In recent years approximately 3.5 million US residents (about 1% of the population), including 1.35 million children have been homeless at any one time. This number is about to explode! With record numbers losing their jobs and homes, few if any cities are prepared for what is rapidly coming to pass. Consider these facts:

The march ended up in a hot and dusty city-owned lot next to a police station, where organizers set up a symbolic occupation. Val Jon Farris, founder of a group called iCare America, set up a tent on the lot.

 

"There is no legal place for people to live unless they own, rent or lease a home. So if you're homeless it's illegal to exist. You can't even lay your head anywhere without getting arrested, prosecuted or criminalized," said Farris. "So this is a demonstration in order to create a civil liberty that ought to already exist, which is [that] people have the right to be, to live without the threat of being incarcerated in their own country."

 

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In my humble opinion of course. She, one day, I suspect will be hailed for her courage and looked upon as a hero by some.

 

 

 

 

 

As I nervously watch the era of Obama unfold, I can't help but look back at the first black man seriously considered Presidential material and question what things would be like had Gen. Powell at least been put in as a VP running mate on the GOP ticket. I have an independent, libertarian by nature, fiscally conservative and socially liberal political philosophy. So I have no bias towards right or left political philosophy. I just question how things would have turned out given various changes in political variables.

 

I wonder if any in the GOP really wish Gen. Powell had been given just a little more respect and prominence during the height of his popularity. I think they would have ended up with a party made up of a broader diversity and would have a stronger position politically had they elevated Gen. Powell just a notch or two higher in the GOP food chain. They missed a great opportunity as can be seen in the Obama phenomenon.   

 

 

I am no entertainment critic or expert of comedy but I was just thinking to myself out of these two brilliant comedians whose work would be judged by a majority as more important to society. I think they both rank up there with Stephen Pryor, the late great George Carlin, Red Fox and Carol Burnett and the other great barrier breaking comedians. I think people who can take issues like sex, race, class, and the rest of it, and talk about them in ways we can all laugh are priceless. John Stewart is another great comedian that is in this group and Chris Rock.

 

 

 

Google says, results 1 - 10 of about 7,260,000 for extinxtion of species. (0.34 seconds) 

 

 

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