tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post4621956365673243033..comments2023-11-02T03:10:39.674-07:00Comments on GeeeeeZ!: Should be a 'feel good story' of one man helping another, but.............maybe not?Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-85211723081449826752013-08-27T15:10:13.451-07:002013-08-27T15:10:13.451-07:00Z, there are a good number of people who need the ...Z, there are a good number of people who need the pitchfork in the butt to keep them moving. That's just the way it is.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-84266323588886472322013-08-27T15:09:19.167-07:002013-08-27T15:09:19.167-07:00Z, You're not going to like this but I absolut...Z, You're not going to like this but I absolutely believe that if you make things a lot easier for the homeless, you'll save 1% ? of the people that really shouldn't be homeless but you'll get a lot more homeless resulting in a greater absolute number of homeless.<br />Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-76753048585712123302013-08-27T15:06:27.961-07:002013-08-27T15:06:27.961-07:00Ducky reminds me the French where everything is se...Ducky reminds me the French where everything is seen with suspicion. That's what is tanking the country actually. This constant cynicism and envy, if not jealousy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-74038774445832777112013-08-27T08:11:28.808-07:002013-08-27T08:11:28.808-07:00Ducky, are you envious?
Are you so rigid and hard...Ducky, are you envious?<br /><br />Are you so rigid and hard hearted that EVERYTHING is for personal gain?<br /><br />Tell me about hundreds of thousands offering $100 to strangers or offering to help them with school and a laptop.<br />Start linking; I'd love to see that..very reassuring if it were nearly true.<br />Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-84593740815546166442013-08-27T07:09:21.929-07:002013-08-27T07:09:21.929-07:00What bothers me, z?
How did this get in the news?...What bothers me, z?<br /><br />How did this get in the news? If it is a sincere voluntary act why is this "engineer" publicizing himself?<br /><br />How did this get in the news? Hundreds of thousands of people act more effectively every day with no publicity.<br /><br />I wonder if there will be any follow up? A lot of this just doesn't pass the sell test.<br /><br /><br /><br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-30254182287798246422013-08-26T22:27:10.042-07:002013-08-26T22:27:10.042-07:00I think every single American deserves a chance at...I think every single American deserves a chance at a class for a springboard. If he doesn't cut it, he's out. Simple as that, I think.<br /><br />Ducky, what bothers you SO MUCH about a guy helping another guy in the best way he feels he can? you seem absolutely obsessed with it.<br /><br />My point of posting this was to show a nice gesture. Why's it bug you so much? That's so weird.<br />Now it's possibly a publicity stunt or scam? For WHAT? He wants to be an actor!?!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />If we ALL did something nice for just ONE PERSON like this, the country'd be a better place.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-43130694378371296842013-08-26T21:02:29.707-07:002013-08-26T21:02:29.707-07:00Here's McConlogue's resume
He has't ...<a href="http://www.aggressiveimagination.com/" rel="nofollow">Here's McConlogue's resume</a><br /><br /><br />He has't accomplished much himself. Maybe he's sincere, maybe it's a publicity scam ... hard to tell.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-12961879728355585992013-08-26T20:36:37.574-07:002013-08-26T20:36:37.574-07:00PS = 46 Million people (1/6th of the population) o...PS = 46 Million people (1/6th of the population) on food stamps, and somehow these people are going hungry? What?<br />Again, I maintain that in the vast majority of cases, 'helping' them is hurting them. What they need is motivation and motivation starts with an empty stomach.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-64525227214490216292013-08-26T20:33:00.416-07:002013-08-26T20:33:00.416-07:00Z, I wouldn't go so far as to say I agree that...Z, I wouldn't go so far as to say I agree that homeless and others should not be helped.<br /><br />I do say that trying to give someone a course such as this is described as a entry level to computer coding is laughable at the least. Kids who go to college for 4 years for computer science barely know their elbow from a hole in the ground. This guy would never be employable as a coder. It would be better to teach him how to operate a McDonald's cash register or man the french fry bin. He'd be employable at least.