There's a great comment from "mike" following this post - it's the third comment down. It gives some great information and statistics. In fairness and for the sake of objectivity I can't immediately vouch for their accuracy, but I'll do some research and will closely examine them. From all that I've read so far, however, the information that "mike" gives seems to be right on the money.
This article caught my eye. Ever since I read Leon Uris' Exodus, I've been fascinated by Jewish history. This seems to me like a wonderfully ornate and beautiful undertaking, and my congratulations to Temple-Congregation Shomer Emunim. On a related note, the new building along Sylvania Avenue (the name escapes me, even though I just saw it yesterday) is very handsome - a fine addition to the Sylvania Jewish Community's campus.
First of all, my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the horrible tragedy at Virgina Tech. Inevitably, any time that there's an incident involving guns the media turns to and highlights the gun debate - and they tend to steer the discussion towards the two extremes: abolish 'em altogether or M1 Abrams in every driveway. CNN.com, for example, had commentaries (both interesting reads) by gun-rights advocate Ted Nugent and gun-control advocate Tom Plate. Personally, I'm somewhere in the middle. In fact, I think a lot of average Americans are somewhere in the middle on the gun issue, but we rarely hear in the media that there could possibly exist a middle ground. I guess it's the extremes that sell newspapers, and any sensible debate be damned...
Before I start to discuss the stuff [read: mounds of controversy] going on in Sylvania, let's take care of some housekeeping:
1. To save you the trouble of having to ask, go ahead - make this blog your homepage!
2. Make sure to share this blog with your friends... I guarantee they'll love you forever.
3. If you have comments, I'd love to hear them. If you want to tell me off, do that too...
I'd love to make fun of you.
4. If you can, attend the Township Trustee meetings (1st Tuesday of every month at 4 pm
and 3rd Tuesday at 6 pm) at the Township Administration Building [boots and shovels
recommended] and/or the City Council meetings (schedule) at the Municipal Building.
5. Blogging is, thus far, pretty fun.
