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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on December 20, 2010, 08:38:56 PM
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Dec-20-10 02:35 PM
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National Homeless Persons Memorial Day
December 21st is the longest and the coldest day of the year. It is the perfect day to honor and mourn those who died homeless, not only in the past year, but all years gone by. But even as we gather to remember and honor those who have died, we must resolve to do whatever it takes to ensure that such memorials do not need to become an annual event. Far too many individuals die on the streets, in cars, in shelters with no family or no loved ones to mourn for them. This will be the only memorial service they receive.
It should also be a time to give thought to those still suffering from homelessness and what can be done about it. This is a time when we should look inward and pledge to do whatever we can to put an end to this complex problem. Its nice to hold candlelight vigils and rallies for an end to homelessness, but it is not nearly enough. The problem is lack of affordable housing. We must call on our reps and senators to do something about this, its an uphill fight but it must be fought, its that important.
Here is a website with links that could give you some ideas, please check it out. http://www.nationalhomeless.org/projects/memorial/index... And I ask you to try to keep this kicked at least through tomorrow.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x45666
I know the solution to the homeless problem.
Using the health care bill as a model, we simply mandate that everyone either rents a home or buys one.
You will never guess who showed up,
bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Dec-20-10 02:57 PM
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2. It is upsetting that I can't find locations and times for local memorials.
I know where the Denver one is held, but can't find the time.
They might get more attendess if this information was available.
Thanks for posting....
Well just park where the event is being held and wait for people to show up.
It's not like you have a home anyway. :lmao:
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My husband's birthday is tomorrow. I can't juggle two things at once. Birthday trumps "Homeless Persons" day.
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My husband's birthday is tomorrow. I can't juggle two things at once. Birthday trumps "Homeless Persons" day.
And I have to work so I won't be able to go help support Bobo. :lmao:
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I'll open the door tomorrow.......
for a few seconds and let some heat outside to give them some warmth. :whistling:
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Using the health care bill as a model, we simply mandate that everyone either rents a home or buys one.
Sneaky. :-)
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I have to go to work tomorrow. That's all I got.
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I have to go to work tomorrow. That's all I got.
I suppose we all could skip work tomorrow and go but, then we may be joining the homeless after getting fired. :-)
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Tomorrow, I'm going to be looking for a job so I can better myself.
Hint, hint.
By the way, did everyone know bobbo is homeless?
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As far as I know, our town will not be having a Wino Day parade. Too many repukes around here.
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Tomorrow, I'm going to be looking for a job so I can better myself.
Hint, hint.
By the way, did everyone know bobbo is homeless?
Why bother lookin for a job don't you know Obama has a stash?
:-)
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And I have to work so I won't be able to go help support Bobo. :lmao:
Guys and gals, c'mon, the least we can do for bobbo is sending healing white light her way. :yawn:
Of course, any one of her many DU chums she's charmed over the years with her self-effacing ways could offer her a room in their home. I simply don't understand why the rich DUers don't carry the load for the rest of them. After all, that's what they want the "filthy rich" in this country to do.
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With all the well-to-do DUmmies, bobbo could stay in a different house every day of the year and not get bored.
Come on, DUmmies... pony up.
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Well just park where the event is being held and wait for people to show up.
Whoa.
Maybe that's why the bobbling primitive didn't show up at the big DU get-together during the 2008 Democrat National Convention; the cross-eyed Iowa primitive didn't tell her the time, or said "seven," neglecting to specify "a.m." or "p.m."
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I'm surprised Bobo's response was civil. Normally, she'd come up with something antagonistic, like, "You memorialize them now but you didn't do anything for them when they were alive."
I guess she put some lights on her Pine Tree Air Freshener and it got her all Christmas spirit-y and stuff.
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Persons is sexist and oppressive. We demand you change the name to National Homeless Peoples Memorial Day.
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Persons is sexist and oppressive. We demand you change the name to National Homeless Peoples Memorial Day.
