On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:24:40 -0500, "Edward Dolan" <edolan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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>"Marilyn Price" <info@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:X6zJj.177$mB3.12@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[...]
>> Each year Trips for Kids takes hundreds of inner-city kids from the Bay
>> Area on guided mountain bike adventures, many of whom have never been
>> outside of their urban neighborhoods. In 1999 Trips for Kids became a
>> national program. There are now 62 chapters from coast to coast, with
more
>> in the works.
>
>The Great Ed Dolan is opposed to these kind of programs for inner-city
kids.
>Hells Bells, I never went anywhere when I was a kid and I did not even
enjoy
>the advantage of being an inner-city kid. I was a small town kid and made
>out just fine without a lot of do-gooders fussing about and making a
>nuisance of themselves.
>
>Surely there are playgrounds for inner-city kids where they can pummel
one
>another. We do not want them in the mountains where they do not belong.
Let
>them have their adventures on the mean streets of their urban
neighborhoods.
>After all, they are all going to grow up to be criminals anyway and end
>their lives in state prisons.
Careful! That's more truth (> 0) than these sensitive mountain bikers
can handle!
>Regards,
>
>Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
>aka
>Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
>
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