Talk about it: Barack Obama leaves Chicago Church for good

Very, VERY curious to hear what your thoughts are on this move.  Did you expect it?  Did you want it?  Do you think it was a mistake?  Share, share, and share some more… My personal opinion?  I think it was a mistake to leave the church.   Barack Obama resigned Saturday from his Chicago church …

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Video Documentary on Elisabeth Fritzl Case

There has been so much coverage of this case, that it can be hard to remember all of the details. I had forgotten, or hadn’t yet read that the children in the cellar knew they had siblings upstairs, that they’d seen pictures and videos. It’s left me feeling troubled today. I just cannot imagine.

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Did I stutter? The Catholic Church still hates women

So my girl, Josephine (who you all will get a nice intro to next week as a “guest” contributor (that means permanent, but don’t tell her I said that); Josie to the homies, sent along this little bit of information in an email she entitled “yet another reason I no longer attend Catholic Church…” “VATICAN …

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'Kill the Indian, save the man': hellish truth of original American Indian schools

According to Col. Richard Pratt’s speech in 1892:

“A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”

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Argentina: "Here we have many Josef Fritzls"

A 73-year-old Argentine man who fathered two children with a young daughter he kept as his sexual prisoner will serve 16 years in prison himself.

Prosecuting Attorney Sergio Antin said the case of Eleuterio Soria had similarities to that of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man arrested last month for locking his daughter in a basement for 24 years.

“If we’re talking about sexual subjugation, and we take into account that the victim did not leave the house, yes, there are similarities” to the Fritzl case, government prosecutor Sergio Antin said after Soria was sentenced on Tuesday.

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