<br /><br />Generally speaking I have enough experience with this section of society to know (I believe) that helping them is hurting them unless in the extremely rare situation where you can actually see that they are willing to put in more effort than you.<br /><br />They are experts at coming up with excuses for their life situation, that don't involve their own life choices, and in the end in 99% of the cases, all they were after was another bottle of wine.<br /><br />They don't mesh with main society. They can't hold a job, they don't like the routine. They don't like personal hygiene, and the multitude of other things that make the rest of us able to maintain the physical and financial constructs of modern society.<br />They're raccoons and they like it that way.<br />I can't count the number of times people bump their nose on it.<br />Remember the cop who bought the dude in NYC a pair of shoes because he was barefoot in winter in NYC? The dude sold the shoes the next day.<br /><br />The most I will do for anyone in this situation is buy them a hamburger and hand it to them. otherwise,you're contributing to their problem, because they take the 5 bucks and buy booze. Or drugs.<br /><br />I have to mention that last year in Cincinnati they had a secere emergency because of the snow situation "Volunteers could not make it to the shelters to make breakfast for the shelter people."<br />They can't cook their own egg? Are you kidding me? That's like someone stuck all day on a broken down escalator.<br />Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-53387805996220661462013-08-26T19:58:27.913-07:002013-08-26T19:58:27.913-07:00Kid, you agree the guy shouldn't try to help t...Kid, you agree the guy shouldn't try to help the homeless man who, as the article said, is a bookworm and writer? WHY?<br /><br />Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-38436680761871293852013-08-26T19:30:22.915-07:002013-08-26T19:30:22.915-07:00Imp a pretty good short article
You can rail aga...<a href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/08/26/why-most-americans-still-recession-economy-jobs-unemployment/" rel="nofollow">Imp a pretty good short article</a><br /><br /><br />You can rail against Obama all you like, he's no prize but this problem is big and you me be making a big jump assuming anyone has the knowledge or desire to reverse the trend. <br /><br />Dumping on Obama may make you feel good but we are all being laughed at and we deserve it. As if it makes a difference who's elected.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-71524164955375767852013-08-26T19:18:00.536-07:002013-08-26T19:18:00.536-07:00Well, Imp, he's a stinking pimp for big busine...Well, Imp, he's a stinking pimp for big business and he could hardly have done a better job fellating the health insurers. <br /><br />Wait till he appoints Larry Summers to the Fed and that ass rack gets to do his act.<br /><br />Kapital owns you and they own Obama too.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-71413898073708922862013-08-26T19:11:05.325-07:002013-08-26T19:11:05.325-07:00IMP, Next up in the white house, that vile POS, th...IMP, Next up in the white house, that vile POS, the hildebeast.<br /><br />And the crowd cheered.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-52769444796194332892013-08-26T19:08:21.041-07:002013-08-26T19:08:21.041-07:00The Loser and consumate liar that is Obama...the w...The Loser and consumate liar that is Obama...the worst POTUS ever?<br /><br /><b>"How many UPS employees voted for the president in 2008 and again in 2012? Because on Friday, UPS announced it was dumping 15,000 spouses of UPS employees from their UPS health plans despite the president's many, many promises to the contrary.<br /><br />The UPS spouse-dump followed by a few days the news from New Jersey that Obamacare's rollout there will end the low-cost, high-deductible plan that more than 106,00 Jersey folks liked and which presumably many of them would have preferred to keep.<br /><br />Oh, and the cost of individual plans are set to rise on average 41 percent in Ohio, and another major insurance company, Anthem Blue Cross, has pulled out of the California market for small businesses.<br /><br />Let a thousand stink bombs go kaboom. Obamacare is the train wreck that just keeps arriving on an ever-more prolonged schedule.<br /><br />Most Mainstream Media refuse to catalogue the consequences of the epic bill that went unread when it was passed without a single Republican vote in 2009. Most journalists just avert their eyes.