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On Fri, 11 May 2018 16:00:16 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
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>On Fri, 11 May 2018 10:58:36 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>snip
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>>Here's a good one that I've noticed on late night commercials.
>>Some charity to feed the starving little children in some 3rd
>>world country. First of all, they show cute little kids to get
>>your sympathy. But then they show many hard cases...mothers
>>waiting in a long line for food and those little kids look like
>>living skeletons, obviously near death from starvation.
>>
>>What bothers me is all those horribly starving children are being
>>held by very well fed and healthy looking mothers. I see a big
>>problem with that.

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>It doesn't even make sense to make a commercial like that.
>I think you see that because that is what you want to see.
>You're always the first one and the last one in with a story about
>how you know personally how people cheat.


Gary doesn't believe there is bad malnutrition in 3rd world countries.
I won't comment any further.