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I feel for her friends and family that will miss her the rest of their lives.
There is no fault: fault serves to make us feel an accident was preventable. Fault gives us control.
I've been a cyclist for 30 years. Accidents happen. Bicycles and cars will cross paths.
oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/0…
portlandmercury.com/portland/one-small-s…
Hales Embraces Tiny Houses as Potential Remedy for Homelessness
By Denis C. Theriault
August 20, 2014
http://www.portlandmercury.com
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Tiny houses for homeless people? Portland Mayor Charlie Hales is 'infatuated' with the idea, advisor says
By Andrew Theen
August 20, 2014
http://www.oregonlive.com
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/tiny_houses_for_homeless_peopl.html
Just because he has been "elected", does not change that fact.
Hitler was "elected"
Stalin was "elected"
Saddam Hussein was "elected"
Castro was "elected"
every nut running N Korea has been "elected"
but your right, they arent dictators because they were "elected"
Stop your shilling for socialism and communism already. Its a failed system everywhere its been tried. And typically its accompanied by massive amounts of death and suffering.
how the fuck old are you, anyway Ansel?
Take your socialism, and shove it up your gaping ass.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces…
Should produce some interesting court cases to create the common law interpretation of said.
And why is Rich Juzwiak writing about Ariana?
https://www.facebook.com/rich.juzwiak/ab…
Most homeless people do not use intravenous drugs on an occasional or regular basis. No, MOST (meaning the majority) do NOT.
And, for those homeless people who "shoot up" every day or multiple times per week, do you really think that refusing to provide public restrooms will somehow deter them?
Have you actually worked with homeless people?
Have you actually worked with any outreach or treatment program for intravenous drug users or anyone who struggles with addiction?
The most prevalent drug among the homeless is alcohol - the same as the general population.
The behaviors that the middle class mind observes in the homeless and assumes as proof of drug addiction is far, far more often the signs of struggles with untreated mental illness, with awkwardness due to social segregation and isolation and with health issues related to excessive outdoor exposure.
As someone who is not homeless, but who spends a good amount of time outdoors in this city, I would very much appreciate more and better public restroom facilities throughout the city so that I don't have to desperately search for a business that is willing to share their restrooms with the public.
If the minority of homeless who are intravenous drug users choose to use these facilities to "shoot up," so be it. We could place a sharps container in every restroom or port-a-potty to reduce the number of lost and discarded needles. We could provide information and maps with locations for needle exchange, testing and treatment. The more opportunities to intervene and offer help, the better.
Please stop repeating misinformation about the homeless. It doesn't help anyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-7Zg0l6…
Huh? Pretty sure they haven't moved yet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h…
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Reservations? Haven't they served their purpose. Deed the land to the residents and return sovereignty to the US.
Interesting post in the Village Voice about heroin use trends. The main points are Staten Island is the borough with the highest rate of heroin overdoses by far. Triple the rate of the Bronx. Also whites have the highest rates of heroin overdose deaths, and the rates of heroin overdose deaths falling among African Americans.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscar…
The point is that SD state officials and courts are ignoring the federal law.
Over the last century, America has blended socialism and capitalism together with varying degrees of success and failure.
In America, socialism and capitalism are not distinct and opposing, they are intermingled and co-dependent.
Anyone arguing otherwise has their head stubbornly buried in old textbooks (or some other musty hole) and is willfully obtuse and unlearned.
As to communism, it has only ever existed in name only; the theory has yet to leave the page. Marx's ideals have never been fully realized because they required an evolution of both theory and population that has yet to transpire. We have instead witnessed Stalinism and Maoism that co-opted the brand of "communism" as a convenient facade for a dictatorship.
It is similar to America's digression once again toward oligarchy whilst branding the tools of its transformation as "Patriot Act," "Homeland Security," "Economic Stabilization," "Free Market" and the like.
Only a fool is informed more by symbolism than substance.
Hugo Chavez was many things, a coup plotter, an autocrat, proponent of really bad economic policies, but he wasn't a dictator.
Venezuela and Caracas has one of the highest if not highest murder rates in the world, its prisons are there as some of the world's worst prison.
