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Only if we could say the same thing for an organization more inept, corrupt and wasteful. Yes if only on this day the Dis-United Nations closed for good.

In 1946, the League of Nations went out of business.

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Liviu Librescu, 75, a senior researcher and lecturer in engineering, was a Holocaust survivor. He had immigrated to Israel from Romania with his wife Marlina, also a survivor, in 1978. He was an expert in aeronautics at Tel Aviv University and the Haifa Technion before moving to the United States in 1984.

This is tragic. A man who survived the Holocaust is gunned down in America. A tragedy marked across the land because there are some who don’t want people to be able to defend themselves. As America remembers the youth we also pause for
Does this sound too harsh for you? Just remember that it’s soft compared to the loss of life that can be laid at the feet of the anti-gun Nazis feet.

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Battle might be too strong of a word. Perhaps the new cut and run policy is being employed. It seems more and more inevitable that same sex marriage of some form will sweep across the nation. No one really has any voice to speak out against this. Believe me… if the people of any state would speak out they might be able to stem the tide. But each week passes and that seems very unlikely at this point. Oregon’s bill passes the house and is expected to pass the Senate and get a signiture.

SALEM, Ore. —  Same-sex couples would receive the same benefits as married couples, and gays and lesbians would be protected against discrimination under bills approved Tuesday by the Oregon House.

The Senate is expected to pass the two bills and Gov. Ted Kulongoski plans to sign both.

The first bill would enable same-sex couples to enter into contractual relationships that grant them the same benefits offered to married couples under state law. The bill refers to the relationships as “domestic partnerships.”

Oregon would join Vermont, Connecticut, California and New Jersey in offering civil unions or domestic partnerships to same-sex couples. Massachusetts allows gay couples to marry. Hawaii extends certain spousal rights to same-sex couples, along with cohabitating heterosexual pairs. The Washington Legislature last week approved a limited domestic partnership bill that’s expected to be signed into law soon.

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The greatest disservice to Ohio’s students. Many of them who are minorities are being systematically discriminated against having “equal opportunity” to succeed. They instead will be forced to go to schools that don’t meet the mark.

If you notice, the ad says that enrollment is free. The reason for this is because it is a state funded school. It offers smaller class sizes so that the students get a more individualized attention and the school focuses on business and entrepreneurship.

The only reason for eliminating funding for this type of school is to placate the heavies in the teachers’ unions. Strickland wants to scrap the successes of these programs in order that he can maintain a strong political relationship with the unions. This is wrong and we need to stand up to him and the massively ineffective teachers.

Rather than cutting funding for these types of schools, I say shift the funding from the ineffective institutions and promote the expansion of similar schools in neighborhoods all across Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown, Akron, Canton, Ashtabula, and elsewhere about our state. I’d like to see the day when all children, regardless of economic status has a competitive school to attend. The taxpayers of this state are paying some of the highest tax rates and what are we getting for that money under the current status? Ineffective learning environments from substandard teachers.

I envision a day when the tax money to pay for a child’s education follows the child rather than apportioned geographically to an under-performing school where the child may or not be attending. If a child is enrolled in a private school, the money should go there. If a child is in a charter school, the money should go there.

Conservatives started the vouchers to help all students and their parents so that they have choice and opportunity to succeed in life. Instead Strickland’s voucher policy reminds me of the segregation policy once held in the South. Should we call this the new “Voucher-less Segregation” of Ohio?

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Conspiracy knows no ends. No real mention of Brunner’s admission to no wrong doing. They are off chasing the many rabbits in the forest. But Bennett’s resignation has started this author’s take on the 2004 election to expand to new bounds. I’m sure he feels “wow, I was right.” No just nuts. Read it if you want.

Bennett remains chair of the Ohio Republican Party. In 2004 he was apparently asked by White House consigliere Karl Rove to stay on at the Cuyahoga BOE to help guarantee Bush’s second term. Cleveland is Ohio’s biggest and most Democratic urban center. A massive sweep there by John Kerry was widely expected to have given him the White House. It was Bennett’s job to mute that margin, and apparently that’s exactly what he did.

Leading up to the 2004 vote, Bennett oversaw the quiet purge of some 168,000 registered voters from the Cuyahoga rolls, including 24.93% of the entire city of Cleveland, which voted 83% for Kerry. In one inner city majority African American ward, 51% of the voters were purged. Centered on precincts that voted more than 80% for John Kerry, this purge may well have meant a net loss to the Democrats of tens of thousands of votes in an election that was officially decided statewide by less than 119,000.

Of course the real proof is that Karl Rove was involved. Is he competing with Michael Moore?

Meanwhile, new evidence is emerging that Karl Rove and the GOP had real-time computer access to both the actual vote numbers in Ohio as well as the exit polling data that would have allowed them to direct how many votes they needed from the suspect Ohio southwestern Republican counties that gave Bush his official margin of victory in the 2004 election. Stay tuned.

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(Photo Credit: New York Times) Rhymes with Right has a great post about the newspapers ignoring the real problem and its solution. They call for strong controls. What it ignores is that a number of laws were broken already and that this student didn’t have a legal right to carry this weapon under current law. So now you make it harder for law abiding citizens by calling for more restrictions.

Suppose you did ban all production and possession of guns of any kind. Who really believes that guns won’t exist and in that case only by the criminal element. Before “gun companies” existed they were produced by people with skill and know how. Those who possess illegal weapons with illegal weapons leave the innocent only moments to do something. With out any ability to defend themselves one might say more “it’s like shooting fish in a bucket” events will occur. What don’t the liberals understand about this concept of self preservation and protection? Below is Rhymes with Right’s article in part.

What else would you expect from the New York Times?

Not much is known about the gunman, who killed himself, or about his motives or how he got his weapons, so it is premature to draw too many lessons from this tragedy. But it seems a safe bet that in one way or another, this will turn out to be another instance in which an unstable or criminally minded individual had no trouble arming himself and harming defenseless people.

* * *Our hearts and the hearts of all Americans go out to the victims and their families. Sympathy was not enough at the time of Columbine, and eight years later it is not enough. What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss.

Which ignores, of course, that the problem is likely to be one of illegally obtained guns — guns already banned under the statutes that exist — and not legally obtained weapons. Indeed, as I’ve already noted, the laws and regulations in placed guaranteed that the stable and non-criminally-minded students lacked the means to stop this individual from continuing his rampage.

And, of course, there is the Houston Chronicle.

Proponents of unfettered access to firearms rely on the rallying cry, “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.” That’s true. The horrifying reality is that too many Americans — afflicted with mental illness, alienation or hatred — are ready and willing to take life. And they can arm themselves to the hilt without ever undergoing a background check. While Virginia Tech police believe they know who was responsible for the shootings, his motives remain a mystery that might never be satisfactorily solved.

Meanwhile, the mass murderer is another in a series of American figures who combine a fascination with deadly weapons, easy access to them, a grudge against the world and an unexplained capacity for cruelty.

And given the description of the weapons used in this shooting, it appears that they were not legally obtained at all — meaning that even the most stringent background checks would have been ineffective because buyers and sellers of illegal weapons, by definition, will ignore any law designed to limit gun sales.

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