So Pete...

[Canisius85]

...what triggered your epiphany?

I know we chatted about it briefly once, but you never elaborated.

Was there one incident that broke the camel's back?

Or was it just a conglomeration of all the swill we've had to swallow over the past seven years?

[pmoon6]

...what triggered your epiphany?

I know we chatted about it briefly once, but you never elaborated.

Was there one incident that broke the camel's back?

Or was it just a conglomeration of all the swill we've had to swallow over the past seven years?He made a sojourn to Toronto and was reborn.

I guess Shiva let him drink from the fountain of knowledge.:D

[uppy]

He started watching CNN,NBC,CBS and ABC News and became hypnotized

[dilbert]

He started watching CNN,NBC,CBS and ABC News and became hypnotized


Or he quit watching Fox and finally puked on the Bush kool-aid.

[uppy]

Or he quit watching Fox and finally puked on the Bush kool-aid.

I watch Fox news every damn day

[dilbert]

I watch Fox news every damn day

No shit!!!!

I would have never guessed!!!!

[35Pete]

...what triggered your epiphany?

I know we chatted about it briefly once, but you never elaborated.

Was there one incident that broke the camel's back?

Or was it just a conglomeration of all the swill we've had to swallow over the past seven years?

9/11 Canisius. It shocked my worldview. It's pretty easy in our culture to dehumanize people when they are not one of "us". But when you realize that the gov't committed mass murder against it's own people to advance a policy agenda, it makes you stop and reflect on what exactly the hell were you advocating.

Then, watching video of mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters throw themselves 1,000+ feet out of a building lest they burn to death. They were "us". It became gutcheck time. What exactly do you believe in? Well, I found out. I also found out that I was being lied to on many different fronts. And that made me angry. So I recommitted to following a philosophy of greatest good, rather than ideology or ever letting someone tell me what to think. Not easy since I come from a hardcore Republican family. I needed to regain my humanity and stop thinking about me. In another circumstance that could have been a family member making the death leap.

9/11 was a bitter fruit. It helped me to see things in a better light, but I wish that it'd have happened a different way.

[35Pete]

He started watching CNN,NBC,CBS and ABC News and became hypnotized

I don't watch any of that crap.

[pmoon6]

I watch Fox news every damn dayWe could tell.

[anEinherjer]

They changed his medication. I thought everyone knew.

[Shama-Lama Ding Dong]

Not easy since I come from a hardcore Republican family. I needed to regain my humanity and stop thinking about me. .

Hmmm. Well, we all knew that.

[Canisius85]

I watch Fox news every damn day

So do the rest of us...only for the comedy, not the news.

;)