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• A Terrorist Abduction of Tampa’s Mayor? That’s What Special Ops Practiced in FL This Week

  May 24, 2012 at 6:39pm

  In reply to Inlandmar2.

  Buckhorn never struck me as a bad guy…but if the terrorists ran off with Representative Kathy Castor, I’d probably root for the terrorists for once. Anything to get her out of office.

• Should Children as Young as Five Years Old be Branded ‘Fledgling Psychopaths’?

  May 14, 2012 at 2:52pm

  I don‘t support labeling kids with adult psychiatric disorders and I think we’re severely over-medicating people of all ages for psychiatric illnesses…but shall we do nothing to interrupt the development of a psychopath? We always recognize the signs in hindsight and it seems we could do more than going “yeah, he did kinda act uncaring with animals when he was 10″ after we catch him 20 years later as a serial killer.

• Husband of 9/11 Victim Reportedly on a ‘Mission’ to Save KSM and Other Suspected Perpetrators from the Death Penalty

  May 14, 2012 at 2:46pm

  I, like Mr. Allison, believe that killing another human being is abhorrent. However, I have no illusions that the only way to ensure that folks like KSM aren’t later released (like say the Locherbie bomber) is to kill him. If we must kill him, I think we ought to do it in such a way that will give people who believe as he does reason to reconsider their own decision to be terrorists. How about death by firing squad with bullets blessed by a Rabbi and dipped in pig’s blood? I guess I learned my Machiavelli well, it is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.

• California to Ban Therapies That Try to Turn Gay People Straight

  May 9, 2012 at 9:54am

  Some food for thought. If you had a life-threatening condition, and the doctor offered you a surgery that had an estimated failure rate of 99.5% based on a handful of very limited studies but that it was “God’s plan for you to have the surgery,” would you take the surgery? Should the doctor be forced to make you sign a waiver so that you can‘t sue when it doesn’t work? If presented with such a waiver, would you want to sign?

  http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_exod1.htm

• ‘Give Them a Good Punch’: Pastor Says He Was Joking When He Told Parents to Hit Their Gay Kids

  May 2, 2012 at 9:19pm

  In reply to Smokey_Bojangles.

  If a group of people with no interest in how or why you do what you do was constantly reminding you that they know your motivations better than you, that those motivations are evil and you need forgiveness for how you feel, you might get angry too.

  I have a good relationship with both my parents, don’t have any issues with women (unless you want to count not being interested in sleeping with them), I was never abused. Yet…Being gay…feels right, feels better to me in a way I can’t really put into words. I know that‘s not convincing to you and it probably shouldn’t be. I wouldn’t accept personal experience as proof of God either.

• ‘Give Them a Good Punch’: Pastor Says He Was Joking When He Told Parents to Hit Their Gay Kids

  May 2, 2012 at 9:08pm

  In reply to VanceUppercut.

  @Vance — Unfortunately, plenty of parents and bullies do give it the old college try anyway.

  @AB5R — That didn’t work either. I hate dancing.

• ‘Give Them a Good Punch’: Pastor Says He Was Joking When He Told Parents to Hit Their Gay Kids

  May 2, 2012 at 9:05pm

  In reply to LaBelle.

  Careful….You might still get charged with abuse if the child later develops diabetes from the sugary drinks. ;-)

• If Past May Days Are Any Indication… Tuesday Could Get Ugly

  April 30, 2012 at 9:39pm

  In reply to JQCitizen.

  *shrugs* I predict a yawn-fest. No significant portion of the populace cares. I will personally be at work. Things need to get done.

• Dem Rep. Pete Stark Praises Atheists‘ ’National Day of Reason’ on House Floor

  April 30, 2012 at 9:37pm

  In reply to Dismayed Veteran.

  If most people thought like the two of you, I might consider running for office. But how many would vote for a gay, atheist conservative? Not enough. My agenda, call it naive if you will, is to leave as many people as possible alone to do as they please as long as no 3rd party has to pay for the consequences. I believe in the free market and science and I point to history to show they solve more problems than they create. I distrust anyone who says “I‘m from the government and I’m here to help.” And I certainly never trust anyone who tells me that they have all the answers and will gladly sell them to me (as in Global Warming/Climate change). But regardless, I’m unelectable. So enjoy the kind of person who you can elect…

• This Microorganism Doesn‘t Fit Into the ’Tree of Life’ and May Become Founder of a New Kingdom

  April 30, 2012 at 9:21pm

  In reply to KangarooJack.

  Things always tend to be more complicated than we humans first imagine. Perhaps we’ll come to see life as a continuum rather than the strict way we see things today.