Comments on: Boston Globe profiles lovable crack-addicted panhandler

By: fulldroolcup

fulldroolcup — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:09:54 +0000

On December 8th, 2008 at 4:15 pm, rowsdower said:

eaglehaslanded said:

Maybe he should just die and decrease the surplus population.

Just for everyone’s info this guy’s making a sarcastic Scrooge reference and how heartless we are.
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Actually he’s just reworking Pelousy’s comments justifying government-paid abortions.

Abortion for surplus “costly” children; early death or euthanasia for surplus “costly” homeless people.

What’s the difference?

Right, ~~eagle~~ titmouse??

By: fulldroolcup

fulldroolcup — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:00:50 +0000

In 1993, the New York Times bought the Boston Globe for 1.1 billion dollars.

Today the failing paper is estimated to be worth 20 million.

Pinch Sulzberger’s really a genius, ain’t he?

By: RetFireman

RetFireman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:28:41 +0000

Oh yeah…TA:LKING about being a crack addict is the thing that is like wearing a sign. Forget the clothes and the fact he is a bum who would rather smoke crack and be a leech on the fabric of society than actually make something out of his life and self.

This is the type of person that completely destroys chances and donations for people who legitimately become homeless and I have NO sympathy. I dealt with more than my share working the streets. I refuse to glorify his life or lifestyle.

By: Jules Crittenden » Not To Be Outdone

Jules Crittenden » Not To Be Outdone — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:45:07 +0000

[...] Someone please tell the Malkinistas not everyone in the Boston media approves of public nuisances. [...]

By: Jules Crittenden » Panhandler Accepted

Jules Crittenden » Panhandler Accepted — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:49:25 +0000

[...] boy? A child rapist ruefully on the receiving end. Malkin, on the panhandler thing, wonders if this is why newspapers are dying. Well, I doubt it helps, though if the Globe did something this absurd every day, I’d [...]

By: RobM1981

RobM1981 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:34:53 +0000

Our messages are so basic. Perhaps this is why we are so agitated – basic messages are ignored.

If you want to sell papers: shut up and report the news, accurately.

If you want to lend money successfully: shut up and lend money to people who can and will pay it back.

If you want to sell music: shut up and sing.

If you want to sell cars: shut up and build cars that people want to buy, at the price you’re selling them.

If you want to sell movies: shut up and produce movies that people want to see.

Etc.

It’s the death of common sense like this that is driving us crazy.

And never, ever forget that George Bush took a front-seat in this spiral from sanity. What he and Paulson have done – providing a “safety net” has done nothing but open Pandora’s Box. When you reinforce madness, you get more madness…

By: Boston Globe: Profile of a Bostonite - Robbie the Crack Addict « Jane Q. Republican

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:06:35 +0000

[...] Globe: Profile of a Bostonite – Robbie the Crack Addict Jump to Comments The Boston Globe (via Michelle Malkin) must have been having one heckuva slow news day. Nevermind the economy, [...]

By: SpeakEasy

SpeakEasy — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:39:38 +0000

1st rule of supply and demand; When you patronize an action, you get more of the same. Give generously, but only to deserving charities- and do your homework first.

By: walterc

walterc — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:39:04 +0000

Maybe the guy can take Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat when he retires. He already has experience at taking other peoples money without giving anything back. /sarc

Another sign of the coming failure of the great American experiment, the “Free Press” idolizing pan handlers and describing hard working self sufficient citizens as selfish.

By: ArmywifeArmymom

ArmywifeArmymom — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:32:01 +0000

“…they glory in their shame…”

That little snippet from Philippians 3 just popped into my head. I heard it read yesterday and it’s amazing how applicable it is in our culture today — namely with the press who glorify things that are truly shameful.

By: gunslingerpatriot

gunslingerpatriot — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:31:04 +0000

I guess the Boston Globe couldn’t find a Katrina refugee with BDS begging on the street for their front page.

GSP
“This is Sparta!”

By: FamilyMan

FamilyMan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:27:49 +0000

Front page????
Please, no bailout for the print media.

By: madshark

madshark — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:21:37 +0000

Giving someone a dollar so they can spend more time on the street is not sympathetic- it’s placating your own guilt. The potential of these men is squandered by empowering them to beg. Just one more way a misguided liberal society perpetuates homelessness and poverty…
by mynameisbob

I couldn’t have said it better.

By: simcoe

simcoe — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:21:14 +0000

These kinds of things are attractive, interesting, or colorful to those who have no base of reference. Everything is OK. They mentally float around in the nebulous, non-existent world of “Hey, they have a “right””. Nothing is immoral or unacceptable anymore and everything is “cute or sweet or colorful”.

When someone asks you “…what should I do” and you tell them to “…just do the right thing” they don’t have a clue what your talking about. They don’t know what real right is. This has become a society of cowards that has lost its way and doesn’t want to come back because “it might mean I have to take a stand on something and that might upset someone”.

Like it or not this country was set up to work on Biblical principals. Throw God and His laws out and you can see one of the things you’ll end up with.

By: rowsdower

rowsdower — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:15:48 +0000

eaglehaslanded said:

Maybe he should just die and decrease the surplus population.

Just for everyone’s info this guy’s making a sarcastic Scrooge reference and how heartless we are.