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Friday, December 2, 2011

First thing we do is kill the criminals.

December 2, 2011

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

December 2 is … National Fritters Day

5 to 8 per cent of this country’s population commits 85 per cent of the crime in this nation. Rehabilitation does not work, that is obvious, no matter what the bleeding heart liberals say. Repeating a falsehood over and over and over does not make it true. People merely hear it so often they accept it as fact.

Until we the people get serious about crime punishment nothing will change. Liberals constantly use the argument that entitlement programs and handouts to non-citizens is cheaper than the alternative. The cost of incarceration would be cheaper than allowing habitual, repeat offenders on the street to terrorize law abiding citizens.

A vigilante movement where the crime victims take justice into their own hands would reduce the crime rate and would reduce the criminal population. Life is not fair. If a person chooses to live outside of the law and against the accepted moral fabric of the majority, that is too bad; they will have to pay the piper. If they die, they die. It will be safer for the moral majority.

The law enforcement community cannot adequately do their job now. That is likely because the liberals on the bench have given the criminals too many rights. The moral majority has a Constitutional right to be safe and free in their home and in public. If I can only be safe with you dead; guess what, you die.

It is time to put the criminals on the defensive. It is time for the criminals to be afeared on the streets and at home. It is time for the criminals to worry about the safety of their family members. By the way, every convicted felon should be neutered. Why should they be allowed to reproduce? Society ends up providing welfare to the offspring thereby raising another generation of criminals.

Herman Cain has now admitted to everything but sex with the Atlanta woman who claims a 14 year affair. He needs to say “I did not have sex with that woman, Ginger White.” Or perhaps, “That depends on your definition of sex” Both worked for Bill Clinton.

Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too or at least think about.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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Holmes the Ripper

A Revengeful Mix of Short Fiction

Public EneMe?

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Gustav Jung

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Like the guy in Arizona, Barney was locked in his own jail.

December 1, 2011

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

December 1 is … National Pie Day and Eat a Red Apple Day

What is more Apple Pie than the Andy Griffith Show?

A DREAMER AND HIS DREAM

Let me tell you, Jesse hated this job. And you would too, I imagine, if you had to do it. Jesse was a chicken plucker. That's right. He stood on a line in a chicken factory and spent his days pulling the feathers off dead chickens so the rest of us wouldn't have to. It wasn't much of a job. But at the time, Jesse didn't think he was much of a person. His father was a brute of a man. His dad was actually thought to be mentally ill and treated Jesse roughly all of his life. Jesse's older brother wasn't much better. He was always picking on Jesse and beating him up. Yes, Jesse grew up in a very rough and tough home in West Virginia. Life was anything but easy. He often thought life didn't hold much hope for him. That's why he was standing in this chicken line, doing a job that few people wanted.

In addition to all the rough treatment at home, it seems that Jesse was always sick. Sometimes it was real physical illness, but way too often it was all in his head. He was a small child, skinny and meek. That sure didn't help the situation any. When he started to school, he was the object of every bully on the playground. He was a hypochondriac of the first order. For Jesse, tomorrow was not always something to look forward to. But, he had dreams. He wanted to be a ventriloquist. He found books on ventriloquism. He practiced with sock puppets and saved his hard earned dollars until he could get a real ventriloquist dummy.

When he got old enough, he joined the military. And even though many of his hypochondriac symptoms persisted, the military did recognize his talents and put him in the entertainment corp. That was when his world changed. He gained confidence. He found that he had a talent for making people laugh, and laugh so hard they often had tears in their eyes. Yes, little Jesse had found himself.

You know, folks, the history books are full of people who overcame a handicap to go on and make a success of themselves, but Jesse is one of the few I know of who didn't overcome it. Instead he used his paranoia to make a million dollars, and become one of the best-loved characters of all time in doing it!

