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Sandy Hook Elementary School Bill 

 

 

Senator Udall,

 

My name is Michael. I am a constituent of yours here in the great state of Colorado. I want to take this moment in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to propose to you an Idea for a new Gun Control bill that I think you, your Fellow Democrats and Republicans should get on board with and pass into law. Now the following parts are an idea from a friend of mine who is a former U.S. Service member. His name is Paul, but his ideas, strike me as approriate and wll help to safeguard not only future citizens but also our rights as American citizens and our 2nd Amendment.

 

They are as follows:

 

1) Psychological evaluation required before buying any gun. If you don't pass, you don't get a gun.

2) A 100%, non-revocable ban on all assault weapons. No exceptions.

3) A 100% non-revocable ban on all "extended" magazines. No exceptions

4) Mandatory training in handling, cleaning and safe use of guns and rifles before being allowed to own either one.

5) Mandatory registration, along with rifling patterns of rounds, for all guns and rifles.

6) Revocation of gun ownership for failure to safely store guns and rifles which are accessible by minors. 

7) Automatic death sentence possibility for anyone using a gun in the commission of a crime.

8) If a family member gains access to your guns with or with out your consent. You as the owner will be held to account as accessory after the fact for any crimes committed by that family members use of the fire arm.

 

This bill is very simple, if you want to own a gun you need to do these things. Also the gun owner would have to be held accountable for the actions. Senator we need common sense laws to safe guard our lively hood and our lives. This Bill will enable us to do so, please help us. Get this measure passed.

 

Regards,

Michael J. Simmons.

 

 

what are they? What if I told you that they are a means to get around out 14th Amendment. A means for a couple from another country to come to the US, have their child here and thus procure a US Citizenship for their child and then the family ups and leaves back to the country of origin.

Should a group/business/agency be allowed to set up shop with the expressed intent of offering a place for parents who live in other countries to come to the US and have their children for the express purpose of getting US citizenship for their children!?

http://news.yahoo.com/maternity-mansion-lures-pregnant-women-china-191159223--abc-news-topstories.html
Now please read, then feel free to comment. Please be respectful in your comments.

So here we are another Thanksgiving day and already the picture meme's are flying around on how the evil European settlers have come to new world with the intent of raping, pillaging and others wise steal everything from the Native American settlers. Honestly! is this what you think our ancestors came over on ships like the MayFlower (The Pilgrims), Discovery, GodSpeed or the Susan Constant (Jamestown). That they came over with their sights set on how best they can screw over the Native Americans. Let us forget the fact that the Native Americans did infact welcome those new settlers with some suspicion but also with open arms.
That in most cases they helped the settlers weather the first years here in this New World. It has only been through the years that we those settlers exploited a people that we considered friends. I choose to recognize this day as one of Thanks that thanks to those early Native Americans who through their sense of decency extended the hand of friendship and that one our early ancestors accepted with the same hand.  For those of you who wish to dwell in the mistaken belief that we came here to screw the Natives over, I feel pity for you at your small minded world view. But I leave you to it. 

The Freedom of Choice is the Right to Hate. Is a sign held in the hands of an elderly gentlemen who was at the funeral of Matthew Shepard. These words strike me as very profound in meaning, because they are correct. As a Humanist we ask for tolerance, respect for peoples choices no matter how wrong headed or hearted they may seem. In this case, the gentlemen is correct. By giving the Freedom of Choice, we allow for all views to be heard and expressed.
We may not like what we hear, we will get mad at the idiocy of the statement and call the holders of these signs and more. Racist's, Bigot's or other such derogatory names. But then that makes us no better then they are, if we shut down their Freedom of Choice then what makes us any better then them. This is hard, because in writting this, I do support this man's views and trully it is a view I detest. Hate is a strong emotion, Hatred is derived from Anger which comes from Fear.
When we Hate, we fail to reason. We fail to use clear headed thinking and instead we rely upon on basest intincts which make us no better then animals. Hell even Animals are better behaved. The number of "Hate Crimes" we have in this country is an indicator of that behavior. It is a failure to reason, it is a failure to recognize that individuals Freedom of Choice. Lately groups like the Westboro Baptist Church, Individual members of the GOP and also just plain old people have been saying things that are down right Hateful.
However we have responded back with the same amount of Hate, we fail to respect their Freedom of Choice. We fail to respect their decision, no matter how wrong it feels to us. It is their choice, their decision. We as Humanist, if we are to hold to that title. Must allow for them to express their choice. Only through that level of tolerance and understanding will we be able to walk through the hatred, the ignorance and show them that Hatred has no hold.

