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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
More than 2,500 homeless individuals sleep on the streets of the 53-square-block Skid Row area in downtown Los Angeles. "Skid row is the worst manmade disaster in the United States. There's human waste on the sidewalks. There's all kinds of disease," says Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of Skid Row's Union Rescue Mission, the nation's largest private homeless shelter. He lost his leg to staph infection he contracted while serving the homeless on Skid Row. But California's homelessness crisis extends far beyond Skid Row and Los Angeles. The state's homeless population has jumped more than 12 percent in the last five years, and it's part of a national crisis.So what's the disconnect? With the economy roaring along, with record low unemployment and wages rising it doesn't seem like it is a lack of jobs. The pat answer from our elites is that rising housing prices push out the people on the margins, who then must live on the streets. But that seems a bit simplistic, since as I mentioned, the vast majority of these people are batshit crazy, addicts, drunks, or a combination of all three. So the next facile and simplistic answer is that there is insufficient mental health assistance available to them, so they flounder about and end up homeless, or remain homeless. But since the 1970s and a series of court decisions, we have given the mentally ill the autonomy to to be governed by their demons, and the result is a horror show of untreated mental patients on our streets. Here is Walter Williams with an interesting premise: Closing Mental Institutions Made Us More Vulnerable to Mass Shootings. So what's the solution? I think it is obvious; society needs the ability to institutionalize the mentally ill, it needs to make "homelessness" less financially attractive, and it needs to return to the stigma that being a bum or a vagrant or a hobo is not an appropriate life choice. But those are difficult things to do in our current condition, in which every vice and every personal failing is celebrated as just a point on the fabulous rainbow of diversity! But part of me is laughing and pointing at California, which has joined the mentally ill in behaving contrary to all of the things we have learned about society. The good people of Los Angeles are getting exactly what they voted for, and until they change the people who make these decisions, they will continue to live in a state that resembles nothing more than a Rube Goldberg machine that needs a lot of work. [Hat Tip: some Moron whose name will be entered into the Hat Tip rolls as, "Unknown"] Correction: Commenter "CtHillary" tells me that a hobo:
...is an itinerant agricultural worker. The word "hobo" is thought to come from "Hoe Boy," which in itself shows at least an acceptance that work is sometimes necessary.
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 11:01 AM (q80AH)
Posted by: JC. Just JC. at December 12, 2019 11:01 AM (377Zs)
Posted by: JC. Just JC. at December 12, 2019 11:02 AM (377Zs)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:03 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: henry at December 12, 2019 11:03 AM (JMDly)
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Skid mark row
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:03 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 12, 2019 11:03 AM (so+oy)
low unemployment and wages rising it doesn't seem like it is a lack of
jobs."
Drugs and the closing of almost all mental health hospitals is causing this.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:04 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:04 AM (48RE5)
You want to wreck the swamp, be like Trump and solve the problems.
Posted by: henry at December 12, 2019 11:04 AM (JMDly)
Posted by: tbodie at December 12, 2019 11:04 AM (XpCzL)
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:05 AM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2019 11:05 AM (90T4r)
Posted by: JC. Just JC. at December 12, 2019 11:06 AM (377Zs)
We now are living in dangerous times.
Posted by: torabora at December 12, 2019 11:06 AM (M9bB2)
Posted by: Bruce at December 12, 2019 11:06 AM (vd8XM)
.......
The pat answer is that LA is a warm climate.. and has a government that tolerates homeless on the streets.
So, those that want to be homeless and live on the street, gravitate to LA from all over the state and all over the country.
It would make a good sociological study to document the backgrounds and origins of those people.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 12, 2019 11:06 AM (so+oy)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:06 AM (48RE5)
2. Ship all of the homeless, the illegals, the insane, etc. there
3. Laissez la bon temps rouler
Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at December 12, 2019 11:07 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:04 AM (JUOKG)
This answer has been steadily ignored for the last forty years.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Measure Your Fury With A Rage-o-Meter from The Outrage Outlet! at December 12, 2019 11:07 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2019 11:07 AM (90T4r)
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This dilemma was touched on in the comments of The Morning Report this morning. When you are using Other People's Money to provide mental health treatments there comes a limit. When the money "runs out" or is insufficient to fund the demand, the government slashes the reimbursement rates, which results in decreased availability of those services. Every single time.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:07 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:05 AM (X/Pw5)
Deck cargo on submarines.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2019 11:08 AM (/sgva)
Posted by: rammajamma at December 12, 2019 11:08 AM (wgOzc)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (m45I2)
An Oakland city official wants to explore the possibility of using a cruise ship to house up to 1,000 homeless people in the Bay Area, which is suffering from a shortage of affordable housing and a rise in homelessness.
https://cbsn.ws/38wWlSY
I'm OK with this so long as the ship sails to Venezuela, disembarks the passengers, and returns for another cargo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Zero Prosecutions Zero Raids at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (6A9Kg)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (xkSJa)
Posted by: Roland THTG at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (88+cf)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (U7qMl)
________
"You get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax." -- Econ 101 by the evil white patriarchy or something
Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (WqPYg)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (r7Fvf)
So, those that want to be homeless and live on the street, gravitate to LA from all over the state and all over the country.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 12, 2019 11:06 AM (so+oy)
Wait 'til LA starts covertly shipping them to Fla.
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (X/Pw5)
A LARGE fraction of bums who have mental illness got that way as side effects of their recreational drug abuse. The commies love to flip that by saying that mentally ill bums only take illegal drugs because they are self-medicating. Which is utter bullshit in the vast number of cases.
As for the young, late teen-early 20s bums, a big part of that is that is because there's a lefty cultural cachet to spending some time as a "homeless" person as part of gaining "life experience" instead of actually working on a proper education or getting a fucking job.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (kw0bd)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Democrats, Media, and Deep State:
Hostis Humani Generis
at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (Rvlwi)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (U7qMl)
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:05 AM (X/Pw5)
So much norovirus
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (48RE5)
It now appears the media will be working over time to declare Bill Barr an enemy of democracy.
That was my takeaway from this morning's CNN and Morning Joke sirrius radio review.
Posted by: DanMan at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (XTiHL)
Posted by: Guzalot at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (prSvo)
Please Hillary, run in 2020 and save us from Drumpf! the Nazi -Hitler Putin Stooge!
He's a BAD MAN!
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (vcOmj)
2. Ship all of the homeless, the illegals, the insane, etc. there
3. Laissez la bon temps rouler
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I assume your plan includes Hollywood.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 12, 2019 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)
Dude, that is serious dedication.
Bordering on insanity.
But serious nonetheless.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:11 AM (BN/jk)
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:05 AM (X/Pw5)
Of course! They're a natural conservative constituency!
Posted by: Cruise Director Bill K at December 12, 2019 11:11 AM (Y+/QX)
_______
"Escape From New York" was prescient.
Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2019 11:12 AM (WqPYg)
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:05 AM (X/Pw5)
Can you imagine the difficulty of policing a cruise ship with 1,000 homeless on board?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2019 11:12 AM (wYseH)
It would have to kill before the infected could reach the airport.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 11:12 AM (xkSJa)
Posted by: BignJames
And sink it?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:12 AM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Guy Smiley
=========================
I read somewhere that panhandlers can bring in upwards of $50 K a year, untaxed.
Posted by: Guzalot at December 12, 2019 11:13 AM (prSvo)
We need an economy that gives more low-skilled, low-intellect people opportunities for work. We need a military which does a better job helping vets transition back into society and does a better job caring for those who cannot, or who take longer. We need to stop encouraging and helping people in their addictions and to move them out of that. We need to have more economic freedom for charities and donors to charities (meaning: less taxation and regulation) so that they can help care for those who cannot care for themselves.
Certainly cities need to stop incentivizing and encouraging homelessness. Salem is looking at setting up showers and special shelters so bums can take advantage of them. Setting aside city parks for bums to camp in. That's the wrong approach entirely, its encouraging more, not working to have fewer.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:13 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: REDACTED at December 12, 2019 11:13 AM (rpxSz)
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 12, 2019 11:13 AM (Ltv6g)
Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 12, 2019 11:13 AM (PYdI2)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes - the Housekeeper at December 12, 2019 11:14 AM (IttZ7)
Create a mess.
Demand money to fix it.
Steal/squander the money.
Also works in schools and transportation projects.
Posted by: Billy Bob at December 12, 2019 11:14 AM (CtCgo)
I'll deal with the lack of Broadway plays.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 12, 2019 11:14 AM (dtmnp)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2019 11:12 AM (wYseH)
What's to police? Cast it adrift with like 6 months provisions and let them go all Lord of the Flies.
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:14 AM (48RE5)
The Man with the Twisted Lip- 1891
Begging is not new, and has generally been profitable... and largely was outlawed in the early U.S. for a reason.
Posted by: MarkY at December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (i022r)
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (90T4r)
Some pol in Oakland wants to put the homeless on a cruise ship....where have I heard that before?
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:05 AM (X/Pw5)
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I remember some libertarians proposing "seasteading" and living independently from governments on ships at sea.
Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (WqPYg)
The pat answer is that LA is a warm climate.. and has a government that tolerates homeless on the streets.
So, those that want to be homeless and live on the street, gravitate to LA from all over the state and all over the country.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 12, 2019 11:06 AM (so+oy)
Wait 'til LA starts covertly shipping them to Fla.
