A worse look is the face of the operation saying (all those years that the money wasn't being donated) that he was working with various charities. Jirard was lying about working with them while soliciting more funds.
Regardless of the charity playing catch up by donating, it deserves an audit.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Perhaps forewarned is forearmed.
To culturally appropriate Chief Seattle:
Only when the last factory has been taxed out of existence, the last non-government job eliminated, and the last entrepreneur disincentivized will we realize that we can not confiscate our way to prosperity.
From what I hear of the old cartoon Boondocks they may have pulled off such a joke
Yep. I was specifically thinking of Ruckus presenting Sowell instead of the bible: READ NIGGA, REAAAAD!!
I remember the Chicago grocery stores (Aldi's & Save-a-lots) that pulled out, with the sites being left vacant. I think there's going to be an attempt at a government owned grocery store, (which will be a disaster.)
The ashes often aren't cold before stores choose not to rebuild. Plus, insurance doesn't cover the losses due to shoplifting. Even investing in security can't stanch those losses enough to make these locations turn a profit.
So yes. You're totally right. There are food deserts, and nobody wants to talk about the communal behaviors that make running a grocery store unprofitable. They just want stores to run at a loss forever to 'serve' those areas.
I'm gonna give an honorable mention to Unity, who managed to get the whole indie scene doubletaking with a per install fee.
That disrupted their customer/developer's business models so badly that some were looking at pulling products from storefronts to avoid fees from the new retroactive fee structure.
Whole swaths of games built with Unity would have become unprofitable retroactively, with fees upwards of 40,000 dollars set to land on some developers.
There's a reason the ex EA greedhead CEO lost his job there, and that was how spectacularly he spiked Unity.
Any argument you could make, protestant vs. catholic (protestants being a satanic rejection of Catholicism, or Catholics themselves having fallen away from 'the true church' by virtue of Babylon's influence) can equally be made vs. Mormons and the LDS. You have to delve quite deep into the weeds to find a semblance of clarity.
Honestly, 'no true Scotsman' fallacies abound when you get into the differences between Christian sects (or try to find 'true' Christianity.) I think most dogma amounts to 'extra goofy beliefs tacked on,' and the essence of Christian spiritual practice is the same across sects. That said, the devil is in the details.
They found him competent to stand trial meaning that he's just another violent ape who needs to be kept away from civilized society. The sad thing is that even if he gets the max sentence and by some miracle is forced to serve all of it he'll only be in his late 40s when he gets out and does it again. Hopefully he fucks with the wrong person behind bars and they solve the problem for us.
And the mother's pleading is an attempt to prevent this, regardless of the cost to his next victim.
There will be a big lawsuit and settlement for discrimination against fat fuck police recruits, paid for by NY taxpayers. Then the recruits will be forced through academy, regardless of physical abiitity, for fear of another lawsuit.
My hopes and prayers go out the first 500 lbs. beat cop who gets ROFLstomped for interrupting a methed-out public mastrubator on a subway.
This all goes back to the root lie: disparate impact theory.
A disparity across demographic categories doesn't necessarily imply bigotry or discrimination. Benign factors can cause those differences, because people aren't blank slates who are equally likely to do any given thing.
Good luck telling a leftist that, though.
Scientists have become the priestly caste, with all the corruption and moralizing that implies.