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we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 5:31:47 PM   
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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 6:10:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Boi,I'm not trying to be sarcastic,nor pick a fight with you but what we DON'T need is more stories like this.
As a matter of fact we could do with a lot less stories like this.
Now I know you were/are referring to the second child reaching out to the first...but there is no story absent the first child getting shot while playing basketball.
As I said we need far less stories like this

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 6:13:18 PM   
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Boi,I'm not trying to be sarcastic,nor pick a fight with you but what we DON'T need is more stories like this.
As a matter of fact we could do with a lot less stories like this.
Now I know you were/are referring to the second child reaching out to the first...but there is no story absent the first child getting shot while playing basketball.
As I said we need far less stories like this



Yes, I thought about that after I posted it, but I am hoping that most will understand that I was talking about the kid reaching out and not the one who was shot. At least you did.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 6:14:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think it's sad the kid got shot but I'm happy about the other kid reaching out to him and that he will apparently have a full recovery.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 6:20:41 PM   
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I think it's sad the kid got shot but I'm happy about the other kid reaching out to him and that he will apparently have a full recovery.



Yes, I can't imagine the horror both he and him mom felt at the time. If I had had kids when I lived in Detroit, I would have been afraid to let them out of the house. What kind of life is that for kids. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I wish we could come up with something that works.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 6:25:51 PM   
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I'm not sure what the answer is, but I wish we could come up with something that works.


What about controlling gun ownership?

OK, I'll get my coat. ;-)

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 6:33:19 PM   
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I'm not sure what the answer is, but I wish we could come up with something that works.


What about controlling gun ownership?

OK, I'll get my coat. ;-)



If I thought it would keep the guns away from the criminals, I might agree. But I don't and my friend who is a cop in Detroit claims most of the guns they grab off the streets are illegal. So there you have it.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 6:36:32 PM   
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I'm not sure what the answer is, but I wish we could come up with something that works.


What about controlling gun ownership?

OK, I'll get my coat. ;-)

Can't be having that Peon,what with all these great "no retreat" laws.Nothing must stand between gun manufacturers and their profits

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 7:26:28 PM   
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Boi,I'm not trying to be sarcastic,nor pick a fight with you but what we DON'T need is more stories like this.
As a matter of fact we could do with a lot less stories like this.
Now I know you were/are referring to the second child reaching out to the first...but there is no story absent the first child getting shot while playing basketball.
As I said we need far less stories like this

This.......


Uhhh boy.....




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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 7:29:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		12 years old, 5'11", and he wants to spend all his time playing basketball. He's got a great chance.

Edited to add: And if they find the bastard who did that, make him go to a Detroit Lions game.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 7:32:16 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Boi,I'm not trying to be sarcastic,nor pick a fight with you but what we DON'T need is more stories like this.
As a matter of fact we could do with a lot less stories like this.
Now I know you were/are referring to the second child reaching out to the first...but there is no story absent the first child getting shot while playing basketball.
As I said we need far less stories like this

This.......


Uhhh boy.....






You will notice in post 3 that I said I hoped most would understand. I know there will be some who just are not capable.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 7:36:48 PM   
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Just a thought.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 7:48:44 PM   
thishereboi


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Ever consider a new profile......ditching this one......starting fresh as a new member....new name....?


Just a thought.



Yea, that sounds like something you would think of. In fact I would suggest you try it, but I imagine people would spot you pretty quick.



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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 7:50:33 PM   
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Ever consider a new profile......ditching this one......starting fresh as a new member....new name....?

Just a thought.


Collarme has a witness relocation program?!?!?!

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 8:49:10 PM   
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My dad used to say he wanted to publish a newspaper that only printed good news. I used to roll my eyes when he wasn't looking, but I now rather like the idea, So much energy goes into asking "What went wrong?" that we miss the equally important question of "What went right?"

Doing some Googling for the polarization thread, I refreshed my memory on the Era of Good Feelings,which followed the War of 1812. Even as a history major at a decent school, I learned almost nothing about this period. Yet it could have important lessons for our polarized nation. How, for example, did James Monroe (who, I'm starting to think, may have been underrated) so unify the nation that he was actually unopposed when he ran for reelection, in 1820? What skills might Monroe be able to teach us for today?

Sorry to be a bit digressive! Monroe just cam to mind as an example of a "What went right?" story we really need to tell.

The story related in the OP is wonderful, and I appreciate boi's sharing it.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/14/2012 9:26:27 PM   
Owner59


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There was an effort by foxnoose in the middle of disaster-Iraq to bring us the "good news" in Iraq,because the con-higher-ups were feeling pretty embarrassed by the daily and constant bad news coming out of Iraq........as if there was some mysterious force other than the fucking bad news itself, making Americans feel so angry and upset.

It was suppose to feature the "good things" to come out of bush`s fraud.Schools built/painted,hospitals built/painted,yada yada.....and what was "really" happening there,outside of the liberal media spin.

We never saw that show.

News by it`s very nature usually isn`t good news.............at least for someone.Nice to hear when the UM is found safe.After hearing all the bad news about an Amber Alert.

Hey I`m glad the kid had a make a wish moment too.Maybe the title could have been less ham-handed.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/15/2012 5:10:37 AM   
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My dad used to say he wanted to publish a newspaper that only printed good news. I used to roll my eyes when he wasn't looking, but I now rather like the idea, So much energy goes into asking "What went wrong?" that we miss the equally important question of "What went right?"

Doing some Googling for the polarization thread, I refreshed my memory on the Era of Good Feelings,which followed the War of 1812. Even as a history major at a decent school, I learned almost nothing about this period. Yet it could have important lessons for our polarized nation. How, for example, did James Monroe (who, I'm starting to think, may have been underrated) so unify the nation that he was actually unopposed when he ran for reelection, in 1820? What skills might Monroe be able to teach us for today?

Sorry to be a bit digressive! Monroe just cam to mind as an example of a "What went right?" story we really need to tell.

The story related in the OP is wonderful, and I appreciate boi's sharing it.


It had little to do with James Monroe, a decent president to be sure, unifying the nation. The Federalist opposition to the War of 1812 caused that party to die out leaving only the Democratic-Republicans. The one part era was not long and the eventually the Whigs and Democrats formed the Second American Party System. The post-war era is a much better example of how two parties can be oppositional and rational. There were strongly contested elections, but almost all the political elites accepted the liberal consensus (and incidentally, American prosperity as at an all time high -- I do not claim that was all the result of the liberal consensus). After all, Republican Eisenhower would be called a socialist by many of today's Republicans.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/15/2012 6:41:50 AM   
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Edited to add: And if they find the bastard who did that, make him go to a Detroit Lions game.


Never happen. There are laws against cruel and unusual punishment.

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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/15/2012 7:36:09 AM   
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RE: we need more stories like this one - 4/15/2012 7:41:24 AM   
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