<br /><br />Obama's tenure is a vast desert of anti-achievement, a landscape of waste and ruin on every front at home and abroad, save on the ability to mobilize voters who don't know or don't care about the state of the country or the world.<br /><br />The president rolled to re-election on the strength of technologies that enabled his minions to tap and turn out folks who simply are clueless that that nice fellow in the White House hasn't the foggiest idea of how to run the country.<br /><br />But the prospect of 39 more months of the anti-president at the helm is daunting. No plans for anything except bus tours and college campus speeches, no idea how to invigorate a sputtering economy or trim a bloated budget.<br /><br />Just miles and miles to go before we can can all sleep without the prospect of seeing him the next day, yet again, making another meaningless speech or filibustering another softball question from a kept White House press."</b>Impertinenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04949905441786404348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-47316941396795529192013-08-26T17:40:45.086-07:002013-08-26T17:40:45.086-07:00Holy Carp. I agree with the duck 7:22 AMHoly Carp. I agree with the duck 7:22 AMKidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-91894923196424902472013-08-26T17:38:58.192-07:002013-08-26T17:38:58.192-07:00Bob, Thanks for reminding me I need a haircut!Bob, Thanks for reminding me I need a haircut!Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-61422760417674357492013-08-26T17:38:29.167-07:002013-08-26T17:38:29.167-07:00There are unwilling homeless who with a little hel...There are unwilling homeless who with a little help or not will get themselves out. IMO, the vast majority want to be homeless more than they want to 'maintain the lifestyle'. Ditto winos, bums, assorted gutter living beings. From my point of view, they actually work harder being bums than if they'd just get a basic unskilled job.<br /><br />Anyway, here's what I'd really like to interject and it's in regard to your comment "Are we to assume Leo's the homeless black guy? that stinks."<br /><br />Are there more blacks in college or prison? A: college<br />More blacks on welfare/WIC or White? A: Whites<br />Drug users? White. AND Rich Whites.<br />Listen to RAP music? A: White punks.<br /><br />See, The math just doesn't work out. 13% of America is black. how can blacks outnumber others on practically any level ?<br /><br />There IS a bigotry about blacks, and it is perpetuated by the "news" media as much as anything else.<br /><br />Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-72010559002747193542013-08-26T17:19:51.169-07:002013-08-26T17:19:51.169-07:00Leo's supposed benefactor strikes me as a naiv...<i>Leo's supposed benefactor strikes me as a naive Libertarian.</i><br /><br />You're just the biggest asshole I know.<br /><br />It's easy to criticize from your couch watching some elitist movies.<br /><br />I volunteered for a little while for a homeless organization. It is true that it's not a simple issue, especially if mental issues are the problem. But from what I've seen housing and food don't fix the problem either, especially if drugs are involved.<br /><br />At least the guy is trying. People who criticize him as a dumb or naive are people who feel so bad about themselves for being selfish that the only way to make themselves feel better is to take a shot at him.<br /><br />And you're part of them, jerk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-55746320881918104582013-08-26T17:02:13.222-07:002013-08-26T17:02:13.222-07:00Well, the guy on the left is just plain BUTT UGLY,...Well, the guy on the left is just plain BUTT UGLY, while the guy on the right is a pleasant enough looking chap.<br /><br />COLOR has nothing whatsoever to do with my instinctive feeling of aversion to the guy on the left, but perhaps it's easier to assume that Mr. Ugly is the one who must be down and out simply because he IS, quite literally, "on the left." ;-)<br /><br />Desdemona Rodriguez O'SheaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-64993414761940616802013-08-26T16:41:09.687-07:002013-08-26T16:41:09.687-07:00It still begs the question, z.
Did it help?
Come...It still begs the question, z.<br /><br />Did it help?<br /><br />Come back to this in a few months.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-16731201074532975432013-08-26T15:51:35.480-07:002013-08-26T15:51:35.480-07:00Pasha? Nah.
