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 TERRY’S TIDBITS

August 20, 2007

Patriot76@insightbb.com

KFIRE

          Kentuckians for Immigration Reform and Enforcement needs members.  (http://www.kfire.us/).  Let’s take action on this important issue.  I know a lot of you talk about illegals so now is your chance to actually make a stand.  Basic membership is free.  Active membership is $15.00.  Spend the fifteen bucks.  Invest the bucks. 

To Own Guns

          The recent accidental death of 13 year old Ricky Quire was a shame.  It didn’t have to happen.  As with any tool, toy, or activity, guns can be dangerous and the danger caught up with Ricky. 

          The first inclination of most people is to blame the gun and the gun owner.  However, if Ricky had picked up a steak knife and stabbed himself, there would be little screaming about knife ownership.  Blaming the knife would never enter one’s mind, and the knife owner, though perhaps chastised for leaving a knife lying about, would not be subject to criminal prosecution.  Had Ricky drunk a drain cleaner, the drain cleaner would not be blamed.  In fact, in both scenarios it’s likely that Ricky would have been blamed.

          As cruel as it may sound, the parents of Ricky are mostly deserving of the responsibility for his death.  There is no excuse for ignorance when it comes to gun safety, and hating guns does not remove them from society.  We hate child molesters, but they exist, and we teach our kids to look out for them.  We teach our kids bicycle safety and pool safety.  We tell them not to run with scissors and not to run in the halls at school.  We teach them to abstain from sex or wear condoms.  We don’t abandon them to their own educations on things that can harm them.  Why do we do it with guns?

          Every kid in this country should be accustomed to guns.  They should all be taught gun safety to include the proper handling, proper loading and unloading, and proper usage.  They should be able to hit a target, preferably not themselves or their friends.  Knowing the business end of a gun does not necessarily come naturally.  Today’s kids know video games and the simulated death that they see there.  They are not so in tune with realities such as un-simulated death.

          Even if there is no education in gun safety except to tell your kids that guns are not bad, just dangerous when mishandled, lives could be saved.  If every parent stressed the age-old and wise idea that every gun is loaded and should be treated as such, more lives would be saved.  Ignoring guns doesn’t work, and the consequences can be read about almost every day.  Teach your kids gun safety and stop ignoring the potential consequences of your inactions.

City Budget

          It has been hot, hasn’t it?  Mayor Abramson made an announcement that the city is doing okay, but if it stays this hot for more than three days the city’s budget could suffer.  It only takes three days of 100 degree heat to eat away at Jerry’s money?  There are all kinds of classes our city leaders can take on economics, to include budget management.  They should enroll now before they go broke.

          While I’m speaking of the Mayor – don’t worry about our bridges.  He and the governor got together and decided the bridges are safe.  I believe they met in one of our expensive parks to discuss the matter.

          I think Jerry and Ernie should go on a tour to comfort all the communities worldwide on bridge safety.  There are folks fretting desperately about their bridges, guys; they need you to curb their fears.

Homeruns and Money

          I don’t know about you, but I earn my money.  I think catching a record breaking homerun should be more work.  Oh sure, one has to be in the right place at the right time, but come up with the ball and you get a police escort to the bank.

          The record breaking homerun that Barry Bonds hit the other night may be worth half a million bucks.  Stick your arm in the air and snag a half mil – what a way to make a living. 

          I think they should give all the fans in the stands knives.  Shucks, for that kind of money they should blindfold them too and forget the police escorts; let them fend for themselves trying to get to the vault.  May the survivor take all.

Catalyst for Change

          I think we are all getting more than a little fed up with our government, taxes, laws, and the general state of things.  This country is going to hell in a hand basket, whatever that means.  The cuckoo is out of the clock folks, and we are all being pummeled with it. 

          I can only hope that my thoughts are true on this one – that the BIG change will come in a hurry.  There will be some catalyst that will turn this country on its head overnight. 

          Has anyone seen that video of the herd of water buffalo turning on a pride of lions?  I wonder what inspired them to do that.  Do you think they were just fed up with being dinner for fat cats all those years?  They wised up and realized that there is power in numbers.  We outnumber government by thousands to one. 

I don’t know what will incite the rebellion, but I don’t think it needs to be something big.  We camels have a lot of straw to bear, and one more may do it.  Let’s stop being dinner for the fat cats.

