Top Stories Wednesday 20 Nov
Them Durn Lib’ruls is tired of gun control being a left versus right
wing issue:
I may agree with the NRA and ASRPA, and even GOA, more than with the typical liberal of today on this one issue, but the above illustrates why I still will have nothing to do with those groups. They are just stalking horses for the conservative right. They are more than willing to unfairly give Cordova a much lower rating than he deserves, because they are conservative ideologues. Except on one or two issues I have nothing in common with them.
I’m tired of these groups being stalking horses for the right wing. I’m tired of this having become a wedge issue for the right wing. Most of all, I resent that this has become a left/right issue to begin with. It shouldn’t be one. Back in 1968, the Gun Control Act of 1968 passed with “yes” votes split almost 50-50 between the two parties, and with “no” votes likewise split almost 50-50 between the parties. It wasn’t a liberal/conservative issue back then, it was an urban/rural issue.
Bertram Online on female genital mutilation, Islam and kneejerk legislation:
Strangely, things are being done to stop this hideous practice. Somalians who are against the procdure have been working ? successfully ? with social workers to make parents see that the procedure should not be performed. It is a long haul: reverting a 2,000 year old tradition. It is, actually, amazing that they have had the success that they have. Maybe encouraging ? and funding ? initiatives like these would help? But it is harder to stuff into a soundbyte, no doubt.