Jebbie:

The point is that people have jumped to the conclusion that Vitter confessed to a crime

They haven't "jumped" to a conclusion at all, merely come to one, if Vitter admitted paying for sex-- which a quick romp through Google clearly shows he did:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288868,00.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/09/AR2007070902030.html

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/16/vitter/index.html

I felt so sad this morn with a new empathy and awareness. I act lighthearted and may need to be more sensitive to the hurt some sisters carry...Serious.

..It is not just the post-war-trench that make us humans hurt deeply. In America the informative "news" is difficult to find. We do get cen-sored from the world's greater varied citizen's hurts.

My thought: At the sea in my truck listening to the CBC radio, I learned that in Bosnia there were 20,000 strategic rapes (war-crimes) that were sanctioned by the government against the Moslem women. Tears did flow, but that's okay if it opens the emotional seat of where human tender emotions lies. I was not aware on a deep level until tis morn. The sun rise, birds, and silver water was glorious...however...

Karen Wells from Alberta Canada did a piece, "In The Summer." 'The Sunday Edition' interviewed rape victims during that horrible war.

I'd heard of "Rape Camps" and have wondered how a military, police, or even on a casual date anywhere, a male could force himself...on another. I'm naive and sometimes believe I've been told every conceivable human depraved violation...?...But no...I was awakened to an aspect of painful Trauma...equivalent to a females war-violation...or worst.

Police officers systematically raped 20,000 women at knife point! A mere nine men were prosecuted as of this date. The lady victim testimonials were heartbreaking. The women were beautifuly defiant, and insisting thousands of war-criminals must be prosecuted. It is a Herclean task, but, they speak!

These stories are not about 'me' they insist. I agree. They demand a better sane world. The chased down violaters were often extremely Mentally-Ill. People will go mentally insane!

You can't run. Ya' may try to hide. I thank Canadian Mary Wells for a very sad, but enlightening story. I am more aware and more sensitized. I was sad and blew my nose in a hankey with a sincere hurt realization for sister victims of that kind of Trauma and who carry broken hearts. I only know love can heal. Let us learn. Maybe I express that for myself? We need empathy.

I felt I may have been too "loose" at times here- as I am prone to mentioning innocent 'sensual' affections. It is healthy. The Hymns To Inanna, yesterday, when I mentioned the female body, I could have been bordering on an insensitive and naive numb...

...to any victims who's troubled hearts are needing soothed. I admit.

Victims of crime are everywhere. Those Sumerian fertility Psalms about radiant Lady of The Evening, then, were more wholesome. Inanna was a Great Priestess. She was in the sky and on the Earth. A Queen Goddess of Heights and the Depths.

Diane Wolkstein translates those old tablet Sumerian polytheistic text-- "gods of war" and the "goddess of wisdom." What a goofy and contradictory 21- century. O, Song of Solomon! Help us.

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OT- apologies to Annoymous- The Village Burgler.

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The American visits a New Church to learn. The custom of the past was to visit a synagogue when Romans were hanging liberals onto trees naked. Turn the money tables over! Okay. Also: for punishment, I heard, a loin cloth wasn't even worn by Caesar's nailed victims. Sound like our DOJ's Abu-Grave? The R.W.A. legal Phariseas (sp) and hypocritical journalist scribes THEN were loyal. The 1st century Republicans served as the ushers passing the offering coffer-plate for schillings and dinero's. Collections. Politico's say "Gimme more and more money and a no purgatory to you." NO!

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SO-Mea-Culpable and need to forgive?

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Under the spreading blueberry bush

I was a visitor hidden under a blue bush;

The visitor is too scruffy a old damn man,

With whiskers all white on grinning cheeks.

I go to church to say I sin on this Sunday;

I hear the preacher yell and shout Hoola;

I run inside on time to toss a penny in a plate,

And take a few loonies out for money to buy wine.

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I just visiting my neighbor. Ya' got a Ceasure Romain Lettuce Salad. I am an evangelical? I recomended Tragic Legacy to be read at the mid-week book reading service. I love this blog and this seashore. I'd go to a Tupperware party and buy a plastic bowl for wild berries and Sirop d'erable PUR= Pure NS Maple Tree Syrup. If invited.

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I apologize. I know to marry a blog is not a "traditional marriage." Hail Mary full of grace and bless Elohim for the liberality of not censoring me? "Parrhesa" is old gospel free speech.

The notion of a Christian government really gets my "goat."

Surely no sane and thoughtful person can imagine any government of our time sitting comfortably with some person like Jesus'smentality who spoke like him. Listen Mr. Bush and the Senate!

"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you."

We sure seem to reenact the crucifixion in creative ways. It happens again and again. In the book 'A Time for Trumpets' by Charles B. MacDonald in his history of the Battle of the Buldge, he tells how the SS Colonel Joachim *Peiper* was forced to withdraw from a bombarded chateau, leaving behind many severely wounded soldiers of both armies...Jewish/Christian...etc., who cares? They were wounded humans.

"Also left behind," MacDonald wrote, "on a whitewashed wall of one of the rooms in the {bloody-?-my thought] basement was a charcoal drawing of Jesus as a human..."thorns on his head, tears on his cheek-- whether drawn by a German, Moslem, Athiest, American, Pagan...etc., Nobody will ever know."

It is the identification with unnecessary wrongfull suffering?

This is NOT about religion, I believe, but images and expressions (Thoughts) that belong to history. Rather than get hung-up with bias-baggage, what should awaken to judge it/us. MUST?!.~.~

The thought comes from a essay written by Wendell Berry. The essay is titled, "Christianity and the Survival of Creation." He does a better job thinking about our American Christian and buse of Nature. off the cuff, I thought about his essay.

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We are endangered? An endangered species, I mean, that's if we don't STOP neocon's societies hate patterns.

Also: Here they try to protect the small bird called PIPING PLOVERS. It is a shorebird threatened by chemicals. In mid-August, the nesting season ends. Ya' see cute small birds called chicks. The eggs hatch and chicks flock to the beach. Merci. Beautiful and fun to watch. No bekini's, no toy slinky, no plastic hoola-hoops, no yo-yo, no beach radio. Gads. My mind goes wacky?

Please let us keep doing the simple collaboration or we humans will be killed off. We are already endangered, IMO, with the cold-heart Bushies running around.