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maybe he will just "get the hint" and move on if they harass him enough. its too bad to see anyone wind up that way. you ought to see the homeless in chicago. they're everywhere, in the parks, on the loop, etc. huge numbers! day people and night people !
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Most heart breaking incidence of being homeless I witnessed is in Skid Row, Los Angeles.
We are all post graduate students performing field work for an Urban Geography class. Our instructor, who is very smart and learned about Los Angeles history, is guiding us through Skid Row, a rough and sad place.
Out in front of the Midnight Mission, a local homeless shelter, our professor is jabbering away about the Mission and its history. I am looking the other way, across the street. Over there is a cheap filthy bar with a chronic drunk walking out, every so often.
Behind this bar, several huge trash bins, the big metal types on wheels. I am watching a mother inside one of the bins digging for food or valuables. Her girl, about six to eight years old, stands below her to handle whatever her mom hands her.
Lot more to this story, including one of the drunks accosting the little girl, then her mom, bad scene, all-in-all. I became involved and really should not have. Better to mind your own business in such a dangerous area.
End result is I end up crying, cannot pay attention to our field work, prove to be a big distraction for all.
Today, that little girl would be in her late twenties or early thirties. When I see a homeless person, that little girl always flashes through my mind.
I can never stop wondering what became of her.
Such innocence living from a trash can. To start out so innocent, so underserving of such a life, and to end where, I do not know.
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me too. i hope she made it out of there. i hate it when children are the innocent victims of their parents "bad habits". parents are probably dead by now.
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Darn it, just received a troll harassment private message. Forgot to turn those off the other day.
Moving on.
I am driving our old one ton rust bucket truck, downtown Dallas, back before Dallas and Fort Worth became one big city. I am looking for a seed supply store, completely lost in the traffic and hustle.
Our truck stalls out when I release the clutch too fast, flood it trying to start it, and this yahoo man behind me keeps honking his horn to, "move it, lady." I am not in a good mood. Hot humid day, interior of the cab is oven set for broil, and I broil each time he honks his horn.
Honk! Honk! Move it, lady!
Enough. I climb down out of our truck, walk back to the man and his car, "Listen, mister, how about you go up there and try to start my truck and I will sit in your car and blow your horn?"
Marijuana Chong has an unabashed love of marijuana, saying, "I get high constantly. If you smoke pot, eat well and work out, I guarantee you'll live forever."
By age eleven Chong was playing guitar, chiefly country-and-western music. Soon, he was introduced to rhythm and blues, became a professional musician, and quit school. He formed one of Western Canada's earliest rhythm and blues bands, the Shades, but was eventually requested by the police to leave town after a particularly rowdy gig, according to his account. Chong and the Shades then left for the closest metropolis, Vancouver, where Chong bought a club, the Elegant Parlour, and played guitar and sang in the house band, a Motown band named Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, briefly featuring a very young Jimi Hendrix [2]. Among his compositions for the group were "Does Your Mama Know About Me", which hit #29 on the United States pop chart and #5 on the US R&B chart.
In the late 1980s, Chong became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
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there's this one shot of Keith, Rolling Stone maybe? Anyway, it looks a Jamaican garage sale exploded, and he fell *through* the cloud of debris...
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And there is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless, that's it, I'm done.
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This being said, however, it is important to note that while computer services find themselves protected by immunity, the original culpable party who posts defamatory and fraudulent messages will not be protected by such measures. These individuals will find themselves subject to liability for such statements. As the court in Zeran was careful to point out, although Congress' focus is to keep government regulation of the Internet to a minimum, it is "also found to be the policy of the United States to ensure vigorous enforcement of Federal criminal laws to deter and punish trafficking in obscenity, stalking and harassment by means of computer."24 Congress was forced to make an emphatic policy stance when faced with deterring harmful online speech. In balancing the competing interests of free speech on the Internet and punishment of Federal criminals, Congress and the courts make it clear that it would be a wrong decision to "deter harmful online speech through the separate route of imposing tort liability on companies that serve as intermediaries for the other parties' potential injurious messages." http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/2001dltr0006.html
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threatening? why is this threatening? you have peaked my interest in the laws surrounding posting.
i wanted to share them with you since you are so interested too.. i am at a loss to understand why this atmosphere of misunderstanding and confusion conitnues
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i need? i need to be allowed to moderate here without being harrassed...
when i was out this morning at sunrise? it was already 88 degrees... the heat index on that makes the percieved temp 94.. at sunrise... LOL, got any better suggestions?
i do have to go to an honors fellows ceremony at a University this evening... i hope they have AC
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There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong Young people speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat A thousand people in the street Singing songs and carrying signs Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you're always afraid You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down Stop, hey, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down Stop, now, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down Stop, children, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down
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"for what its worth" good song. spent the afternoon installing the main a/c duct under the dash on the car. drank 2 quarts of water and sweated them back out again but it looks really nice. big swap meet in town this weekend so am going to be hiding out with the car people. btw pg the 10K on TCLL is out and looks really good i'll bet your prediction will come true on this one tomorrow am. bet its a gapper !
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