Obey the Chibi Dwagon!

Stonewall and else

2008-07-13T17:14:00.001-04:00

I don't post enough; I can never make myself post and I guess I'm not really that interesting anyway :P

I went to the Stonewall festival (gay pride parade), but I think most of my friends in the area were away at Anthrocon so I didn't see them. I helped set up the Raelian booth and had burned them some cd's to hand out. I sat there with them and chatted with the pro-choice booth next to us and some other people, then walked around. One of the people was dressed in what looked like militant garb and talked about Jesus a lot to us, but I think we may have frightened him as much as he frightened us. I'm not sure Jesus would approve of associating his peace and love philosophy with a militant look, but the whole 'Christian soldier' concept is surprisingly common. One of the Realians marched in the parade with one of our crazy signs, but I wanted to watch it because this was my third year and had never actually ~seen~ the parade. I've always been in it with one group or another instead of seeing it. There were a surprising number of churches in the parade, and that made me really happy even though I wasn't personally interested in them. I was tempted to go down and stand with the bigots to see what they did when the more level headed churches (or even better, the politician floats) passed them.

I need to meet more people in the area, and am also looking about for a new place to live that might be closer to work so I can spend less gas. As annoying as it might be to some people, I've been driving 55 mph on the way to work, which increases my gas mileage 8 to 10 mpg. I really hate peeving others on the road, and don't understand why they choose to ride my bumper when there is one or two clear lanes to pass me with, but I am wanting to save money for other things.

Anyone looking for someone or a roommate? I thought about moving somewhere different than Ohio too, but it'd have to be with someone I am sure of and I'd need to find a job before I actually moved because I don't want to afford being jobless more than a week after a move.

Robots. On the moon. FIGHTING TO THE DEATH!

2008-06-20T12:37:00.001-04:00

So Google is offering a prize for the first private company that can land a rover on the moon and make it travel 500 feet and send back pictures and stuff. Its suppose to be done with no government help and such. I suppose that's okay..

I think they aren't being creative enough. They should make all the competitors land at once, then their robots would fight to the death for the prize! Robots. Fighting. On the moon. It would be the most awesome. day. ever.

Maybe next time.

Robots. On the moon. FIGHTING TO THE DEATH!

2008-06-20T12:30:00.001-04:00

government idiots

2008-06-18T07:00:00.000-04:00

Should members of government be required to pass periodic intelligence and psychological tests? Yes. Yes they should. Of course then we have to deal with who will come up with said tests. Certainly those idiots in Congress aren't going to cooperate or do it right if they do. Here's to hoping.
Its a far more dangerous thing, of course, to ask voters to pass a simple intelligence test, because its something the government definitely would fail implementing. If only it could be done right, it'd be great; maybe people would stop electing people like Bush, Hamas, and Hitler into power as they have so often done over the past century. If only. Maybe we can start with the test for politicians.
Of course this post won't get any good responses cause I didn't mention sex. Or did I?!

Arrrrrrrrgh

2008-06-03T11:35:00.003-04:00

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH

When a straight male someone says something like "There's this really nice girl that wants to have sex with me, but I don't know how to tell her no.", I want to knock some sense into them. When they tell me this story, I just stare at them, wishing I had problems like theirs. Seriously, some people don't know how to count their blessings.

Ragarth, you need to come here and get under my desk. Right now. Bring friends.

... Hi everyone!

God's unchanging law

2008-04-25T12:29:00.001-04:00

(stolen, without any shame whatsoever, from here.

The validity of this letter having actually been sent to Dr. Laura is unknown, but it still makes some great points about people who quote scripture to excuse their bigotry against homosexuals.

Dear Dr. Laura,

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate.

I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the specific laws and how to best follow them.

a) When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

b) I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

c) I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

d) Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

e) I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?

f) A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an Abomination (Lev 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?

g) Lev 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?

h) Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev 19:27. How should they die?

i) I know from Lev 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

j) My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? (Lev 24:10-16) Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help.

Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.

Your devoted disciple and adoring fan.

In other news, I have a headache. My ratties offered to nibble me cutely, but it didn't help.

