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To: LindyBill who wrote (488440)	5/24/2012 7:45:27 AM
From: unclewest	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794193

I drive by this intersection several times a week…about 6 Miles S of our home. I think all will understand why I'm posting this from this morning's news. (Greensboro, NC) -- At 9:53 P.M. last night, Greensboro Police officers responded to a robbery call at 3801 North Church Street. Victim, Brian Kindell. Mr. Kindell, told them he was standing at the bus stop when he was approached by 3 subjects. One of the subjects then displayed a handgun and demanded property. After retrieving the property the suspects left the scene on foot. Suspect 1, who brandished the firearm, is described as a black male, 6 ",late teens, wearing a gray hooded sweat jacket and blue jeans. Suspect 2 is described as a black male, in his late teens, approx. 6" tall wearing a black hoodie and blue khakis Suspect 3 is described as a black male in his teens wearing black hat, black jacket and dark pants. Officers canvassed the area and detained a juvenile who is assisting police with their enquiries. The victim was not injured. This is an active ongoing investigation. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Crimestoppers at 336-373-1000.

To: LindyBill who wrote (488440)	5/24/2012 7:51:52 AM
From: unclewest	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794193

Climategate Continues Here is a different look at the "Green" thing. Different for youngsters. Many of us here will remember all of it. uw Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right;we didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?