I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Interesting article with lots of pretty pictures

http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-gun-problem-explained-2013-4?op=1

Guns, oy vey

Sometimes I forget about this event, as it happenned so long ago.  My brother was playing tennis - in a not so great part of town.  These thugs came along and took the purses of the women piled up at the net.  My brother was a good tennis player (use to rally with Billie Jean King), so had been given one of the first metal racquets to try out.  So, he's a big guy and starts running after these thugs and one of them turned around to face my brother and told his thug friends "I'm going to get this guy."  He shot my brother 3 times before my brother knocked the gun out of his hands.  By this time, my brother was on his back this guy was beating him with a cane.  My brother got a hold of the gun and in his mind, it shot blanks, or he would have been dead, so he shot the assailant at short range.  It killed the young man.  Ruled Justifiable Homicide.  Turns out, the metal tennis racquet took all 3 bullets. 

Interesting small article....nothing new:

DECISION POINTS REDUX

George W. Bush has had, shall we say, an uneventful ex-presidency. Bill Clinton flies all over the world to raise money for his foundation and Jimmy Carter oversees elections in developing countries, but Bush is content with a slower pace. Important events shake the world, but today The Decider decides to go for a bike ride, have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, and maybe paint a picture of a dog. If there's time after, he takes a good afternoon nap.

This week, the George W. Bush presidential library will open on the campus of Southern Methodist University. He may have left office with shockingly low approval ratings, but Bush insists that the jury is still out on his presidency. "There's no need to defend myself," he told USA Today. "I did what I did and ultimately history will judge." Bush has been delivering that same line about history being the judge since before he left the White House. It's a way of saying, Sure, I may look like a screw-up to you. But just you wait.

In April 2003, the Prospect put Bush on our cover under the headline, "The Most Dangerous President Ever." Just two years into his presidency, some thought the judgment premature. Six years later, it was no longer a controversial thing to say.

Today, you will not be surprised to learn, Bush has no regrets. If you visit his library, you will go to the "Decision Points Theater," an interactive exhibit where you can match wits with Dubya, seeing if you'd come to different decisions at key moments of his presidency than he did. Whatever you decide, we all had to live with Bush's actual decisions. History began judging him some time ago, and the judgment hasn't been kind.

JMHO but it is never going to be either.  Anyone who thinks so is out of touch period. 

Jackie

C4C, I agree wholeheartedly with your rant. The cherrypicking hypocrisy of the regressives where the Constitution is concerned spins me up into fury every time. I love (NOT) the way they are going on right now, shrieking breathlessly that young Tsarnaev should be sent to Guantanamo, should be tortured, should be treated as an enemy combatant -- all without regard to the fact that he is an American citizen, as much a citizen as anyone born here, and has all the same rights as any pink and blonde American citizen. Once you start taking away any citizen's constitutionally-guaranteed rights, you take them away from all of us.



CrazE, the answer to your question is 100. And it was a great article, too.



PL

Who is Glenn Beck? Is he important

PL...I read that article.  This young man, who may well have been coerced by his brother, who sounded much more radical ( though I read somewhere that it wasn't showing until last yr ), deserves to be treated like the American citizen that is now is and has been for a while.  This is just one of the rights that makes us the sort of country that inspires others to come here and seek citizenship.  We treat people ( our own citizens ) humanely and fairly for the most part. 

I for one have no wish to lose my rights --- there have been plenty of times I'd like to see some rights disappear....we could start with the Glen Beck and Rush Linbaugh's of this world just for openers, but they too have rights.  Fortunately they are such heavy-duty wing-nuts that not much worrying over their slobbering pronouncements need take place.  They serve as a great deal of comedic relief if nothing else and there really isn't much else. 

Jackie

Um yeah. 

YEAH, psychoLibby -  that is one fine picture & caption.

Ok, so what have I missed - GlenBeck has revealed what, presicely???????  Really, I don't get it.  How can ANYONE make such a fool of himself, by his own choices?  Really????

Maybe I shudda said psychoGlen???

Sorry to hear tha Chick......the sequester has reached out now and is giving air traffic controllers time off and of course you will never guess who will be blamed for that one.  SIGH!!!!!

Jackie

That's IT! Obama took my sons job! Well damn I shoulda figured that. Heehee.



Scan results tomorrow. Time to find out if evil Ixempra has been kind to me!

THAT'S IT, Chick!