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Ukraine flood victims crying out for aid: comments

quoteM Smith

June 29, 2009, 04:06

I keep trying to disprove my husband's theory that man is inherently evil. These types of stories don't help my cause. For every good, decent, law-loving/abiding, humanitarian, there seems to be two of the sinister type. Lately, I think the latter are all in governments world-wide.

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