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RE: Knife-wielding UMaine student charged with threatening middle-schoolers

I’ve been pretty good friends with Caleb for over a year now and I’ve never heard of him stealing a bunch of iPods — let alone anything else. It could be that he recently stole something unintentionally due to his obvious loss of reality, which people started to notice about a month ago. It is very sad to see a friend become mentally ill, and it is very hard to believe that this is happening to such a great person. Please leave the scapegoating behind and for Caleb, I hope you can gain stability and return to your true self.

— someone concerned

RE: Afghanistan troop surge shows president’s propensity for war

Yes we can! But we won’t! Correct you are. I knew that Obama would basically be another Bush. I told people this last year as I urged them to vote for Ron Paul, who advocated a foreign policy of peace. Obama supports Wall Street with the bailouts and supports Bernanke and continues to spend money we don’t have. Great MLK quote, too. I have a friend who just got the call that he is one of the 30,000. I have a buddy in Kuwait who is on his way there too. This is all imperialism. It turns out Afghanistan is also an area planned for oil routes for the reserves in Uzbekistan, and obviously the opium wars have escalated as Afghanistan leads the world in production of the drug. There’s just too much corruption, and I’d never want to be forced into going over there.

— Michael W. Gibson