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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (96304)	2/22/2005 3:38:23 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

The grocer is so far removed from where the food is grown... <sensitive and thinking> I think I'm like most people--sensitive to things that are close to me, family and friends, local events and such. But when things are far removed from your world, it is very easy to maintain emotional detatchment. It's probably hard coded-- a person would go insane if he were completely sympathetic to everything he heard or saw. Not saying there isn't a nobler better way of living. I just don't get too worked up about suffering, human or animal. Global warming doesn't scare me. To be honest, the 7 teradollar US debt does not keep me up at night. Maybe Avian flu burns out after only killing a few tens of thousands, maybe it is gone even sooner than that? But I'm not an expert, and ignorance is bliss. The biggest problems in my life are the common cold and the neighbor's barking dogs. It's enough. <Avian flu world's No. 1 threat> What happened to global warming and terrorism? And for a day, there was even an asteroid that was a threat. Statistically, humans probably have 5000 years to go. It's enough.

To: Grainne who wrote (96304)	2/22/2005 8:42:08 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Animals are routinely tortured and slaughtered by the cosmetics industry. This is an area that deserves more attention, worldwide. Speaking of that, politicians in the pocket of Big Cosmetics deserve scorn. news.bostonherald.com Ted K, wife take beauty of a junket on L'Oreal By Andrew Miga Monday, February 21, 2005 WASHINGTON - L'Oreal, the cosmetics giant, picked up the $22,156 tab for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's trip to Paris for the black-tie opening of the firm's Jacqueline Kennedy exhibition, records show. Kennedy and his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy enjoyed a six-day trip to France Nov. 14-19, 2002, courtesy of the world's largest cosmetics manufacturer, according to a Herald review of Senate travel records. Kennedy's Parisian hotel room cost L'Oreal nearly $10,000 while meals for the couple totaled $1,100, records show. The celebrity-studded opening of ``Jacqueline Kennedy: the White House Years'' at the famed Louvre included actress Catherine Deneuve, French First Lady Bernadette Chirac and such clothing designers as Pierre Cardin, Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld. Kennedy appeared at a press conference with niece Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. Kennedy aides stressed the senator made the trip as an informal ambassador for the Kennedy Library, whose selections were used in the exhibit. Kennedy also attended the exhibit's U.S. openings in Boston, New York, Washington and Chicago. The senior senator's Parisian jaunt was among the dozens of trips members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation and their staffers have taken in recent years that were paid for by a wide array of special interest groups, from think tanks to major corporations.