I'll take this place, any day. I remember this picture I saw on the New Yorker once, showing the view of the west coast [of the US] from the east, losing detail with distance - it was meant to be funny, and it was. You have the same simplistic view of this country, driven by the media story being fed you. Its a complicated place, a big place, and exceptionally active. So, yeah, be gullible, get sucked in by all the media stories, and miss the forest for the trees. PT Barnum would love you.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Not just insane enough to put up with gun policies that > allow the slaughter of their own children, but so insane > that they have to make up conspiracy theories to pretend > that it never happened, or happened as part of a plot to > take their guns away. > > http://gawker.com/5976204/behind-the-sandy-hook-truther-conspiracy-video-that-five-million-people-have-watched-in-one-week > > I've got a solution for America to its "gun problem." > Take all of the people who own guns and put them in a big > open space like the desert. ALL of the people, mind you. > If you own a gun, you *have* to partake; the only way to > *not* partake is to turn your guns in. Allow them to bring > all the guns and ammo they'll think they need to win. > > Win? There's a prize...of one million dollars. It goes to > the last person still standing at the end of the Gun > Insanity Games. The winner is presented with his or her > prize, and then prompted deported to a country more > suited to his or her disposition, like Angola. > > Voila. Problem solved. Then gather up all the guns and > the dead bodies, melt them all down, build a monument > to the insanity that was America, and start over. >