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Only a malignant, degenerate, and despicable people treats its children like shit.
THE WELFARE OF ALL YOUNG OF THE SPECIES IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL ADULTS OF THE SPECIES
I will not waste bandwidth explaining the evolutionary mandate contained hereabove.
That said, what kind of a people lets ONE MILLION of their own children (yes, you Repugnant assholes these are all our children) live without a stable home.
Just for comparison, so you know how people who love their children do things in hard times, among France’s population of 60 million in 2006, we are told that there were 16,000 homeless kids.
American exceptionalism! You do the math…
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Thank you. I was educated by the Marianists, a French order. The sanest of all the Catholics, I'd think. They educated everyone, Muslims, Jews, even Baptists.
Thank you JR, I hope you post more often. This board has missed your wit and wisdom.
Pretty ugly stuff, eh? But hey, this isn't worthy of notice by the MSM, no. The latest tin foil hat, ignorant louts that protest against the PoTUS lauding education are far more worthy.
Right?
RIGHT?
September 6, 2009 12:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
wit and wisdom.
blushes humbly.
September 6, 2009 1:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
You are so cute when you blush...............
September 6, 2009 2:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
so cute
Who's been talkin'? Can't be Suzi, I haven't seen her in three years...
September 6, 2009 3:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can barely type through the tears. This is the stuff I'm talking about when I get so disgusted w/ my fellow Christians...how can this be okay?
September 6, 2009 12:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
see below...
September 6, 2009 2:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well I have been proud of the fact that I am malignant and degenerate, but I must demur at the label of despicable.
I mean I have college degrees and such.
I mean who does not stray as they say from culturally defined lines from time to time?
I mean she SAID she was 16.........geeeeeeeeeez
Ok. so let us look at the criteria.
I mean assume I am a repub. I mean whatis a child exactly? I mean I feel all fetuses are children, and I also believe that if you decide to have children...hell that is your decision. I mean where were you when you decided to die or decided to not accept a below 7/hr job? I mean that is your problem
the poor children are always with you. certainly not us.
September 6, 2009 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
assume I am a repub.
You mean someone who thinks it's ok to have his car in a garage when there are kids on the street?
September 6, 2009 1:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
disgusted w/ my fellow Christians
Like He used to say, "Motherfucker, feed my sheep!"
September 6, 2009 2:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Or as the Confucian philosopher Mencius said around 300 BCE, "Feed them, and then demand virtue of them."
September 6, 2009 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mencius
Didn't he sit in on keyboard in "Wooden Ships"?...
September 6, 2009 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is a wonderful Link Jolly, and I am so happy to see you on top.
Now make sure you order the Hawaiian Pizza. I mean if they do not give you a pizza when you are on top, what the hell does it all mean anyway?
hahahahahha
Seriously a serious song, a serious blog, thank you for this Jolly.
September 6, 2009 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hawaiian Pizza
Altho it is blasphemy to say so in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn, (Where the crust on the pizza was required to blister, and if you folded it the olive oil threatened to stain your pants if not handled with care...) I happen to like the pineapple/canadian bacon atrocity.
"So! ...Sooo me..."
September 6, 2009 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Charity seems like a name for another time. There is no reason for a child to spend one night without a home and decent food, even if it’s in a shelter. Some families end up living in their car. Shelters and food pantries are beginning to be overwhelmed (odd, when we're told the economy is rebounding). If nothing else, we could open schools to families with no alternative (space could be made and all necessities are available- kitchen, showers, etc.), and parents could work as ‘paid volunteers’ at the school during the day. There are well-built churches that sit idle for much of the week. And what became of all those FEMA trailers? Maybe these are ludicrous ideas, but the point is that this is a problem solved if there is a will to solve it.
September 6, 2009 2:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe these are ludicrous ideas
Alas, the horror is so stark that they are not--hell, if you want ludicrous ideas, I'm sayin' you can't walk by a homeless person if you have a garage...ludicrous to think a person more valuable than a hunk of metal...
September 6, 2009 2:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
this board has missed your wit and wisdom.
Yep.
September 6, 2009 6:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lo, I wandered in the great bandwidth desert, where there was neither wi-fi nor dial-up,
nor was there even a cafe with the hook-up...
September 6, 2009 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unfortunately there are even worse statistics that these(in my book) some can be found here:
http://www.hungerreport.org/2009/
The US has one of the highest poverty rates among industrialized nations.
And yet we have concentrated wealth that could make a difference here and in the world. So much for simply relying on 'the charity of fellow Americans' to take care of the disparities.
We are one really screwed up nation.
