Blues Brothers with Ray Charles
Let’s shake our tailfeather!!
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Wolfie in love
The old I didn’t know defense. I’m not sure that it is going to work.
Gonzo vs the Senate
Man, did Alberto Gonzales flunk this test.
Could Cho legally own a gun?
From MSNBC.com: (this was written by Michael Isikoff)
Contrary to initial reports, Cho may not have been legally eligible (my emphasis) to acquire the two semi-automatic weapons that he used to murder more than 30 students at the school on Monday. Critics say Cho was able to collect his firearms without a hitch because of a gaping hole in the enforcement of existing federal gun laws that routinely allows mentally unstable people to buy deadly firearms.
In the three months before the shooting, Cho bought two handguns: a Walther .22 that he picked up on Feb. 9 at a Blacksburg pawnshop, and a second, more powerful, Glock 9mm, purchased on March 16 at a Roanoke firearms store. Cho filled out the required federal form, and a federally-mandated background check was conducted by the Virginia state police. But he was immediately cleared to buy the guns when no “hits” showed up in police data bases indicating he had any history of criminal activity.
That has led Virginia state police officials to declare that Cho’s firearms purchase were perfectly legal. But the same 1968 federal gun law that bars convicted criminals from buying firearms (passed in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy) also prohibits gun purchases by those who have a history of mental illness (again I added emphasis). Indeed, when Cho bought the guns, he had to answer the following question on Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Form 4473: “Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective or … committed to a mental institution?” Cho answered “no.”
Lost in Space - White House documents
Bush administration has a history of losing documents.
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation
As promised. Mo’ music this week.
12th anniversary of Ok City bombing
This was a day that really changed the way that I looked at the world. It changed the way that I looked at myself. I thought I was a pretty powerful guy at the time. I was the director of trauma at a major university. I could say let’s get ready and the trauma center would spring into action.
Well, I was only about 6 hours away from OK City. I had the resources of a major medical center and we really couldn’t do anything to help them. There was nothing that we could do immediately to help.
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From Ok News:
Dina Abulon moved to Oklahoma City just a month before a bomb ripped apart the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995.
Her stepfather, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development employee Peter R. Avillanoza, died in the blast.
But Abulon, 25, said that isn’t what she remembers when she thinks about the three months she spent in Oklahoma before moving back to California.
Her clearest memory, she said Thursday at the annual remembrance ceremony at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, is the compassion shown to her family as they waited for word of her stepfather’s fate.
“Every hug from every stranger kept me going,” she said. “Every letter reminded me that I was not alone.” (more…)
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