Yes, that little paranoid hypochondriac, who transferred his nervousness into a successful career, still holds the record for the most Emmy's given in a single category. The wonderful, gifted, talented, and nervous comedian who brought us Barney Fife was Jesse Don Knotts. There is a street named for him and his statue in Morgantown, West Virginia, his place of birth.

“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly and trust in our GOD who loves us. “

What a pair, Barn and Ang. Andy is still with us, Don died several years ago.

Now the New York Police think it is a serial killer. The authorities have vacillated from serial killer to multiple killers to current or former police officers. Police investigating the discoveries of 10 sets of human remains on New York's Long Island say they believe it's the work of a serial killer instead of multiple killers.

Suffolk County police Commissioner Richard Dormer says in an interview posted on Newsday's website Tuesday ( ) the fact that all the victims may be linked to the sex trade backs the single-killer theory. The remains were found strewn along a remote beach parkway and elsewhere. Police have identified only five of the 10 victims. Those five were women working as escorts. The investigation began as a hunt for missing New Jersey prostitute Shannan Gilbert, last seen a year ago. She hasn't been found. Dormer says detectives don't think her case is connected.

Nearly a year into their investigation of the Gilgo Beach murders, Suffolk police have revised their theory of the case: A single serial killer is probably to blame for all 10 victims, and it's likely a Long Islander.

And the longer the killer eludes capture, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said, the greater the fear that there will be new victims. "That's a possibility, and that's why we are moving as fast as we possibly can to apprehend this person," Dormer told Newsday Tuesday in an interview.

Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too or at least think about.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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www.barnesandnoble.com (do a quick search, Title, my name)

www.smashwords.com Do a Title or author search.

www.kobo.com

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Book Titles:

Holmes the Ripper

A Revengeful Mix of Short Fiction

Public EneMe?

"When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it’s the discipline I need; but it’s rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps." - Louisa May Alcott

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Can Cain read?

November 30, 2011

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

November 30 is … Stay At Home Because You're Well Day

Just take the day off although we have several holidays on the horizon. Perhaps taking today off could be to prepare for the next few days off.

Last week the ‘Supercommittee’ agreed on one thing. They greed they could not agree. All of the members had an office in the same building, many just across the hall from one another yet the ‘Super committee’ did not meet in November.

One other thing they all agreed on, at least the members of the Congressional Supercommittee finally came to an agreement on something: That they wouldn't be able to reach an agreement. In a joint statement, co-chairs Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) told the press that, while they couldn't bridge their ideological divide, they agreed something clearly needed to be done about the economy. But all was not lost: The 12 members increased their average daily fundraising, money that often comes from powerful lobbyists, by $2,720 per person. In other words, while they couldn't agree on budget cuts, they unanimously supported accepting checks from groups that would have been affected by the cuts.

Herman Cain is starting to see the writing on the wall. The quicker he gets close enough to read what it says, the better the Republican Party and his wife and family will be.

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told his staff Tuesday morning that he is reassessing his candidacy and will make the decision whether to remain in the race in "the next several days."

Cain's campaign has been plagued by sexual harassment allegations, and Monday a woman came forward alleging a 13-year affair with the candidate.

The Des Moines Register has more quotes from the Tuesday morning conference call. Cain reportedly told about 90 staff that the latest affair story might create “too much of a cloud” around his campaign.

"If a decision is made, different than we should plow ahead, you all will be the first to know,” he said. "Now with this latest one we have to do an assessment as to whether or not this is going to create too much of a cloud in some peoples' minds as to whether or not they should support us going forward."

He went on to deny the woman's story as he did Monday when it broke. NRO has the full transcript of the five-minute call.

Cain's Iowa campaign chairman, Steve Grubbs, told the AP that the allegations have hurt Cain's fundraising and taken a toll on his family. Still, Cain will continue his campaign for now and deliver a foreign policy speech in Michigan on Tuesday.