Its still me

2008-04-21T07:48:00.001-04:00

So I'm still here, but forget to post all the time.

I got a new rattie. She was looking at me cutefaced in the store and she was all alone and had been alone in her box for like two weeks. I felt so bad that I caved and bought them and brought her home. I named her Biscuit and she gets along well with Flip, Flop, and Toggle; they snuggle up all four in the nest together, and even seem to be getting along better than usual. When I stick my hand in the cage Biscuit attempts to grab it in her little hands and then noms me.

I saw part of that movie Expelled, as much as I could watch before Ben Stein's voice put me to sleep and made me drool. (Okay, so less than five minutes). From scanning through it, it seemed really disappointing; I had really hoped they would at least make an effort to be relevant in today's society without droning on about 'a loving God', which to me is a deal breaker in any science lecture. It didn't seem like he had a good concept of what his own theory was, much less the one he was competing against. However, I must reserve judgment until I actually watch the movie. Consequently, I may have to judge this movie in five minute increments between naps.

Also: I have a sudden desire to watch old episodes of "Win Ben Stein's Money". I loved that show ^.^

I remembered I had a facebook account. I should do things with it like... I don't know. What do people do with facebook accounts? I sent virtual plants to people and this was somehow suppose to save the environment. I will join some random groups I like too.

Intelligent Design vs Evolution... OR IS IT?

2008-03-14T21:46:00.001-04:00

One thing that bothers me most about the ID vs Evolution debate is that people assume they are mutually exclusive, both sides creating a sort of false dichotomy. The fact is there are people who believe in Evolution via Intelligent Design (like several Popes oddly enough, also many Deists, some scientists ) and people who believe in Intelligent Design without believing in an 'almighty' Creator(s) (like Raelians and some other scientists ). Intelligent Design's main enemy, of course, is not Darwinism, since concepts like natural selection and micro-evolution are valid in both theories. Its the religious fanatics who try to 'help' by throwing their holy book at scientists, claim that the Earth was created in only 6 days, or use it to try to push religious indoctrination into schools, which gives the whole thing a false image because the actual theory doesn't support any of those things. I came to the realization that most people I have personally spoken to on the subject haven't actually looked into the science behind either side, even their own side. Most ID people believe it simply because they fear their religion will be invalidated if they do not. Most Darwinists believe it simply because they fear mainstream religion (rightly so), and think any attack on macro-evolution must be an attempt to take us back to the Dark Ages. Alternately, because they did a head count and want to follow the majority of scientists. That's fine and no harm done, but the majority of scientists used to believe in the theory of spontaneous generation. The important thing is to realize that there are legit scientists on both sides, both sides have both religious and non-religious people, and both sides have idiots that speak in all caps or use profanity and lolspeak to get their point across. Religion shouldn't be part of the debate and we shouldn't judge either side by the dumbest proponent, in my view.

Anyway, I have been reading an article by a scientist, but I haven't finished the article yet. Its here. It has a lot of scientific jargon and references so I am sometimes needing to read paragraphs two or three times or stop and check other references to be sure I understand what they are saying and it that it follows. If anyone actually reads that, they can tell me what they think of it. And hell, its a public journal, you can tell me what you think of anything you want whether you read it or not :p

Prayer

2008-03-11T10:31:00.002-04:00

My problems with the monotheistic concept of praying for God to do things:

1) If ones believes that the one Deity is all knowing, then why are they asking Them to do things They already know needs done? Even worse is when people believe their Deity inspired them to ask for it, because then the Deity is asking you do tell Them to do something that They knew needed done but has already actively chosen not to do.
2) Begging one's Deity to do things that They already know about is treating Them like a tyrant who could help out of kindness but would rather get kicks from hearing people beg for it. That is disrespectful, in my view.
3) Asking a supreme Deity to change their way of doing things just for one person is presumptuous and the exact opposite of humility. (Apparently George Carlin says it funnier than me.) Even asking them to change it for everyone on Earth is presumptuous, as our planet is a tiny bit of dust in the grand scheme of the universe.
4) Asking for some things is effectively asking a Deity to override people's free will. Examples would be asking for someone to be saved, or asking for favorable election results (Huckabee saying "Well, I didn't major in math, I majored in miracles." springs to mind.) If a 'good' Deity could and would do that, we wouldn't be in the messes we are in to begin with.
5) Saying that a Deity answered a prayer insinuates that one believes other people, who prayed but died or lost out anyway, are somehow lesser than them or are less loved by their Deity.
6) In many cases saying a Deity saved someone, or that it was a miracle, takes well deserved respect and thanks away from the police, doctors, military, or others who actually saved the person. If one really believed God was capable of such things, they would take their sick to a priest rather than a hospital. Its hard to ignore that people who do that typically die.

