"Vitriol infests Rick Warren family’s grief"

“Either there is no God, or God doesn’t listen to Rick Warren, despite all the money Rick has made off of selling false hope to desperate people,” one poster from Cincinnati wrote in to USA Today.

In another comment, the same poster counsels Warren to “abandon primitive superstitions and accept the universe for what it is — a place that is utterly indifferent to us.”

Some rush to add pain to the Warrens’ world because, in their view, he did not show sufficient compassion for the unremitting pain suffered by gay youths rejected by parents and peers. They were outraged when Warren took a political stand for Proposition 8, which overturned legal same-sex marriage in California in 2008 and is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Others have appointed themselves 140-character theologians in a debate over whether someone once saved can lose his or her salvation if suicide is against God’s law. These posters, rather than waiting for Judgment Day, have ruled for hell.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/vitriol-infests-rick-warren-familys-grief/2013/04/08/d214c080-a071-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html

As religion writer Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans notes on her Facebook page: "These commenters, like Milton's Satan, bring Hell with them everywhere they go."

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I just got my baby chicks in the mail!

They look good except for two that got over the divider and separated from the rest. One didn't make it, and the other is getting special treatment - I'm warming her up tucked into my shirt.

What is the difference between a selected mix such as a labradoodle

and a standard mutt?

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. "

Here's a sample of what the South Korean press is saying:

S.Koreans Unruffled by N.Korean Threats

Most South Koreans are calmly going about their everyday lives despite increasing threats from North Korea.

On Sunday, over 30,000 people visited the Han River Park in Yeouido for a picnic. "Despite a considerable drop in temperature after Saturday's rain, picnickers kept coming in until late in the evening," a park administrator there said.

A 42-year-old housewife who visited the park with two children on Sunday afternoon said, "The North Korean threat is nothing new. I don't feel the need to be nervous all of a sudden."

Panic buying of necessities such as instant noodles and bottled water, which has sometimes happened after threats from North Korea in the past, is also at a minimum. Big supermarket chains E Mart and Lotte Mart did not see greater demand for such goods and they have no plans to increase stocks.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/04/08/2013040801345.html


I think the lack of panic buying may be significant.

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL KIM IL SUNG THIS IS NOT A DOCUMENTARY!

If the Walking Dead was set in a Blue state instead of a Red state,

with Blue state characters, would it be different?

Wilding and hill jumping - fruit of the same poisonous tree -

Last week four young men were killed a mile from my house because they were "hill jumping" - racing a car to the top of a steep hill so it goes airborne at the crest. Two of the men were employed at chain sandwich shops. The other tow were unemployed. Among them , they had fathered at least five children. The oldest was 23. This is in a small city/rural area which has seen factory after factory close over the last 30 years.

Then I read about "wilding" in Chicago.

There are too many young people who have no opportunity to become self sufficient, self supporting adults. This is not to excuse bad behavior, but would we be seeing so much of it if everyone had a chance to at least get on the ladder and work their way up?

We don't need more guns on the street, we need real jobs!