New year, same shit, kinda...

Well the new year has finally arrived and after a week I'm finally into the swing of things. So far its been a mixed bag of events for the new year. The best and most promising thing so far, I landed the job that I wanted really bad. I think its going to be a great job to have. Definitely will have to work hard to keep it but it will be worth it.

I think its a terrible tragedy that the shooting and subsequent killings happened in Tucson. I think things like that happen all too often in society today and some of our liberal laws are directly responsible for it. I think its wrong to blame state budget cuts, or lack of stringent gun control laws, for the deaths that have occurred. The shooter held the gun aimed it and pulled the trigger. He is responsible for the deaths. His family is responsible for the lack of attention given to his mental health and their should be laws as such. The laws that are written for our rights are the ones that kept him from getting help. With his history of deviate thinking there should have been ample examples of issues that should have locked him up. It sounds like there may be a family history of mental illness after listening to the reports of his fathers behavior. Unfortunately now there is a chance that he may be found incompetent because of mental illness and that might keep him from getting the death penalty which he so richly deserves.

On a third note I'm back to the people will be people thing again. It is truly a shame when people let their personal petty feelings affect their professional standards and practices. I may be a rotten bastard at times, but I am a fair one. Many times personally I may have felt I needed to act like a jerk in a certain situation with a customer who had treated me poorly, and some type of professionalism kept me from acting on it. I only wish that other people in my circle of acquaintances had the same internal strength.