It seems some sort of budget agreement or accords are in the works. John Boehner has upped the anti to one trillion in new revenue that he'll agree to, and the last I checked that means giving ascent to a tax hike rate raise. This is a good thing. It was pointed out that none of the Republican senators who favor the NRA stance on guns, agreed to come on any of the network news interview shows last weekend, and for the longest time the NRA itself made no statement at all. Of course the rank and file of the NRA membership is not nearly so anti gun regulation as the NRA organization is itself. The NRA should be cognizent of this reality and adjust accordingly. Enough anti gun statements have been made by all sectors of the political spectrum that I am confident perhaps for the first time that Something at least will be done about this issue. There seems to be agreement on closing the gun show loophole at least. If they did what they do with cars they would make you be qualified to use a firearm the same way you have to qualify to get a license to drive a car. But when you buy a car from a private party there is no requirement for a "background check" to check for arrests or mental institution inturnment merely by the purchase of an automobile. Perhaps this licensing rout is the way to go on this issue. I guess perhaps they could have roaving cops around to demand "lets see your gun license". Of course that mother of Adam was kind of a survivalist nut who taught her gun to shoot and how to handle a gun safely. There are still unanswered questions in my mind just what motivated the shooter go target a bunch of innocent school children. I see no "rage against children" as a prominent thing in his personality. Nobody seems to have thought he had a murderous personality, only that he has "social problems". Most people with aspurgers syndrone aren't this latently violent. The tide is turning of course on several other main issues in society. Society is transforming its stance on the gay marriage issue. And conservatives are admitting they have to do Something or lose the Latino vote for all time - - on the subject of Legal - - immigration, or making the people who are here by circumstance Legal and not wanted suspects that can be picked up at any time. Also on Global Warming, the idea of calling this whole thing a "made up hoax" is approaching the ludicris nature of other deniers such as those who deny that we ever landed on the Moon, or that the Holicaust ever existed.
Personal stress has gotten to me lately and today my blood pressure was 140 over 90, which by far is the highest since June of 2001. Some issues are getting resolved. Among these are the scheduling conflicts between the two major Christmas gatherings this Saturday. I also found out I will be getting sixty dollars for Christmas. And I found out that the mystery green capsule someone slipped into my medication that I took anyway and regretted- - was only an anti-biotic, and nothing dangerous. I managed to get more coffee filters without having to go to Wall Mart tomorrow. I've been worried about that for a while. I found out one of the things on my computer that's a pain in the ass- - - is probably malware and can be deleted without fear of messing up anything. I still have the problem of flook pops and crackles and static on music playback. This remains unresolved. I think if we can get past this budget impass, the "economic uncertainty" we've been experiancing lately- - will pass and that a whole lot of businesses will feel more confident about spending and hopefully attracting new customers willing to spend their cash. Clearly there is a lot of money to be made in "green jobs". Many of us have been depressed by all these recent shootings, and there have been a lot more than the four major shootings. It's not just the Siek temple or a Colorado theater, or a Portland shopping mall, or a New England school. The entire year of 2012 has been peppered with these multiple shootings including a white guy outside a fast food store firing into a car filled with Blacks that was playing loud music. We had the shots fired incident at the Newport shopping center. A number of shooting plots have been foiled and people arrested. Some say it's because "America has lost God as a part of our societal consciousness. But I don't know of any terrorists atheists who claim they did what they did to promote atheism, or to protest some Christmas nativity exhibit. Atheists are not a violent group And now to follow are a recent bunch of rambling thoughts I've had lately.
Nicole Sandler played
that song of “Maybe it’s the guns” or “I’d take away their guns” that she has
played several times before after shootings.
The piano at “Rick’s Place” in Casablanca only had 58 keys, they
say. What a freak! It’s being sold today. NASA deliberately crashed two space crafts
named “Ebb” and “Flow” into the mountain near the Moon’s north pole so as to
keep it from crashing at “historic sites”.
We just passed the fortieth
anniversary of the Apollo 17 final moon landing. Daniel Inowe died today at age 89 having been
a senator now for 59 years, which has got to be some kind of a record, perhaps
eclipsing Robert Byrd’s. Hillary Clinton
became violently ill with a serious stomach virus last week and was badly
dehydrated and fell in the shower or something and hit her head, and developed
a concussion. When she began exhibiting
symptoms they checked her out just to make sure that’s all it was. I looked up all the Robert Johnston’s in the
Wickipedia just out of idle curiosity.
The one guy was a confederate general.
Johnston claims to have written several highly obscure Elvis movie
songs. It seems that Adam Lanza’s mother
may have been a bit of a kook herself.
She was a survivalist and regularly took her son to the gun range and
stressed to him the need for safety at all times. Apparently Adam was a Veegan, which is
strange. Those boy and girl twins who
just turned six and the girl was in the bathroom hiding out with that blonde
teacher. That was Ariel, and her twin
brother, Noah, died, and was laid to rest today. Now they are saying that the school may never
reopen, which seems to me like an extreme step to take. Now they are saying that two of the adult
teachers who were hit with gun fire, survived- so the death toll used to be
eight.
In terms of football predictions I was flawless until the evening game. Perhaps it could be argued "well, these games were easy to "call" in advance to begin with". Maybe. Maybe it was sudden divine insight, however you wish to interpret that. I was right in all of the game predictions I wrote down, and any I just made mentally and never wrote down, I was right about those too. Denver beat Baltimore on the CBS morning game. The Vikings beat the Rams in a game I never speculated on. That was the “bonus game”. The GB Packers defeated the Chicago bears, and in the afternoon game on FOX Dallas defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers. Only on the evening game did I mess up. I had predicted New England would defeat San Francisco, and they darn near did. They brought the score all the way back from 31 to 3, to a score of 31 to 31, before the ‘49ers got their second wind, and forget ahead. This game with Al Michaels calling it- - ran till after nine. I was in a frenzy looking for that long sleeved gray shirt and had gotten buried in the covers. Joe gave me a Philly cigarette as a “Christmas present” and then James gave Joe some package snack item. The Hobbit was the number one grossing Movie for the weekend, setting new records of 80 million or something. This movie is filmed at 48 frames per second, roomered soon to become the industry standard, and some theaters show the thing in 3 D. I had “On the Red Carpet” briefly, but switched to the game on NBC, but also watched most of the hour of America’s Funniest Home Videos. So I have been diverging from my Sunday night routine lately
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