Another smart thing about the smart gun

The smart gun is a weapon that can ONLY be fired by a specific person (or persons) due to an imprinting process. So here's one more smart thing about the smart gun, if someone is murdered by one, its easy to identify the suspect. So why then is the NRA against smart guns? Because they are the NRA.

The awful complexity of murder

That was a horrible horrible awful thing what happened to those policemen in Brooklyn. And that's why say this issue has so many many many sides. I know I don't have the answers, it's taken me all this time just to compile a list of the questions.

Cruz outa control


Ted Cruz has "apologized" to Republicans for "ruining their weekend". Apparently Democrats are not people who have weekends as well, but  it turns out that Republicans are still not particularly happy with him. Apparently  their smooth agenda was not exactly on Cruz control (forgive us, sorta kinda) but to paraphrase/quote an ancient Hebrew parable: " if it weren't their fool, they could laugh too."

America the beautiful, America the ironic

It seems like it's always the draft dodgers, the guys who wanted to do everything in the Vietnam war except actually participate in it who are the "roughest and toughest ". Defending our policy of “enhanced interrogation" are Senator Saxby Chambliss and former Vice President Dick Cheney, who have multiple deferments between them. Against torture of any kind is volunteer war hero Senator John McCain, he who has never backed off from that stance one iota, as he knows firsthand just how that stuff "works out".  Mr. McCain’s kind of honor gives even more credence to the phrase “America the beautiful”. So then isn't it interesting that Israel, which the Republican right claims to so fervently admire has firmly and unequivocally forsworn torture of any kind no matter what the circumstance. Which is why folks like Chambliss and Cheney remind us we can be “America the Ironic”, if we let them speak for us, and I say this as a veteran and who is darned proud of it.

If I were emperor


No one who didn't vote in the midterm elections would be allowed to call sports talk shows.

Military philosophy

The Navy has stripped (and many feel rightfully so) Bill Cosby of his honorary rank of "petty officer." Well, not to be petty ourselves, but military assaults are up 8%, over 6000 this past year and at an all-time high and the victims have to go to their own commanders for redress even if that's the very person who committed the assault. So what then is the military's philosophy? We don't want honorary members sexually preying on our troops, we'll do it ourselves.

Up with a down presidency


They are saying, especially with the new Republican control of the Senate, that Mr. Obama has a diminished presidency and the numbers actually may prove it. Everywhere you look his numbers are down; unemployment was 7.8% when he took office, now that's down to 5.9%. The budget deficit percentagewise of the GDP was 9.8 and that deficit is down to 2.8. And the number of Americans WITHOUT healthcare is down by 10 million. Down down down...do we miss the brains and prosperity of the Bush administration yet?