Sorry, Rich People

Heh. I was just gonna say that $410/day IS a substancial amount of money.Did you guys see this? (I posted it in comments last night, but I thought I’d repost it so more folks see it, and also b/c I want to):Now here’s some outrage. Did you see this?Conservatives angry over Michelle Obama’s trip to homeless shelterIt seems Michelle Obama can’t even do a good deed without inspiring some outrage on the right.The first lady visited a Washington, D.C., homeless shelter on Thursday, bringing fruit collected in a White House food drive and serving some of the shelter’s clients. That alone isn’t objectionable, of course. But some conservatives — sparked by a blog post from the Los Angeles Times’ Andrew Malcom — are in a tizzy over an Associated Press photo that shows a man taking a picture of Obama using a cellphone.”It doesn’t detract from the first lady’s generous gesture or the real needs she seeks to highlight to ask two bothersome journalistic questions about these news photos,” Malcom wrote, continuing:If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?And if he is homeless, where do they send the cellphone bills?Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin was one of those who joined the resulting scrum, writing that the photo “ruin[ed] what was supposed to be a sob story photo op of the compassionate Mrs. O catering to the downtrodden.” She, in turn, linked to another blogger, Kathy Shaidle. Shaidle — who is, to put it politely, not a particularly nice person — wrote:Today’s “poor” are the rich Jesus warned you about: fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other people’s…He spends all his (our) money on cellphones and, most likely, tattoos and drugs and booze and other crap, and has no money left for a home and food. And why should he bother? We pay for his shelter and food anyhow…What’s really funny in that news story by the way is what they’re serving at the soup kitchen: risotto with brocolli. Obviously some rich white liberal did the cooking that day, feeling all proud of herself, and what thanks did she get? Some lowclass loser going, “You expect me to eat this weird craphttp://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/03/06/cellphone_photo/index.html

“He spends all his (our) money on cellphones and, most likely, tattoos and drugs and booze and other crap, and has no money left for a home and food.”

The poor spend their money on tattoos? I thought all their money went to platinum shivs and handcrafted porcelain signs covered in handwoven damask, with gold-thread embroidering. Now I find out it’s for tattoos.Stupid homeless. You know, their mortgage is not my problem.

>>>Today’s “poor” are the rich Jesus warned you about: fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other people’s…So today’s “rich” are are yesteryear’s poor? I am not following.Or….Today’s “rich” are yesteryear’s Jesus? That sounds better. I think I got it now.Hey Everyone, Jesus has given us permission to demonize and remove the poor just like he has done in the past.Native AmericansBlack PeopleCatholicsMuslimsJewsGod I love Manifest Destiny. Nothing is more American than killing a minority for inconveniencing your life. Thank you, Jesus!

i hereby promise not to bitch if i ever get into that highest tax bracket. i work hard, that is i used to before i was laid off.before i was let go, i was very busy, working for a big box retailer looking into new sites for construction several years into the future, because even in a down economy, it’s not a bad idea to plan ahead especially now when real estate is cheap and municipalities are desperate for the tax revenue and employment.but they decided I was paid too much. no hard feelings but now i can’t spend any money at all until i find a new job. meanwhile the ceo is making tens of millions a year, most of which i assume is sitting in a bank account doing nothing to stimulate the economy the way my salary did previously. just sayin…

Yeah, I have the strangest feeling that my next article here is going to be something along the lines of DEAR KATHY SHAIDLE: YOU’RE MADE OUT OF FERAL HYENA STOOL.The next War On _____ needs to be fought against any Middle Class Whitey that thinks s/he knows Jack Shit about poverty. I just can’t take it anymore.

Oh Elvis. I love the sonic boom of your panties bunching up.Their reasoning is always fucked up. A penal system that manages to incarcerate more than a few innocents is perfectly fine for them. Small price to pay. A governmental agency that helps a lot of people while harboring a few freeloaders is unspeakably socialist and must be stopped at all costs, especially before it has the chance to actually help anybody.We’ll never be rid of these fuckstains.

