The blogger's opening to this thread recommends that we "remember" the listed victims. How can we "remember" people whom we never knew? I suppose that the blogger meant, "think about" them.

But just "remembering/thinking about" them is not enough. We need to pray for the repose of their souls -- and especially to pray "retroactively" that they repent(ed) of any previously unrepented mortal sins, since such deadly things would keep their souls in hell -- away from entering heaven -- for all eternity. I think especially of people who were engaged in major theft, adultery, fornication (shacking up), pernicious racism, and many other deadly sins.

It was sad to read the inappropriate comments from "polux" and "Orjan Morjan," above.
"Polux" wrote, "a pity that all the others (civilians in Iraq/Afganistan, and elsewere..) will never be remembered the same way".
"Orjan Morjan" wrote, "that same day about 8 times as many human beings died from hunger and poverty. We just don’t know their names."

People like "polux" and "Orjan" don't have mental discipline, so they do not stop to reflect and realize that the (roughly) 3,000 people listed above were DELIBERATELY MURDERED by incredibly EVIL people, out of hatred for America. THAT is why their names are listed at an American Internet site.

The "civilians in Iraq/Afghanistan" whose names could be listed -- on Iraqi and Afghani Internet sites -- are those who have been DELIBERATELY MURDERED by the same kind of EVIL people (Islamofascist fanatics). Other civilians have died, but only accidentally.

The idea that about 24,000 people die daily from hunger is a canard, long ago exposed as a falsehood perpetrated by the "population-control imperialists," who try to fool people into believing the falsehood that the world lacks enough food to support its population. It is true that a large number of people die from hunger, but most of the oft-mentioned 24,000 people die of diseases (especially dysentery). The world has PLENTY of food to feed everyone, but there are areas (especially in Africa) where it is too hard to TRANSPORT the food to the needy, due to governmental corruption and civil war.

Finally, if there are any slain Americans who deserve to be named even MORE than the "9/11/2001" victims, it would be the (roughly) 3,500 innocent, defenseless unborn babies who are murdered EVERY DOGGONE DAY through surgical abortion. Yes, that's right ... So-called "doctors" are hit-men that end the lives of MORE people, every DAY in America, than died on 9/11/2001. May God have mercy on us all for not having ended the slaughter during the 35 years it has dragged on and on!

Dear Willo the Wisp,

You were certainly right in saying that the pastor of that church was referring to "Freethinkers" -- and it was sad to see that the previous commenters were not aware of that.

However, sir or madam, you were wrong to write these words:
"Of course, the pastor is wrong: Freethinkers are not slaves of Satan at all, since there is no scientific or logical reason to believe that any such entity exists."

I doubt that the pastor meant the phrase, "slaves of Satan" literally, as though each and every Freethinker were controlled by the devil. I feel sure that the pastor meant that Freethinkers [including, apparently, yourself] were allowing themselves to be deceived by Satan into accepting atheism, moral relativism, and the like. The pastor is right about that.

Obvious from what I just stated is that you were also wrong to say that "... there is no scientific or logical reason to believe that any such entity exists." Only people who don't WANT God and Satan to exist (because of the guilt and fears that they properly feel about their skepticism and immoral behavior) would write the words that you wrote.

The truth is that it is not NECESSARY for "scientific" reasons to exist for a belief in Satan. There are lots of things in human life, the existence for which EVERYONE has a "belief" in, even though there are no "scientific" reasons for them. The most basic of these is LOVE. Moreover, it is indeed through "logical reason" that zillions of people have come to realize that God and Satan exist.

When you repent of your sins and ask God to reveal himself to you, you will come around, Willo.

What has been left unmentioned is the most important thing of all ...

The "fathers" of contraception in the U.S. and Great (?) Britain, Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes, were open eugenicists, who were trying to wipe out what they considered the dregs of society.

Sanger explicitly published the fact that she wanted to "create a race of thoroughbreds," so she developed the American Birth Control League, which was later renamed as Planned Parenthood (more rightly called "Planned BARRENhood" and "Banned Parenthood).

Sanger was jailed for illegally making contraceptives available -- which was against most states' laws, passed by Protestant legislators (for, prior to 1930, ALL Protestant denominations rightly condemned contraception as gravely sinful).

Sanger also collaborated with evil doctors in Nazi Germany, but after World War II hid her earlier, enthusiastic promotion of eugenics.

Finally, in 1939, Sanger had a "Negro Project." In a private letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble (associated with Proctor and Gamble), she wrote: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
[You can read more here: http://www.blackgenocide.org/negro.html ]

BLOGGER: "In fact, the idea of global cooling is still a fringe theory."

How pathetic, sir or madam! You STILL don't realize that human-generated global WARMING is nothing but a "fringe theory."

It is not NUMBERS (of scientists, etc.) that take a theory out of the "fringe." Rather, it is the quality of the EVIDENCE -- and, in the case of human-generated global warming, the hard evidence was never there to begin with!!! It was all a money-making and power-seeking scam by charlatans, such as the monstrous hypocrite, Albert Arnold Gore.

The stupidity of some things on this site never fails to amaze me. How immature/juvenile and twisted/sick are the owners of this site?

"... going to the bathroom ..."?
First, there is no "bathroom" in the sea.
Second, even if there were a bathroom in the sea, talking about, and even showing, the elimination of waste at a general, public site is TABOO for mature people with "class." It is subject only for specialized sites frequented by biologists.

Straighten up your act, Neatorama people. GROW UP!!!

"... 4kg of mince ..."

For the majority of readers here (e.g., Americans), who don't understand what the above phrase means ...

