Jack Thompson is a school shootings expert, or so it's thought by David Gregory on MSNBC who interviewed him about the Virginia Tech massacre.
For the record I never play video games much, so what explains my desensatized reaction to the killings? My feelings were "oh, another one? Another fool flipped his lid?" Followed by "Damn my generation is F@#&ed up." How many school shootings do there need to be before someone decides that maybe we aren't listening to the youth enough. What I hate is how the experts crawl out from under their rocks after every massacre and place the blame everywhere but with the closest people to the murderer and those trully responsible.

Speaking of which...

Today's expert is Jack Thompson who believes games like Doom and Counterstrike are to blame for the accuracy and efficiency of school shootings.

No offense Jack, but I got to level 22 on Duck Hunt from putting the fake gun an inch from the television screen. That doesn't make me efficient nor a marksmen. If these guys didn't have video games, they would have put targets out in the woods somewhere and practiced...I mean, they already had the guns and ammunition. How hard would it have been to get a few target signs and ear muffs? Really, Jack, for me to dig your story I am going to need more evidence. You say Grand Theft Auto: Vice City influenced the shooters? Well, I need more proof then a mass killing. Like...um... did the V. Tech Killer slap any prostitutes before the shooting or steal a car and run a few people over? If so, I take back everything I've said.

John McCain has gotten into a bit of trouble over a joke he made in South Carolina last Wednesday. When asked "when are we going to send an air message to Iran?" he responded by singing "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys "Barbara Ann." First off - very funny. Did he think of that himself? I bet he stayed up all night with his speech writers trying to come up with that one. Were the Beatles' "Bush in the sky with air bombs" and "I want to Bomb Iran" already being used by some other conservative crooner? I believe those would have cost a royalty fee. How about Simon and Garfunkel's "Bombs over Troubled Iran, I will lay thee smack down?"

So McCain makes a joke that kinda makes one smirk but face it, a stutter would only improve his comedic timing. Then all the right-wings and leftists go nuts. MoveOn.org, the liberal political group, makes ads saying that McCain is too wreckless and too much like bush while "Fair and Balanced" FOX News goes on the defense by saying McCain is following though on this country's commitments.

Here are the three videos anyone needs to make their own judgement call. In Case you are wondering why I haven't taken a side yet - I'm waiting for the techno remix. Preferably the Aggro 1 "Barbara Ann v. John McCain" mash up.

Video of John McCain singing his Beach Boys randition of "Bomb Iran"


MoveOn.org's Anti-McCain Ad:


"Fair and Balanced" FOX News discusses the MoveOn.org Ad

The road to having a baby starts on two paths: Planned and unplanned. If the child is unplanned it was conceived by force/unfortunate circumstance or negligence. If you have conceived out of negligence and you don’t want a baby you should probably get on that. Waiting until last minute to abort is probably a bad idea. Here’s the point: Having a baby out of negligence already proves you are irresponsible and waiting until the sixth month to abort only proves the point further. I am all for the right to choose and it’s your body and all that jazz, but flaking out on motherhood only a few weeks from birth is abusing the right to an abortion.

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of right winged conservatives denying the right for woman to have partial abortions. Yep, one step closer to doing away with the right to choose. But in a world where there are warning labels on hair dryers to “not use electrical device in or near water” should there be a right to choose? Well John Edwards sure thinks so. The Presidential Runners for 2008 have released their statements on the issue of Partial Abortion.

CNN posted the statements: “Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani issued a statement saying the Supreme Court reached "the correct conclusion in upholding the congressional ban on partial birth abortion."

Mitt Romney, his opponent for the GOP nomination, praised the court for "upholding a ban on a practice that offends basic human decency." But abortion-rights supporters frame the issue as a woman's right to choose.

"This judgment today is a major strike against a woman's right to choose," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California. "The court in this case has, by a narrow 5-4 margin, has essentially enacted the first federal abortion ban in this country and has struck down a primary part of Roe v. Wade, protection of the health of the mother." Democratic presidential hopefuls echoed Feinstein's thoughts.

John Edwards issued a statement saying that a woman's right to choose is at stake in 2008.
Barack Obama's statement said he is concerned that the ruling will "embolden state legislatures to enact further measures to restrict a woman's right to choose."

Most Americans believe abortion should be "legal only under certain circumstances,'' according to the Gallup Poll.”

I am one of the majority that thinks it should be legal under certain circumstances. I hate that none of the candidates took the middle–of-the-road stance. I don’t want the right to choose to be completely lost, but I don’t want a beating-heart, blood-pumping pre-mature child’s brain sucked out and body escavated from the gapping womb either.

The argument of the leftists is that the ruling infringes on the right to protect the mother’s life. This was a valid argument back in the stone ages when a mother dying while giving birth was common place. Science is amazing. The Ultrasound machine is amazing. Thanks to both the “mother’s protection” argument is almost completely invalid accept for freak circumstances.

It’s too bad the few have to ruin it for the rest of us. If you are going to get knocked up and then wait till last minute to abort – do us all a favor and get your tubes tied while you’re at it.