Posted on 09/06/2010 8:30:25 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
I'm lovin' it! A McDonald's in San Francisco drops it dollar menu, and the DUmmies get more stirred up than a Shamrock Shake! This particular McDonald's has been plagued by bums the homeless hanging around all day, and the bums homeless see this move as a not-so-subtle hint to get lost. And the DUmmies, who at least have their mother's basement to live in and Domino's to deliver, are somehwat divided on who's in the right on this question.
But there is one DUmmie, of course, who will automatically side with the bums homeless, and that is none other than DUmmieland's Homelesscoming Queen, DUmmie bobbolink, AKA Bobo the Hobo. Bobo is perhaps most famous as the gal who got Wee Wille Pitt banned for three months, but her main calling in life is to post to DUmmieland and play the Victim Card big-time. "You're all against us! Always picking on us homeless! We're poor, we're homeless--even though I find a way to have an internet connection and post on DU 24/7--we're victims! Now DU something about it!"
Well, this THREAD, "Haight-Ashbury homeless think McDonalds dropped 'dollar menu' to get rid of them," naturally gives bobbolink the occasion to go absolutely BONKERS with her victim spiel!
So let us now head for the Bolshevik Red Arches, where the DUmmies debate who deserves a break today, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, who every so often gets a hankering for a burger at McDonald's and then regrets it a few hours later, is sandwiched in the [brackets]:
Haight-Ashbury homeless think McDonalds dropped 'dollar menu' to get rid of them
[It's a Haight crime!]
The McDonald's at the corner of Haight and Stanyan streets eliminated its Dollar Menu about a month ago, making the items on it too expensive for the people who spend the better part of their day on the sidewalk in front.
[If sitting on a sidewalk in front of a McDonald's is the "better" part of their day, what's the worst??]
"Yeah man, it ... sucks," he said Thursday while sitting foodless on the McDonald's patio with a half dozen hungry friends. "I eat less. I have to get more money. If I don't have a dollar and I want food, I just end up going to a trash can."
[Not much difference, is there? . . . Now to the DUmmies . . .]
Seems the homeless made their own misfortune here. . . . they need to understand that if they then hang around all day, they are going to cost the owner customers who don't want to wade through a homeless camp to grab a meal.
[Bigot! Homelessophobe!]
Where do you suggest they go. . . ?
[Oh, come on! I'm sure there are MANY compassionate, big-hearted San Franciscans who would welcome these less fortunate victims of Rethuglicanism into their homes . . .]
The SF Chronicle is on a propaganda campaign in order to support Newsom's no sit/lie ordinance.
[SF Chronicle, YOU lie!]
the suits at the Chronicle are @ssholes. . . .
[That's a dangerous thing to be in San Francisco.]
Golden Gate Park is right there. . . .
[Golden Arches Park is more convenient.]
So where do people think it's okay for the homeless people to go?
[Here's a novel thought: To work?]
Research has shown that Americans tend to have automatic, subconscious feelings of disgust towards the homeless.
[I have feelings of indigestion towards the hamburgers.]
I have yet to see any situation where people AREN'T offended by having homeless people around. That is just the nature of people's prejudice against any visible signs of homelessness.
[You know, isn't EVERYONE at a McDonald's at least temporarily "homeless"? Otherwise, they'd be at home.]
The McDonalds owner has every right to adjust prices as she sees fit. She is under zero obligation to make less money so that she can make it easier for vagrants to hang around.
[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]
I think you joined the wrong website. Heartless @ssholes post at the Free Republic.
[Come join us at Free Republic, the HOME of heartless @ssholes!]
It is prejudice, pure and simple.
[DUmmie bobbolink is here! Man your battle stations!]
I can't even believe we are having to argue this on a "liberal" forum!
[Oh, sure you can, Bobo! You have stated many times that DUmmieland is full of heartless, hypocrite bullies!]
What's not "OK" is that people like you aren't willing to get to the root of the problem, and solve it.
[It's YOUR fault, Mr. & Mrs. DUmmie, that there is poverty and homelessness in America! So FIX it, pronto!]
