California Is Booming. Why Are So Many Californians Unhappy?

[Flash]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/b...gtype=Homepage

[Jack]

Too many fucking people.

[Bill]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/b...gtype=Homepage

SAN FRANCISCO — Christine Johnson, a public-finance consultant with an engineering degree, was running for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

She crisscrossed her downtown district talking about her plans to stimulate housing construction, improve public transit and deal with the litter of “needles and poop” that have become a common sight on the city’s sidewalks.

[cawacko]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/b...gtype=Homepage

I wasn’t able to read the article either but I can probably guess what the article says. Even in the last year it’s gotten worse in SF and the Bay Area.

Traveling is great for many reasons. I went to Dallas to visit the in-laws for Christmas and being somewhere else reminds you what we see in SF on a daily basis is not normal. It shouldn’t be like this.

[bhaktajan]

The evolution of Fucking

Does F.U.C.K. really derived from "Fornication Under Consent of the King"?
China's one child policy.
Arranged marriage.
Multiple Marriage (bigamy) always included child support.
Henry the 8th had witnesses to court present during conception
DYK There are yoga sacraments and techniques for attaining yogi babies?!!

Too many fucking people.

"When irreligion is prominent in the family,
the women of the family become corrupt,
and from the degradation of womanhood,
comes unwanted progeny."

Chapter 1: Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra. Text 40,
as said by the Aryan Prince Arjuna told to his cousin Krishna, the chariot driver,
one the opening day of a long simmering civil war over the emperor-ship
of the planet earth 3000 BCE, in Northern Indian on the Battle field
known as Kurukshetra, as recounted in the Sanskrit literary epic
entitled the "Maha-Bharata" [Great Bharata (Great India)],
in the chapter of the Bhimsha-parva section, where seven hundred
verses are universall known as the "song of God" aka the
"Bhagavad-gita".

Here is what one traditional Hindu Scholar said about this verse:

Good population in human society is the basic principle for peace, prosperity and spiritual progress in life.
The varna-ashrama religion's principles were so designed that the good population would prevail in society
for the general spiritual progress of state and community.
Such population depends on the chastity and faithfulness of its womanhood.
As children are very prone to be misled, women are similarly very prone to degradation.
Therefore, both children and women require protection by the elder members of the family.
By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into adultery.
According to Canakya Pandit, women are generally not very intelligent and therefore not trustworthy.
So, the different family traditions of religious activities should always engage them,
and thus their chastity and devotion will give birth to a good population eligible for
participating in the varna-ashrama system.
On the failure of such varna-ashrama-dharma, naturally the women become free to act and mix with men,
and thus adultery is indulged in at the risk of unwanted population.
Irresponsible men also provoke adultery in society,
and thus unwanted children flood the human race at the risk of war and pestilence.

Canakya Pandit:
Canakya Pandita—the brahmana advisor to King Candragupta responsible for
checking Alexander the Great’s invasion of India.
He is a famous author of books containing aphorisms on politics and morality.

Varna-ashrama-dharma:
The system of four occupational and four spiritual orders established in the
Vedic scriptures and discussed by Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita.
Where each of the four occupational orders ideally progress through each of the four spiritual orders.
Varna (four occupational orders):
one of the four Vedic social-occupational divisions of society,
distinguished by quality of work and situation with regard to the modes of nature, ie:

1. Brahmana [Intelligencia];
2. Kshatriya [Admistration];
3. Vaishya [mercantile];
4. Shudra [Artisan; Laborer].

Ashrama (four spiritual orders):
One of the four spiritual orders of life, ie:
brahmacari-ashrama, or student life;
Grihasta-ashrama, or married life;
Vanaprastha, or retired life;
Sannyasa-ashrama, or the renounced order of life where spiritual practices are executed.

[Bill]

I wasn’t able to read the article either but I can probably guess what the article says. Even in the last year it’s gotten worse in SF and the Bay Area.

Traveling is great for many reasons. I went to Dallas to visit the in-laws for Christmas and being somewhere else reminds you what we see in SF on a daily basis is not normal. It shouldn’t be like this.

How was your trip to the lake??

