I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Okra is okay breaded and deep fat fried.

We went out to eat Friday and DH and I split deep fat fried cheesecake. It was coated in graham cracker crumbs and sugar. Yummy. I love fried stuff but hardly ever eat it.

I need to get out of my cooking rut. We seem to have a lot of baked chicken or cube steaks and baked potatoes or baked sweet potatoes. All I have energy for.

enjoyful:  I had to laugh when I read your post:  "Is the shooter an Atheist?"   Does he get a stiffer sentence if he is?  Seriously, some of the nicest people I know are Atheists and I don't think it would occur to them to do the violence this man did.  It is a matter of sanity and a good working conscience.  I think whatever his religion or non-religion status is, should not come into question. However, when it came to the Abortion Clinic killings etc., that, imo, did take a certain type of person who was so Pro-Life that they had to kill to prove their dedication to life.  It will be interesting when it does come out what the shooter's real motives were but that may take some time.

Great poem .. I read it three times!

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/11/arizona.funeral.westboro/index.html?hpt=T1

Angel wings to be used at funeral of 9 year-old girl to create barrier to Westboro Church protesters.

"They're planning an "angel action" -- with 8- by 10-foot "angel wings" worn by participants and used to shield mourners from pickets. The actions were created by Coloradan Romaine Patterson, who was shocked to find the Topeka church and its neon signs outside the 1999 funeral of Matthew Shepherd, a young gay man beaten and left on a fence to die in Laramie, Wyoming.

"We want to surround them, in a nonviolent way, to say that our community is united," Gilmer said. "We're a peaceful haven."

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Thank you for your understanding.

Melissa

Thank you Melissa.

PIP,

I've been reading all these atrocious assaults on sprouts...what some ladies don't seem to recognize is that Brussel sprouts are baby cabbages!

Peanut butter! Awful! (j/k)

I love fried cabbage...mince a couple of bacon strips, cook until crisp, add some chopped onion to the sliced up cabbage and bacon and saute on medium heat until it reaches the level of tenderness you like.  These adult cabbages are fair game, IMO.

OOPS! Is  saying "fair game" allowed?

Sorry, I still believe that the only vegetable that deserves such treatment is.....turnip.  Yuck!

In all the rhetoric, the other victims of Loughler are being overlooked.  The Wall Street Journal has an article today on Loughler's parents:

Father of Shooting Suspect May Issue Statement

The article ends with this:  "It was Mr. Smith who told the Loughners what had happened Saturday. They returned from shopping, grocery bags in their peeling white Chevy truck, to find sheriffs' cars parked in front of the house and deputies stringing up crime-scene tape.

Mr. Smith, who had seen the news on TV, walked up and told them their son was suspected in a mass shooting.

"She almost passed out right there," Mr. Smith said. "He sat in the road with the tape up and cried."

DO click on the pictures at the bottom of the article.  That will bring up a brief obituary of the victims killed in the shooting.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704428004576074771682115128.html

Are you a vegetarian, Medigal?  You sound like one

I appreciated the WSJ story too. Thanks.

I'm nearly a vegetarian. Only eat fish once or twice a week. Still having nightmares about the great brussel sprout invasion.

worldwatcher:  Everyone seems so focused on the other victims that I wonder if they really understand what it truly must be like for the parents of this insane person.  First of all, what parents want to believe their child has serious mental problems that could end up with the death of other people.  They may have seen signs but closed their eyes to it because it was too hard for them to accept.  Many bad parents have raised children who turn our to be great citizens and many good parents have also ended up with children who turned out to be very bad.  I don't think being this evil is genetic.  Many prayed for the other victims but I think Loughner's parents need prayers too.  This must  be so devastating for them to cope with.  As for his getting psychiatric help.  A person who has mental problems can be very adept at "faking" it with psychiatrists.  They just have to be smart enough to tell them what they want to hear and no one ever finds out how really sick they are.  Doesn't matter now tho.  Killing innocent people is the red flag no matter what he says now to any psychiatrist!

erica31:  Why do you think I am a vegetarian?  What does a vegan sound like?  I would like to know so I can monitor my posts to sound like what I really am.  Sorry to confuse you.  BTW:  our maintenace guy has a sign on his truck which I think is appropo:  Vegetarian:  An old Indian word for "Poor Shot!" 

I do have a lot of empathy for his parents.  I have always said that I can't take credit for the good things my kids do because then I would have to take credit for the crap that they may do too. 

I think that we have to be realistic and realize that there are a lot of people that are sitting on the fence between sanity and insane.  Until they do something like this they go unnoticed. 

Dottie, I like David Brooks' opinions though I often don't agree with him. He is a very thoughtful conservative, and I thought his column today was excellent. (He may not be conservative enough for some people, plus he has two strikes against him for writing for the NYTimes.)

Heck, he probably eats brussel sprouts and turnips.

Anne