Top Republicans have called for Cain to drop out of the race, as HuffPost's Sam Stein reported:

"Cain is irrelevant, and the quicker he gets out of the race the better it will be," said Ed Rollins, a longtime Republican strategist. "My fear is that he marches to the beat of his own drum and he may try to drag it on and deny and deny and deny. And my sense is that will likely be the pattern here. But there is no way he can be the nominee of our party. The quicker he gets out, the better for him and for us."

Cain indicated Monday that he intended to remain in the race as long as he had the support of his wife, Gloria.

Tuesday the The Draft Herman Cain PAC, the Super PAC backing the candidate, abandoned him and changed its name to Beat Obama PAC.

Ginger White, the Atlanta businesswoman who claims she had a 13-year consensual relationship with Cain, has described the alleged affair as "very inappropriate," "fun" and "exciting

Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too or at least think about.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

VISIT ANY OF THE SITES LISTED FOR REVIEW, RESEARCH, ORDERING MY WRITING PRODUCTS OR TO CONTACT ME.

Email: brucebrennanlaw@aol.com

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/attorneybruceabrennan

www.barnesandnoble.com (do a quick search, Title, my name)

www.smashwords.com Do a Title or author search.

www.kobo.com

https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/dashboard

Book Titles:

Holmes the Ripper

A Revengeful Mix of Short Fiction

Public EneMe?

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Vatican strikes again!

November 29, 2011

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

November 29 is … Square Dance Day

Grab your partner, dose doe; swing her all around, dose doe!

I wrote about the changes the Roman Catholic Church made in the 1960s as a result of the Second Vatican Council. They have not worked well. Several months ago I wrote about changes coming to the Mass that were to take effect in November. Well, they are here.

English-speaking Roman Catholics who haven't been paying close attention to their church bulletins might notice something a little different during services this Sunday. For decades at the very beginning of Mass, the priest has greeted the congregation by saying "The Lord be with you" and congregants responded: "And also with you." Starting this Saturday and Sunday in the English-speaking world, the response will be: "And with your spirit."

And that's not all: Familiar prayers, both spoken and chanted, have changed and new words like "consubstantial" and "incarnate" now appear. In the Nicene Creed, the affirmation "We believe" has been replaced with "I believe."

The changes are the result of a years-long process to produce an English translation that is closer to the original Latin of the Roman Missal, which the text of prayers and instructions for celebrating Mass. It's the most significant change to the regular worship for Anglophone believers since the upheavals that followed the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.

"It's human nature that we're resistant to change," said Monsignor Michael Clay, pastor of St. Ann Catholic Church in Clayton, about 40 miles southeast of Raleigh. "I'm old enough to remember when we went from Latin to English, and that was just a huge change." Clay likes the new translation, finding it closer to the Latin text that is still the church's official language. But some priests and parishioners have been less enthusiastic, criticizing the new version as too ponderous or distant, and in some cases circulating petitions asking for a delay in introducing the new missal. The Vatican never admits it is wrong although they have admitted to being short on right once in a while.

The roots of the new translation go back to that epochal council held at the Vatican in the 1960s, which allowed Mass in languages other than Latin. An English-language missal was produced by 1973, but that was intended to be temporary while improvements were made.

In 2001, the Vatican office that oversees worship issued a directive requiring translation of the English missal that would be closer to the Latin rather than to more familiar vernacular speech. Numerous revisions and bishops' meetings eventually produced agreement on the translation being used Sunday.

Do you think the fact every Catholic and every Church will have to purchase new missals to replace the now outdated books. I am sure the Vatican Press publishes the new books and gets a piece of the action from other publishers interested in selling to the English speaking Catholics around the world.

The Roman Catholic Church should consider making going to Mass enjoyable and easier, not work and embarrassing.

Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too or at least think about.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

VISIT ANY OF THE SITES LISTED FOR REVIEW, RESEARCH, ORDERING MY WRITING PRODUCTS OR TO CONTACT ME.

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