By golly, you are right! How could the democrat sensitivity brigade have missed that sexist slur? The word "person" should be changed to "persibs".
The holiday should be renamed "Wino Day" or "Panhandler Day", or my persibal favorite, "Bum Day", to avoid hurting anyone's feelings.
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I'll send Bobo one of my cookies and we can call it even.
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I know where the Denver one is held, but can't find the time.
Um....what???
Oh, I understand...with all the dumpster diving for food, and asking people for spare change, that only leaves you what? 4 or 6 hours of the day left to attend?
Poor you...
I think that quote right there catches you in the lie you have been propagating since...before I became a Cave dweller.
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Um....what???
Oh, I understand...with all the dumpster diving for food, and asking people for spare change, that only leaves you what? 4 or 6 hours of the day left to attend?
Poor you...
I think that quote right there catches you in the lie you have been propagating since...before I became a Cave dweller.
Did you know dumpster diving is really hard in the rain? It adds an extra two hours to my day.
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She tries to keep it quiet, but DUmmy bobbolink is homeless
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Did you know dumpster diving is really hard in the rain? It adds an extra two hours to my day.
That's nothing. You should try it in the snow after some guy you irritated punched you in the face, and your nose is bleeding, you eyes are watery, and your face hurts. That's MY LIFE!! :bawl:
:rotf:
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I saw a bum getting an early start to the festivities by urinating in an alley.
It filled my heart with joy. The season is complete.
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I'm going to rename the event "Bring a Box to Work Day."
And to follow DUmp grammar, and since I expect them to no longer use the sexist persons, people's needs an apostrophe.
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Bobbolink has a holiday?
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Bobbolink has a holiday?
I guess so. National Bum Day must be like a bizarro Labor Day.
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I guess so. National Bum Day must be like a bizarro Labor Day.
Well I'd like to wish Bobbo a happy homeless day, but I don't know where to send the card. :???:
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:rofl:
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Well I'd like to wish Bobbo a happy homeless day, but I don't know where to send the card. :???:
Stick it on her windshield.
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Stick it on her windshield.
Bobo would throw it away, thinking it was another parking ticket.
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Let me be the first to wish everyone a very merry Bum Day.
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Why doesn't the DUmp take up a collection and get BoBo some energy efficient replacement windows for her Buick Skylark?
...the plastic and duct tape is getting ragged.
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dajoki
Mon Dec-20-10 02:35 PM
Original message
National Homeless Persons Memorial Day
December 21st is the longest and the coldest day of the year.
WRONG, DUmbass!
December 21st is the SHORTEST day of the year. Smart people like you should know this.
The COLDEST DAY could be any day, but the COLDEST MONTH is January, interestingly enough, after the days start getting LONGER.
Or it could be because of "Global Warmingtm", or "Climate Change", or whateverthehellitistoday.
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I will make sure to put a cardboard box on the curb in her honor.
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They held one in Durham (home of UNH) this morning. All the little kiddies came out to show how much they "feeeelllll" about it.
I stopped by and told a few "Knock-Knock" jokes. They weren't amused, for some reason.
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Persons is sexist and oppressive. We demand you change the name to National Homeless Peoples Memorial Day.
Is that Michele my Bell speak?
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December 21st is the longest and the coldest day of the year.
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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Is that Michele my Bell speak?
Ebonics, learn it, you're gonna need it.
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I'm going to give out HI5's to everyone in this thread for making me :rotf:
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Tomorrow, I'm going to be looking for a job so I can better myself.
Hint, hint.
By the way, did everyone know bobbo is homeless?
WHAT?!!? You've got to be shitting me! Bobo is homeless???!!!???
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WHAT?!!? You've got to be shitting me! Bobo is homeless???!!!???
:rotf:
Yes, it was horrible, her Skylark backfired and blew all the windows out.
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Yes, it was horrible, her Skylark backfired and blew all the windows out.
Well, I guess she doesn't need to worry with ice forming on the inside of her windows now.
