Re: why does this newsgroup have beasts


John Larkin wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2006 23:50:30 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> >John Larkin wrote:
> >> On 9 Jan 2006 06:18:51 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >JosephKK wrote:
> >> >> bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > John Larkin wrote:
> >> >> >> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:24:41 -0800, xray <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:59:03 -0800, John Larkin
> >> >> >> ><jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> ><snip>
> >> >
> >> >> > Sorry to be mean on Christmas Day, but 13.5 million American households
> >> >> > could use a bit more Christmas spirit. all the year round.
> >> >> >
> >> >> And you would be too ignorant to attempt to chastise us thus, if we did not
> >> >> publish these facts ourselves. What is the data in your own country?
> >> >
> >> >I can't find anything explicit. This survey below seems to suggest that
> >> >there are no malnourished children in Australia, the U.K. and the
> >> >Netherlands,
> >>
> >> No? None? Zero?
> >
> >The URL I quoted had some comment about the reliability of the numbers
> >they quoted - they'd probably reject one or two per year in a
> >population of around 18 million (Australia and the Netherlands) as
> >statisically indistinguishable from zero incidence per 100,000. I'm
> >sure we get occasional incidents of starvation amongst the mentally
> >disturbed who don't get institutionalised, and manage to starve, rather
> >than beat up, their kids before the social services wake up to them,
> >but these are isolated cases and the media make a huge fuss whenever
> >such a story gets out.
> >
> >I've never claimed that we were perfect, merely that other people do
> >better than the U.S.A. does, often despite having less in the way of
> >resources to throw at the problem.
>
> Disliking the USA seems to be your religion. How tedious it must be.

Do get it right. I don't dislike the U.S.A.

I do think that you haven't got it all absolutely right yet, and I
would be delighted if you managed clean up those last few remaining
details and turned your country into a paradise on earth for all your
citizens, but that falls a long way short of dislike.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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