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (X/Pw5)
LAPD and other LE agencies already got busted a few years back for picking up vagrants en masse in the good parts of town (for values of "good" as it applies to Los Angeles), and instead of taking them to local shelters or jail as appropriate, they'd drive them all the way across the LA Basin to Skid Row and dump them at the front door of a shelter.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (kw0bd)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (U7qMl)
Sebastian Bach did have a great voice
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (7HtZB)
There are pockets of high unemployment, I know, I live in one.
Central Valley Calif., we are north of 9% in published figures, and probably more like 12- 13% in real numbers.
And if you are not bilingual? You won't get hired for just about any job.
Posted by: Don Q at December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (iAwUQ)
She would not hear she was exacerbating his problems, but she felt guilty b/c of the bad breakup of her marriage to the boy's father, blah blah blah....
Finally, she came to her senses, and stopped the subsidies to his reckless life.
Whaddya know. Two years later he cleaned up his act. Got clean, got a job. Got married. Had kids. Last I heard, was taking care of his elderly mother and step-dad.
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 12, 2019 11:16 AM (Rbu5d)
temporary homelessness - going thru rough financial times - is a tiny minority of the problem - probably around 10%
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at December 12, 2019 11:16 AM (G546f)
fund the demand, the government slashes the reimbursement rates, which
results in decreased availability of those services. Every single time.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:07 AM (m45I2)
This is why a free-market driven healthcare system is the only thing that will save us.
The insanity that the elites affect that healthcare is some specialized right that is independent of the laws of economics and human behavior is the biggest indication that they are just too stupid to function without government largess and should be put down...for the children!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2019 11:16 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 12, 2019 11:17 AM (dtmnp)
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Also, California proudly publicizes that they provide the most welfare benefits of any state -- so come one, come all!
Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2019 11:17 AM (WqPYg)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
The Bum Boat, soon will be making another run.
The Bum Boat, Promises something for everyone...
Posted by: Bruce at December 12, 2019 11:17 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: astronaut achmed at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (eJcTj)
99% of us can't afford those houses. So we don't buy them. It's pretty simple.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (VP1E6)
2. Ship all of the homeless, the illegals, the insane, etc. there
3. Laissez la bon temps rouler
Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at December 12, 2019 11:07 AM (RD7QR)
Bonus: Kurt Russell's already there!
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (Rbu5d)
Yeah, but -
The Dims lo-o-o-o-ove mass shootings cuz it's a crisis they can use to gain power and get money.
They practically drool with greed every time they hold one of their post-shooting "anti-gun" rallies.
And, also -
like the prison population, the Dims would lose a largish chunk of their voters if the insane, drug-addicted, etc were treated and isolated. Maybe 3-5% Dim voters for sure.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (9X624)
Was the other one "One of Our Submarines"?
I loved that one,
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (U7qMl)
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 12, 2019 11:17 AM (dtmnp)
Hard to look sexy in snow pants.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (90T4r)
I had a fight on Facebook with someone trying to tell me the homeless have nothing. One look at this tent camps will tell you that is a lie. They collect stuff, to the point of being hoarders. We can save some of them, if we can get them off drugs.
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (JKNZq)
Posted by: ShainS
How Dare YOU!!
...Greta von Scoldyface...
Posted by: Bruce at December 12, 2019 11:19 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 12, 2019 11:19 AM (n4y+3)
********
Skid mark row
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:03 AM
Damnit. I just put new tape on my 'puter's camera.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2019 11:19 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at December 12, 2019 11:19 AM (G546f)
your over the top outright lies regarding our potus will come back to haunt you. karma...it's a bitch.
Posted by: trapper's girl at December 12, 2019 11:19 AM (Vugy1)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
"Escape from Norwegian Bliss".
With 16 bars and lounges on our 168,028 ton ship, one is always drunk!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:20 AM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 11:20 AM (r7Fvf)
The fact the homeless are drawn to warm climate cities is part of the reason there are worse things than living in a small town with a cold climate.
I'll deal with the lack of Broadway plays.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 12, 2019 11:14 AM (dtmnp)
The commie asswipes that swoon about how fucking awesome their cities are because they get road shows of Broadway plays are full of shit. Because 99% of them NEVER attend one of those plays, it's just about bragging rights.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:20 AM (kw0bd)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:20 AM (U7qMl)
Posted by: Orangemanverybad at December 12, 2019 11:20 AM (G5NiZ)
2. Ship all of the homeless, the illegals, the insane, etc. there
3. Laissez la bon temps rouler
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I assume your plan includes Hollywood.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 12, 2019 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)
Oh God yes. I assume that they will be like well-armed Roman villas in the late fifth century, which would be hilarious.
Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at December 12, 2019 11:20 AM (RD7QR)
...
As for the young, late teen-early 20s bums, a big part of that is that is because there's a lefty cultural cachet to spending some time as a "homeless" person as part of gaining "life experience" instead of actually working on a proper education or getting a fucking job.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (kw0bd)
I think that's a big part of the current "live in a van" trend.
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 12, 2019 11:20 AM (Rbu5d)
free narcan to revive any ODed person
is crazy
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at December 12, 2019 11:19 AM (G546f)
I disagree. But they get two chances. After two? let them die.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2019 11:21 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at December 12, 2019 11:21 AM (G546f)
But its better to have a society which as as little as possible and does not encourage homelessness by rewarding it, combined with a society of compassion that helps people out of it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:21 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2019 11:21 AM (gmo/4)
Saw them open for David Lee Roth on their first tour, and they were really good.
(Roth himself killed it.)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:21 AM (U7qMl)
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (JKNZq)
Study proposes adding exercise amounts needed to burn off calorie content to food labels
. . . .
Under the proposed system, a small bar of chocolate would carry a label informing consumers that it would take 23 minutes of running or 46 minutes of walking to burn off the 230 calories it contains.
. . . .
Ludham-Raine said PACE "could be extremely problematic" for those with eating disorders as it suggests that food needs to be "earnt or burnt off."
https://bit.ly/2rHkchX
Can't win for losing. Big Nanny wants to force feed you diet/exercise information but Big Nanny is afraid that yoy can't handle the truth.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Depending on the ship, you could have 1700 crew and 4,000 druggies.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (BN/jk)
The commie asswipes that swoon about how fucking awesome their cities are because they get road shows of Broadway plays are full of shit. Because 99% of them NEVER attend one of those plays, it's just about bragging rights.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:20 AM
The commie asswipes in Seattle chuckle ever damn day since they get to tax three counties to help pay for their crap. Gawd I hate that place.
The only thing it has gong for it is that it rains enough to keep the smell from the human waste down.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (axyOa)
Estimated homeless population in California on any given day: 129,000ish.
State spends a billion.
That's, $7700 and change each.
This is why you don't let government do stuff at the individual level. Ever.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (Boy/L)
But there's only so many parking spaces down by the river.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (xkSJa)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (dBiBP)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
**********
Mental health professionals pretend to treat mental illness and the government pretends to pay them. Win-Win.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:23 AM (m45I2)
Saw solo Don Dokken open for Poison in '87. There was a power outage midway through Poison's set but it came back pretty quickly. Nowadays they'd have to wait for all the computers and crap to restart.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2019 11:23 AM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2019 11:21 AM (gmo/4)
Yeah, what he said
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:23 AM (48RE5)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (xkSJa)
Thread winner.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 12, 2019 11:23 AM (iAwUQ)
Damn good band with a bunch of great songs, but the lead singer's voice was just not very good and hurt them in the end.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:23 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:10 AM (kw0bd)
I think that's a big part of the current "live in a van" trend.
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 12, 2019
*
*
It may be a current fad, but when I lived in Denver in the late '90s, I heard that doing this, pretending they're homeless, was the latest thing among the kids.
I suggest that there weren't many of them doing it in the winter in Colorado. The summer, sure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 12, 2019 11:24 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 12, 2019 11:25 AM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (Rbu5d)
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Heh. I think he lives in Santa Barbara -- but close enough and funny nonetheless.
Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2019 11:25 AM (WqPYg)
Here's my proposed system. STFU and just tell people what's in it and let them decide. Shaming someone is not goin to do it. I don't eat sweets much but when I do I don't want to be lectured. It would be like having Greta Scoldilocks (thanks Fenelon!) tell me I shouldn't turn up the heat because I am cold. GFY. If someone had a weight problem they probably already know that. It's called a mirror.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 11:25 AM (r7Fvf)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2019 11:25 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 12, 2019 11:25 AM (JXKKq)
Posted by: REDACTED at December 12, 2019 11:25 AM (rpxSz)
That's, $7700 and change each.
That's a billion dollars that go into a government program. $7700 in cash each will not come out it.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 11:25 AM (VP1E6)
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (X/Pw5)
Nothing covert about it. It happened in the 80s/90s when Miami and LA got into a pissing contest and judges from both cities were ordering bums, derelicts and the mentally ill onto flights to the other coast.
Posted by: mrtmz at December 12, 2019 11:26 AM (m/Gc2)
https://tinyurl.com/t35d8p3
Brave, BRAVE girl
Posted by: Marybeth at December 12, 2019 10:51 AM (CmURZ)
From previous thread. Saw it too late.Naomi has a youtube channel and she's done one or two videos in English.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1x0-hzWNE8Brittany Pettibone interviewed her, IIRC.
