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highplainsdem

(48,978 posts) Tue Oct 30, 2012, 10:41 AM Oct 2012

Booker: Police have reported ZERO looting or crimes of opportunity in Newark...ceaseless kindness..

From Cory Booker on Twitter, minutes ago:

https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/263285822160244737

Cory Booker
@CoryBooker

Police have reported ZERO looting or crimes of opportunity in Newark. And ceaseless reports of acts of kindness abound everywhere #Gratitude

9:26 AM - 30 Oct 12

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Booker: Police have reported ZERO looting or crimes of opportunity in Newark...ceaseless kindness.. (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2012 OP

Great news amid all the horror and destruction... CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2012 #1

Yes, it is. highplainsdem Oct 2012 #8

Good to hear this! Lucinda Oct 2012 #2

+1 freshwest Oct 2012 #3

What? No profiteering? No outsourcing? People are taking responsibility for their own lives? Vox Moi Oct 2012 #4

It's a big city with a deep blue heart. A sense of community kestrel91316 Oct 2012 #9

It's easier for Republics to think the worst of people justiceischeap Oct 2012 #5

It's called "projection": highplainsdem Oct 2012 #6

No looting? No shooting? oswaldactedalone Oct 2012 #7

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,622 posts)

1. Great news amid all the horror and destruction...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 10:44 AM

Oct 2012

highplainsdem

(48,978 posts)

8. Yes, it is.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 11:22 AM

Oct 2012

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

2. Good to hear this!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 10:46 AM

Oct 2012

♥

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

3. +1

Reply to Lucinda (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 10:52 AM

Oct 2012

Vox Moi

(546 posts)

4. What? No profiteering? No outsourcing? People are taking responsibility for their own lives?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 10:55 AM

Oct 2012

This can't be Romney's America ... it must be some other America.

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

9. It's a big city with a deep blue heart. A sense of community

Reply to Vox Moi (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 11:29 AM

Oct 2012

will prevail for the time being.

Eventually greed will return, but for now it's a lot of SHARING and ALTRUISM.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)

5. It's easier for Republics to think the worst of people

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 10:56 AM

Oct 2012

than the best. Isn't there a saying that people will accuse others of what they would do themselves? If not, there ought to be.

highplainsdem

(48,978 posts)

6. It's called "projection":

Reply to justiceischeap (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 10:59 AM

Oct 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

And yes, it's very common among right-wingers.

oswaldactedalone

(3,491 posts)

7. No looting? No shooting?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 11:02 AM

Oct 2012

What a way to mess up a wingnut's day.

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