Since you didn't quote what you were replying to and since I only responded to two posts, I'll only say that I was referring to the ignorant post about LA being "a third-world country." I'm an American living in LA and not real wild about sweeping generalizations. I'm not a "killer, the drug pusher and rioting vandals" (and for that matter, not "the butcher, the baker the candlestick maker" -- :-] ).