GUNS POPULATED AMERICA

MORE GUNS THAN PEOPLE

Monday marks the first two burials of the 20 young children massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week.

Jack Pinto, 6, is remembered as a huge football fan who loved the New York Giants. Wide receiver Victor Cruz visited Pinto's grieving family, and wrote "Jack Pinto, My Hero" on the young boy's cleats.

Noah Pozner, also 6, loved reading and figuring out how things worked mechanically, his uncle, Alexis Haller, told the Associated Press. Haller said the boy was "smart as a whip." Pozner's twin sister, Arielle, survived the shooting. He had called Arielle his "best friend."

Pinto and Pozner's funerals are scheduled for 1 p.m. in Newtown and Fairfield, Conn., respectively. 

  

Details On Funeral And Burial Process

The president of the Connecticut Funeral Director's Association said the funeral and burial process for Newtown victims, which began Monday with the separate burials of Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, who both were six-years-old, is unlike anything he has seen before.


"I've unfortunately seen lots of kids who have died," said Pasquale Forino, 46, who runs Neilan Funeral Home in New London, Conn. "But this truly shakes your foundation to the core, and in a small town like Newtown, they need lots of help to handle this week of burials."

Forino and a group of morticians who have volunteered have driven to Newtown every day since Friday to help tend to families who are grieving and prepare arriving bodies for viewings and burials. The main funeral home in the town, Honan Funeral Home, is handling the process for 11 victims. Of those, Forino said he has worked on three -- all kids.

"It's not about me, it's about the families and victims. But it still affects us," he said. "We do what we can do to take care of the families. We'll deal with our own emotional needs later." 

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Source: Haffington Post 

AMERICA AT WAR & HEALTH CARE

Let me make my point first. It is my conviction that peace is the healer. Anything disjoined, or fragmented, is not of peace, which also speaks of oneness and solidity. Since the WW II America has become the ‘world’s police’ an expression I heard used by several Europeans, Germans in particular. I could go into human psychology here, but that is not the point. Out of necessity, I guess, the US was forced to fight foreign wars. Despite our shortcomings the foundation upon which we have built this Nation is solid and it should remain sound and strong. God blessed us with smartness and innovative abilities, an envy of the nations. This envy will continue and even it will increase; therefore, we either open the gates (of immigration) or shut them down for good.

RELIGION AS A PICTURE FRAME

Who says that religion is stupid? More than three and a half percent of the world's population claims to be religious. 

Like politics, economics or even science religion is a frame that holds a picture of the divine. And regardless how ugly, unclear or even false that picture may be, the frame itself can be quite beautiful. 

In this world of ours some frames are more valuable than the picture itself they try to portray. These elaborately ornamented picture frames attract many people who are searching for the meaning of life and they need help, but too often the picture only hinders and obscures the bright and clear light of truth. 

IRAN'S 'A' BOMB

Iran will have enough enriched uranium for nuclear bomb by next summer: Netanyahu.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday the only way to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons was by setting “a clear red line” to stop its atomic program.

“At this late hour, there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs and that’s by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” Netanyahu said in a speech at the UN General Assembly. “Red lines don’t lead to war; red lines prevent war.”

IRON DOME

Jerusalem (CNN) – A fragile truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to hold Friday despite reports that Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man near its border in Gaza.

The soldiers opened fire when farmers were trying to reach their land near Israeli-Gaza border, Hamas officials said. But the Israel Defense Forces said the people were rioters who attempted to breach a fence dividing Israel and Gaza.

It was the first report of a fatality since Hamas and Israel agreed to a cease-fire, forged by high-powered international diplomacy after eight days of round-the-clock warfare.

IRAN & GAZA

Iran carefully planned the timing. Israel was experiencing an unusual period of lull while Iran kept  supplying Gaza with an ever growing rockets arsenal and the know-how. This was carefully planned in preparation for their uranium enrichment final phase, which is now. During this crucial period of time Iran hopes, if everything goes according to their plan, the crowning achievement would be the most deadly nuclear warhead. All that now happens is only a prelude to something much worse and inconceivable. But one must only know the intensity of the hatred toward Israel and the extent of the Arab pride, which is ancient. Egypt sought to be the leader of all Arabs, but it lost in both 1967 and 1973 wars with Israel. Then came Iraq. Saddam Hussain was showing the Arab people that he can stand up to America and shoot (the SCUD) missiles to Israel, and threatened to use chemical weapons. But he also failed miserably. But will these haters learn their lessons?

BIBI BOMB

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a red line he drew on a graphic of a bomb while addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 27, 2012 in New York City.

If not seriously perhaps jokingly, but did Netanyahu planned to be funny? I don't think so. The threat is serious.

The jokes ‘‘are maybe part of the success because it was an unforgettable speech that delivered its message,’’ Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told Israel’s Channel 2 TV. ‘‘Today everyone is talking about it.’’

IMPRISONED BY SELF

Behind bars and not knowing

As I scan many media, from U-Tube to political and religious blogs I am grieved. People seem to have hijacked themselves and get locked up and seem to be proud of it too. Imprisoned by self-obsession and self-definitions, trying to show off self-importance and self-right. Perhaps that's the reason they are bound by party lines they have yielded their heads to for ideological shampooing. National, religious, political belongings etc, the pot is boiling and the lid is about to pop. Conspiracies like the 9/11… the Jews are behind it, the Zionists, or those in the US government, black people seek definitions in returning ‘hate favors’ to the whites, or call themselves the true Israelites in competition with the Jew and the country Israel.