[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) Beam, what makes you more delusional, today's bright sun or wonderful
temperatures.
:-D
[btw, I meant it was thrilling for a moment to be ROSS, who
wondered the other day if he was the only sane one left. as
far as the va tech shootings, I got as far as
Vincent/Roger wrote:
Thanks for posting this, Ray.
My first thought about the Virginia Tech shootings was that -- said as it was
-- the equivalent loss of life, or often more, happens just about every day in
Iraq.
Perhaps every day we could mourn these losses as much as the VaTech losses. At
In a message dated 4/21/2007 11:21:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... The U.S. is the world leader in seemingly random acts of violence by
individuals. Why?
1) Obviously the poster, with uncertain ID, of this assertion neither reads
the daily or weekly summaries
Folks,
This disparate level of coverage over Iraqis who die in the
conflict/police action/insurgent war/civil war in Iraq versus the 32
murdered students at VT is a form of cultural and national dissonant
communication. It part of the debate over the editorializing of all news
coverage,
Neither we nor the media should forget that on average thirty three
_americans_ die in Iraq every ten days. But I can't think of the last
time I saw a soldier's funeral on CNN.
But I certainly suffer the out of sight out of mind disconnect as well
-- I can rationalize and say Oh, they're
On my way out the door yesterday I heard that there were 130 dead in Baghdad an
as many again wounded that day. But without the 24/7 CNN coverage, it all seems
so far away.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Vincent/Roger
Thanks for posting this, Ray.
My first
In the eyes of editors who need to sell advertising (the reason for the so
called news in the first place) Iraqi lives are worth less than dead American
service members. Dead American service members are worth less advertising
dollars than the gold mine of dead students at Virginia Tech. This
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Neither we nor the media should forget that on average thirty three
_americans_ die in Iraq every ten days. But I can't think of the last
time I saw a soldier's
In a message dated 4/18/2007 10:07:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is the most coherent analysis I have yet seen re the Virginia
shootings. Not perfect, but pretty close.
Let me also take this opportunity to point out that religious minorities
like Mennonites
Thanks for posting this, Ray.
My first thought about the Virginia Tech shootings was that -- said as it was
-- the equivalent loss of life, or often more, happens just about every day in
Iraq.
Perhaps every day we could mourn these losses as much as the VaTech losses. At
least we'd have less
My daughter's high school science teacher lost a nephew at VT.
GJJ
This is the most coherent analysis I have yet seen re the Virginia
shootings. Not perfect, but pretty close.
Let me also take this opportunity to point out that religious minorities
like Mennonites and Quakers who insist that people should not kill other
people are an infinitely miniscule
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