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Re: BREAK OF DAWN’S - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:00:15 -0000

You're correct. I do not know enough about human trafficking. I do not travel in those circles nor am I a journalist writing about them. However, I believe that associating human trafficking with prostitution, minimizes the atrocity of human trafficking. I also do not know where you Kim S. unregistered) get your information about "most" prostitutes. I do not care if people are sold to clean floors, human trafficking is human trafficking. I noticed one commentator remark that the cover picture was out of line. I agree. I also don't see the reason for personal attacks. My opinion is just that. I thought that was the purpose of journalism.

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Re: BREAK OF DAWN’S - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:01:12 -0000

I agree that human trafficking must be stopped, and that these defenseless victims must be rescued and given the opportunity to live whatever life they choose. However, I think relating human trafficking to prostitution is misleading, and confuses the real issues with each..

Re: BREAK OF DAWN’S - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:49:25 -0000

Not only an offensive photo, but take a look at the classified ads.

Re: Off the Beaten Path - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:26:27 -0000

I have a daughter, and I always wondered what I'd do if she got involved with an abusive, obsessive man. Baseball bats was the only thing I could come up with. I admit to being unfamiliar with the legal options an abused woman has, but it seems the law provides little help. It would seem that the sick abuser would face more consequences for his assaults. Besides being subject to arrest for assault, one should be financial assistance to the woman in trying to get her life back together.

Why are abused women "our most vulnerable and neglected citizens?"

I'll answer my own question. It's the children who are trapped in these dysfunctional relationships that are the most vulnerable and neglected citizens.

Re: TV - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:04:32 -0000

I agree. Im sure that the new President, together with the world situation, will provide many stories that read like a comedy routine. I used to watch Night line right after the Daily Show, and I kept waiting for the punch line from Ted.

Re: Say Hello To My Little Friend - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:29:59 -0000

Yeyo is not a slang word that came from the movie. The Spanish word for "ice" is hielo. It's pronounced yeyo. Take a walk on N. 5th Street, and you'll hear it a lot. Not that the movie wasn't great. I always took the movie as more of a treatise about what America and Capitalism are all about than what makes gangsta's tick.

Re: The Angry Grammarian - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:23:05 -0000

At least he got the Sean part right. "I suspect Hannity was too busy drooling to notice,..." Sean looked like a little school kid who is sitting with his childhood idol. What an asshole.

Re: Laptop Anthropologist - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:37:56 -0000

I guess you didn't have time to yell back, "Your Mother!"

Re: Laptop Anthropologist - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:45:32 -0000

They're all criminals. Corey is a victim. However, if he would have taken a position like you say he started to, instead of fleeing, I could see him being "thought of by this group and sympathizers as the poster boy of the war resisters movement." As it is, he deserted a few things, and the outcome, for him anyway, looks the same.

It says a lot about Humankind. The good guys only win in the movies?

Re: Laptop Anthropologist - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:43:14 -0000

Very well done, and movements by the people are fueled by the press. The war in Iraq/Afghanistan is the result of sociopaths running the country. Canada should not give in to pressure from the US and return people who refuse to be drafted into military service.

That being said, this particular individual was not drafted. There's no draft, is there? He apparently signed on, but I'm not sure when. Was it before we invaded Irafastan? His moral objections to the war are pretty much irrelevant. He joined the National Guard. What were his morals telling him then? How long did he serve? He started a family? You never say he was actually in combat as an intelligence officer. You're the anthropologist, what's this all tell you about Humankind? Maybe about a man who took a job because he had limited options.

"He was told when he signed up that the only way he’d be in combat was if foreign troops occupied the United States." That's it? What did he think he would be doing? Teaching Humanities & Art to the occupying forces?
Movements are fueled by a free press. This one is maybe misdirected.

Re: Laptop Anthropologist - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:24:15 -0000

You were about 30 or 40 years too late for the party. I didn't recognize one name, but Adrianne sounds like my kind of girl. LA is full of famous bartenders. How old was he? Still like the picture.

Re: Laptop Anthropologist - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:10:04 -0000

Very sexy picture.

Re: On The Radar - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:27:54 -0000

I'm not sure what the point of this was. We shouldn't have gone into Iraq and/or Afghanistan? We're all idiots? Lawrence was one of the last great epic movies? What does "super-camp" mean? We never learn from history? Nobody returned from whence they came cause they couldn't. You OK?

Re: Ingraham Cracker - philadelphia weekly online

lenni_lenape — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:59:27 -0000

Not sure what Jon's talking about, but I like most of your stuff. It must feel good to be able to vent like that, especially about talk show hosts. Unfortunately, most of them are just trying to evoke emotions. They don't care what emotions. Show business. Mexico likes to think they're part of America, too. Yeh, it seems like we're headed for a one-world culture.