Eve of a Good time

Tomorrow the adventure begins. I am off too Louisiana by the way of Florida. It is my annual pilgrimage to the ABC National Bowling Tournament. With some luck I will manage to win back my entry and dream of what could have been. Besides, I will get to spend Easter with my parents.

• To my friends in #Dark_Towers, keep it alive for me till I return. Then we can build it together. But it is alright, if you start building it while I am away. I promise to catch up.
• My days of working 15+ hours a day has ended. As a promise to my wife, I will not do it again. The company that I work for that continually wants me to work those hours because they are too cheap to hire more people or plan better had better find another sucker. They think if you are salaried that you are available 24/7. Well guys, you are wrong. It is mind-boggling a so-called Christian Company acts like this. But then again, Christianity is a state of the heart and they have none. Maybe they should spend more time ready the Bible and less time acquiring properties. The word greed comes to mind. The top man sure didn’t balk at taking $250,000 bonus while all I got was 2 movie passes.

Some Things I will never understand:

• After the Atlanta Court shooting, they greatly increased the security for everyone entering the building. Well, duh, if memory serves me right, the gun did not come from the outside but the deputy inside. So let's fix the right problem before the Police once again mess things up and let that man get away.
• What is so hard with using biometrics on firearms? Only the person imprinted can fire it. All old firearms must be turned in and replaced with the new biometric firearm. The owner would get a certificate worth some amount towards the purchase of the new firearm. Any one wishing to keep the old firearm would have to have it professionally rendered inert (incapable of firing). This simple solution would solve several issues.
• The cost would go up enough to deter a large number of people from buying them for display or so called hunting.
• The time to imprint it would be possibly a week or more, thus stopping some buy now and kill tonight schemes.
• As the new ones are issued, they are registered and the owner fingerprinted.
• The inert firearms would be registered and owners finger printed.
• Everyone could still have their firearm for what ever they want to do but now we would have a more complete database of weapons and owners. This is good and the by-product would be safer firearms and ones that could not be taken and turned against others.

Terry Schiavo

• Now that the State Court system has wrung all it can out of the family, they turn it over to the Federal Court system to do all they can do.
  

• Doesn’t the Congress have anything better to do than interfere with a family matter. What about fixing social security, health care, better tax system, getting all the political appointees confirmed and the myriad of other National matters languishing on the docket. You see, Congress only does what is appealing and generates TV ratings. Pump up their image for re-election. Meanwhile the country gets deeper in debt and the future of seniors and those people approaching retirement gets bleaker. Lately all Congress does is try and run baseball as it attempts to control steroid use. Back off and at least give the Commissioner a chance to do something. Now that the problem is public knowledge, let him try and step in when he totally fails.
• Congress loves to investigate things. Why? They are wannabe lawyers who watch CSI too much. Investigations generate TV audiences and talk show appearances. The investigation take time so that they can do less legislating and avoid the potentially career ending political mistake of backing the wrong issue.

• As for Terry, I wish she would recover and join society once again. But, right now it is a private family matter in which the husband must make some very hard decisions. He will be the one to answer to God if he chooses wrong. Her parents should quit their selfish acts. Once she married she join with her husband and left their care. If the parents want to do something good, support the husband and help him and he can then help the parents resolve the loss of their daughter. But quit making Terry a spectacle in a tug-of-war. Shame on the TV people, radio people, lawyers who push this to prove their point and gain more money, and the Congress that takes too much time meddling instead of legislating.

Michael Jackson

• Everyday I feel he is more guilty but more likely to walk out of the court free. The victims of this perverted man will once again suffer because we bend over backward to save the so-called image of this man. All we can do is hope his perversion stops him, the courts won’t. Perhaps the Catholic Church will ordain him as a Priest and he can get Church protection.