Kidnapped Family Found Dead: ‘A Piece Of Me Was Holding Out For A Happy Ending’

(Image found here.) Despite posting about the incident earlier this week, I couldn’t bring myself to even write about the shitty horror of the entire family being killed, especially including an 8-month-old baby girl. There are horrific crimes, and then there are horrendous crimes, and this is a murderous combination. All mostly old news and…

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America’s Murder Rate Last Year Highest Since 1960 — No Precedent For The Increase

Cool and comfortable this mid-day Thursday here in California’s Central Valley as apparently-obvious we’re into the autumn season — if only it stayed this way. Winter, however, is now one day closer. Dying in the US has taken a sizeable upswing the last couple of years, not only with the COVID pandemic, but we as…

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War’s Children

From Jason Ditz at antiwar.com: NATO is scrambling to do damage control tonight after a number of weekend incidents led to the deaths of Afghan civilians, including several children. US troops killed two civilians, including an eight year old girl in a shooting in Logar Province, while NATO air strikes in the Helmand Province killed…

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