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Posted on 08/02/2005 7:55:42 AM PDT by TexKat
Yes.. having been married to a native North Carolinian for 25 years - and having lived there myself for 12 I can guarantee it's VERY southern in it's culture... laugh.
Maryland - no way -
As to Louisiana - don't know about Carribean it's kind of a culture to itself dontcha think? ;-)
Of course I'm in Texas now - and as they say... it's a whole 'nother country... hahaha
Even most North Carolinian's would agree that Ashville is "out there" .. I'm sure you can find those pockets in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi too.. it's an "artsy fartsy" place... somewhere I've read whole discussions regarding Ashville and it's "nature"...
No, the post I responded to was ridiculous. NSNR, I am surprised, you are too smart to not take the time to research what I was responding to so I will do it for you.
"Natalee and her friends live in a far safer, more innocent place."
You are kidding right? Ever been to Birmingham, Detroit, LA, NYC, Cleveland, Baltimore, Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, shall I continue? Ever hear of Dru Sjorgen? How about the little girl in Florida buried alive with her stuffed animal? The list is endless and it leaves me speechless. Any girl who lives in the US and is unaware that the game has changed is living under a rock.
"However, when the girls go to Aruba, they have no way of realizing that they have just entered a much much darker, far more sinister, atmosphere, where young women are stalked and preyed upon."
This is just too much.
Thank you. And I meant every word!
Obviously the brother had some info on C & C. A week may be too long for unstructured, unsupervised, high shcool kids, on an exotic island like Aruba.
I saw that post on SM,,a local posted it but it seemed more like rumor. Don't know.
I think of Ashville and Zelda Fitzgerald almost at the same time.
Louisiana is odd, sort of southern, sort of caribbean, sort of just, well, odd.
I've posted this before in explaining why I think this case captures continued attention--I think it's not necessarily because of the public's connection to this individual but rather it is how this case relates to our own lives. Parents are concerned about sending their kids on wild vacations. Young people are concerned about cruising in bars. If anything positive can come out of this it will be parents thinking long and hard about sending their kids on basically unchaperoned trips to wild party spots abroad, and young people will think long and hard about hanging out until the wee hours of the morning in seedy bars and the dangerous effects on one's judgment of too much booze.
Well I can certainly say there ain't enough tea in China to make me live in that town again. Six weeks...I was back home. 'Out there' is a mild description.
While I haven't ruled Joran's central role out, I tend to agree with you.
and Toespi it was Scarborough, not Greta as I said before..you are mistaken about the content and the interviewer.(re your post 1047)
I've maintained all along that the ONLY time "that nite" Natalee was seen "at the hotel" is when she and the girls returned briefly between the beach concert and going to C&C's......this was where ahd when she "introduced herself to joran as he was beginning the end-game of the stalk and snatch......she had previously lost some monwy, and someone said he regained 100 of the lost 300 at this time. this was also where he made the comment about it being dead on sunday nites, but the girls went anyhow....the important thing I see here is that there never was a conflicting statement as some try to spin.....nor is there a single statement by anyone on the trip to the effect that Natalee was seen at the hotel after departing C&C's.
Scarborough jammed Byrd with time constraint, and there was NOT time for her to respond fully and honestly....in fact, Scarborough offered "leave it like that" as an option to her in lieu of a full explanation due to the time constraint he had just placed on her response......that is the origin of the nonsense that those who wish to pretend Natalee was seen at the hotel after her encounter at C&C's w/jorab & the Pinps. But it is simply NOT TRUE.
You've already responded to that post, dipsh*t.
Thank you for the clarification Texkat. Aruba still is a bowel movement to include Aruban Dud. NSNR
Yep but I see it as more general than wild sjpots and unchaperoned trips.
The truth is we all let go of our kids at some point. To chaperone at age 18 is no longer the norm. And bad things happen in the US, on college campuses, on the street. At some point we have to quit locking the doors for them, quit looking up and down the street when taking them out, quit vetting their friends and quit asking them to "call when you get home".
When you let go of a kid it is incredibly difficult and scary. And the process starts in grade school when you put them on the bus what with bullies and pedophile bus drivers and wacky teachers. And it goes on and on, sometimes I think it never ends.
This is a parents deepest fear. And that is the hook.
But you have to let them go, you have to, and sometimes really awful things happen. We had a friend whose kid went off to college, a lovely girl, was murdered in the first week by the super at her apartment building. She did nothing wrong, was a wonderful girl but how was she to know that to open her door to the super was going to result in her death. Sometimes you cannot prevent things.
And you cannot in this day expect your kids to stay home and knit. They party, they travel, they drink, they make new friends. And they get into taxis.
How much longer is it going to take for the media to speak with one voice and say: Aruban Law Enforcement and government officials are CORRUPT? Not negligent, but CORRUPT? Let's start a chorus, please!
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