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Oct. 29, 2009 GETTING MOBBED: A 15-year-old girl was raped outside of her junior high prom by as many as a dozen young men and boys, while an even larger crowd looked on, recorded the event and no one called police. Some of the bystanders even laughed, as the girl was allegedly given alcohol until she was drunk and then beaten before the sexual assault. A few years ago I read that a group of teens chased and killed amna, using everything fron baseball bats to rakes, to kill the man in his own home. During this attack, several people looked on but no one came ot the man’s aid. You can’t turn on CNN or Fix News without seeing some kid get rat-packed on a bus, while the driver just does his or her job, and acts as if they are oblivious to the violence. The same thing on public transit systems across the country. Recently, in Buffalo , New York , a young man endured a horrific beating because he was white and his date black. No one has stepped forward to see that justice is done. We have become a country of cowering bystanders, afraid to stand up against the evil in our midst. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not encouraging anyone to take on a mob, but something as simple as a phone call to 911—for police and ambulance assistance—would help. Police departments and prosecutors must do more to protect witnesses willing to come forward, especially when the victim is a child or an elderly person doing nothing but minding their own business. The District Attorney has announced that all charged in the Richmond rape case will be tried as adults. I hope that if convicted, and a life sentence is an option, all of these heartless hooligans receive as much. IN MOD WE TRUST: Next time I hear the right bemoaning the “liberal bias” of the media, I’ll be sure to ignore them. To see why the conservative-liberal debate is so misleading and superficial, all we have to do is look at the Conservapedia website and examine their definition of “liberal.” “A liberal (also leftist) is someone who rejects logical and biblical standards, often for self-centered reasons. There are no coherent liberal standards; often a liberal is merely someone who craves attention, and who uses many words to say nothing. Liberalism began as a movement for individual liberties, but today is increasingly statist, and in Europe even socialistic.” Then again, this is nothing new in conservative lexicon. Bill O’Reilly, one of the faces of the right, constantly belittles liberals as “looms,” “pinheads” and “kooks.” Not that Keith “Worst Person in the World” Olbermann and his band of left-wing flame throwers are much better. I’m merely pointing out that the right howls against “bias” why being purveyors of lies and language equally misleading. Those of the conservative ilk now want to “rewrite” (that ius, reinterpret) the Bible. These neo-cons (with the accent on “cons”) have formed The Conservative Bible Project” and they believe, “Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations.” This movement is led by Andrew Schlafly, who insists that the new translation will be oartially based on “free market parables and the exclusion of liberal passages.” The arrogance behind the creators of this project assert, “recognizing that Christianity introduced powerful new concepts that even the Greek and Hebrew were inadequate to express, but modern conservative language can express well.” A post at missiontoamerica.org argues, “It is very arrogant and exclusive to claim culture changes scripture. In doing so we are claiming that the Bible should be changed based on American culture. We are claiming that it is American culture that is the most "advanced", right, good culture and it is the supreme culture…If you claim the Bible must be interpreted by culture, you are claiming the evolutionary belief that the American culture has evolved to become the supreme over all other cultures. How arrogant!!” THANKSGIVING…OCTOBER 31?: Halloween has yet to arrive, yet Christmas décor is popping up in malls across America . Dismissing the irrelevance of Halloween, shouldn’t we be preparing for Thanksgiving? The premise behind this holiday is rooted in such idealism that it should be celebrated twice a year. It's an opportunity to bring the family together to break bread. Or as it is at most family gatherings, heads, hearts and spirits. This is a day that is better suited for Halloween decorations because the skeletons will definitely be coming out of the closet; and the distilled spirits will certainly aid in that. The ghosts of mistakes past will be unearthed, as people are goblin up free food. Long hidden rumors and resentments will surface and festering childhood hurts--real and imagined--will be unshackled...Talk about a haunted house… LIVE FAT-FREE OR DIE: Nutriti9on should be taught in school. Obesity is an epidemic unique to America . Algebra can wait; dietary education can’t. Our children are being poisoned by fastfoods, so-called “preservatives” and “flavor enhancers” and food with enough chemicals in it to make a cockroach want to