SINGLE OR NOT put this as your journal & see what you get

♥ = I want a relationship with you

C: = I'm falling for you

:3 = I miss you

;] = i really like you

:* = I want to kiss you

:< = I hate you

: X = I like you

O: = I like you but im in a relationship

:/ = I like you but your in a relationship

:] = You're cute

3 = I regret leaving you

:b = We should get to know each other

;^) = We should hang out

<3 = I love you.. o/

<:^ = i want to know you

@FT@=*stalk*

eue= You're hot

<:3 = You're a great friend

^_^ = We're friends

^.^ = We're best friends

>;3 = I want you on top

>:3 = I want on top

The school where I work at as a Security Officer, now wants to start allowing the students who use the student housing to park for free. Now this you think should not be an issue. I can tell you now, it will be. We have over three (3,000) students at this school. All who at some point in time come to the main campus. Of those 3k maybe 500 to 600 (if that) live in student housing. Now imagine yourself as a student who lives off campus not in the housing but on your own and like a good student you pay for your parking everyday in the garage. You make the considered effort to do so. Then you find out that if you choose to live at the student dorm you can park for free. Now as it stands the school offers two choices to students who live at the dorms, they are given a bus pass (about an $80 value) or they are given $50 in parking tokens. So those who take the tokens, effectively do park for free. But they still pay to park, now they may be able to just park for free. The school is looking into another color parking sticker and the like for the dorm students. All I can say and see is trouble on the horizon. Hell, i have put forth a suggestion of just charging a quarterly rate to purchase and/or renew ones parking sticker and just get rid of the token machine all together, but is that even heard. Nope! Not once or at all.

Found this article while online about what a Judge here in the states has done. http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/blog/can-motherhood-be-criminalized-?src=OB_B278_Motherhood#fbid=a-yAgSirki8&src=OB_B278_Motherhood

He has ordered that this individual not get pregnant for the next ten (10) years. Question should a mother and/or father be forced by the court if they are found guilty of knowingly not stopping a case of abuse or even better allowing it to continue, not be allowed to have more children. Is this an inalienable human right to be allowed to procreate or is it a privilege that can be taken from a person? Also what would happen if a judge ordered that said individual be sterilized? What are your thoughts?

Intimacy a simple word but it also has a lot of meaning deep and shallow. As of late I have been pondering my issue with intimacy. I am concluding that there is varying levels of intimacy. For me I am noting a need for emotional intimacy. Emotional contact, need, desire and want. I am married, but my wife has a different set of needs in the intimacy she wants it as sexual intimacy. The need desire, want to be loved sexually. Where I, I need emotional intimacy. A need to be loved, validated and made to feel wanted, needed.

So I have been watching the Occupy Wall Street, and I cannot help but feel that these people reflect that which I was referring to. This is Humanity in all it's teeming masses.  These are the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of our teeming shore. These folks do not want a hand out. They want the ability to live, breath to know that each day they can go to work. That there job is going to be there. That they will be given a 'fair' chance at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Folks this is Humanity writ Large, these protest that are happening now in the United States, this is the revolution that Corporate America fear's. It has taken over two weeks for the Media to even latch on to this and start running with it and even now they are being given the short shift on it as they are playing up how the protesters (who have peaceably assembled) are arrested en-mass. 

 

To those who march in the protests in New York and in other Major American cities, my brothers and sister's my fellow Americans, my fellow Humans I salute your courage, your bravery. Stay the course, show all what it means to be American's. Help us to wake up and put Humanity back in the fore front as part of the American Dream. For the American dream is not about a house, a car and 2.5 kids. It is about the ability to pursue Life and Liberty and Happiness, not at the expense of one another but for one another. 

