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H/T: The Corner

A letter to the editor and tragedy here in San Diego

My wife and I had the privilege of meeting a remarkable young lady this past weekend. Her name is Chelsea King, the Poway High senior who went missing on Thursday. While unfortunately the meeting was not face-to-face, nonetheless we grew to learn all about her as we participated as volunteers in Chelsea’s search-and-rescue efforts.

We learned that throughout her 17 years, Chelsea has managed to touch the lives of countless people – so much so that the procession of volunteers who have been showing up at the search center in Rancho Bernardo numbers in the thousands. People, who despite often ultra-challenging search conditions, never complain and simply long for a chance to do something – anything – that might help.

We found out that Chelsea’s friends and schoolmates are extraordinary and delightful, reflecting highly on their families as well as their school.
We confirmed that Poway, Rancho Bernardo, Scripps Ranch and the greater San Diego communities are replete with individuals of deep compassion and unrelenting concern for one another.

We further discovered that Kelly and Brent King are extremely loving and strong parents beyond words – a couple that continue to display their undeterred strength with grace, poise and faith.

But over these last several days, there was no greater lesson learned than this: Chelsea’s family, friends and community need her home. Clearly, the world is a much better place with her in it.

JOHN STOEPLER
Scripps Ranch

On Tuesday afternoon, what is believed to be the body of Chelsea King was found in a shallow grave near Lake Hodges just north of San Diego.

Chelsea, a high schooler at nearby Poway High, had been missing since Friday after not returning home from a run at the park surrounding the lake and which resulted in the largest missing persons search effort in San Diego’s history as 1,500 people participated both Saturday and Sunday with many continuing the search on Monday and Tuesday.

There is a registered sex offender, John Albert Gardner III, in custody on suspicion of rape and murder in Chelsea’s disappearance.

It is our prayer that Chelsea will no longer feel the pain and abandonment that she experienced in the last moments of her life and that she is experiencing the limitless expanse of the Almighty's compassion, grace and love. Our prayers also to her parents and to the rest of her family and friends.

As for this Gardner creature, we’ll let the wheels of justice turn at its own pace. If he is found guilty, we believe the death penalty to be too honorable a fate and permanent incarceration far too expensive. For savages like Gardner and other rapists and murderers of his ilk, we propose a Devil’s Island-type existence.

Since they have refused to live by societal norms and mores, we will grant them their wish and they can all have it out Lord of the Flies-style in some remote tropical outpost with the Prison bureau dropping food onto the island from time to time because to not do so would probably be decried as inhumane.

Questions left begging (UPDATED)

(UPDATE #1):Just when we are falling all over ourselves with praise for the guy, he goes and pulls something like this.

We apparently have a statement from the White House regarding the religiously-motivated assassination of Private William Long. It reads as follows:

“I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe. I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.”

Thank god the wait is over... there are a couple of problems with this situation, however.

First, we have yet to see the above statement at the White House.gov web site under “statements and releases” where the statement regarding the murder of Dr. George Tiller resides.

Secondly, is the language. Tiller’s murder left the President “shocked and outraged” but Long’s merely “saddened”. And Tiller’s death is rightly called a “murder” by the President, yet Long’s death is placed in the “loss” category…. like freaking baseball standings.

Semantics, you say? “Words have meaning”, or so we have been told.

Solving the banking crisis, getting the economy back on its feet and navigating the country’s way through a hostile climate abroad is tough, difficult, complex stuff. This ain’t.

This is about as simple as you can get and yet the guy still manages to completely botch it.

This one is in the category of the "worst idea ever" although that particular "worst idea ever" is still #1. "A" for effort, though, sir.



There is an old adage about being in a house of ill repute with currency adorned with the busts of dead U.S. Presidents overflowing one’s pockets and yet that person still not being able to fulfill the terms of the commonly-understood house contract that would apply perfectly to our President.

(here endeth this sorry, sad-sack update)




We know this is going to sound like gotcha politics, though it is not meant to be. Could the fact that President Obama has not expressed his shock and outrage of the murder of Private William Long at the hands of an Islamic extremist have anything to do with the fact that he’s attempting to make nice with the Islamic world in the Middle East right now?

We reiterate what we said before – murder is wrong - so how is it then that one religiously-motivated assassination warrants an immediate response from the White House yet another religiously-motivated assassination does not?

For a man who did his best to downplay any connections to Islam during the campaign (a subject which we refuse to address) and who tried to bolster his credibility with the military, this omission is, at best, tone deaf and at worst, a disgustingly shameless planned negligence

Sir, may we remind you that you had no official connection to George Tiller yet you are William Long’s Commander-in-Chief. It is incumbent upon you to respond accordingly.

We'll be standing by.

Not so random thought for the day

The murder of George Tiller was wrong. Wrong, plain and simple. Regardless of how much you hate the practice of abortion and, in particular, late-term and partial-birth abortion, the taking of another’s life is not justified in any way shape or form.

And it is because of that, we fervently wish that George Tiller and his (alleged) assassin, Scott Roeder, will be treated with the mercy, grace and compassion in the hereafter that was found wanting in them in this realm.