Government Dumps U.S. Military Personnel Remains in Landfill
Like we need any more help disliking or distrusting our government. Wow. http://news.yahoo.com/remains-274-us-troops-dumped-landfill-report-081234306.html
The "Keeping Time" Has Arrived- The Sunday Collage
Mrs. Elizabeth Powel asked Benjamin Franklin the question. What do we have, a republic or a monarchy? Franklin answered, "A republic if you can keep it." Probably historically true. In a republic, the power to govern is held by the people or their elected representatives. By consent. We have checks and balances for those representatives, and we have a rule of law. That theory was meant to keep an oppressive government at bay. To keep them from acquiring too much power In a democracy, the people directly make every decision. There are no representatives. Democracies often devolve into mob rule democracies. Like the one we have now. A republic is meant to protect the minority from the oppression of the majority. A rule of law is what keeps it civil. A minority member's interests are protected. Until the mob takes over. Now we can debate who, what, when, and how we have lost our republic. We can even debate whether we still have one or not. On paper, we might have a republ
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What kind of assholes would commit such an atrocity?
I'm unclear as to whether the fault lies with the mortuary or the military?
I actually ran into a similar problem last year at a cemetery to which I took my aunt's cremains. The people at the cemetery, located in a now-terrible section just outside DC, wanted me just to drop off my aunt's cremains without letting the family see the urn buried. It was one helluva mess to get the cemetery to give in. And, really, the cemetery folks didn't give in: they only let us stay graveside until the urn was partially buried. I've often wondered if, after we left, they dug up the urn, dumped it somewhere, and sold the urn to a crack dealer.