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Yeah, i'm not sure who is worse, the alarmists or the christians who are so excited by the 'signs' of the 2nd coming approaching.

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Sort of harsh Vince... we, both individuals and as a nation give a lot to those suffering tragedies. I think it has more to do with how to get the aid to people...

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Sort of harsh Vince... we, both individuals and as a nation give a lot to those suffering tragedies. I think it has more to do with how to get the aid to people...

Yes, we do, Butch. But only when notified and led by our federal government and by our news media. Notice that in the past two weeks not only were we silent on the 1200 who died in Southwest Asia, but hardly a word was said about the tragedy of the earthquake in Mexico. Granted that we were preoccupied with our own major problems and we certainly must take care of our own first but silence on the tragedies in South West Asia and in Mexico has been deafening.

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

Power was just restored here. Cell towers are still iffy. Normalcy is slowly returning.

I made it through OK, only losing a few trees. One landed on my car, but no damage, aside from hellacious scrapes in the paint job.

And yes, it was one of my trees that knocked out power in the neighborhood. But in my defense, the power company had already tagged it (and several others) for removal, but didn't bother to cut it. And I'm really glad I slept through the neighbors sawing it up to get it out of the road.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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Sort of harsh Vince... we, both individuals and as a nation give a lot to those suffering tragedies. I think it has more to do with how to get the aid to people...

Yes, we do, Butch. But only when notified and led by our federal government and by our news media. Notice that in the past two weeks not only were we silent on the 1200 who died in Southwest Asia, but hardly a word was said about the tragedy of the earthquake in Mexico. Granted that we were preoccupied with our own major problems and we certainly must take care of our own first but silence on the tragedies in South West Asia and in Mexico has been deafening.

There is no doubt the news media leads the way... but again it is not because these people are not white. There are many hundreds, i would guess, of individual Churches and other charitable organizations that are helping the less fortunate every single day... it is just not in the news.

Butch

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Sort of harsh Vince... we, both individuals and as a nation give a lot to those suffering tragedies. I think it has more to do with how to get the aid to people...

Yes, we do, Butch. But only when notified and led by our federal government and by our news media. Notice that in the past two weeks not only were we silent on the 1200 who died in Southwest Asia, but hardly a word was said about the tragedy of the earthquake in Mexico. Granted that we were preoccupied with our own major problems and we certainly must take care of our own first but silence on the tragedies in South West Asia and in Mexico has been deafening.

There is no doubt the news media leads the way... but again it is not because these people are not white. There are many hundreds, i would guess, of individual Churches and other charitable organizations that are helping the less fortunate every single day... it is just not in the news.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

I think he is trying to prove that unless thousands die, its not a catastrophe.
The fact that people learned and safety has become a feature for oft hit areas is a good thing, less people dying is a good thing.
Completely ignoring the rest of the worlds floods, or the horrific fires on the east coast of the US, two major hurricanes in the same month(so far)
of course climate change is a hoax.
As Stevie Wonder recently said, you have to be ignorant or blind not to see its real. (paraphrasing)