Rosemont Home Invasion

[HeavenWood]

Another Asian business owner targeted in robbery

Now, he definitely wants to move. But, "Right now, I don't know where is safe," he said.


My comments:
1) The suburbs are gettin crappy!
2) I know where is safe: not driving your Benz through Olney and being followed home
3) It's not a racially motivated crime! It's a CULTURALLY motivated crime! I'm not a janitor. I'm a sanitation engineer.

The Main Line is hardly getting crappy; crimes like this can, and do, happen anywhere. Center City has a much higher crime rate than Radnor Township, but I would hardly call that a crappy area either.

[Hospitalitygirl]

The Main Line is hardly getting crappy; crimes like this can, and do, happen anywhere. Center City has a much higher crime rate than Radnor Township, but I would hardly call that a crappy area either.

It was sarcasm.

[HeavenWood]

It was sarcasm.

There was no context through which I could have discerned that, but I'll take your word for it.

[Hospitalitygirl]

There was no context through which I could have discerned that, but I'll take your word for it.

That's ok, you have 4 posts here. You'll catch on. I'm pretty sure he both lives in the suburbs and has written previously to mock posters that dump on the suburbs but in other threads. Hang in, you'll figure out who's what.

[Volanova]

There was no context through which I could have discerned that, but I'll take your word for it.

It's a bit of a PS meme.

[cewillm]

That's ok, you have 4 posts here. You'll catch on. I'm pretty sure he both lives in the suburbs and has written previously to mock posters that dump on the suburbs but in other threads. Hang in, you'll figure out who's what.

HeavenWood is just as clueless over at city-data.

[NickleDimer]

It's a bit of a PS meme.

and to billy_ross, it's a guiding life principal.

[HeavenWood]

HeavenWood is just as clueless over at city-data.

Not really, but please attack me some more. Who the hell are you, again?

[Jay from Philly]

True about the stereotype, but this was a dentist--it's not exactly a cash business. Then again, thugs aren't particularly smart.

There used to be an insurance agent who sold industrial life policies in North Philly. They had a low face value, enough to pay for a funeral service. The agent would collect the premiums by going around to the policy holders' homes. Some wastes of human life killed him for the money--checks and money orders. The agent wouldn't take cash because it would mean he was commingling funds. Now nobody sells policies in North Philly and the mothers of the shooting victims have to pass around the hat at the funeral.

[billy ross]

and to billy_ross, it's a guiding life principal.

Principle. Clearly you weren't educated by Jesuits. Where did you attend high school again? In the suburbs, maybe? Principal, principle. Affect, effect. The differences are subtle, but meaningful, and they trip up many. The question is, are you content to be among the many? I'm not. I like being different, and I like that my kids are special and high-functioning, also.

[mixiboi]

There used to be an insurance agent who sold industrial life policies in North Philly. They had a low face value, enough to pay for a funeral service. The agent would collect the premiums by going around to the policy holders' homes. Some wastes of human life killed him for the money--checks and money orders. The agent wouldn't take cash because it would mean he was commingling funds. Now nobody sells policies in North Philly and the mothers of the shooting victims have to pass around the hat at the funeral.

Cool story bro...l

[NickleDimer]

Principle. Clearly you weren't educated by Jesuits. Where did you attend high school again? In the suburbs, maybe? Principal, principle. Affect, effect. The differences are subtle, but meaningful, and they trip up many. The question is, are you content to be among the many? I'm not. I like being different, and I like that my kids are special and high-functioning, also.

OMG! misspelling on the internets! I don't know how that made it past my editorial staff. I attended public schools, not in this area.

I have no problem with your kids - great work by you if they're doing well at their elite private school. I think it's a shame that your tax dollars were used for crap like lining Fattah Jr's pockets rather than provide a quality neighborhood school. I wish you didn't have to fork over big bucks for elite private school tuition. How do you think the CoP school system can turn it around? Will it have to wait for sweeping reform of public employee pension systems accross the country?

[billy ross]

OMG! misspelling on the internets! I don't know how that made it past my editorial staff. I attended public schools, not in this area.

