A Light Goes On

Nice to see a rational mind among the masses.

Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander said he was voting for President Barack Obama's nominee despite his differences with her, particularly on gun rights.

"Even though Judge Sotomayor's political and judicial philosophy may be different than mine, especially regarding Second Amendments rights, I will vote to confirm her because she is well qualified by experience, temperament, character and intellect to serve," Alexander said in a speech on the Senate floor.

Birthers- Take a Hike

Please! This whole wasted effort of those who continue, in the face of all contrary evidence, with the pursuit of identifying Barak Obama as a non-US born citizen must end. But how will it end if we continue to have "leaders" who are too afraid to face the future and continue to live in the past?

Notice that the names of the Senators who continue to appease these groups appear on the same list of Senators who believe in creationism and its right to be taught alongside evolution as an equal science. It is time for this country to moved into tomorrow and not repeatedly step into the past. If these Senators continue to entertain these people instead of telling them, "Grow up. The documents are irrefutable. Get on with your lives. And oh, by the way, the earth is over 4 billion years old and dinosaurs and humans never lived at the same time", then the US will never be the "Great country" they all think it is now.

The factors involved in the belief these groups have seem obvious. Change is hard. We all know that. And as the world changes around them, these desperate people try desperate measures to hold on to what they know. There also seems to be a racist overtone here as well. So what better time for these Senators to show their true leadership then when faced with threats from people like Orly Taitz, a "Birther" organizer who has been getting more press then she should, who said about lawmakers, prepare to “resign or be removed” if you “do not have the guts to stand for the Constitution and this country.”

The true show of guts would be to tell this woman and others like her to shut up and sit down. This country is moving forward, and has lots of real important issues to tackle. You want to come along? Be our guest. If not, stay where you are, stop your self-aggrandizing, stop wasting everybody's time and keep your conspiracy theories to yourself.

And one more thing, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC, CBS, ABC and all the other so called news networks. This is not a story, so stop covering it.

Yeehaa! Welcome to the Wild West (and East)

"Two States Legalize Guns in Bars"---Tennessee and Arizona "expanded the rights of gun owners by allowing those with a concealed-carry permit to take their firearms into establishments that serve alcohol....In both states, there is a catch. The new laws stipulate that armed patrons have to refrain from drinking while in the bars — in effect, creating a new category of customer, the designated shooter."

So. how does the bartender know not to serve alcohol to someone holding a concealed weapon?

And on the other hand who would you refuse to pour a drink with a gun their face?

By the way, the bar owners are not so happy about this. Read the full story here...

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/two-states-legalize-guns-in-bars/?hp

Sotomayor Hearings

WASHINGTON – The National Rifle Association is warning senators that it will consider their votes on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as part of its influential annual ratings of lawmakers.

The NRA says President Barack Obama's first high court nominee has a hostile view of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. It announced last week that it was opposing her nomination, although her confirmation in early August is virtually guaranteed.

Its promise Thursday to score the upcoming vote amounts to a threat to Republicans and conservative Democrats whose constituents are strong gun rights advocates. It comes one day after the gun lobby suffered a major loss in the Senate with defeat of a concealed weapon measure.

OK, maybe its time the American People issue a threat. Voters who live in the States represented by those senators who vote AGAINST Sotomayor for no apparent reason than to cave in to groups like the NRA should issue their own threat. "We will not vote for you again if, you vote against Sotomayor and give no viable, reasonable explanation."

And I mean an explanation that makes sense, not some blabbering comment about how you didn't like her attitude, or thought she would be too Latina. If you want to vote against her, show us some legal standings, some legal decisions, that you disagreed with and why. In other words Senators (and I am speaking to the mostly men out there on the panel) show us your balls.

July 4th Weekend and beyond

It is really getting to a point where we deserve what we get. Our so called "News" is nothing more than Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood, being packaged as News.

Not only has this Michael Jackson Mania spread through the ionosphere to engulf everything in its path, but it has now strained the space/time continuum. It has been two weeks since he has died and we are still being barraged by the so called news media with "Breaking News". Here's some "Breaking News" for the newscasters; when a story is four hours old or so, never mind two weeks old, it is not breaking anything anymore, except breaking wind.

Today, July 6, 2009, The CBS Evening News three teasers and lead stories were all about Michael Jackson. This on a day that for the first time in 6 years a U.S. President visited, in Russia, the Russian President to talk, no less, about a Nuclear Arms curtailment. I guess that and the latest unrest in Honduras, and the crack-downs in China, are really not news worthy. After all Michael Jackson effects my life, more than any of those events ever will, right?

Adding onto the pile of Jacksonian over embellishment is, none other than accuweather.com, which has a link to "The Latest Weather for Michael Jackson Memorial". As if the event is so big that it is now deserving of its own forecast. Are they suggesting the weather for this event will be different than the weather for the city it will be held in, which, by the way, is LA. And if you have ever lived in LA you know the weather there in the summer is pretty much the same everyday, so no forecast needed. (See "LA Story")

The loss of true TV journalism for the masses (I am excluding PBS's newscast, which covered these other stories first and foremost) is but one example of how this nation will wind up with what it deserves. An uninformed nation is destined for ruin. We are a nation of idolizers who don't really care about national or world events that truly impact our lives. So when our politicians, bureaucrats, corporations and health care system continue to fail, we will have nobody to blain but ourselves.