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:26 AM (XzVUd)
Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2019 11:21 AM (gmo/4)
A good safeguard might be the ability to challenge your committal in a neutral jurisdiction (IE, neither the one you live in, nor the one where you are institutionalized).
And make politicizing psychiatry a hanging offense.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at December 12, 2019 11:26 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:26 AM (XzVUd)
There was a viral video yesterday of some thieves running out of a Sears in California with armloads of stolen clothing; using the notorious Prop 47 discount, your first $950 of stolen retail is on the store because the the police won't arrest and the store won't prosecute.
Here's a mainstream news media article about it.
https://is.gd/Q2Cs5K
You will find in that article no mention of California's "Shoplifting Up to $950 will not be prosecuted" policy. Instead, they repost Tweets chuckling at the idea that thieves would target Sears, of all places.
And the very first comment under the story explains how shoplifting is OK because stores underpay their workers.
California.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 12, 2019 11:26 AM (BeYX8)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:27 AM (rImxe)
How Dare YOU!!
...Greta von Scoldyface...
Posted by: Bruce at December 12, 2019 11:19 AM (vd8XM)
Just to let you know, I'm gonna have to steal that. Thanks!
Posted by: Lurker Extraordinaire at December 12, 2019 11:27 AM (MfR/g)
Moral of the story? Some (not all) people are just parasites and really don't want to be part of society, no matter what you do to help them. Stop enabling them.
Posted by: IP - Still a dude at December 12, 2019 11:27 AM (cn3ZE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 12, 2019 11:24 AM (Ejm1K)
Yep, that's how it is here in Fort Collins. Hobos galore in the spring, summer and fall, no hobos in the winter.
The city thinned out a wooded area by a creek by my place, where the hobos were sleeping at nioght, so last summer we were hobo-free in my 'hood, thank the Lord.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:27 AM (U7qMl)
Disagree. Kiefer was excellent and had great stage presence (shy as hell offstage). The issue was timing. At their peak, they ran head long into Nirvana and the Bleach grunge awfulness. Rock and roll was supposed to fun and the hair metal guys were fun.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 12, 2019 11:27 AM (Boy/L)
Sure Nancy, you don't even read the directions on your Poligrip to keep your choppers from rattling around.
Posted by: Bruce at December 12, 2019 11:27 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 12, 2019 11:27 AM (JKNZq)
Eventually the pain level that liberals have to endure to live & work in CA cities will get too high. There is already, as everyone knows, a net out-migration from CA. But that's not the real story even, which is that middle class taxpayers are leaving & illegal aliens/"the homeless" are flooding in... but even the derelicts can't stop the net outflow.
Posted by: mnw at December 12, 2019 11:27 AM (Cssks)
In fairness, rising housing prices DO push out the people on the margins, who then must live on the streets. Sure they have mental and drug problems, but that just makes them that much more on the margins.
The same Leftists in Cali who want unchecked immigration also do their level best to block housing development. I can only conclude they WANT homeless people as some kind of political weapon.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (lUcEx)
...
We can save some of them, if we can get them off drugs.
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (JKNZq)
Slight disagreement.
WE cannot save them. They have to save themselves, with their "higher power."
12 steps, parts 1-6.
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (Rbu5d)
Here's a mainstream news media article about it.
https://is.gd/Q2Cs5K
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Hopefully they can at least be charged with assaulting the white guy.
Not a hate crime, though. Because reasons.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (rImxe)
as much heroin/crack/meth as you like
one day only
on some island somewhere
no passage out of the island for 7 days after
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (G546f)
They approached the truck, and found a woman's wig and a cowboy hat on the ground outside the driver's side door. They banged on the window, and a guy got out, dressed in torn women's leggings with the butt torn out, and appeared confused and didn't know where he was.
Anyhow, he's been taken into custody. Yikes.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (ptqGC)
**********
♫♪♫
The Looooooove Boat
Promises something for everyone
The Looooove Boat
Soon will be making another run.
/Your ship's purser, Gopher
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (m45I2)
...Greta von Scoldyface...
-
One of my idiot friends had a plan. Rig a can of black spray paint on a drone and paint a Hitler 'stache on Grunta's SanFran mural.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (+y/Ru)
Following that logic shoplifting hurts the underpaid workers directly by reducing the inventory that they can steal.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (xkSJa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N0Y-9tqIbs
Brittany Sellner (nee Pettibone) interview.
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (XzVUd)
Posted by: Bruce at December 12, 2019 11:19 AM (vd8XM)
Just to let you know, I'm gonna have to steal that. Thanks!
Posted by: Lurker Extraordinaire at December 12, 2019 11:27 AM
Dear Scoldilocks. In honor of your person of the year award. I am going to turn up the heat in my home and light a fire. To light it I will use a Time magazine, because that's all it's good for.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (r7Fvf)
Nickleback was worse.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM (xkSJa)
In fairness, Nickleback are Canucks.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (ujg0T)
I usually can understand a liberal outlook, it's usually just about them getting hooked up (like say showering the public sector with more money) or they really hate religion and traditional values (which is why the new ultra rich are bankrolling Democrats)
But what constituency is homelessness? It's only liberal voters that suffer and have to have buckets of diaherria thrown on them. It's not like homeless people are some important voting bloc.
Posted by: Blago at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (sjTfF)
Permissive environment overall, yes, maybe not mostly $$, though.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (El6T/)
I didn't hate grunge (Alice in Chains' 90s records are *still* fricking amazing, RIP Layne) but yeah several bands got unfairly wiped out by its rise.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2019 11:30 AM (ZGrMX)
You want to disincentivize it?
Unannounced morning sidewalk washings with firehoses.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM (dBiBP)
_______
By Navy SEAL instructors practicing for hell week.
Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2019 11:30 AM (WqPYg)
Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at December 12, 2019 11:30 AM (2sCft)
Actually, a hobo is an itinerant agricultural worker. The word "hobo" is
thought to come from "Hoe Boy," which in itself shows at least an
acceptance that work is sometimes necessary.
Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 12, 2019 11:25 AM (JXKKq)
I did not know that!
Thanks....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2019 11:30 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 12, 2019 11:18 AM (JKNZq)
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Yeah, I'd probably be okay with some of the taxpayer dollars being thrown away if it was thrown away through churches and shelters that required drug tests, check-ins, and job training. I'm guessing that's illegal, though, because separation of church and state.
And it's weird how those programs already exist and aren't being utilized. It's almost like the drunks and druggies want the drinking and drugs or something.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (rImxe)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (KZzsI)
It all leads back to leftists. Whether they identify as democrat or republican.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (pw+jk)
the blazing sun or freezing cold for 8 or 9 hours begging for change but
won't just get jobs. And we have a roaring economy and tons of jobs
here. Which tells me that either that they do better begging than
working, or they're just plain lazy.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:09 AM
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Same here in NE Texas. The economy is on fire and every single place is hiring but the bums stand around begging money at the intersections of 82 and 75 constantly.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (JUOKG)
starring Jennifer Palmieri as Snake Plissken
squint your eyes and think about it for a sec
Posted by: REDACTED at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (rpxSz)
Estimated homeless population in California on any given day: 129,000ish.
State spends a billion.
That's, $7700 and change each.
This is why you don't let government do stuff at the individual level. Ever.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 12, 2019 11:22 AM
You need to factor in the $200 million to the state level agencies (and re-election funds) and then another $200 million to the county level agencies and then another $200 million to the cities. Leaves $400.
So...lets see...
**sticks touinge out of side of mouth**
That goesinda...carry the one...
Something like $770 per homeless.
That is why there are people like Rev. Andy Bales, and places like the Skid Row's Union Rescue Mission.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (axyOa)
Someone needs to start attaching tiny little Indian headdresses to hawks.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (m45I2)
California.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 12, 2019 11:26 AM (BeYX
I have a coworker who also works at Lowe's. She says they have a "no-stop" policy for shoplifting. And no loss prevention staff. No employee is allowed to physically stop a shoplifter. The most they can do is ask the person to pay for the item, but that's it. They reason for this is because the store management feels it's too dangerous to try and stop these people, and that several employees have been hurt doing so. So they gave up on stopping it. I've heard other stores have the same policy too now, like Walmart and Target.I kind if get the liablity thing but I think it's sad that they just give up.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (iAwUQ)
Hill began her career as a policy advocate at People Assisting the
Homeless (PATH), a non-profit organization developing affordable and
supportive services for the homeless in California. Her husband allegedly worked there as well and it is claimed Hill was his boss. Later as the Executive Director for PATH, she raised the organization from a local force in L.A. County to one of the largest non-profit providers of homes for the homeless in California. Hill helped pass a ballot initiative, Measure H, during spring of 2017
to help alleviate homelessness by providing $1.2 billion in funds for
homeless services in Los Angeles County.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (U7qMl)
In fairness (I find myself saying that a lot on this subject), they ARE self-medicating. In utterly self-destructive way, of course.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (ujg0T)
Speaking of mentally ill, someone crashed through a security gate here in his pickup in the wee hours, and was found parked in a couple's yard.
They approached the truck, and found a woman's wig and a cowboy hat on the ground outside the driver's side door. They banged on the window, and a guy got out, dressed in torn women's leggings with the butt torn out, and appeared confused and didn't know where he was.
