At least that song sounded good.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Groove to Black Violin EPK, too.
Posted on 12/07/2008 5:20:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's dark and dank. It smells terrible. It's full of black mold and cockroaches. It's filled with felons. It has unsanitary bathrooms and showers. The bathroom stalls are so small that you can't close the door, drop your pants and sit down. You have to leave the door open, drop your drawers and sit down and THEN close the stall door.
The breakfasts are usually just cereal and pastries and coffee. The floors are old and wooden and creek when you walk. Sleeping is tough. It's cold and drafty. Yet, through it all, this is home, at least on a temporary basis. It's full of people who talk to themselves, and full of people who wouldn't know personal hygiene if it walked up and called them daddy. Yet there are some good people there. There are people there who will watch your back as well as watch your belongings so no one else steals your stuff. The good people are the ones who are in much the same boat as me, foreclosed on, or laid off from work and lost their homes or apartments.
There are those too who have been addicted to one substance or the other and now have their life clean of those things but have yet to get back the basics they lost when they were practicing their addiction.
And then too, there are those in the shelter who are just trying to get over on the system and have a free place to stay regardless of the conditions.
Aside from shooing away cocroaches at your meals, most of the lunches and dinners are filling if not tasty too. Of course with any kind of institutional cooking, it has to be somewhat bland instead of spicey and if anyone wants to add salt and pepper they can. With all the roaches though, it makes one wonder how much got in the food. We'll try not to think about that one too much though, since it's kinda depressing.
The good news though is that sometime in December of this year, we're supposed to move next door into a 6 million dollar facility and the one we're in, which is an old elementary school, will be torn down. From what I hear, the school building is over 60 years old and falling apart.
The staff is all resident staff, and 2 nurses and one bookkeeper and then of course the owner who comes during the day. The nurses don't live on site either. Interenet usage is limited to 15 minutes a day, which is hardly time to do anything at all, especially look for work.
The neighborhood is so bad that they actually tell you which streets to NOT walk down or you'll be in an area of crack houses and armed robberies. Why they would spend 6 large, putting a new building in that kind of area is beyond me, but hey, it's not my money either so, I'm not going to question it.
My bed is in the back of the school gym, and also in the back is someone who quite frankly stinks to high heavens. The sad thing though is that he's a very nice guy, but he's too huge to properly take care of himself.
Before I ended up in the Statesville shelter I worked for a bit on the Obama campaign. In North Carolina we have early voting and I was up at the Mooresville Public Library working handing out flyers as people went in to vote. I guess I was doing too good a job at convincing the undecided to vote for Obama, because the precinct workers succeeded in getting me banned from the table.
So I ended up at Obama headquarters in Mooresville, making calls on behalf of Obama. After I got sent to Statesville, I worked at the campaign headquarters there too till election day. Our county went mostly Republican, but we turned the state of North Carolina blue for the first time in decades.
I was very proud of our work and that we came out a winner. Now it's up to Obama to show his stuff and not let us down. We put our faith in God, and nothing else matters, but it'll be nice to see a mere mortal do good things for this country. It can't be any worse than Bush's job of leading our country into 2 wars and a disasterous economic hardship that he put us in with his unwillingness to regulate certain factions of corporate America. At least we won't have to worry about Palin for 4 yrs.
Now there's a crazy thought!
I thought the first paragraph was describing his campaign plane.
It’s too bad WAMU went tits up, because they could have gotten this guy into a $500K condo in Seattle, nothing down, Interest only, with a guaranteed federal bailout at the end of three years when the ARM adjusted...
The socialist rats and thier leader who will be in total control come January 20th know that it is far easier to pummell the middleclass into submission and dispair as we see by this poor chap, than it is to help re build this guys hope for a better future. CONTROL AND DEPENDENCY is the name of the game. If you build a new man out of this poor sap he will start to think for himself and support himself and be responsible for himself, and we can’t have that can we!
This is the new face of the most impoverished among us; they are a disproportionately obese group. This is one of many reasons why the so-called greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression does not look much like the Great Depression.
Typical Hussein voter...
At least that song sounded good.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Groove to Black Violin EPK, too.
The mentally deficient/mentally ill were an integral voting bloc for Barack Hussein Obama this year.
Remember, his own family lives in conditions about equal to this. Kenyan mudhuts, Boston housing projects, flophouses, whatever. Hope.
a mere mortal? this is blasphemy. back to the flophouse.
I think the “O” better help out his step-brother before he helps this guy ....
Is he seeing double?
There's the war on terror (which America was dragged into on 9/11) but what's this other war he is talking about?
Thought for the first couple of lines that he lived in prison but then I realized that not even felons are allowed to live like that. Only Inner-City Democrats.
Doesn't sound like anyplace I've ever lived either. But then, when I was kid and we were Democrats, we were Southern, Baptist, Christian, Conservatives and now I live about as far North as I can get, and I'm Baptist, Christian, Conservative, and Republican...
Cereal AND pastries AND coffee???? I usually only get cereal OR a PBJ sandwich and coffee and I work!!!
Reminds me of a time I was fixing a non working A/C on the roof of a Federal Prison, sweaty, HOT, about 97'F, and no clouds. Worked a few hours, decided to go eat lunch and walked through the kitchen to get outside.
The inmates were eating turkey, dressing or fried chicken, green beans, corn bread and ice tea with jello for desert.
I went to my work van and pulled out a warm bologna sandwich and a warm coke. I thought to myself.... whats wrong with this picture???? PS, this is a TRUE story!
I'm so glad I have no kids to pass this abortion of a country on to!
This is my favorite line -
Why they would spend 6 large, putting a new building in that kind of area is beyond me, but hey, it's not my money either so, I'm not going to question it.
It hasn't occurred to him that
1 - This is where this building is needed and
2 - They couldn't get any land near the Edwards, Obama, Kerry or Kennedy compounds.
Have only one question; 'who' owns the roach trap, elementary school building he now calls home?
Have only one question; 'who' owns the roach trap, elementary school building he now calls home?
Didn't they pay you? Obama did share the campiagn donations wealth?
In 6 months the 6 million dollar facility will be just as big a dump as the previous one.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.