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Please Stop Killing Other People
7 July, 2005 - 37 dead in London
5 July, 2005 - 10 dead in Moscow, 16 dead in Israel, 12 Nepalese executed in Iraq,
June 2005 - 99 dead American Military Personnel
June 2005 - 499 dead Iraqis
142 dead by terrorist attacks in the last 10 days
1,709 dead by terrorist attacks since January 2005
Since Sept. 11, 2001, according to this article, around 1,500 have died in terrorist
attacks in Iraq, nearly 700 in Russia, more than 350 have died in Israel, around
200 in Spain and more than 100 in the Philippines.
57 People Murdered in Milwaukee since January 2005
3 dead in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
The list goes on and on.
Does anyone else ever feel like crying when you think about how many people are killing
other people in the world today? What the hell is going on?
If you are a killer, please stop.
If you know a killer, please stop them.
And whoever you are, killer or not, go ahead and cry once and a while.
Its okay.
How do you say "Gay Marriage" in
Spanish? Ask Zapatero...
Family owned Oshkosh bookstore
closing its doors
Dear Abby: Athiests, Christians and
Jews, Oh My!
Greens Knock Dems for Not Knocking
Bush hard enough on War, Lies, and the
Downing St. Memo
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2005 Candidate John Daggett
cleared of all charges
John Daggett, who ran in the Spring
2005 election for the Triple Crown (City
Council, County Executive, and School
Board) all on the same ballot, has been
cleared of both charges against him:
disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
The charges stem from a September
2004 incident in which Daggett, 62, was
pulled from his porch by police and
'tasered'.
Daggett had been misidentified as a
suspect in a harassment complaint by
police. When the police had approached
him where he sat on his porch, they had
apparently seen a kitchen knife and
called for backup. When Daggett leaned
over, the police took him down and gave
him the what-for.
Although John Daggett charges that this
was an "assassination attempt" in a civil
lawsuit, the judge dismissed the case
against Daggett based on the fact that
the original harassment complaint did
not "authorize the police to drag Mr.
Daggett off his own premises."
- "John Daggett is not a
vanishing bird, but an eagle
that will protect all the citizens
of Oshkosh against harm and
protect their civil rights. Soar
with an eagle.” - John Daggett
James Stockdale dies at 81
James Stockdale, the heroic vice-presidential
candidate on the ticket with Ross Perot in
1992, has passed away. Anyone who
watched the televised debate between Vice
President Dan Quayle, Senator Al Gore, and
retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale, like
myself, has a very soft spot in their heart for
this man. A tortured POW in Vietnam, he had
to endure standing between the attack dogs
Quayle and Gore for over 90 minutes, leading
him to say: "And I think America is seeing
right now the reason this nation is in gridlock."
From CNN.com:
- A political unknown, Stockdale became the
butt of jokes after he opened the 1992 vice
presidential debate by asking, “Who am I?
Why am I here?”
“The questions were relevant in terms of
the evening’s purpose, which was to
introduce myself and let the American people
know where I was coming from,” he wrote in
1995. “But I also chose them for their broader
relevance to my life: I am a philosopher.”
Stockdale said his study of the Roman Stoic
philosopher Epictetus helped him endure
more than seven years as a prisoner of war
after his A-4 Skyhawk was shot down over
North Vietnam.
He was awarded the Medal of Honor, the
nation’s highest military medal for valor, in
1976 for his efforts to organize fellow
American prisoners to resist their guards.
Stockdale “deliberately inflicted a near-
mortal wound to his person in order to
convince his captors of his willingness to give
up his life rather than capitulate,” the Medal
of Honor citation reads.
“He was subsequently discovered and
revived by the North Vietnamese, who,
convinced of his indomitable spirit, abated in
their employment of excessive harassment and
torture toward all of the prisoners of war.”
...
Adm. Vern Clark, chief of naval operations,
called Stockdale “a giant among heroes and a
patriarch of ethical leadership.”
“Admiral Stockdale challenged the human
limits of moral courage, physical endurance
and intellectual bravery, emerging victorious
as a legendary beacon for all to follow,” Clark
said in a news release.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Sybil,
his devoted partner in love and life, and the
rest of the Stockdale family.”