Anyhow, he's been taken into custody. Yikes.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (ptqGC)
I don't remember seeing JackStraw on the HQ earlier this morning....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (kw0bd)
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2019 11:32 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (kw0bd)
heh
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2019 11:32 AM (ptqGC)
They approached the truck, and found a woman's wig and a cowboy hat on the ground outside the driver's side door. They banged on the window, and a guy got out, dressed in torn women's leggings with the butt torn out, and appeared confused and didn't know where he was.
Anyhow, he's been taken into custody. Yikes.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (ptqGC)
Somebody had a REALLY great night, and they're just going to love him in the county lockup.
Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at December 12, 2019 11:32 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (JUOKG)
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A lot of bums are begging when they're not at their jobs.
Big time tax free money in begging.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:33 AM (rImxe)
It would have to kill before the infected could reach the airport.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 11:12 AM (xkSJa)
Arguably, the early days of AIDS was just this. The bathhouse subculture was just about annihilated.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2019 11:33 AM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 12, 2019 11:33 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 12, 2019 11:33 AM (JKNZq)
One term I never hear actually used in CO is "weedo." Unless that's a Denver thing.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:33 AM (U7qMl)
It's not like homeless people are some important voting bloc.
Posted by: Blago at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (sjTfF)
Cloward-Piven, some egg breaking required
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:33 AM (48RE5)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 11:33 AM (xkSJa)
Flood torpedo tubes 1 and 2.
Open outer doors.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2019 11:34 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2019 11:32 AM (7HtZB)
That's how "The Pee Wee Herman Show" got started on stage on LA.
So, should be good. It was a big ticket before he became famous when I was bartending in LA.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2019 11:34 AM (9X624)
Target.I kind if get the liablity thing but I think it's sad that they
just give up.
Sad. Heard from a cop friend that every square inch of Target is under camera surveillance - there are even cameras in the check-out conveyor belt. Of course, this is like the UK's CCTV approach: we won't actively stop, we'll monitor and then use the footage to assist police --- meanwhile, the thief/fraudster is miles away, maybe even out of state by then.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 11:34 AM (bDqIh)
I thought hobos moved around? Rode the rails?
Bums were local.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (BN/jk)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (9X624)
I try not to ever use the word "homeless" and prefer bum hobo, loser. Homeless gives the people power it is now like an illegal. They are given extra rights normal and decent people do not get.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (pw+jk)
Posted by: JT at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2019 11:33 AM (ujg0T)
Not completely. *shifty eyes*
Posted by: Bathhouse Barry at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (XzVUd)
They approached the truck, and found a woman's wig and a cowboy hat on the ground outside the driver's side door. They banged on the window, and a guy got out, dressed in torn women's leggings with the butt torn out, and appeared confused and didn't know where he was.
Anyhow, he's been taken into custody. Yikes.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (ptqGC)
Did he have a full tank of gas or possibly full gas cans in the truck?
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (jp0Bv)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (rImxe)
Posted by: IP - Still a dude at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (cn3ZE)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (U7qMl)
Could be wrong but pretty sure that was the original meaning
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:36 AM (48RE5)
working, or they're just plain lazy.
The National Federation of Independent Business reported that over 40% of members have open positions that they're trying to hire for. If someone doesn't have a job it's probably on them.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2019 11:36 AM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Curmudgeon
They paid for it in the end.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:36 AM (BN/jk)
Some federal law enforcement officials are warning of a chilling effect inside the FBI amid attacks by President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr over the bureau's handling of the Russia investigation. Current and former FBI officials tell CNN they're concerned that the harsh rhetoric coming from Trump and Barr has only worsened the bureau's already tenuous standing with the President, leaving them wondering whether federal agents could be less aggressive the next time they have to pursue a sensitive investigation. "We're constantly told to be agile and use all the legal tools available to us," said one FBI employee who works on counterintelligence matters. "But who is going to risk sticking their neck out now only to have DOJ chop it off?"
.. I see it .. the operative phrase is ".. use all the legal tools .. "
Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2019 11:36 AM (3aI0K)
Posted by: IP - Still a dude
And sustainable.
Are they GMO free?
Posted by: Bruce at December 12, 2019 11:36 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2019 11:28 AM (ptqGC)
And that little girl was me.
Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 12, 2019 11:37 AM (IttZ7)
Trailer for sale or rent,
Rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys a Eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2019 11:37 AM (W+w2W)
Posted by: IP - Still a dude at December 12, 2019 11:37 AM (cn3ZE)
Posted by: jhawk90 at December 12, 2019 11:37 AM (Xvo1a)
Open outer doors.
Posted by: Diogenes
*******
You've killed us, you arrogant ass!!!!!!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:37 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (XzVUd)
the vid came up for me.
Posted by: JC. Just JC. at December 12, 2019 11:37 AM (377Zs)
camera surveillance - there are even cameras in the check-out conveyor
belt. Of course, this is like the UK's CCTV approach
UK are pikers. China is doing entire cities, including facial recognition and links to social credit scores. Seem to be rolling out the first systems in Xinjiang ...
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:37 AM (XzVUd)
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 12, 2019 11:38 AM (BqBId)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2019 11:38 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 11:34 AM (bDqIh)
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"You'll never catch me, coppers!"
-Thief, having slipped that extra package of Scotch tape in the bag while checking out
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 11:38 AM (q80AH)
Flood torpedo tubes 1 and 2.
Open outer doors.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2019 11:34 AM (axyOa)
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I just watched Run Silent, Run Deep for the first time. Quality adventure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (q80AH)
there's a vagrant camped out on the sidewalk across the street from my house as i type this... he's been there since yesterday afternoon.
what is ironic is that he's in front of a (relatively) cheap motel, famed for criminal acts, such as, but not limited to, human trafficking, drug sales, ODs, occasional prostitution, and other such things.
they are never going to solve the vagrant problem, because too many GOV/NGO employees get a paycheck for "addressing" it.
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (Zo3HG)
It's not like homeless people are some important voting bloc.
Posted by: Blago at December 12, 2019 11:29 AM (sjTfF)
Cloward-Piven, some egg breaking required
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:33 AM (48RE5)
Bingo. The Demunists want to weaponize these people, at least politically.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (2DOZq)
Non-functional motorhomes attract the homeless.
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (JKNZq)
Bums were local.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (BN/jk)
Nowadays they ride the bus. I'm serious. Hobos don't even know how to hobo anymore.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (U7qMl)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (wzVKm)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM (U7qMl)
Could be wrong but pretty sure that was the original meaning
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:36 AM (48RE5)
From wikipedia:
The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis. Thus the poop deck is technically a stern deck, which in sailing ships was usually elevated as the roof of the stern or "after" cabin, also known as the "poop cabin".
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (7HtZB)
died of breast cancer at the age 43
man, what a pair of cans
and an early six pack
Posted by: REDACTED at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (rpxSz)
Bingo. The Demunists want to weaponize these people, at least politically.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (ujg0T)
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"I need you to go over there and break that window."
*shuffles off in different direction*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (q80AH)
dollars being thrown away if it was thrown away through churches and
shelters that required drug tests, check-ins, and job training. I'm
guessing that's illegal, though, because separation of church and state.
And it's weird how those programs already exist and aren't being
utilized. It's almost like the drunks and druggies want the drinking
and drugs or something.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:31 AM
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The VA here has a substance abuse in patient program free and open to any Vet. It is constantly full and there is a waiting list to get in.
The problem is they let you come back as many times as you want. I know a guy who has been through four times and completed the program but he still drinks heavily.
He knows if he gets really bad he can always go back for free treatment, a place to stay along with free food. They are abusing the program just like any other "free" Government handout.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Manuel at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (hbTkw)
Posted by: Manuel at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (hbTkw)
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Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (q80AH)
We will know in a few hours if it means anything.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (tpNnW)
Isn't that already happening? OK, not the plague, not yet (though conditions are ripe for this to happen), but they're dealing with other diseases such as Hepatitis A, Typhus, tuberculosis, shigellosis, trench fever, lice . . .
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (bDqIh)
I didn't hate grunge (Alice in Chains' 90s records are *still* fricking amazing, RIP Layne) but yeah several bands got unfairly wiped out by its rise.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2019 11:30 AM (ZGrMX)
Y'know, grunge only had 5 really compelling voices: Staley, Cobain, Cornell, Weiland and Vedder.
The only survivor of the bunch is the most mind-numbingly boring, pompous and least interesting dooshbag.
Proof that God has a sick sense of humor.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (kw0bd)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (ptqGC)
Donald Trump, of course. Is this a trick question?
Posted by: The MFM at December 12, 2019 11:41 AM (U7qMl)
Posted by: Manuel at December 12, 2019 11:41 AM (hbTkw)
*************
Casey said, before he died
To fix the blind, so the bums could not ride
If they ride let 'em ride the rod
Trust their lives to the Hand of God.
/Mississippi John Hurt
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:41 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (jp0Bv)
Craigslist works!
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at December 12, 2019 11:41 AM (G546f)
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Not necessarily.....
Posted by: Yoga Pants, Stretchin' Tight at December 12, 2019 11:41 AM (Qgge5)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:41 AM (XzVUd)
Posted by: Curmudgeon
--
80% of HIV/AIDS infected know they are infected and still willingly pass it around.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-
trends/global-statistics
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:41 AM (rImxe)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 12, 2019 11:41 AM (n4y+3)
First dollar: Nick Lowe was pretty much a two-hit wonder with Sound of Breaking Glass and Cruel to Be Kind.
