>Very well said, even for you.
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>I do not think ill of the dead, no matter what they thought or how much I disagreed with them. IMO we all deserve a certain amount of respect even when we're dust.
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>Yesterday on the train home I took the last open seat on the end car and was treated to the ongoing and braying discourse between two people across the aisle. They were SO annoying, as Emily would say. Loud, rude, constant opinions. On and on and on it went. I am not lying about the loud part. They wanted everyone in the car to hear their room temperature views on the events of the day. When they got to "American Idol" I was about ready to break the window open and jump out. I tried to tune them out. They just weren't tune-able.

We get the same thing on our commuter train (GO Train). I refer to them as the 'Cacklers and Screechers'. What I wouldn't give for a 'quiet car', but the people who run the system (and probably don't ride it), say no, we don't need a 'quiet car'.

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>We are lucky here to have intelligent members who generally share their thoughts in a respectful way. It's a nice oasis.
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>>I agree. He was extremely devisive and responsible for the 'moral majority' which I don't think ever was a 'majority' but actually a very minute 'minority' in this country. It was nothing more than a bullying political lobby run by overzealous fundamentalist conservative christians. IMHO, one of the worst things to occur in this country recently is the evangelical revolution which brought about the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition Network, and more recently, the Moral Majority Coalition. Personally, I disagree with the majority of what they stand for. The media gives these groups so much air time that people overseas get the false impression that the majority of Americans think like them.
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>>Ok, that will probably stir up a hornets nest!
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>>>>>From BBC: " Leading US conservative evangelist Rev Jerry Falwell has died in hospital in Virginia after being found unconscious in his office, his assistants said. "
>>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6659457.stm
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>>>>He was a good man.
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>>>Sorry, I can't agree. He did so much harm in his life through his words and his acts. He may have been a good man to his family and friends, but he deserves a lot of credit for the divisive nature of American society and the preoccupation in political life of social issues that should be private.
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>>>Tamar