I think of what the world might be like right now if all of the money we have used to fight these wars we really should not have started had been applied to create solutions for so many of the worlds problems. We would be a different nation in a different world.
Metaphorically, the Jedi are sleeping, lazy, or lacking confidence and the Sith have been running the show and have grown more powerful. Where is Yoda when we need him?
I do know of some incredibly brave and intelligent souls bringing an integral approach to such problems as well as practical approaches to environmental solutions via the UN. I consider them to be some of the Jedi but there are far too few.
September 6, 2009 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
applied to create solutions
hmmm, lemme' see here.
Iraq war: 1-3 Trillion overall, depending on whose figures you use--let's say 2 trill as a good hip shot estimate plus 6k dead, plus 60k basket cases for life (no $ value...) plus 1-2 million Iraqi dead, etc.
26 Million Iraqis into 2 Trillion $=roughly,
$175,000 per Iraqi person.
Couldn't we just have bought the damn country cheaper?
September 6, 2009 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good to see you again, JR.
It would seem the insurance industry, or at least an uncharitable mindset, has a stranglehold on everything, everywhere.
Last year, for example, I asked the school where I taught if they would be interested in making their empty dormitories, dining hall and sports facilities available to veterans' families with no place to stay while their vets were in treatment nearby. There might even have been government subsidies for the school if the answer was yes.
This was asking the "haves" to help the "havenots" who had irrefutably done their part -- we weren't talking about the homeless, per se, whom they deride and dismiss.
The answer I got? "Our insurers would not allow it -- too much liability." Really? Surely the same insurance is required to house, feed, and occupy students during the regular school year. But a good deed -- even one that is profitable -- is anathema to everyone with a neocon "shun the needy" mentality, whether government official or school administrator. They, like many others, support our troops with florid displays of patriotism in the form of ribbon decals, not meaningful action.
September 6, 2009 10:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
In such cases, there should be some government official with a "make it so" power to assume liability if the insurance company refuses. After all, it isn't as if the first thing the veterans' families will do is set fire to the place.
But then they would say Obama is a Nazi again....
September 6, 2009 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
veterans' families
Well, you can see where that's gonna be some heavy lifting there!
I mean, organizing shelter for the "wounded warriors'" family--who could ever expect the grateful beneficiaries of the traumitically injured brain bearers to extend their sorry asses half-a-step to ameliorate the consequences of that *service.
*Without prejudice to my oft stated conviction that the sacrifice was "ill-directed".
September 6, 2009 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agree that their service was ill-advised. That's why the instant "no" was so poignant: baby boys and girls mutilated, facing lives of truncated (no pun intended) promise, facing disillusionment and incipient cynicism, as nearly every one of them believed that we would "be there" for them and for their families.
Our economy may not yet be bankrupt, but we are morally bankrupt, long since.
September 6, 2009 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
but we are morally bankrupt, long since
It is terribly sad...I mean, here's Prez, who without peradventure is the coolest, most self-reflective person we could hope to claw his obsessive/compulsive way to the top of the political scramble--and he is, apparently, immune to the mandate of the *Scarface Rule.
Our collective willingness to crush the inconvenient into dust is truly infernal--a suitably ironic perversion of the Yahwist impulse towards "purification by fire"
*"[Alberto reaches for detonator's button]
Tony Montana: You die motherfucker!
[Tony shoots him in the head]
Tony Montana: What'd you think of that, huh? What you think, I'm a fucking worm like you? I told you, man, I told you! Don't fuck with me! I told you, no fucking kids! No, but you wouldn't listen, why, you stupid fuck, look at you now."
September 6, 2009 6:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Increase of 75% in homeless schoolkids? Holy shit.
I knew it was bad...but, I didn't know it was this bad. And it's supposed to get worse in this 'jobless' recovery?
Little kids worrying about their crying moms.
How bad does it have to get before our national soul feels it? Will it take a few little kids frozen to death this winter to get anything done?
jollyroger. You made me cry this morning. Thank you.
September 6, 2009 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Little kids worrying about their crying moms
Yeah, that was the clip I had lifted and decided to spare those who didn't click on the link.
I confess to utter bewilderment that there might be a person claiming the name "human" who could stay dry eyed at the heroic way these kids are struggling.
That said,
I call upon you to feel the fury
September 6, 2009 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain says he is going to make housing "available and affordable" and "we have to go back to the beginning", he knows a lot about housing as he owns seven residences and has been working on this stuff the full 22 years he has been a Senator.
Oh, wait, it was health care he was talking about not housing. He's gonna fix that first.
September 6, 2009 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
seven residences
Excellent! We would like the seven garages to be fitted out for seven families in the respective cities--or, alternately, one entire residence for the homeless would do nicely, and we'd have less renovation work to do.
