"You can't just round people up and drive them into the middle of nowhere, you can't arrest them for no reason, or throw them in jail, or anything else that will just make the problem disappear."

I think at some point, it's going to have to come to that. The current situation is untenable. Throwing tens of millions of dollars EVERY YEAR at this problem has only tripled our vagrant population. And no one can come up with a 'solution' because to actually fix things, you'd...

"...we are also expected to believe these people would be completely cured and contributing members of society if only they were given free apartments."

I am now feeling similarly. I went from compassionate, to feeling used by these addicts who move here looking for free rides, free food, free housing, while defecating and shooting up in broad daylight, on the busiest sidewalks in town. Yet we increase the tens of millions in spending on them. They will not work, they will...

I'll need to Blog this reply, it's really burning my biscuit. See original thread for full story.

This is indeed a conundrum.

When I encounter...

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[FONT="Impact"]Halloween and Can a person levitate in mid-air?[/FONT]

Just my favorite time of the year. I'll add something to this effect. It will be interesting reading. Not necessarily in witchcraft. Just Halloween and fun stuffs. I keep track sometimes of fun videos. I've always wondered about the mystical things in life. For example, in Mexico...

Lately, your writer has been spending some time on Google Street View in exploring a corridor in West and Southwest Texas which likely gets even less traffic than some portions of Interstate 10 between San Antonio and El Paso.

U.S. Highway 90 runs through various terrains in Texas from Louisiana all the way to Van Horn in West Texas. For a better summation, I've narrowed the exploration down to a long set of segments between Van Horn and Del Rio. There are not very many...