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[Cali_Democrat]

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[hrmjustin]

1. Twitter is more interesting.

[KittyWampus]

9. Paint drying is more interesting. My cats throwing up fur balls is more interesting.

[hrmjustin]

13. I got 5 cats so I can take bets on who has the next hair ball.

[LiberalElite]

29. i have 5 too!

Bootsie, Buttons, Riley, Charlotte and Thumper

[hrmjustin]

33. Feeding time is always a pleasure.

[LiberalElite]

34. For me, only two

show up at feeding time now. It's a good thing though - when I had six, they all crammed into the kitchen and sometimes I was trapped by the stove for the duration. Very small kitchen.

[hrmjustin]

35. My cats like to trip me to tell me they are hungry.

[LiberalElite]

36. Nice. nt

I get yowled at, esp. by the 21 yr old.

[hrmjustin]

39. Wow, 21.

[oldandhappy]

2. Good advice!

[PowerToThePeople]

3. The moon is going to be the closest ever!!!

It's gravity is going to suck away our attmosphere!!

We are all gonna DIEE!!!!!111!!!!1

[Boom Sound 416]

4. That's a rather disturbingly apathetic view point

And all too common

[LordGlenconner]

6. Apathetic?

Maybe. Or for some, perhaps the best advice. Lot of people with hair on fire today both on DU and outside.

[Boom Sound 416]

14. It's a big day.

What you casually toss aside doesn't routinely happen.

A passenger jet was shot down by a middle. Yes it's happened but it didn't happy yesterday day or the day before or the day before.

Ditto with the tens of thousands ground force invasion of Gaza.

And no people on DU don't have their hair on fire, save for the reactionary reactionaries.

But some out there have just that and it's just a little apathetic to toss it aside and say 'chill out y'all' on a blog.

[LordGlenconner]

23. I think you have me confused with someone else

I didn't casually toss aside anything. I merely pointed out that for some taking a break from the TV might be a good idea. You may be one of those people, frankly.

[Boom Sound 416]

37. Actually yes, I thought you were the OP

But either way that's the tone you took, so I stand by mine.

As for the tv. I haven't seen it since 4p eastern and I use DU mobile.

Cheers!

[LordGlenconner]

42. Thanks for the update

I guess if one isn't emoting like a child on the internet one doesn't care or is "casually tossing things aside".

[SummerSnow]

5. Its the warmongering propaganda 101

[CBGLuthier]

7. I am watching a 36 year old episode of Emergency!

Why should I turn my TV off. I never ever watch TV news because, well damn it all, I got a fucking brain and I don't need them to tell me shit.

[redqueen]

20. Exactly. TV is for entertainment, not information. nt

[Brickbat]

21. That is the BEST.

[conservaphobe]

8. I turn off the TV on slow news days.

It's hard to look away on days like today.

It has desensitized me quite a bit to it, so I can handle it.

[Enrique]

10. those are all major events

I have not had a TV in more than 10 years so I don't know how they're covering these crises, but those stories themselves are not minor by any stretch, imho.

[JI7]

11. the thing is that the media only reports when they have certain images or some big thing happens

they stopped reporting on Ukraine after a while. but if they had kept on it we would know more about this situation and how rebels had been shooting down planes .

for those who get foreign news or even more importantly read the news regularly much of these things aren't a surprise .

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. umm i dont think so

ISIS was no always in iraq, the gaza assault has escalated, and we do have more kids requiring asylum than normal, and planes getting shot down are always problematic

i am not saying third world war is on its way, but its not great going in the middle east, we need an immigration plan at home and the ukraine/russia situation is not great

[Journeyman]

15. Haven't watched that crap since the "count up to war' during the Iranian Hostage Situation. . .

[OKNancy]

16. The internet is worse

LOL. Sometimes even DU is worse

[spanone]

17. news is the ultimate reality show....inflection can change truth

[Rex]

18. People just need to remember how much the M$M LOVED 'Shock & Awe'.

Nothing worse than the M$M.

[nolabear]

19. I was talking to a friend who is near 80 today and he said the same thing.

I was being alarmist about all this stuff and he snorted (and this is an old Commie activist, hardly uninvolved or senile) and said "It's been like this since time began. Those who always fought are fighting and the capitalists are trying to make a buck. Calm the fuck down and live."

I believe I will.

[Cali_Democrat]

28. Tell your friend I said hi

[cali]

22. I don't watch TV and I know history and anyone who diminishes the tragedy ongoing in Gaza

is morally blind. Furthermore, Iraq and Afghanistan are both unholy messes. So is Ukraine.

One needn't be shocked by what's going on in the world at this particular moment in time, but your callous indifference to it is disturbing- and that's putting it kindly. your quip about the world cup in this context is ugly.

I'm not shocked either- by your op. You view all events through the prism of devotion to the President. No you didn't mention him, but in the context of your posting history, it fits..

[Puzzledtraveller]

27. I think you are the transparent one.

[Cali_Democrat]

30. Thanks. I'm here all week...

[Puzzledtraveller]

25. Wow

really?

[morningfog]

26. At least you are proud of your ignorance.

There is much to mourn and be concerned with today. Real lives have been lost, real people are suffering. To dismiss it as ratings seeking is childish and calloused.

[LiberalElite]

31. of course there have always

been immigrants crossing the US border for a better life. However, they didn't always have rabid right wing nutjobs waiting for them on the U.S. side.

[onenote]

32. Nonsense.

- Israel and the Palestinians fight all the time.
But Israel doesn't send ground troops into Gaza all the time.

- Iraq has been in chaos since the 2003 Bush invasion.
But there are degrees of chaos and the taking of territory by ISIS or whatever they call themselves is a new, disturbing turn of events.

- There have always been immigrants crossing the US border for a better life.
But there haven't always been thousands of unaccompanied minors making there way from Central America in such a short time span.

- Planes have been shot down in the past
You apparently think that passenger jets getting shot down is an everyday occurance. Its happened fewer than 20 times in 60 years and this is only the fourth time that more than 100 people died in such an incident.

Maybe instead of our turning off the TV, you should turn it on. Or read a newspaper. Or keep track of something other than the World Cup.

[valerief]

38. They always do that, don't they? TV is only good for cable serial dramas and

old movies.

[bigwillq]

40. The world is a mess.

So is our country.

I wish the media would illustrate the tragedies that occur every day in our own backyard.

[DesMoinesDem]

41. LOL.

Most days there is little to no news to report. A plane being shot down and Israel sending troops into Gaza is big news. Today is a good day to turn the TV on. Why are you trying to spin this as no big deal? It's not Obama's fault. Save your spin, Baghdad Bob.