i know it is pedestrian

[datasuspect]

but can someone photoshop a santa christ?

[mdmc]

1. I thought that you were going to say,

"but I don't support the twu strike."

[mdmc]

2. get it? 'cause everyone has to walk everywhere in NYC

get it?

[datasuspect]

3. yes, but at least they have sidewalks

i'd trade my left nut to be in a place that was built on a pedestrian scale.

[mdmc]

4. Horrible

My buddy lost his left nut to cancer. I live in a little city, and I can walk to a park, jr. high, deli, and a college. Much of the city is mired in poverty and is unsafe to walk through at night.

[mdmc]

5. strikes now over...

[patriotvoice]

6. here's your santa christ and also

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/product337.html

Much of America is poverty-mired: 34 million living below the poverty line. In the words of one of my favourite activist commercials, "Poverty: America's forgotten state."

Suppose we suddenly had no poverty, say the income from everyone's jobs magically began to pay all their expenses. Would we be happy? Would it last? No, I don't believe so. The robberbarrons and their minions would see an opportunity to take more of the proletariats cash through simple profit margin enhancement strategies. The goverment would see the opportunity to raise taxes to fund more supposed altruistic activities. The proletariats themselves would spend more on TVs, VCRs, game consoles, cars, clothes, restaurants, cigarettes, alcohol, smack, and hash.

In short, our society of ill-restraint and of consuming greed ensures we will always be "poor." The poverty state is a psychological, not an economic, problem.

As you live in a "little city," you have a better chance of starting the reform and seeing results in your lifetime. All of us in small to medium size cities do. So, get out there on the street at night. Have Boy Scouts camp in the city park. Encourage theaters to show later at night movies. Attend your city council meetings, speaking eloquently on making the town stronger through education then economy. Etc.

[mdmc]

8. you got it

I always tell folks, "This is the best condition that I've seen this city in in my lifetime. My city, newburgh ( http://www.newburgh-ny.com/hom/home.htm ) was hit hard by crack in the 80's, and never really recovered from losing the production base to asia in the 50's and 60's.

[BigMcLargehuge]

7. hows this?