Second dollar: Bald foreheads became popular after high-society women began losing hair due to lead poisoning form their face cream.
The curtain over the painting is to keep light from the painting; at night the curtain would be open.
The woman on the left is sitting on a platform so she has better light for her mending.
The cushion is her needlework cushion, used to bring the item she is working on closer to her eyes.
Posted by: SnailRacer at December 12, 2019 11:41 AM (w3jE0)
suffer and have to have buckets of diaherria thrown on them. It's not
like homeless people are some important voting bloc.
_______
Homelessness is a utopian ideal (and cudgel), not a constituency, for the Left.
The Left hates institutional authority, rules, and order (i.e. until they can impose their version of equality of misery and poverty on society), and thrives on chaos, so homelessness represents their utopian pinnacle in the micro (freedom from responsibility) and in the macro (the justification for totalitarian control).
Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2019 11:42 AM (WqPYg)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:42 AM (rImxe)
Here in my SoCal city smart people call this "Big Homeless."
I try
not to ever use the word "homeless" and prefer bum hobo, loser. Homeless
gives the people power it is now like an illegal. They are given extra
rights normal and decent people do not get.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (pw+jk)
+++I refuse to use the term either. My mother brought this up years ago - using the word "homeless" connotes a pitiful, victim-like existence. I usually say, "street-living people".
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2019 11:42 AM (XtntB)
Bums were local.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM (BN/jk)
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And where do tramps fit in?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2019 11:42 AM (JUV3F)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:42 AM (rImxe)
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Nice folks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 11:42 AM (q80AH)
working, or they're just plain lazy.
Some people just never learned / aren't capable of managing their lives. Little crap like paying bills on time and not bouncing checks etc.
They should be living in their mothers basement.
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:43 AM (48RE5)
A lot of bums are begging when they're not at their jobs.
Big time tax free money in begging.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
There was a Barney Miller episode where a stock broker lost his wallet and had to beg for money. He found it so easy that he became a full time beggar.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2019 11:43 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2019 11:42 AM (JUV3F)
Betwixt gypsies and thieves.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 12, 2019 11:43 AM (xPJvm)
Then one year it was a really bad season, and there wasn't much work for the migrant workers. So what does our Democrat Governor do?
BUILDS HOMES FOR THEM TO LIVE IN AND PAYS THEIR RENT SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:43 AM (KZzsI)
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Another shitty behavior condoned by California
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at December 12, 2019 11:43 AM (Qgge5)
Posted by: Cher at December 12, 2019 11:43 AM (wzVKm)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:43 AM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (XzVUd)
I love it. perfectly describes the bums out here in seattle. they all have a backpack and a bedroll. REI, usually pretty high end. Seattle stopped prosecuting shoplifters about a year ago, so these asshats have really good gear.
Bindlestiff. gotta work that into conversation.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (d7Ww2)
The "strong economy" has still been helped by historic easy money, and the fed balance sheet (QE) is rising again. All is not rosy, as WallStreet still loves China slave money.
But the homeless in CA and big cities is its own issue. Yes, institutionalize some, make it shameful (they are not just victims of the white racist man), give a hand that demands some participation, don't let them squat in public places ... so far much of society is still serving the insidious leftist plot to destroy America, no "hard solutions" allowed, only victimhood and more free stuff. Make Self Reliance great again. (no thumb sucking safe zones)
https://www.jobqualityindex.com/
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (r7Fvf)
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (Zo3HG)
We might have different ideas of "very upscale".
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (JUV3F)
Posted by: David French at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (xfPFu)
Joi Lansing on TCM atm
died of breast cancer at the age 43
man, what a pair of cans
and an early six pack
Posted by: REDACTED at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (rpxSz)
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Touch of Evil? Introduced me to the wondrous "tracking shot " in film ...
Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (WqPYg)
Posted by: IP - Still a dude at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (cn3ZE)
*******
BREAKING REPORT: McConnell Plans to Acquit Trump at Trial - Clear Him of All Charges
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (BqBId)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 11:34 AM (bDqIh)
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If you ever hear the alarm going off in Lowes look around to see the employees laughing. They are prohibited from pursuing or trying to stop the thief. Those monitors and alarms are only up there to inconvenience the dummies who wait in line and pay for their stuff.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:45 AM (rImxe)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 12, 2019 11:45 AM (JUV3F)
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I say, my good sir. Would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?
Translation: Is you butt discolored?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:46 AM (m45I2)
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IT'S REAGAN'S FAULT THAT RAINBOW ACTED STUPIDLY!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 12, 2019 11:46 AM (+y/Ru)
The Bum Boat, Promises something for everyone...
Posted by: Bruce
LOL !!!
Posted by: JT at December 12, 2019 11:46 AM (arJlL)
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Have a friend who works at Home Depot. The policy is the same there.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at December 12, 2019 11:46 AM (Qgge5)
How is this different that the MSM's obsession with how muslims fear backlash after an islamic terror attack?
FBI broke many laws, working with foreign agents from multiple countries, in attempt to influence, then overturn, a presidential election and we're supposed to think that FBI morale due to their target's insults is the biggest problem with all this?!?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 11:46 AM (bDqIh)
The curtain over the painting is to keep light from the painting; at night the curtain would be open.
The woman on the left is sitting on a platform so she has better light for her mending.
The cushion is her needlework cushion, used to bring the item she is working on closer to her eyes.
Posted by: SnailRacer
And the dog? What is your explanation for that?
Posted by: eleven at December 12, 2019 11:46 AM (M0u+N)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 12, 2019 11:47 AM (/RckA)
Big Homelessness means Big Homelessness Programs.
Everything must be addressed with a Permanent Program.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 11:47 AM (jyVW0)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019
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The "big" Walmarts near me have a camera that shows you your picture right in your face if you use the Scan 'n' Go machine. I hate doing their work for them yet not getting a price break, so it's an emergency for me to use one. Last time I did, I put a plastic bag over the top part of the screen so I didn't have to look at my own picture.
Next thing I know an officious moron who would be underqualified to clean floors is standing there. Not asking me why, but out and out telling me, "You got to take the bag off!" "Why?" "You got to take the bag off! Gimme the bag!" I handed her another one from the rack and went back to my checking out. She goes, "You wan' me to call the manager?" I said, "Yes, please do." She flounced off, I finished and paid, and took the bag off as I stepped away.
The "manager," also apparently overqualified to clean a litter box, was looking blankly at her phone as I went by.
The neighborhood Walmarts don't have that system yet. It won't be long.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 12, 2019 11:47 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2019 11:47 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 12, 2019 11:38 AM (BqBId)
Bach's vocals on 'I Remember You' (Skid Row/Skid Row 1989) were fabulous and still well reviewed. Talented guy...worked Broadway and TV. Was sorry to see him on 'Gilmore Girls'.
Posted by: JC. Just JC. at December 12, 2019 11:47 AM (377Zs)
Grunge was, unfortunately, combined with a really horrendous lifestype of heroin and other ghastly drugs which did in most of the big voices (you left off Andrew Wood from Mother Love Bone in the great voices who sadly died too soon for most people to ever hear him). It was a very, very self-destructive music scene. Vedder wasn't really part of it (California surfer dude) so he was just into weed and booze and they tend to live a lot longer.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:47 AM (KZzsI)
We might have different ideas of "very upscale".
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (X/Pw5)
In upscale places like Santa Monica or Santa Barbara the bums have signs that say "Need money for Grey Poupon. God Bless."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:47 AM (kw0bd)
The only survivor of the bunch is the most mind-numbingly boring, pompous and least interesting dooshbag.
Proof that God has a sick sense of humor.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2019 11:40 AM (kw0bd)
Everybody forgets Mark Lanegan, the cigarette and whiskey-soaked lead singer of Screaming Trees. They may not have gotten as big as the other bands, but they had hits--including "Nearly Lost You." Lanegan is still going strong and has had a very prolific career , putting out albums at a regular pace as part of collaborations and solo.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (U7qMl)
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Cute. Now do local police forces accused of gunning down innocent blacks for sport.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (Qgge5)
When I worked in downtown Berkeley, there was a beggar on every corner on the main street of downtown. About half of them were obviously insane, but the other half seemed to be professional beggars.
I flew into Oakland airport, am waiting at baggage claim, and note a young, fit, well-dressed guy also waiting for baggage. I've seen this guy before - and it dawns on me that he was one of the regular beggars in downtown Berkeley. He recognized me, too, and had the decency to look somewhat embarrassed.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (CDGwz)
I'm glad McConnell is going to acquit him. He should just do it immediately. It is so clear to people with any sense that this is a coup and that the prosecution of every democrat in the house that was a part of this should be tried for treason.
Posted by: the girl who says.... at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (sI15f)
The polity has the right to be wrong. That won't prevent me from laughing at them if they vote Labor in and lose their sovereignty.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (W+w2W)
******
Something, something the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (m45I2)
http://bit.ly/38xptcu
*******
BREAKING REPORT: McConnell Plans to Acquit Trump at Trial - Clear Him of All Charges
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 12, 2019 11:44 AM (BqBId)
Since it is likely going to the Senate for trial, I want to see the GOP hold a trial, hear witnesses and make it as legit as possible. Drag it out even through Dem primaries. But call witnesses to show just how dirty the DNC/Clinton/Dems truly are and how there really was a coup attempt.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM
Yeah. Me too.