I have no problem with your kids - great work by you if they're doing well at their elite private school. I think it's a shame that your tax dollars were used for crap like lining Fattah Jr's pockets rather than provide a quality neighborhood school. I wish you didn't have to fork over big bucks for elite private school tuition. How do you think the CoP school system can turn it around? Will it have to wait for sweeping reform of public employee pension systems accross the country?

Plenty of my kids' classmates are from your neighborhood; to me this says a fair amount about what their parents perceive that they get for their property taxes. My daughter just went on Saturday to a birthday party in North Wales, of all places. My kids walk to school, while your neighbors drive or take the bus, but more and more families are moving into the neighborhood so their kids can walk to school, so the world is starting to make sense again. As I was walking across campus yesterday I ran into a teacher who lamented the fact that my kids' school is only now and thus 'late to the game of' tapping the South Jersey market, as our mutual alma mater has had a large South Jersey contingent since I and he went there; I was teasing him about his yellow tags because I wasn't aware that he was among those who grew up in 'elite public school New Jersey' who commuted into Philadelphia to attend our excellent schools here in Philly. You call them 'elite', I prefer the term 'excellent'. There's a bit of a difference.

From the standpoint of what the fix is for public schools in Philly, everyone knows what it is, and it is being implemented presently. It is the change that has happened all over the world, and it has recast our economy. It involves breaking up or killing old-line, centralized bureaucratic operations and replacing them with nodal, highly responsive and adaptable, and thus highly efficient, operations. I think it's so revolutionary that it'll upturn the education model in the suburbs also, since that is a dated space age model - my friends in Lower Merion and in Moorestown have kids in all different locations, since they go to a different school location seemingly every two years, at least in Moorestown, whereas my kids have been at the same location since the oldest started way back when, and whey will be when the baby starts, too.

There's a reason home-schooled kids test better than kids educated in other models. Operating a school with the kind of individualization and responsiveness of homeschooling but in a school setting is the future as far as I'm concerned, and the changes happening for students in the city of Philadelphia are the future. I can't say for sure whether they'll be in public schools, private schools, or charter schools, but much like the lines between computers, phones, and tv's, I think the differences between those worlds will blur, so it'll increasingly become a distinction without a difference.

[NickleDimer]

You call them 'elite', I prefer the term 'excellent'. There's a bit of a difference....


...There's a reason home-schooled kids test better than kids educated in other models.

1) Elite has the connotation of excellent with a high price tag. Excellent is just excellent. I don't see your point with your elite private school attracting people from all over. That doesn't change the fact that your property tax money is just being flushed down the crapper. And as a prolific landlord, you probably pay more than everyone else in this thread combined.

2) homeschooled kids test better because there's a 100% guarantee that the parent gives a crap (maybe even too much so), whereas that is not the case in other models.

[lemko]

There used to be an insurance agent who sold industrial life policies in North Philly. They had a low face value, enough to pay for a funeral service. The agent would collect the premiums by going around to the policy holders' homes. Some wastes of human life killed him for the money--checks and money orders. The agent wouldn't take cash because it would mean he was commingling funds. Now nobody sells policies in North Philly and the mothers of the shooting victims have to pass around the hat at the funeral.

I remember that story. His customers thought he was a really nice guy too!

[billy ross]

For once I agree with you 100%. Parent buy-in is huge. That's why the new devolved model is so exciting to me. When a person gets worn down by the machine it is so depressing. And yes, we have a great deal of work to do yet in Philly. I am excited by the progress and the momentum, but the road ahead is long. There is still tremendous waste in this city, many efficiencies to be gained, and many assets waiting to be put to more productive uses. The trick is a better electorate that won't tolerate the old nonsense, and there we're making great progress.

1) Elite has the connotation of excellent with a high price tag. Excellent is just excellent. I don't see your point with your elite private school attracting people from all over. That doesn't change the fact that your property tax money is just being flushed down the crapper. And as a prolific landlord, you probably pay more than everyone else in this thread combined.

2) homeschooled kids test better because there's a 100% guarantee that the parent gives a crap (maybe even too much so), whereas that is not the case in other models.