Still Tired

Very, very tired in fact. Since I've been back, things have only gotten harder. College and work have coalesced into a burden that's turning out to be back-breaking. Anyone who reads this and I'm fairly certain that number is about equal to zero should know that my posts will be fairly erratic until this three-class summer palooza to get my Associate's Degree is over.

Until then, Senators Dan Patrick, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchinson and everyone who attended are awesome. Including Wayne, if he ever reads this, although no doubt, that man has better things to do than read a college guy's blog. Senator Dan Patrick received my letter of thanks for that awesome radio stint I was allowed to do. I even got a call back from secretary! Yeah, it was awesome.

But since I'm here, I might as well talk a bit about politics. Let's do a snippet; that GI bill that Senator McCain and Cornyn derided in favor of their own, less generous version (albeit, they had credible reasons) has been signed into law as of, what, today? I got a letter back from Senator Cornyn about the bill, which I was very happy about. Well, it was an e-mail, which doesn't have the same distinct coolness but it was still pretty awesome. It was so cool that it almost made me forget that I didn't support their version of the bill...only almost. One of the added benefits of this bill is the transferability of GI benefits; at least, I could have sworn Dana Perino mentioning that in her press briefing today. If that's true, then maybe I could actually benefit (even more, to be frank) from Dad's service.

Now, for more substantive talk; the FISA bill has been passed, the Heller case has been passed as well. A lot of things have happened, in short. The FISA bill peaks my interest, not that I'm not entranced by the Supreme Court descison, but it went the way I was expecting it to. I honestly didn't expect the Court to uphold the ban on handguns. It is startling that the Supreme Court, rather than issuing a decision that was ambiguous or shirking away from going "too far" finally stated unequivcally that we as individuals have a right to gun.

Yes. I could have already told you that. Courts like to buy their time. It's as if the Wild West didn't already demonstrate that folks have a right

I jest somewhat, but it's an important, nay, revolutionary decision. The beauty of the decision is that it is truly pragmatic in it's view of gun control. It gave us the right to have a gun and sealed it as an individual right but realized that that's not an excuse to carry around assault weapons.

So..now I'm tired again, but I've got plenty more to say tomorrow.