Hells Angels: Getting To Be A Holiday Tradition
I did my usual homeless census on my AM run as is my habit it seems on T-Day. My route was shorter than usual as I’m nursing a calf injury, which is much better after taking the better part of a month and a half off from running completely. Even so, the tally is 26 Homeless, and a dozen Hells Angels lined up along the sidewalk at the same cafe they were at last year.
For a while, I was thinking the Mayor’s programs to clean up the homeless issue was working, but really, they are just dislocated. There were not the same congregations of homeless in the places they were last year. This year, they were spread out, outside of the park on city streets. It’s astonishing.
Homelessness has been a problem for a great long while. Why is it that people can figure out how to provide free search engines and email accounts, but can’t fix the homeless problem? No wait, I know. It’s because there’s no money in it, unlike some unpopular wars in foreign lands I know.
November 22nd, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Most of America only worries about what they can control…
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:34 am
steve,
So why are you guys so worried about terrorism? Unless you’re sayng you think America controls that.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Steve, do you want to elaborate on that. I can only speak for me but I only worry about what I cannot control and unfortunately the accounts for quite a lot. For instance, if I could control exactly who my 18 yr old grandson hangs with or what he does I would worry less. Or if I could control how those little balls fall out of the power ball cage, I would worry one hell of a lot less about money. The fact that I cannot seem to use the other 90% of my brain power and make the balls match my ticket is what worries me. I’m getting older and broker with every drawing.
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Bravo for the Hell’s Angels however if they really wanted to make a difference they could hand out food every day and not just Thanksgiving and everywhere they do business. Speaking of business, how about paying taxes on the money they make from drug dealing and other cash business in which they involve themselves. The revenue sent to the goverment could be attached with a note to please spend it on ending homlessness. Just a thought.
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:28 pm
You mean search engines like Google, the one that owns You Tube who puts up jihadists propoganda but will delete anything that opposes it? Or Google sattelite that terrorists can use to pin point targets should they want to.
The same Google that Al Gore owns millions of shares of. I guess that’s because there’s money in it just like Global Warming carbon credits.
Homelessness isn’t something that has an easy fix And it’s not a new problem either. Alot of
homelessness also is because of substance abuse.
People can get help if they really want it. But if there is so much you can do to help someone who lives for their next drink or their next hit.
Thank you for helping the homeless,that’s mighty Christian of you.
November 23rd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
FYI, I saw the Hells Angels lining to enter a cafe for breakfast, not serving homeless folk. That may have been on the agenda, but my eyes only saw them dismounting and heading into the local cafe. Oddly, one of them had “owner of a lonely heart…”blasting out of the on board radio for the whole world to dance to…maybe that was his contribution to the problem.
Another commentator at my blog wrote the following: