I posted above that I'd like to know if there were other serial killers beyond the obvious John Kerry who admitted as such.

And lest the Left start lobbing insults at those of us "who stand and wait", let it be known I was a Chairborne Ranger in Germany in 72-73.  I never saw combat, and I have yet to start my killing spree.

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Nice job, CrossWiseRanger. I hadn't even thought about that. The original article was an airheaded exercise in reinforcing their pre-existing prejudice against the military. When I first saw it, two rebuttals popped into my head. (1) Among those trained in the military, what's the proportion of serial killers versus law-abiding citizens? How many zero-point-zeros come before the answer? (2) Suppose we stipulate every ludicrous premise from the article, even though I oppose all of them -- what is the author recommending? That we get rid of the military? Or that we stop the military from teaching how to kill? It's ridiculous.

Thank you for the time you invested in getting the facts. I agree with you, that not only are the military the best trained, they are also the most self controlled. I am disgusted by the media using a few examples to paint a black picture of our men and women in uniform. It is just another smoke screen to gather allies in their argument to get us out of Iraq. Then, if we have another Liberal in the White House in 2008, he will downsize the military(again) so we will be vulnerable to more attacks here at home(again).

I am an Air Force veteran, my husband is retired Air Force(26 years). My father is retired Navy(27 years). My grandfather retired Army(24 years). He fought during WWII and was in the trenches in Germany under Gen. Patton.

Whoa!! I thought partial birth abortions were illegal. That is just legalized murder of convenience.

"Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die..."

Thank you for the time you invested in getting the facts. I agree with you, that not only are the military the best trained, they are also the most self controlled. I am disgusted by the media using a few examples to paint a black picture of our men and women in uniform. It is just another smoke screen to gather allies in their argument to get us out of Iraq. Then, if we have another Liberal in the White House in 2008, he will downsize the military(again) so we will be vulnerable to more attacks here at home(again).

I am an Air Force veteran, my husband is retired Air Force(26 years). My father is retired Navy(27 years). My grandfather retired Army(24 years). He fought during WWII and was in the trenches in Germany under Gen. Patton.

Whoa!! I thought partial birth abortions were illegal. That is just legalized murder of convenience.

"Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die..."  Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Or is it that all those serial killers were born and that's why the Left want's abortion on every block, you know, to stop serial killers?

Inanity aside, one can draw any comparison and someone will believe it no matter how unvetted the information.  The article is a shamless and pointedly gross manipulation of data that defies the intellect.  It's structure and content is straight out of the Michael Moore school of half truths and sensationalism, where "every fact is a fact".   Yellow journalism may have a kernal of fact but it's still crap.

"Some say", "expert's believe", non-reporting of potential/actual bias of quoted informants and other tactics used to bend reality to an agenda are just plain propaganda.  The Liberal media machine is the most sophisticated use of propaganda I have ever witnessed.  I am amazed that despite it being transparent and foundationally weak, people eat it up like the good little soylent green eaters they're supposed to be.

I just had a brief, very brief, conversation with a neighbor who is old school democrat with new school liberalism blended in, in other words a NeoLiberal.  Our discussion was on AGW and that I didn't believe it was settled science, especially in view of trillions that may be potentially spent.  I mentioned how scientists in the rest of the world were beginning to denounce AGW as "settled" science, how the IPCC report was a politically based report which prefaced the entire report as conjecture because they were unable to model all that's necessary in order to be able to make reasonably accurate predictions, blah, blah, blah.  My neighbor's reply was none of what I said was borne out by her reading in the New York Times, the New Yorker. and another in-kind publication.  When I said of course you won't read any of the opposing side in those publications due to their bias, she said I sounded like Rush Limbaugh.  I told her I don't listen to Rush at all, to which she expressed disbelief and walked away.

This person is a very well educated former teacher who's source of information is limited to one bias, yet thinks she is superiorly informed because the NYT's is impartial and the best news available in the land.  How many others, on both sides of the political spectrum, rely on just one voice for their news?  IMO, it is not that the NYT's is so prejudicial that is bad per se.  It is that people are lazily adhering to one voice for their news such that there is an exclusion of fact and perspective to afford the best opportunity to make wise conclusions. 

RR -- In the UK, Dr Harold Shipley murdered well in excess of 400 people from the early 1970s till he was caught in 2000 by a suspicious undertaker's assistant.

I am not sure if that is the most prolific, but it has to be up there. 400 is apparently a conservative estimate, by the way. Some think the figure was even higher.

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Unless I'm mistaken, Pickton was just trying to feed his starving pigs.  For this reason he doesn't fall into the serial killer category.

Similarly, since David Berkowitz was only following orders from his dog, he doesn't qualify either.

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