My rescue cat adopted me when he kept following me around in the animal shelter. We make a great team. He greets me at the door when I return from an errand,loves to curl up in my lap when we're watching Netflix movies. He meows and jumps up and down on the bed when it's time to get up in the morning.

Wow! What a comment relevant to our impasse in Wash. DC.

Speaking of people killing, I posted the following comment to the San Luis Obispo Tribune 4 months ago (They printed it with minor changes): --Why?-- “At 9:40 A.M. on All Saints’ Day, November 1, 1755, the earth shrugged its shoulders (Lisbon earthquake) in Portugal and Northern Africa; in six minutes thirty churches and a thousand houses were demolished. 15,000 people were killed…Why had the Great Inscrutable chosen so Catholic a city, so holy a festival, and such an hour when nearly all pious citizens were attending Mass? (Will and Ariel Durant, The Age of Voltaire). On December 14, 2012, a gunman shot 20 school children. If a god exists, why does it let these events happen? James Radford Templeton

For an an informative discussion about the existance of god, I recommend reading "god is not Great" by Christopher Hitchens. It was reviewed on PBS Newshour several months ago. It presents a rational view of the negativity of religion in all of its forms.