justice

The United States Supreme Court made two very important ruling this week. The first ruling states that convicted child molesters cannot be put to death. And the second concerns execution methods. The Court held that the drug combination used to execute condemned inmates does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusually punishment.

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Can you tell the difference between a kiddy pornographic photo and a family photo? If you cannot tell the difference or do not know the legal difference, you should not be taking photos of your minor children or grandchildren.

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Does the end always justify the means? Is it ok for a police officer to lie and get a known criminal off the street? Is it ok for a police officer to lie about your speeding ticket just to meet his quota for the month?

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Farewell little "Pumpkin" we wish you well in your new life with Grandma in China.

She beamed into our lives through world TV news programs a few weeks ago; that poor little abandoned three year old at a Melbourne, Australia, train station. She was nick-named "Pumpkin" by Australian authorities, because of the Pumpkin Patch clothing she wore on that fateful night.

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Publications may come in many forms and purposes. Two published journals, The Beat Within and Mother Jones are not any different. On the surface, these published journals have striking similarities, but on the whole they have more differences than similarities. Aside from the outright difference in the age of their writers and the type of write-ups and contents, there is more to be said between these two publications.

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I was researching the fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant", one of the many attributed to the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop, for a comment I was making elsewhere in the blogosphere. Some of you might recall the Walt Disney Silly Symphony of the same name, in which the Grasshopper of the title, a lazy fellow, is constantly singing:

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First of all, why do we marry?
Marriage is an institution that unites a male and female to jointly figure out the needs of each other and combinely face problems of life with courage and confidence.
For acheiving this goal, nothing is less important work or work of lesser importance.
For example ...there are genrally two portions on which one has to concentrate....the family needs and the outside family needs.

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I don't know how accurate those old cowboy and western movies are but from what I can gather, they used to hang hoss thieves. I understand those reasons too, because a horse could be all that stood between a man and life and death. So when you steal a man's horse you could be virtually robbing him of his life.

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I just completed a throughout search among the Ante Nicene Fathers regarding Josephus to find out what the early so called Christian authors may have said Josephus stated about Jesus.

This was in regards to what now exists in Josephus and is claimed by Christians to prove the existence of Jesus, In Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews�:

About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.

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Some of you might have been following the exchanges I've had in recent days with a blogger named Jake. Jake is good folks. He is in training to become a Special Forces operative - a Green Beret, if you will. And apparently, a bard, of sorts. His blog sometimes expresses opinions that are, um, a little right of center. But he's thoughtful about it, and - unlike some others - he's prepared to listen thoughtfully to other views. Especially when those views update our understanding of the underlying history and sociology for an event or opinion. And (lest we forget) he is one of those who has sworn (or affirmed) to defend our right to choose to waste away in front of American Idol, and to die - yes, I said die - in that defense if necessary. So, he gets my respect. And my arguments.

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A story that many people don’t know about is the brave members of the 442nd Combat division. The 442nd was made up entirely of Japanese Americans who wanted to fight for their country and show that they weren’t traitors.

Yeah it doesn’t sound right huh? They were fighting for the same country that just finished putting their families into a four year prison. These people were true hero’s in my eyes.

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The saddest art about the whole experience was when they were finally released. They were so happy that they were allowed to return home, until the actually got there. They arrived to betrayal and hate.

They returned to burnt down homes, or broken windows and doors. They were missing their possessions that they had to leave behind. And they returned to graffiti painted on the walls “Japs ain’t welcome anymore�.

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Life inside of the camps was harsh.

The toilets were holes in the ground and out in the open. Imagine having to use the restroom without any privacy what so ever. It was so bad that people would put a paper bag over their head so they would get at least some sense of privacy. The showers were community so you had to shower with everybody in the camp, like I said, no privacy.

The Beds were only straw mattresses.

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When they arrived at the camps, the sight must have been pretty pathetic. The buildings that would be their homes for the next four years were nothing but tar paper roofed wooden barracks. The barracks had big knot holes in the wood, and since the camp was located in the desert, they had to sweep out the dust from their “homes� several times a day.

Whole families were only allowed one room inside of the barracks and they were separated into sections.

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