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WELCOME ALL!!

Below you will find a variety of newsfeeds, some from familiar sites.

Comments are below the news, as well as other stuff.

Am hoping to add some civility back to this little corner of the world. Have found some decent news feeds and some familiar ones, as well. For now, everyone that isn't going to be a prick is WELCOME. Comments are open to all and seeing that we are all civilized adults, we will start from THAT point.

ANY story you would like to discuss, make the comment on the most recent blog post. Will do my best to start a thread on that story and we can discuss it, as well.

If it is a WTSP story, we can run a concurrent duscussion, you can post here and there.

Jumping away was MY idea, so ALL are welcome here that are willing to be civil to each other. For the WTSP stories, we can run a parallel CIVILIZED commentary, for other stories, we will go out go our own.

Am QUITE sure that we can ALL learn something from one another and that we can do it with more class and dignity for the benefit of everyone.
Will add feeds, stuff as requested and when possible.

It is MY GOAL that you find this sight enjoyable useful.

Constructive comments are ALWAYS welcomed.

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Friday, December 4, 2009

Why I left WTSP.....




Greetings Fellow Earthican's

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to dissolve the bonds which have connected one to another, and to assume upon the internet, a separate and equal station to which the laws of decency and civility are entitled, a decent respect to the opinions of my fellow countrymen requires that I should declare the causes which impel me to separation.

As an American, I hold THESE truths to be self evident:

That ALL humans are created EQUAL and they are endowed by their Creator with certain UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, that among these are LIFE, LIBERTY and The Pursuit of Happiness, in the way they see best fit for themselves, provided their actions to not bring harm to another.


Pretty obvious where I stole those words from, but they are BEAUTIFUL words, meant to be re-examined and redefined as the situation merits.

I left the CHAOS of WTSP due to the actions of a few bad posters and the INACTION of WTSP for allowing such despicable comments to reside on their site.

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2 comments:

OldChristine said...

For me the whole "jewhader" thing was just one in a long string of many bogus posters who write crude, inciting, hateful, sometimes hurtful, nonsense. I've personally never understood that mentality. Why waste everybody's time? It reflects badly on the sincere posters and most of all on WTSP but alas we have come full circle unless WTSP changes it's position.

So here we are and here we will hope to be civil, forgiving and open-minded and with any luck none of the riff-raff will sneak past our borders.


I'm glad that Rickster spoke up. All too many times we just don't want to get into an on-line tussle with a psycho and we sit back and let others tackle it. It would not have been necessary for Rickster to speak up if we could count on WTSP to monitor their site properly.

StPeteRickster said...

Absolutely agree. Mine was not the ONLY case, just the most recent one.

Is why we are seeking to get any poster that wants to help, involved in helping let WTSP know how we feel.

There is a loss of civility in this world, and NO ONE gains from it. Is worth fighting for to get some of it back.

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