By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:50 pm Filed Under: Barack Obama, Disasters, Floods of 2008, Poverty, Sacrifice, Suffering
What is Suffering?
The most traumatic place I’ve yet visited on this Earth is Auschwitz-Birkenau. I was there with some friends in 2005.
I know I’ve talked about it before. The awful things that were done to people during that war. The humiliation. The beatings. The dreadful murders of so many people. The intense fear and pain [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:07 pm Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Fred Thompson, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Republican Party, Third Party Candidates, Two-Party System, US Congress, voting
I was subjected to scenes of Barack and Hillary playing nice with each other on stage at a rally in Unity, New Hampshire. It was a bit over the top.
I don’t know what the real content (if any) of their speeches consisted of, and the newscasts simply showed snippets of each of them saying cute [...]