That would mean HOUSING FOR EVERYONE, and a DECENT STANDARD OF LIVING FOR EVERYONE.
[FREE HOUSES FOR ALL! FREE BIG MAC EXTRA VALUE MEALS FOR ALL! I DESERVE A BREAK TODAY!]
Why don't you just get honest, and campaign to have us all removed?
[Bobo the Hobo is on the WARPATH!!]
What gets me is people, including "liberals", who consider them selves sooooo much smarter, yet couldn't understand . . . they are being played. . . .
[Why do you think we call them "DUmmies"?]
The problem now is to overturn that demonization. But, that doesn't rank up there with all the other causes, does it? It's up to those deemed the poster kids to change it around.
[Bobo takes a sideways swipe at Pitt, the leading poster child of DUmmieland.]
Reborn Calivinists = "Positive Thinkers" . . . Yup, if you think correctly and speak correctly, and work hard to eliminate any "negative" thoughts, you will "succeed". . . . "We love you Calvin, oh yes we do, we love you Calvin, and we'll be true. When you're not with us, we're blue. Oh Calvin, we love you!"
[Calvin and Hobos.]
Maybe that is my problem... I am a cradle Lutheran, and I don't understand the hard-hearted judgmentalism.
[Maybe you need to go back to your cradle, bobbolink, and learn to understand Lutheranism a little better.]
There is a homeless man I have befriended who sleeps behind the dumpster at the local Mexican market. . . . I buy him ice cream or coffee and a doughnut sometimes, and make a point of bringing him home-cooked food whenever I can.
[Yeah, sure you do, DUmmie Raksha. This sounds like one of those fabricated "What a noble progressive am I!" stories.]
Well I already don't give McD's any money so I'm already boy/girlcotting them.
[Boy/girlcotting. . . . It's hard to tell in San Francisco, isn't it?]
I guess everywhere has gotten on the Greed Train.
[And Bobo the Hobo has been tied down on the tracks by Snidely Whiplash.]
When I traveled in Spain, there were public places where the poor could get soap, shampoo, and a towel and could take a shower.
[The rain in Spain goes mainly down the drain.]
USA is #1 in Cruelty!
[WOO-HOO! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! . . . In your FACE, Spain!]
expect war to break out.
[Bobo predicts WAR in San Franciscco! The Homeless vs. the Homed, with the Homos who-knows-where!]
All you have to do is to pay attention to th "priority lists" posted here at DU, and it will become quickly obvious that poverty is NOT on most peoples' agenda.
[And don't try to put "getting a job" on Bobo's "priority list"!]
Is that how you want your mother to have to live out her life? In a dorm????
[Someone had said, "Hell, I'd be happy to live in my old college dorm." So this is Bobo's standard comeback, the guilt-trippy non-sequitur, "Is that how'd you want your mother to live?" Typical bobbolink.]
Sigh... It is just the sheltered simpleton responses around here that make me shake my head... If you think the elimination of the dollar menu is cruel I would be loathe to imagine your reaction to the actual atrocities around the world happening right now....
[DUmmie Cid_B, you get a Kewpie Doll with your Happy Meal today!]
Listen, dude. . . . You wanna talk actual atrocities.... If I had my way, dude, every last woman in the world would be armed so the playing field would be entirely leveled. These male monsters understand nothing but violence. . . . I hope Mother Nature throws this planet off its axis and the pathetic excuses for human male flesh are destroyed forever.
[Listen DUde, I think DUmmie femrap has a small chip on her shoulder--about the size of Greenland--against men!]
I'm sure the owner will have her Karma come back to haunt her. She just might find that her profits go down.
[She deserves to go broke today.]
the homeless aren't homogeneous. . . .
[In San Francisco they are!]
These people are f***ing d**chebags okay. . . . Sitting and laying in cuddle puddles of as many as 20 or more. . . . They are the ones that the sit/lie ordinance is aimed at cuz they are f***ing pieces of sh*t. Just a bunch of punks, who stink and cause trouble.
[Sounds like a DUmmie meet-up!]
