An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Morning Coffee 9/22/07
Giuliani’s Speech at NRA Doesn’t Reassure Skeptics
Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday sought to persuade members of the National Rifle Association to look past his lengthy record of pushing for tougher gun control by saying that his views on this issue had been changed by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Uh huh. And what about his views on gay marriage, baby murder, illegal aliens? Has his views changed drastically on them since 9/11? I won’t be voting for him in the primary, but if he, by chance, DOES get the nomination, I will. The alternative would be 100% unacceptable, as opposed to 50% unacceptable.
A 12-year-old girl was shot in the head overnight in Minneapolis, according to news reports today.
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The girl was leaving a party when she was shot.The girl is in “grave” condition at Hennepin County Medical Center.
She was not the intended victim, police said. They have descriptions of two suspects.
My question: What was a 12 year old girl doing at a party with evidently the intended victims of gun violence? Prayers for her recovery.
Six years after a woman was raped in her north side home and locked in the trunk of her car, prosecutors charged a man for the attack with no idea what his name was.
The clock was running out on the statute of limitations, and with little to go on but a vague description, investigators hadn’t made an arrest. They had DNA evidence, but the year was 2000 – and Wisconsin’s new law requiring felons to give DNA samples had put fewer than 500 profiles into the State Crime Laboratory’s files. None of them matched.
So Milwaukee prosecutors took the best shot they had: issuing a no-name warrant, only the fourth of its kind, on whoever possessed the DNA and blindly hoping that the offender would someday turn up.
This summer, after seven years of searching, he did.
I question the statute of limitations on cases like rape, child abuse…anything where there is a victim who will carry the scars of such acts long after the time limit set by law.
Televangelist Rex Humbard Dies at 88
The Rev. Rex Humbard, a former itinerant preacher whose televangelism ministry once reached more parts of the globe than any other religious program, died Friday a family spokeswoman said. He was 88. Humbard died of natural causes at a South Florida hospital near his Lantana home, family spokeswoman Kathy Scott said.
To be perfectly honest, I’ve never heard of him. Prayers with hiis family.
Democrats’ bill on troops fails in Senate
The measure, by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), fell on a 47-47 vote, the latest defeat for Democratic-led proposals; it needed 60 votes to advance. On Thursday, a proposal to cut off funding by June garnered only 28 votes. And on Wednesday, a proposal to require more leave time between deployments came up four votes short, 56 to 44.
I’m curious….do the Dhimmis even know the PURPOSE of the military?
Israel Comes to Standstill at Yom Kippur
Israel came to a virtual standstill at sundown Friday as Jews across the country began observing Yom Kippur, the holiest day of their calendar.
Stores closed early and the airwaves were filled with liturgical Hebrew music leading up to the contemplative Day of Atonement, when tradition says divine judgment of Jews is sealed and their fate is decided for the coming year.
Jews across the world will fast and pray in synagogues as they seek forgiveness for their actions in the past year. Ahead of the holiday, religious Jews often ask their acquaintances to forgive them for any offense they might have committed.
Have an easy fast.
Drivers will help test idea for a tax on vehicle mileage
Austin will be one of the test sites for a federally funded study on replacing the gas tax with a charge on the mileage people drive.
The cars of about 450 Austin-area volunteers, roughly half in 2008 and the other half in 2009, will be outfitted with a Global Positioning System receiver and a small on-board computer. The system will collect information about miles driven, keeping track of the states in which the driving occurred. Then, the system will periodically dump that information into a billing system.
Policymakers across the United States see a mileage tax as a potential successor to the gas tax. The federal government has an 18.4 cents per gallon tax, and states have their own levies. The state gas tax in Texas is 20 cents per gallon.
Does anyone really think this will be an ‘alternative’? No, odds are, they’ll just tack it on what we already pay. Perhaps if those elected to office would take a class in ‘balancing the checkbook’, they wouldn’t be sucking more money out of our pockets on a daily basis!
On sale for the first time: Van Gogh’s final masterpiece
A Van Gogh masterpiece believed to be the artist’s final piece of work is to be put on the public market for the first time, where it is expected to become one of the most highly-valued paintings ever auctioned.
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The Fields will be unveiled at Sotheby’s in London on 7 October and sold at auction in New York a month later with an estimated list price £17m.
Um….that’s more than THIRTY FOUR POINT THREE MILLION DOLLARS ($34,353,497.49 to be exact). I think I’ll pass. Never been much of a Van Gogh fan anyway.
Iran Shows Off Might in Military Parade
Threats and economic sanctions will not stop Iran’s technological progress, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Saturday at a large parade of missiles and other weapons aimed at showing off the country’s military might.
Isn’t it past time to squash that particular bug? Maybe the ‘Booboo could be ‘disappeared’ while he’s having a chat with the weasels at Columbia? Naw, they’ll probably give him a medal and an honorary degree.
“Perhaps if those elected to office would take a class in ‘balancing the checkbook’, they wouldn’t be sucking more money out of our pockets on a daily basis!”
Amend to:
Perhaps if they familiarized themselves with John Linder’s Fairtax, they wouldn’t be sucking more money out of our pockets on a daily basis!
Have you read that book OB?
I have voted every election since I was old enough to vote…even when it was trying to select the lessor of two evils. Between Rudy and Clinton it would be a coin toss and I would just go ahead and puke in the voting booth..the thoughts of either in the Oval Office make me sick.