[Bill]

Bussed out
How America moves its homeless
Each year, US cities give thousands of homeless people one-way bus tickets out of town. An 18-month nationwide investigation by the Guardian reveals, for the first time, what really happens at journey’s end

By the Outside in America team

20 December 2017

uinn Raber arrived at a San Francisco bus station lugging a canvas bag containing all of his belongings: jeans, socks, underwear, pajamas. It was 1pm on a typically overcast day in August.

An unassuming 27-year-old, Raber seemed worn down: his skin was sun-reddened, he was unshaven, and a hat was pulled over his ruffled blond hair. After showing the driver a one-way ticket purchased for him by the city of San Francisco, he climbed the steps of the Greyhound bus.
ChicoDenverFort LauderdaleHumboldt CountyKey WestLong BeachNew YorkPhoenixPortlandRenoSalt Lake CitySan FranciscoSanta CruzSanta MonicaSarasotaWest Palm BeachSan FranciscoIndianapolis50500Destination city:number of homelessarrivalsHomeless rate per 100,000
50100250500

Homeless bus relocation journeys to destinations in the mainland US

21,400
2011201220132014201520162017

He traveled 2,275 miles over three days to reach his destination: Indianapolis.

Cities have been offering homeless people free bus tickets to relocate elsewhere for at least three decades. In recent years, homeless relocation programs have become more common, sprouting up in new cities across the country and costing the public millions of dollars.

But until now there has never been a systematic, nationwide assessment of the consequences. Where are these people being moved to? What impact are these programs having on the cities that send and the cities that receive them? And what happens to these homeless people after they reach their destination?

In an 18-month investigation, the Guardian has conducted the first detailed analysis of America’s homeless relocation programs, compiling a database of around 34,240 journeys and analyzing their effect on cities and people.

A count earlier this year found half a million homeless people on one night in America. The problem is most severe in the west, where rates of homelessness are skyrocketing in a number of major cities, and where states like California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington have some of the highest rates of per capita homelessness.

These are also the states where homeless relocation programs are concentrated. Using public record laws, the Guardian obtained data from 16 cities and counties that give homeless people free bus tickets to live elsewhere.

The data from these cities has been compiled to build the first comprehensive picture of America’s homeless relocation programs. Over the past six years, the period for which our data is most complete, we are able to track where more than 20,000 homeless people have been sent to and from within the mainland US.

Raber had been feeling sick, tired and depressed in San Francisco, and after three years living on the streets he decided to take his chances in Indianapolis, where he grew up. An old friend had offered him a living room to sleep in and told him there was a possibility of a job as a dishwasher at a nearby fine-dining fish restaurant.

“I’m just going to go back and work,” Raber said, and “save money, and just live”.

The Guardian has determined the outcomes of several dozen journeys based on interviews with homeless people who were relocated and friends and relatives who received them at their destination, and the shelter managers, police officers and outreach workers who supplied them with their one-way tickets.

Some of these journeys provide a route out of homelessness, and many recipients of free tickets said they are grateful for the opportunity for a fresh start. Returning to places they previously lived, many rediscover old support networks, finding a safe place to sleep, caring friends or family, and the stepping stones that lead, eventually, to their own home.

Nan Roman, head of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, said bus programs can be a “positive”, although not a panacea, in part because most people are homeless in places they are from.

That is far from the whole story, however.

Once they get you out of their city, they really don’t care what happens to you

- Jeff Weinberger, Florida Homelessness Action Coalition

While the stated goal of San Francisco’s Homeward Bound and similar programs is helping people, the schemes also serve the interests of cities, which view free bus tickets as a cheap and effective way of cutting their homeless populations.

People are routinely sent thousands of miles away after only a cursory check by authorities to establish they have a suitable place to stay once they get there. Some said they feel pressured into taking tickets, and others described ending up on the streets within weeks of their arrival.

Jeff Weinberger, co-founder of the Florida Homelessness Action Coalition, a not-for-profit that operates in a state with four bus programs, said the schemes are a “smoke-and-mirrors ruse tantamount to shifting around the deck chairs on the Titanic rather than reducing homelessness”.

“Once they get you out of their city, they really don’t care what happens to you.”
A one-way ticket off the island
Willie Romines, Key West

Willie Romines was attracted to Key West for the same reasons as the tourists and billionaires whose yachts fill the marina. “It’s beautiful, it’s paradise,” he said. “You meet a lot of people from different countries.” For homeless people like Romines, there was also the added benefit of a mattress at the Keys Overnight Temporary Shelter (Kots).

