Apple to Sell Unlocked Phone?

BBC NEWS | Americas | Tent city highlights US homes crisis — This is similar to the kinds of slums and makeshift favellas you find in the third world. The BBC News associates this development with the mortgage crisis. They are wrong. This is a result of open borders combined with an already existent homeless crisis. It’s also apparent that the middle class is shrinking to zero and will no longer be a buffer between the poor and the upper class. Next stop: Mexico City type plague of kidnappings of business executives. Get ready for that. Were you in the news because you made $200 million dollars? Expect to get kidnapped and tortured. Seriously.

Forty miles east of Los Angeles, on a patch of waste ground, is the place they call Tent City. Sandwiched between the local airport and the railway line, this really is the wrong side of the tracks.

We are on the outskirts of Ontario, California a functionally pleasant commuter-city in southern California. Last summer, local officials established this camp as a temporary base for the citys homeless population, then around two dozen.

But word spread and now some 300 people live here. It has an air of scruffy permanence, and indeed, city officials say there are no current plans to close it down.

Most residents live in tents, some in mobile homes in various states of disrepair, their possessions crammed in with them or spread out on the ground.

Note. The “no current plans to shut it down” is how the favellas of Brazil became cities within cities run by gangs. They are now too big to be removed and pose a threat to society. There was a similar type of community forming in the SF Bay Area which was luckily destroyed one night by a large-scale raid.

Found by Dan Jewell.

Let there be light…

Published in April 30th, 2008

Posted by Eideard in General

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We’ll probably start a new religion with this one.

Now Florida, Of All Places, Debating Banning Fake (Real Are OK?) Truck Testicles

Published in April 30th, 2008

Posted by Uncle Dave in General

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What a state!

Pic(s) of the Day Dept. — Fish!?

Published in April 30th, 2008

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Pic(s) of the Day Dept. — Fish!?

Former Priest Teaches About Evolution, Stands Against Intelligent Design

Published in April 30th, 2008

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Francisco J. Ayala – Evolution – Scientists Who Believe in God – New York Times: As challenges to the teaching of evolution continue to emerge, legislators debate measures equating the teaching of creationism with academic freedom and a new movie links Darwin to evils ranging from the suppression of free speech to the Holocaust, “I get a lot of people who don’t know what to think,” Dr. Ayala said. “Or they believe in intelligent design but they want to hear.”

Dr. Ayala, a former Dominican priest, said he told his audiences not just that evolution is a well-corroborated scientific theory, but also that belief in evolution does not rule out belief in God. In fact, he said, evolution “is more consistent with belief in a personal god than intelligent design. If God has designed organisms, he has a lot to account for.”

Consider, he said, that at least 20 percent of pregnancies are known to end in spontaneous abortion. If that results from divinely inspired anatomy, Dr. Ayala said, “God is the greatest abortionist of them all.”