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| 2011-09-26 |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #22 My wife's uncle is an EE. |
| Posted by: badanov 2011-09-26 23:17 |
| #21 yep |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-09-26 23:04 |
| #20 ...who went to US universities? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-09-26 22:21 |
| #19 all the EEs I know are Chinese |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-09-26 21:27 |
| #18 A Brit publication. For the MSM, homeless cease to exist as long as a D is in the WH. |
| Posted by: Cincinnatus Chili 2011-09-26 21:25 |
| #17 I Binged it too, Scooter - good lord! >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-09-26 21:13 |
| #16 all the electrical engineers I met were weird/nuts. Maybe they haven't had their Pon Farr vaccination yet. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-09-26 19:35 |
| #15 TW, do you know what a "glory hole" is? I recommend you DO NOT google the term! Of course I googled it, Scooter. As you discerned, it isn't anything like another term for outhouse that I thought it was. Oh well, my education increases, once again. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-09-26 19:15 |
| #14 If you are an EE and have been unemployed for a while it seems to me you don't want to go where the jobs are. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2011-09-26 19:13 |
| #13 "a pastor and out-of-work electrical engineer" In my past experience (different job from now), all the electrical engineers I met were weird/nuts. (Not all EEs, just all I met - and that was too many.) Apologies to any R'burg electrical engineers, who are obviously sane by virtue of their choosing to come here. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-09-26 18:25 |
| #12 TW, do you know what a "glory hole" is? I recommend you DO NOT google the term! |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-09-26 17:24 |
| #11 They have access to water and sanitation; they refuse to use it. Just as there are shelters and rehab clinics and mental health facilities all stocked and staffed with taxpayer funds, not to mention the often-present relatives and church folk. The problem is, all of those require the bums to stop wallowing in whatever drug they've chosen, and the bums prefer their drugs to food, water, cleanliness, and self-respect. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2011-09-26 14:43 |
| #10 Never trust an EE to do a civil engineer's job. |
| Posted by: The Other Beldar 2011-09-26 12:57 |
| #9 That very much depends on the time and place, Silentbrick. |
| Posted by: lotp 2011-09-26 12:40 |
| #8 These stories always remind me of the time a reporter in Knoxville I think it was decided to see what it was like being 'homeless'. He quickly discovered there were so many shelters, church groups, etc providing assistance that you only slept in the cold and went hungry if you wanted to. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-09-26 12:25 |
| #7 I was merely grumbling of the stretching to breaking point of the term "Rights", not the proper functions of the state... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-09-26 12:11 |
| #6 founded by Steve Brigham, a pastor and out-of-work electrical engineer Ok, he's an electrical engineer, but surely any engineer would think first in terms of digging a proper glory hole, as a matter of principle? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-09-26 12:07 |
| #5 Water and sanitation might not be a bad idea. It's a public health thing. When they're peeing and pooping in the river valley that's not sanitary for anybody, homeless or landed gentry. We could set up some port-o-potties for them. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2011-09-26 11:56 |
| #4 And in Florida: Hundreds sell their own burial plots to make some quick cash: Tough economic times transform funeral industry |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-09-26 11:34 |
| #3 Not sure how "sanitation and water" are Rights (restrictions on state power)??? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-09-26 09:08 |
| #2 However, Obama had a half a billion dollars to fund a crony capitalist campaign donor for make believe 'green' jobs among other massive wastes of resources. The problem is who you put in charge. BTW, who did the MSM back for prez last time around? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-09-26 08:47 |
| #1 Officially there are 700,000 homeless people in the US. According to the UN, America's refusal to guarantee them access to water and sanitation, and its “criminalisation” of homelessness, is a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Prolly one of the UN's biggest worries - the US violating human rights. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-09-26 08:39 |