Thursday, April 19, 2007

Thinking Thursday?

A few shallow thoughts on the serious and trivial issues of the day...
  • Does anyone else find it sad that a pro-life victory is now defined as stopping some babies from having their brains sucked out when they are half-way out of the womb?
  • Does anyone else find it sad that the same thing is considered a national tradgedy to the pro-abortion side?
  • The length and scope of a violent gun crime is directly proportional to the amount of time another gun can be brought to bear. The difference between the mall shooter a few months back and the Virginia Tech massacre.
  • Good news now consist of the temperature rising to about 35 at the end of April and Sanjaya getting voted off American Idol.
  • We're getting a good response at www.universaloffsets.blogspot.com
  • Should NBC have aired the killers manifesto stuff? I'm just not sure. I'm afraid it will inspire more madness but we also need to be informed.
  • What was with the memorial service at VT? It was like a parade of religions none of which offered hope or a reason to value life and hold contradictory views (Muslim: Eh, who knows why it happens. Praise Allah! Buddist: Well, now their suffering is ended and they can start again. Not so bad. Liberal Judaism: We need to love each other and get some gun control.) Yeah, no clue how a guy could feel hopeless, confused, treat life so indifferently, and go crazy on that campus. My favorite comment by someone on it: "What was it UN day at VT?"
  • Who's to blame? There's alot to go around. Parents? Rudderless society? Political Correctness? School putting rep over safety? The media culture of violence? The one who we know for sure is to blame is the shooter.
  • Finally, boy my predicitons for Idol have been off. Chris not even in the bottom 3 and Sanjaya gone? Oh, and LOST... quite possibly the best series of all time.

4 comments:

shannoncaroland said...

The sad thing about the coverage of his manifesto is that we only have two choices: Never see it or be inundated with it.

I really did not want to see it. I do not want him to have air time. That seems horribly unjust. Also, you know there are hundreds (maybe more) of kids seeing that and thinking it's cool.

I really wish more attention was given to the lives that were lost. I heard a piece about how one of them was PhD working on a cure for cerebral palsy. That would help us value lives. this would be much better than listing the killer's stats and promo video.

Barry said...

Good point. Maybe a policy of... "we will air parts one time and then no more".. would be good. But, in the days of the internet their is no way not to have it viewed over and over and over.
It would also be nice to have NBC do a profile a night for the next 32 nights on those killed. Maybe we can get the campus Buddist society to get on that.

Anonymous said...

A cure for cerebral palsy?

I'm in.

Fabian

Barry said...

Yeah, at this point if we miss the person who will cure disease at abortion we'll make sure to gun them down later on.