If a monotheist really believes in their Deity, they should never ask for anything. They should simply believe that what is suppose to happen will happen, and spend more time trying to understand why things happen than asking an almighty Deity to change their way of doing things just for them.

Why don't UFOs land? ... would you if you were them?

2008-01-15T07:59:00.000-05:00

Texans see UFO, fear 'end of times'. So it seems that a UFO appeared over a Texas town and several dozen people all reported seeing it, describing it similarly. That's nice, but not very new; this sort of thing happens all the time.

My question is this: one person is quoted as saying "I think it must be some kind of military craft -- at least I hope it was."

Why would you wish that? What are you afraid of? I wish someone could explain to me why the idea of extraterrestrial life is frightening, other than the having watched too much television factor. Seriously, if someone can get from any other world to ours successfully, and were here, then if they wanted to hurt us they would have. They would be so far advanced over us that they would not need to resort to being sneaky about it. They would just press the 're-terraform' button and be done with it.

Its sad that people's religions many times cause them to be frightened, and of course the ones in power have reason to be: proof of an extra-terrestrial civilization would destroy the concept of many religions that we are the most important thing in the whole vast universe, if the universe itself hasn't already been enough to kill the idea. Its hard to make a literal interpretation of Christian or Muslim scripture work if we discover other sentient life besides us that isn't 'God' or 'angels' or 'demons' and this makes many people assume strange things. I have seen people say that the aliens were demons, for example, trying to deceive us.

And we wonder why they would not visit us in the open? Obviously before visiting us outright they would need to get people use to the concept that they were around and not harming us (by causing sightings like this), because if they just landed, people would freak out. Some people would try to fight them, others would try to purge random groups from the earth to purge it for the end times, and it would be a general mess. Many people could die, and if the wrong person freaked out (like say someone with the ability to order nuclear strikes) it could literally cause the destruction of our world.

This is not without precedent. The first settlers to an area often have good intentions, but those intentions rarely work out. They can't just step down and say hi to us without causing our society to launch into an upheaval.

If they really wanted to hurt us, all they'd have to do is say 'hi'.

We are a dangerous planet, full of very dangerous people, powers, religions, and the like. I have heard it said that they look at us and say "for only the color of their skin... they kill... we don't want to go there!". If we can't ourselves bring our civilization to a better more 'civilized' standard, then we will never be worth a visit, and the universe will be a better place without us once we destroy ourselves.

Things I ask myself about religion

2008-01-13T08:56:00.000-05:00

These are things I ask myself about religion, and always try to have more tolerable answers:

How sure are you of your chosen belief? Are you still skeptical of it? Watch out; If you are 100% certain, you may have been brainwashed. :) How often do you intentionally look up information that contradicts your chosen belief to see why someone doesn't believe in it?

Do you accept those people of contradicting belief that harm no one with their belief? Not just tolerate, as that insinuates that they are a displeasure to be around that is 'dealt with'.

How do you deal with those of contradicting belief that ~do~ harm others with their belief. Do you have the moral highground on them, or have you found yourself acting no better when faced with them?

Do you love those who believe different than you in spite of what they believe.. or because of what they believe?

Have you ever suggested that someone seriously consider your belief without having seriously considered their belief? Have you looked into any belief other than your own, or did you just automagically accept the first thing you were told?

Does the information you have on other religions come from people in your own religion who may or may not have accurate information themselves, or from the religion itself that you are getting information on?

