Orlando outlaws feeding homeless people...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher
+15s!

They're a great way to avoid homeless people, hippies, and other Eastern Canadians asking for money.

Nifty. They also look like they keep out 18-wheelers.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Punching vesayen

QFT

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by DanS


Give me a frickin' break. You think Sudbury is a major city?

What it lacks in sky-scrapers it makes up for in poverty and drug addiction.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by DanS

Even the suburbs and most non-downtown areas in the US don't have this type of problem. They send all of their problems to the downtown areas of our major cities.

This, by the way, is also true of Sudbury. Only sudbury attracts the so-called "problems" of all north eastern ontario.

[Drake Tungsten]

I think his point wasn't that there was something wrong with giving hungry people free food, but that there was a big problem with hippies giving hungry people free food.

Closer, but I don't think there's anything wrong with hippies giving food to homeless people. I was just noting that hippies are annoying douchebags.

[MRT144]

save america, knock over a larouche table

[Dr Strangelove]

The key here is that they want to keep the homeless out of the park, so the logical solution is to make another place for them to go.

Many of the hard core homeless are deeply mentally ill, enough so that they are unable to follow social rules. They're also very paranoid, so they're not easy to reason with. You can set up a nice place for them but if they're free to leave then when a voice in their head tells them to leave they will. Unfortunately the only conditions under which they can be compelled to remain in a residential treatment center is if they are a threat to their own lives or other lives. I don't understand why the inability to take care of themselves isn't considered to be a threat to their own lives, but it isn't.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

A group called Food Not Bombs, which has served weekly vegetarian meals to homeless people

Doucebag detector flashing...

What have you ever done for anyone?

[OzzyKP]

Personally I don't know what the solution to homelessness is. If there is one.

I do think more compassion is needed, and that more people should take time to talk to these people, hear their story, get to know them. Sure some seriously mentally ill, but others are just good people that had a lot of bad luck or bad choices or a combination of them.

Last week I volunteered down at the Center for Creative Non-Violence, apparently the largest homeless shelter in the country (world?) down here in DC.

[Drake Tungsten]

What have you ever done for anyone?

I'm a schoolteacher, dude. I help mold the minds of our most precious asset, our children. The future of our world is affected in some small way every time I step into the classroom.

The real question is what a wanna-be commie web-designer does for anyone...

[Kuciwalker]

I'm a schoolteacher, dude. I help mold the minds of our most precious asset, our children. The future of our world is affected in some small way every time I step into the classroom.

[:) Smiley]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

What have you ever done for anyone?

I'm a schoolteacher, dude. I help mold the minds of our most precious asset, our children. The future of our world is affected in some small way every time I step into the classroom.

...with propaganda.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

I'm a schoolteacher, dude. I help mold the minds of our most precious asset, our children. The future of our world is affected in some small way every time I step into the classroom.

you know that theres going to be a staunch right wing japanese attitude in 20-30 years solely because of drake

[Drake Tungsten]

...with propaganda.

Exactly.

you know that theres going to be a staunch right wing japanese attitude in 20-30 years solely because of drake

Well, someone's going to have to stop the Chinese...

[MRT144]

well if theyre going to stop the chinese theyre going to have to learn to fight cause most right wingers are arm chair generals who dont know the glory of tasting an opponents blood after victory