09-14-2006, 02:01 PM
Agreed. The media is busy distracting us with pictures of Tom Cruise's baby. The media merely seeks to entertain and distract, and not to inform: Missing white girls, celebrity babies, "news" that promotes entertainment programs that are on later that evening....in the meantime a city of half a million Americans lies in ruins, several American lives are snuffed out each day in an occupation that has cost over $300 billion ----money that could have been spent to pave the streets of New Orleans with gold, pensions. Medicare and social security are being reformed out of existence, and the public school system that has been the great equalizer for decades is being destroyed in the name of "standards" so that privitized schools, the best schools you can afford personally, are all that remain. Hawaii is being purposely more militarized in an effort to turn it irretrievably red, America has secret prisons, there is legislation pending in Congress to retroactively justify multiple violations of the Geneva Conventions (e.g., war crimes).
No, I'm with you. But in an open democracy forum like this, I wouldn't want to shock anyone! So I'll be off to discuss the merits of catchment vs. groundwater! Aloha!
No, I'm with you. But in an open democracy forum like this, I wouldn't want to shock anyone! So I'll be off to discuss the merits of catchment vs. groundwater! Aloha!