You are right (thats twice now, in just a year )

And the 'Legions of the P O'D' have a valid point to make as well, whatwith all those Desecrates lambasting (unfairly - surely?) Bush's record on the economy (and they eat babies).

Seriously: what happened to the adult human capacity to absorb (duh, like a grown-up) a little healthy ribbing? There is enough true offensive behaviour in the world, in act and in speech, without seeking it out and finding it where it was never intended.

Is there not a sense, also, that when those gentle Wiccan souls were mere toddling youths that it was, possibly, in part, these self same stereotypes of 'witches' that they found engaging? that spawned their initial interest in the first place? or did they get their stereotypes somewhere else?

To be a fantasist is one thing, but to be a thin-skinned one is to simply invite a life of disappointment.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

You can thank the liberals and their lawyers in this country. Before long, we won't be allowed to do anything in this country......EXCEPT KILL BABIES. And they will fight for THAT choice with EVERY fiber in their being.

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Clintonite after Clintonite. My question is, "So when does this so-called CHANGE start?"

ah! ...but will you eat them?

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

No. And we don't behead people who don't believe as we do either. What a gross practice! What kind of monsters believe in that?

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Clintonite after Clintonite. My question is, "So when does this so-called CHANGE start?"

I think you used the right word, yourself, when you described them; Monsters.

As long as we are consistent, and apply it universally to all beheaders of innocents - agreed?

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

you get beheaded by a knife, or a US bomb dropped on a wedding...whats the difference?

The first is done with full knowledge and intent, the latter done through honest mistake. I think it obvious.

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What have you done for your people today?

Halloween deserves to be banned in schools, but it has nothing to do with offending some middle aged women who jump from new-age spirituality to new-age spirituality and a bunch of punk kids wearing slipknot shirts.

It deserves to be banned because these little snots need to learn some discipline and quite thinking life is a game where you dress up and people hand you candy (that only happens if you're rich).

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"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."
Jim Morrison

Huges differences. One is intentional....and the other is not.

Of course, there's always that chance that afterwards, the bad guys yell "weddings" to get some sympathy. Too many calls of "weddings" for that to be believable. Not saying it's never happened. And how stupid does one have to be? Let's see.....you know there's a war going on.....you know that gunfire into the air at a wedding has gotten people bombed before.....and YET you STILL continue the behavior????? Don't you care anything about your own kids at that wedding?

It's kinda like pointing a play gun at a police officer and then wondering why you got shot. Duh!

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Clintonite after Clintonite. My question is, "So when does this so-called CHANGE start?"

That's silly. The little school parties they have are usually the last 30 minutes at the end of the day. They don't hurt anybody.

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Clintonite after Clintonite. My question is, "So when does this so-called CHANGE start?"