tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post116628391370201979..comments2024-03-25T23:25:12.623-04:00Comments on 007 in Africa: Thoughts on Homelessness007 in Africahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683627918247455360noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post-1166700257985626972006-12-21T06:24:00.000-05:002006-12-21T06:24:00.000-05:00Unfortuantelly, homeless people are everywhere... ...Unfortuantelly, homeless people are everywhere... and that's specially sad during these days, ain't?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post-1166685665050287702006-12-21T02:21:00.000-05:002006-12-21T02:21:00.000-05:00PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS. 1)During Industrial Revolutio...PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS. <BR/>1)During Industrial Revolution small trade unions (or sort of) in Western Europe pick weekly from komrade's pay and store for everybody's hard time. <BR/><BR/>2) Islam forbids banking loans and interests. As an alternative a cleric'c fatwa suggest friends should have their Piggy Bank. Every chap would put money into the Pig according to his income. The chap in need would break the pig and pick what he needs. <BR/><BR/>3) Save money. Do not buy gifts to rich Auntie (Asshole) Polly. The day you knock at her door, she will pretend she is not home.<BR/><BR/>StrudelJohn Gerard Sapodillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960580577879870217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post-1166684857412639892006-12-21T02:07:00.000-05:002006-12-21T02:07:00.000-05:00STRUDEL MEETS BLACK GRANNY. Black Granny's Mansion...STRUDEL MEETS BLACK GRANNY. Black Granny's Mansion was a dirty blanket and some sheets of thick paper. But Strudel is not sure Black Granny was really sleeping in her Mansion on the sidewalk, all what he could see at six o'clock in the morning were black rags sandwiched between the blancket and the thick papers. No face no legs no shoes. Everything would vanish before the opening of the first shop. Later in a sunny morning you could meet those black rags begging in the street from Vatican Museums to San Peter's Church, was it Black Granny inside those rags? <BR/>It was a top begging location anyway, Black Granny would get more the a salesman in his lucky day. <BR/>StrudelJohn Gerard Sapodillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960580577879870217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post-1166680878873980922006-12-21T01:01:00.000-05:002006-12-21T01:01:00.000-05:00STRUDEL MEETS HIMSELF. The man was sitting on the ...STRUDEL MEETS HIMSELF. The man was sitting on the sidewalks, a paperbox with some few coins near him. A middle-aged white collar, wearing a tie. The man pretended to be a beggar, but had apparently no experience about. He was quiet and silent. A better location where to beg would have been the near underground station, but the man was too shy. A couple of years ago the man quit a safe job for a more interesting but risky one: the new company went bust, his wife asked for divorce and kicked him out of their house which happened to be under her name. His sons could, or would, give him just some random help. A friend was allowing the man to sleep out of season in his house on the sea. Some Christian Volunteers were visiting from time time the man who was in need of everything. <BR/>As soon as Strudel realized that he had met Himself in another life, became angry, gave the man some nice sweaters, shirts and ties, ordered to go looking for a whatever job. <BR/>But nobody would give the man a job. No Carol Lombard for my Godfrey. In our hard-hearted times spinters and widows prefer loneliness to a pennyless man. Soon afterwards Strudel left that town for good and all, but before leaving he asked his neighbours to take care of the man: they were of a middle-class, hubby&wife going to church on Sundays.Strudel didn't like the way they smiled in reply. <BR/>All this happened in Rome(Italy) not so many years ago in a street near San Peter's Church. <BR/>StrudelJohn Gerard Sapodillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960580577879870217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post-1166675519425471482006-12-20T23:31:00.000-05:002006-12-20T23:31:00.000-05:00A PINCH OF COMMUNISM TO CAPITALIST SOUP? First, yo...A PINCH OF COMMUNISM TO CAPITALIST SOUP? First, you didn’t have to pay anything for your health support. No health insurances, no paid doctors, no need to save money for your new teeth. Everything is paid by government for you. You could visit any doctor in any part of Soviet state for free. You could live a whole life and don’t pay a penny for your health. Or how about going to college for free? Any high school student who graduated could go to a college, university or institute of his choice totally for free, of course if his knowledge level corresponded. Another thing – there were no poor people in terms of living on the street eating from trash bins and burning fires to warm themselves. Because all people were obliged to work and all jobs were in the hands of the state everybody worked and also because as I mentioned all the apartments belonged to the state – everybody had a place to live. But in general all the people, except top management of the Communist party, top scientists, top military man and other tops were poor if to compare with a middle class of any European country for that period of time(Timofey Kiselev) . StrudelJohn Gerard Sapodillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960580577879870217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post-1166383672312582322006-12-17T14:27:00.000-05:002006-12-17T14:27:00.000-05:00I know this is really going to sound silly, but on...I know this is really going to sound silly, but one way to better understand what homelessness is like is to watch "the Pursuit of Happyness." It's a feel-good, Hollywood movie, and obviously watching homelessness on the movie screen when you know there's going to be a happy ending is not at all the same as experiencing it, or seeing it in the real world. But the movie did make me realize that homelessness isn't just an abstract thing that happens to other people. It's not at all romanticized in the movie (though they don't mention anything about rapes or violence).<BR/>I feel awful because it's like I'm plugging a movie (and worst of all I'm not even being paid for it :). Maybe you should wait until it's out on video, but it's worth watching IMO. Besides, I like happy endings :)<BR/>-AmmoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post-1166356824408145852006-12-17T07:00:00.000-05:002006-12-17T07:00:00.000-05:00ehy pppssttt Santa, it's me again. Do you take sec...ehy pppssttt Santa, it's me again. Do you take second-hand wives too? It happens I have gotten one who does not match with my...<BR/><BR/>??? <BR/>Temper . Truly yours, StrudelJohn Gerard Sapodillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960580577879870217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post-1166356668993205882006-12-17T06:57:00.000-05:002006-12-17T06:57:00.000-05:00dear Santa. I am not asking, but sending. I know y...dear Santa. I am not asking, but sending. I know your warehouse is empty, out of stock, due to widespread selfishness. I am sending you a pair of sport-shoes, that do not match with my feet and I wore a few times. StrudelJohn Gerard Sapodillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960580577879870217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039960.post-1166356452747502592006-12-17T06:54:00.000-05:002006-12-17T06:54:00.000-05:00This week the World Bank released a report titled ...This week the World Bank released a report titled “Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization.” The report says governments must make “pro-poor investments” in order to benefit from a world economy on the verge of being run by poor countries. But traditional investments -- money trying to make more of itself -- will flow naturally to the productive poor, not to the destitute poor.strudelJohn Gerard Sapodillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960580577879870217noreply@blogger.com