Balloons, Pinatas and Guns

I was watching the news last night when the most outrageous story appeared: parents  in Texas, (where else?)  are holding their young childrens' birthday parties at gun clubs.  The children gain hands-on experience shooting guns as entertainment. Sort of like "Chuckie Cheese" but with guns.  The reporter did not say if shooting practice is before or after ice cream and cake is served, or whether the children would be playing shoot the tail off the donkey instead of pin the tail on the donkey.

Now, I have mixed feelings about gun control, remembering, as I do, both Kennedy shootings, and subsequent assassination attempts on other leaders.  But I also remember those last days of the  Nixon presidency and how no one knew if he was going to call out the National Guard and refuse to give up his office.  In addition to Nixon, there was VP Dick Cheney, enough said about him. This is my long-winded way of saying that generally, I'm on the fence about gun control.  But these parties give me cause for great concern.  Some how, I doubt that my parents, part of what Tom Brokaw calls The Greatest Generation would have allowed me to attend such a party.

So, please listen to me-I'm not sure how to say this-WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE??  Are they that stupid?  How about criminal charges?  Like felony child endangerment, perhaps?  Were they raised to value life or raised with any common sense at all?

Mitt Romney, Class Bully

So, Mitt Romney's schoolmate told the press that he witnessed Mitt and some other teens gang up on another kid because his hair was long and recently died blond and Mitt believed he was gay.  The other teens held the kid down while Mitt forcibly cut his hair.  The kid was in tears.  It was Mitt's idea, he planned it and he led the group.

Of course, the press reported this and Mitt Romney, Presidential candidate, said that he had no memory of the alleged incident.  Now, we all do things during adolescence of which we are not proud,  But what he did was vicious and premeditated.  He was 18 years old when he committed this crime. 

As for Mitt's alleged failure to recall the incident, who doesn't recall something like that?  The victim remembered it, the other participants remember it, the witnesses remember it. Most of them were very bothered, if not haunted, by it.  Except Mitt,  who wants to be president.  If you had tackled someone, held him down and cut his hair against his will, wouldn't you remember it?  I  certainly would and so would you, I hope. . . If we had no recollection of something like that, we could rightly be accused of having no conscience.

phttt-more from the lunatic party

Who REALLY cares if the president mentions/thanks God in a Thanksgiving speech?  That is  what FOX News/Republicans were screaming about last week.  With all of the problems this country is facing, throwing out such a red herring is ridiculous.  I'm going to call a press conference and announce that I am OUTRAGED  that the president did not mention UFOs  or thank aliens from space in his Thanksgiving speech. 

Silly thoughts on Herman Cain's name

Or "Desperate for Anything Easy and Mildly Interesting  to Blog About"

"Herman Cain loves Koch Cain"

"Herman Cain or Hurricane?"

Moammar Loves Condi

From the Huffington Post:

"Among the many bizarre items uncovered as Libyan rebels ransacked Muammar Gaddafi's Tripoli compound: an album filled with photos of former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.  The discovery was perhaps not surprising given Gaddafi's much-professed admiration of Rice, MSNBC is noting. "I support my darling black African woman," Gaddafi told al-Jazeera television in 2007, according to The Guardian. "I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders...Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. I love her very much. I admire her and I'm proud of her because she's a black woman of African origin."

In 2008, Rice historically became the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Tripoli since 1953. She and Gaddafi are reported to have enjoyed a private dinner, during which a State Department report indicates the Libyan leader also showered his visitor with an estimated $212,000 worth of gifts -- including a diamond ring in a wooden box, a lute and an accompanying DVD, and a locket with Gaddafi's own picture inside.

Also included among the gifts: "Wonder-Womanesque wristbands" and an autographed copy of his revolutionary Green Book with an inscription that expressed his "respect and admiration," according to The New York Times.

There are, of course, strict rules about the acceptance of gifts by public officials but when it comes to foreign leaders, diplomatic concerns take priority, as "non-acceptance would cause embarrassment to donor and U.S. Government."

Though Rice praised the meeting with the Libyan leader as "a historic moment," her gift to Gaddafi was considerably less opulent: a plate with the U.S. seal, The Atlantic notes."  

How creepy is this?  Poor Condi, this may creep her out for the rest of her life.