DEATH PENALTY

BIBLICAL COMMANDMENT" "THOU SHALT NOT KILL"

Why is it that the religious folks often invoke the COMMANDMENTS, but hypocritically honor them mostly in the breach?

For instance, the death penalty. The religious folks need to remember the Biblical quote, "Vengeance is Mine saith the Lord".

There have been many cases of innocent people being punished by the State with the death penalty. The justice system with all it's propensities for error should realize that state sanctioned killing may often be an egregious error that cannot in any way be rectified.

In a purely monetary sense, it often costs more to kill the convicted than it does to keep them in prison for life. May we say the the death penalty is not a fiscally responsible policy?

What to do, what to do?

THE ROMNEYS

Mitt romney is NOT his father George. Romney Sr. was a great man. Mitt is a twit.

THE KNOW NOTHINGS

"Of all the American political parties in the 19th century, perhaps none generated more controversy than the Know-Nothing Party, or the Know-Nothings. Officially known as the American Party, it actually emerged from secret societies opposed to immigrants coming to America.
Its shadowy beginnings, and popular nickname, led to it going down in history as something of a joke."

"Yet in their own time, the Know-Nothings made their presence known, and no one was laughing."
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Have they come back from the dead? I suspect they were never dead, except in the head. They seem to exemplify the Republican Party as we now know it. Knowing nothing is political sophistication in this time we live in. How sad!

Bachman

Bachman has a problem with mandatory preventive injections for children. She thinks they may contribute to mental retardation. Is she proof of her theory?

NEO-NAZI PARTY

AKA the "new" Republican Party. I have said this before and more and more I'm convinced that I am correct. To be fair, the "new party" is the TEA PARTY.They are pushing aside the old traditional Republicans, as they move to the extreme right, and I doubt that the oldtime Repubbys have the cojones to fight back.

R as in reasonable

Many years ago the "R" in reasonable was not so far removed from the "R" in Republican, once the party of President (former general) Dwight D Eisenhower. Now the "R" is as in far Rightist, an anathma to Republicans like Dwight David Eisenhower.
I was born in 1933, and grew up in the Roosevelt era. Another "R", and a reasonable man deticated to finding solutions to the great problems of the time. The reasonable "R" in the arena of politics seems to have gone away, Maybe forever.
The "R" on the political scene now is the Rick from Texass. A Republican, but not reasonable.

9/11. Unforseen Consequences

War has dire consequences. War has unforseen consequences. War that is "justified" is also war that is "unjustified". War that people believe is justified is unjustified evil to others. War that is undertaken to "free" others is often the diminishment of freedom to those who proscecute the war. The glory or war for some is the agony of war for many.

"When will they ever learn?"