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Started by The Good Reverend Roger, September 23, 2013, 08:47:56 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

September 23, 2013, 08:47:56 PM
This isn't for your personal fucking life.  This is for good news from the news, which is rarer than Goddamn hen's teeth.

I'll start:

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/one-third-drop-new-aids-infections-un-report-4B11233763
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

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September 23, 2013, 08:50:47 PM
That IS good news. :)
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#2
September 23, 2013, 09:57:35 PM
In a better world, I would be able to see that. :(
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#3
September 23, 2013, 11:35:23 PM
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#5
September 24, 2013, 05:26:40 AM
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#6
September 24, 2013, 04:50:18 PM
Articles still not loading for me, but from the title it looks promising.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#7
September 24, 2013, 05:51:48 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 24, 2013, 04:50:18 PM
Articles still not loading for me, but from the title it looks promising.

You should call Comcast and have the downtime deducted from your bill.

You want me to post the articles? 
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

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September 24, 2013, 06:52:05 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 24, 2013, 05:51:48 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 24, 2013, 04:50:18 PM
Articles still not loading for me, but from the title it looks promising.

You should call Comcast and have the downtime deducted from your bill.

You want me to post the articles?

I have a quandary that I can't really complain about, which is that my ex-husband has been paying my internet bill for the last five years. So I can't call Comcast, and I am reluctant to make it his problem, either.

If you would post the articles that would be rad.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Cramulus

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September 24, 2013, 07:31:33 PM
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/kenya-shopping-mall-attack-fouryearold-british-boy-freed-and-given-mars-bar-after-telling-armed-jihadist-youre-a-bad-man-8836104.html


Quote

A four-year-old British boy survived the Kenya shopping mall attack after telling an armed jihadist 'you're a bad man', according to the boy's uncle who has given an interview to a UK newspaper.

After apparently seeing his mother shot in the thigh, young Elliott Prior is said to have confronted the gunman shouting "you're a bad man, let us leave".

Incredibly the gunman in understood to have took pity on Elliott and his six-year-old sister Amelie, giving the pair a Mars bar each and allowing them and their mother to leave the chaotic shopping mall in the middle of the terror attack.

Elliott's 35-year-old mother Amber was reportedly able to grab two more children - including a wounded 12-year-old boy whose mother had been murdered – before exiting the shopping mall and taking the children them to safety.

I'm not sure if this counts as good news, but it was touching

Cain

#10
November 27, 2013, 09:22:32 AM
Bump

http://guardianlv.com/2013/11/kkk-member-walks-up-to-black-musician-in-bar-but-its-not-a-joke-and-what-happens-next-will-astound-you/

QuoteIt was 1983 and Davis was playing country western music in an (informally) all-white lounge. He was the only black musician in the place and when his set was over, a man approached him. "He came up to me and said he liked my piano playing," says Davis, "then he told me this was the first time he heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis." Davis, somewhat amused, explained to the man: "Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie woogie piano players and he's a friend of mine. He told me himself where he learned to play." At first, Davis says, the man was skeptical that Jerry Lee Lewis had been schooled by black musicians, but Davis went on to explain in more detail. "He was fascinated," says Davis, "but he didn't believe me. Then, he told me he was a Klansman."

Most people in this day and age probably would have turned and ran right out of that good ol' boy's bar, but not Davis. He stayed and talked with the Klansman for a long time. "At first, I thought 'why the hell am I sitting with him?' but we struck up a friendship and it was music that brought us together," he says.

That friendship would lead Davis on a path almost unimaginable to most folks. Today, Davis is not only a musician, he is a person who befriends KKK members and, as a result, collects the robes and hoods of Klansmen who choose to leave the organization because of their friendship with him.

I'll wager Davis is surprisingly effective, too.  Music cuts across all boundaries, and by getting inside of their ideas about the world and subverting it, from a position of friendship, he manages to do so without the inherent problems that arise from hostility and automatic rejection that a more...strident approach would suffer from.

East Coast Hustle

#11
November 27, 2013, 09:52:28 AM
Wow, that's fucking cool.
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#12
November 27, 2013, 01:20:41 PM
New short duration personal savior.

Junkenstein

#13
November 27, 2013, 01:52:47 PM
QuoteDavis also became close with Robert White, a Grand Dragon in the KKK. "I respect someone's right to air their views whether they are wrong or right," Davis says. "Robert White was a Grand Dragon who had gone to prison numerous times. I said I wanted to interview him for my book. At first, he was very violent and very hateful but we talked for a long time. Over time, he began thinking about a lot of things he had done and said that were wrong. He quit the Klan. Toward the end he said he would follow me to hell and back. ...and he gave me his robe and hood, and his police uniform."

QuoteThis Klansman and I were riding around in my car and the topic of crime came up. He made the remark that all black people had a gene that makes us violent. I said 'Gary, what are you talking about?' He said 'Who's doing all the shootings?' I said 'let me tell you something, I am as black as anyone you've ever seen and I've never done a drive by or a shooting.' After a time I said 'you know, it's a fact that all white people have within them a gene that makes them serial killers. Name me three black serial killers.' He could not do it. I said 'you have the gene. It's just latent.' He said 'well that's stupid' I said 'it's just as stupid as what you said to me.' He was very quiet after that and I know it was sinking in.

Got a lot of admiration for this guy. It took a lot of brains and balls to try this. It's also impressive that he didn't end up in a bad place himself and seems to have been quite thoughtful about the whole thing. This particularly:
QuoteThe ice bucket had melted and the cans of soda shifted, and that's what made the noise! We all began laughing at how stupid we all had been. In retrospect, it was a very important lesson that was taught. All because a foreign entity of which we were ignorant, entered into our comfort zone, we became fearful of each other. The lesson learned is: ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.
Is pretty poignant and powerful.
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