I saw that President Obama was criticized for talking about gun control too soon after the last mass shooting incident, the two news people killed while on the air. That's a tough one, because if you don't speak right away, the next one will already have occurred and you won't be able to speak about that one either. As we process yet another series of senseless acts of violence in the last week, including a Texas deputy, remember that guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people: kids with guns, young black gang bangers with guns, white racists with guns, mentally ill people with guns, drifters with guns, domestic abusers with guns, criminals, black and white, with guns, disaffected radicalized white racist teens with guns, disaffected radicalized religious extremists with guns, sociopaths with guns, Aryan nation militia separatists with guns, careless neighbors with guns, disgruntled former employees with guns, drunken morons with guns, ammosexual gun fetishists with lots and lots of guns, compensatory chickenhawk-over-eager-wanna-be soldiers with guns, paranoid secessionists with guns, racist cops with guns, poorly trained cops with guns, drug dealers with guns....... if only there were a common factor we could identify and address...... * * * * * * * * Donald Trump, though, is living the American Dream: inherit $100 million, have a bunch of wives, buy lots and lots of shiny crap, borrow billions of $$$ and not pay it back, and then maybe run for President.* * * * * * For all you "gotcha" journalists out there don't get so excited; when Donald Trump said the Bible was his favorite book, he didn't actually claim to have read it........* * * * * * * I saw that PolitiFact rated something Ted Cruz said as "half-true"; for Ted Cruz, that's actually an improvement. It could very well be the first time ever.* * * * * * * * In the latest one-upmanship going on between Donald Trump and Scott Walker, Trump today said that not only would he build a Canadian wall, but that he would also ship all black people back to Africa. "They came here illegally and took our jobs picking cotton and other entry level positions that should have been American jobs," he said to a loud cheering crowd. "But I would do it humanely," he said, "by airplanes."* * * * *Ben Carson, on the other hand, said slavery was the best thing that could have happened to Africans because they found Jesus in America. I guess that's one way to look at it, but some of those Africans met Jesus way sooner than others. * * * * * * * Republicans on Republicans - Senator Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump "shallow," "ill-prepared," and a "complete idiot." John Boehner called Ted Cruz a "jackass." * * * * * * * At our family gathering this weekend for Mom's 90th birthday and reminiscing about the good old days of dial telephones, one of my siblings mused about the fact that a whole generation of our youth will never experience the satisfaction of hanging up on someone and slamming the phone down........and that's a very sad thing.
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