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Copy & paste articles ... but no opinion???
Sperry
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I see posts on this forum with a Topic and pasted text from a news article, or sometimes, just the link. The forum member is giving us information they found interesting. Maybe.
Here is a letter to people who like to post C&Ps. The people who feel a Subject heading and a link [or pasted text] is enough for us to establish their viewpoint ...
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______[insert name here]______, I appreciate your C&Ps. Most of your C&P posts, I have read in the minutes after they hit the news wires. Usually a few minutes before you post them.
I am interested in your viewpoint of the C&P'ed facts and opinions, and alway [if I open your post] look to see if you have typed an opinion before or after the story.
While I understand you must have an opinion of the C&P news stories, it would be interesting to know your viewpoint firsthand, instead of reading something you might post after several other people have first posted their viewpoints.
Not to denigrate your contributions here, but some members increasingly offer only a post topic and a link. Perhaps you can set an example and include commentary prior to your contributions?
Other [unnamed] forums explicitely prohibit links and C&Ps without comment by the member posting the information. I feel this is a good idea, and encourage it's practice.
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Thank you for reviewing my interest in your viewpoint.
Signed,
The Very Sperry Man
Here is a letter to people who like to post C&Ps. The people who feel a Subject heading and a link [or pasted text] is enough for us to establish their viewpoint ...
= = = = = = = = = = = = =
______[insert name here]______, I appreciate your C&Ps. Most of your C&P posts, I have read in the minutes after they hit the news wires. Usually a few minutes before you post them.
I am interested in your viewpoint of the C&P'ed facts and opinions, and alway [if I open your post] look to see if you have typed an opinion before or after the story.
While I understand you must have an opinion of the C&P news stories, it would be interesting to know your viewpoint firsthand, instead of reading something you might post after several other people have first posted their viewpoints.
Not to denigrate your contributions here, but some members increasingly offer only a post topic and a link. Perhaps you can set an example and include commentary prior to your contributions?
Other [unnamed] forums explicitely prohibit links and C&Ps without comment by the member posting the information. I feel this is a good idea, and encourage it's practice.
= = = = = = = = = = = = =
Thank you for reviewing my interest in your viewpoint.
Signed,
The Very Sperry Man
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Mop-topped Hicks crowned 'American Idol'
AP - 57 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - Taylor Hicks, the mop-topped manic dancer who wooed TV audiences with his raw singing style and boisterous personality, was named the new "American Idol" Wednesday in a pop star-filled finale that included Prince and Mary J. Blige.
`BLOOMBERG'S VIGILANTE STING HURT REAL INVESTIGATIONS, SO PROSECUTE HIM,' SAYS CCRKBA
BELLEVUE, WA - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg should be investigated for obstruction of justice, and possibly prosecuted under the federal RICO statutes, for his headline-hunting "sting" operation of alleged law-breaking gun dealers, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today.
"According to the New York Daily News, `Quick-Draw' Bloomberg's decision to hire private investigators for this gun control stunt has apparently jeopardized several genuine criminal cases,' said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "In his foolish zeal to drum up support for an anti-gun campaign, Bloomberg quite possibly has put real investigations at risk. This appears to be as clear cut a case of obstruction of justice as I've ever witnessed and Bloomberg should be investigated, and prosecuted if necessary."
CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron added, "That fact that he hired private investigators who have no law enforcement authority to conduct sting operations in several states - an operation that apparently involved falsely filling out federal background check paperwork - could open Bloomberg up to prosecution under the federal racketeering statutes, and for conspiracy to commit multiple federal felonies, if nothing else. Private citizens, including so-called investigators, cannot give deliberately false information on a Form 4473. That's a crime, and because Bloomberg set the whole thing up, he would be an accessory to that crime.
"It doesn't matter if he's a billionaire," Waldron said. "Rich politicians are not above the law."
Gottlieb called on federal prosecutors and the Department of Justice to open an investigation of Bloomberg's anti-gun sting. Bloomberg reportedly launched the project as a means of finding rogue gun dealers he could sue in civil court, apparently in an effort to grab media attention.
"In terms of a publicity stunt," Gottlieb said, "this one could - and should - have very serious consequences for Mayor Bloomberg and anyone connected with it. This was no college prank, but a wide-reaching operation, probably paid for with public money. If there are bad gun dealers out there, let the professionals handle the problem. We don't need a New York mayor practicing his own form of vigilante justice."
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Boo Boo made news after unusual resuscitation three months ago
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - The exotic chicken that was saved from drowning by mouth-to-beak resuscitation more than three months ago has died, her owner said.
Boo Boo, the chicken who was revived after she was found floating face down in the family pond in February, died recently, said owner Jackie Calhoun. The fowl's story was featured on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and the Animal Planet network.
"She had seizures," Calhoun said. "I've come to the conclusion that's what put her in the pond in the first place."
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In February, Calhoun said he removed the chicken from the water and his sister Marian Morris blew into its beak, causing its eyes to pop open. Morris, a retired nurse, said she hadn't used cardiopulmonary resuscitation in years. She said she was glad that the chicken she saved was exotic and not just an ordinary chicken.
The chicken, who was named Boo Boo because she was easily frightened, lived to lay three eggs before dying, Calhoun said. Until then, Calhoun said he didn't know if the bird was male or female.
"We incubated one of her eggs, and it hatched," Calhoun said. "The chick has black and white markings like Boo Boo's."
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