    So I have been doing some thinking lately, about Humanity and I am forced to wonder what happened to it? The Soylana Scandal really should be considered a wake up call in the biggest sense. We as a people stand on a cusp of change or apathy depending on which way you want to go. The execs at Soylana are all pleading the fifth, because the money that was meant to go to the company to help it out did not go to the company. Where it went is not my issue, nor will I speculate about it.

    What I will speculate about though is the lack of Humanity exhibited by the execs of not only that company but also of those who run Big Oil, Big Energy, Big Government and the like. We have lost our Humanity, we have lost our compassion, reason, empathy to the idea of ME, MYSELF and I. While these companies come out with a big play on how this will change how mankind deals with the world. It is all smoke and mirrors, sound and fury which signifies nothing. What it all comes down to is the plain simple truth of how much can I get for me. 

    Gone are the days of a company who is run by people who want to do the greatest good for the people and take as little profit as they can. Don't get me wrong I am all for a reasonable profit. I am all for a company that can meet it's payroll, employee cost's, etc... etc... etc... However that cost should not come at the expense of the product that is being sold, or the way that it is helping the people. Solyana could have been the company of companies put out a low cost solar energy mirror's to every home in America. Lighten our dependence on Foreign Oil. But instead they are all interested in having their million dollar homes in Tahiti or what have you and to hell with the rest of us. We are Humanity Lost! 

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/08/18/octomom-asksprolife-icon


So apparently Natalie Sueliman wants to be a spokeswoman for Prolife.com. Uhm! 

    A couple of days ago, while reading over an article that was an opinion piece on the "Quiverfull Movement" I found the name and information on a Doctor in Texas who does Vasectomy Reversals. Now a normal Vasectomy runs about $10K in cost and that is normally for the Doctor consult, visit, lab tests and the like. This does not include the cost of the surgical unit and everything else. This Doctors states on his web site he can do a reversal for $3K and that it is his mission in life. Apparently said Doctor is a member of this movement and thinks that a reversal should be available to any male or couple who wants one. 
    So I have been thinking about it. I had a vasectomy done when my only child (Crystal) was born, I have no other biological off spring. Crystal is now twelve (12) I had the procedure done a year after she was born. So I am at eleven years since my nuts got snipped. Now I will be the first to point out I am not in any good shape financially to support more children. Also with out a committed partner in my life, I would be no more then either a "Bull" for studding purposes or to make a deposit at a Sperm bank and hope that a couple or a single lady thinks my profile is good enough for them.
    The reasons I would like to go through with this operation and get myself reconnected I can equally lay out. One I like kids, I have always wanted to be the dad with a small brood. Not in the way of the Duggar family but maybe three or four kids. I will also state I am into Pregnancy and everything about it, and it would be my hope that should I go through this procedure I would meet a woman who would share my interest. So the thought process is to stay snipped or not stay snipped?  My mood: a bit discontent

I am having a Dilemma and boy is it a dozy of a problem. Thing is I am not involved at least no directly in this specific issued. As some of you may already know or have been aware if you follow and chat with me, you know I am in the process of getting seperated from my wife (this is both our 2nd Marriages). This past Friday she was assaulted and forced to have sex with a man, whom she had gone too earlier in the week. Because her boy friend was not there for her. Long story short she and this dude had sex earlier in the week after this person had pursued her and shown interest in her for six weeks. The day after they had sex, he got all up in arms about how he couldnot continue to with it and broke it off. Only to have on Friday him force her tohave sex and he physically struck her. 

Now a small part of me is looking on this and saying good, glad she got what was coming to her. This is a very small part of me though (the petty and vindicitive side). The rest of me is watching and waiting for her to pull herself up and get back into the groove of things. But she is choosing to do nothing, she is not ignoring it, she is just doing nothing about it. For fear of what the ensuing issues and court cases will bring about. Since our seperation I have been looking more and more to fixing my own issues. I personally feel that she needs to step up and have said so. But it is frustrating to say the least that she seems paralyzed by this. I really have no idea what to do, except to be there for her and be a shoulder for her to cry on. As her boy friend seems to be a complete putz and while he has no time for her, if he has a problem she makes time for him. Oi!