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I don't understand why this is even under discussion.  Child pornography is child abuse, which is illegal.  Therefore, why is it legal to view child pornography if one pays for it?  This is crazy!

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FarmerMike,

I love this.  Having grown up on a farm I enjoy your comments about the chickens, etc.  I think one of the wonderful things about living on a farm and caring for animals is that one really can't take a lot of time to feel sad because those animals need to be cared for on a daily basis.  That process takes a person out of himself and into the service of other living creatures.

I also appreciate your comment about the Christmas season not ending on December 24.  Christmas goes until Epiphany on January 6 when the Magi brought gifts to the Christ child. 

Only five more days until the Solstice! Yahoo!

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We went from political ads on TV to "Christmas is all about how much money you can spend".  How depressing is that! 

As a Christian, I find myself apologizing to God that the celebration of the birth of our savior has turned into an economic rat race.  I try to tune out all of the blitz but I am bombarded by the theme of buy, buy, buy. 

True clinical depression is not just related to winter, shorter days and the artificial image of what Christmas is but is a chemical imbalance in the brain.  Situational depression can, however, be caused by the short days, longer hours of darkness and feelings that one is not living the image of the perfect life of family, wealth, friends, etc. that the ads portray our lives are supposed to be like during the Christmas season.

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