Cooley Hurd
Cooley Hurd's JournalDear Fox News; thank you for making Christmas SUCK!
I work in Medical Software and speak to my clients on a daily basis. Clients who are of different religions and ethnic backgrounds. Because of this, and because I'm respectful, I wish all who I speak to on the phone a "Happy Holiday" this time of year.
Well, some intolerant Fox News watcher, when I wished them this all-encompassing greeting, YELLED at me on the phone today, "It's Christmas!!" Yeah... actually fucking YELLED at me! Stunned, I said, "um, and you too." I hung up, dejected and saddened.
Happy Holidays has been an accepted greeting for as long as I can remember. We had some silly paper thing that hung on our front door throughout the 60's and 70's that said "Happy Holidays" and, for the life of me NO one ever objected to it! Fast-forward 40 years and NOW silly assholes who watch this God-awful, intolerant cable news network now ATTACK those who offer this greeting.
Fox News, you just plain suck for ruining this time of year with your divisive bullshit. You are NOT "champions of Christmas". You are helping destroy it.
CNN Breaking: Metro North Commuter Train Derailment in the Bronx
Here's a USA Today link:
A train derailed Sunday morning at a station in the Bronx, media outlets are reporting.
CNN, citing the New York Fire Department, said about 100 firefighters are responding to the scene in the Bronx. The Associated Press, quoting a woman at the scene, is says the some cars of the Metro-North passenger train toppled into water. A woman at the scene, Rebecca Schwartz, told AP that numerous emergency vehicles have responded.
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BusinessInsider has images:
http://www.businessinsider.com/metro-north-train-derails-in-the-bronx-2013-12
...and an aerial shot from Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SheldonDutes4NY/status/407135212565299200/photo/1
Happy Thanksgiving from Hologram Dave!
Recipe for a train, plane (or car) wreck. CNN has reporters headed from NY to DC via all 3 modes...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/27/travel/new-york-washington-race/index.html?hpt=hp_c2Reporter in car is reporting while driving down the NJ Turnpike.
The last speech:
RESIGN!
This TOOL would be the FIRST to make PEOPLE STARVE over addiction - yet he "chooses" to stay at his JOB????
Fuck him! RESIGN, you fucking HYPOCRITE!!!
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/191001-florida-congressman-radel-convicted-of-drug-possession
Hi Skinner. Smilies are no longer being displayed in PM's.
We previously spoke of the reason why images were no longer auto-displaying, but now smilies aren't either. Also by design?
What We Found at Hart Island, The Largest Mass Grave Site In the U.S.
Its a place where few living New Yorkers have ever set foot, but nearly a million dead ones reside: Hart Island, the United States largest mass grave, which has been closed to the public for 35 years. It is difficult to visit and off-limits to photographers. But that may be about to change, as a debate roils over the citys treatment of the unclaimed dead. Never heard of Hart? Youre not aloneand thats part of the problem.
Hart Island is a thin, half-mile long blip of land at the yawning mouth of Long Island Sound, just across the water from City Island in the Bronx. Depending on who you ask, it was named either for its organ-like shape or for the deer (or hart) that thrived here after trekking across the frozen sound in the 18th century. Hart is dense with history; its been used as a prison for Confederate soldiers, a workhouse for the poor, a women's asylum, and a Nike missile base during the Cold War.
Its most important role has been to serve as whats known as a potters field, a common gravesite for the citys unknown dead. Some 900,000 New Yorkers (or adopted New Yorkers) are buried here; hauntingly, the majority are interred by prisoners from Rikers Island who earn 50 cents an hour digging gravesites and stacking simple wooden boxes in groups of 150 adults and 1,000 infants. These inmatesmost of them very young, serving out short sentencesare responsible for building the only memorials on Hart Island: Handmade crosses made of twigs and small offerings of fruit and candy left behind when a grave is finished.
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