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To: Cathryn Crawford
That old drunk has a new problem now. And do you think that this writer would really care to protect him after exploiting him?
2 posted on
01/03/2004 9:17:59 AM PST by
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3 posted on
01/03/2004 9:18:47 AM PST by
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To: Cathryn Crawford
Wishnie told the San Francisco Chronicle that he has tried to get Dinarde medical insurance, but was rejected because of pre-existing conditions related to drinking, including cirrhosis of the liver.Hmmmm. I guess he drinks, too. ;-)
4 posted on
01/03/2004 9:19:39 AM PST by
Scenic Sounds
(Sí, estamos libres sonreír otra vez - ahora y siempre.)
To: Cathryn Crawford
Can't help but wonder how much of that $700,000 went into the lawyers pocket?
5 posted on
01/03/2004 9:21:52 AM PST by
slimer
("The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato)
To: Cathryn Crawford
Sad, what can happen to those bohemian types.
6 posted on
01/03/2004 9:22:39 AM PST by
patton
(I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
To: nutmeg
read later
15 posted on
01/03/2004 9:33:31 AM PST by
nutmeg
(Is the DemocRATic party extinct yet?)
To: Cathryn Crawford
Dinarde missed appointments to get federal disability medical insurance, the lawyer said.Whew! The taxpayers dodged that one.
21 posted on
01/03/2004 9:39:55 AM PST by
Restore
To: Cathryn Crawford
A homeless man with a lawyer. How heartwarming.
To: Cathryn Crawford
The cash has dwindled to $150,000, sapped by Dinarde's many stays at local hospitals after being picked up ill or injured, and by his several attempts at sobering up at rehabilitation centers, said the lawyer who helps Dinarde manage bills. . . .
"I'm rich, but I like it out here. I ain't sleeping inside," said Dinarde last summer As a hapless drunk on the streets of 'Frisco, pal, you won't be "rich" for long.
To: Cathryn Crawford
"I'm rich, but I like it out here. I ain't sleeping inside," said Dinarde last summer, finishing off his morning vodka in front of St. Francis of Assisi Church. "You can't make me." Another Liberal success story...
To: Cathryn Crawford
" said the lawyer who helps Dinarde manage bills."
I'm not seeing the benefit of his management. I guess the mom or atty did not have a plan to have power of atty over bills, expenses, meds etc.. It can be done.. IE:meds could include the kind that makes him puke when he drinks. :(
42 posted on
01/03/2004 10:31:02 AM PST by
Freedom2specul8
(Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
To: Cathryn Crawford
He's not the only well off "homeless" person. In Houston, Clear Channel brought a talk show host to town when they fired all of the conservative hosts.
He saw this man repeatedly sitting on the median strip of Montrose and he worried about him. He eventually talked to the man and learned that he actually did have money and did not want Chris' "help".
I know another area poet/drunk who has been known to panhandle (or at least hit up friends and strangers for sympathy cash) yet there is a lot to suggest that he really is wealthy.
A lot of the 1960s unemployed "radicals" were trust fund kids too.
43 posted on
01/03/2004 12:21:39 PM PST by
weegee
To: Cathryn Crawford
The cash has dwindled to $150,000 [from $700,000], sapped by Dinarde's many stays at local hospitals after being picked up ill or injured, and by his several attempts at sobering up at rehabilitation centersA bum in this State paying his own medical bills? Now I know that this story is a myth!
44 posted on
01/03/2004 12:24:59 PM PST by
Redcloak
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To: Cathryn Crawford
I think the lawyer sounds like a pretty good guy. He has tried to help straighten his client out, but Dinarde is obviously committed to that kind of lifestyle by choice, and he's a lot happier than he would be locked up, which seems to be the only alternative.
$1,500 a year is a VERY small fee for taking all this trouble. Most lawyers charge several hundred dollars an HOUR for their services, and that's just the ones who charge moderate fees. There are plenty of lawyers who could suck up $1,500 in one hour.
45 posted on
01/03/2004 12:25:18 PM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cathryn Crawford
The cash has dwindled to $150,000 [from $700,000], sapped by Dinarde's many stays at local hospitals after being picked up ill or injured, and by his several attempts at sobering up at rehabilitation centers, said the lawyer who helps Dinarde manage bills. As opposed to the free emergency room care he could get if he was an illegal immigrant from Mexico. The world is turned upside down.
The bright side of this is that once he's broke, he'll still get free medical care, and his lifestyle won't have to change at all . . . .
46 posted on
01/03/2004 12:33:16 PM PST by
JoeSchem
To: Cathryn Crawford
Does he donate to Free Republic, that's the question.
To: Cathryn Crawford
There's an easy way to avoid becoming an alcoholic. Just develop a taste for the really good stuff. Then, you can't afford to be an alcoholic. Hey! It works for me (The Macallan Single Malt 35 year old currnet price - $473.06 / 25 year old current price - $282.78).
Besides, life's too short to drink cheap booze.
50 posted on
01/03/2004 1:58:57 PM PST by
Action-America
(Best President: Reagan * Worst President: Klinton * Worst GOP President: Dubya)
To: Cathryn Crawford; Thebaddog; Scenic Sounds; slimer; patton; seamole; nutmeg; paul51; Restore; ...
I don't understand why we let people who do not have the ability to make decisions for themselves on the streets.
Why can't we build hospices and have them incarcerated therein (for life if need be)? I know it sounds a little draconian but it is not. People who are by and large homeless have mental problems and are not able to make decisions for themselves and thus forfeit the right to liberty because the ability to choose is a basis of liberty. Homless on the street are a danger to society and thuse even in a free society should become the wards of the state.
We have homeless for 2 reasons. Because (some) civil libertarians think people have a right to be homeless and (some) conservatives don't want to pay for hospice like institutions because it smacks of a Johnsonian Great Society/New Deal socialism (which it is not).
Thus in the friction between these two wrong headed factions a crack develops in the fabric of society in which the mental deficient homeless fall through.
51 posted on
01/03/2004 2:02:11 PM PST by
Destro
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To: Cathryn Crawford
Pretty sad. He's p-ssed away $550,000 and his life.
He could have done a lot more with that money and his life than be a wino bum.
At least his dead mom is paying the bills instead of the taxpayers. Bless her.
68 posted on
01/03/2004 5:57:38 PM PST by
LibKill
("Two crossed, dead, Frenchmen emblazoned on a mound of dead Frenchmen.")
To: Cathryn Crawford; Cacique; NYC GOP Chick; jjbrouwer; firebrand; PARodrig; rmlew
Here in New York, we have a neighborhood filled with this sort of person: Williamsburg.
I like to refer to them as "trustafarians."
69 posted on
01/03/2004 8:07:49 PM PST by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
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