September 6, 2009 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
The say that the biggest problem facing modern conservatives is finding a moral and ethical justification for greed, callousness, spitefulness, arrogance, selfishness, megalomania and viciousness.
So they wrap themselves up in the flag and religious garb in hopes that people will not notice their true motivations and accuse others of the very things that hey themselves are guilty of.
C
September 6, 2009 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
finding a moral and ethical justification
Things on the pseudoint right haven't been the same since Helen Mirren tore down the temple veil.
September 6, 2009 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK liberal, before you start blaming evil conservatives, what have you done? Huh? How much money have you donated to help others, or how much have you paid in taxes? What about YOUR garage, is your car there or a homeless family?
September 6, 2009 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
YOUR garage
It is precisely because we would prefer not to have strangers living in our dwellings that we seek to have the community organize this relief.
For myself, nothing harshes my buzz worse when I'm out and about, trying to get my rich on, as it were, and sure enough there's my brother with a paper cup. When it's my sister, let alone one of my neices or nephews, it chills the whole festive glow of the evening, ya' feel me??
September 6, 2009 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well all I can say is that has to be the lamest put down I have read on this site so far.
First of all....you don't know a thing about me and obviously have no read any of my blogs.
Second what, if anything, have you done for you fellow man...that did not require payment of some sort ??
{crickets}
I thought so.
C
September 6, 2009 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sinclair Lewis said,
Interesting they can't see their own actions were preordained as the first steps towards toppling the very government they're afraid of loosing.
September 7, 2009 8:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent post JR!
Ya know, when your nation has to spend all it's treasure on maintaining a war machine that cost about a trillion dollars annually while conducting two imperialist wars and when you have to dole out about 20 trillion in guarantees to make sure the thieves and crooks of Wall Street remain flush and happy and when you have to make sure you don't tax the rich so they don't get fussy, it's kind of hard to worry about the small things like a million poor and homeless kids. After all, we all have to sacrifice and tighten our belts in hard times don't we?
September 6, 2009 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
we all have to sacrifice and tighten our belts in hard times don't we?
Thank you for reminding me, (as cmaukonen was reminded above) of the need for shared sacrifice.
And, of course, from those who have little, everything they have is accceptable--it is their pitiful best, even if it is a trifle before the vast maw of our geo-strategic need. *They do what they can.
From those with much, we ask only their wishes for the blessings of Yahweh upon our enterprise--they have already contributed by their outsized personal talent...
*The convicted man said to the judge, upon hearing the 222 year sentence: "Judge, I can't do. that much time". "Son", he said, "just do your best--do what you can..."
September 6, 2009 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
finding a moral and ethical justification
Things on the pseudoint right haven't been the same since Helen Mirren tore down the temple veil.
September 6, 2009 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/irony
September 6, 2009 9:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great blog here, JR. I'm with Flowerchild. Crying on the outside, fuming on the inside. It's amazing how easily the heartless can ease their pitifully minuscule consciences by pretending that the numbers must be off, or Big Government will only make it worse.
And when those arguments don't rise to the top, it can only be the fault of the victims. The parents of those kids. They must have done something wrong or their kids wouldn't be hungry or homeless. Anyway, it's not their fault so it's not their responsibility. Problem solved.
I HATE those people! So. . .nothing new there. We have to come up with a way to fix this. We thought the Dems in Congress would help. It appears they lied. Now we're on our own, as usual, and it's on to bake sales or something equally lame when we're supposedly the richest nation in the world.
This has to STOP!
September 6, 2009 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
The parents of those kids. They must have done something wrong or their kids wouldn't be hungry or homeless. Anyway, it's not their fault so it's not their responsibility.
I understand that the somewhat global obligation that I urge at the top of the post is, perhaps, a stretch
So, okay, what if we accept responsibiity only for the kids right in front of our eyes
I mean, if we see a kid running into the street, we try to grab her; we don't shrug and look around for the mother.
September 6, 2009 10:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ramona, hatred is a deadend street you don't want to wander down. Better to take the sidestreet anger. At least on anger street you can see other possible outcomes to get to your final destination. You won't see any on the dead end street.
Besides, their actions may be intentional just to get people to respond out of us. So why play into their hands? It's better to state your anger at their lack of patriotism for their fellow citizens then move on to help those in need of assistance and disregard the riff-raft for what they aren't - Americans.
September 7, 2009 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
As reads:
Besides, their actions may be intentional just to get people to respond out of us
Should have said:
Besides, their actions may be intentional just to get a respond out of us.
I should have proofread it first.
September 7, 2009 9:43 AM | Reply | Permalink