Newtown Tragedy Inspires Respect For Life Act

Callous people are attempting to use the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. to advance their pet political cause, namely greater restrictions on the private possession of firearms. The lead stories in today’s, Dec. 17, Philadelphia Inquirer and Delaware County Daily Times are both quasi-editorials pushing for more gun control.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” as Rahm Emanuel would say.
OK, we can play that game. We are proposing the Respect for Life Act. This law would ban abortion in order to create a culture where it’s inconceivable to take an innocent life with premeditation. Mass, random school shootings targeting children really didn’t start in this country — Olean, NY in 1974, San Diego in 1979 — until after Roe v. Wade was decided so one can’t deny a correlation. Certainly can’t hurt anything, right?
But we want to take it further. We want it taught to all that there will be a universal accounting for the acts they do while they breath. So our bill will include a requirement that the 10 Commandments be placed on every school room wall — the Talmudic division is fine — and that each day begin with the reciting of the Lord’s Prayer with special emphasis on the “lead us not into temptation” and “deliver us from evil” parts.
While this law would go a long way into making our schools, and society, as safe as they were in 1960 it would still not be enough, though.
And that is why we are also proposing the Bring Back The Cuckoo’s Nest Act. This law would once again give families, and society, the ability to incarcerate their loved ones in mental facilities if they should display behavior indicating a tendency for irrational violence to themselves or others.
One personally knows at least three people who committed acts of gun violence — including a mass shooting — who would have been locked away before the deed in saner times.
Newtown Tragedy Inspires Respect For Life Act
Newtown Tragedy Inspires Respect For Life Act

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.
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My Inconclusive Travel Plans

Courtesy of Cathy Martin

I have been in many places, but I’ve never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can’t go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. 

I’ve also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there. 

I have, however, been in Sane. They don’t have an airport; you have to be driven there. I have made several trips there, thanks to my friends, family and work.

I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump, and I’m not too much on physical activity anymore. 

I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go, and I try not to visit there too often. 

I’ve been in Flexible, but only when it was very important to stand firm. 

Sometimes I’m in Capable, and I go there more often as I’m getting older. 

One of my favorite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets the adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old heart! At my age I need all the stimuli I can get! 

I may have been in Continent, and I don’t remember what country I was in. It’s an age thing. They tell me it is very wet and damp there.

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company but lately there ain’t been much work on account of the economy
Bruce Springsteen

Tidbit Of The Day

More American soldiers died in prison ships in New York Harbor during the Revolutionary War than in all its battles combined.

UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported

UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported — A draft of telecommunication regulations was passed, Dec. 11, at the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) World Conference held in Dubai.

The ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communications technology.
Here is the draft DT/51-E rev1 as a pdf file.
Most of it seems pretty reasonable with things such as giving priority to distress communications, limiting the ability to tax international messaging to the customers in that country, requiring transparency in pricing and encouraging member states to take steps to prevent the propagation of spam bulk emails.
On the other hand, there are those concerned that it sets a precedent for UN expansion regarding internet governance.
We are inclined to share those concerns.
The resolution, by the way, was opposed by the United States but supported by Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia reports WeeklyStandard.Com.
UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported

A Good Ol’ Fashion Christmas


To me, our society seems too permissive…too…oh, I don’t know…too non-responsible. And this is the time of the year when that is most clear to me.
Gene Autry is telling us that Santa is coming to town, and the Little Drummer Boy is telling the king to bring silver and gold to the child in the manger, Burl Ives wants us to have a holly, jolly Christmas…
But does everyone really deserve a holly, jolly Christmas? What ever happened to the good old days when the nasty boys and girls got coal in their stockings? Did the environmentalists put the kibosh on coal? What’s a parent supposed to put into his child’s stocking if the kid’s been a horse’s neck all year—solar panels?
I think there’s a time and place for everything—even coal. And since we’re in Pennsylvania, the anthracite capitol of the nation, what better surprise for a menacing Dennis to find upon awakening Christmas morning?
Well…be of good cheer, for I bring you tidings of great joy, for last week, in a South Jersey Dollar Store, I found Christmas coal for sale! And it was very affordable (Well it was a dollar store!).
I’m so glad to see that some merchants are not neglecting an often-overlooked segment of our population—those bad little boys and girls who deserve coal in their stockings.
Each of the little packets I found for sale contained two separate lumps of coal, so if you have what used to be called a rich man’s family—one boy; one girl—(and, both have been naughty this past year) you can get all of your holiday shopping done in one location, and still get change for your five dollar bill. Charles Dickens would be exultant.

