Children versus Humanity: Why Are American Children Turning On Us and Martyring Themselves?

Some of today’s children are in a war with us, the adults, the institutions, and other children.  They see violence and self-killing as the solution to what is going on in their minds and hearts.  What is their cause?  What is their end?  Can a truce be drawn?

On Monday, October 21, 2013, a 12-year old boy, still unnamed by law enforcement, walked into Sparks Middle School campus, shot a child, shot a teacher, shot another child and then shot himself, with a gun obtained from his parents, according to numerous Reno-area news sources.

How do child killers draw up these plans?  Was there a war room where a lot of planning went into it?

We have seen children do this in other contemporary civilizations.  However, they are acting on behalf of someone else’s agenda.  They attack and kill because others, like Palestinian militia and jihadi groups, tell them to.

How can a child of 12 or 14 years even comprehend what it means, fully, to kill another and to kill one’s self?  Is the availability of the gun the reason for the killing?  Is it the result of bullying?  Is the result of a bad home life, drugs, or something else we have not named, such as sin being in the world?

The day after the Sparks incident, two other child-related violence deaths occurred.  Five hours west of this shooting, a 13-year old boy who was carrying a gun that police thought was an assault rifle was shot by those police in Santa Rosa.  The same day, on the other side of the country, a 14-year old boy was arrested for allegedly murdering a high school teacher in Danvers, Massachusetts.

Child killers.  They either kill or they are killed first.  The one in Massachusetts seems to be the contemporary exception, as he has been jailed.

Children, being subject to the ideation of images, suggestion and bad role models, appear to be taking on the ills of our society.  Adults cope, mostly, in good and bad ways.  But children can’t cope with the confusion of the state of marriage, shack-ups, alternate lifestyles, bizarre “family” relationships depicted on television and being left to raise themselves while both parents either voluntarily or involuntarily go to work each day and return after dark.

Children are showing the symptoms of our fallen society.  As educators say, they are “acting out”, but not necessarily acting out their own problems.  Maybe they are acting out OUR problems.  Unless our society changes, the children will not.  In this war, we all lose, until we decide to stop.

What was Senator Reid’s position on Rwanda back in 1994?

Google searches do not readily turn up any statements made by Harry Reid at that time.  He assumed the U.S. Senate office he now holds way back in 1987 during the Reagan administration.  At that time he was a junior senator.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton did nothing about the genocide going on in Rwanda, as detailed in this wikipedia article.  The article goes onto quote Clinton as saying that was the biggest mistake of his presidency.  Yet, the article seems to lend credence to Clinton’s fear of involvement after the U.S. was readily trounced during its’ incursion in Somalia not long before the Rwandan civil war crisis and genocide.

Does anyone have a constituent letter or any other printed material that would show a Harry Reid position on Rwanda?  It would be interesting now that the issues of whether to become involved in Syria are playing out in the U.S. Congress.

On Fiscal Issues, Republican Governor Sandoval, and Many Legislators Score “F”

Our faux Republican Governor scores under 40% on fiscal and education reform issues according to the Nevada Policy Research Institute.  With a state legislature run by Democrats, Nevada has a Democrat lock on the State, despite the fact that there are many registered Republicans and conservative “decline-to-state”s.

It seems Governor Sandoval seeks to emulate the out-of-office-with-nowhere-to-go Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Sandoval is a U.S. citizen, so maybe he poses to be a V.P. for the likes of Rudy Guiliani or Lamar Alexander.  He’s got a Hispanic background but with nowhere near the popularity of a Marco Rubio who brings a possible 29 electoral votes compared to Nevada’s 6.  So Sandoval compromises for what reason?  To stay in office?

On a positive note, congratulations and accolades go to the top ten in the legislature, who all happen to be Republicans:

1 Michele Fiore, Assembly, score: 87.13%
2 Jim Wheeler, Assembly, score:  84.44%
3 John Ellison, Assembly, score:  80.40%
4 Wesley Duncan, Assembly, score:  78.18%
5 Pete Livermore, Assembly, score:  77.71%
6 Don Gustavson, Senate, score:  73.00%
7 Barbara Cegavske, Senate, score:  71.67%
8 James Settelmeyer, Senate, score:  70.35%
9 John Hambrick, Assembly, score:  69.28%
10 Ira Hansen, Assembly, score:  59.33%

Seven Republicans score below 50%.  So much for a party platform!  Here are the Republican flunkees:  Lynn Stewart, Joe Hardy, Scott Hammond, Ben Kieckhefer, Michael Roberson, Greg Brower and Mark Hutchison.  Will Republican voters or party faithful discipline these candidates?  Unlikely.

