[Pharmboy]

Interesting--this was only in the print edition and not (as far as I could tell) in the online edition (Mrs. Pharmboy bought the paper Times home today).

[JimSEA]

"Eight men in one room could quite literally save hundreds of millions of lives,"

Humm, more likely the nine could enrich some bureaucrats, local mafia types, petty dictators, and militia leaders beyond their fondest dreams. Meanwhile the starvation and murder will continue. Don't any of these folk realize that the starvation is part of the purposeful elimination of whole cultures and peoples.

[CO Gal]

Every night forever watching people live on TV dying on our screens?"

This will sound very cynical (and if heartless, I apologize), but how about going after the brutal dictators who have had hundreds of thousands killed instead of spending so much time/money on a preventable disease? I refuse to believe that the Africans cannot through education learn how to eradicate AIDS. Same thing can be said in the U.S.

[bluerose]

I was listening to Rush today and a caller called in to the show and said it's all about raising taxes. They want G8 to forgive all debts and also give more money to China. That means the money will come out of the World Bank & the Int'l Monetary Fund which is primarily funded by the US.

Rush ended with this from Tracy Smith of CBS news. She stated one sour note to this concert was all the stars are getting $12,000.00 goody bags. They're pathetic.

[Mister Baredog]

I hear the entertainers are each getting a $12,000 gift basket full of goodies. Poor babies, they're used to getting sooo much more, what sacrifices they make, for those charitable tax deductions of course.

BARF ALERT