(excerpted from Good Writer’s Block)


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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit
Samuel Gompers 

Thoughts On The Connecticut Massacre

Thoughts On The Connecticut Massacre — As of this writing 27 persons are reported dead after a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. including 18 children, the gunman and the gunman’s mother who was a teacher at the school and whose class the gunman appears to have targeted.

The gunman has been identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza and has reportedly killed himself. A Sig Saur handgun, a Glock 9 handgun and a Bushmaster rifle were found at the scene.

If the reports are correct, this will be the nation’s second worst massacre of school children surpassed only by the Bath, Mich. tragedy of 1927 in which a twisted man named Andrew Kehoe blew up his farm and the school killing 45 including 38  children, himself and his wife who he beat to death at his home. His suicide was performed by driving to the disaster scene at the school and exploding his car amidst a crowd.

Kehoe was the school board treasurer and plotted for months to blow up the Bath Consolidated School sneaking explosives in while pretending to do repairs.

The death toll at Columbine High School in 1999 was 13.

The first mass shooting in the U.S. occurred on April 9, 1891 when 70-year-old James Foster fired a shotgun at a group of children on the playground of St. Mary’s Parochial School in Newburgh, N.Y. causing several minor injuries.

For the next several decades — excepting the incident in Bath — school violence involved specific disputes rather than random attacks. That changed on Jan. 29, 1979 when 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire from her window with a .22 caliber rifle given to her by her father on children at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego  who she “said looked like cows”. Two adults were killed and eight children wounded.

The shooting was the inspiration for the Boomtown Rats hit I Don’t Like Mondays.

Since then there have been at least 12 mass school shootings in which children were targeted just because they were children.

‘Cuz there are no reasons as the song says. Choosing evil does not mix well with choosing reason.

Ed note: The gunman was misidentified as the killer’s brother in initial reports.
Thoughts On The Connecticut Massacre
Thoughts On The Connecticut Massacre

Victims Of ’98 Attack Ask Unions To Reject Violence

Teri Adams and Don Adams, Co-Founders of the Independence  Hall Tea Party Association, who were viciously beaten by members of Teamsters Local 115 while protesting Bill Clinton at the height of the Lewinsky scandal in 1998, are calling on Unions and their supporters to stop employing violence or threats of violence as they did in Lansing, Mich, Dec. 12. 
“The Union assault, which occurred this week in Lansing, fits a pattern of Union violence that takes place in Democrat controlled cities during Democrat Presidential Administrations after prominent local elected officials give the signal,” said Teri Adams.
 
“In 1998, during the Clinton administration, Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell commanded Teamsters to “drown out [Clinton] protesters” at a rally outside Philadelphia’s City Hall.  The Teamsters then proceeded to assault several protesters, including my brother and I, who were jumped and viciously beaten.
 
“Two days ago, under the Obama Administration, Democrat State Rep. Douglas Geiss threatened, “there will be blood, there will be repercussions,” in Lansing if Right to Work legislation were to pass.  Sure enough, within hours of the bill’s enactment, several Right to Work supporters were assaulted at a rally.
  
“Of course, just last year in Detroit, none other than Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. declared ‘war’ on the Tea Party Movement and told a pro-labor crowd to ‘take out those sons of b—–s before introducing President Obama'” said Ms. Adams.  
 
“President Obama should have condemned Mr. Hoffa’s remarks. Instead, he thanked the IBT President–which can only mean one thing. Mr. Obama agreed with the ‘war’ premise.
 
“My brother, Don, and I fought the Teamsters, for over a decade, in order to keep union thuggery in check.  As a result of our actions, five members of Local 115 were eventually convicted of assault and, in 2008, the Teamsters were forced to settle a civil law suit in which Mr. James Hoffa, Jr. was named,” said Ms. Adams.
 
“But the wheels of justice were particularly slow as the Democrat Administrations controlling Philadelphia and Washington, DC, were reluctant, or downright refused, to prosecute the Teamster thugs.”
News clips stemming from the ’98 attack in Philly.