Re: off topic posts

From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse (el@lisse.NA)
Wed Aug 31 18:44:24 2005


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





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