Good morning!

“Just noticing…”

I am trying to keep up with the news and make sense of everything that is being said about these two Boston bombers. But as usual I have some comments and a lot more questions. I am wondering if some of you are thinking the same same.

When I listen to all the pundits and MSM shows talk about the bombers, I am disturbed by the fact that the elephant in the room, “gun background checks”  is never mentioned. That fact would be the “lack of” background checks for their purchase of guns, is not brought up.  With all the talk about background checks lately, why isn’t it being talked about in this scenario?

We are constantly exposed to the fact that the FBI  conducted a background check on the older brother because of an alert by Russia. Later he visited an area in Russia, (Chechnya)  where there is a lot of islamic activity going on, but the FBI did not do a second interview.

Yet there is no mention that if the very gun law that was voted down recently – you know the one that said we need background checks on people before they are able to buy a gun – was actually in place, the FBI would’ve been alerted of this person who had just visited Chechnya and was on a watch list. No such luck this time and probably not next time either because that gun law was just voted down. You can thank the Senate for that and blame them too for any future mass gun murders, because with the way our world is today, sadly, there will most likely be a next time.

All we hear is “The FBI dropped the ball in 2011.” They didn’t drop the ball  – there were no balls to drop  – the ball was taken out of their hands when there was no background check to alert them. In my opinion, it is really that simple.

The older brother was firing an automatic weapon – where did he get it? No mention about that. It is almost as if there were no guns involved, at all. All we hear is talk about  “a bomb”…”a bomb”…”a bomb.” But guns were involved too. How did they kill the MIT guy? Because they had guns? How did the get the car? Because they had guns. How did they escape the police? Because they had guns! If we are so concerned about guns, why is no one talking about them?!

Back to dropping the ball…It was the Senate who dropped the ball when just this week they voted down a huge tool that would have enable law enforcement to catch these guys. Wait until terrorists discover how easy it is to just come here and buy guns and use them against us. Will we as citizens have to experience a mass murdering by one or more terrorists using our own easily bought weapons against us before we get those BAPF, by the gun industry, representatives, to understand that we need to prevent the unwanted from getting their hands on guns?

As horrific as this Boston bombing was, we were lucky this time. The older brother was stupid and thankfully he was. By choice, not because he couldn’t, he only had a certain amount of bullets. And because of that, he was caught by the police because he ran out of bullets. If he had  30-round magazine, this story could’ve turned out a lot different. More people would’ve been dead and the brother bombers could still be at large and who knows what plans they had that could’ve been played out. We have no idea how many more lives could’ve been lost. But we can certainly say that the older brother’s stupidity to not carry a larger magazine for his automatic weapon, most likely saved lives – this time. Wouldn’t it be nice if this law had passed so we wouldn’t ever have to contemplate should another killer be smarter next time?  Why is this kind of logic not  being addressed and discussed?

On another note, we are constantly exposed to Senator Graham saying the bomber should be tried as a “enemy combatant.” It seems that the republicans have no problem depriving people of the civil rights to gain protection of the population as a whole, but they refuse to deprive the gun industry of their profits from the sale of guns to anyone for similar protections of the population as a whole. Crazy right? So those republicans refuse to deprive a few of the right to purchase guns without background checks in order to protect the safety of the general population.

Readers: Any comments on your take on why there is no buzz or questions such as these from any in the media? Or discussions on why having gun background checks would have done to alert law enforcement to their situation? Anything else you’re “just noticing?” Since no one is talking about it, let’s get the conversation going here. Blog me.

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Good morning.

Ninety percent of the American people support universal background checks…and supported a gun-buyer background check bill put together by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Yet the bill didn’t pass because of a lie that the bill “Claims that this legislation would create a gun registry…” It did not.  LSOS’s.

And I heard on the news that Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was actually begging his colleagues to actually read the text of the bill…the bill that they were voting on. How messed up is this? People’s lives are at stake here and the lies are winning. I am so sick of the other side, (yes I am speaking about the repubs) and their senseless arguments.

From the Huff Po: Please click on the title below to watch the video if you are unable to watch it here.

Gabrielle Giffords On Gun Control Failure: ‘I’m Furious’

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) ripped senators who “gave into fear and blocked common-sense legislation” on background checks in a New York Times op-edpublished Wednesday evening.

“Speaking is physically difficult for me. But my feelings are clear: I’m furious,”Giffords wrote. “I will not rest until we have righted the wrong these senators have done, and until we have changed our laws so we can look parents in the face and say: We are trying to keep your children safe.”

Giffords’ op-ed echoed the sentiment of President Barack Obama, who was visibly angry while giving remarks in the White House rose garden after the amendment was defeated.

“There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn’t do this,” Obama said as Giffords and others affected by gun violence stood behind him. “It came down to politics — the worry that that vocal minority of gun owners would come after them in future elections. They worried that the gun lobby would spend a lot of money and paint them as anti-Second Amendment.”