Assassination

2007-12-30T10:58:00.000-05:00

I was reading this article and it occurred to me; more often than not, assassinating the leader of a group almost always ends up making the group stronger in the long run. Few leave the group or give up, but many come together more strongly and many more join after seeing an act they consider unjust.
Assassination is really... stupid, but I suppose the meat puppets of the world doing stupid things is nothing new.

Do you know what love is?

2007-12-27T22:48:00.000-05:00

It seems many Christians can't even get along with each other, much less show tolerance and love for others. Whatever happened to loving your enemies?

Above all else, these two factions seem to be getting into a fight in Bethlehem because their religions celebrate Jesus's birthday on different days. Do these people really think that when they get to Heaven, God will turn some of them away because they used the wrong date to let Jesus blow out his 2000-some-odd candles?

This sort of thing frustrates me, and just goes to further the stereotype of Christians as being hateful, malicious people who are incapable of any semblance of tolerance above forcing others to be exactly like them.

Christian or not, one thing holds true: If you only love those that are like yourself, then you do not know love, because you only love yourself.

Bhutto assassinated.. by who?

2007-12-27T15:05:00.000-05:00

It seems that Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated. The first time I read this article... well it seems to me..

Pervez Musharraf hated this woman, but now that this happens he declares three days of mourning, and conveniently blames it on this unnamed 'extremist' organization that he supposidly declared martial law to fight. A martial law that Bhutto opposed. Two birds with one stone anyone? Taking her out and blaming it on his imaginary enemies would both eliminate his opposition and cause some of her supporters to take his side, imagining that he was trying to find her killer despite being the killer himself.

There's your conspiracy theory of the week. I have no information, so I don't know, but it sure seems like a great plan to me.

China and freedom

2007-12-24T08:36:00.000-05:00

As if they hadn't limited the freedom of their people enough, you can now be arrested for sending text messages that 'spread rumors' in China. This is largely because people would use text messaging to spread word about demonstrations. I would like to know which phone companies are cooperating with their government on this, because those are the ones I will try to avoid even if they aren't doing it here.

China is always worried about how word spreads, and have cracked down on online communications as well. Of course in the case of online, this or things like this are great tools to get around pesky internet blocks and avoid detection by your government when organizing those protests.

So yes, at this point I have to admit that though it is bad, the US is not as bad as it could be. May it never be otherwise, but we still have a lot of catching up to do to make for our recent back-sliding.

Africans and Christmas and Christianity

2007-12-24T07:27:00.000-05:00

Have a happy Christmas/Frostfell/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Saturnalia/Winter Solstice/Winter Veil/Yuletide.

Something I have been thinking. Some African-Americans honor their heritage by observing Kwanzaa, but if they really wanted to honor their heritage wouldn't they leave the religion that was forced upon them by their oppressors (Christianity or Muslim depending on who took over their particular region) and instead go with one of the many good ancient religions of Africa?

Faith begets violence and death

2007-12-23T11:20:00.000-05:00

So in this article on faith in the military, one soldier says his faith helps him justify his actions in the war.

And that is the whole problem.

Faith justifies violence. People say atheists are amoral and faithless, and think that this makes them violent, but this makes them the opposite of violence.

I have no faith in God or fate. Thus I have no excuse for violence, and I would not kill another human being EVEN IN MY OWN DEFENSE. How many Christians will make that vow, despite all the talk of 'turn the other cheek'? Few if any, because they believe everything is written in the sky for them, and that their actions are justified even if it means innocents will die.

Want to argue this? Tell me just one single military conflict of the last decade that wasn't based on someone of one religion hating another. Just one.

And these soldiers saying that God will protect them need to wake up. To say that you are certain God will protect you is to say that all those troops that have died were faithless and evil, which is clearly not the case, especially from their view.

No. Your God, supposedly both all powerful and all loving, has allowed this mess to continue. Again, either your God is all powerful, in which case he couldn't be all loving when you look at the results of his creation, or he is all loving, in which case he wants to help but is powerless to do so because of the mass idiocy of his followers.

Where is your God now?

2007-12-08T13:43:00.001-05:00

A terrible tragedy occurred when a young child was crushed by a church parade float. I don't mean to make light of this at all, quite the contrary. But..

