tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post161270673519493732..comments2024-01-02T00:38:08.335-08:00Comments on Downtown Eastside Enquirer: A Game at Poverty Olympics: Stretching the TruthUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-15557347912106952102008-02-07T14:53:00.000-08:002008-02-07T14:53:00.000-08:00In my haste to conclude my comment I wrote off the...In my haste to conclude my comment I wrote off the top on my head in such a way that as soon s I posted the comment I wished I hadn't done so as it was. My conclusion, such as it is, is weak and probably banal, the point of my middle-class values being universal and provably better than nihilism and religious socialism, social gospelism. I do have a legitimate argument and it does take a few Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-76481747179805161682008-02-07T14:40:00.000-08:002008-02-07T14:40:00.000-08:00dag, You're right, there is something "mock Christ...dag, <BR/><BR/>You're right, there is something "mock Christian" about this exercise. As I listened to Jean Swanson give her speech in a sad, compassionate drone, I flashed back to sitting in a pew in the Anglican church as a kid. She sounded just like the minister used to sound. I felt that slightly car sick feeling I used to get on long, boring rides in the backseat of my parents' car, askingreliable sourceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415656828004866498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-12044391166230458262008-02-07T14:27:00.000-08:002008-02-07T14:27:00.000-08:00When we see people picking through garbage bins fo...<I>When we see people picking through garbage bins for food we are witnessing a religious ceremony of the Left in action</I><BR/><BR/>-brilliant: the sacrificial violence behind the ethic of radical "freedom" to go feral is revealed.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-72687103576221695292008-02-07T13:40:00.000-08:002008-02-07T13:40:00.000-08:00"Free food" comes at a price some ar not willing t..."Free food" comes at a price some ar not willing to pay: It costs in terms of having to stand in a line-up with other people and then to sit with other people and behave like some kind of normal human being, which most looking for a free meal can at least fake for a short time a few times per day. But where I go for coffee in the evening there is a small army of those committed to living "free" Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-33531016104669237882008-02-07T10:06:00.000-08:002008-02-07T10:06:00.000-08:00Which begs the question, why do we nonetheless oft...Which begs the question, why do we nonetheless often see people going through the garbage and eating it? It's not simply because they're addicts, because the free food apparently widely available does not come at the expense of cash otherwise used, though for scavenger-addicts in a hurry it may be a question of time or convenience... <BR/><BR/>Is not part of the problem that we as a society have truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-17282525581233945842008-02-06T15:26:00.000-08:002008-02-06T15:26:00.000-08:00Not to be grumpy but why does it take a graduate s...Not to be grumpy but why does it take a graduate student to point out the obvious? <BR/><BR/>Of course it doesn't, it takes a povertarian to point out the ludicrous and a fool to believe it.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-27734971299599274842008-02-06T14:47:00.000-08:002008-02-06T14:47:00.000-08:00A noteworthy comment was left by AmyJudd when this...A noteworthy comment was left by AmyJudd when this article was posted on the NowPublic news site:<BR/><BR/>"I wrote my thesis on the affects of the Olympics on the Downtown Eastside population and one key facts that I discovered is that the homeless population in general has decent access to supplies, shelter and most importantly, food at all times of the day. Now I'm not saying that 'oh my gosh reliable sourceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415656828004866498noreply@blogger.com