The op-ed wasn’t Giffords’ first takedown of the senators for the gun vote. Seconds after the amendment was defeated, Giffords sent a fundraising email skewering the lawmakers for doing “the unthinkable.”

“Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing,” Giffords wrote. “It’s clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.”

Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, have formed a political committee that supports candidates who back gun restrictions. The couple met with senators – including Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.), who crafted the background check measure – ahead of Wednesday’s vote.

Click here to read Giffords’ full piece in the New York Times.

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Thoughts? I’m sure you’ve got plenty to say. Blog me.

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Good morning!

It has been pretty hectic around here with work. After getting home yesterday I glued myself to the news. Got up early but all I have been doing is reading about Boston. So tragic. I can’t stop thinking about it. I’m sure all of you are feeling the same. It seems so many that I have spoken to knew someone that was running in this race. Thankfully none of them were injured. I HOPE that same for you. Again, my heart and healing thoughts go out to the friends and families who were.

I’ve been working on posting something for the last two hours but I keep getting interrupted by work – phone calls mostly, so I apologize that this morning has been challenging.

Now hearing about these letters laced with the poison ricin going out to Obama. And one as sent to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) too - Okay, as much as I am not exactly delighted with republicans, and their policies, and “party of no” attitude (need I go on?), I certainly don’t wish death upon him.

I am just so sickened by all of the horrific things happening of late. What I thought was a state of Chaos for our country seems to be not as random, but venturing toward, (dare I say) normal. Okay…so I know I am stretching it…and this is far from normal, but boy, the death and destruction lately is just getting to me.

What is going on here with the way people are behaving in our society?

I was visiting with girlfriend of mine over the weekend, whose sister-in-law was visiting from the south with her 3 kids – a girl and two boys. The boys who were both young, under 14 years of age, were playing a video game on the television. Typical right? But what I saw wasn’t typical…or maybe it was.

All I knew, was what I saw was shocking. The two boys were glued to the television as if in a trace state. In the game they were playing, they were portraying armed men shooting and killing other men.

The scene took place in a warehouse space where men in hiding would be exposed to shoot at. I never saw the faces of any of them except for one time. And the one time, I did, it was a black man being obviously portrayed as the “bad guy”. “The “bad guy” came from behind and tried to attack a “white guy” and the white guy responded by swiftly killing him.

I sat there watching for a few minutes, with my mouth open not believing what I was seeing. And then I noticed as I started to take a look around the room…and what I saw was even more shocking.  No one in the room was paying attention but me. Wha’at? Do they know what these kids are playing? Well of course I knew they did. But that was what was so hard to take in – They knew their kids were playing games that portrayed them killing people…portrayed “black people” as the “bad guys.”

I felt like I wanted to cry.

This was just a typical day in the life of a family hanging out and the kids “playing.” It felt so “normal.” Yeah to them. But to me it wasn’t “normal.” – It was so disturbing to me.

I had to pull my girlfriend aside and speak to her. Unfortunately, it was not the first time I had experienced this while hanging out with a family. And no doubt it will not be the last.

I think, “Why are these games even being made? What is the reason? With so much ‘real destruction’ in the world, why more?” And then it dawned on me: Because they make money.  Lots of money. The demand is there. I’ve seen it. And all the parents seem to say is that all boys have these games – they all play them. So what! Does that mean it is OK? What kind of crazy thinking is that? But that is the answer I get.

If killing becomes so common do we say it is OK because everyone is doing it? How do we combat racism when it is blatantly portrayed in games that our young boys play? We are headed down a worse path of destruction if we keep teaching our young men that it is okay to kill at will – and that black people are the bad people.

Yet, here we are. We have adults here who see nothing wrong with their kids playing games that portray them killing people, and black people as the “bad guys.” No wonder we can’t get good gun laws passed to protect. No wonder we can’t get any votes for background checks on guns. No wonder racism is alive and strong.

That is all I can say on this right now. I have to go. Blog me your thoughts.

Peace & Love. It is what I HOPE for.

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Good morning!

An interesting write from the Huff Po, that I thought you might like to read:

David Stockman, Ex-Reagan Budget Director: George W. Bush’s Policies Bankrupt The Country

A former adviser of Ronald Reagan has some choice words for George W. Bush.

David Stockman, Reagan’s budget director from 1981 to 1985, slammed Bush and his former boss in an op-ed in The New York Times Sunday. Stockman argued in the piece that Reagan’s view on the deficit “created a template for the Republicans’ utter abandonment of the balanced-budget policies of Calvin Coolidge.”

“(Reagan’s deficit policies) allowed George W. Bush to dive into the deep end, bankrupting the nation through two misbegotten and unfinanced wars, a giant expansion of Medicare and a tax-cutting spree for the wealthy that turned K Street lobbyists into the de facto office of national tax policy,” Stockman wrote.