Anyone that is a member of that Church should think. They believe in an all-mighty loving God; -why- would an all powerful God allow -his- float to crush a small child? Where was their all-powerful loving God when their innocent child was crushed?

They should consider this, and then find a new religion that doesn't include such a contradiction.

Homophobic

2007-12-03T08:16:00.000-05:00

So what is a homophobic person really?
Someone that is afraid of gay people? Obviously they aren't or they wouldn't be so aggressive towards them.
Someone that hates gay people? ... almost.
But no, a homophobic person is a gay person who is so afraid of their own homosexual feelings that they lash out at gay people they see in an effort to prove they are not gay. I have seen so many anti-gay senators like Larry Craig turn out to actually be gay. And this isn't the first allegations this man has had, even prior to the whole restroom incident. I remember an old supervisor I had that was similar; he always had derogatory things to say about gay people, constantly touted how much he had sex with women as if afraid we wouldn't take note, and actually refused to eat fruit because it might make him look 'fruity'. This man was so gay it HURT... literally if you think of it in a psychological fashion for him.
Seriously, gay people do not choose to be gay, so do what your DNA tells you.
Someone argues that being gay is a choice? Ask them why, if it were a choice, ask them why people would make a choice that will only bring them pain, hate, and in some nations execution?

Shooting people.

2007-11-23T11:31:00.000-05:00

For every story I hear gun rights activists spout off about someone protecting themselves with a gun, it seems I find two of this type of article where some idiot with a gun killed someone on accident or shot someone they thought was a criminal who turned out not to be. This is especially true when someone hears that someone else is on the sex offender list and kills them before taking the time to find out ~why~ they are on it. A search I did recently revealed that people are on it for as little reason as a restraining order from an ex-girlfriend.

Either way the point remains, guns seem to kill more people on accident than they save, so I did a search online to find statistics, but found... nothing! Oh well.

Non lethal

2007-11-22T11:40:00.000-05:00

I'm all for technology that can subdue someone without harming or killing them, obviously, but fools like this this guy are going to make it where police can't use tasers at all.

Seriously. Tasering a guy who didn't want to sign his speeding ticket. Oh you just know such an evil criminal was a threat and needed to be subdued.

And sure, the guy was a fool for not just signing the ticket and leaving, but there are steps to be taken between asking nicely and shocking you down onto hard pavement. You don't just jump from one to the other.

The whole problem with the world is that our technology exceeds our civility, this is just another example. Its not as bad as other examples that involve killing and invading other nations, but certainly not something we want happening all the time.

1,700+ Dead

2007-11-17T12:47:00.000-05:00

This is terrifying. The cyclone in Bangladesh has caused horrible destruction that will not be fully realized for some time in the future, and crippled the nation's infrastructure, severely hampering all efforts to help.

I saw one blog saying we should 'pray' for them. I can't help but be angry at this mentality. Their God is either not all-loving or not all-powerful, because a deity that was both would have never allowed this to happen. To assume that one's creator is both of those and will zip up in a flash to bail people out is irresponsible.

I have better advice for you.

Please, those who are financially able, proceed to the web site of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, and donate to their relief efforts there.

You can't even make a Doomsday cult these days without it turning against you.

2007-11-16T11:07:00.000-05:00

Or just my inane babbling about religious cults and massive tangents on the subject.

Get a load of this. It seems that a small 'cult' in Russia has holed themselves up in a cave and are threatening to kill themselves via ignited gasoline if anyone attempts to come in after them. The 'Doomsday cult' believes that the world will end next May.

If only we were so lucky.

Anyway, they refuse to come out... even at the beckoning of their own leader, who they believe has been pressured by the government.

My first response to this is "Who cares?". Its every person's right to kill themselves for whatever reason they desire. The only thing that makes me care is that some of them are children who are likely not making the decision for themselves, nor can they be expected to be able to even if asked. That is a problem...

Anyway, on to my view of 'cults':

1) The word 'cult' is overused by mainstream religions, as many brand any odd ball or different religion as a cult. They give loose definitions of what one is, but these fall short since many of these things in their definition applies to normal religions too. For instance, a cult goes to great lengths to keep members or not allow them to leave, and I have talked to people who have had that problem with 'legit' mainstream religions.

