Our sad times...




Vatican confirms Catholic priest was killed in Syria

The fury of the Islamist cowards...

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Today

in 1968,

Robert F. Kennedy

died of gunshot wounds while campaigning in the U.S. primary elections...

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A sad day in history

This Day in Labor History: May 30, 1937

An employer and the police join forces in putting down a strike. It's on film. To quote the author of the web page "If you ever wanted to watch the police kill strikers, now is your opportunity."

The history of people's attempts to get justice, equality and human treatment from the 1% is littered with incidents like this...

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I'm not surprised

Philippines: priest's murder involved in hydroelectric project

There are many instances in the third world where people, particularly priests and religious, who have been advocates for the rights of the poor and dispossessed, have been murdered by those who favour change that can make them wealthy. It has happened forever, and it still happens today. It seems that it is just much more obvious today...

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It is really sad...

...that certain groups of people don't want to live in peace with others.

Afghanistan bombs kill 58 in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif

All they really want to do is kill anyone who doesn't believe exactly as they do. And if they ever managed to do that they would start killing each other. I think all they really want to do is kill...

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Possibly

but we'll never really know...

Jack the Ripper May Have Been a London Abortion Practitioner

A couple of comments about the writing. The author of the article states that Dr. John Williams 'fled' London after the Ripper murders, but doesn't state why. Perhaps he simply 'left' London, as many people have over the centuries? Second, the article states that they found the surgeon's knife and

"samples of uterine tissue belonging to Sir John Williams"

Well, OK, but were the samples property of his, or were they from him? :-) Bad terminology there.

Hint: Get a new editor and don't rely on spell-checkers...

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This is the sort of thing

that is making headlines in our city now that a Pakistani Christian immigrant is trying to make public this sort of thing to the Canadian people...

Coptic Christian Student Murdered By Classmates for Wearing a Cross

Not surprisingly, it appears in this article that it was the adult teacher who instigated the issue and encouraged the youths. Like the radical Imams do...

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This sort of thing is happening more and more

in countries where Islamist fanatic murderers like Al Shabaab militants make laws for themselves...

 Islamic Extremists in Somalia Behead 17-year-old Christian

Have mercy on him, Lord, and on all his family.

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Another black day in history

Tomorrow:

The Thibodaux Massacre of 1887

This is considered the anniversary of this event, one that saw the deaths of many black workers and union members, at the hands of the white population and the Louisiana militia...

We need to bear all these injuries in our memory - an injury to one is an injury to all (except in CUPE Local 59, but that's another story).

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I admire the political tenacity

of so many people, particularly since it is extremely obvious that the Taliban really have no desire to enter any kind of peace talks.

Former Afghanistan President Burhanuddin Rabbani assassinated

There's no talking with murderers...

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This horror

just confirms my opinion: Don't go near Mexico for any reason!

Gunmen dump 35 bodies amid traffic in Mexican city: Drug traffickers suspected; horrified motorists grab cellphones to warn others

How incredible that they can do this with impunity. It's just another symptom of a country that has gone completely bad, with the law impotent to stop crime. Why should foreigners take a chance going there for a vacation when there are so many other places much safer to visit?

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Maybe it's lifestyle related?

People with Irish gangster Ned Kelly tattoos more likely to be murdered or commit suicide

"Australian professor found men with tattoo 7.7 times more likely to be murdered"

I don't think it's any kind of 'curse' or anything. Lifestyle and attitude/outlook are likely the main reasons.

They should get a control group of 20 retired grandmother-types to get a Ned Kelley tattoo and see how many die in that way. No, come to think about it, a high percentage would probably commit suicide after thinking 'What have I done getting this stupid tattoo?', so that wouldn't work...

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No matter how many years pass

stories like this keep coming to light. (Thank goodness!)

Tracing Holland’s Forgotten Kindertransport

Thank the good Lord that there are people like her who have the desire to do this sort of research.

(Look at the boy's frightened face in the photograph. Now consider that he was murdered at Sobibor shortly after the photograph was taken by that awful disease of humanity, the Nazis. Such a sad, sad history...)

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It seems that this is all they know

Nigerian Pastor’s Wife, Children among Christians Killed in Attack

These Islamist extremists only know how to act with violence and killing. It seems that they are so threatened in their faith that they have to kill everyone who doesn't believe as they do.

We have to pray for all these people.

Have mercy on the pastor and all his family, Lord.

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Pride goeth...

before the fall...

Gang tattoo leads to a murder conviction

"Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an L.A. County sheriff's investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction."

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Guilty once charged

Pakistan's blasphemy vigilantes kill exonerated man

This is the problem in these strict Muslim cultures. It doesn't matter what the law says, the extremists and fanatics will still do what they feel is necessary for them to do despite the law. They feel free to interpret anything as blasphemy, it seems, and the law has been proven to be used unfairly to settle grudges and get property, because, as we see here, it doesn't matter if you're guilty or not, you still lose.

Have mercy on him, Lord.

(I'm certainly glad that my God and His prophets and representatives are big enough to take care of themselves without the help of the little people...)

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I knew

that he was lighting more than one fire.

Afghan mob storms UN office in deadly protest

The deaths of these people sits right at the feet of that American pastor and at the feet of the Muslim clerics who stir up the people. The American pastor must have known that the only way this culture invariably responds is with violence. He is an idiot.

"Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a police spokesman for the northern region, was quoted by Reuters as saying two of the dead were beheaded by attackers during the three-hour rampage."

They are barbarians. A medieval culture with 21st century weapons...

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This film

will be a 'must-see' for me...

Martyrdom Makeover

The music from the film is available on CD, but no DVD yet. Perhaps one day...

"Basically, Of Gods and Men is a masterpiece."

The review is HERE.

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I understand

the need for formal investigations and inquests, but when they have to make a ruling like this, it just seems so ridiculous.

Gunman Derrick Bird's victims unlawfully killed

In what case would these innocent people have been 'lawfully' killed? It seems so weird...

(And if you're the type, please say a prayer for them, and for their families and friends who live on with their grief and sorrow...)

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Another famous day

of sadness and infamy. March 21, 1960:

Sharpeville massacre

We never learn...

Requiescat in pacem.

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