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November 10, 2009
- The DC Sniper was executed Tuesday night by lethal injection for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers. John Allen Muhammed, and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, terrorized the Washington region in 2002 during their three-week shooting spree. Opponents of the death penalty are accused of never thinking about the victims. But I oppose the death penalty, and I think of the victims all the ...
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September 16, 2009
- It took a lot of years and a lot of livin' before I realized that forgiveness isn't something you do. Forgiveness is all about what you don't do. You don't wake up and replay the argument when they hurt you, practicing better retorts. You don't think of what they did and said years ago to wound you, while you take a morning shower today. You don't remember, over breakfast, that you were abused ...
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July 26, 2009
- Part 1As Billy-Joe sits early in the morning, unable to sleep because of a crime that was committed almost twenty-nine years ago. The memories are so real the pain, the yearning for it to stop is still as vibrant as the day she was victimized. Brutally and with out mercy.That day will never be forgotten by her. The memories will go to the grave with her. After twenty-nine years she figured that ...
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July 14, 2009
- I've recently been invited to serve on the Board of Directors of a foundation called Let Go,Let Peace Come In at www.letgoletpeacecomein.org/ . Their mission is: "To bring healing, support, and awareness to the hundreds of millions of adult childhood sexual abuse survivors and their families worldwide. We plan to enact change within the healthcare systems, political systems and societies ...
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May 29, 2009
- No sooner had I arrived home from Santa Fe than I learned my Facebook account had been hacked, hijacked, rudely taken over by some creepy alien mind. Hackers need to get a life - wait, I forgot, this is their life. But what was far worse was trying to close my Facebook account. I tried to deactivate my account, I tried to delete my account - nothing seemed to work. Those creepy alien ...
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April 24, 2009
- Reading the headlines lately about President Obama releasing information about severe interrogation techniques, among which were the more insidious; such as waterboarding, apprarently approved by Ms Rice while in office and having just signed a petition I received from George Soros foundation, I find myself thematically back a decade when I was struggling to give voice to an incalculably ...
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January 3, 2009
- In a public relations campaign launched in the Palestinian Authority, the Hamas terror organization is claiming victory over Israel's withdrawal and promises to terrorize Haifa and Tel Aviv until Israel is defeated and Palestine restored to the Arabs. They are taking credit for the Israeli withdrawal, saying that Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip defeated by the "resistance," not as ...
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December 10, 2008
- A fifty year old man was shot to death in Dublin the other day and a thirteen year old boy was arrested. Apparently the victim had been unable to tolerate anymore abuse from a group of youngsters who had gathered outside on the street and were throwing eggs and shouting abuse at his house. I can imagine how incensed he must have been and decided to try and give the bullies a scare by running ...
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May 12, 2008
- For once,Let’s not stop and watch the car crash,Let’s not argue over politics,Let’s not let petty differences get in the way. Please,Hold a light with your heart,And shine on those who are alone in the dark. (Please feel free to use this as a wall, leave your name, what you want to say, the ones you are praying for. Pray, spread the word, in the mean time, if anyone could give one ...
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