That mischievous l'il minx!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2019 11:49 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:49 AM (XzVUd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2019 11:49 AM (JUV3F)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:49 AM (U7qMl)
Screaming Trees was probably the best of the Grunge bands but they weren't photogenic and so didn't get as far. Bunch of great albums though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:49 AM (KZzsI)
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What charges?
Contempt of congress? You could indict 95% of the country on that "charge."
Posted by: SH at December 12, 2019 11:49 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 11:50 AM (r7Fvf)
Posted by: Guy Smiley
*Blink blink*
Dayum. That's sad.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:50 AM (BN/jk)
Posted by: IP - Still a dude at December 12, 2019 11:50 AM (cn3ZE)
around to see the employees laughing. They are prohibited from pursuing
or trying to stop the thief. Those monitors and alarms are only up
there to inconvenience the dummies who wait in line and pay for their
stuff.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:45 AM
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Fairly certain their insurance carriers make them put that stuff in.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:50 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2019 11:50 AM (JUV3F)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:51 AM (XzVUd)
Standing on a corner
Living in the street
I got to made a living from
The people that I meet
I'm a tramp
Just a tramp
https://youtu.be/Zz0CvaDEks4
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2019 11:51 AM (aKsyK)
LOLGF. And the left will scream, you didn't even investigate! To which I will say, neither did you. LOLGF.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 11:51 AM (r7Fvf)
died of breast cancer at the age 43
man, what a pair of cans
and an early six pack
Posted by: REDACTED at December 12, 2019 11:39 AM (rpxSz)
I just googled images of her.
What a cruel, ironic fate.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 12, 2019 11:51 AM (CqE5x)
"At this point, the Intelligence Committee's oversight authority is limited to those areas in which it may potentially legislate or appropriate," Morgan wrote to Schiff,
Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2019 11:51 AM (3aI0K)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:51 AM (U7qMl)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2019 11:48 AM (N39Ws)
If the GOP Senate does not give Trump a free hand to run his OWN DEFENSE, its not a trial.
And they will really piss off a lot of people like me.
Posted by: Don Q at December 12, 2019 11:51 AM (NgKpN)
Back then hobos were a community.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2019 11:52 AM (JUV3F)
I remember one year for Halloween I went as a bum. Even had a fake plastic cigar.
a fake plastic cigar? so, like a plastic cigar, but made out of something else? such as, oh, i don't know, tobacco?
Posted by: Anachronda at December 12, 2019 11:52 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 12, 2019 11:52 AM (Boy/L)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:52 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: BignJames
In upscale places like Santa Monica or Santa Barbara the bums have signs that say "Need money for Grey Poupon. God Bless."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
Professionally printed signs. In multiple colors of ink.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:53 AM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:53 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:53 AM (48RE5)
*******
when Whitney Houston died he tweeted that he warmed up & worked on his voice by singing her songs
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 12, 2019 11:53 AM (BqBId)
Screaming Trees was probably the best of the Grunge bands but they weren't photogenic and so didn't get as far. Bunch of great albums though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:49 AM (KZzsI)
Lanegan himself had looks and charisma, but yeah, the rest of the band looked like the lived at an all-you-can-eat buffet 24/7
They were a great band. Their 1996 album Dusk, is one of the great unsung rock albums.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 12, 2019 11:53 AM (CqE5x)
They got what they voted for, good and hard.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:53 AM (U7qMl)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 11:53 AM (r7Fvf)
*whispery voiceover*
The secret word for the day is bindle. Bindle.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2019 11:53 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:50 AM (JUOKG)
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Yeah, I suspect back when the technology was developed the employees were still allowed to stop thieves, and now the systems just keep being put in as the equivalent of a vestigial tail.
Well, we've always had it. Oooh, look! There's a new system that uses LEDs! Let's upgrade to that one for the low price of $17.3M nationwide!
(still prevented from saying "stop" to a thief)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM (rImxe)
Back then hobos were a community.
Posted by: Cicero
Like the one that showed up in Mayberry and Andy run him out of town.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM (BN/jk)
Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM (3aI0K)
Creatively Engaging Social Justice in the Introductory German Classroom
I shall pass.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM (wzVKm)
winter. Lately they will pile a bunch of household type stuff around
them and claim to have just been evicted. I thought to myself, how did
all that get here? How will they take it with them?
The oddest beggar I saw back in Denver was a middle-aged woman who would pace on the corner of a busy intersection in front of a gas station, holding an empty gas can. Her shtick was probably to claim she was out of gas and didn't have her purse or something, but she always looked so angry I doubt she got many takers. She did this for weeks, though.
My son used to point out the young beggars who looked like college students --- he would point out their expensive-but-grunge looking apparel (you, like the sk8r boy look that is not cheap).
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: IP - Still a dude at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM (cn3ZE)
Posted by: Christopher Wray, Sardonic Rogue at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM (/scPm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:55 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 12, 2019 11:55 AM (xfPFu)
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That's the problem with a short trial. The Democrats will say they didn't look at ALL the "evidence"--or were afraid to for fear of what they'd find.
On the other hand, a long trial would expose rats of the GOP side.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (CqE5x)
Nope. Making involuntary commitment of crazy people almost impossible is the problem.
The solution is simple - arrest them. Send them to six month lock up. there they dry out, get counseling, get them mentally well, and give them a chance to turn things around.
The cruelest thing you can do to an addict is not force them off their addiction.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (+DS2f)
Posted by: Anachronda at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (sGtp+)
Creatively Engaging Social Justice in the Introductory German Classroom
I shall pass.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM (wzVKm)
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How do you say, "I don't hate you because your trans, I hate you because you're fucking stupid!" in German?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (q80AH)
Um, yeah. On their own, those are four words I avoid like a diseased putana. Put them all together and...
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (U7qMl)
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 12, 2019 11:55 AM (xfPFu)
In a way, this is the story of Corn Pop.
Posted by: Roy at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (/RckA)
Wasn't that Jed Clampett? Or am I miss remembering?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (W+w2W)
I have made the difficult decision to withdraw my participation from a fundraiser for the @andrewyang campaign. This is due to repeated allegations of sexual misconduct against a campaign staffer by a campaign staffer which were not appropriately addressed.
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When you've lost Cookie Milano . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (+y/Ru)
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib blamed "white supremacy" for a shooting in New Jersey targeting a Jewish kosher grocery store which was carried out by a member of a black supremacist group.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (aKsyK)
middle-aged woman who would pace on the corner of a busy intersection in
front of a gas station, holding an empty gas can. Her shtick was
probably to claim she was out of gas and didn't have her purse or
something, but she always looked so angry I doubt she got many takers.
She did this for weeks, though.
My son used to point out the
young beggars who looked like college students --- he would point out
their expensive-but-grunge looking apparel (you, like the sk8r boy look
that is not cheap).
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM
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LOL I saw a lady using the gas can trick yesterday in Sherman, TX. It was way too obvious.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:57 AM (rImxe)
"IT'S A BUNCH OF CRAP!"
Lindsey really is on fire right now.
Posted by: Christopher Wray, Sardonic Rogue at December 12, 2019 11:54 AM (/scPm)
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Use the powers of your committee chair, Senator Graham, and find a way to make the FBI pay. Hell, follow through on the threat and actually introduce legislation folding the FISCs completely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 11:57 AM (q80AH)
Makes it hard to feel like they really need that spare change. A truly needy person isn't paying for a phone plan and dog food.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (U7qMl)
I have made the difficult decision to withdraw my participation from a fundraiser for the @andrewyang campaign. This is due to repeated allegations of sexual misconduct against a campaign staffer by a campaign staffer which were not appropriately addressed.
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When you've lost Cookie Milano . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (+y/Ru)
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She'll support Joe Biden anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (q80AH)
I believe tramps are hobos on foot, not the train? At this point the origins of the term have probably been long lost
I think tramp is English and hobo is American.
"Down and out in London and Paris" features the former.
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (XzVUd)
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pretty sure they're supposed to report that income.
Posted by: Anachronda at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (sGtp+)
*spit take*
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (rImxe)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:55 AM (KZzsI)
Well their influences were Cream and garage rock of the '60's while the others claimed a punk rock heritage.
I think Lanegan was involved in drugs, but the other guys looked too fat to be on drugs.....
Posted by: JoeF. at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (CqE5x)
$1.2 billion to build housing for the homeless. Assuming that this is a good strategy to tackle the problem, how is it on its face?
Well, they want to build 10,000 new "housing units." This $1.2 billion is nowhere near the full cost. If it were, this might not be too terrible (it is still bad policy, but it would be a lot cheaper than normal housing).
Per the article, however, the unit price of these things is estimated at $350,000. Due to graft, corruption and typical government recklessness, the article says the actual cost is closer to $700,00 per unit.
Okay, that's a lot worse. How much worse?
The median condo price in Los Angeles $430,000.
The on-target price is way too close to the median as it is. The actual price my well be over the market median - perhaps significantly.
