2001-02-07 - 19:18 MST

February 7, 2001

Limbo

A Colorado Senator said something for the eagle eared reporter to put in for a quote. He was complaining about SB 76 which would require school districts to post on their Web sites any collective babgaining agreements they have made with unions.

His words, "This is a proposed solution in search of a problem."

He may be on the wrong side of this one and stepping on his tongue. But the quote is such a good illustration of what has been going on in this country for decades. I think we had enough laws in this country long ago - - - I feel that all we had to do was to administer them and enforce them. But no, we had to add layer upon layer of confused lawmaking over a working system.

The Queen of the Fort Worth Star Telegram - - - Molly Ivins - - - cuts through the haze of bovine doo doo in her column today, titled in our newspaper "With Bush, look past the photo op." There seems to be a beginning feeling that Mr. Bush should have one of those little fold up tables on a street corner and be conning people into playing his shell game. The Wizard says, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." Yep !

For instance, it appears that the rate of abortions will rise in Africa, due to his restrictions cutting off help on family planning and birth control. His B.S. about RU 486 ? here in the U.S. is another of his ways to hamper sensible birth control.

Now he wants to stall the, "Patients' rights bill." He is afraid that some penniless sick guy and his slavering lawyers will sue the pants off of the Holy Cows of Medicine and their bean counters.

Brittney Chambers is dead, from a possible contaminated dose of the designer drug "Ecstacy," or possibly just a huge overdose of same. A reporter from our local paper went up to Monarch High School in Boulder County to gather news, or take a good enough look to be able to express an opinion. He says about Kids in the parking lot at school crying, "What went wrong ?" "How could it happen ?" her friends cried and moaned. Bill Johnson the reporter from The Rocky Mountain News says in part, "How it could happen seems apparent when you pull into the school's vast parking lot. The first thing you notice is most of these kids are driving cars you mostly see at country clubs, the kind still on most of our wish lists."

"I am still not certain that I was at a high school. Perhaps I'd pulled into "Temptation Island." "Young boys were ridiculously entwined with, and were literally groping, young girls." "Get a room !," I yelled ! - - - No, wait. It was unlike any high school I'd attended. The over applied makeup, the skimpy clothes, piercings, $150 sneakers and expensive haircuts. Certainly drugs and booze are part of this scene. Kids in grown up cars, clothing and accessories are apt to mimic other grown up behaviours." . . . . . .

"How did her parents not know this nasty business was taking place in their own home ?" "It is easy to speculate now. Parents never seem to know." "Certainly you remember the Columbine killers - - - better still, their recent would-be copycats. Their parents - - - good people - - - all said, "They merely respected their children's privacy and never checked their kids rooms."

Bill Johnson goes on to say, "The cops and DA, I'm guessing, are delivering a message. A wake-up call: "There is a grown-up cost for trying to act like one." "It is a call we all should heed." Harking back to my teen age days, what Bill Johnson further says rings sound as a silver dollar. He says, "My other guess, of course, is the circle of girls long ago stopped crying. By now, they're probably calling the dead girl stupid or just wicked unlucky."

"Their refrain likely is the only thing on that campus we'd remember from our days in high school: "IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN TO ME." (My caps - bastion)

Famous last words of many humans headed toward Limbo . . . . . .

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