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Defending himself from assault? Really? Here's your Smoking Gun about the witness who allegedly corroborated Wilson's story.

FWIW, Raf didn't need to read minds or exercise any form of clairvoyance. He simply read what you said, Skyrider and articulated reasonable inferences easily made from them.

Strange place for such a holiday greeting, but ok, you too. Personally, I hope John Lynn seeks and finds the best medical care he can get.

I had to think really hard to actually remember the text of the verse... It's not one I go to much anymore. TWI's example of the "more abundant life" was so far from abundant that it tainted the meaning of the word for me. That "more abundant life" just means misery, slavery, oppression, greed, manipulation, and destruction. Funny, sounds more like "steal, kill, and destroy," does it not? Honestly, I rarely read the Bible anymore. I do listen to the Bible being read by someone else - it bypasses the part of my brain that associates it with my experiences in TWI. Otherwise it doesn't serve any purpose but to cause me to relive that hell over and over again. I do attend church regularly. I found that I enjoy the Roman Catholic mass very much - probably because it is so very different from TWI. I haven't lost my belief in God, but I don't try to make Him/Her/It into something I can understand completely. I no longer believe in the perfection of the "rightly divided word of God" and the "mathematical precision/scientific accuracy" or whatever they called it. God's too big to be contained in a book. Well, that was a tangent... So, John 10:10 - what sticks out for me is a whole lot of $#!TTY memories from the tine I was in TWI. The verse has lost all positive meaning for me. That answer the question?

Spare me the innocent indignation. You could have compared the lack of ISIL coverage to a thousand issues getting more coverage in the media today. Not only did you choose Ferguson as your point of comparison, you portrayed the Ferguson issue in such a way as to invalidate the claims made by the protesters. That has NOTHING to with the civilized world shrugging at ISIL. If you don't like the Ferguson protests, that's cool. No one is forcing you to agree with them. But what you actually said was that Ferguson is an invalid story that does not deserve the coverage it's getting, and using the heads of innocent children to illustrate that point. So vile and disgusting are kind words, compared to what's called for under the circumstances.

I don't see how one injustice invalidates the quest for justice in an unrelated case. Not to pass any judgment on Officer Wilson, pro or con, but there's something flat out despicable about using the heads of innocent children to tell frustrated protesters concerned about an unrelated issue to sit down and shut up. Vile. Sorry.