This is egregious waste and abuse. It also probably doesn't solve the actual problem - but even if it actually did this is insane.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (I2dne)
"I hope Carter Page gets a lawyer and sues the hell out of the Department of Justice and the FBI."
Lindsey is mad.
Posted by: Christopher Wray, Sardonic Rogue at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (/scPm)
Me and my buddies are in Eugene, Oregon, which is the beggar capital of the state. Crowds of them all over with a hand out, just college kids who want weed and beer money but not the trouble of a job, mostly.
So we go by a convenience store, where a group of youths are lounging against the front wall yelling to people who walk by to give them money. I mean, these guys don't even have the gumption to walk twelve feet to the sidewalk and ask.
My buddy Nick, who always seems to find money in odd places, looks down at the curb, spots a $20 bill. he bend over, looking at them, picks it up, holds it up so they can see what they could have gotten by getting up and walking a few strides, and we head off to the bookstore.
The laziest, most worthless beggars I've ever seen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 12, 2019 11:55 AM (xfPFu)
In a way, this is the story of Corn Pop.
Posted by: Roy at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM
Or porn cop.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (r7Fvf)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (+DS2f)
Chinese method of ending their opium addiction problem was effective. Brutal, but effective. Nearly 0% recidivism rate.
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (48RE5)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 11:35 AM
Yeah. Me too.
That mischievous l'il minx!
Posted by: Diogenes
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Pixy knows who has been naughty or nice.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (U7qMl)
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So how are you going to use your uber app to get a ride home, Mr. Smartypants?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (rImxe)
The oddest beggar I saw back in Denver was a middle-aged woman who would pace on the corner of a busy intersection in front of a gas station, holding an empty gas can. Her shtick was probably to claim she was out of gas and didn't have her purse or something, but she always looked so angry I doubt she got many takers. She did this for weeks, though.
The gas can routine is popular. I had some kid come up to me with that shtick and when I offered to take him to a gas station he walked away.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Waiters and Waitresses! at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (I2/tG)
But Institutionalizing crazy people? Whats next jailing criminals? I can't even.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'invite a hobo for dinner' at December 12, 2019 12:00 PM (VqhL9)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (U7qM
Was accosted by one @the grocery store who accepted debit/credit cards....had a reader on his phone.
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2019 12:00 PM (X/Pw5)
New Jersey targeting a Jewish kosher grocery store which was carried
out by a member of a black supremacist group.
Like the scorpion, it's just her nature. Pathetic.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 12:00 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (aKsyK)
Only because of Trump.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 12, 2019 12:00 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Downtown Portland! at December 12, 2019 12:00 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: IP - Still a dude
//It's all BS. They're con men and grifters and gypsies. Remember the shoeless man who sat in Times Square in the dead of winter, and a cop went and bought hims shoes? Turns out he had an apartment, subsidized of course, and lots of welfare income. This of course was just a tiny article on p. 28.
It's all BS. And the media is pushing it too.
Posted by: PJ at December 12, 2019 12:00 PM (qlTN9)
New Jersey targeting a Jewish kosher grocery store which was carried
out by a member of a black supremacist group.
Like the scorpion, it's just her nature. Pathetic.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 12:00 PM (bDqIh)
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She's the one of the squad I want out of Congress most.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 12, 2019 12:01 PM (q80AH)
I think the best is just to dismiss the whole thing. No matter how well the White House defends itself the media is going to gaslight it and tell the world the opposite what actually happened.
Posted by: lowandslow at December 12, 2019 12:01 PM (4thlk)
Yeah she deleted it later, but I have a screen shot and she's getting that in her grille every chance I get.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 12:01 PM (KZzsI)
The gas can routine is popular. I had some kid
come up to me with that shtick and when I offered to take him to a gas
station he walked away.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (aKsyK)
Yep, popular here in grocery store lots.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'invite a hobo for dinner' at December 12, 2019 12:01 PM (VqhL9)
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2019 12:01 PM (HgMAr)
Use the powers of your committee chair, Senator Graham, and find a way to make the FBI pay. Hell, follow through on the threat and actually introduce legislation folding the FISCs completely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz
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"... protect all of us smelly people from Donald Trump."
He is ON FIRE. If he had a hatchet I think he'd be using it right now. I hope he translates this into HIS JOB, of which he HAS ONE.
Posted by: Christopher Wray, Sardonic Rogue at December 12, 2019 12:01 PM (/scPm)
Isn't one of the charges that he made Hillary lose? I don't want him cleared of that!
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 12:02 PM (gHCnG)
Posted by: Downtown Portland!
Well this was the early 90s, its probably worse in Portland now. Used to be nice downtown in Portland, really. It looked like what the movies try to fool people into thinking NYC is like downtown.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 12:02 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 12:02 PM (r7Fvf)
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All this "white supremacy" and "white nationalism" talk was just battle space preparation to never need to report the Muslim angle of Muslims being Muslim.
Anti-semitic will be the catchall from now on, and it will imply whites.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 12, 2019 12:02 PM (rImxe)
Excellent!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2019 12:03 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Joe Biden
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I once knew a guy who had been a railroad detective during the 50's-60's. Among friends, Nicest guy in the world, but also a hard-boiled SOB. He could tell great stories.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2019 12:03 PM (xSo9G)
I think it's a mistake that they won't have any witnesses,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2019 12:03 PM (LvkqA)
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2019 12:03 PM (XtntB)
Grunge was, unfortunately, combined with a really horrendous lifestype of heroin and other ghastly drugs which did in most of the big voices (you left off Andrew Wood from Mother Love Bone in the great voices who sadly died too soon for most people to ever hear him). It was a very, very self-destructive music scene. Vedder wasn't really part of it (California surfer dude) so he was just into weed and booze and they tend to live a lot longer.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 11:47 AM (KZzsI)
Grunge did well because it reflected how a lot of us in Gen X felt in the early 1990s. Eddie Vetter mined the "I hate my step-dad" theme well, which resonated with a lot of people from broken homes.
Video Essay: "The Voices Of My Generation Are All Dead"
https://youtu.be/GxDfdXWulpg
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2019 12:03 PM (ujg0T)
Wasn't that Jed Clampett? Or am I miss remembering?
Posted by: Grump928(C)
Andy. Because Opie befriended him. He was staying out by the lake.
Opie's Hobo Friend - November 13th, 1961.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 12:04 PM (BN/jk)
The only survivor of the bunch is the most mind-numbingly boring, pompous and least interesting dooshbag.
"Ten" is what I consider a perfect album (no tracks skipped when it comes up), but that's because of the playing, not the singing.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2019 12:04 PM (ZGrMX)
"Andy must put away the welcome mat when a likable drifter, passing through Mayberry, starts putting Artful Dodger-ish notions into Opie's head."
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2019 12:05 PM (W+w2W)
........
Wait here just a minute, dude.
*takes gas can around back, fills with water*
Here ya go, bub. Good luck.
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2019 12:05 PM (HgMAr)
Isn't one of the charges that he made Hillary lose? I don't want him cleared of that!
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 12:02 PM (gHCnG)
Uh, you Acquit people of crimes, of breaking the law.
Obstruction of Congress is not a Law.
Nor is abuse of power.
So, how can you be acquitted of a crime that does not exist?
Schroedingers Impeachment?
Posted by: Don Q at December 12, 2019 12:05 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: eleven at December 12, 2019 12:05 PM (M0u+N)
It was also the last rock movement that understood that fashion goes with the music. Its not just the songs, its an entire cultural package.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 12:05 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 12:02 PM (r7Fvf)
We had a family begging after Church in the Parking lot, it's hard to explain to my son that they arn't really poor just Grifters.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2019 12:05 PM (LvkqA)
Ahem.
Posted by: Downtown Portland! at December 12, 2019 12:00 PM (I2/tG)
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One place that really surprised me was Ogden, Utah. Was out there a long time ago for work for training and the park in the center of town was absolutely packed.
Posted by: jhawk90 at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (Xvo1a)
(CHRISTOPHER WRAY SOCK OFF)
I have mixed opinions about the Senate tactics. On one hand I see the logic of just calling for a vote to dismiss the charges and be this done with this. On the other it would be great to see the left get wreaked in front of the nation, witness after witness.
I think the best is just to dismiss the whole thing. No matter how well the White House defends itself the media is going to gaslight it and tell the world the opposite what actually happened.
Posted by: lowandslow
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Yup, do it as quick as pulling a tooth. If you do the full root canal, the left will lie and kibbitz every move.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (/scPm)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (48RE5)
Makes it hard to feel like they really need that spare change. A truly needy person isn't paying for a phone plan and dog food.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM
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The lady at the package store I went to when we lived in CT always made me chase away the hobos who stealing electricity from the outlet on the side of the store to charge their phones.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (JUOKG)
Give him a shopping bag of gasoline like this woman:
https://bit.ly/2LP6YGL
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (gHCnG)
I don't care how much you read about it, or watch shows about it, you simply cannot fathom the prevalence of homelessness there unless you see it yourself. It is everywhere. Not just the people, but the filth they leave behind.
When I first started travelling there, I came home sick every single trip until I finally started on a regimen of being a clean freak out there. Taking airborne vitamins daily and constantly using alcohol sanitizer. I also have a pair of shoes that I only wear out there and I treat them as bio-hazards at home.
