As you know Barack Obama is going to take away our guns. Or at least your guns since I don’t have one. However maybe I should get a gun or a whole arsenal because it does seem to be the THE thing to do these days and I sure don’t like it when I am not running with the in crowd.
Gun sales are booming around the country including right here in my hometown of South Bend.
Our congressman apparently has taken note of this and, according to the South Bend Tribune, was one of 65 Democrats signing a letter to the Attorney General asking him to not reinstate the assault weapons ban. In the letter, Joe Donnelly and his 64 democratic colleagues pointed out that the “gun control community is intentionally misleading Americans into believing these weapons are fulling automatic machine guns.” No said gun pal Joe these firearms fire one shot for every pull of the trigger. Thank you Joe, that sure makes me feel a whole lot better. Gee, just a question Joe, how many shots do you think some wacko can get off one pull of the trigger at a time?
This is pure and simple political pandering. Indiana’s Second District in any two year cycle can be a swing district and Joe just refuses to piss anyone off. Well I am pissed off about this and so are a lot of my friends who, just for the record, vote in every election.
Let me be clear. I ardently support sportsmen and sportswomen. In fact, if it were up to me they can cull the local deer heard year round for all I care. What concerns me, and that concern continues to grow, are nuts who are culling the human race. The lifelong racist and hate monger (and now we find 0ut kiddie porn devotee) who went into a rage and killed a guard at the Holocaust Museum apparently went from the deep end to the end of the edge because of all the crap he was hearing about having his guns taken away. And what about the crazy much younger man in Pittsburgh who killed the cops? Same thing. Someone SHOULD have taken their guns away!
This isn’t getting out of hand it IS out of hand and with what is going on with the internet and, occasionally, on Fox News we need to get a handle on it.
The Department of Homeland Security two months ago released a report about far right wing terrorism. Congressman Joe Donnelly is a good man and I happen to think him signing that letter was pure and simple politics, not the real Joe Donnelly. So read that report Joe and keep in mind that most of your constituents are not screaming about having their precious guns taken away. It is time to take a stand for what is right.
America loves a good bogeyman. Or should I say America always needs a good bogeyman or a gaggle of them. When we run out of real ones we just invent new ones or keep riding an old one until the horse drops dead or is hung, like Saddam Hussein.
To say the least I am shocked! Gay marriage has been legalized just two states away from my home in Indiana. Also in Vermont but those people are so nuts they have a senator who dares to be something called an independent. But Iowa? How could Iowa do this? Wait, I think I read something about this. The Iowa Supreme Court took a look at the marriage laws and then voted unanimously that they could not find any reason why gays and lesbians could not get married. 
The news this week that Philadelphia Phillies announcer Harry Kalas died took me back to my childhood even if he wasn’t a part of those years.
It has been a long time since Notre Dame ruled the world of college football. The last national championship was in 1988 which means there are students enrolled at Notre Dame who were not born the last time the Irish ruled the roost. You could even make the argument that recently Notre Dame has not even been the best Catholic school to play big time football and there are only two in division one, the other being Boston College and BC has had Notre Dame’s number the last few years.
I wonder how many invitations President Obama has received to be a college commencement speaker this year. At the very least I would guess several dozen, probably more than the number of baseball teams that would like to have him throw out the first pitch on opening day. So how many do you think President Obama has accepted? The answer is three, the Naval Academy, Arizona State University and the University of Notre Dame.
1. How is it that the Obama Administration can open up stem cell research and a religious war has not broken out in this country. Could it be with the Bushies out of power there is no one around to stoke the inevitable bonfire that would have occurred during those eight years. Those of you who had been hiding your science books behind the bookcase can now dust them off,
Why not I say. Rush Limbaugh for President. Why waste four years going through the pretense and just get it over with. Rush Limbaugh is the titular head of the Republican party already and there is no one on the horizon closed minded enough to head up a challenge. But wait a minute, you say, sure Rush is perfectly right but, still, he is a mere radio entertainer. Well, what was Ronald Reagan, other than a pretty bad actor? And now look at him, on the fast track for conservative beatification. 
