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Homelessness is the condition of people without a regular dwelling. People who are homeless are most often unable to acquire and maintain regular, safe, secure and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence."

We've all seen them. They sit on the highway intersections with signs that say, "Homeless, hungry, please help! God bless!" They lie asleep in the doorway of businesses and on park benches.

Some are schizophrenic, traumatized, and brain damaged. Several of these have served our country. Many with drug and alcohol problems requiring medical help.

One of the main causes is that a lot of people can't afford a place to live. They don't have enough money to pay rent, even for the cheapest dives available.

There is also this attitude about poor people like somehow they brought this upon themselves by not behaving right. This is so wrong!

Who are you to judge? One look at their sorrow and judgment is already decided in your heart. It scares you. You don't understand it. You are afraid to face it.

I know how it feels to be judged. I can pick up the phone and request assistance from any government agency, church, or friends and then be handed an immediate dismissal just because you don't know me and do not care.

I am not one of those people who can just go to some shelter and look for work and never get back on their feet. I am a woman with belongings and pets. I have food, clothing, appliances, and everything that I have paid for or was given. I have a life even if it is not the one that I want at the present moment.

I have a disability with a court date that isn't going to come soon enough. The place that I am staying at is no longer tolerable and I am being thrown out.

I have never caused anyone harm. I don't do drugs and I don't drink. I had a church home for the past two years but they have their own families and problems to think about.

I have no transportation, no friends due to distance, and no family. Would you take me in? Be truthful. Probably not.

A person should not have to prove they are ready or worthy. They should not have to earn a living after all attempts have been made and failed.

Is this what the world has come to? We are the ones that should be ashamed and hide our heads in embarrassment. I am.

It seems like a lifetime has passed when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote and Donald Trump won the presidency.
So the conservativvs (yes, I misspelled it like one of the members here who is unable to correctly spell Obama, Hillary, Democrat, or anything that's not Rebublickan) coined a phrase Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS for short.

Fast forward to the present:
Trump is out and Biden is in. No I don't want lectures about 'Stop the Steal' and Trump being the rightful president. The America I know doesn't recognize that belief.

So just like Trump Derangement Syndrome then, it's the Biden Derangement Syndrome now.

Don't believe me?
Do a Pro-Biden blog.

With Trump mentioned or not in the blog, you are guaranteed to get some resistance.
Chances are they are afflicted with the BDS.

There are there things people usually do to make their lives more terrible
First: Amplify other people's happiness
Second: Amplify their own unhappiness
Third: Repeat doing those two things

Which one is the cheapest country in Europe to visit ?

with all the negativity in the news and in the world its so important to remember empathy and compassion

Pigs on the Wing...…….

I read a comment today that reminded me of working for a South African guy who used the phrase "He doesn't know shit from shiola" That's not how I first heard it and I'm sure something got lost in the miles from America to South Africa. He probably heard it from a few distant relatives.

Let's go back a hundred years or so where George Melancthon Wetmore invented boot polish in the form of paste that sold in round tin cans under the name of Shinola.

In America, it was pretty commonplace to describe someone of lesser intellect who doesn't know 'shit from Shinola'

The Southern version is not knowing the difference between 'shit and apple butter' where they add the explanation 'he had to smell it to see with one to eat'

Yesterday, a young associate of mine said "Catch you on the flip-flop" and I asked if she knew what that meant. Her response was no and I explained it referenced CB radio jargon where truckers who frequented the same roadway would greet other truckers coming and going. One heading east and the other heading west might pass each other on the return trip back home.

About 500 years ago horses came to North America and changed the life of the Indians. Spanish horses came first and the word "mustang" goes back to spanish "mestengo", something like a vagabond. An old early mustang breed is the "Sulphur", which still may be found under the 30.000 wild horses in the west today.
American races with english and other blood emerged later like the American quarter horse and the Appaloosa of the Nez Perce Indians.
In Oregon nowadays an annual meeting is held, called the Indian Princess Pendleton Round-up. See picture. No wonder the US cavalry slaughtered these horses and Indians, because they were jealous about their beauty.

Message from the management

Dear employee,

At the General Management Meeting the following has been decided:

1. Clothing:

The clothes you go to your workplace with must be adapted to your salary:

When you walk around with Prada footwear and Gucci clothing, we will that you earn more than enough and therefore do not need a salary increase. When you are poorly dressed, you need to learn how to handle your money better, so that you can afford better clothes. We can not therefore allow you to increase your salary in this case.

When you wear Jan Modaal's average brand clothing, you are in the middle class and you are fine. You therefore do not have to pay a salary increase.
2. Family days and allowed absence:

Every employee is entitled to 104 days a year from now on. They are also sometimes called "Saturday" and "Sunday".

3. Lunch break:

Skinny people are entitled to 30 minutes, because they have to eat more to look healthy.

People with a normal weight are entitled to 15 minutes to eat a balanced meal and thus stay on their weight.

People who are overweight are entitled to 5 minutes, they do not need more time to drink a bottle of "Slim Fast" and take a diet pill.

4. Sick leave: Doctor's notes are no longer accepted. If you can go to the doctor you can also go to work.

5. Use of the sanitary facilities:

Too much time is spent on the toilets. That is why a time limit of 3 minutes has now been introduced. After 3 minutes an alarm siren will be opened, the toilet paper will be locked, the door will be opened and a picture will be taken.

After 2 offenses your photo will be posted on the Information Board under the category: "Chronic Offender of the Work Regulations"

6. Medical interventions: As long as you work here, you need all your organs. Do not even think about removing one or the other. We have assumed you intact, so any subsequent operation will be considered a form of breach of contract.

We thank you in advance for your loyalty to the company.

It is our intention to conduct a positive labor policy.

May we therefore ask you to address all your questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggressions and accusations to someone else than to us. With kind regards,

The management.

But what do I have to do with a picture of someone's roll or the message that they have missed the bus? .............You have to find yourself very important if you think others are waiting for it.