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WHAT?!!? You've got to be shitting me! Bobo is homeless???!!!???
:rotf:
:overreaction: :overreaction: :overreaction: :orly: :orly: :orly:
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I'd go down the street to say HI! to all the bums, but the creek flooded. I think that's what they call a bath.
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December 21st is the longest and the coldest day of the year
This is so wrong on so many levels. First of all, all days have the exact same length, 24 hours. Due to quirks in the Earth's orbit the shortest amount of daylight is received on December 23rd. In the Southern Hemisphere this is the first day of summer, far from the coldest day of the year. Traditionally North America experiences its coldest days in February.
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WRONG, DUmbass!
December 21st is the SHORTEST day of the year. Smart people like you should know this.
I noticed that, too. Once again, the caring and compassionate in the progressive community have chosen the shortest possible period of daylight in order to observe something as important as homelessness. The homeless should be upset over being forced to accept a day that is over sooner than all the others.
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Happy Bum Day!!
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1. December 21st is just as long as any other day.
2. It is the start of winter, which means it has the shortest amount of daylight of the year.
3. Unless you're in Australia, in which case, it wouldn't be cold at all.
4. (The next 4 spaces intentionally left blank to allow for all the DUmmies to finish blaming Bush and global warming for #3.)
8. Typically, the coldest time of the year is sometime in January
9. There's also a full moon, so these DUmmies will be especially moonbatty tonight.
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1. December 21st is just as long as any other day.
2. It is the start of winter, which means it has the shortest amount of daylight of the year.
3. Unless you're in Australia, in which case, it wouldn't be cold at all.
4. (The next 4 spaces intentionally left blank to allow for all the DUmmies to finish blaming Bush and global warming for #3.)
8. Typically, the coldest time of the year is sometime in January
9. There's also a full moon, so these DUmmies will be especially moonbatty tonight.
Australia is getting snow. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/australia-summer-marked-b_n_799110.html) It's a Huffpo link.
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I guess Australia is going to have a white Christmas too.
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I guess Australia is going to have a white Christmas too.
Quick, someone check with Know-It-All nadin! This could be a tipping point!
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Australia is getting snow. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/australia-summer-marked-b_n_799110.html) It's a Huffpo link.
From a less fear mongering source:
Weather experts said it was not unusual for Australia to experience chilly weather in eastern states in early December, as cold winds from deep in the Southern Oceans sweep upwards.
“It’s not uncommon to get a dusting of snow along the higher peaks of New South Wales and Victoria every couple of years (at this time),†remarked Bureau of Meteorology climatologist Grant Beard.
Mr Gearon agreed, saying that in previous years, those on the Victorian snowfields had been “having cocktails in the sun one day and skiing the nextâ€.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20101221/world-news/australia-swaps-summer-for-christmas-snow
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Quick, someone check with Know-It-All nadin! This could be a tipping point!
Or anthropogenic global climate change, or something!!!
:rotf:
Of course WE all know what the true tipping point is - that's when you're done eating and about ready to pay the reck'ning.
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1. December 21st is just as long as any other day.
2. It is the start of winter, which means it has the shortest amount of daylight of the year.
3. Unless you're in Australia, in which case, it wouldn't be cold at all.
4. (The next 4 spaces intentionally left blank to allow for all the DUmmies to finish blaming Bush and global warming for #3.)
8. Typically, the coldest time of the year is sometime in January
9. There's also a full moon, so these DUmmies will be especially moonbatty tonight.
Darn Happy ain't we lucky we are not living 800 years ago. last time this happend. winter solstice and a eclipse of the moon.
All over the world the people would be marching men and woman to their centers of religion to sacrifice them to whatever god they had to bring back the moon and to bring on the winter.
This I believe is one of the reasons Christians moved Christmass into the time frame of the winter Solstice
Also notice Easter is also changed each year to coinside with the spring solstice.
Ever wonder why, Perhaps Mrs Smith can explain to you why Easter is moved from year to year.
