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To: TimF who wrote (259579)	11/12/2005 12:20:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572924

While people are more important, much more important, then animals, and they should be given top priority, I can't call someone's effort to help animals out disgusting. Is it disgusting that I just bought a new Infiniti when I could have bought a can for $10k less and donated the difference to relief efforts? I don't think so, nor do I think its disgusting that certain rich people want to spend their money on animals. Its their money and unless what they spend it on is directly immoral or illegal I'm not going to complain if they don't spend it on something you or I would consider a higher priority. People are starving and homeless, desperate and scared, but you think its okay for some richbutt to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars flying dogs from NO to SF. It may be his money but I still am offended by his insensitivity. In fact, I am so insulted I want the tax cuts reinstated. This extra money of his that's burning a hole in his pocket can be put to better use by the gov't.

To: TimF who wrote (259579)	11/13/2005 2:24:03 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572924

And if you have any doubt that discrimination is alive and well in this country, I have move examples than just this one below to provide you. And I ain't buying the notion that no one stopped because they thought the guy was Haitian....as if that were a reasonable excuse. They didn't stop to save him because he was black.........period. We've come a short distance during a long period of time. That's why AA needs to stay in place. **************************************************** Man Rescued From Sharks After Six-Hour Ordeal** ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Nov. 12) - A man whose boat capsized in rough seas off the Florida coast treaded water for six hours, watching his friend die, while two boaters refused to pick him up apparently thinking he was an illegal immigrant from Haiti. Rogers Washington was eventually saved by two other boaters on Thursday who spotted him frantically waving his arms and shouting "I'm an American! I'm an American!" "It would have been very easy not to have seen him," said David Pensky, 61, who saved Washington. "At first, I wasn't sure if he was a diver trying to make sure I didn't hit him." he told The (Annapolis) Capital, a Maryland newspaper. Pensky and Richard Holden, 63, noticed the fisherman, orange whistle to his lips, floating with the aid of a cooler lid and a small life vest shoved under his arm. "They are the best men in the world," Washington said on Friday. "They are God's children." Washington said he capsized while on a fishing trip with Robert Lewis Moore, 62, also from Florida, after two large waves hit his 22-foot boat. The boat went down quickly, leaving the men clutching life vests. Moore probably had a heart attack and died when a shark began circling them, Washington said. He tried resuscitating Moore, but it didn't work. He held onto his friend for about 45 minutes. "I had to let him go so I could try to survive," he said. Washington floated alone in the choppy seas for about five more hours, the coastline visible in the distance. A hammerhead shark came within 5 feet of him. Two boats, a charter and a sailboat, passed within a couple hundred feet. No one on those boats offered to help. "They waved at me. I know they saw me," said Washington, who is black and believes the other boaters thought he was an illegal immigrant from Haiti. Moore's body was found Thursday by a fisherman. 11/12/05 10:18 EST Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.