emartin

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  1. forgot about the registration stuff...here's an account i set up i you'd like to sign in to read the article... username: skydivingreader password: 12345
  2. i've been lagging on my talk back forum lurking, so this may be up already...there's an article in the times today about skydiving that is a pleasant change from all of the sensationalist crap that's been out there lately. NYTimes article does anyone know the jm or is the jm reading here that had the mal with the reporter? pretty exciting stuff!
  3. this news about the child in california kept me up sleeplessly scared last night, thinking about the last moments of an innocent five year old girl's life and how horribly tragic and terrifying they were. and i thought about her parents and young friends and how confused and sad and angry they must be. i thought about whether or not i will even have children, when we live in a world where monsters like this man who sadistically raped and killed this poor little girl can run around and maybe even repeat their offenses. what kept me up with the most twisted feeling in my stomach was the report i heard on the radio last night that the little girl's dead body was found with skin under her nails (indicating fierce struggle during her rape and murder), and that she was left in a particular (but thankfully not described) pose that made police think the perpetrator is a serial rapist and will certainly commit this type of depraved and evil crime again. i am a recently baptized catholic, who was an atheist well into adulthood. i do not tout the catholic church's doctrine as the only right answer; in fact, like any other thoughtful catholic, i question what the church tells me often in the struggle to discern right from wrong. i have not learned of anything, in all of my efforts, to help me understand how to have compassion for a person who could inflict such pain on others. events such as these certainly make the argument much stronger that there is no plan of God and that we are all humans with free will and can do whatever good or evil we please. still, we are left as a society with the choice of what to do with these monsters. the thought of killing this man in a manner in which he killed samantha, or worse if possilbe, greatly appeals to my thirst for justice and retribution, but i do not know if it is the right thing to do. i am so sorry for this girl and her family and my prayers go out for them and to the people in search of the perpetrator, that they will find him and lock him up very soon.
  4. it may look fine, but be careful...i hear this guy's got worms...
  5. Here's the first hint...same ass, different end...