John (“stay with me”) jon takes you on a freeway tour of the world that is and the world to come.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
by Shel Silverstein
The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
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Wonder how many how Biden Boroughs (homeless encampments) there are in the country?
John (“stay with me”) Jon remarked during his narrative, “This can’t go on.” Well, maybe it can.
What’s the alternative? Residential mental health facilities have long been shuttered. On a cost basis, perhaps this is less expensive. And just as an aside, I wonder what the vaxx percentage is among the borough inhabitants? And will they get kicked out if they don’t get the jabs?
I wonder if those Studies degrees include a course on how to make your domicile and surroundings ugly?
Imagine the vapors wafting off those dumps. Overwhelmed with shit, piss and jizz, rotted food, screaming hot temperatures. Biohazards galore.
Some observations:
1. I only saw two blue kibos for the mauve encampment, a normal size for the gents and a double-wide preferred by the ladies. Everybody knows that if you are running a populous outdoor event, you need a few double-wides and have to reserve them for women. Yeesh, there aren’t enough kibos for that many folks. Not cool.
2. Just like all the outdoor sporting gear companies that make production runs for the military folks down-low on the qt, somebody got a corrupt lucrative contract to make mauve tents at 3 times the standard rate. I don’t recognize the make and model.
3. Pikers. In other countries, the traffic island to the left of the encampment would be wall-to-wall shanties fully occupying all the bare dirt. People in other countries are hardier and more resourceful. Our people have to be given free tents.
4. It reminds me of when the Joads made it into the FedGov encampment after living rough when they first came to California: clean, orderly, so nice they thought they’d made it into heaven. I seem to remember that the fedgov encampment came with rules and enforcers. Do the people in pastelpurpleville think likewise? Does LA enforce behavior and cleanliness rules in the camps?
Come on, it’s not their faults, ninth circuit three member panel opined that the homeless can live where they choose, IF cities can not find/provide housing for them. Those fun loving kids, gotta go some place.
I suggested the upper one percenters hoods, got slapped down hard!
VI
If the Federal Gubmint can ship illegals from TX all over the US, why shouldn’t states charter some busses and send homeless folks to CA? Give them $20 cash, can of ravioli, a 40 of eight ball and one way bus ticket to Hollywood. How could they resist?