--- In [email protected], "It's just a ride" <bill.hicks.all.a.r...@...> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, bob_brigante [email protected]: > > > > > > > Iowa City is only about 50K population, so this is kind of surprising: > > > > IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - There is some disagreement among operators of 2 > > fast-food restaurants over the safety of delivering pizza to a section of > > Iowa City after two armed robberies of delivery drivers. > > > > A Pizza Pit delivery driver was robbed Aug. 29 in southeast Iowa City, the > > same area where a restaurant delivery woman was robbed late Monday. While no > > one was arrested in the first robbery, authorities say two men are in > > custody for the second crime. > > > > Dan Alexander, the manager of the Pizza Pit said Wednesday his restaurant > > will not deliver to southeast Iowa City. > > > > However, the manager of a Pizza Hut located near the neighborhood says > > he'll continue to deliver to the area. Bob Crandall says his drivers carry > > little cash and are trained to know their delivery area and be wary of > > suspicious activity. > > > > Information from: Iowa City Press-Citizen, http://www.press-citizen.com/ > > > > Have you been to Iowa city? I'm something of an urbanologist. I explore > the best and worse parts of a town, on foot. Iowa City looks to have > population strata no different than similar towns. >
I was living in Iowa City in 1991 when that Chinese guy killed a bunch U of I folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Iowa_shooting <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Iowa_shooting> Iowa City has always had a substantial undercurrent of violence, including its sometimes triggerhappy cops, like this disgusting incident in 96: http://state29.blogspot.com/2006/09/jay-shaw-responds-to-insensitive-iow\ a.html <http://state29.blogspot.com/2006/09/jay-shaw-responds-to-insensitive-io\ wa.html> There are a number of neighborhoods around the country where pizza is not delivered because of the level of violence, and those neighborhoods are almost always African-American. I didn't know that IC had a 'hood, but I guess the Southeast is a black neighborhood: http://snipurl.com/rk45r <http://snipurl.com/rk45r> [www_press-citizen_com] > Wait a minute. Wasn't Iowa City in the news a few months ago because thugs > were beating up on and stealing money from college bar patrons outside the > bars? All this within a block or two of Health and Wellness/Iowa City > Capital of the Age of Enlightenment and purveyor of all things with > Maharishi's particular stamp on them. > > > > > The wheel is moving but the hamster is dead. > > > Whatever way that people want to live, they get to live -- therefore, the violence and stupidity of the Kaliyuga, because that is what people want to do, and the infinite flexibility of Brahman means that people get what they want. The Kaliyuga is slated to last another 427,000 years, but it can be terminated early, just as the life of a man who is full of wrongdoing is full of disease and easily put to an end. However, the Kaliyuga is not ended because the majority of people want it to end -- it's not a democratic decision where it's put to a vote. The Kaliyuga ends because people who expand their awareness and live lives full of bliss , instead of violence and misery, feel the pressure of unhappiness from wrongdoers, and begin to silently appeal to Krishna to protect them. Krishna then comes to earth as the 10th incarnation of Vishnu in the Yugic cycle, Lord Kalki, and moves the unrighteous to another location so that they can continue to live hell, but just not hell on earth -- an eminently fair solution. The problem in ending the Kaliyuga early is that this transition cannot happen quickly, or the reaction from the ignorant and unhappy will douse the transition before the critical mass of righteous and happy people is reached which will invoke Krishna's appearance. So just practice patience and good humor, and the Sat Yuga will eventually roll around...even if it takes another 427K yrs. Bob http://purnakama.web.officelive.com/default.aspx <http://purnakama.web.officelive.com/default.aspx>
