XPost: phl.media, pa.politics, phl.housing   
   From: mcsnospam@yahoo.com   
      
   skewing my foot. Every person who is murdered affects someone else . It   
   hurts me deeply, it reflects on our inhumanity , or inabilty to look for   
   solutions .Acceptance of this is nothing more then acceptance of evil.   
   "Karen Y Byrd"  wrote in message   
   news:slrn3vsbiffof.6htr.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   
   sensationalizing   
   > 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   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)