What??

DID YOU VOTE?
OK, so now we need to ask ourselves, Should we start operation Examine the Ignorant Townsfolk? or ExIT for short. I thought maybe we could pull things out of this mire. I thought maybe one person could try to make a difference. Gathering like minded people into a group and spreading the truth all over. Now, I go on tirades and try to inform people but, all I ask is that people examine their world around them. I know many of you do the same, and just ask people to open their eyes to see the truth around them.

After this last election, I do not know if we are capable of stemming the tide of ignorance. ALL of the amendments passed. HOW???!!! Do people not pay attention to how government operates? I mean they just dump more and more of our liberties into the hands of a machine that destroys individuality.

In my short tenure as Captain of the guard I have called up government officials and contacted them through e-Mail and tried to see who will answer me and who feels they are above it all.

For the most part our local State Representatives are good for a call back on a specific issue. But, these are still just your local folks, doing a regular job + holding a state officials office. These, for the most part are the people who think they can make their neighborhoods better through legislation.

City officials cower away from callbacks on issues if they do not know your stand to begin with. These folks are the infancy stage of the State Reps. They haven't matured enough to stand up and take a Citizen asking questions. Most of the time if you do not blindly follow their beliefs, you are too scary to talk to.

Now on to the National level, even the 'Good Ones ' are very busy. They rarely call back or answer their mail. The 'Senior' Senator [at least in LA] has never even acknowledged a contact. I know I heard one time that Ted Kennedy had taken his phone off the hook to avoid calls. The Representatives are better about this, because they are still trying to make a difference. They do get more and more bogged down as time goes on. Take Jindal and Jefferson for example. Jindal is the young hard charger not yet mucked by the system and Jefferson the mired senior who may have cash frozen in his house, literally. But, I think Senators are very much in the machine. They operate in a different world than we do.

Do we cut and run? ExIT the bewildered state? Or do we initiate changes?

IN SPORTS NEWS:
The Saints have sold out the Louisiana Superdome for the season, meaning all 68,354 seats had been sold. This eclipses the previous mark by almost 15,000 and comes one year after some were questioning whether this area could support a professional sports franchise. So, all of the games will be on local television and no individual tickets will be available for any game.

To me, the incredible sales figures show that this community will support a quality product, whether it is a sports team, a school or a restaurant. Now all we need is quality political leadership, but maybe that is asking for a miracle even greater than the Saints winning the Super Bowl.

School Shootings and Violence:
I say arm the teachers. People look at me like I amwheny wwhen I say this sometimes. IÂ’m not saying it is a requirement, but give them the option. I went to public school and had some teachers I have no doubt could use them and did own them. Allow these citizens to conceal carry on the job. It sure would have minimized the effectiveness of the half-wits in Columbine who shot the place up because they were pansies.

Laws don't stop criminals, people do.

On Monday, a 13-year-old student in Joplin, Mo., carried an AK-47 into his middle school and fired a shot into a ceiling. He left the building and was apprehended by police.
This kid was just crying out for attention. He didn't hurt anyone. He wanted to be arrested for some reason. Maybe we need to look at what caused him to cry out.

Compelled to respond to a spike in school violence, the Bush administration is hoping that a high-profile summit will get the word out about safety.

President Bush called for Tuesday's conference after three shooting rampages in two weeks unnerved the nation. Communities in Colorado, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are still grieving.

President Bush's administration attempted to cut $347 million in school-safety grants for states this year. Bush's budget says the program is ineffective. I'm sure this isn't going to accomplish anything. Getting together to talk to the masses about how love and community is what we need, does not stop the idiots who neglect love and community. There ARE bad people, there need to be armed good people.