Speaking of government, MSD has been given a humongous rate increase by the Metro Council.  Doug Hawkins is the only one who voted against it.  Did you know that MSD owes the City of Louisville about two billion dollars?  Of course the city is going to approve a rate hike.

Call the mayor and ask him to veto the rate hike, for all the good it will do.  At least he will know that we are against it and not silently rolling over to the whims of the Metro Nazi Council.  Mayor Jerry’s number is 574-2003.

Louis Coleman and Guns

          This is one dangerous man.  He doesn’t have a brain cell, yet the liberal media provide him face time almost daily, he and that guy with a number in his name – 2X.  Heck of a name for a grown man.

          Coleman likes to collect guns but not the way normal people collect guns.  Coleman likes to destroy them.  (I’m going on instinct only here, but I bet Coleman owns guns.)  He made the stupidest statement yet, at least locally, for rationalizing the destruction of guns.  He said that, for every gun destroyed, one hundred and fifty lives are saved.  He said that statisticians provided that information.  What statistician?  He never gave us a source.  No statistician, no matter how skewed the data, could possibly come up with a statement like that.

In 1994, according to the National Institute of Justice, 200 million guns were privately owned in America.  If guns were responsible for the number of deaths that Mr. Coleman claims, 30 billion people would be dead from those guns.  There would be no one on this planet.

Using Coleman’s formula on a smaller scale, if 151 people got together and one of them owned a gun, the gun owner would be obliged to shoot and kill the other 150.

It is a rare event when a law-abiding citizen uses a firearm to harm an innocent person intentionally.  Criminals kill people, and if guns didn’t exist, criminals would still be killing people.

The second amendment acknowledges our right to keep and bear arms, and individual ownership was just upheld by the Sixth District Court of the District of Columbia.  (I can’t wait to see where this goes.)

I hold Mr. Coleman responsible for his statements and the media responsible for allowing him to spew forth such misinformation for public consumption.

I emailed Coleman and he hasn’t answered.  How can he?  What will he say?  The facts speak for themselves.

I wish the media would stop giving this guy a podium.  He is poison.

I wrote a letter to the editor of the Courier Journal outlining my logical approach to Coleman’s statement.  They wouldn’t print it.  I figure they don’t want to upset the Reverend.  I also wrote the Justice Resource Center.  Coleman never returned my email.  Maybe he was busy saving 150 lives.

Don’t Forget Your Purse

          Have you ever forgotten your kid and left him in the car while you went shopping or scored crack?  A technique that is being suggested is to put your purse in the back seat with the kid when you strap him in.  You can’t shop or buy crack without the purse.  Looking into the backseat for it will remind you that you have your son or daughter with you.  What priorities we have.

Powered Exits

          A lot of stores have powered doors that open for you as you enter.  That is pretty doggone nice of them huh?  But when you leave some of these stores you have to open the door yourself.  I normally don’t carry a lot of stuff into a store but sometimes I carry a lot out.  The stuff I usually buy is manly stuff like power saws and generators.  Sometimes I need a hand cart.  Have you ever tried opening a door while carrying a generator or while pushing a hand cart that’s carrying a generator? 

“Hey Frank, wouldn’t it be a nice welcome to our customers by having the door open for them as they enter?”  I think it would be a nicer gesture to open the door for me when I leave after dropping a load of money in your store.  If that can’t be accomplished, at least help me carry out my purchases.

It’s Too Hot

          A letter writer to the Courier Journal is whining about school buses being too hot for our kids.  Get over it.  They get to school and enjoy comfortable heating/air conditioning, breakfast, their own books and desks, hot lunches, computers, and they are inoculated against every germ known to man.  The only character building they receive is hot buses.  If they get dehydrated, the school nurses will ask them if they are allergic to water and then administer the elixir of life, if the parents have approved the treatment in triplicate.  Then they’ll be counseled and monitored for psychological damage.

          Think of the new era tales of the school experience when these kids are old.  Their kids and grandkids won’t have the boring old tale of having to walk two miles to school barefoot in the snow.  At last we’ll be free of that legend.  Instead they’ll tell their kids and grandkids that they had to ride to school in hot buses.  Oh how the eyebrows will lift.

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