Toy-gun trick was no treat
Why should humans have all the fun? This four-legged Hobokenite demonstrates that the recent dressing-as-fallen-heroes Halloween trend remains popular again this year.
And on the subject of Halloween, I don't find much comfort in the news that the gun that shut down the Capitol yesterday turned out to be a toy that was brought into the building for a Halloween party. First, couldn't you folks in Congress come up with a costume that DIDN'T require a toy gun? Second, the people with the gun were long gone from the security checkpoint by the time the guard noticed the image of a revolver on the x-ray screen. The gun may have been a toy, but that was a real moment of inattention. Let's leave the toy weapons at home, boys and girls. And we've got to do a better job of paying attention.
Meanwhile, on the subject of fallen heroes, a firefighter has died in the battle against the California wildfires. As his family and fellow firefighters mourn, there's a new angle on the fire story: Governor Gray Davis appealed to the federal government in April for an emergency declaration due to infestations of bark beetles that killed thousands of acres of trees, creating a huge fire hazard. Davis warned of the danger of fire and asked for funding to help clear the dead trees, but the feds turned him down.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:20 PM
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