Mayor Tells Berkeley Homeless to Go Home
Berkeley is well known for being a haven for the homeless. Mayor Tom Bates explains that the homeless can get “three meals a day, seven days a week in Berkeley.” Now, the mayor has announced a move to help these people “out of homelessness and into society.” He has taken his initiative to the Association of Bay Area Governments to create a community around this issue.
Mayor Bates hopes to help open a detox facility in Oakland in March 2007 for the homeless population.
I thought the hobos were the symbol of the Berkeley city! No more crazy people talking to themselves (okay, we still have a few professors and some students)? We will be left with unshaken coffee cups of change and a Telegraph devoid of that pervasive rank B.O. stench.
Next you’ll be telling me that Crazy Hat Lady with the blue lipstick has moved shop.
I pray that your mayor sticks to his guns and works on achieving his “out of homelessness and into society.” statement.
Scott (Homeless In Salt Lake City)
Turning It Over
Comment by Scott — November 25, 2006 @ 11:23 am
If only it were true…
Comment by Bhanu Singh — November 26, 2006 @ 8:45 pm
the lady with the hats used to be a military police officer
Comment by cp — November 27, 2006 @ 9:46 pm
she also went to stanford and cal, and holds a PhD in B.S.
Comment by Anonymous — November 30, 2006 @ 11:25 am
she also is fluent in 50* languages and is a radical pro-israel fanatic.
*number subject to change.
Comment by mano — November 30, 2006 @ 12:09 pm
is a “radical pro-isarael fanatic” someone anyone who thinks the qassams need to stop? f*ck hamas.
Comment by anon54 — November 30, 2006 @ 3:33 pm
anon54… if you want her precise opinions on israel you should go ask her. she does speak english (among her many languages).
anyway, yes, she is what i would consider a fanatic, since her opinions seem based in an affinity for israel that she can’t really rationalize. that would also be the dictionary definition of fanaticism, but you can look it up and double check if you need to.
hint: you do (need to check).
bonus hint: many of the rest of Cal’s armchair e-defenders of israel would also do well to check into the definition of fanaticism.
Comment by mano — November 30, 2006 @ 6:38 pm
does biting a police officer while illegally blocking the entrance of a campus building qualify as fanaticism? f*ck hamas.
Comment by anon54 — December 1, 2006 @ 9:41 am
haha, mano, there are so many pro-palestinian fanatics in Berkeley (you included), why do you even go there? check out the definition and apply it to your pals in SJP. they seem to have this affinity to arab suicide bombers that they just cannot rationalize.
Comment by alum03 — December 1, 2006 @ 4:06 pm
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/1452225
Comment by cp — December 1, 2006 @ 8:45 pm
Why you gotta hate, alum03?
Comment by Yaman — December 3, 2006 @ 10:32 am