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i stand for a lot. this just isnt something to try to score partisan points on or to choose lightly. its one of those sucky things in life where you gotta choose what kind of person you are. the kind who lives in a buddle of minimal awareness or the kind who can get drunk mere yards from piles of bodies.
what would happen if a Japanese tour bus had come thru Manhattan right after 9/11 and they just acted like tourist like nothing was happening? snapping pictures and bumping into people? im guessing youd be so angry even N2 would feel the blowback.
it is my goal to make you more reflective and compassionate pred. we can do it. the trannies will appreciate the more gentle you.
thats not to say you are always wrong. more so that the angry put upon and persecuted white guy response/opinion is not always correct.
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You're a moron to bring 9/11 up. I went to Manhattan 3 times a week meeting with different City hospitals and Pharmacies for a month after 9/11 .
There were tour groups being led around like kindergarteners.
There were people selling books of pictures of the towers before they fell with te eholes in the sides of tehm with the smoke. Pictures of the people with dust masks on their faces after they fell and everything.
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and was that right to be having tour groups? was it right to exploit the pictures? what if those tour groups were anything but somber? what if they were drinking and doing a conga line?
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one point at a time. you know what im getting at here, just a little further. everyone i know that visited ground zero had a life changing and reflective experience. would it be right for other tourists to be having a drunken conga line?
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transparent how?
just trying to get you to look at the issue from another angle. i have no motive or no personal stake in this matter. i just like to see compassion shown towards my fellow humans as often as possible.
im not saying that no fun can be had bc of haiti, bc i cant get the mansion i want, or bc you ran out of milk. just that sometimes, such as my 9/11 scenario, a little discretion should be used. in this case discretion dictates that you dont conga football fields away from dead bodies and suffering.
that doesnt mean that you have to stop all cruises and fun (there you go with your absolutism again), it just means that perhaps a better spot can be chosen for the fun to occur.
you cant solve every problem at once (haiti, watts, and the inanity of fundraisers), but you can adjust the way in which you go about trying to solve problems (specific and large).
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Fox is the most trusted television news network in the country, according to a new poll out Tuesday.
A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19 found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network.
Thirty-seven percent said they didn?t trust Fox, also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded.
There was a strong partisan split among those who said they trusted Fox ? with 74 percent of Republicans saying they trusted the network, while only 30 percent of Democrats said they did.
CNN was the second-most-trusted network, getting the trust of 39 percent of those polled. Forty-one percent said they didn?t trust CNN.
Each of the three major networks was trusted by less than 40 percent of those surveyed, with NBC ranking highest at 35 percent. Forty-four percent said they did not trust NBC, which was combined with its sister cable station MSNBC.
Thirty-two percent of respondents said they trusted CBS, while 31 percent trusted ABC. Both CBS and ABC were not trusted by 46 percent of those polled.
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The telephone poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
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