My heavens, Ms. Shaidle IS a busy bee:On Islam: “…your religion is fucking retarded … ungrateful beligerent foreign savages…These are people who love watching beheading videos on the internet…A sick, sick religion. Basically Scientology with bombs. Pathetic whiny losers.”On Muslim and Pakistani immigrants: “Muslims … most of them can’t even read…What we really need to do is stop immigration from Pakistan and other crazy Muslim countries filled with illiterate, violent tribal peasants…”On Muslim children: they are “parasites.”On a group of Muslim students who object to some statements by Mark Steyn: they are “motherfucking parasites.”On Muslims: “Muslims always have to be on top, in reverse proportion to their ability to do anything with competence or creativity.”On Indians: they are “parasites” who “extorted tax dollars [for] booze, smokes and junk food. Not to mention free everything else, including university educations they don’t bother getting.”On blacks: “…there is nothing ‘compelling’ about a black man impregnating a white woman. In more than one Toronto neighbourhood, that’s what they call Saturday night.”On the only people who can get excited about Barack Obama: “black, stupid or both.”On Jamaicans: “Just think of how much Jamaican immigrants contribute to our culture and economy: monotonous, illiterate music that all sounds the same, filthy hairstyles, those little tricoloured Rasta doohickies.”On the blacks of New Orleans: they are “pathetic losers” who cannot have their IQs raised “a single point.”On the poor: they are poor because they are “too lazy and stupid to a) finish high school and/or b) keep their pants on.…I don’t care about the poor. They’re no more real than Bigfoot.”On AIDS: “From the beginning, AIDS activism has been more about mainstreaming the gay “lifestyle” than saving lives.”On Sikhs: “Backward foreigners [who] shit on hand that feeds them…Unable to invent their own iconic product due to too much time spent worshipping monkeys and cows, setting women on fire and obsessing over imperceptible differences in each other’s skin colour…”On blind people: “Giving blind people real jobs…is not working out.”On Chinese: “[They are] spitting and shooting snot on the sidewalk…throwing broken crates of rotten bock choy all over Spadina Avenue [and] eating dubious, illegal foodstuffs” [and cause SARS.]

Wow. What a bullshit resume she has.Hey Bob? Can I say that I increased the sales on your book by making my library buy one? That’s legit, right?

Shaidle on Ivana Trump:

She is a perfect example of professionalism, motherhood and ambition. She believes that hard work and faith can get you anywhere. Ivana Trump is the ultimate symbol of strength, glamour and worldliness.

Sure, she was paid to write this for The Shopping Channel but I got ten bucks says she wouldn’t disagree with it.

“rotten bock choy all over Spadina Avenue”is she in Toronto?AND WHO SAID $410/DAY??like the auto worker’s wages, don’t just GIVE these effers their talking points.

my reply to Ady’s reposted post re-edited and reposted:That story is typical Republicanastycal clap trap.Straw man. Straw man.Who claimed the guy with a cell phone was a homeless person?They did.What evidence did they show that he claimed to be homeless?None.Construct a straw man and knock him down.If Osama bin Laden had bin a straw man, the Rushpublics would have killed him long ago. Unfortunately, they suck at dealing with the real world. They excell at solving their entirely fabricated problems, but real problems are intractable.Republicanastycal wankers.Pathos abounds.Not everyone that shows up at a soup kitchen is homeless. Michelle certainly isn’t. The other volunteers are not. How do we know that the guy taking the pictures wasn’t a volunteer? He may even have been from Tennessee and been a volunteer volunteer.Rushpublic propagandists.Then Queen Tiye informs us:

Regarding homeless people with cellphones: one of the most challenging things for homeless people who are trying to STOP being homeless, is that no one can find them for work or home opportunities. Cellphones are often provided by charity groups, along with addresses.

Frequently in this country – the “homeless” range from the people who ordinarily would be lower middle class to working class to abjectly poor. Homelessness has a lot of causes, and sometimes people can end their homeless condition if you just put enough structure around them to allow the system to re-embrace them.

