Quoth my local NPR station:
“This is not like public TV where we do it 24 hours a day like the Home Shopping Channel!”
There’s a reason why I pledge to my public radio station (other than the fact that they offer student rates): their pledge weekends are almost as entertaining than the shows that they are interrupting. My PBS station doesn’t even do that. (We’ll pledge for PBS when Jon is ordained.)
This is pretty miraculous considering that almost no kidnapping yields a live victim at the end. I remember the Polly Klaas kidnapping in 1993 very vividly because she was a year younger than me and she was also from northern California. I remember the trial and the verdict. (The only case of the death penalty in California that I support is this one.) The picture on the Front Page of the paper after the verdict was Richard Allen Davis flipping a double bird at the camera.
Anyway… this is such good news. If it wasn’t Lent, I’d use the A (or H) word. 🙂
Some words of wisdom from Dubya.
(Yes, I am aware I am quoting the President, who enjoys a sordid reputation in my blog. He quotes Isaiah 40. Even he makes good speeches occasionally.)
I wonder if it’s prophetic that I read A Grief Observed (C.S. Lewis) last night.
The Lord be with you
And also with you
Let us pray:
We pray to you, almighty God, in this time of uncertainty over the fate of the space shuttle. You are our refuge and our strength, a very present help in time of trouble. Do not let us fail in the face of these events. Uphold us with your love, and give us the strength we need. Help us in our confusion, and guide our actions. Heal the hurt, console the bereaved and afflicted, protect the innocent and helpless, and deliver any who are still in peril; for the sake of your great mercy in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Kyrie eleison!
Christe eleison!
Dona nobis pacem.
Various people have weighed in on the blogs4God.com Anti-Massacre Movement posting made by Kat. There were people who read it and felt disgusted and there were dissentions. (Click on the various linked words text to see the responses.) I thought I’d add my 2 cents on the situation.
I think Kat made a serious error of judgement in the way she handled the posting. She had an opportunity to mention that it was the 30th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade and that abortion was a problem and she chose to go about it in a very callous way. I understand the passion of her pro-life stance and I think she should express it, but it would be prudent for her to remember that not everyone on here is in the same place as her as far as our beliefs on abortion.
I knew people in college who had abortions and none of them were proud of it. It was an immensely painful thing and many were in therapy to deal with it. I wish abortion didn’t exist but I don’t think that banning it will extinguish it. Instead, we should be preventing the situations that would make abortion an option. Instead of showing our kids pictures of aborted fetuses, let’s let them know why sex should be saved until marriage. Instead of presenting abortion as the best option for dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, let’s make adoption information more readily available. Instead of throwing them out on the street, let’s support them during the pregnancy and help them carry the child to full-term. Instead of letting the television industry show our children people who engage casually in pre-marital sex, let’s boycott the advertisers for those shows and insist on programs which show the strength of marriage. In the rare cases (and I mean RARE) where it is medically necessary, let’s not shun the women. I don’t think any of them relish the idea that they are killing their child.
I’ve emailed Kat to this effect but… I am praying that she takes down the posting and either edits it or replaces it with what she had in her journal.
Oh yes… a very balanced response. (via Ellen)
There was a frat fight that killed someone in San Jose. Apparently, some of the frat people were from UCSC. There are no frats allowed on campus so I’m amazed that we’re being implicated.
can anyone tell me why we’ve had the following things happen in the last three days: -the shooting spree at santana high school -the shooting at a pennsylvania school this morning -the arrest of a student in washington for bringing a gun to school -the arrest of two teenagers in california for having a hit list and a rifle i just wish that my generation would abandon the violent trash that is the media and pop music industry and start working to make things better. sorry… blowing someone’s head off with a gun does not solve anything.