2) About 'suicide' or 'doomsday' religions, I think they are counterproductive. Religion should be something that gives you peace and sets your mind at ease. Any religion that orders you to kill (others or yourself) counters the main tenant that any religion should keep sacred. That is why even if the leader of my religion, or someone I believed to be the creators themselves told me to harm others or myself, I would refuse.
This itself should be an teaching of any religion; if my religion asks me to do something that I consciously consider wrong, then I am free to disregard the order without fear of reprisal. This is, of course, somewhat of a tangent.

3) On suicide itself, its a sad thing when someone feels that their only outlet is suicide. At the same time, however, it is every consenting adult's right to do it. What makes 'mass' suicides horribly wrong is that you have people influencing other people to do it as well.
If someone is ready to not be alive, they should do it for themselves and not involve others. They should not blame others. They should not encourage others to join them or to feel guilty that they are gone.

4) One thing I have to mention is that the article doesn't make clear why the government cares that the people are in the cave. If they are not harming anyone, they should just be allowed to wait until next May to find out the world isn't ending, then most of them will go home, disappointed but alive. Its like having a bear at your camp site. Are you going to walk out and poke it with a stick to try to get it to go away? No, if it isn't after you then you're going to quietly wait for it to leave. Why make an awkward situation into a bad situation?

To the death

2007-11-15T18:09:00.000-05:00

Touchy subject.. .ouch...
Death penalty, the guy in the referenced article likely committed the crime he is accused of, and most would say he deserves to die. Maybe he does.

But consider this: Since 1973, 124 people have been released from death row because they were found to be innocent. These people came close to dieing.. for no reason. In the 2000's, this went up from about 3 per year to 5 per year, due to genetic evidence. Before DNA evidence... those people just died.
And even now, due to overzealous prosecutors, innocent people will die. In some cases, DNA evidence isn't being allowed, things are being hidden, and false confessions are being forced. Remember prosecutors keep their jobs by winning cases, NOT by seeking justice. They will win no matter what in some cases. Remember, confession does not mean the crime happened.

So let me ask you: How many innocent people is an acceptable loss as long as some guilty people die?
After you answer, imagine giving that answer to the family of one of those innocent people. Even better, imagine the person that pulled the switch or gave the lethal dose trying to explain to them.

Second point: Consider the company the US puts itself in when they allow the death penalty. Such illustrious nations as Cuba, Iran, China, and North Korea. In contrast, most nations we consider 'civil' do not allow it. Is this the team we want to be a part of?

Thirdly: People do not just 'crack' and do bad things. This is a sickness that starts small and progresses due to many things in their life and chemical imbalances. Scientists have already learned that their brain is different in many ways. The fact is... there may be a way to treat this... or even identify it before they commit the crime!
Imagine if this was considered a health issue. Of course they would still be separated from society in prisons, but they could be examined and patterns could be found, even cures! People do not want to see that happen because that would deprive them of their revenge.
So is your revenge going to bring your loved one back?
Is your vengeance enough to bring back the innocents executed? They died because of someone's thirst for revenge. Now the real killers will escape, since legally you cannot bring a case back to court if someone has been executed for it...
Also, think about if it were considered a medical condition, people who had not yet committed crimes might seek treatment. How many months or years do they feel guilt before they smash through it and actually commit the act? These people need our help BEFORE they commit the crimes, and people who express such things should not be insulted, but people should try to get them help!

Muslim or Not

2007-11-14T07:00:00.000-05:00

One day CNN will report real news; until that fateful day comes, we will have to deal with this crap. So there is a 'email rumor' spread that Obama might be Muslim.

First off, this is one of the most immature things I am seeing in this election, so let me say it as plainly as I can: Two names sounding the same does not make them the same. Idiots.

Finally... do these people really think that a Christian leader has never done anything wrong? Even leaving out the fact that Hitler publically professed Christianity to control the masses, obviously every person that professes Christianity is not going to make good decisions just because of that, and many politicians only profess religion to be popular with the masses of meat puppets that roam around in this country.

Wake up.

Now I need to find something without religion to talk about, before I get sick.