Heroes...or Bad Parents?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/caught-tape-colorado-couple-stop-attempted-carjacking-save/story?id=12241038&page=1

"Good Morning America" characterized these parents as heroes. I'm glad they stopped the carjacking, but...these parents really should NOT be hailed as heroes. This could have been prevented simply & easily by turning off the ignition & removing the keys when they got out of the car. This is Basics 101: NEVER leave the keys in your car when you aren't in it. The would-be carjacker knew the car was running & chose the car because of that fact. Neither the news story nor the announcers' comments mention anything about prevention or talk about the parents' basic irresponsibility that led to this situation.

Also, while it may be inconvenient to take a baby out of the car for every single little thing, the parents should not have left the baby in the car by itself, even if they were just walking across the parking lot. What's the old adage? "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." These parents are lucky that the would-be carjacker was not armed and that he did not put up much of a fight.

Erin Go Braugh - If you're lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough.

I'm one lucky guy, for sure. I'm Irish. I'm a Brown grad. I'm from a small town & a large family. I'm gay. I'm country. I'm urban. I'm smart. I'm confident. I'm single. And I have a date on Sunday.

"If you're lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough." Today, I'm both. Erin Go Bragh.

"You're Not Going To Sell That in New York"

I love the 3 concluding sentences. Cuomo stakes it out, in good old-fashioned NY swagger & bravado: "...you’re not going to sell that in New York."

As the campaign drew to a close, polls showed that large numbers of New Yorkers had deemed Mr. Paladino unfit to be governor. Mr. Cuomo suggested in his speech that Mr. Paladino was part of a polarizing movement that persuaded voters elsewhere but failed to sway New Yorkers. “The people of this state today say you’re not going to divide us, you’re not going to separate us, you can try it somewhere else but you’re not going to sell that in New York,” he said.

Let's All Vote Today. It's Election Day in America.

Let's all do our civic duty and vote today. It's a solemn and honored tradition of our nation, even though we have a checkered history in the area of voting rights. Let's all vote. And while I'd like to see mostly Democrats win today, PLUS Independent Linc Chafee in RI, it doesn't matter to me who you vote for in your civic duty. We can be partisan, but we are Americans first.