But the 62-year-old former painter said his life on the island took a turn for the worse about five years ago, after he fell off his bicycle and broke his ankle in four places. He decided to spend a couple of months recuperating at a friend’s house in Ocala, and the shelter offered him a free bus ticket for the 460-mile trip.

He insists he was never told that by agreeing to take that Greyhound bus ticket off of the island, he was also promising never to come back.

I would never have taken the ticket if I had known this would happen

- Willie Romines

Romines said when he took his ticket, he was told he could return to the shelter after six months. But when he came back to Key West, still limping from his badly injured leg, he said he was informed by shelter employees that the ban was for life. He would have to sleep on the streets.

“I would never have taken the ticket if I had known this would happen,” he said. “They stabbed me in the back is what they did.”
Willie Romines, 62, took the bus from Key West to Ocala, Florida.

The Southernmost Homeless Assistance League (Shal), a not-for-profit that runs the shelter, requires recipients of bus tickets to sign a contract confirming their relocation will be “permanent” and acknowledging they will “no longer be eligible” for homeless services upon their return.

Of the 16 cities that shared their data with the Guardian, Key West was the only program with a policy expressly banning homeless people returning. It is also the only program that does not have a record of where it has sent 350 or so people who have been given one-way tickets off the island since 2014.

In many respects, however, Key West’s bus program is similar to the others in the database.

Homeless people hear about bus schemes through word of mouth or are offered a free ticket by a caseworker. To qualify, they must provide a contact for a friend or relative who will receive them at their chosen destination. The shelter then calls that person to check the homeless traveler will have somewhere suitable to stay.

No one is supposed to be put on a bus so they can be homeless elsewhere, and there is broad agreement that no tickets should be given to those with outstanding warrants.

John Miller, the executive director of Shal, said his organisation also tries to find homeless people work on the island and, where possible, a transition to housing. But he insists the bus relocation program is a valuable service, and said he often receives letters of gratitude.

Most of the people who stay at the shelter are locals, he said, but there are others who come to Key West and discover it is not the tropical paradise they expected.

“Between the heat and the bugs, and the lack of services, and the low wages and the high rents, it is just not a good place to be homeless. It might be one of the worst places in the country to be homeless. The only thing you can say is you’re not going to freeze to death.”

Nonetheless, Miller said around one in 10 homeless people who take a free ticket off the island boomerang back, only to discover that they have no access to the few services that were previously available to them.

That was the easiest sell … give us money and we’ll ship our problem to somebody else

- John Miller, Southernmost Homeless Assistance League

“They’re like: well I didn’t think you were serious,” he said. “We’re like: yeah, we’re serious. Some of those gather up their change and leave again. And then we have some that are sleeping on Higgs beach or whatever.”

Miller said that Romines, who was issued his ticket under a previous scheme, is not on the official list of people banned from the shelter. Romines, however, insists he was told he was not permitted to sleep there, and police records show he has been arrested three times for sleeping outside, including on Higgs beach, a strip of sand on the south of the island.
Mike Tolbert, former shelter official, defends the policy of banning people from returning.

Miller conceded that members of his board had been “conflicted” over the morality of turning homeless people away because they previously took a free bus ticket.

But he maintained the policy was justified to discourage abuse – a point echoed by his former deputy, Mike Tolbert, who said it was the only way to prevent the shelter from being used as a “travel agency”.

There is another benefit to the shelter in banning ticket recipients from coming back: it is a policy that can appeal to locals on the island. Miller asks residents to contribute to a fund that will buy homeless people one-way tickets to relocate elsewhere. He makes clear that they will not be allowed to come back.

“That, I figured, was the easiest ‘sell’,” Miller said. “Give us money and we’ll ship our homeless problem to somebody else.”
The hundreds who fly overseas

Two children tumbled out of a cab at New York City’s John F Kennedy airport on a humid evening in July. They enthusiastically helped pull suitcases onto the crowded curb. Their parents looked more subdued; they felt they were being strong-armed by city officials to board a flight to Puerto Rico.

“I really don’t want to go back,” Jose Ortiz, 28, had said hours earlier, standing outside the austere brick building in the Bronx where his family had been given temporary shelter as the city assessed their case, a standard procedure. “They said we could only stay in this apartment for 10 days, after that we might be on the street.”

