[Oe List ...] National Election

[Jim Baumbach]

Perhaps it is timely to continue this discussion by adding a few thoughts:

Thanks Cynthia, I didn't mean to leave health care (or 
global-environmental issues) out of my list but your email did raise 
another idea and that is all good ideas, whether they originate from the 
Republicans, Democrats, Independents, religious, non-religious, young, 
old, male, female and on and on should be considered and incorporated 
where appropriate.  No one group has the edge on worthwhile and 
meaningful ideas.  This is not a call to compromise everything for the 
sake of having every bit from every corner used, it's more of an 
awareness that differing views matter and diversity is still one of the 
strengths of Democracy.  Here is the true challenge we are facing--how 
to give voice to minority opinion and strive to resolve their issues 
without crushing the majority.  For me, it is the unheard minorities and 
innocent suffering that has caused the world to declare a most unholy 
and brutal and hopeless "war on terrorism."

No Republican has to become a Democrat or vice versa.  But our species 
as well as the rest of all living things are on the verge of mass 
suicide and murder...

<http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/12.html#_ftn22> Then Jesus said to 
the crowds, “When you see a cloud coming in the west, you immediately 
say, ‘There's going to be a storm,’ and that's what happens. When you 
see a south wind blowing, you say, ‘It's going to be hot,’ and so it is. 
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth 
and the sky, yet you don't know how to interpret the present time?” Lk 
12:54-56.

Jim Baumbach
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