OK Gerald, I appreciate the source.

You mentioned Beck and Romney in another post, so I'm going to tie them to this response to your diet of human blood comment... I'd say such beastly creatures as you're talking about (chickenhawks) are more interested in bathing in the blood then they are in consuming it. They're shouting Barabbas, and putting him up as their chosen savior, because his zealotry fits in with their bloodlust.

@Nels, Thom used the percent of 81%.

I extrapolated the numbers and 81% of Americans love the taste of human blood.

Our country is concerned about obesity. Would the drinking of more human blood be a good diet remedy?

@Gerald ?!!??!!? where are you getting that statistic??!?!?!?! I understand the sentiment, but I don't think 8 out of 10 people I know are gung ho for these wars. However, I wouldn't say they give enough of a damn to care if there are or aren't such wars.

Besides, I don't think there is many countries that refrain from war just for the sake of refraining from it. If a country feels there is a payoff for invading a neighbor, their biggest concern is more about how will it effect existing treaties, not if its going to harm their adversary.

@harry, ....now, now don't get all envious.

@Gerald: so true. doing good works is, in my opinion, the best face of organized religion. It's so good, as a matter of fact, that that would be the GOPhers health care plan....Let the churches do it! Father Flannagan does triple-bypasses on Thursdays.

The title of this post is “Warping the Brain.” As you know, I am a Catholic who tries to know the difference between what is right and what is wrong. I am also a sinner who does try to break away from sinning. Living in the United States of Hell is not easy to be without sin. We live in a country where filth and garbage is rampant. You only have to see how rampant it is in our country. Our politicians are also part of the filth and garbage with their thought processes.

When I listen to Catholic radio and television, I also hear and see guests who can contaminate our brain with nonsense. Here are two examples. On Catholic television there was a guest who gave his opinion that torture was right and necessary. He did not give the word on torture but the word can be masked in many ways. Why would Catholic television invite such a guest to contaminate our brain? On Catholic radio a guest said that the average length in purgatory is forty-four years. Was the guest invited by his Guardian Angel to stand outside the gate of purgatory with a clipboard, paper, and pencil asking each soul what was their length in purgatory? This guest was conveying nonsense to the audience. Catholics can receive contaminated and nonsensical information from Catholic radio and television.

In the supernatural world there are no concepts of time and space. Catholics believe in purgatory for the holy souls to have their soul cleansed from sin so that we may be able to enter heaven with God and the communion of saints for all eternity. In God’s world there is no time and space. God’s time is different than our time. A blink of an eye from God may be one thousand years. No one can say what the average length in purgatory will be for you and me.

There is a great book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister, “The Cost of Discipleship.” He says that we are all born to be saints. As we grow older, many of God’s children will distance themselves from God. If we reach a certain distance away from God and we die, our soul will be damned for all eternity. We must strive to be with God and near God. Near God means we should only be a touch away from God. With God means that we are holding God’s hand.

Please guard your brain against contamination and nonsense!!!

@KMH Wow- hadnt heard that..... yes, there is a California that is PlasticLand - no doubt.

The saying is:' the Sourthern Californians do not know the difference between Northern and Southern California, however the Northern Californians do.'

The difference between assisted suicide and murder is who initiated the conversation.

@ Mark

Seems like grasping at straws. From my understanding of ERISA, it is a limited cash payout not a continuation of healthcare benefits. This has received a lot of attention in Dayton due to the Delphi bankruptcy that dumped its pension.

So the companies with 50+ employees will no longer have a choice regarding the voluntary offer of healthcare benefits. Is the concern that some of these companies will claim impending financial disaster because of the healthcare burden? Or, that these companies will now be required to also contribute to ERISA to safeguard the new healthcare benefits in essence causing a double whammy.

Why does Ben Nelson have a [D] after his name? When has he not voted with Repubs?

Oops, one [D] in there, but I guess that there are no highways or unemployment in NE, eh Senator Nelson?

Just because Kucinich has caved does not mean the battle is over. I have mentioned for several days that 27 Dems who voted for the House bill have indicated they will not vote for the Senate Bill. I have been unable to find any mention of the names of these 27 holdouts. My hopes, to no avail, were somebody on this post might be able to find these names. I now suspect these names have not been made public.