Gasoline.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Boreas

A few years ago there was a guy in the neighborhood who was making a little extra money by letting homeless people camp in his yard, selling drugs and raising ringneck doves for game ranches.

John

BTW read recently that in some cities, to dissuade homeless gatherings, it is illegal to exchange food in the public.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

BTW read recently that in some cities, to dissuade homeless gatherings, it is illegal to exchange food in the public.

Yes.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...meless-n241971

I find this to be beyond disgusting. As far as I'm concerned, the country I was born in is gone. We are a petty, selfish, uncaring, violent bunch of "individuals" with no concern fro anyone else. That a city can behave as Ft. Lauderdale and other cities have behaved is merely a symptom of the coarseness and hatred that has infected all of us.

John

[whell]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Yes.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...meless-n241971

I find this to be beyond disgusting. As far as I'm concerned, the country I was born in is gone. We are a petty, selfish, uncaring, violent bunch of "individuals" with no concern fro anyone else. That a city can behave as Ft. Lauderdale and other cities have behaved is merely a symptom of the coarseness and hatred that has infected all of us.

John

You're right. It's no way for the Dems to treat the homeless. They did it during the Denver DNC convention in 2008 too.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandview..._during_1.html

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by whell

You're right. It's no way for the Dems to treat the homeless. They did it during the Denver DNC convention in 2008 too.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandview..._during_1.html

Two totally different scenarios with totally different effects relative to the care of the homeless and you know it.

And, of course, there's this.

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/st....html?page=all

Everything's partisan with you, Mike. For what it's worth, I don't know which parties control which cities who have made it essentially illegal to feed the homeless and I don't care. It's wrong and frankly evil no matter who does it.

John

[whell]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Sure! All the Democrats need to do is agree to let the Republicans dismantle the New Deal, the Great Society and any other effective social programs enacted by the Democrats.

And, as we've seen, this even extends to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Republican Party is led by and supported by the most hate-filled, bigoted assholes it has ever been my misfortune to encounter. The core objective of their entire agenda is to transform this country into something just short of a feudal state, complete with its own version of a "landless peasantry".

John

Originally Posted by Boreas

Everything's partisan with you, Mike.

Pffft. You go on your rant above and then tell me I'm partisan. How myopic of you.

Oh, incidentally, Ft Lauderdale's mayor is a Dem.