He wasn't a murderous dictator, Venezuela has become a murderous country.. Right now the country's economy is a basketcase to put it mildly.
"Hitler was elected"
Hitler was not elected, he was appointed as Chancellor by President von Hindenburg with the help of Franz von Papen in Jan. 1933
"Stalin was "elected""
Stalin was never elected, he muscled his way to control the Politburo from 1925 or so onward..
"Saddam Hussein was "elected"
Hussein pushed out his cousin, Pres. Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.
"Castro was "elected"
Castro helped overthrow the Batista regime
every nut running N Korea has been "elected"
All these dictators held "elections" after they were achieve power, but they were not democratically held elections.. Chavez for better or worse, was a very good politician, who knew how to campaign. He wasn't a dictator. Obnoxious, sanctimonious but not a dictator.
As doctors and hospitals have been more tightly scrutinized and harassed about any and all prescriptions or distributions of opioid drugs, more of their patients have been forced to seek out illegal opium derivatives for treatment of chronic pain.
I have seen a noticeable increase in the use of these opium derivatives, including heroin, among AIDS patients who suffer with chronic pain.
Once again, we are witnessing the application of broad, militant government policy instead of an informed and judicious policy in the regulation of a class of drugs, and the results are unnecessarily destructive and harmful to both patients and our society.
Hitler was appointed Chancellor because his Nazi party won the most votes in two national elections in 1932, 37% in July and 33% in November. The Nazis were the most popular party and thus the lead party in a (supposedly) coalition government.
It is no stretch at all to say that Hitler was elected, because under the parliamentary system, that's exactly what happened. Had the Social Democrats won the plurality, their leader Otto Wels would've become Chancellor.
@29, OMG! That was the most excruciatingly hyperbolic comment I have ever read. I hope it's the last.
Shocking.
Just shocking.
...but you interrupted raindrop who was giving raindrop hell for something raindrop said to raindrop.
Do continue raindrop.
Or about the Federal Reserve, or the Food and Drug Administration, or the Fair Trade Commission, or.....
Or about how Chavez, for good or ill (and sometimes it's been for ill), was legitimately elected Preseident three times by a majority of the Venezuelan electorate.
Or that the oil companies and its related economic infrastructure is one of the few places in the world where, under their version of socialism, they both pay their fair share of taxes and don't get pegged to pay more under the table - and have been allowed throughout to put money into opposition political campaigns without retaliation.
If you're going to criticize Chavismo, friend, know what you're talking about.
At first, that seems true. But often, unfortunately, when we don't have the substance we can only guided by the symbolism (ideology).
The fool is made so by having both and choosing to be informed by symbolism over substance.
Having one (symbolism) without the other (substance) simply makes one ignorant. The wise person seeks what they are lacking, and does not yield until its discovery. So, the ignorant are made fool by the choice of sloth over diligence.
That, which remains unexamined, is unknown, even if it is the fact or the truth.
Humanity's predisposition to mimicry may yield both an asset and a liability apart from skepticism, reason and wisdom.
Thank you for getting my point and having fun, rather than offense with it.
Raindrop made a minor error that I exploited and exaggerated for effect, nothing more.
Humor is a tricky thing in this city and its Slog.
The issue isn't that the homeless will use public restrooms to shoot up or turn tricks, it's that those homeless who abuse the facilities in that way ruin that public amenity for everyone. Or do you want to use a restroom full of junkies and johns?
O, to live in the magic kingdom of your narrow mind space.
Perhaps, you should stick to using the restroom(s) in your house and at churches or other private clubhouses where you can continue to be surrounded by people who appear to walk, talk, look and "think" just like you.
I don't know of a restroom, public or private, in Seattle that has not been utilized at some point by a "junkie" or a "john." Do you?
Exactly how well do you know those who frequent the restrooms that you use?
Public restrooms are a necessity for everyone, "junkies" and "johns" included.
My only concern about public restrooms is that the technology and design be such that the restrooms are reasonably and functionally clean, safe and convenient for everyone.
Who uses a public restroom really isn't the problem because clever design can easily address potential misuse.
I sincerely don't care who uses them; as I prefer their use of the restrooms to the alternative.