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Re: Shooting to die

Ilana — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:28:45 -0000

Perhaps instead police officers should be taught not to shoot at a man 41 times...sort of reminds me of the Cell Block Tango: "He ran into my knife! He ran into my knife ten times!" I realize that the Diallo incident was a special one of spectacularly bad judgment; something that I wish could be legislated against, but there's really little way to legislate against really poor judgment...

Also, I really hope you're not saying that blind people have no place in government. Of course being blind doesn't uniquely qualify someone to have an opinion on this particular issue, but the way you put it makes it sound like his blindness disqualifies his views entirely, which is just, well, entirely wrong. It's like saying I'm diabetic, so I can't have views on environmental protection. If he's using his blindness to claim that he's qualified, then he's wrong. If the media are focusing on his blindness rather than his record or actual qualifications, then...well, that's pretty much expected from the media, anyway.

Re: In My Sights #2

Ilana — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:51:05 -0000

"She’s also becoming more American each passing day."

Well, I guess I'm trading you one for one. Dan's slowly converting to Canadian, and, like most converts, perhaps knows more about Canadian politics/ goings-on than I do...

Re: links for 2007-03-06

Ilana — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:30:24 -0000

Yeah...blood-sugar cravings...and that's for people who have NORMAL blood sugar all the time! Imagine how hard it is to eat normally when you can be bouncing all over the place at any given time; grr.

(Yeah, yeah...bitch, moan. I just wish my body wasn't so dead-set on sabotaging any diet plans I may or may not have).