maandag 23 juli 2012

maandag 23 juli 2012 Up 3:30. Turn on BBC News. World Have Your Say - All the guests on the show remember Eric Liddell one way or another as a Scottish champion, athlete and missionary. Liddell was the winner of the men's 400 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Fried egg and hash browns for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Lots of talk about gun control. How Congress avoids the issue. The power of the NRA. Gun control dominates the conversation after Aurora.

James Holmes makes his first appearance in court today.

Streetcar to work. Spend 3 hours with the Dolphins while Olivia gets planning time. They keep us busy with diapers, bottles and naps. We never make it outside. Over to Sea Otters for Charmaine's lunch. Only 4 kids here. Three are asleep. One needs 20 minutes in the rocking chair. Zzzzzz. Toni's lunch. Seven Seahorses snooze. A few of them wake up. Kenn reads books with them. Walk down to Denny with KUOW playing in my ears... but I can't believe my ears! Ichiro is traded to the Yankees. This is sad, too. Report from NPR - Politicians Shy Away From New Gun Control Efforts. Mayor Bloomberg is right - "Everybody always says, 'Isn't it tragic?' ... There are so many murders with guns every day; it's just got to stop." Obviously, this country has somewhat accepted its fate. It may not be happy with it, but [it has] just kind of, in a depressing kind of way, has accepted this level of gun violence. Get my Monday Mondo Burrito at Taco Del Mar. #8 bus to B'way. Walk around Capitol Hill. Visit the library. Check out the new crane at the tunnel project. Down Pike to my place. Watch Nightly News. It's an emotional interview with the police chief of Aurora.

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