Hubris? Or Calm Determination?
William McKenzie, in The Dallas Morning News Opinion blog, finds President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress to be full of hubris. I found Obama's intention to address our country's problems in energy, health care and education to be ambitious. It's the kind of ambition a great country deserves and a welcome change from the abdication of government responsibility we have been burdened with for too long.
McKenzie is technically correct when he criticizes Obama for insufficiently addressing the national debt. McKenzie says Obama "skipped over Medicare" and I counted only one sentence dealing with Social Security. But come on, if Obama had promised to end the war in Iraq, win the war on terror, solve our energy, health care and education problems, *and* rescue Medicare and Social Security, now that would be the hubris McKenzie imagines.
McKenzie criticizes Obama for tackling too many problems at once, then criticizes him for not tackling even more. He reminds me of the the elderly women in a restaurant. One complains about her food tasting terrible, overcooked and served cold. The other adds, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."
Unload Those Old Guns This Saturday
Thanks to Mike Hashimoto, in The Dallas Morning News Opinion blog, for alerting the public to Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's plan "to give $50 Kroger gift certificates to anyone who turns in an unloaded, functioning firearm." It's a way to get money for your guns with assurance that the guns will be put out of circulation for good, not just sold to who-knows-who at a pawn shop.
Thanks, too, to Trey Garrison, who plans to be available to appraise your firearm in advance. Don't let your lack of knowledge of the street value of firearms keep you away from taking advantage of this opportunity to get that gun out of your house. Oh, if you don't know Trey Garrison, just look for a man wearing a tin-foil hat.
The buy-back starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday at Reunion Arena. Be there.
8 comments:
OK, that was funny.
Thanks. I usually get a chuckle out your blog, too. ;-)
A friend suggested I wear a t-shirt with "treygarrison.com" on it, but now that I think of it, I'm wearing a nametag that says "Hello, my name is Ed Cognoski"
On his own blog, Michael Davis has
posted his own opinion about the gun buyback program. He challenges anyone who has a problem with the buyback to have a sit-down with Dwaine Caraway and him to talk about helping to clean up the community and about public safety.
Gun buybacks:
Did you ever notice that people who whine about government or civic volunteers doing this or that are rarely themselves out in the community being part of the solution?
I could name a million examples but it would just make me sick.
The most eye-opening part of getting into some kind of super-local volunteerism for me was when I realized that most knee jerk criticisms are, more often than not, void of any complex understanding. The truth of community problems cannot be solved by someone's whiny criticism.
If someone doesn't like a buyback program, then that person ought to go and really DO something. Reactionary stunts don't count.
Well, I'm planning to pay even more money to people (if their firearm is on my wish list and in good order), which accomplishes exactly the same goal as the buy-back.
I don't see what the problem is, anonymous.
Trey Garrison, the goal of the gun buy-back is to get the guns out of people's hands and destroy them. Your plan is to shuffle the guns from one person to another (you). Big difference.
Trey,
Like I said... reactionary stunts don't count.
The whiners fall in line just like clockwork.
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