| Make NRA pay when someone kills with gun
But I worry that the hospitals can stop taking care of Medicare patients who get sick, have heart attacks, etc.Now for gun control:What about fining the National Rifle Association each time an innocent person gets injured or, worse, killed by these people who snap?Fine the manufacturers who produce guns, shells and gun powder until tougher gun laws are passed.The NRA lobbies each year to stop gun control laws from being passed. You have to go through tougher background checks to become a foster parent, school teacher, bus driver, etc., than to get a Firearms Owner Identification card.People have the right to bear arms, according to our Constitution, but I don't believe forefathers meant the right to bear arms and kill someone's child.Do the lobbyists and NRA have a conscience to pass gun laws that make sense? How can they sleep at night knowing every few seconds someone loses their life or the life of a child, student, husband, wife or mother.Pass a law that makes sense.
Have You Tried The T?
So now not only do I have to wait for this slow new T line...I have to do a lot of unwanted hiking every day! I'm annoyed that MUNI felt they had to ruin the N-Judah line to make way for the T. It doesn't make sense. Why don't all the trains go to the Caltrain station? Adding one new line while shortening others causes a NET LOSS IN SERVICE! This new line has screwed up my commute and offers nothing to me to balance everything out. It seems like it is MUNI's goal to disappoint riders. Posted By: HelloHex | April 09 2007 at 04:03 PM .
Shared condos losing lustre
Timeshare is not quite the investment that Patricia Uhler had hoped it would be. While companies like Wyndham Worldwide Corp., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Marriott International Inc. are doing great business around the world selling timeshare, Uhler has not been so fortunate. Finding that she has less time and money for vacations than she expected, and with combined maintenance fees climbing to nearly $1,200 a year, Uhler has sought to sell two weeks of timeshare that she had hoped would be a nice investment in prime resort real estate. .
Jaime Castillo: Car rental industry backs off promise to try to ...
After previously threatening to spend $1 million to fight the upcoming venue-tax election, the car rental industry has decided to sit it out after all. "We're not going to fight, in any kind of public sense, the referendum," said Patrick Farrell, a St. Louis-based Enterprise Rent-A-Car spokesman who commented Monday on behalf of a coalition of national rental car tax opponents. The news is a major boost to the efforts of Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who is leading an establishment push to extend the tax on hotel rooms and car rentals that was used to build the AT&T Center. If approved by voters on May 10, the $415 million package of four referendums would pay for various public projects. They would include amateur sports fields, a performing arts center, river enhancements and future improvements at the AT&T Center.
When it comes to McCain, does age matter?
But many seniors seem drawn to the Arizona senator in spite of his age, not because of it.
So here in Pennsylvania - where the retiree population is second only to Florida - we set out to ask older people, who arguably are best positioned to know: Is John McCain too old to be president?
"Hell no!" John Farrell, 83, said, on his way into the Acme to buy food for his cat, Angel.
Farrell spent 21 years in the Navy. Military service, not age, is what he identifies with in McCain - the former Navy fighter pilot who spent 5 1/2 years in a POW camp.
"Just because you're a little older doesn't mean you're senile," Farrell says.
At town hall meetings around the country, at least one voter typically asks McCain about his age.
Local group's bid to save Sonics up to Olympia
A high-powered local ownership group says its $300 million plan to renovate KeyArena could convince the NBA to keep the Sonics in Seattle. Now all they have to do is convince state lawmakers to approve the idea before they adjourn next week. .
Search for Soldier's Missing Fiancee Takes Bizarre Turns
Raeford, N.C. — Authorities launched a massive search after a Fort Bragg soldier said his fiancee had crashed in Hoke County. Investigators, however, are not sure that the missing woman was ever in North Carolina – or of her true identity. Capt. John Kivett, with the Hoke County Sheriff's Office, thought he had a real emergency on his hands Tuesday: A 29-year-old woman, stunned from a car crash, wandering through the woods. "She was crying. She was screaming at some points," Kivett said. "She told me she was cold. She wanted help." Spec. Randall Dabbs, 29, believed his fiancee – a woman was identified as Jollyn Sue Silver – was driving an Enterprise rental car from her hometown of Gresham, Ore., to welcome him back from Iraq. When Silver called him in a panic, Dabbs went to the sheriff's department.
Gill Charlton: on the case
Travel expert Gill Charlton tackles your travel conundrums. This week: timeshare points, speed sight-seeing in Hong Kong, and using British credit cards in the US. Travel directory Previous On the Case article Contact Gill Making the most of your unwanted timeshare points Name and address supplied My wife and I purchased a timeshare apartment in Marbella in 2001 from Timeshare Supermarket for £1,000. When we spent our first holiday there the following October, we were persuaded to deposit our week with the timeshare exchange company, RCI, in return for 46,000 points that we could spend in other resorts. In 2003, we were given a free week's holiday at another resort and while there we were persuaded to purchase an additional 30,000 RCI points for £2,000.
Eight die in Jerusalem gun attack
The whole building looked like a slaughterhouse. The floor was covered in blood." Witnesses described a terrifying scene during the shooting, with students jumping out the windows of the building to escape. One of the students, Yitzhak Dadon, said he shot the attacker twice in the head. "I laid on the roof of the study hall, cocked my gun and waited for him. He came out of the library spraying automatic fire," he said. Police said an Israeli soldier in the area then shot the man dead. After the shooting, hundreds of seminary students demonstrated outside the building, screaming for revenge and chanting "Death to Arabs". Israeli media said the shooter may have been a Palestinian from east Jerusalem, saying an ID card had been found on the attacker's body.
FIFTH ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL, Christchurch:
The rain has lessened but not ceased completely, and the umpires are having a chat with the ground staff. "Wouldn't it be ironic if the England bowling, which has been the weak part of this whole series, turned out to be the winning factor in this match? Not that I want to become too optimistic at this stage... but 'hope springs eternal'..."Paul, another expatriate Brit in Canada (Vancouver area), in the TMS inbox "Oh dear are England doing it again, making us all think it's a lost cause and then coming back giving us hope, only to disappoint? Hope not"Andy, Alberta, in the TMS inbox "We all wake up to doom and gloom, and then suddenly three wickets down. Who says the power of prayer/positive thought doesn't work!"Carol, reading online in Portugal [Someone may have done a rain dance since you sent that e-mail - MM] .
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