I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

We believe that it is difficult to let go, but in truth, it is much more difficult and painful to hold and protect. Reflect upon anything in your life that you grasp hold of--an opinion, a historical resentment, an ambition, or an unfulfilled fantasy. Sense the tightness, fear, and defensiveness that surrounds the grasping. It is a painful, anxious experience of unhappiness. We do not let go in order to make ourselves impoverished or bereft. We let go in order to discover happiness and peace.

Christina Feldma

I think anyone who commits these types of crime has mental deficiencies, but I think the other issue of WHO and WHAT sort of talk inspires you is just as much too prevalent right now and I think has likely more to do with it. These people hear what they WANT to hear and trying to stick it all on mental health is a to me a bit of a cop-out.

I'm raising my hand and I also think we need to think about increasing the number of justices being realigned to 13 to reflect current circuit court numbers.

Ironically, I heard about this shooting after I returned from the grocery store.

Pingpong, you were lucky that day (just kidding)! But seriously, I won't let maniacs keep me from my occasional trip to the super market. This despite the fact that two people had a shoot out in our local suburban grocery store parking lot YESTERDAY. Both were killed. In our neighboring big city, TODAY, another shoot out happened in the parking lot.

We have 12,000 people here. It was just under 15,000 when we moved back home in 1997 but obviously we have gone way down in size. It is basically a retirement town. Had industry when I was growing up. Hollywood Candy Factory, Kas Potato Chip factory, a dress factory and downtown stores. Those are all gone now. We now have a tract of land that is called The Industrial Park with businesses where lots of people work and then a few individual stores downtown as well as the little strip mall. Not very much -- not a bustling place at all.

We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts. -Kent Nerburn

Not to mention voting against securing baby formula for people. Sometimes I'm amazed that the Reps. keep coming back with these kinds of votes. If the Democrats get their message down pat -- it would be possible to do a boat load of damage, but for some reason we tend to struggle with it. We have some time to work on it -- and I so hope that happens.