XPost: phl.media, pa.politics, phl.housing   
   From: kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu   
      
   On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:05:50 GMT, mcs  wrote:   
      
   >Karen   
   >  You have to live here so you rationalize it the best way you can.   
      
   I cited facts. You're just using emotion and your addiction to television   
   and its manner of skewing just about all reality.   
      
   > My   
   >friend just showed me a tape from the early channel ten news broadcast today   
      
   I'm not in denial about crime. But you know what? I stopped watching TV   
   news years ago and I feel safer. I'm not confronted by constant    
   ensationalizing   
   of news which is how they pump up rating and make people afraid to even   
   leave their homes.   
      
   >and they had a special , crime , violent crime is up over 21 percent  for   
   >year , more in last few months. 60 murders in last 60 days!   
      
   And if  by chance you could get in a time machine and go back to mid-14th   
   century France you'd have to confront constant warfare,   
   maurading killer highwaymen, famine, the cruelty of the Roman Catholic   
   Church as it looked for "heretics" so they could burn and/or torture them,   
   and death by plague. I prefer living in the here and now, thank you!   
      
   Danger and risk have always been part of the human condition on this   
   planet.   
      
   > Oh a pregnant   
   >women shot two days ago, a home invastion, a woman was beaten and raped this   
   >morning. The quality of life in this city between pollution and snide   
   >attitiudes and fast driving is nothing close then what I ever saw it. People   
   >are getting high in many places and streets  and thus trading drugs,   
   >illegals (maybe the jogger?) and unemployment and .with philly losing 2000   
   >jobs , 8 percent unemployment! and thus this should not make it more   
   >dangerous but it is. What are we doing ? This is the first time the happy   
   >news on channel ten was a bit more realistic. This is a scuzz rotten city   
   >and getting worse.   
      
   I noticed how you glibbly ignored the immensely terrific things   
   going on here that I posted about earlier. That was just a sample.   
      
   Look, if you really want to understand mayhem go to just about anywhere   
   in sub-Saharan Africa! I'll take being in Philadelphia any day of the   
   week!   
      
   KByrd   
      
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