Read more at Governor, legislative leaders earn low marks from conservative think tank - Las Vegas Sun News

Feds Bar New Mining Claims in Solar Energy Zones - ABC News

The War on the West continues.  Thank you Harry Reid.

Here’s the story:  Feds Bar New Mining Claims in Solar Energy Zones - ABC News .  It doesn’t say where those energy zones are in Nevada. I guess we’re not really allowed to know until it’s a fait accompli.  A simple search turns up one such location as being the Amargosa Valley.

This is a perfect example of how funding is obtained and general acquiesence is obtained under the rubric of “clean energy”, which has a wider following than just strict conservation/eco-friendly concepts.  But the AIM of  removing the land from development for mining, or presumably any other purpose, is “Excluding these areas will mitigate many potential impacts, including impacts on Death Valley National Park and desert tortoise.”  That’s a clear statement from the Solar Energy Development Programme EIS.

From this, can we conclude the feds would not have been successful at getting this land removed from public and mining use unless they had applied the “solar energy zone” designation to it.  Protecting, allegedly, the tortoise would not have cut it.

Nevada's Burning Man festival: The Cost to the Taxpayer

Hey.  Here’s an idea for the libertines.  They like the lack of structure, rules, regulations, lawlessness and quote unquote Freedom to do whatever they want.  Then let them do whatever they want and don’t enforce it.

When the government allows this libertine behavior and then tries to keep people who are participating in it from hurting each other, doesn’t that sort of belie the truth about why the lawless, anarchical “lifestyle” just doesn’t work IRL (that’s In Real Life for you non-texters).

STOP POLICING WHAT YOU ARE ALLOWING!  Stop policing “gaming”, an activity designed to get your money out of your pocket and into the casino operator’s bank account.  The activity is not “safe”.  So don’t give it the government’s sign of approval.

Neither is “Burning Man” safe.  So stop policing it.  That’ll save you money.

Let’s see how popular it would be when mayhem ensues.

Nevada's Burning Man festival: It's state vs. county on price - latimes.com

Thank you Nevada Assembly committee for “killing” recreational pot bill

Maybe we’ll get folks to visit who want to get away from “recreational” pot users, a euphemism if I’ve ever heard one.

Sorry, readers.  No photo on this post.  One hates to encourage, nay, advertise the drug.

Nevada Assembly committee kills recreational pot bill | Reno Gazette-Journal | rgj.com

Who are My Readers? Can I Really Know

Graphic is a link to a Forbes article, same topic

I was just reading an article, yes, on Huffington Post Matthew Hutson: The Like Trail: What You Like on Facebook Says More Than You Know.  The article goes beyond the obvious of saying if you “like” something, then the conclusion is that is what you like.
It discusses a study project that goes deeper into what your “likes” say about you.  Apparently, the project personnel even tested their own accuracy at looking at likes and determining, say, whether someone was male or female, “black” or “white”, single or married and so on.
It turns out that if you live in Nevada or follow Nevada politics and policy, you would probably have already facebook-liked Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Gene Wilder, of all people.  (The links are to their respective Facebook pages).  You would have wanted to follow a few other pages your writer Ava has never even heard of:

• Being Confused After Waking Up From Naps  (Sorry, I don’t get this one)
• I come from a town where a traffic jam is 4 cars behind a tractor (Okay.  I get it.  Rural.)
• I Just Realized Immature Spells I'm Mature (A really juvenile site.  I mean, that’s so obvious people).

Finally, who knew?  You would much prefer Milkshakes over Austin, Texas.
Do you know of any non-directly-related indications that would show someone who enjoyed reading this site versus someone who did not?  Care to share any of your favorite Facebook likes below?