Is the United States Goverment Shut Down Holding The People Hostage?

Yes! People are being held hostage because of the government shut down, they don't know when they are going to get back to work so they can get paid. I think this is utterly ridiculous. I'm a disabled person from San Jose California, who receives Social Security Disability. If congress does not reach a agreement my benefits could be in jeopardy. I think the GOP's whole agenda is to send the United States into another recession. One that we will not recover from. Just to discredit the President and blame it on Obamacare.What I want to know why is the GOP and the Tea Party is so against Obamacare? Don't these idiots realize that this will save money and help people in the long run. They are so selfish. People are getting fed up with the government. We voted and put theses people into office and their acting like they forgot how they got there. If only we could impeach them maybe this would not be happening If congress does not get its act together, then it's going to be a serious problem. My neighbor just got out of the military after seven years of service as a sniper. He was talking to my husband the other day and was seriously mad about about the government suspending military death benefits. He was going on and on about how he gave seven years of his life and the government has the nerve to do this. I just pray he does not snap. What needs to happen is, congress should not get paid until they come to a reasonable comprise. Lets see how fast congress comes to an agreement, when their money is messed with. Just like  President Obama said on Tuesday in his speech on television, that we need to pay are bills and congress needs to sit down and come to a comprise. If not all the Untied States creditability as the the greatest nation will be gone. Congress needs to stop all this nonsense.

LM

Should A Check For Mental Illness Be A Requirement In the Purchase Of A Fire Arm?

On Monday September 16, 2013 fighting the demons in his head, Arron Alexis lost. He shot up the Naval Yard in Washington D.C. When he arrived at the base he killed the security guard. Then he proceeded to shot and kill 11 more people when he got inside. Killing a total of 12 people. Alexis had a history of brandishing and firing his weapons illegally in the past. He also had mental problems that the Navy knew about. Yet he was still allowed to purchase and carry a gun. Even despite his mental problems and is questionable military record. That is unfortunate because if the military would have acknowledged his problem in the beginning this might not have happened. If there were a law that puts the names of people who have mental illness in a federal data base so they can't purchase weapons, just maybe this act of violence could have be avoided. This could have happened any where in the country. It could have happened in Mt.View California just as well. Arron Alexis worked at HP for a while. If you ask me the Navy dropped the ball on this one. I think gun laws need to be changed with mental illness included on the application and as well as on a federal, State and local medical data base or this will keep on happening.

LM

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-navy-shooting-20130918,0,6823722.story

Javier Gonzales-Guerrero Settlement $4.95 Million For Getting Shot 20 Times By The San Jose Police

After almost 2 years Javier Gonzales-Guerrero is getting paid a measly $4.95 million dollars. For being shot 20 times by 4 police officers of the San Jose Police Department, for having a toy gun. Are you kidding this won't even be enough to cover his medical bills and all the work he missed out on as a construction worker. On October 23, 2011 after attending a Halloween party some one reported Javier Gonzales-Guerrero  passed out drunk in the stairwell of the Extended Stay Deluxe Hotel at E. Brokaw Road in San Jose and that he had a gun. 

When police arrived they saw Javier Gonzales-Guerrero dressed in hospital scrubs with a gun in his waistband. When the police shouted for him a wake up he woke and saw four police officers pointing guns at him. He claimed he said don't shoot. The four officers ignored his pleas and lit him up, Shooting Javier 20 times. If you're drunk don't sleep in public and do not have any kind of object that could possibly be mistaken for a weapon. It is amazing he survived.  

LM

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/4-95-million-settlement-in-San-Jose-police-4807185.php

Morgan Hill Preschool Teacher Deborah Gratz Who Tried To Drug Children Has Been Sentenced

In March of this year Deborah Gratz was caught trying to drug children at Kiddie Academy in Morgan Hill. She was caught by another employee, crushing up sleeping pills up in the children’s sippy cups. No children were hurt, she was stopped before they drank it. Deborah Gratz was sentenced on September 9, 2013 six months in jail and four years of probation. Are you kidding me! That’s all she got, a slap on the hand. You get a bigger sentence for harming an animal. The Santa Clara DA’s office is a joke. Santa Clara County prosecutor Sumerle Davis said "I wanted her to be granted probation, but also wanted her to do some custody time," said Davis. "There are parents who might have liked to see more time, but this is a fair resolution. ... It's very unsettling for parents to think that they could leave their child in someone's care and then be betrayed like this." Who knows how long she had been doing this to the children, before she got caught. If you ask me she should have got the book thrown at her. So it would deter anyone else from trying to harm our innocent children.

