Hail to the Redskins! Hail victory…but do the Redskins have a racist name? Is the name Redskin derogatory? One name suggested to replace the name Redskins is the Red-tails. I am not sure if they mean the hawk or the black flying aces of WWII. Most folks resist the name change. What do you think?
The Holocaust Museum celebrates twenty years. I remember my first visit there, I was overwhelmed. Reading about that time period is just not the same as being handed a “passport” of human being that went through the holocaust and not knowing til the end of the “tour” whether your new identity survived.
I have been several times since that first time, and I am probably due for a visit. I haven’t been since having children, and I imagine, my feelings will be different, evolved as a mom, as a Jewish mom.
It is obvious to me though that human beings haven’t changed much since that time period, and as the survivors of the concentration camps die, the responsibility of us all to learn the lessons and pass them on become more critical.
The Holocaust Museum is the testament to evil that man can do, but it is as strongly a tribute to the those who stood up against hate, sometimes, at the cost of their own lives.
As we reflect upon the lessons of the Holocaust, ask yourself, what would you have done?
I invite you to watch my Grandmother’s cousin story, Izzy, an Auschwitz survivor. The password is Izzy.
PHOENIX — Arizona cities and counties that hold community gun buyback events will have to sell the surrendered weapons instead of destroying them under a bill Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law Monday.
The bill was championed by Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature who argued that municipalities were skirting a 2010 law that was tightened last year and requires police to sell seized weapons to federally licensed dealers. They argued that destroying property turned over to the government is a waste of taxpayer resources.
Democrats who argued against the bill said it usurps local control and goes against the wishes of people who turn over their unwanted weapons to keep them out of the hands of children or thieves.
Leave it to Gov. Brewer to play politics. Isn’t the whole point of buy-back programs to get weapons out of circulation? If a gun owner no longer wants the weapon, then isn’t it his or her right to have it removed in a by-back program? What becomes of guns that have been altered? Must those go back in to circulation? What if a community doesn’t want to put the guns up for sale?
Jan Brewer’s decision to enact this law sends a screaming message that state government trumps local government, regardless. I guess that’s just the conservative way of doing things these days.
