Monday, December 17, 2012

Conservative Joe Scarborough Breaks with the NRA « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Conservative Joe Scarborough Breaks with the NRA « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:


Conservative Joe Scarborough Breaks with the NRA

By MACKENZIE WEINGER | 12/17/12 Politico
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough launched today’s “Morning Joe” with a ten-minute address in response to the shooting in Newtown, Conn., last Friday.
“Today as a nation we grieve and today we as a people feel helpless,” he said. “Helpless to stop these random acts of violence that seem to be getting less random by the day. You know it may be the geographic proximity of Newtown to my hometown, or the fact that my children’s ages average those of the 20 young children tragically killed on Friday, or the fact that my second son has Asperger’s, or the fact that too many other facts associated with Friday’s nightmare strike so close to home — for me, just like for you, there is no escaping the horrors visited upon on those children and teachers at Sandy Hook.”
And “every American must know from this day forward nothing can ever be the same again. We’ve said this


Bob Peterson on the Tragedy in Newton, Connecticut

First we mourn, then we organize
By Bob Peterson, President Milwaukee Teachers Education Association
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Educators across the nation will enter school with heavy hearts on Monday. Beneath flags at half-mast and between hugs of staff and students, teachers will navigate through difficult questions and raw fears as we remember and honor the victims of the Sandy Hook School tragedy.
First, we mourn.
We mourn for the victims, for their families, for the heroic Sandy Hook staff, and for the entire community of Newtown, Connecticut.
We also mourn for this nation and for the tens of thousands of people whose lives have been affected by this