New York appears to have been the first major city to begin a relocation program for homeless people, back in 1987. After the current iteration of the program was relaunched during the tenure of mayor Michael Bloomberg, it ballooned, and its relocation scheme is now far larger than any other in the nation. The city homelessness department budgets $500,000 for it annually.

Almost half the approximately 34,000 journeys analyzed by the Guardian originate from New York. In contrast with other relocation initiatives, New York is notable for moving large numbers of families, like the Ortizes.

New York does not only move homeless people on buses. About 20% of travelers were given sometimes-costly airline tickets.
Homeless relocations from New York City

much much more @ source....

[cawacko]

How was your trip to the lake??

Heading up tomorrow morning. That’s assuming I’m able to function. Still on a high from the 49ers game.

[Bill]

LOL, you waited for the snow??

Be safe going up there

[cawacko]

LOL, you waited for the snow??

Be safe going up there

Thanks! Haha, yeah I wanted to stay here for the game. Hoping I don’t regret this decision.

[Bill]

http://www.newtoreno.com/ca-i80-webc...ner-summit.htm

Should be rapping up soon & prob clear by the time you get up the hill... https://www.localconditions.com/weat...62/traffic.php

[Jack]

The evolution of Fucking

Does F.U.C.K. really derived from "Fornication Under Consent of the King"?
China's one child policy.
Arranged marriage.
Multiple Marriage (bigamy) always included child support.
Henry the 8th had witnesses to court present during conception
DYK There are yoga sacraments and techniques for attaining yogi babies?!!



"When irreligion is prominent in the family,
the women of the family become corrupt,
and from the degradation of womanhood,
comes unwanted progeny."

Chapter 1: Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra. Text 40,
as said by the Aryan Prince Arjuna told to his cousin Krishna, the chariot driver,
one the opening day of a long simmering civil war over the emperor-ship
of the planet earth 3000 BCE, in Northern Indian on the Battle field
known as Kurukshetra, as recounted in the Sanskrit literary epic
entitled the "Maha-Bharata" [Great Bharata (Great India)],
in the chapter of the Bhimsha-parva section, where seven hundred
verses are universall known as the "song of God" aka the
"Bhagavad-gita".

Here is what one traditional Hindu Scholar said about this verse:

Good population in human society is the basic principle for peace, prosperity and spiritual progress in life.
The varna-ashrama religion's principles were so designed that the good population would prevail in society
for the general spiritual progress of state and community.
Such population depends on the chastity and faithfulness of its womanhood.
As children are very prone to be misled, women are similarly very prone to degradation.
Therefore, both children and women require protection by the elder members of the family.
By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into adultery.
According to Canakya Pandit, women are generally not very intelligent and therefore not trustworthy.
So, the different family traditions of religious activities should always engage them,
and thus their chastity and devotion will give birth to a good population eligible for
participating in the varna-ashrama system.
On the failure of such varna-ashrama-dharma, naturally the women become free to act and mix with men,
and thus adultery is indulged in at the risk of unwanted population.
Irresponsible men also provoke adultery in society,
and thus unwanted children flood the human race at the risk of war and pestilence.

Canakya Pandit:
Canakya Pandita—the brahmana advisor to King Candragupta responsible for
checking Alexander the Great’s invasion of India.
He is a famous author of books containing aphorisms on politics and morality.

Varna-ashrama-dharma:
The system of four occupational and four spiritual orders established in the
Vedic scriptures and discussed by Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita.
Where each of the four occupational orders ideally progress through each of the four spiritual orders.
Varna (four occupational orders):
one of the four Vedic social-occupational divisions of society,
distinguished by quality of work and situation with regard to the modes of nature, ie:

1. Brahmana [Intelligencia];
2. Kshatriya [Admistration];
3. Vaishya [mercantile];
4. Shudra [Artisan; Laborer].

Ashrama (four spiritual orders):
One of the four spiritual orders of life, ie:
brahmacari-ashrama, or student life;
Grihasta-ashrama, or married life;
Vanaprastha, or retired life;
Sannyasa-ashrama, or the renounced order of life where spiritual practices are executed.

It's not 'progeny', it's all these Foreigners from East of the State Line.

[Earl]

California is reaping what it sowed.

Far left liberal Democrat loons running the state and cities have produced this abomination.