And YOU need to "understand" that human beings are PHYSICAL. We ALL have to be somewhere. When YOU don't care enough to fight for housing for everyone, and then want those left homeless because of YOUR lack of pushing for housing, to be banned from BEING anywhere, then YOU are, in effect, telling homeless people to just go die. Yes, it is damned time all you conservatives look at the results of your attitudes. You are leaving no options except for HUMAN BEINGS to die. Beat me up for telling you the truth. I no longer care.
[DUmmie bobbolink has PERFECTED the Victim Card!]
We see the lack of understanding and empathy and concern. WE. GET. IT. You have made your point loud and clear... it is the money that is important. WE. GET. IT.
[Bobo, you see this Quarter Pounder with Cheese? YOU. DON'T. GET. IT.]
Only way I could stand being homeless is if I drank expensive booze all day long every day. Maybe someday I’ll be rich enough to give homelessness a try.
#1 in my book. :)
Hold the phone here, people of DU. Don’t you understand that the reason for the increase in Mickey D’s food is due to the very high minimum wages in SF. The liberals of SF decided a few years ago the current minimum wage is cruel to those that are attempting to live in the SF area. So the owner of that McD is now required to pay her employees $10 or $12 an hour so that the downtrodden workers of the world have a chance to make it in The City.
So now the DUmmies have their panties in a bunch because one McD has removed it’s dollar menu. So who aide are you on? The workers that need that money to pay their rent in the very expensive area of SF or the poor pitiful homeless (that refuse to lower themselves to working at a McDonald’s)???
The DU group will be tying themselves up in knots over this one.
When I lived in Los Angeles and drove to West LA every day to work, there was a bum on every freeway offramp. I always had to sit at a long off ramp light where a bum was rather aggressively panhandling. The off ramp was covered in litter of all stripes. I always wanted to tell the bum that if he cleaned up all of the litter on the off ramp I’d start giving him some money, but I was sure he’d take it as an insult. So he never got anything from me... not even the advice that he needed but likely wouldn’t have listened to anyway.
I think McDonalds and other dollar menu venues have helped the poor and hungry far more than any welfare program.
I went belly up, and ended up homeless through no fault of my own; then recovered. It was scary.
How, you ask?
By starting a business trying to sell those people glass naval inserts, so they could at least see where they were walking.
How was I to know that the worse they needed my services, the less they wanted to avail themselves of the opportunity?
I finally saved myself by taking my stock, adding a reflective backing to the flat side, and selling them to a guy named Bott, who turned around and sold them to highway departments around the country.
As someone who used to work at a shelter, I can tell you that the attitude the DUmmies are pushing IS the problem. You know why these homeless people go to McD’s? Because then they don’t have to either go to a wet shelter (where you MUST be an alcoholic to get in) or to a dry shelter—going to either one will in some way force you to get your act together.
I used to give money to homeless people and sneer at those who didn’t. Since working at that shelter, I’ve given exactly ZERO cents to any homeless person.
This is so typical of the left—beating their chests about how compassionate they are while they help the homeless population NOT get better.
Funny! (and probably true)
That’s cuz the burger did not come with a side of MD 20/20.
She may kill you but the jury returns a not guilty! verdict.
Definitely not guilty.
Why bother when later this week I will be picking up 16,000 FREE chicken/buffalo wings via coupons? Tonight I begin my long two-day coupon clipping odyssey. BTW, you scared me with this DUFU headline. I thought ALL McDonald's were dropping their dollar menu.
That guy on the left sitting on the steps - he's somewhat clean-cut, and the holes in his knees aren't from wear - they're manufactured holes. They were cut and aren't even frayed much. The guy's a poser.
I wonder how many "homeless" are just scammers supplementing their welfare, food stamps, and unemployment with the proceeds of their daily shakedown. They dress the part and pry on the sympathies of others to donate tax-free income to them.
And in a few days I feast on THOUSANDS of FREE chicken/buffalo wings that will last me for weeks/months. Actually better than FREE but that is another story.
I have a job for her! See how easy that is?
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