Now THAT is **PERCEPTIVE**, Wayne (the thread ID)!!!!!

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>Journalists are always going to focus on the negative - it's what gets run on the news. So they will try to make anything negative to get it on. Same thing is happening in Iraq - there are countless good things going on over there - but all we see is the negative.
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>Did you notice the thread id of this thread? Very interesting IMHO.
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>>You probably know the G8 summit is going on, but there is another story about it that I think is very interesting that no one nationally or world wide is covering. It's going on very near where I'm at (Savannah GA) and we seem to be the only ones talking about it.
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>>Before the summit there were all sorts of news articles (even national ones) about the number of demonstrators that were going to be here based on earlier summits. So far, nothing. A demonstration that was expected to bring tens of thousands brought 500. 400 of those were journalists. No kidding. I read about another rally yesterday that had only 10.
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>>I saw video on-line yesterday from AP titled something like "Protesters at the G8" and it showed the same people over and over. All the shots were close up so you couldn't see how few and they never mentioned the small turnout.
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>>Our downtown area that is normally packed with tourists is a ghost town. The locals left and few came to take their place. They put up cement barricades with tall black metal fences around the hotel and to keep the dignitaries safe. Everywhere you turn there is police, secret service, the National Guard, and detour signs for big trucks. Our historic city has never looked anything like this.
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>>The news articles are about how the journalists at Hutchinson Island across the river are complaining because the rates for having an Internet connection and a very small place to set up starts at $350. Another article "Ready, Set, Snore."
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>>My commute to work that went from 15 minutes to 30 because of a detour we're having for other reasons is currently faster than it's ever been. Now don't think I'm complaining. I like that there aren't 100,000 people here screaming and vandalizing an historic area. I just thought it was news worthy and only us locals know.