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   From: AHigherCalling@SemperFi.org   
      
   "Captain!"  wrote in message   
   news:3UMAd.19162$uj2.6358@clgrps12...   
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   > "True American Hero"  wrote in message   
   > news:JalAd.12465$sN.7262@fe11.lga...   
   >> What is the best way to die? Depending on the method, what are your   
   >> chances of being saved?   
   >>   
   >> If you live in Darfur Sudan, you may starve to death. It will be a slow   
   >> agonizing process. In all likelihood, no one will come to save you.   
   >> People like Kofi Annan will talk about helping you while having a nice   
   >> dinner in a fancy Manhattan restaurant. Where TF is Bono? He dedicated   
   >> the rest of his life to fighting poverty but getting ready for the new   
   >> tour comes first.   
   >>   
   >> If you live in Sri Lanka, you die out in the open ocean after being swept   
   >> out to sea by a giant tsunami wave. The calamity does not last long   
   >> though. If you survive the wave, people from all over the world will trip   
   >> over each other in the rush to help you.   
   >>   
   >> It is good that people in Darfur do not have televisions. Right now they   
   >> would be feeling their lives are not worth very much. 75,000 have died so   
   >> far in Sudan and yet very few help. 33,000 died in the tsunami, spead   
   >> across thousands of miles and many countries. How many aircraft will   
   >> expend thousands of gallons of fuel to fly many tons of supplies all over   
   >> the Indian ocean? At the same time, wouldn't it be nice to get one   
   >> truckload of food into Sudan?   
   >>   
   >> If you must live through a catastrophy, I suggest you pick a tsunami over   
   >> starvation. It is a much more comfortable way to die. Kofi will be by   
   >> your side too!   
   >   
   > as i watched the news, i could not help but wonder if the fact that so   
   > many westerners died in this event has influenced the level of coverage.   
   > am i being too cynical?   
   >   
      
   Dead white people make for good news. Dead Africans people is just another   
   day in Africa.   
      
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