Tag Archives: violence

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I don’t know about you, but I get annoyed when I read a disturbing post on Facebook and my only options are Like, Comment, Share. I don’t like some of the things that are posted and I don’t like to share most posts, especially the insipid ones that say something stupid like if you like your mother, Share. Whether I liked my mother or not, the last thing in this world I would want to do is to share that …

Liberals vs. Conservatives

I used to listen to Churchill’s speeches over the radio during World War II and most of them made sense, but then, some of them did not. This one rubbed me the wrong way then, and it still does, all these years later. He said, “Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.” That clearly puts people at war …

The Ostrich Syndrome

It always amazes me how some people can bury their head in the sand and not see what is right there in front of them to be seen. We’re not even talking about something that you would have to look closely at; we’re talking about something that you see over and over but refuse to acknowledge having seen, or if you do acknowledge having seen it repeatedly, you refuse to acknowledge that it could happen again. When someone keeps throwing …

Getting a Second Chance

There was a story in the news about a man who was convicted of robbery, kidnapping, and burglary charges in connection with two violent robberies when he was twenty. No one was killed but he was sent to prison to serve back-to-back sentences, for a total of ninety-eight years. He was released on parole in 2008, due to a clerical error, after serving just eight years. After he was released, he set about rebuilding his life. He started selling coupon …

Leggings and Yoga Pants

This may be a difficult concept for today’s children to accept but school attire does have a great deal to do with behavior. In fact, clothing, in general, does influence behavior. When you are dressed casually, the tendency is to behave casually. It might not seem fair to make a sweeping generalization like that but I’m comparing today’s dress code and the attitudes associated with it to yesteryear’s dress code and the attitudes associated with education and work. Our school …

A Woman Worth Knowing

Michelle Puckett is in the business of giving help to people who are the victims of circumstance. She has a unique consignment store that sells designer clothes and accessory items from quality designers, like Chanel, Gucci and Ferragamo, for 80 percent below cost but she also has a nonprofit for people who have been out of work and are struggling to get their lives back on track. In addition to her consignment shop, she started a nonprofit to help victims …

Printing a Gun from Your Computer

A couple of years ago, I saw some pictures of homes being built from 3D materials that were printed from a home computer. At the time, I didn’t know how this process was going to revolutionize our society, but it is certainly doing that. In the medical field, they are experimenting with printing out body parts and it looks like that will become a reality in the near future. Can you imagine all the veterans who lost parts of their …

Wedding Catfight Gets Down and Dirty

Picture yourself, dreaming of your wedding day surrounded by family and friends, all there to wish the happy couple a long and prosperous life together. Sound good so far? With this particular couple, it didn’t work out quite that way. After the bride and groom exchanged their wedding vows in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, the groom’s pregnant mistress showed up wearing a white wedding gown screaming, shouting, and hitting both the bride and groom. The three-minute video showed the …

Children Celebrate Mother’s Death

Child abuse is still slipping through the cracks. It took a mother’s death and the revenge of her children who penned her obituary, to bring it to light in a way that I’ve never seen before. The obituary said, in part, “She is survived by her 6 of 8 children whom she spent her lifetime torturing in every way possible. While she neglected and abused her small children, she refused to allow anyone else to care or show compassion toward …

Your Tumblr Post Can Get You Arrested

After all the school shootings and the number of students who were killed and injured, you would think that a college student would know better than to post on his Tumblr page that he was going to carry out a shooting at the university he attends to see if he was going to get arrested. His exact post read, “hello. my name is irenigg and i plan on shooting up georgia southern. pass this around to see the affect it …

Connie H. Deutsch