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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 07:52 PM
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The real threats to the world.... some are more than (GRAPHIC)
those who cover them can bear...




http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm
There would be little time for that. Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. His red pickup truck was parked near a small river where he used to play as a child; a green garden hose attached to the vehicle's exhaust funneled the fumes inside. "I'm really, really sorry," he explained in a note left on the passenger seat beneath a knapsack. "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 07:58 PM
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1. and the world continues to turn its back on those that have the least
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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 08:19 AM
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20. But at least gays can't get married!
Jesus wept.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 08:16 PM
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2. The quote is apt after reading
his story. Usually I don't have the stomach or the heart to look any more after I have seen a picture like that one but this time I did and I am glad (I think) that I did. Thanks for posting this.

These are the kinds of things we as a nation should be working on. We would have taken care of Katrina and people would be getting their lives together and we could be back helping out other people but no, we have to blow them up in the name of democracy.

This makes me very sad.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 08:20 PM
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3. American cannot and will not save the world with aggression....
and she will not save herself by cozying up to dictators (bought and paid for) that will sell out the natural resources that belong to their people. America finds itself in a catch 22, and she may require the thinking of great men to salvage herself rather than the moronic musings of those who see everything through the barrel of a gun.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 08:38 PM
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6. Absolutely,
you speak truth and we keep electing morons. Clinton was a great thinker and a caring man but I am surprised that he did not do more, hampered I guess by congress, his own messes and his corporate support. I am not a Clinton fan but I do respect his ability to think and his caring. We are many years away from being able to help now. It will take years of great thinkers and peace makers before we will have the capacity to do much I am afraid but we need to get on it. I simply can't understand how we can let this go on.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 08:21 PM
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4. But..but..who do you think is going to win the NCAA Championship?
"Am I my brother's keeper?" Genesis 4:9
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 08:35 PM
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5. Kick for more comments. Great post.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 08:38 PM
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7. oh god...
:cry:
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G2099 Donating Member (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:06 PM
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8. While the US of A waste billions on Iraq
Every life on earth should be sacred and not by lipservice but by action. What a un-just life, world existence this planet earth is.
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Comadreja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:19 PM
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9. The rich would still get their tax breaks from Bush
. . .even if this were a scene from New Orleans.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:23 PM
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10. my Peace Corps experience in Refugee camps in NW Africa in '73 still haunt
me, i have never been the same. i will never wear a tie again, there was so much death and suffering.

i lost contact... i couldn't justify the extreme waste of money and resources here.. i lived in a little cabin in the woods on the olympic peninsula.. couldn't deal with people..

i see the opportunity of what i saw there happening here and i see W sending us there..
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:04 AM
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11. I went on a 4 day hike up to Anderson Pass in the Olympic forest...
...almost 9 years ago - it is the most beautiful place I've ever been in my life. I can see why one would want to go there for peace (or the search for it). Most Americans have no idea how quickly all of this grand illusion can be shattered. Hopefully it never comes to that.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:06 AM
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12. Humans seem hell-bent on destroying themselves,
either through direct action or through neglect. War, pollution, genocide, famine, poverty, etc. There's no logical reason for many of the deaths that occur in the current age, yet they happen.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 05:29 PM
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14. It's a few people hell-bent on exploiting the rest of us.
It's perfectly logical if you're a criminal sociopath.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 01:58 AM
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15. Or if you are following "God's Will"
Amazing how many atrocities have been committed under the banner of "God's Will".
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 05:12 AM
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16. or spreading freedom and democracy, defending human rights -
all fake reasons, deception, to get the masses to do the bidding of the few.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 05:24 AM
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18. Yes, interesting how we spread democracy and defend human rights
at gunpoint, and via torture. :eyes:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 04:11 AM
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13. .
:cry:
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 05:17 AM
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17. What a photo! This should wake up the human with a soul, 'eh?
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 05:38 AM
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19. I read the article, took a deep breath
and sighed.
Still I disagree with him re "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist." Hope keeps me going - that and the satisfaction I will feel when the most evil of the world's leaders are brought to book> I want to be around for that day.
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