Re: off topic posts

From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@yahoo.com)
Wed Aug 31 19:51:44 2005


El - I (as well as others on this list) are indeed horrified by what is going on in all the places you mention and agree completely that most news stories don't give enough information on the horrendous things you mention.

I can't offer any sort of personal condolences through this medium or empathy to any of those people becuase they are not on this list. When there were earthquakes in Turkey and we had a lister from there there was the same sort of communication from this list. When the war was going on and then the peace treaty in Kosovo ... there was empathy from here.

So don't go making accusations about listers because we post empathy in this situation.

Joanne

At Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >
>In message <20050831222706.38284.qmail@web30815.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Henry Greg
>or writes:
>
>> Only if you have friends on the list, or some sense of community and
>> think th e human interaction is helpful to the species. Would say more,
>> but they're pl aying Bruce Springsteen's "Everyone Needs a Little Bit of
>> a Human Touch" and I want to listen. Oh, if I didn't get the title
>> exactly correct, chalk it up to bad hearing rather than dyslexia or
>> presenility.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Hank
>>
>And you are not getting it.
>
>Hundreds of thousands are dying in Ruanda, who gives a shit. 5 school
>children get shot in the UK, outpouring galore.
>
>Hundreds of thousands are dying in Ethopia, Eritrea, Mogadishu, nobody
>gives a shit. A pilot gets shot down with his Blackhawk, outpouring
>galore. Movies are made.
>
>Thousands of Iraquis are being killed every day nobody gives a shit,
>"Serves them right those ragheads". A US soldier breaks his fingernail,
>yellow ribbons all over the place.
>
>And to top it all, tsunami hits the Pacific, nobody gives a shit. Three
>people have to drive to their friends outside New Orleans, prayers are
>offered.
>
>Again, nothing personal, but this has irked me for years on a general
>level.
>
>While we are at it, interesting article in Der Spiegel today, about
>unnecessary surgery (in the US and elsewhere). But then who has languages?
>
>Among other issues, US doctors apparently earn twice what their Canadian
>colleagues earn. But then I haven't heard a Canadian colleague whine about
>their poor salaries.
>
>And this goes on and on and on.
>
>el

--
Joanne Bulley, MD
Keene, NH, USA

"Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is." — Duke Ellington, American jazz artist (1899-1974).





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