<<"Thanks for the reminder. It still seems impossible that some one could murder this incredible musician.">> Et Al; With all due respect to all who have echoed these sentiments. John was just a man, albeit a talented one, and his murder was just that a murder. Regrettable? Yes certainly it is. But where is the compassion for the victims at Pearl Harbor since the anniversary of that was yesterday? OK John was an icon...so is Pearl Harbor and I submit that John ain't more important than what happened there yet no one, including me, mentioned what a tragic loss that was for us all, muscially inclined or not. Priorities??? When this is included in the other threads bemoaning global warming, our national selfishness, and some neferious collective guilt we should all have for being consumers................it is enough to give one pause if they are in the slighest bit a thinking individual. For instance the complaint about feeling guilty for consuming too much was written on a computer, during a power emergency, thereby using priceless electricity which probably was needed elsewhere. Where is the expression of guilt for that? Where is the expression of guilt for having an automobile for going to the store and buying that computer to begin with. The complaints about global warming are made either before or after the poster has gotten in his/her gas/diesel powered Automobile/SUV/Van/Motorcycle running all over town earning money to buy the computer to feel guilty over, adding guilt feelings for having driven a smog producing vehicle. All this while living in a state that sucks up water rightfully belonging to another state and using electricity that is, in large, part produced in another state, using their precious resources, so y'all can live where y'all can complain and have guilt feelings. Perhaps I might join in the collective guilt trip had I not had the opportunity to work in numerous "third world" and supposedly "civilized" european contries. It ain't my fault that some poulations are continuing to kill themselves for racial, ethnic, and religious reason.....I don't do that. It ain't my fault that some populations are too busy with homocide, genocide, fraticide..and a few other 'cides' I am missing to see to the developmnet and economic betterment of their country and citizens....I don't do that. It ain't my fault that some populations care more about cast than equality...I don't do that. It ain't my fault that there are children starving in the world because the governments agents steall the food we send them and the money we send them....I don't do that. When the complainers sell their automobiles and live in mud huts with no electricity and water, search the scrub land for twigs to cook their meals and try to reinvent all the medicines we use so casually...then I might listen...........but how would I hear them they would no use for the danged computer except as a weight to hold down their twigs. Subsistence living like the other 3/5s(?) of the world nah!! been there done that, it sucks, and it ain't my fault that there are people who live that way. If you insist on feeling guilty about global warming, consuming or etc. sell all your possesions and give the money away to those that don't have as much as you. Mother Teresa did it and so did Ghandi so it can be done if you are serious............... if you aren't serious stop taking up our time with this crap. Oh and by the way for the guilt ridden among us at Pearl harbor it was American servicemen and women who died not some loved and very talented druggie. PC guilt is just that. My view. Jim Bryant (FL)
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