While I'm Just sitting here

[howeird]

In the news. Sally Ride died today, she was half a year younger than me. So happy she succeeded so well against the Old Boy School, and just plain rocked all around. So sad she did not get the full life she so richly deserved.

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So many squawks about gun control and who is to blame for the maniac in Colorado. Briefly: one would think that even a rent-a-cop would notice someone as heavily armed as that in a movie theater in the summer. Especially after Columbine et al. Laws don't keep obsessed people from the things they wan. The war on drugs is one example, prohibition is another. People sometimes go crazy. May as well try to stop a tsunami. 

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IMHO Obama is an abject failure. Romney is a wildly successful force for evil. I have no one to vote for. Maybe it is time to leave the country again. I was hoping to retire here, in Thailand, but the humidity is really kicking my ass and it isn't even summer. And I still can't afford to as long as I have a good job back home.

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Lots of Russians here. They all seem to smoke. TGhey have no problem lighting up in a restaurant while people are eating. :-(

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Comments

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

As I understand (you may imagine correctly that I have been bombarded with information) there was nothing to notice until the shooting started. The shooter went in dressed normally, with no weapons, propped open a fire door, which can be done so that it's very hard to notice it's propped open, like with tape over the latch, went out to the car, put on armor and guns, and came in the fire door near the front row shooting. With the body armor he was wearing, and in the darkness of the theater and panic, it would have required an alert expert marksman to perhaps get in a lucky head shot without first getting shot or accidentally shooting a civilian. So all this NRA talk of arming all the kids who go to movies - and perhaps we should arm the kids in nursery school as well, according to some - is just bellicose belligerent ignorance.