I actually came across a dead body on the sidewalk one afternoon. I found 2 cops half a block away and started to tell them. They interrupted me to tell me they had called it in and went back to chatting with each other.
It is surreal to see so much wealth and so much abject poverty in the same place.
Posted by: ghbucky at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (s9Eo8)
My favorite sign for beggars. "need money for beer and weed". hey, truth to power. One asshole sitting on a blanket tried to hit me up for "money for a new guitar".
And me needing another ukulele. Please.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'invite a hobo for dinner' at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (VqhL9)
Nope. Making involuntary commitment of crazy people almost impossible is the problem.
The solution is simple - arrest them. Send them to six month lock up. there they dry out, get counseling, get them mentally well, and give them a chance to turn things around.
The cruelest thing you can do to an addict is not force them off their addiction.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (+DS2f)
I don't know that the Japanese still do it, but they have zero tolerance for drugs.
If you're an addict, you go to prison and get to sober up by going cold turkey.
Not surprisingly, their rate of recidivism is low to the point of non-existence.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (9X624)
Posted by: Matt Foley at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (xfPFu)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 12, 2019 12:07 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 12, 2019 11:58 AM (U7qM
Was accosted by one @the grocery store who accepted debit/credit cards....had a reader on his phone.
Posted by: BignJames
That's a big GFY.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 12:07 PM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at December 12, 2019 11:56 AM (+DS2f)
Chinese method of ending their opium addiction problem was effective. Brutal, but effective. Nearly 0% recidivism rate.
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (48RE5)
So they shot them?
Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at December 12, 2019 12:07 PM (RD7QR)
https://bit.ly/2LP6YGL
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 12:06 P
Ho Lee Fuck. Wow.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 12:08 PM (r7Fvf)
Draw it out, make it thorough. It's the Year of the Boomerang.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 12:08 PM (gHCnG)
Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at December 12, 2019 12:07 PM (RD7QR)
Yup
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 12:08 PM (48RE5)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/u7osss5
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 12:09 PM (xkSJa)
That weird wailing, crunchy guitar and Layne Staley's singing came out and I was like WHAT WAS THAT??? This was the era of Milli Vanilli and Poison, music was... dying. Guns n Roses and grunge came out and it was like getting a breath of actual air after drowning in crap for years, that moment when you break the surface and take a deep breath.
And yeah, Gen X was pretty pissed off at life and how things were going. Grunge gave us a voice.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 12:09 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 11:59 AM (48RE5)
So they shot them?
Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at December 12, 2019 12:07 PM (RD7QR)
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Yup. Mao was a ruthless sumbitch.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 12, 2019 12:09 PM (3Z6pZ)
Some smug Leftist was claiming that downtown Portland was so wonderful that everyone wants to be there, and somebody else responded with a lengthy list of closed retail stores in downtown.
Increasingly, people don't go to downtown Portland unless they have to.
Posted by: ARC of History! at December 12, 2019 12:09 PM (I2/tG)
Vote that says the 'Impeachable offenses' brought by the House, do not meet Constitutional criteria, as they are NOT Crimes.
They do not cite law.
And the Process the House used for brining impeachment was unfair and corrupt.
Attack the impeachment and the House ITSELF.
Don't say he is innocent, say these charges make no sense.
Posted by: Don Q at December 12, 2019 12:09 PM (NgKpN)
The vouchers become currency, they sell them for cash and voila! booze money.
Posted by: ghbucky at December 12, 2019 12:10 PM (s9Eo8)
https://bit.ly/2LP6YGL
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (gHCnG)
..........
Wow. That's even better than the guy with 5 gallon buckets in the back.
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2019 12:10 PM (HgMAr)
Give a man a shovel and he'll figure lots of things out.
Posted by: The Grand Canal Project at December 12, 2019 12:10 PM (Wd55D)
Posted by: jhawk90 at December 12, 2019 12:10 PM (Xvo1a)
"Andy must put away the welcome mat when a likable drifter, passing through Mayberry, starts putting Artful Dodger-ish notions into Opie's head."
Posted by: Grump928(C)
Dayum. Golf clap.
I thought you meant Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies.
He got the bum's rush a couple of times by the cops for being out front of the bank because they thought he was a bum.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2019 12:11 PM (BN/jk)
Yeah, look I get you love your dog and I get that
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 12:11 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at December 12, 2019 12:11 PM (XzVUd)
Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2019 12:12 PM (F7lRL)
It was for me anyway.
Posted by: eleven at December 12, 2019 12:05 PM (M0u+N)
Those who were *not* partying and having wild fun in the 1980s finally had their turn at the microphones.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2019 12:12 PM (ujg0T)
Where I lived at the time, Nirvana got zero airplay until Kurt bogarted that shotgun shell.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 12:12 PM (xkSJa)
Nor is abuse of power.
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We all know that this is corrupt Democrat bullshit. They know that they don't have a prayer. The intent is only to smear Trump in the eyes of the public.
I honestly do not know, at this point, how to interact with anyone who is a Democrat. That's a problem since that's half of the population, including many acquaintances. They've been swilling the media Kool-Aid for decades, and have become psychically impervious to reason.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2019 12:12 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 12:09 PM (KZzsI)
I just liked the music.
I wasn't pissed off or anything, and I was never part of any movement.
But they put a LOT of bands under the grunge umbrella that really had little in common musically.
Nirvana and Pearl Jam sound nothing alike--and neither sound anything like Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 12, 2019 12:12 PM (CqE5x)
Meanwhile the city has approved a 23-story building just north of downtown -an 11 story Hyatt hotel, and 12 stories of condos.
No parking.
That will work out well.
Posted by: ARC of History! at December 12, 2019 12:12 PM (I2/tG)
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Interesting. For me, it is Icky Ilhan. International $$$ going to the various warlords in Somalia and because there are US and UN troops there, even more opportunity for mischief and superspying ugliness.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 12, 2019 12:12 PM (MIKMs)
Portland was so wonderful that everyone wants to be there, and somebody
else responded with a lengthy list of closed retail stores in downtown.
Increasingly, people don't go to downtown Portland unless they have to.
Posted by: ARC of History! at December 12, 2019 12:09 PM (I2/tG)
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We used to take our children there for shopping, dinners and movies when they were growing up. I still have had to make some trips to Portland but only during the day. I would not venture there at night anymore.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2019 12:13 PM (XtntB)
https://bit.ly/2LP6YGL
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2019 12:06 PM (gHCnG)
........
I thought plastic bags were bad for the environment. She should be using paper.
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2019 12:13 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 12, 2019 12:13 PM (48RE5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 12, 2019 12:13 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: kallisto
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A question that answers it self. 'Government'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2019 12:13 PM (CDGwz)
..........
First his wife tips him out of bed...
Posted by: wth at December 12, 2019 12:14 PM (HgMAr)
Insufficient opportunities for graft.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 12, 2019 12:14 PM (xkSJa)
They do not cite law.
And the Process the House used for brining impeachment was unfair and corrupt.
Attack the impeachment and the House ITSELF.
Don't say he is innocent, say these charges make no sense.
Posted by: Don Q at December 12, 2019 12:09 PM
Well the dems didn't investigate either, other than some opinion show. So fck them. I hope coccaine Mithc does it, and mic drops the gavel.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2019 12:15 PM (r7Fvf)
KotH has an episode that addresses every subject we discuss.
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 12, 2019 12:16 PM (2DOZq)
I was in my first semester of college when grunge hit. I remember the first time I heard Nirvana the same hyper-clear way I remember the morning of 9/11.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 12, 2019 12:17 PM (ZGrMX)
Yeah, its hard to pin down exactly what makes Grunge, because not all the bands were from Seattle either. Interestingly enough the Grunge bands were all into the Portland music scene when they hit it big. Which was pretty good but never had a coherent sound or style.
Grunge is punk/hard rock without the excesses, its pared down to very bare bones and includes dark themes in the music and a consistent style of dress (flannel shirts tied around the waist, etc). Some of the bands didn't really fit like Screaming Trees earlier or yeah Soundgarden but they were about the same time, and from the same area, and most of those guys were friends or knew each other well.
Peal Jam and Stone Temple Pilots were pretty melodic, Nirvana and Alice in Chains tended to be pretty hard core. Soundgarden was just basically rock with a kickass vocalist.
What they all had in common was great guitar and drums driven music played well, throwbacks to the 70s before electronic music became king. And powerful vocals.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019 12:17 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: JC. Just JC. at December 12, 2019 12:18 PM (377Zs)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes - the Housekeeper at December 12, 2019 12:23 PM (IttZ7)
Sanity must be re-established first.
Posted by: TD at December 12, 2019 12:31 PM (D66l4)
It was Flavor-Ade! Flava-ade! Something else. Not Kool-Ade!™
(Desperately fighting long-lost battle)
Posted by: Pitcher of Kool-Ade breaking through the wall at December 12, 2019 12:53 PM (HGnKA)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at December 12, 2019 02:20 PM (ui+Wx)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drorongo Bird at December 12, 2019 04:43 PM (wGqjj)
Some people LIKED to live on the road, working for a day or two here and there.
Nothing mentally ill about it.
Anyway I refuse to use the term "homeless'
Call them "bums"
Because that's what they are.
Posted by: TANSTAAFL at December 12, 2019 04:57 PM (T09ml)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2019
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Wanna know the secret?
Read "Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge"
By Correia and Ringo
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