Btw mrs. smith is our experct on Christinanty, she has all her ducks in a row. Very well versed lady and not a died in the wool tunnel vision person.
Happy, if you are not religious then it wont hurt to check into why those who are have beliefes at what time of the year.
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I wish I was wasted... I might be able to make better sense of things posted here. lol
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I think someone is posting here while under general Anastasia.
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All over the world the people would be marching men and woman to their centers of religion to sacrifice them to whatever god they had to bring back the moon and to bring on the winter.
I realize this probably comes as complete news to you, but by 800 years ago even the Vikings had become Christians, Charlemagne and Alfred the Great were already mythic figures, the European discovery of gunpowder was not all that far off, and things were a lot more peaceful than they were going to be for a damned long time into the future.
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I think someone is posting here while under general Anastasia.
I weep.
:lmao: :lmao:
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Bobbolink has a holiday?
:lmao:
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I realize this probably comes as complete news to you, but by 800 years ago even the Vikings had become Christians, Charlemagne and Alfred the Great were already mythic figures, the European discovery of gunpowder was not all that far off, and things were a lot more peaceful than they were going to be for a damned long time into the future.
Well, vesta does have a point in that the Aztecs were knee deep in sacrificial blood centuries AFTER Europeans quit with that practice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec
Granted, Europeans were still a barbaric people who routinely treated executions as a public holiday, rejoiced in the burning of witches and so on, but still, it's quite impossible to top the "peaceloving native peoples" of the Americas for sheer brutality. Sort of, no, exactly like, how any damage we inflict on the "peaceful natives" of Afghanistan is a drop in the bucket compared to the inherent savagary of their so-called culture. Any society that treats women and children the way the Afghans do is not worthy of the name civilized, and so it was with the Aztecs and their penchant for human sacrifice.
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My husband's birthday is tomorrow. I can't juggle two things at once. Birthday trumps "Homeless Persons" day.
If you made your husband homeless for a day it would show you really care.
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Um, correct me if I am wrong, but, aren't memorials usually held for those who contributed something of worth to society?
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Well, vesta does have a point in that the Aztecs were knee deep in sacrificial blood centuries AFTER Europeans quit with that practice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec
Granted, Europeans were still a barbaric people who routinely treated executions as a public holiday, rejoiced in the burning of witches and so on, but still, it's quite impossible to top the "peaceloving native peoples" of the Americas for sheer brutality. Sort of, no, exactly like, how any damage we inflict on the "peaceful natives" of Afghanistan is a drop in the bucket compared to the inherent savagary of their so-called culture. Any society that treats women and children the way the Afghans do is not worthy of the name civilized, and so it was with the Aztecs and their penchant for human sacrifice.
All that and more is just under the skin of every person and society today, kept at bay only by prosperity and mass communication. People haven't changed fundamentally. Those witch-burners considered themselves especially devout Christians, and ones who went to pains to afford the accused legal due process (Absurd as their concept of it seems to us today) in convicting them.
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Well, vesta does have a point
Right there you just about destroyed all credibiliity!
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Um, correct me if I am wrong, but, aren't memorials usually held for those who contributed something of worth to society?
Ah. but they did! They sacrificed themselves to homelessness and kickin' the bucket so DUmmies like Bobo wouldn't have to worry about carbon credits!
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Here's a pic of my hand(sorta)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i310/ReeW/20100716_14.jpg)
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Right there you just about destroyed all credibiliity!
What is it everyone says? Even a broken clock can be right twice a day.
Now cuz you don't find me credible you missed the icky link about bloody savages in the New World. :-)
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All that and more is just under the skin of every person and society today, kept at bay only by prosperity and mass communication. People haven't changed fundamentally. Those witch-burners considered themselves especially devout Christians, and ones who went to pains to afford the accused legal due process (Absurd as their concept of it seems to us today) in convicting them.
I couldn't agree with you more, and a HI5.
