http://opiningonline.com Opinions, about almost anything Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:17:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After an hour or so of full connectivity to even GoDaddy sites, Comcast is now completely offline. grrrrr.... What else can I do except growl? (and give thanks for my son's att aircard thingy.)ShareThis http://opiningonline.com/2008/07/17/i-hate-comcase-ver-12/ For the last hour (maybe more) I've not been able to connect to my website or to GoDaddy.com, my hosting service. Of course, the first thing I did was contact GoDaddy. They told me Comcast was having "difficulty" connecting to their servers. Frankly, I was thinking... "um yeah, right." However, I have ... http://opiningonline.com/2008/07/17/i-hate-comcast/ First thing I read today was in a doctor's office waiting room. I was thrilled that he'd put out a recent copy of the Southern Medical Journal. Surely, I didn't understand some of the terms used, but if I'd chosen Glamour, I wouldn't have understood why any of the content ... http://opiningonline.com/2008/07/08/todays-reading/ A week ago, I wrote that I would post my 2nd Amendment questions for Electric Venom right after I took a nap. I did have a really nice nap, but didn't around to posting any questions. As you see. Fortunately there are no time restrictions on this game :-) My questions are ... http://opiningonline.com/2008/07/07/2nd-amendment-trialogue-cont/ I have to wonder if he didn't wait so long just to embarrass some of the legislators. Shreveport professor Jeff Sadow separates the winners from the losers here. Biggest winner: Naturally, the people of and their state of Louisiana. Here's the NYTimes article. This thrills me because now I don't have to help ... http://opiningonline.com/2008/07/01/jindal-vetoes-legislators-raise/ Non Sequitur writes: What I would like to do now is establish a “blog trialogue” with the authors of the Electric Venom and Opining Online blogs. We are going to take a look at various aspects of the Second Amendment and gun laws in the US and bounce some questions off of ... http://opiningonline.com/2008/06/30/a-trialogue-on-the-2nd-amendment/ Continued from Part 1. (I couldn't sleep, so why wait for tomorrow?) Under our plan, Congress might require gun makers in the aggregate to reduce gun homicides from 12,000 to, say, 7,000 in 10 years, with appropriate interim targets along the way. Individual firms would each have their own targets to meet, ... http://opiningonline.com/2008/06/30/underhanded-dishonest-attempt-to-drive-gun-manufacturers-out-of-business-part-2/ Jeffrey Fagan, Columbia University and Stephen D. Sugarman, UC Berkeley have a plan. A Plan. A PLAN!  They want to "Make firearms manufacturers figure out how to reduce the 12,000 shooting deaths each year." This year, about 12,000 Americans will be shot to death. It's a staggering figure, and even though lawmakers ... http://opiningonline.com/2008/06/29/underhanded-dishonest-attempt-to-drive-gun-manufacturers-out-of-business-part-1/ My headline originally used the word "confer" in stating what the 2nd Amendment does. But that is wrong -- the Bill of Rights enumerates rights already possessed and limits the government's ability to take them away. It's not that legislatures won't try and judges won't agree with them. Or that legislatures will ... http://opiningonline.com/2008/06/27/2nd-amendment-really-is-about-an-individual-right/ I hate it when my husband or father asks me to look for car or truck information on the internet. It's not so bad when they have a part number. I can find dealers and prices with no problem with that information. But when they want information on... say... how to ... http://opiningonline.com/2008/06/26/not-everything-is-neatly-indexed-on-the-internet/