One answer to school shootings is to maintain our schools and school grounds as gun free zones and thereby keep our children exposed to the risk of butchery.
Another answer is to have government limit who is allowed to have guns in our nation and determine the purpose for which we’ll be allowed to have them and thereby, in addition to keeping our children exposed to the risk of butchery, exposing our families and ourselves to that risk.
Another answer is to train and arm school personnel.
Former Olympic gymnasts, including Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, won’t participate in the US Olympic Committee’s investigation into the sexual-abuse scandal surrounding former national team doctor Larry Nassar, saying they don’t trust the body to conduct a thorough and independent inquiry.
They’re right not to trust these…persons…who sat on years of complaints of sexual abuse instead of acting on them. Nor can they, in the end, trust any other organization with the judgment to have these on its payroll or consulting list.
This is appalling, and it says a lot (albeit it’s not the only thing able to be said) about the morals of those we’re “graduating” from college and university these days.
A study released Friday by the Brookings Institution finds that most borrowers who left school owing at least $50,000 in student loans in 2010 had failed to pay down any of their debt four years later.
Scofflaws. They need their wages garnished. If they’re unemployed, they need to be put into work programs–there are always highway rights of way that need cleanup, and ditches that need digging. They also can be put into AmeriCorps VISTA.
The Party in question isn’t the Republican Party. Those folks always have had a very stringent position on immigration, and they’ve not hidden their view from the public’s eye. No, the failing party is the Progressive-Democratic Party. Those folks have long claimed—a claim we now know to be a cynical pretense, a pretense consistent with the underlying philosophy of the party of Jim Crow and of racist and sexist affirmative action—to be champions of immigrants and of DACA children. But last week, they voted against every bill, Republican-offered and “bipartisan,” that was brought up. The Progressive-Democrats wouldn’t even vote for cloture so the bills could be openly debated on the Senate floor.
President Donald Trump has an immigration bill on offer before the Congress, the Republicans have one, and a bipartisan group of two Senators have one. Trump’s bill includes legalization and an eventual possibility of citizenship for 1.8 million Dreamers (1.2 million, or so, beyond ex-President Barack Obama’s (D) illegal DACA program Dreamers), funding for a border wall, and changes to our visa programs. The Republicans’ offer centers on DACA protections and a border wall. The “bipartisan” bill has only DACA protections, not even border security.
Unless you’ve been vacationing unplugged under a rock for the last several months, you’re aware of the atrocities committed by Larry Nassar, the ex-pseudo-doctor for the US’ women’s gymnastics team. Now we find out that
The US Olympic Committee didn’t intervene in USA Gymnastics’ handling of sexual-abuse allegations against longtime national-team doctor Larry Nassar in 2015, even after USA Gymnastics’ then-president told two top USOC executives that an internal investigation had uncovered possible criminal behavior by the doctor against Olympic athletes.
And pursuant to a lawsuit,
Now it’s just getting petty. For the period surrounding this year’s Super Bowl, P Boston is banning anything to do with Philadelphia from the city.
Boston is banning cheesesteaks, Philadelphia cream cheese, beers associated with Philadelphia. One Boston-based bakery chain even has cut ties—permanently—with its Philadelphia cream cheese distributor.
Boston is getting hysterical, too. In addition to banning foodstuffs, that city is banning people: Will Smith and Sylvester Stallone, one because he was raised in Philadelphia, the other because he set the Rocky series of films in that city. Even bald eagles—can you believe it?—are banned from the Esplanade.
…is alive and well in the National Football League. The NFL invited American Veterans, a major veterans support organization, to submit an ad for the Super Bowl advertising suite. So AMVET did.
It turns out the NFL just wanted to look good in the public shower; it wasn’t at all serious. Having received AMVET’s submission, they chose to reject it. The ad committed the heinous crime of asking folks to stand for the national anthem. The NFL’s excuse? The Super Bowl is
designed for fans to commemorate and celebrate the game, players, teams, and the Super Bowl…
No, it’s worse than that. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, NY), in his continuing ducking of responsibility for his Progressive-Democratic Party’s decision to shut down the Federal government, frequently makes this…claim:
A party that controls the House, the Senate, and the presidency would rather sit back and point fingers of blame than roll up their sleeves and govern.
No, this is no petty exaggeration; it’s just another example of Schumer’s dishonesty. Neither party controls the Senate unless it has a 60-vote majority. That makes governing impossible when the minority party in the Senate refuses to negotiate in good faith, when the minority party puts its collective ego ahead the nation’s weal. Schumer knows these things.
The Progressive-Democrats, especially those in the Senate, have shown their true colors as they voted last Friday to shut down the Federal government, voting to block a temporary funding agreement that would have kept the government open for another month. I wrote earlier about that shutdown’s practical effects.
Here’s what the Progressive-Democrats voted to kill: six years of funding for CHIP, so now some millions of children in our poverty-level families will have no access to health insurance. DACA reform so that those illegal immigrant children could have some hope for their future.