Posted on 10/19/2001 9:26:17 PM PDT by nicholle
They probably spend it on alcohol. If you don't give them anything, they'll be forced to go to a homeless shelter and the operators of the shelter will try to get them to turn their lives around. Please consider donating money to a homeless shelter instead.
Enough already! As a member of the Constitutional militia, I hereby call on all members of the militia who are not currently serving in another capacity to enlist in the now-forming Emergency Powder Tasters Brigade. Your duties will consist of responding to all "strange powder" sightings in your area by rushing to the scene, or if already there, resisting evacuation by physical force if necessary, sticking your tongue out to taste the "strange powder", and loudly announcing its identity to the assembled panicking crowd (as in "Yep, coffee creamer" or "Yum, confectioner's sugar", or "Yicky, laundry detergent", or "YUCK!, bird poop!--yes, a lady in Kansas actually called police to investigate the powdery bird poop on her car). Enlistees are advised to train for this mission by sampling common household powders with whose taste they might not be familiar--such as plain baking soda and baking powder, laundry detergent, talcum powder, that fine mineral powder given off by certain types of humidifiers, and any other white powder you can find around your home; just a little touch with the tip of the tongue, now--no need to poison yourselves during a mere training exercise).
Seriously folks, these "anthrax scares" are fast becoming a significant disruption to our national economy, and it's time to put up some firm resistance. Can you imagine the dollar cost of the four hour evacuation of an LAX terminal--over powdered coffee creamer!! Shutting down New York City's 4,5,6 subway line during a weekday morning rush hour could severely impair the functioning of the financial markets. In the current climate, this power is in the hands of every irresponsible adolescent prankster in the city. This won't stop unless we stop it.
Ah, Bob "I Like Hitler" Burnett blows his cover.
Tell your boss to come up with a new cover name for you, "Bob", it's now apparent that you're as "American" as apple strudel.
Royko hated everything, so it's not a good standard of measurement. :)
I grew up in the Bronx, and my uncle had a furniture store real close to Yankee Stadium (looted in the blackout), but I've never been to a game there -- or anywhere. I'm Yankee agnostic. Heck, I'm baseball-agnostic. Never been to a game anywhere. Football either. No interest in sports whatsoever, heheheheh. (Unless hunting and fishing qualify, but the way I see it, if there's no trading cards ("Clem Yoder with the Gray Squirrel of October '72"), it's not a real sport.)
They never left. The cops just shuffle them around to new locations from time to time to make the rest of us think that there are no more homeless people.
Taking proper precautions is not living on your knees although I guess it might seem that way from a safe distance.
Terminally loser managers tend not to pull off anything when the chips are on the line.
We New Yorkers are going on with our lives too, thank you. When something happens we react accordingly and then afterwards resume our normal activities.
Gearing up for another hit-and-run I suppose...
Our prayers are with the Big Apple or is it called the Big Eazy.
The Big Crusty Pant Suit Lovin' Town
Thanks for the laugh. A lot of the homeless won't stay in the shelters because they are far more dangerous than living in the streets.
Why not?
Something to think about. The government is not deporting illegal aliens, are they? How many illegal aliens in NYC metro region? What's the odds there's a certain pertcentage of them are terrs active or terr sympathasiers and will shelter and support them? those odds are close to 100%, yes?
what the public government just will never, ever say out loud is that the US is disneyland to terrorists. We are what's called a 'target-rich" environment, and there is really no way for any number of authorities, using any means they have, to change that reality. they are not even contemplating some of the necessary steps that would even minimize the risk, not really.
I would advise anyone to rethink living heavy urban metro at this point in time. don't look at it as running away, just look at it as making a logical both short term tactical and longer range strategic relocation decision. Beat the rush, next attack or two, urban property values are going to plummet, that is my official public prediction, as people will want to sell out and move and work much farther out suburban or totally rural.
When I left work near Grand Central around 6:30 pm Friday, I noticed unusually long lines on the Madison Avenue busstops (they parallel the subway line, and are an alternative for short uptown rides), and that the buses already rolling were sardine cans on wheels.
Both conditions would have been unusual during the peak of rush hour, say 5:15 pm. At 6:30, for both the stops and the buses to be jammed meant "something" was going on.
And, of course nothing on any news outlet, just like when they shut the Lex down during the morning rush this week for a "suspicious" package.
Now if the tunnels were rigged with high explosives, or if someone says the magic words "SARIN GAS", people will be able to hear me screaming as far away as Kansas. But I just can't work up a panic over anthrax. Can't do it.
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