Such sadness

The Year of Living Anxiously

Mentally ill people will always be with us, and we have no way to predict what violence they may commit, but our own violence, and the violence of our culture, doesn't do anything to help. This is just such a tragedy. It's no place to point fingers, no place to cry Democrat or Republican, no place to try to further any other agenda. It's a place to mourn. To pray. To decide, for ourselves, to live closer to compassion than anger, and to comfort each other...

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While a somewhat

strange thing to do on this particular date, it was and is just another day in the usual work-a-day world. No one has declared it a special holiday yet.

River drill shakes up DC on 9/11 anniversary

The issue here, really, is the media and their leaps to sensational reporting without proving their reports factual. They report anything they hear. Not a good way to get the truth out to the public. I am reminded of H. G. Wells and 'War of the Worlds'...

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If her fear is sincere

and not induced by people outside herself or by adolescent rebellion or whatever, then the very fact that she even has the fear means it needs to be investigated.

Christian Teen Flees Home, Says She Fears Honor Killing By Muslim Father

"Rifqa Bary Turned Up in Florida Pastor's Home Weeks After Leaving Ohio Home"

It's not like honor killings by Muslim families are unknown in North America...

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Ummm...

Gunmen shoot Sri Lanka cricketers

"Gunmen have attacked a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team on its way to play in the Pakistani city of Lahore."

Muslim extremists are now shooting cricket players? Honestly, the world has to stick together on the issue of Muslim extremists and try to do something about it without the usual 'fear of offending someone because of their religion' garbage. The world is being held hostage by a small group of murdering fanatics...