Stupid People In the News

Police said a 20-year-old was found upside down in an air duct of the 98 Cent store on Fruitridge Road. It took firefighters several hours to get him out. He was then taken to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. The twenty year old was caught upside down in an air duct of a local 98 Cent store. It took the firefighters several hours to get him out. He ended up being taken to a local Medical Center. He might be our rooftop burgler.

Three people were arrested for stealing A DIRECTV vanfrom Vacaville. It was cornered near Northgate Boulevard and Interstate 80. The tracking device on board made it rather easy to find them. Unfortunatly, they plowed through a fence and some pallets of bricks before the surveillance video from a nearby business recorded them jumping out of the van.

Killing: Absolutes do not Exist in a Referential Relative World

Absolutes do not exist in a referential relative world.

If killing is killing and all taking of life is lumped together then it would be wrong to take a life in self-defense or to protect my neighbor, an innocent child, or a family member, from imminent death or grievous harm. I suggest these simplistic definitions to separate the differences between killing and murder for the sake of discussion.

Murder is a deliberate taking of human life.
Killing is to save human life from gravis harm.

Now I have set out my definitions I will try to apply them to an article posted on another blog. Whether my response is a wacky or thoughtful one shall be judged by you the reader.

“Killin is killin folks and revenge is the basest of emotions. Yet we have legalized it in America and cling to it with a tenacity only found in psychopaths. We are the only civilized nation left on the planet that still uses the death penalty. We’re up their with Saudie Arabia and Iran on this one. War? The whole concept of killing men, women and children you don’t even know for some grand ideal. What ideal could be so great that it would call for the murder of strangers? This concept is even more bizarre than killing for revenge. What, killing strangers is ok as long as I’m imposing my beliefs or my system of government on them?”

“We are the only civilized nation left on the planet that still uses the death penalty”

According to Amnesty International, during 2004 more than 3,797 people were executed in 25 countries, and more than 7,395 people were sentenced to death in 64 countries.
Executions have been carried out by the following methods since 2000:

Beheading (in Saudi Arabia, Iraq)
Electrocution (in USA)
Hanging (in Egypt, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Pakistan, Singapore and other countries)
Lethal injection (in China, Guatemala, Philippines, Thailand, USA)
Shooting (in Belarus, China, Somalia, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam and other countries)
Stoning (in Afghanistan, Iran)

I will leave the decision to you whether or not a country qualifies to be civilized. The death penalty is murder. It is the purposeful taking of a life. If the sentence is imposed because the party killed or murdered another human, murdering them will not safe the life taken.

“The whole concept of killing men, women and children you don’t even know for some grand ideal. What ideal could be so great that it would call for the murder of strangers?”

Unfortunately once humans formed tribes and alliances based upon geographical and spiritual reasons we moved from individual responses to group responses. If group A murders Group B, and Group C defends group B, is it murder or killing?

It is a deliberate purposeful attack but group C is saving group B’s lives. I propose that if group C saves more lives than group A would take, it is killing. If group C kills more of group B then it is murder.

If group A is defending, its members lives by attacking group B then group A is killing. If they do it to steal their food or land, it is murder.

Obviously I could go on with different scenarios, but, I am sure have an idea of how the discussion would go.

“What, killing strangers is ok as long as I’m imposing my beliefs or my system of government on them? Taking human life to impose beliefs, religious or governmental, fails the killing test and is murder by my simple definitions posed above.

Groups laws do not define what is good and bad, they just reflect the morality of their society. Killing is either good or bad based on its ethical acceptability. And ethics are defined, for example by religions. Explaining why killing is just or unjust we go to a higher “authority”. If god said killing was always ok, would you start murdering everyone? On earth, the concepts of good and evil are out of Gods jurisdiction. Depending on ones personal beliefs there might be a problem when in death you face your God.

Standard moral discussions on war bring up the application of three criterions:

Public authority – only a legitimate government may wage war. Vigilantes and terrorists cannot do it

Just cause – War may be waged only to save innocent life, to make sure people can live decently, and to protect their natural rights

Right intention – your just cause has to be your actual reason for going to war.

Like I stated: Absolutes do not exist in a referential relative world.

Gov. Schwarzenegger Declares State of Emergency for CA Levee System

Schwarzenegger, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, as well as representatives Doris Matsui, Dan Lungren, and Richard Pombo took a 40-minute aerial tour of the American River, Sacramento River, and the Delta system Wednesday to survey the situation.

On Wednesday this week (Feb 22) our Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and representatives Doris Matsui, Dan Lungren, and Richard Pombo took a 40-minute aerial tour of the American River, Sacramento River, and the Delta system. Surprise they found “conditions of extreme peril,” Therefore, on Friday Gov. Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency for California’s levee system. It is not really news to those of us who take a drive along the river roads once in awhile and have lived here long enough to realize the dire condition they are in.

I guess that is why many of us have axes in our attics, emergency kits, travel kennels for our pets, evacuation route plans, and a valid sense of high waters in our futures. Built on a flood plain more than 70 miles inland, Sacramento, a maritime port served by two rivers, is considered one of the most flood-prone U.S. cities. Rain and meltwater from nearby mountains could surge down the valley, overtaking dams and levees. Heavy rainfall from a storm in 1986 came 20 minutes short of causing a major flood.Of over 100 erosion sites in the levee system, 24 are critical in a major next flow event.

It is about time someone paid attention. Perhaps, our State Governments sudden awareness is one positive thing to come out of the floods in Gulf. Now they are listening. Let us hope it is not too late.

Chocolate 1957 Harley Davison Sportster

Can you say sweet! I always new Sportster’s were the sweetest ride around. In 2003 Jim Victor, an artist from Philadelphia, created a 1957 Harley-Davidson
Sportster out of chocolate at Nestlé USA’s Burlington plant for the ChocolateFest 2003. Looks yummy.

chocolate xl883 1957 sculpture