I am doing something I have never have done before. But it is a bad day for news. I have to explain what I am feeling.
1. An American Jihadist got into a car bomb and was in the process of driving it into the Wichita Airport. A wonderful FBI agent somehow got suspicious. I didn’t hear anything about the FBI agent but I feel we owe him a debt of gratitude. Thank you for saving all of the lives that would have probably been killed. Thank you for your bravery.
2. We had another school shooting today. Another one in Colorado. A young man went into the school asking for a particular teacher. They got the teacher out. He shot two students and then shot himself to death. My heart breaks for the families and the teacher who must be feeling horrible. I feel terrible for the family…
Before driving to the school, Lanza shot and killed his mother Nancy at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
It was the second deadliest mass shooting by a single person in American history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, and the second deadliest mass murder at a U.S. elementary school, after the 1927 Bath School bombings in Michigan.
The incident prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, and a proposal for new legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.
A November 2013 report issued by the Connecticut State Attorney’s office concluded that the perpetrator acted alone and planned his actions, but no evidence collected provided any indication as to why he did so, or why he targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School.
28 total; 27 at the school (including perpetrator) and perpetrator’s mother (at home)
Injured (non-fatal)
2
Perpetrator
Adam Peter Lanza
Defender
Dawn Hochsprung, Mary Sherlach, Victoria Leigh Soto, Lauren Rousseau, Rachel D’Avino, Anne Marie Murphy (all unarmed; all posthumous recipients of Presidential Citizens Medal)
MOTIVE: UNKNOWN
As of November 30, 2012, 456 children were enrolled in kindergarten through fourth grade at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The school’s security protocol had recently been upgraded, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review by video monitor. Doors to the school were locked at 9:30 am each day, after morning arrivals.
Newtown is located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, about 60 miles (97 km) outside New York City. Violent crime had been rare in the town of 28,000 residents; there was only one homicide in the town in the ten years prior to the school shooting.
SENSELESS, COMPLETELY SENSELESS AND WITHOUT REASON. THERE WILL NEVER BE AN ANSWER TO: WHY?
Pledge to Support gun violence prevention. After the national moment of silence on Dec. 21, NOW is the moment
On Friday, December 14th and 9:30am ET, twenty school children, their four teachers, and two school administrators were murdered by a lone gunman. The moment we learned about the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut will be etched in our memories forever. The horror of this incident was the last straw in a string of mass shootings; in an instant we knew we could not sit idly by until the next time this happens again.In the coming weeks and months, we must come together around common-sense solutions that will prevent the gun violence that has become all too frequent in communities across the country. We welcome everyone to this dialogue—we want to hear from gun owners who think it’s time for a change as well as folks who are still on the fence. We’re all going to have to come together if we’re going to move this country forward.
The following is a list (as released by police) of the victims in Friday’s, December 14, 2012, shooting spree on the campus of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/06, female Daniel Barden, 9/25/05, male Rachel Davino, 7/17/83, female. Olivia Engel, 7/18/06, female Josephine Gay, 12/11/05, female Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 04/04/06, female Dylan Hockley, 3/8/06, male Dawn Hochsprung, 06/28/65, female Madeleine F. Hsu, 7/10/06, female Catherine V. Hubbard, 6/08/06, female Chase Kowalski, 10/31/05, male Jesse Lewis, 6/30/06, male James Mattioli , 3/22/06, male Grace McDonnell, 12/04/05, female Anne Marie Murphy, 07/25/60, female Emilie Parker, 5/12/06, female Jack Pinto, 5/06/06, male Noah Pozner, 11/20/06, male Caroline Previdi, 9/07/06, female Jessica Rekos, 5/10/06, female Avielle Richman, 10/17/06, female Lauren Rousseau, 6/1982, female (full date of birth not specified) Mary Sherlach, 2/11/56, female Victoria Soto, 11/04/85, female Benjamin Wheeler, 9/12/06, male Allison N. Wyatt, 7/03/06, female
In Memory Of Sandy Hook Victims TRIBUTE
Published on Dec 16, 2012
In Loving Memory Of The Victims Of Sandy Hook Elementary.
Every year, at this time, I get this feeling … Oh, m’lord, it’s Christmas again! Ugh …
Christmas entails going through the trouble of putting the regular home decorations away, getting up in the attic, bringing tons of plastic buckets down, move furniture around, buy a tree (or decide to use the fake one we have), change the bedspreads and cushions, change all the towels and bathroom accessories, change all the kitchen towels and utensils, set the formal dinning room with all the Christmas china ….. etc. When you think about it, it feels so overwhelming!!