fast. There could be a literal long-term benefit, as scientists at the Institute of Healthy Ageing at University College London theorize that remaining youthful requires some genetic manipulation that fools the body into thinking it has reduced one’s calorie intake, which would reduce the effects of aging and age-related diseases can be treated. These scientists were able to increase the lifespan of mice and primates by up to 20^% and reduce the number of age-related illness in them by genetically manipulating their bodies to block of a protein called S6 Kinase 1. The best part is, this could be done without reducing actual food intake. WHAT WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR-MONGERERS: First there was the woman who dreamed that on March 19, 1997, California would become the new Atlantis and fall into the ocean. She had some people in the Golden State fleeing to Nevada and points east! Next up we had the Y2K scare, when planes were supposed to fall from the sky and criminals would be inadvertently released from prisons and run amok simply because computers would be unable to read the year 2000 numerically. When January 1, 2000 arrived, nothing happened. Now we have the Mayan calendar End of the World scare. This latest boogeyman was concocted by “scientists” and internet weirdoes who believe the Mayans were able to predict the future with literal deadly accuracy. They suggest that these people were able to calculate a planetary alignment that would destroy the earth’s core and knock the planet off its axis, resulting in physical and climatic upheaval unseen in the annals of human history. Supposedly this day will arrive on December 21 of the aforementioned year. Others say that all this planetary alignment will do is ring in a new age of human enlightenment, when we will become not only a global family, but one that works together for the betterment of all mankind. Among the panic-stricken, people are actually investing in specially-designed shelters and paying one group to look after pets during this time, until the worst is over. And just think, most of these people are of voting age. Gee, I hate to say this, but this is one time when astrologists actually sound more sensible than scientists. This theory, too, shall eventually be seen as the hogwash that it is. Now if only we could dispel the Republican notion of “death panels”… LOW PRICES, EVEN LOWER MORALS: Wal-Mat seeks to kick amazon.com in the corporate tailbone as they have dropped the price of several NYTimes bestsellers to a measly ten dollars. Boy, when it comes to cutthroat economics, no one does it better than Sam’s boys. My anti-Wal-Mart diatribes are well-known. I recall writing, “The saying, ‘You get what you pay for’ certainly rings true as far as Wal-Mart is concerned: If you pay low everyday prices, you have no right to expect anything more than low everyday quality of service.” (Useless Knowledge, “Who Us The Pimp of the Year? Wal-Mart!” Apr. 29, 2005). I still feel the same way. Wal-Mart popularized the “starve ‘em into unemployment” technique now employed by manty corporations. SEIU works like this: You reduce the hours of a malcontent (that is, pro-union employee), down to 2 or 3 a week. The person cannot survive on such a low rate of income, so they are forced to quit and find work elsewhere. If they quit, they can’t draw unemployment, which saves Wal-Mart money. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be leaving August in June, just a few weeks before California faces what many say will be a budget deficit of 50 billion dollars. This poroiblem could have been alleviated had the Governor agreed to the Democrats plan to raise income and business taxes, something most Californians supported. Instead, he increased auto registration fees, fees for parks, and raised the state sales tax a penny (to 9.25% in most counties). Meanwhile, he cut the education budget, failed to repay the schools as promised, raided county coffers and cut programs affecting the poor (several of which have since been overturned by California courts, further worsening things). We voted to oust former Governor Gray Davis for this? Republicans may be in the minority in the state legislative bodies, but it is their fiscal policies that are forcing the state toward bankruptcy. And they say that it’s liberals who reject logical and biblical standards, often for self-centered reasons? A FINAL NOTE: My books The Malice of Cain and Tempest In The Stone are no longer available. The new and improved versions will be republished at a later date. Human Trial is still available online and Human Trial II: Adam’s War should be out around March. ------------ About the author: Timothy N. Stelly is a poet, essayist, novelist and screenwriter from northern California. His novel, HUMAN TRIAL, is the first part of a sci-fi trilogy and is available from Amazon.com, allthingsthatmatterpress.com and in e-book format at mobipocket.com. Visit me at: http://www.myspace.com/pittwit website: http://stellbreadO@tripod.com Email: stellbread@yahoo.com 
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