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Time cops out again and does not name a specific "Person of the Year", although there isn't much that is more irrelevant than Time Magazine these days.
Their 2014 Time Person of the Year is..... THE EBOLA FIGHTERS
well - interesting - after literally hundreds of reports of how the "Ebola experts" and Ebola fighters have bumbled their jobs,
recklessly exposed themselves and others to Ebola, made terrible decisions about quarantining infected & exposed individuals,
waited way too long to impose travel restrictions, and unfortunately even infected themselves at a rate far in excess
of what would be expected had they followed proper isolation techniques...
...but I do honor that many of those individuals are brave & are volunteering their efforts to help...but then, they've been doing so for the last 30 years when nobody noticed....
Don't disagree with you on much of what you said regarding the protesters, but you still seem confused. The person of the year is about influence, not good or evil.
Only influence they have is on the ones who are looking for a place to burn down regardless of the facts. Peoria had a protest yesterday. One protestor said he afraid to drive the streets because of the police. Bull----. I'm afraid to walk my old neighborhood and it's not because of the police. Like I always tell people like him, you walk in my neighborhood tonight and I'll walk yours. Want to bet who gets further.
neighborhoods with bad crime problems need more police not less and certainly not police who are handcuffed and won't be effective as a result of threats & lawsuits
neighborhoods with bad crime problems need more police not less and certainly not police who are handcuffed and won't be effective as a result of threats & lawsuits
sadly it looks like maybe Time should revisit and name the protester as person of the year - they sure are creating a lot of headlines & chaos, meanwhile nobody's even reporting on Ebola anymore
seems we now have "protesting" evolving into the extreme form of protesting - people who literally do it continually driving from one protest to the next - sometimes even getting violent/deadly...
..doesn't surprise me since we glorified them as such great and important people in history..
just my two cents --
... we'd better be careful when celebrating "protesters" without first checking what those protesters ushered in...
history shows that a LARGE percentage of protests gain us nothing and some result in substantially worse outcome...
All some protests do is help tear down the old system - then the door is open for the next system to come along....the "protesters" are often just rolling the dice hoping for something better but guaranteeing NOTHING.
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To honor the protesters but NOT look at what their protests result in - is like honoring an eraser but ignoring what then gets written on the empty chalkboard
With all the protests by minorities, and other liberals who support them, it has become obvious I have to apologize for being 'white'.
So here it goes:
I apologize for being 'white'
I apologize for having two parents in my family who did their best to support me
I apologize for respecting my parents
I apologize for not using or selling illegal drugs or underage drinking/smoking
I apologize for obeying laws, civil rules, and people in authority, even if I disagree with them
I apologize for going to school and studying on my own
I apologize for learning to speak and write 'ENGLISH'
I apologize for not using profanity every other word
I apologize for not blaming others whenever I had an obstacle in my path
I apologize for working to afford to go to college and get a degree
I apologize for not committing criminal acts, not vandalizing, not littering and not stealing other people's money/property
I apologize for not getting multiple underage women pregnant and abandoning them and my children to fend for themselves
I apologize for getting married and raising a family without gov help/charity
I apologize for not taking welfare, unemployment, and thinking everyone else should support me (food, clothes, utilities, cell phone, backpacks, bikes, jackets, toys etc)
I apologize for not getting tattoos and piercings
I apologize for not wearing pants/underwear below my butt crack
I apologize for not following radical white racists
I apologize for saving money vs buying video games, expensive athletic shoes, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, etc.
I apologize for not joining gangs
If I forgot anything else I should apologize for, I certainly apologize for those too.
If you want black lives to matter, make black lives worth mattering about.
AZ, I was with you until the last line. I still believe it is just a small portion of people who make all the noise and commotion. Unfortunately, they get all the attention.
It has become so passe' that other than offending millions of people and driving fans away, nobody really gives a s**t any more. But I expect we'll continue to see more of these actions as the basketball season progresses.
I don't mind this if anyone wanting to honor the police killed in Dallas or remembering 9/11 is let to do so. That is why I no long watch any NFL games.
If the NBA stops anyone honoring fallen Policemen or remembering 9/11 as the NFL did. Then I guess I won't watch the NBA either.
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