Not one of Tom Courtenay's better...Pasha? Nah.<br /><br />Not one of Tom Courtenay's better roles (the whole picture was overblown). I far prefer <i>Billy Liar</i> or <i> The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner</i>.<br />The latter falls much more within my vision of class struggle.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-10035055116112670342013-08-26T14:54:27.750-07:002013-08-26T14:54:27.750-07:00Last Friday, Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old Austr...<br /><br />Last Friday, Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old Australian here on a baseball scholarship, was shot and killed while jogging in Duncan, Okla., population 23,000. He died where he fell.<br />Police have three suspects, two black and one white. The former said they were bored and decided to shoot Lane for “the fun of it.”<br />As Lane was white and the shooter black, racism has surfaced as a motive. Thursday came reports that killing a white man may have been an initiation rite for the black teens in joining some offshoot of the Crips or Bloods.<br />What happened in Oklahoma and the reaction, or lack of reaction to it, tells us much about America in 2013, not much of it good.<br />Teenagers who can shoot and kill a man out of summertime boredom are moral barbarians, dead souls.<br /><br />But who created these monsters? Where did they come from? Surely one explanation lies in the fact that the old conscience-forming and character-forming institutions – home, church, school and a moral and healthy culture fortifying basic truths – have collapsed. And the community hardest hit is Black America.<br />If we go back to the end of World War II, 90 percent of black families consisted of a mother and father and children raised and disciplined by their parents. The churches to which these families went on Sundays were stronger. Black schools may have been largely segregated, but they were also the transmission belts of patriotism and traditional values rooted in biblical truths and a Christian faith.<br />Though such schools graduated hardworking, law-abiding and productive citizens, today they would be closed as unconstitutional.<br />Indeed, all of those character- and conscience-forming institutions of yesterday are in an advanced state of decline today.<br />Seventy-three percent of black kids are born to single moms. Black kids who make it to 12th grade may often be found reading at seventh-, eighth- or ninth-grade levels. In some cities the black dropout rate can hit as high as 50 percent.<br />Drugs are readily available. And among black males ages 18 to 29, in urban areas, often a third are in prison or jail, or on probation or parole, or walking around with a criminal record.<br />Where do the kids get their ideas of right and wrong, good and evil? In homes where the father is absent and the TV is always on. From radios tuned in to rap and hip-hop. From films where Hollywood values prevail and the shooting never stops. From street gangs that sometimes form the only families these kids have ever known.<br />What kind of leadership do we see today in Black America?<br /><br />What can be said for an NAACP that was lately demanding a Justice Department investigation of a rodeo clown running around a bull ring in rural Missouri in an Obama mask, but cannot find its voice to address a black-on-white atrocity in Middle America?<br />I find that as long as someone has a "D" behind their name, you politician worshiping partisan lackeys really take the cake, if hypocrisy and gullibility were poisonous you'd have been taking the dirt nap a long time ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-22562705972617456442013-08-26T14:26:35.853-07:002013-08-26T14:26:35.853-07:00Not many people realize this, but Ducky is actuall...Not many people realize this, but Ducky is actually Pasha Antipov (AKA Streinikov), and I have no doubt that he would be happy to place a bullet in the back of any of our heads. Nothing personal; he would only do it for a better Marxist mutha-land.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03945887384596946397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-88768398289229275082013-08-26T14:15:31.499-07:002013-08-26T14:15:31.499-07:00FROM Z:
Ducky, again, I'm struck with the fac...FROM Z:<br /><br />Ducky, again, I'm struck with the fact that you think anybody thinks this is the way to solve joblessness.<br />It HELPS. It's better than welfare, Ducky. Maybe it'll work for this man.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-48692649060084080682013-08-26T14:00:24.363-07:002013-08-26T14:00:24.363-07:00Just another of myriad blossoms on The Poison Tree...Just another of myriad blossoms on The Poison Tree that has come -- most regrettably -- to symbolize the mental, moral and spiritual condition of our once-great nation.<br /><br />At root our greatest enemy is the Apathy, Gullibility, woeful Ignorance -- and infinite Greed stemming from basic Laziness and the sedulously cultivated Entitlement Mentality -- that currently defines a vast majority of the electorate.<br /><br /><b>The enormous conceit and infinite capacity for self-delusion of the hopelessly indoctrinated Intellectual Elite wonderfully exemplified by our own dear Canardo is the second arm of the same chimera. In other words people led to believe they are very smart by the corrupt educational establishment when in fact they function merely as trained partisan parrots who reflexively spout quasi-erudite propaganda and have no capacity whatsoever for genuine thought have led the nation into The Pit.</b><br /><br />Meanwhile, The Pendulum swishes menacingly overhead clanking down ever-so-slowly inch-by-inch while we bite our nails and wait gibbering in the dark waiting to be cut to ribands.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.com