QT

I continue:I forgot about charity cellphones. Several groups in New Haven and Bridgeport provide prepaid cellphones to homeless and underemployed persons. Their priority for phones was to mothers of small children that could not afford phones and then to anyone else that showed that they would work when given the opportunity. As you point out, it’s not easy to contact a homeless person.Alan4s added:

Adding, re cell phones: MA has a program run by one of the smaller phone companies up here that provides free cell phones and service to folks who would qualify for unemployment and foodstamps. It’s advertised on TeeVee up here all the time.

I reply to Ady’s other points.

What about this bit of lunacy: “Today’s “poor” are the rich Jesus warned you about: fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other people’s…”

They are putting words into Jesus’s mouth. Jesus warned about something like that but I don’t think it was the ‘rich’ he warned us about. He warned about the money changers in the temple who were fat and slovenly, since they only played games with money (just like the SWGILM) and did no actual useful work.

Note that saying that today’s poor are like the stockbrokers that Jesus warned us about is nonsensical at best. Their statement is also nonsense. Today’s poor are nothing like the rich.

The people making this statement are exactly like the people Jesus warned us about. Stupid, fat, slovenly, wasteful twats. I point at the Iraq war 1 million dollar bathrooms, and $15,000 waste cans (dustbin) as evidence of wastefulness.

Jesus’s notion of wastefulness was doing things like buying $15,000 waste cans while homeless people are going hungry. The Rushpublics are identically the rich people Jesus warned us about.

Republicanastycals = Hypocrites

Ady again:

And this, which is clearly NOT funny: “What’s really funny in that news story by the way is what they’re serving at the soup kitchen: risotto with brocolli. Obviously some rich white liberal did the cooking that day, feeling all proud of herself, and what thanks did she get? Some lowclass loser going, “You expect me to eat this weird crap.”

Putting words into people’s mouths again. Hungry people aren’t very picky. These arrogant twats would not know that since they only travel from work, to country club, to home. They’ve never actually seen a homeless person and they’ve never gone hungry a day in their lives.

These people are arrogant, despicable, obnoxious, fat, rich assholes. Fuck ‘em.

Ask that Canadian twatwaffle if she’d give up her socialized medicine. Her opinion is not welcome here. Keep her Tory ass in the Great White North please, preferably with her cellphone set on vibrate and placed someplace special.

Yes, Big E confirmed it above. I used to hang on Spadina.If you HATE immigrants, Toronto must be torture. Such diversity! What a melting pot! So many cultures! Such harmony and acceptance! Internationalism!!Eat that on Wonder Bread, Ms Shaidle.

You better register twatwaffle.com really quick Elvis before I do! Go!

I think the Title of this thread is more accurate as: Sorry rich people. No comma.

an overweight conservative whitey hating the poor and minority….sillygit having a lengthy point making post…elvis creating combos like “twatwaffle”….yep, all is as it ever was! i’m going back to the beach…

Elvis, I followed your link to her website and found a comma fault in the first paragraph:Award-winning Toronto author, blogger, editor and writer for print & web. My copy has generated millions of dollars in sales and donations for major e-commerce and non-profit organizations, since 2000.WOW!!! As a copy writer and editor, I am STUNNED. This is an impressive feat. The woman lies about herself and demonstrates her incapacity in a single paragraph. I’ll give you dollars to donuts her portfolio is full of tinfoil-hat End Times screeds.

That woman is one miserable person judging from her hateful outlook on the world and anyone not white/rich. Bet her blog doesn’t accept disenting comments or if one ever appears it would be deleted ASAP.People like that live in a self manufactered bubble of denial of “oh I’m so wonderful and everything I ever say and do is so wonderful and oh yes…my ass smells like a rose.”One could almost pity them if not for having an overpowering urge to stab them repeatedly all over their miserable bloated white body with a dull dirty knife.

I am poor.Shut up and send me money.You may think I’m joking. I’m not.Money. I need. Send.