. How many of you dear, intelligent readers know what would have to have been done in order to avoid the blunt axe budget cuts of the 2013 sequester we are now facing? I’m looking for some specifics here. Yes, I know the repubs would have to agree with the dems on something, but what is it that they needed to agree on? Yes, I also know that it has to do with budget deficits, but what exactly needed to be done, by whom, when? After asking all the smart people I know, and spending untold hours inquiring of the source of all knowledge, I was about to conclude that, while opinions were many, facts were scarce. No one knew. No one knew the...
by Gary | Jan 16, 2013 |
I can’t get it out of my mind. The image of a man dressed all in black armed with a device designed to kill men in war pulling a trigger causing bullets to take the life of six and seven year olds. We all agree, I think, that something is really, really wrong with this picture. Since that tragic event, there has been a feverish search for a rational theory on how this has come to pass. Theories abound. They range from the mad man theory, to the assault weapon theory, to the 2nd amendment theory. You will be familiar with all of these lines of reasoning and others not stated herein. You’ll be pleased to know that I’m not going to make you...
by Gary | Dec 17, 2012 |
I am numbed by the tragedy of gun violence that, yet again, took so many innocent lives. This time it claimed the most innocent of all. Our precious, young children and their teachers. I first wrote about the issue of gun violence on March 24th of this year in a piece entitled Do Guns Make Us Safer. I recommend a reread if you read it before. It’s a good place to start this discussion. The only difference is that now, like Joe Scarborough this morning on Morning Joe, I’ve had it. I know it’s not worth it. I don’t care if your view of the right of our citizens to possess weapons of mass homicide arises from a broad view of the...
by Gary | Nov 3, 2012 |
Perhaps I’m not writing this at the best of times as I think I have a severe case of EF. Yes, I said EF not ED. EF is for election fatigue and, as you know, ED is for….well, never mind. I’ve previously staked out the rationale for Obama in a piece that I wrote on September 4 entitled “Why I Will Vote for Obama Again”. If you’re interested, That’s still my plan. Only more so. I also know that those who read my stuff from time to time divide roughly in two camps. First would be the “I’m Preaching to the Choir Group” who will not be any more highly motivated to support the president than they...
by Gary | Sep 4, 2012 |
I’ll admit it. I was in a funk at the close of the republican convention. Laying aside the bizarre sight of my man Clint debating an empty chair, the repubs did a pretty good job. In fact, they made Romney seem almost normal, as far as politicians go. Yes, I know that his VP guy, Ryan, told some whoppers, but everyone expects that of pols. I’m reminded of the old aphorism, “I’d never want to be a member of a club that would have me”. In political speak, that translates to an equally pithy thought, “One should never vote for a politician that wants to be elected”. Clearly, Romney wants to be elected. Hells...
by Gary | Jul 4, 2012 |
I posted my first piece on immigration June 17, 2007 and titled it In Diversity There is Strength. If you’re a glutten for this kind of stuff you can click on Immigration in the tag cloud and it will take you there for a reread; otherwise, I will just say that it covered one hundred fifty years of our immigration law history….and it’s not a pretty picture. Recently President Obama announced that by exercising his executive powers he was changing our policy with respect to certain young people who had been brought by their parents in to the US illegally as minors. Actually, that’s not quite right because about half of all Illegals came...
