A three minute video has just emerged of an evening tour on the picturesque campus of Pima Community College.
The tour guide: Jared Loughner.
Something tells me that this school just got a whole lot easier to get into.
Is it just me, or is that kid with a guitar in the background desperately trying to play "A Day in the Life". If so, the connection between madmen and Beatles music is starting to get a little weird.
In a quick response to the Tucson shootings, Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) says he plans on pursuing legislation that would make it illegal to bring a firearm within 1,000 feet of a member of Congress.
Um ... Peter ... What about the rest of us?
Perhaps you could at least include nine year olds in your bill.
As I am sure many of you already know, President Bush recently vetoed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) because it was his opinion that it was “too expensive”.
The recent proposal, which passed with bipartisan support in the Congress, would have cost an additional $35 Billion over five years.
Democrats enlisted 12-year-old Graeme Frost, who along with a younger sister relied on the program for treatment of severe brain injuries suffered in a car crash, to give the response to Mr. Bush’s weekly radio address on Sept. 29.
Republican opponents quickly countered with vicious attacks
Right Wing critics have recently accused Graeme’s father, Halsey, a self-employed woodworker, of choosing not to provide health insurance for his family of six, even though he owned his own business. They pointed out that Graeme currently attends an expensive private school. They have also asserted that the family’s home had undergone extensive remodeling, and that its market value could exceed $400,000. They even alleged the counters in their kitchen to be granite — and declared that the Frosts did not seem needy enough for government benefits.
* As it turns out Graeme Frost attends the private school on scholarship.
** The business that the critics said Mr. Frost owned was dissolved in 1999.
*** The family’s home, in the modest Butchers Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, was bought for $55,000 in 1990 and is now worth about $260,000.
**** The kitchen counters in the Frost household are made of concrete.
One critic, in an e-mail message to Graeme’s mother, Bonnie, warned her: “Lie down with dogs, and expect to get fleas.”
To call the Republican hate machine “fleas” is an insult to fleas.
I seem to be way off the normal track of politics these days for several reasons. One big reason for this is that we are thankfully now watching a transition take place in Congress. I will patiently wait to see how the new Democrats will handle themselves before I comment on their progress … or lack of it.
The situation in Iraq is certainly still very bad, and it makes very sad when I see the soldiers who are killed there (Like my Uncle) day after day. I have made so many comments about this pointless war in the past, that further discussion seems redundant.
I think this photo from a beach memorial in Santa Barbara does a good job of illustrating the great loss we have already incurred.
