tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998867759586853536.post8651292955743717966..comments2024-03-08T06:19:34.837-08:00Comments on Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox: Scrooge-onomics, USA by Cindy SheehanCindy Sheehan's Soapboxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17978116636437776423noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998867759586853536.post-80041324262950292692016-12-22T01:56:04.548-08:002016-12-22T01:56:04.548-08:00Kevin McAvoy if you are wet and in 40 degree weath...Kevin McAvoy if you are wet and in 40 degree weather you can die of hypothermia. Your snug warm house doesn't let you in in this little face you are very removed from reality. Also the shelters are full. Period. All the time. And yes there are many mentally ill on the streets thanks to Resgan and prop 13 but does that meant that they're deserve to die ? And no one makes a 'choice' to be homeless. There are not enough viable shelters and affordable housing --housing costs are ASTRONOMICAL. Or you think it's just a coincidence that the homeless population has skyrocketed as the gap between the rich and the poor increased?<br />Thank you Cindy for this post. I have distributed a couple of sleeping bags bottles of water and food. I went to the market street area and could not believe how much more severe the problem has become. The food was gone very quickly. The need for any kind of help was crazy. I have been finding cheap sleeping bags at the goodwill and giving them away but this is a drop of water in a sea of need. There is a need for outreach of any kind and understanding compassion and concern. There is a gap of connection that has caused a painful rift between homeless and housed people . Until we heal this rift I believe we are doomed. We must become good friends to all people and each other that is the challenge and that means stretching ourselves to understand and accept each other as best as we can.<br />I believe the antidote to capitalism is compassion. I intend to use it liberally .<br />on a personal note I am sorry you are being forced to endure yet another holiday without your beloved Casey. This is my first Christmas without Glenn Patrick. It fucking blowsoctohorsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371753306535255614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998867759586853536.post-35747330622213506182013-12-25T12:07:13.494-08:002013-12-25T12:07:13.494-08:00It's amazing how you don't even get how mo...It's amazing how you don't even get how moronic your comments are.<br /><br />But, I guess since you are a few noodles short of that old casserole, it's to be expected.<br /><br />Kevin, your comments are just attacks and don't add anything coherent to the discussions, so I will not be posting them anymore. You can waste your time writing them, but I will not waste anymore time reading them or posting them--they will go straight to the garbage.<br /><br />I gave you a chance, you blew it BIG TIME! <br /><br />Tata.Cindy Sheehan's Soapboxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17978116636437776423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998867759586853536.post-14951232006236673812013-12-23T23:32:01.248-08:002013-12-23T23:32:01.248-08:00Oh! I forgot the punchline! SERENITY NOW!!!Oh! I forgot the punchline! SERENITY NOW!!!B.Itemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07638704888442070554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998867759586853536.post-80211341771894140172013-12-23T23:30:19.734-08:002013-12-23T23:30:19.734-08:00Au contraire, Mon Ami , I have indeed read and abs...Au contraire, Mon Ami , I have indeed read and absorbed what you have written, in addition to the usual commie suspects, the great philosophers, historians and thinkers far beyond FOX news...or you. Believe me, sister, you don' measure up. You just pick and choose your realities and regurgitate the obvious. You think you understand, but I doubt you do. Your mind is clouded with fuzzy daydreams of your simplistic view of humankind.<br />Merry ChristmasB.Itemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07638704888442070554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998867759586853536.post-31596872973099131702013-12-23T18:29:54.982-08:002013-12-23T18:29:54.982-08:00And there are places all over this world where the...And there are places all over this world where the US bombs because the people believe in Allah. Kevin, you sound like you are exposing the evils of Capitalist-Empire right there in your (as usual) Fox-noise informed screed.<br /><br />I wish some of what you read here would seep thru the fog of the crap-aganda that you obviously watch. That's one of my wishes for 2014. <br /><br />Merry Festivus.<br /><br />Cindy<br /><br />Cindy Sheehan's Soapboxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17978116636437776423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998867759586853536.post-19464954598638322062013-12-23T11:28:48.051-08:002013-12-23T11:28:48.051-08:00First, let me wish you a happy holiday season, and...First, let me wish you a happy holiday season, and specifically, a Merry Christmas. It does not matter whether you ascribe to the religious or the secular, the important thing is the spirit of the season. It would be wonderful if the good will was not limited to these few weeks. <br /><br />But, it does not. To keep a little perspective, it should be noted that there are places in the world where one can be executed for celebrating the birth of Jesus.<br /><br />To comment on your essay, let me remind you that homelessness, like homosexual behavior, is a choice. If you make poor choices in life, like destroying yourself with drugs, alcohol or just plain stupidity, you may wind up living on the streets.<br /><br />Our government has taken up the care and feeding of waifs, even though the religious community had been providing care to the poor. And as it goes with Nanny State nonsense, the poor are badly underserviced.<br /><br />It is not for lack of compassion or effort that housing space goes empty. Those left in the cold(incidentally, it is not possible to freeze to death in San Francisco...death from exposure, maybe)are there for one of two reasons: either the people are mentally ill, or they refuse to behave according to the rules of the shelter/facility. They either can not, or will not avail themselves of the more than adequate services to help with their addiction or illness. <br /><br />Some years back this state decided that people with serious mental illness are able to make choices regarding their own care, even though the very nature of their psychoses precludes rational decision making ability. Unfortunately, many who should be hospitalized are allowed to opt out of mental health care.<br /><br />I share most of your dreams for Christmas, right up to where you go off the rails. But greed will never die. Socialism could only contain it by force. Force is the only weapon socialists have in the war against self determination. To my knowledge, no socialist revolution has ever been voluntary. They always start with lip service to some real or imagined slight or injustice. Then they go right to the bloody insurrection, the death squads, the illegal confiscation of private property, the muzzling of dissent, and the expulsion or 'reeducation' of those malcontents that dare to point out the hypocrisy of forced 'freedom'. Then come the lies, the subjugation and all the other lovely horrors that flawed ideology spawns.B.Itemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07638704888442070554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998867759586853536.post-51375236363463618572013-12-22T12:07:02.905-08:002013-12-22T12:07:02.905-08:00What time is it? the time is now!What time is it? the time is now!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767689513330717109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998867759586853536.post-48679115980412613882013-12-21T11:36:24.625-08:002013-12-21T11:36:24.625-08:00Possibly, our economy is colonial, or more fashion...Possibly, our economy is colonial, or more fashionably, neocolonial?Martyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12535061710557436016noreply@blogger.com