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Some Teens Find Desperation in Hollywood
Yahoo! -- AP ^ | 2/27/2005 | Gillian Flaccus

Posted on 02/27/2005 9:11:31 PM PST by rightwinggoth

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Hollywood hobos.
1 posted on 02/27/2005 9:11:31 PM PST by rightwinggoth
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To: rightwinggoth

Like this is new?!?


2 posted on 02/27/2005 9:13:08 PM PST by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: rightwinggoth

One is a pothead and the other one does meth. Yeah, that should help them get back on their feet.


3 posted on 02/27/2005 9:17:08 PM PST by 12 Gauge Mossberg (I Approved This Posting - Paid For By Mossberg, Inc.)
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To: rightwinggoth

ASS-ociated Press 3-part homeless hit piece, that's all. It's appearing in my local Green Bay Press-Gazette rag. Nothing better to do than to insinuate if the mean-old Bush monster wasn't President none of this would be happening. Of course, during the glorious Clinton years the homeless were nowhere to be found.


4 posted on 02/27/2005 9:19:38 PM PST by ServesURight
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To: rightwinggoth

10k homeless in Hollywood?! Where the hell do they get that number from? I LIVE in Hollywood, and there is no way in hell there are that many here--not even close.


5 posted on 02/27/2005 9:22:05 PM PST by ECM
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Sorry, mis-read: but even 3300k is probably over-estimating the amount--Hollywood is NOT a very big place.


6 posted on 02/27/2005 9:22:50 PM PST by ECM
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To: rightwinggoth

This is probably Bush's fault somehow.


7 posted on 02/27/2005 9:23:54 PM PST by bahblahbah
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To: rightwinggoth; Admin Moderator
Already posted here, seven items down the "News/Activism California" sidebar.
8 posted on 02/27/2005 9:28:41 PM PST by Carry_Okie (A faith in Justice, none in "fairness.")
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To: rightwinggoth

These kids are simply lowlifes seeking attention, and the stupid AP gives them a platform. Hopefully, most readers recognize this for the propaganda it is.


9 posted on 02/27/2005 9:31:14 PM PST by BlkConserv
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To: bahblahbah

I thought this was an interesting article and I didn't see how the AP said this problem was caused by George Bush. Just calm down,not everyone is out to get you.


10 posted on 02/27/2005 9:32:01 PM PST by The Chosen One (God Bless America)
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To: rightwinggoth

Choices have consequences:
"It's cold back in Chicago
In LA it's worse
When all you got is Twentynine dollars
And an alligator purse"
(Tom Waits)


11 posted on 02/27/2005 9:33:29 PM PST by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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I am amazed that the "compassionate liberals" in Hollywood don't give these kids the free shelter, meals, clothes and cars that they deserve.


12 posted on 02/27/2005 9:34:59 PM PST by CurlyDave
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...his foster father was a good man who offered to support him if he chose college over music.

And what does this product of a broken home, with very few real prospects for the future choose?

DUMBA$$!

People of this ilk are beneath contempt and unworthy of my pity. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll depart the gene pool before he knocks up some crack ho out in Hollywierd and produces another burden to the State that taxpayers will be obliged to support.

Like the man said: "Choose, but choose wisely. He chose... poorly."

13 posted on 02/27/2005 9:38:12 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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So, just so I am clear... This kid, despite having a scumbag for a mother, had the opportunity to go to college through the benevolence and love of his foster father. But instead, he travels to Hollywood with a guitar in tow and now he smokes pot and lives on the street.

Hey bro, the only one that can save you from bad decisions is yourself.

Is this article supposed to tug on my heart strings somehow?

APf
14 posted on 02/27/2005 9:40:18 PM PST by APFel (For some reason, the word "Freeper" is flagged by the spellcheck. Someone contact Websters.)
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Even when you make it big in Hollywood, you find desperation. What a sucker's game. What horrible people.

-ccm

15 posted on 02/27/2005 10:03:06 PM PST by ccmay (Question Diversity)
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To: rightwinggoth

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352208/posts


16 posted on 02/27/2005 10:09:23 PM PST by upchuck ("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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Johnny's in the basement mixxing up the medicine.


17 posted on 02/27/2005 10:37:59 PM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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He says his foster father was a good man who offered to support him if he chose college over music. Unwilling to give up his guitar, Stone quit high school and began life on the street.

"He always thought I was too wild and he always thought my music was a bad thing," Stone says. "He didn't see that this is what I wanted to do with my life."

An older brother is now in college, his foster father adopted one brother and the third was placed with another foster family.

At his lowest point, Stone says, he worked at a Subway shop during the day and slept behind the store at night.

"You just think, 'What did I do to deserve this? What did I do to get here?'


How did you get there?? Go back a few paragraphs and stop speaking in a British accent, your from Georgia!!
18 posted on 02/27/2005 10:50:03 PM PST by GeronL (Condi will not be mistaken for a cleaning lady)
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To: clee1

4 paragraphs later the kid wonders how he got there.


19 posted on 02/27/2005 10:51:03 PM PST by GeronL (Condi will not be mistaken for a cleaning lady)
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To: rightwinggoth

A gal in her early 20s walked up to me on the street a few days ago downtown. She didn't seem mentally ill. She started telling me how she had come from Seattle and run out of money. I gave her $5 bucks. Now that I think about it I should have taken her to the bus station and bought her a ticket home.


20 posted on 02/27/2005 11:13:13 PM PST by Odyssey-x
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