(Click over to The NYT to read Stockman’s full op-ed)

Stockman, also a former Republican congressman from Michigan, resigned from Reagan’s administration in 1985 in protest over deficit spending. Bush and Reagan aren’t Stockman’s only targets in the piece; he attacks lawmakers, Federal Reserve and Treasury officials and Wall Street for a combination of easy money and deficit expanding policies that he argues will lead to another Wall Street bubble explosion in the near future.

Stockman may have a point when it comes to Bush’s policies, at least. The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined with the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy willaccount for nearly half of the debt the U.S. will owe by 2019, according to a February analysis from the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, a left-leaning think tank.

Bush isn’t the only Republican leader to draw Stockman’s ire in recent months, though. During the 2012 presidential election, Stockman called Republican candidate Mitt Romney “a master financial speculator who bought, sold, flipped, and stripped businesses.” He also attacked Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan’s budget, arguing that it was “devoid of credible math or hard policy choices.”

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Readers:  I posted the video but I can’t see it in the preview. If it shows up great. If not, click here or on the title to view. On another note, have you contacted Congress to let them know how you feel about gun control? As our president says, “Now is the time.” If you are not in the know about the Obama’s gun control plan, click here to read.

Peace & love…

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Good morning!

Congress is back from a 2-week recess. Now they need to make some decisions. The question is…Will Congress do the right thing?

From the Huff Po:

Obama Gun Control Speech: President Makes Push In Central Connecticut (VIDEO)

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* Obama says “We will not walk away” from gun promise

* Gun control measures are struggling in Senate

* Newtown families to fly on Air Force One with president (Updates with excerpts from prepared remarks)

By Roberta Rampton

HARTFORD, Conn., April 8 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged Americans on Monday to pressure a reluctant Congress to pass new gun control legislation – one of his top domestic policy priorities – as he traveled to Connecticut, where December’s school massacre took place.

Initial momentum for tougher U.S. gun control laws sought by Obama after the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown has stalled in Congress in the face of fierce lobbying by gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association.

Obama, speaking at the University of Hartford, said that date changed everything for families of the 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook elementary school.

“I know many of you in Newtown wondered if the rest of us would live up to the promises we made in those dark days … once the television trucks left, once the candles flickered out, once the teddy bears were gathered up,” Obama was to say in prepared remarks. “We will not walk away from the promise we’ve made.”

No major gun legislation has passed the U.S. Congress since 1994 and the current White House guns push is in trouble.

“The policy window is either really close to closed, or closed entirely,” said John Hudak, an expert at the Brookings Institution think tank. “In honesty, this is really a last-ditch effort by the White House.”

Obama is hoping to build support among lawmakers for several gun control measures, including universal background checks for gun buyers. The Senate is expected to take up gun control legislation as early as this week.

The president has invited 11 parents of children killed in Newtown to fly back to Washington with him aboard Air Force One after his speech. The parents are set to lobby Congress this week for gun control measures, although it may be too late to rescue major legislation sought by Obama.

Some of Obama’s proposals – reinstating a U.S. ban on assault weapons and cracking down on high-capacity ammunition clips – already appear to have little chance of passing the Democratic-led Senate, let alone the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

BACKGROUND CHECKS

Obama is hoping to salvage the proposal for background checks on all gun buyers to try to ensure that criminals and others prohibited from buying firearms cannot get them. There are not yet enough votes in the Senate for expanded background checks as Democrats seek Republican votes.

“Congress is only going to act on them if they hear from you – the American people,” Obama will say in his address.

Around a dozen Republican senators led by Rand Paul of Kentucky have threatened to use procedural tactics to try to prevent any votes on the gun measures.

“You deserve better,” Obama will say. “You deserve a vote.”

Last week, Obama gave a speech in Denver trying to rally support for gun control, touting a new state law in Colorado – scene of two of the deadliest gun massacres in American history – as “a model of what’s possible.”

The president’s speech on Monday will be followed up by a White House event on Tuesday with Vice President Joe Biden and law enforcement officials. Biden also is due to speak about gun control on Thursday on the MSNBC cable TV network.

First lady Michelle Obama is set to address gun control during a visit on Wednesday to Chicago, which has faced a spree of gun violence. (Editing by Alistair Bell and Xavier Briand)

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I just got caught up on 60 minutes from Sunday evening as well. The topic: Gun control. If you didn’t see it, I am posting it here too. It is a very moving piece as parents of the loved ones lost express their grief and faith. 

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Readers: I stand in support of president Obama. You can feel his compassion, conviction, and commitment to bringing about change in this very important issue. I encourage you to stand up and raise your voices in support of gun control too. Make your thoughts known to Congress and push Congress to put politics aside and do the right thing.  The time is now.

Blog me. Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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