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Old 08-27-2018, 03:01 PM
 
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The rats are all over in Baltimore, but I'm not sure Lexington Market food is safe to eat.
Too many shop owners are not careful.
Yeah, and your one of em.
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Old 08-31-2018, 09:55 AM
 
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Rats and roaches are everywhere that people live, it doesn't matter where you go or how far you run. What's curious is that while EVERY SINGLE apartment, regardless of address or cleanliness, that I lived in or visited in D.C. was Cockroach Nirvana, I never had any in my house in Baltimore. I know they're there, obviously, and I saw rats everywhere, but I hardly ever had any roaches and none of my friends or neighbors complained about them. Maybe I was just lucky. I saw cockroaches the size of 16-wheelers in Louisiana and Florida, where they call them "palmetto bugs" but aren't fooling anyone.
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Old 08-31-2018, 01:54 PM
 
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What you posted may be true but it not about vermin infestation
more so than it is the powet of social and broadcast media to
shape public perception. Insects and vermin have always been
present at Lexington Market. The capturing of them on a cellphone
camera and the replay of the video on YouTube and the nickel
and dime local media are the center of the story. This time it
is definitely the medium and not the message (and it has become
a disturbing trend).
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Old 09-01-2018, 05:51 AM
 
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What you posted may be true but it not about vermin infestation
more so than it is the powet of social and broadcast media to
shape public perception. Insects and vermin have always been
present at Lexington Market. The capturing of them on a cellphone
camera and the replay of the video on YouTube and the nickel
and dime local media are the center of the story. This time it
is definitely the medium and not the message (and it has become
a disturbing trend).
A Rat in plain view in a food case eating the food. Sure. I worked in a super market. Quit with the nonsense. I never saw anything like that. I am trying to think in my entire lifetime of going in a food establishment if I have ever seen anything like that. NO!

The reality is that area is dirty, and you can throw a rock to the Hood from were Lexington Market is.
The City is poorly ran, and has been for a long time!

The real problem is trying to gloss things over to fit what ever narrative suits your view!
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Old 09-01-2018, 03:27 PM
 
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"The real problem is trying to gloss things over to fit what ever narrative suits your view!"

You mean what the media (especially the right-wing media) does daily?

Recent example: Fox News emphasizing the Mollie Tibbetts Murder because
the suspect was an undocumented immigrant while hardly mentioning the Manafort
convictions and the Michael Cohen indictments that occurred the same evening.

Also: you cannot equate a clean supermarket or restaurant (or you limited exposure
to them) with a building like Lexington Market that has been around a very long time
and has structural deficiencies.
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Old 09-01-2018, 05:51 PM
 
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"The real problem is trying to gloss things over to fit what ever narrative suits your view!"

You mean what the media (especially the right-wing media) does daily?

Recent example: Fox News emphasizing the Mollie Tibbetts Murder because
the suspect was an undocumented immigrant while hardly mentioning the Manafort
convictions and the Michael Cohen indictments that occurred the same evening.

Also: you cannot equate a clean supermarket or restaurant (or you limited exposure
to them) with a building like Lexington Market that has been around a very long time
and has structural deficiencies.
YOU watch Fox News? Wonders never cease.

Which story do you think will get more viewers and sell more newspapers, the disappearance, rape, and murder of a cute young coed in rural Iowa, where no crimes ever happen, or a couple of unknown lawyers cheating on their income taxes, and forgetting to fill out a couple of obscure forms that at least 99% of the people in this country would be completely clueless as to how to complete or even know what they are? I'd pick the first one.

The Lexington Market buildings are not really that old; I believe they were built in the early 1950s. I would certainly hope that they do not have structural deficiencies, if so they should be condemned immediately, until repairs are made. The age of the buildings should not have any bearing on their cleanliness or rodent problem.
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Old 09-01-2018, 06:52 PM
 
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"...a couple of unknown lawyers cheating on their income taxes, and forgetting to fill out a couple of obscure forms that at least 99% of the people in this country would be completely clueless as to how to complete or even know what they are? I'd pick the first one".


You sound sympathetic to the "unknown lawyers".
That means you were on the side of former Baltimore
Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa who had similar
problems. Right? I'm pretty sure Paul Manafort and
Michael Cohen tried to explain their problems to the
Prosecutors as harmless paperwork errors. Oh well,
their prison bunk mates might want to listen since
they'll will soon have a lot of idle time.
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Old 09-01-2018, 07:14 PM
 
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You made it a political discussion. (Surprise, it has nothing to do with thread, at least in the context the two of you have placed it in)

What if someone became seriously ill from eating something out of that case? Quit yapping about politics.

I would like to see you eat something out of that case that the pretty rat was sitting on. Simp!

I always wonder why I come on this site.
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Old 09-01-2018, 07:18 PM
 
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"...a couple of unknown lawyers cheating on their income taxes, and forgetting to fill out a couple of obscure forms that at least 99% of the people in this country would be completely clueless as to how to complete or even know what they are? I'd pick the first one".


You sound sympathetic to the "unknown lawyers".
That means you were on the side of former Baltimore
Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa who had similar
problems. Right? I'm pretty sure Paul Manafort and
Michael Cohen tried to explain their problems to the
Prosecutors as harmless paperwork errors. Oh well,
their prison bunk mates might want to listen since
they'll will soon have a lot of idle time.
I have no sympathy whatsoever for people who make a lot of money and conveniently forget to file income taxes. Daryl DeSousa, Paul Manafort, and Michael Cohen should all get prison sentences, IF they are found guilty. Maybe they can be cellmates.

But that is not the question you asked. You wanted to know why Fox News is going on forever about Mollie, but didn't say much about Manafort and Cohen. And the simple answer is the middle paragraph of my response above. I copied the main idea below just in case you didn't catch it.

get more viewers and sell more newspapers
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