"4kg" = four kilograms = 8.82 pounds.

"mince" = ground beef (in many nations of the British Commonwealth).

"So, in AD 393, Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympics in part to institute Christianity as a state religion."

This is yet another anti-Christian lie, so prevalent throughout the Internet (including Neatorama), designed [by the Evil One] to poison the uneducated minds of the world's youth and others who spend a lot of time online.

The fact is that the ancient [not modern] Olympics were INTENSELY tied to the worship of pagan (i.e., false) gods, with oaths to them, etc.. Those running the games were UNWILLING to de-couple religion from athletics -- exactly what accusers now wrongly say about Christianity and other matters. The emperor's action was a virtuous act, done not out of a dislike of athletics, but out of concern for the peoples' souls.

Fellow readers, please do not be misled.

"This is not a Hollywood special effect. This is an actual video of the Earth and moon taken from 50 million kilometers away."

Uh, no. Not "50 million kilometers away," but "31 million miles away," as the opening seconds of the video clip mention. Americans (the source of the video clip) RESOUNDINGLY reject the metric system. Even Great Britain retains references to miles.

The first attempts to convert the U.S.A. were made (if I recall correctly) in the 1970s, and got a whopping "THUMBS DOWN" from the people of the nation that had SAVED THE CIVILIZED WORLD in World Wars I and II.

We Americans are perfectly happy with our inches, feet, yards, miles, ounces, pounds, gallons, etc., thank you -- and we don't need help in measuring things from other parts of the world. Contrary to the desires of misguided idealists (a la John Lennon and Yoko Ono), the world will always consist of separate nations, each with its own customs and standards.

Good riddance! Americans don't need the lawbreakers in their midst. Every one of them broke our very just immigration laws to get in, and MANY of them have continued to break the law (with identity theft, rape, murder, you name it).

Whether certain kinds of work will get done or not is IRRELEVANT. The ONLY relevant thing is that the leeches have no RIGHT to be here! They must apply to come in through normal channels.

And lest anyone wrongly accuse me of being am "prejudiced," I am happy to say that I speak Spanish and I LOVE legal immigrants!

Case closed!

It doesn't matter who would speak first. What matters is who would never err when speaking. The answer, of course, is Jesus, who, being God, is incapable of making an error.

Blessed be Jesus in the most holy Sacrament of the altar!

"Makes sense to me." [MC]

No, it doesn't make sense. Sinning never makes sense.

To engage in sexual intimacy without marriage is seriously against the natural law (written on everyone's heart). If a person engages in fornication despite knowing that God condemns it as a deadly sin, that person chooses damnation (i.e., an eternity in hell) until such time as he/she repents.

"That, my friend, is what you and I and everyone else in this world started out as: the human oocyte."

Uh, no, my friend. None of us "starts out" as an oocyte, because a mere human ovum is not a human being. When the ovum is fertilized by a sperm (i.e., at conception), THAT is when "you and I and everyone else in this world start out" (and, by the way, begin to have the right to life).

I was sad to see that some people were troubled/"grossed out" by the harmless photos, but I was even more sad to see that no one corrected the only truly disgusting thing in this thread -- the ignorant, anti-Catholic comments made by "Pol x."

Not only did Pol X reveal an ignorance that Catholicism and every good and holy aspect of the human body are totally compatible, but he/she did not know that human beings don't "reproduce" (as lower animals and plants do). Human beings "procreate;" spouses cooperate with God (who creates an immortal soul) to bring into being a new human being at conception.

God bless you all (including Pol x).

B. Hussein Obama has been endorsed by George McGovern, the Demoncrat candidate in the 1972 election. Good ol' George is doing this because he expects to see McCain take all 50 states, which would help people to forget that George lost 49 of 50.

Dear God in heaven, we know that John McCain has flaws galore, but please do not allow Americans to suffer through Michelle Obama bringing her Jeremiah-Wright-in-drag act into the White House. That is one sick babe! Of course, putting up with her hatred would be a walk in the park by comparison with putting up with her hubby's destruction of the federal courts and his ultra-pro-abortion position. (He never met a preborn baby that he wouldn't approve of killing. He even approved of killing, outside the womb, babies who unexpectedly survive late-term abortions.)

PS: B. Hussein Obama is not "black," any more than John McCain is "white." Such labels are idiotic, especially when applied to a guy who has two parents with no ancestors who were U.S. slaves and one parent with zero background in Africa.

Oops. I "misspoke."

I said that eventually "... those who SUPPLY crude oil will stop cheating Americans."

Actually, the Arabs and their colleagues-in-crime will never "stop cheating Americans." They will just stop INCREASING the degree of their cheating.

The higher prices can be blamed wholly on the mindless liberals in Congress. Two of the reasons for their guilt are these:

(1) For a few decades now, the lefties have prevented domestic exploration, drilling, and refinery-building because of misguided environmentalist-wacko concerns.

(2) Forcing continued increases in the minimum wage, which simply gives the producing nations an excuse to raise their prices per barrel of crude oil.

The doom-and-gloom numbers that are mentioned by the pessimistic authors of this blog thread are the by-product of inexperience and a lack of understanding of economic forces. The "law of supply and demand" will prevent such major increases in price. There is a "ceiling" -- which may have now been reached -- at which people will cut back on their DEMAND of gasoline (and other goods [that have inflated prices, due to delivery charges]) so much that those who SUPPLY crude oil will stop cheating Americans.

The unfortunate thing is that the soon-to-come stoppage of price hikes for crude oil will give the Marxists in Congress an excuse to continue preventing domestic drilling and other reasonable efforts at "energy independence" for America.