Of course, having seven cats (attrition has whittled them down from ten) AND possessing numerous moles and freckles, I'd be the guest of honor at a bonfire.
All you have to do to observe the inherent savagery left within (wo)mankind is attend a cutrate sale at Bloomingdales or Macys.
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Wait, how did I miss a holiday for bobo the hobo? I forgot to get it a present. :thatsright:
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Wait, how did I miss a holiday for bobo the hobo? I forgot to get it a present. :thatsright:
Give the gift that keeps on giving-Healing White Light
That or a dollar oughta get her a cup of coffee from one of those EVIL corporations like Mickey D's.
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$3 might get her a cup from Starbucks. However, I wouldn't know. I STILL remember the story about Starbucks not giving victims of 9/11 any water without money being shelled out for it. Even in that special circumstance. :argh:
To this day...9 years later, I won't go near the place.
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$# might get her a cup from Starbucks. However, I wouldn't know. I STILL remember the story about Starbucks not giving victims of 9/11 any water without money being shelled out for it. Even in that special circumstance. :argh:
To this day...9 years later, I won't go near the place.
Starbux sux. Their coffee tastes bitter and they charge through the nose for it. I did not know about not giving 9/11 victims a cup of water, but I have heard about the Red Cross charging GI's for coffee and donuts during WWII.
I donate to small no kill animal shelters and the Salvation Army and I never buy a cup of cofee unless I'm travelling, at which time it's from Mickey D's. They do have the best, IMO, and I know better than to position the cup between my thighs. :whatever:
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I hate to give you a snopes link, but it's all I can find. I know damn well I heard this info back on Fox NEws way back when, but for the life of me...
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/starbucks.asp
Oh, and here's some good news too. Starbucks doesn't like the troops overseas either. Which I didn't know, but validates my loathing of Starbucks even more if it is indeed true.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=22092443056&topic=9713
Sgt. Howard Wright,
1 Platoon, Recon Company, Royal Marines
It comes from a Sgt, so I'm thinking it is indeed true. Screw Starbucks!
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Wait, how did I miss a holiday for bobo the hobo? I forgot to get it a present. :thatsright:
Which begs an interesting question: How can you tell when a bum is on vacation?
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Which begs an interesting question: How can you tell when a bum is on vacation?
They move to a different street corner.
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I haz duh DUmmie solution to the homeless problem....we build more Bridges to nowhere.
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They move to a different street corner.
:rotf: :rotf:OK, that was priceless.
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I haz duh DUmmie solution to the homeless problem....we build more Bridges to nowhere.
No, build the bridges to the White House so they can all access Lord Zer0's stash.
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I haz duh DUmmie solution to the homeless problem....we build more Bridges to nowhere.
Well, sure, but how do we get them to line up and march off the end of it? Other than the blind ones, anyway?
Oh, and I wonder if they're going to televise Obama leaving a bottle of screw-top wine in memoriam in front of the Eternal Sterno Flame over at the National Dumpster of the Unknown Homeless Guy before he takes off for Hawaii...
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Oh, and here's some good news too. Starbucks doesn't like the troops overseas either. Which I didn't know, but validates my loathing of Starbucks even more if it is indeed true.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=22092443056&topic=9713
It comes from a Sgt, so I'm thinking it is indeed true. Screw Starbucks!
It's false too. Originally it was Sgt Howard Wright of the USMC.
Another Snopes link... (http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/starbucks.asp)
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Didn't know the backstory behind that. Thanks.
However, it did still say that Starbucks only payed back the $310 it charged after the story was covered by much media. The employee was an asshole, but I believe SB showed some of their true colors during that whole debacle. For that, I'll never drink a cup of mocha with one shot, and no lip.
Whatever the **** that is...
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Oh, and I wonder if they're going to televise Obama leaving a bottle of screw-top wine in memoriam in front of the Eternal Sterno Flame over at the National Dumpster of the Unknown Homeless Guy before he takes off for Hawaii...
:rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao:
And the H5 for the win!