Linda Mann's friend thinks Carl Polhad should be spitted , roasted and fed to the homeless in Phillips. Many of those Phillips community members she mentions probably keep kosher or hallal, so it would not be appreciated. So please keep him for your own Christmas dinner, we in the Phillips Community are not allowed to engage in cannibalism. Thank you for your thoughtfulness. Many of the service workers employed at the stadium are from our community, however.
It is an interesting stereotype of us that you bring up though. Probably you were also unaware that we have greater numbers of "Homed" people than Kingfield. The City attempts to concentrate all the Supportive Housing here, but believe it or not we have large numbers of "Homed" working people living fairly normal "war time" lives. Avoid the drug dealers, duck the random gunshot, avoid the youth gangs engaged in street armed robbery, and if you are a woman avoid compromising places where you might be raped. Other than those things we live fairly mundane lives not too dissimilar from you. Or too dissimilar from good families in Belfast or Beirut. Our children get shot occasionally, and sometimes they witness prostitution and drug dealing, but we go to Cub and Rainbow just like you. We make "wartime" adjustments. No kid's beds on street side of the house, you know the common stuff. I think Kathy Thurber explained the bed thing in the Strib a couple of days ago. Our neighborhood was down to three rapes last month. Best month we have had in a long time. There were eight the month before. Probably the weather cooled their ardor, don't you think. We also only had 30 aggravated assaults, 16 Robbery cases, and believe it or not only one murder. We don't really even notice things like larceny, burglary or auto theft. Kind of meaningless little crimes you know, except to the hundred or so families they happened to. All in all, we are making progress. Shirley Stone, Jan Graham, and Gail Baez have put together a Court Watch Program that is said to be the envy of neighborhoods around the City. Jan and Shirley say it is because they are such talented ladies, (but between you and me, I think it is just because they have more experience and necessity than others). Hey, they are very resourceful. What other neighborhood has taken the Minneapolis Public School system all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and WON. What other neighborhood has been written up as the "Lead story" in the Sunday Edition of the Washington Post? Made the London Times, or the most prominent story in the Sunday Dallas Morning News? So I guess Jan, Shirley and Gail are just following the tradition. People get resourceful after several years of War and disaster. That is why it is a laugh when people ask if we aren't worried about fighting the City of Minneapolis in Federal Court. For mothers who have faced down crazy drug addicts, or a couple of armed gangsters, such a suggestion brings only a chuckle from them. So no thanks, you folks in Kingfield will have to enjoy your own "Long Pig". Besides turkeys are almost as cheap as Carl, and taste a lot better than some old buzzard. Jim Graham, Ventura Village - in the City of METROPOLIS >>>Don't you think METROPOLIS sounds classier than River City? River City sounds homey and better in a musical, but Metropolis is a lot more classy to me. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] We're broke, let's build! > In a message dated 12/5/2002 11:14:09 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > With the state facing what amounts possibly to a $6 Billion dollar > > budget deficit (this biennium's shortfall + the next biennium's > > deficit+inflation--which the geniuses at the state capitol voted to > > ignore), how can we even consider the 35W access project now? > > > In this regard, I heard a hilarious news item: Carl Polhad announced > yesterday that "he would not stand in line behind Red McCombs" for a stadium > handout! A friend of mine suggested that Carl should be spitted, roasted and > fed to the homeless people in Phillips. > > Linda Mann > Kingfield > _______________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