LM

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24054667/morgan-hill-preschool-teacher-drugged-sippy-cup-case?source=rss

The New San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge

After all its controversy with bolts and cables throughout the years, finally on Tuesday September 3, 2013 after more than a decade and the $6.4 billion the new Bay Bridge has opened. It has a new look and it is quite impressive. The anticipations of the opening of the new Bay Bridge were on a lot of people’s minds. Especially for the commuters who have to drive the Bay Bridge on a daily basis. San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is on all the post cards but the new Bay Bridge is not the ugly stepsister anymore. I personally have not been across the new Bay Bridge yet. I want to drive it in the day to see it in its entire splendor and at night with it all lit up.

LM

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay-Bridge-Now-Open-to-Public-222062721.html

San Jose California Is Becoming Like the Wild-Wild West in Murders

Just when I finished writing about San Jose’s 31^st and 32^nd murders less than a week later 22 year old Ramon Garcia a father of five was shot and killed on Saturday afternoon August 24, 2013. Ramon had gotten into an argument with some guy at St. James Park in downtown San Jose. They chased him to Julian St. and 3^rd street and shot him at the Tico’s Taco restaurant parking lot. He died later at the hospital. Ramon’s Aunt Patricia Lechuga said, "I asked him if he was going to stay out of trouble, stay out of jail," she said. "And he said 'yeah Tia, I'm gonna do good, I'm gonna try and do good this time and I'm gonna do it for me and my kids.” San Jose California is turning into the Wild-Wild West in murders. It’s getting like the 1700s and 1800s all over again. You get into an altercation and someone shoots you. Now days it’s hard to walk away from certain situations but you have to. You never know what will set a person off. This was San Jose’s 33nd murder so far this year. In 2012 there were 46 murders at the rate of murder going on San Jose will pass that number this year? A lot of people are talking about we need more police on the streets that is not going to help. People that have murder in their heart will continue to kill.

LM

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/south_bay&id=9218731

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Killed-in-Downtown-San-Jose-220958571.html

People Getting Shot With Stray Bullets Is Becoming A Way of Life in the Bay Area

It seems every time I turn on the news, I hear about someone getting shot by a stray bullet. It is becoming a way of life in the San Jose and Oakland Bay Area. On August 3, 2013, 19 year old Kimberly Joyce Estrada Chico was hit by a stray bullet while riding in the passenger’s seat of a friend’s car on her way to a club in San Jose California. Kimberly Joyce Estrada Chico was aspiring to become a registered nurse at San Jose State. Johnny Zapata Lozano allegedly just happened to go outside in the early morning hours and shot off a gun. Authorities don’t believe that Kimberly was targeted. I it a shame this could have happened to anyone. Kimberly just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It doesn’t stop there. On August 7, 2013 in Oakland California while they slept 20 year old Andrew Thomas and his 16 months old son Drew Jackson was shot while they slept. Andrew Thomas died at the scene and his son Drew Jackson died at the hospital. This tragedy was in the wake of the funeral of Andrew Thomas 18 year old cousin Alquino Rivera. Who was shot over the weekend? Authorities believe that the victims were targeted. What is so sad is that Drew Jackson had to die over some B.S. that his adult relatives were into. There is a disturbing statistics in Oakland California children are getting killed behind stupid sh__. Drew Jackson is the youngest victim of 21 children murdered in Oakland California since 2011. Among them is innocent Alaysha Carradine, 8 years old shot and killed when someone sprayed an apartment front door with gunfire while she was at a sleepover. Then there were Carlos Nava age 3, was killed in Oakland in August 2011 while being pushed in his stroller and Gabriel Martinez age 5 was shot dead later that year. This is alarming statistic we can’t keep losing are innocent defenseless angels. It is a shame that anybody can get a gun if you don’t have a felony. Everyone should have a physiological test. I don’t know what else we can do as a society other than banning all guns. I know that won’t happen people will be outraged. If you can think of a solution let me know.

LM

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23807590/san-jose-stray-bullet-tragically-ends-life-homegrown?source=pkg

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23831593/san-jose-man-charged-murder-downtown-shooting-sjsu

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386853/Young-father-1-year-old-son-shot-dead-sleep-opened-California-home-filled-kids.html?ico=ushome%5Eheadlines