I’m ba-humbug!!!
If it were up to me ….. Christmas decorations would stay in the buckets in the attic. But they ALWAYS come down …
I really need to salute and appreciate my partner, Maryjane. She has the energy of one thousand elves. She reminds me of the energizer bunny!!
She’s the one that picks up the usual house decorations, brings the buckets down from the attic, organizes everything and places the decorations on their spots. She gets the tree ready and prepares the festivities.
I have to admit …. I have it easy.
If you ask her, she will say that that I don’t do much. I do a bit here and there but the load of the work is done by her. All I have to do is enjoy them when everything is set up. I do recognize that, after everything is in place, it begins to look a lot like Christmas.
…. and my ” ba-humbugness” goes away.
Take a look …… I’m giving you a “tour” of our decorated Christmas Wonderland!!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
Take a look in the Five and Ten
Glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow
~~ Dinning room set up~~
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in every store
But the prettiest sight to see
Is the holly that will be
On your own front door
~~Our Christmas Tree~~
A pair of Hop-a-long boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Bonny and Ben
Dolls that will talk and go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jenn
And mom and dad can hardly wait
For school to start again
~~Christmas bed set … Double Trouble .. not included~~
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
There’s a tree in the Grand Hotel
One in the park as well
The sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the snow
~~My Dad’s old rocking chair ~~
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing that will make them ring
Is the Carol that you sing
Right within your heart
A pair of Hop-a-long boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Bonny and Ben
Dolls that will talk and go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jenn
And mom and dad can hardly wait
For school to start again
~~Doggie … chilin’ ~~
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing that will make them ring
Is the Carol that you sing
Right within your heart, right within your heart
~~The Manger now has a typical Florida palm tree~~
Published on Dec 9, 2012
Michael Bublé performing It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas from his seventh album ‘Christmas’ live on Strictly Come Dancing 9th December 2012.
We Demand that NBC Speak out now and Tell the Truth About the Plight of LGBT Russians
December 12, 2013 (New York) — Charging that NBC is misinforming its viewers about the dire circumstances of LGBT Russians ahead of its broadcast of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia, LGBT activists demanded at a holiday party in New York, that NBC tell the truth about Russia and its anti-LGBT laws.
“NBC has dispatched Olympic commentator Johnny Weir and MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts, two openly gay men, to soft-pedal the Russian government’s anti-LGBT bigotry,” said Ken Kidd, a member of Queer Nation NY, an LGBT rights group. “LGBT Russians have been vilified, assaulted, tortured, murdered, and fired from their jobs by the Russian government and by Russian thugs. It’s past time for NBC to report the facts about Russia.”
NBC spent hundreds of millions of dollars for the broadcast rights for the…
A gunman opened fire in Arapahoe High School at about 12:30 p.m. M.T. The Associated Press quoted a hospital spokesman who said one student was in critical condition. There are other reports that two have been killed. CNN just reported that one student shot is in critical condition and the other student suffered minor injuries. Let’s hope for the best.
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said the suspected shooter was dead from what authorities believe is a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police SWAT teams swarmed the school, which is at the corner of South University Boulevard and Dry Creek Road in Centennial, Colorado. Bomb squads were also called to the scene.
The identity of the suspect and students who were shot have not been made known.
Arapahoe High School is about 8 miles from Columbine High School, where on April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students, one…
A controversial Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday morning that reinstated an archaic colonial law criminalizing homosexuality incited outrage among activists and gay-rights supporters in India. Hundreds gathered at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi’s popular protest hub, to protest the ruling. A truly mixed crowd, many of the protesters were not from the LGBT community. They came in hordes from universities and colleges to champion civil liberties. “This is not about homosexuality but about democratic rights,” said Samita Raj, a 19-year-old student at the protest. “And the right to be.”
The mood at Jantar Mantar resembled a different moment last year, when the youth of India had congregated to demand justice for the gang rape and murder of a young medical intern. It was a comforting sign that from a fringe issue, India’s gay movement has become the subject of mainstream debate and mass support. “Today when I…
“Sei vorsichtig mit dem, was Du weisst. Damit beginnen Deine Probleme” 🍀 “Be careful of what you know. That’s where your troubles begin”
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Wade in The 3 Body Problem
December 12, 2013 (New York) — Charging that NBC is misinforming its viewers about the dire circumstances of LGBT Russians ahead of its broadcast of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia, LGBT activists demanded at a holiday party in New York, that NBC tell the truth about Russia and its anti-LGBT laws.
It Is What It Is 