Jared Loughner Will Be Forcibly Medicated By Prison Officials, Says Defense

That's not what I meant. In almost every case you have everyone and their dog looking out for the interests of the accused. We provide national media attention, medical and mental health care, attorneys, counselors­, pay his expenses, try to understand why he did it and if there are mitigating circumstan­ces, plenty of time for appeal after appeal, etc. And the lawyers negotiate to find the easiest solution and plead him down. The list goes on.



What do we do for the victim? Drop their charges, rip them to shreds in court and toss them out the door as we speed by on our way to the next big case. They're a basket of dirty laundry thrown in a corner and forgotten.



How many here know the name of the little girl that was killed or why she was there at the time? How many victims were there in all? What have we done for them? They're human beings with lives, loved ones, families, futures, and those futures were crushed in seconds by a monster we all know intimately­. We spend a lot of time and energy discussing every aspect of a piece of scum, and none at all on the innocent lives he changed forever.
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Trey Parker & Matt Stone Talk 'Book Of Mormon' On 'The Daily Show' (VIDEO)

Science must constantly change. Things we "Knew" as fact a decade ago are obsolete or false today. And yet we have learned so much over the years and developed in amazing ways in every facet of the sciences. It's an exciting time to be alive. But the best minds will tell you that the more they learn, the more clear it it that there's so much more to learn. Or, "the more you know, the less you know."



Religion was never meant as a way to study science. It's purpose was always to teach people how to treat each other, find meaning and joy in life and develop a relationsh­ip with God. Those are things that don't change. And the few scriptural references to the physical world were given to ancient people with limited understand­ing in a symbolic and figurative way they could better comprehend­, not to instruct them in theoretica­l physics.



It's a mistake for us to put science and religion on equal terms or pit them against each other. Yet we do, and get continuall­y frustrated that others can't see it the way we do. They're totally different. Neither one can prove or disprove the other with certainty, they weren't meant to. I can't put God in a test tube, you can't recreate the first living one celled animal. But we all look at life with amazement and appreciati­on.
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Sarah Palin's Safari Club Speech: 'We Eat Organic -- We Just Have To Shoot It First'

Talking about an animal refuge in a room filled with the glass-eyed heads of living creatures k!l led entirely for "sport." Just how sporting is it to chase them down with a helicopter and high powered rifle? Or to hide in their domain and fire from the distance of a football field away? To take a life because you like the look of their horns? You don't go on a safari or take trophies if you must hunt to eat. The thrill of the hunt means using unnatural force to dest r0y a beautiful life.
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The Miracle of Vaccines

Please take the snarky comments with a grain of salt, Melinda. You're doing something many of us can only dream of doing. You change lives and make them better. You lift burdens and give hope to so many. Ease suffering, save lives. You make a big difference and will be fondly remembered for it.



Some "contribut­e" to the world by sitting in their room typing vitriol at the screen. Others reach out, open their wallets, get their hands dirty, and make a difference in someone else's life. You and Bill do this many times over, and in this you are examples to us all. God bless you both, and bless your continued efforts for so many.
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A New Year's Resolution for the Rich

It's interestin­g that in a pointed article on wealth and financial ruin, you find it necessary to take potshots at the faith of folks as if that's the root of all evil and not the human characteri­stics that cause some to dominate and take advantage of others, some to mindlessly work and support and others to crumble and fall by the wayside.



We will never solve our problems by feeding the already frenzied "us vs them" battles going on between what should be neighbors and fellow citizens. Congress is too busy burying their noses in the wallets and posteriors of corporatio­ns to care what happens to us. Our only chance is to work together. To once again develop a voice and make it heard. That will never happen as long as we squabble over what unprovable things we choose to believe or not or where we find our own meaning in life instead of focusing on the problems that affect us all and drag us down as a nation into ruin and anarchy.



How can we fix greed, apathy, power-mong­ering, hopelessne­ss, crime, intoleranc­e and a host of other character flaws that have taken us over? Not by condemning each other or telling each other what we should or shouldn't believe.
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Black Friday 2010: Holiday Shopping Season Kicks Off

Stayed up and fought the crowds and sneaky stores once. That convinced me that Black Friday should be spent doing anything but shopping. Why stand in line all night for Best Buy and get trampled & gouged trying to grab that gift when you can sit home all cozy in your jammies, just press "Add to Cart" on your computer and be done with it? Or waste all night at Wally World only to find out the good stuff was hidden away and assigned to a select few before the sale began. Is saving a few bucks really worth all the aggravation? The hours standing in lines? Getting pushed around by folks getting more angry and impatient by the second?
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<em>With God on Our Side</em> -- Christian Zionism Exposed

It's interesting how much over-generalization there usually is when discussing Christians, Evangelicals or Jews, let alone an issue that involves them all. We take for granted that the loudest and most prominent voices represent everyone in a category. There are more varieties of Christians than paint samples at Sherwin Williams. Most live quiet lives with varying degrees of faith and adherence to tenets of their church. And those who claim to be "God's voice" are often so far removed from the things Jesus taught he wouldn't recognize them.



I'm a Christian, and have done my share of teaching others in years past, but I don't look at the Jews as a stepping stone in my quest to bring the end of days closer. I revere the people and places where the gospel first developed. They helped set the stage for the birth and life of my Savior. Their history and stories can have value in our lives. I look at the Jews as neighbors, human beings like us. Also as a society who were once "chosen and blessed" but have become a "hiss and a byword" just as the scriptures predicted. It shouldn't have to be that way. I don't have any agenda for promoting Armageddon. I'd much rather see folks come to their senses, shake hands and sit down at the table to work things out.



Christian, Atheist, Jew... labels to call attention to differences and ignore how we should all work together.
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