“Shit. Watching that video depressed me. But I still watched the whole thing. Good to be reminded. There are large parts of the world constantly suffering on our behalf.”
I'm a vegetarian like yourself, and I couldn't watch the first 3 minutes of it. I agree with you, most people don't care, and that's even sadder than the video, because people have free will and these are the choices that they make! - Matrixx333
*sigh* Yeah..... Or they don't even make a real choice, they just feed themselves some sort of rationale, or follow what others do, in order to simply get by and not think about it. I don't know which is more depressing.... but this seems to be the plight of humanity. - Ňicķ
I do think a lot of people want to be as moral as they can. But the world is complicated, and personal discipline is hard. - Ňicķ
Well, looking at the bigger picture, I think humanity is improving, just at a slower pace than evolution had originally planned. - Matrixx333
"U.S. government-brokered overseas arms sales are expected to total about $34 billion in the current fiscal year, up more than 45 percent from the year before, the Pentagon agency in charge said on Wednesday." - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet
Must... resist... political.... comment... ARGH!!! - Tad - just Tad
just let it go Tad, just let it all flow out! you'll feel better in the end. - Ňicķ
Accessories were probably not included. - Mona N. via fftogo
But which one of her closets did it come from? - John Worthington
To be fair the dress was 'only' $3K out of that bill - the diamond earrings are what set the price tag back a bit. Her bill made Laura Bush's look v modest in comparison. - Sally Church
"Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began tracking diversity at political conventions 40 years ago." - Ňicķ
"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan." Holy shit! Just when I thought it couldn't get worse..... - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet
that's bad news. fundamentalism has no place in this country - Cee Bee