Speaking of Jerks

 I am so tired of Brian David Mitchell. 

You would think when a story had so many hot, salacious twists and turns that a person like me would never get tired of it, but I have.  Put a fork in me, I’m done.  

He’s a sick, perverse child abuser who has ruined more than a few lives, but he’s back on television again with his crazy hair, crooning the hymns again.  I want to snatch that face bald he makes me so mad.  Today they broke into TV to let us know that a judge thinks he can’t, maybe, get a fair trial in Utah.  Ya think?  We are so sick of that crazy monkey, any one of us would take a stick to him if given half a chance just to get him out of our faces.

Elizabeth Smart seems to have emerged from her ordeal eight years ago pretty well and  has gone on with her life except she has to come home from her LDS mission to testify.   Yiiiiikes.  

I can’t imagine any state would let him loose regardless of where they try him so let’s just get the whole thing over and done with so we don’t have to see his ugly face or run the risk of anyone having to hear him sing again.  Who cares where.  Where is Joran Van der Sloot?  We don’t hear about him anymore.  Maybe that’s a good spot for Mitchell.

That Sixties Liberal Is On The Loose Again

An incredible story came out of Iraq stating that on Sunday nine American mothers received comfort from dozens of Iraqi mothers who had lost their sons during the Saddam Hussein era which ended in 2003. 

"When I hugged an American woman we couldn't express ourselves in words, but what helped us to express our feelings and understand each other were our tears. We found them as a true expression to our grief and suffering," said a 55-year-old Kurdish woman who had lost most of her own close family during the scorched-earth campaign against the Kurdish rebellion.  

The American women expressed how they had been angry before their visit to the country in which their sons had died, and yet had found peace and comfort as they visited the land where their children lived their last moments and spent time with people who inhabited that country and felt their same pain.  "I'll have visited the land where a piece of my heart will remain forever," said Amy Galvez, who is from Salt Lake, and whose son, Cpl Adam Galvez was also from Salt Lake City.   

The meeting of the two groups of women was organized by a group called “Families United Toward Universal Respect’ from the state of Virginia and officials from the local f Kurdish government and our State Department.

Yet while these women were meeting together in the northern part of Iraq, which is a mostly peaceable area currently, other parts of the country were experiencing  ongoing bombings and death.  

Doesn’t it seem silly to fight and kill?  The people who are doing the fighting are hardly able to sit down and discuss the points and minutiae, doctrines and principles they are fighting for.  If people have differences, it’s ridiculous not to work them out with discussion, arbitration, judges.  

But using innocent people as battering rams, target practice and ammunition?  Mothers can see how stupid that is.  Why can’t supposedly intelligent old men?  Old men who are too old to fight themselves? 


Source:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39369062/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

The Sixties Liberal Stumbles Onto the Stage Again

An incredible story came out of Iraq stating that on Sunday nine American mothers received comfort from dozens of Iraqi mothers who had lost their sons during the Saddam Hussein era which ended in 2003. 

"When I hugged an American woman we couldn't express ourselves in words, but what helped us to express our feelings and understand each other were our tears. We found them as a true expression to our grief and suffering," said a 55-year-old Kurdish woman who had lost most of her own close family during the scorched-earth campaign against the Kurdish rebellion.  

The American women expressed how they had been angry before their visit to the country in which their sons had died, and yet had found peace and comfort as they visited the land where their children lived their last moments and spent time with people who inhabited that country and felt their same pain.  "I'll have visited the land where a piece of my heart will remain forever," said Amy Galvez, who is from Salt Lake, and whose son, Cpl Adam Galvez was also from Salt Lake City.   

The meeting of the two groups of women was organized by a group called “Families United Toward Universal Respect’ from the state of Virginia and officials from the local f Kurdish government and our State Department.

Yet while these women were meeting together in the northern part of Iraq, which is a mostly peaceable area currently, other parts of the country were experiencing  ongoing bombings and death.  

Doesn’t it seem silly to fight and kill?  The people who are doing the fighting are hardly able to sit down and discuss the points and minutiae, doctrines and principles they are fighting for.  If people have differences, it’s ridiculous not to work them out with discussion, arbitration, judges.  

But using innocent people as battering rams, target practice and ammunition?  Mothers can see how stupid that is.  Why can’t supposedly intelligent old men?  Old men who are too old too fight themselves?


Source:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39369062/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Are the earthquakes in Chile, Haiti, Taiwan and Japan related?

The following came from Yesterday's USA TODAY but it's worth repeating, I think:

"The Earth is angry.  Or at least it seems that way, with three significant earthquakes in the past week: A 7.0 magnitude quake near Japan last Friday, the huge 8.8 quake near Chile on Saturday, and a 6.4 near Taiwan earlier today. And, of course, there was the devastating 7.0 quake in January in Haiti that killed more than 200,000 people.


"So, is there any connection among all the quakes?  'No, not that we can see,' says Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. 'We've had quite a few quakes in the past two months, but not more than average.'


"'What has made the recent earthquakes newsworthy is that the earthquakes have hit near populated areas,' says Caruso. 'Another 6.4 quake this morning rattled the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, but no injuries have been reported.'


"In an average year, the geological survey estimates that several million earthquakes occur around the world. However, many go undetected because they hit remote areas or have very small magnitudes.


"According to long-term records (which exist since about 1900), the U.S.G.S. expects that about 17 major earthquakes (magnitude 7.0 - 7.9) and one great earthquake (8.0 or above) will affect the world in any given year.


"Caruso says the three recent Pacific quakes are all related to the so-called 'ring of fire,' a seismically active region that surrounds the ocean.  'However, the distances between the quakes are far too great for there to be any relationship between them.'"


By Doyle Rice