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L.A. Times: Madison Casts a Cold Eye on its Homeless (WI)
Madistan.com ^ | May 28, 2008 | PJ Huffstutter

Posted on 05/28/2008 4:09:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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Life in a Sanctuary City. Invite Life's Losers to live comfortably there, and by golly; they come! (Duh.)
1 posted on 05/28/2008 4:09:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What’s the old saying? A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.


2 posted on 05/28/2008 4:11:11 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
At least one local liberal in my city is suggesting the homeless should be rounded up and put in Labor Camps. Anything that is a problem to them and they revert to Nazi or Communist form.
3 posted on 05/28/2008 4:21:10 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: AlaskaErik
I just love it when reality bites the liberal Utopian in the ass. It is a beautiful thing.
4 posted on 05/28/2008 4:21:58 PM PDT by HwyChile
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“”If no one else was available, she’d call me or my wife and we’d drive her back,” the former mayor said. “It doesn’t matter that it’s only a few blocks. It only matters that she’s safe.””

How do you spell MACE?


5 posted on 05/28/2008 4:22:07 PM PDT by MIT-Elephant ("Armed with what? Spitballs?")
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To: MIT-Elephant
How do you spell MACE?

How many "m's" in 9mm?

6 posted on 05/28/2008 4:23:18 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"I'm all for helping people improve their lives," said Mohs, 71, a retired real estate lawyer who has owned property downtown for 50 years. "But that's not what we're dealing with here. It's aggressive panhandling, aggressive touching, scary behavior from people on drugs or mentally ill

Libralism/socialism fails every time its tried!

7 posted on 05/28/2008 4:26:44 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: wbill
How many "m's" in 9mm?

.357 is a prime number.

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8 posted on 05/28/2008 4:28:48 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: HwyChile

Haven’t there been court cases ruling that the homeless have a right to be out there? Years ago more people were in psych facilities, and vagrancy laws were enforced so you didn’t just have shiftless rootless people with no means of support and nothing to do just sitting and lying on the sidewalks.

We should have compassion, but real compassion would be to get them off the streets and get to the bottom of what caused them to be on the streets in the first place. For example, do they not have a job, did they lose their job? Are they mentally ill and can’t function in society?

It baffles me how somebody has a constitutional right to live in a destructive manner. Then again, it’s judgemental to say the homeless are in a destructive lifestyle. It’s too much non-judgemental feelings that allow the homeless problem to fester.


9 posted on 05/28/2008 4:30:16 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Cobra64

.357 is a hoped up “9” as is .357 Sig and 9x23...


10 posted on 05/28/2008 4:37:00 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Back in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, Snowball was always around. He was a character indeed.
11 posted on 05/28/2008 4:37:48 PM PDT by gorush (Exterminate the Moops!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

And Wisconsin is one of only two states that do not allow any form of citizen concealed carry.


12 posted on 05/28/2008 4:40:11 PM PDT by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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Nine (and .357 Sig) is fine but I'd rather have a .45
13 posted on 05/28/2008 4:43:57 PM PDT by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Since the election of Paul Soglin started all this Liberal mess in my home city of Madison, I have literally NO sympathy for the fact that now his daughter doesn’t feel comfortable with the spawn of what Paul created and fomented in his reign as Mayor.

Giving the students the right to vote for local issues was a big mistake, and IMO, more than a few students nationwide are double-voting in general elections: With an absentee ballot from their parents homes, and with a ballot wherever they attend school. That’s a dirly little secret that no one wants to investigate, and that “students” think is “OK”, because they are poking a stick at the status quo.


14 posted on 05/28/2008 4:47:09 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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.357 is a hoped up “9” as is .357 Sig and 9x23...

I think I got that figured out.

Some of my samples...

Ruger Vaquero .357 magnum
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Ruger Blackhawk .357 magnum
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Sig Sauer P232SL 9mm Kurz
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Sig Sauer P239TT 9mm parabellum
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Sig Sauer P229ST .357 Sig Photobucket

Sig Sauer P226ST 9mm parabellum
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Sig Sauer P220ST .45 Auto
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15 posted on 05/28/2008 4:59:25 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: 45Auto
Nine (and .357 Sig) is fine but I'd rather have a .45

Nice Springer.

And I agree 'bout havin' a foetee-five. Gots me one of those... even wearing a Crimson:
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Looking at getting something a little more interesting. A Dan Wesson Valor:
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Frankly, I'm not a big caliber fanatic. I have pistols in a variety of calibers just to piss-off the guys who engage in caliber wars.

The next one has GOT to be this:
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16 posted on 05/28/2008 5:11:14 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
For the last ten years, I've been following doings in a Northern Californian city that's run by liberals who value ‘compassion’ above all else. They took great pride in their services to the homeless, until the large group of folks they attracted completely took over the downtown area. They're now trying to recapture it, having shut down the homeless services office, while simultaneously wringing their hands about their own ‘non-compassionate’ behavior.

They've proven not to have learned anything, though. They've been in the forefront of ‘progressive’ marijuana legislation, and have now ended up with a huge problem with commercial growers moving into houses in town and turning them into indoor pot patches. Last week, they finally made some moves toward addressing that problem, while simultaneously expressing mystification about why their ‘enlightened’ approach didn't work.

Both cases, and the one you cited, are examples of liberals’ inability to be realistic about human nature.

17 posted on 05/28/2008 5:15:45 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: Cobra64

That Dan Wesson is a mighty pretty gun. How does your Sig 220 perform? I have both the Glock 21 and the H and K USP in .45 auto. They both work well, but they are totally different ergonomically. (Is that a real word?)


18 posted on 05/28/2008 5:22:41 PM PDT by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Hmmm....within reach of each other on this forum:

"Sheep shearers in short supply in WI"

"Madison casts cold eye on homeless"

Is sheep shearing that difficult?

19 posted on 05/28/2008 5:23:23 PM PDT by SGCOS (Life's a bitch, we don't need to elect one.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Nice “liberal conundrum” article!


20 posted on 05/28/2008 5:26:08 PM PDT by VOA
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