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Post by Max on Mar 12, 2024 9:31:55 GMT -5
San Francisco is not what it used to be. I worked in the City for awhile and enjoyed it. We don't go there as often as we used to. Homlessness and crime are real issues and we just don't feel as safe as we once did. The mayor is talking about taking these issues on as businesses have been leaving. There is a lot of unrented office space in the Financial District, when I worked there, that wasn't the case. We were there in '14 and things seemed OK. Stayed in Chinatown, walked around the city and took in a game at Oracle (when it was AT&T). "Homelessness" has become a major problem in many cities. Even San Diego* is pretty bad, especially the area to the south of Petco. *I guess if you're gonna be homeless there are a lot worse places than San Diego... In my opinion, homelessness is a major problem in many parts of the world. |
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Post by Max on Mar 12, 2024 9:39:05 GMT -5
A very thorny problem. Haven't seen any reasonable, effective solution. In my opinion, there's a reasonable and effective solution, but it's expensive and requires changes in the law that allows people that are a danger to themselves and or a danger to others to be taken off the streets and treated for any mental health, alcohol, substance abuse, etc. issues. |
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Post by laurenfrances on Mar 12, 2024 14:02:17 GMT -5
Yep...many (most?) are oblivious. Don't want to turn this into a socio-political thread (which I understand is discouraged here) but I'll get this off my chest and leave it at that... There are those who consciously choose the "homeless" lifestyle...years ago they were called hobos. I happen to have a relative who lives that way…very happily. Then there are those who are homeless because of drug & alcohol addiction. Finally, there are those who are forced into homelessness thru no fault of their own...financial setbacks, etc. I’d love to hear a realistic, effective, empathetic, humane solution to dealing with the homelessness problem. There needs to be some way to deal with those who choose that lifestyle, assist those who are homeless thru no fault of their own, while not infringing on the rights and lifestyle of people who are not in that situation. Forcibly moving homeless “camps” from one location to another obviously doesn’t work. As an example…there is a very large homeless “camp” along the Santa Ana “river” directly adjacent to Anaheim Stadium. A few years ago, the city of Anaheim proposed plans to move the residents of that camp to the adjacent city of Orange. Orange, of course, blocked that move. Besides…what’s to stop someone from simply returning to the spot from which they've been moved? Arrest them? Ha…I’m sure I don’t need to illustrate the ramifications of that kind of “enforcement”. So, once again…if anyone has a plan, I’d love to hear it. I think it’s quite alright for us to discuss the social aspects of homelessness, but to delve deeply into the solutions aspect typically would take us down the political path, so I won’t go there. The only things we can do as fellow human beings is show compassion instead of thinking of these people as a subhuman subset. Drop your old clothes off near (but not too near) the areas they habitate, especially in cold weather. Offering or dropping ofc food, but never hand them cash (which usually winds up feeding their drug or alcohol habits… Multitudes of events snowballs to a homeless predicament. Living in such a precarious circumstances is a sad state of affairs. Where do we create enough legitimate shelters to address the mounting number of homelessness? There is no easy fix. Count myself grateful to be relatively health and financially secure. |
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Post by inger on Mar 12, 2024 15:41:05 GMT -5
I think it’s quite alright for us to discuss the social aspects of homelessness, but to delve deeply into the solutions aspect typically would take us down the political path, so I won’t go there. The only things we can do as fellow human beings is show compassion instead of thinking of these people as a subhuman subset. Drop your old clothes off near (but not too near) the areas they habitate, especially in cold weather. Offering or dropping ofc food, but never hand them cash (which usually winds up feeding their drug or alcohol habits… Multitudes of events snowballs to a homeless predicament. Living in such a precarious circumstances is a sad state of affairs. Where do we create enough legitimate shelters to address the mounting number of homelessness? There is no easy fix. Count myself grateful to be relatively health and financially secure. I’ve talked about it before, so I’ll keep this brief, but my wife has a homeless brother. Nobody can help him. He starts fights with the people that try, and he gets kicked out of public housing for fighting and destroying property… |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 12, 2024 16:08:45 GMT -5
Multitudes of events snowballs to a homeless predicament. Living in such a precarious circumstances is a sad state of affairs. Where do we create enough legitimate shelters to address the mounting number of homelessness? There is no easy fix. Count myself grateful to be relatively health and financially secure. I’ve talked about it before, so I’ll keep this brief, but my wife has a homeless brother. Nobody can help him. He starts fights with the people that try, and he gets kicked out of public housing for fighting and destroying property… Mental health issues are at the core of many, nay most cases of homelessness, with prescription drugs dismissed in favor of street drugs. Before I left California, I was just beginning to work on the homeless problem in San Benito, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties. The money is there; unfortunately, so is the graft, which has been true at the federal level for decades. How else do you misplace a trillion dollars? |
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Post by inger on Mar 12, 2024 16:15:59 GMT -5
I’ve talked about it before, so I’ll keep this brief, but my wife has a homeless brother. Nobody can help him. He starts fights with the people that try, and he gets kicked out of public housing for fighting and destroying property… Mental health issues are at the core of many, nay most cases of homelessness, with prescription drugs dismissed in favor of street drugs. Before I left California, I was just beginning to work on the homeless problem in San Benito, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties. The money is there; unfortunately, so is the graft, which has been true at the federal level for decades. How else do you misplace a trillion dollars? Oops! Where did that pesky trillion dollars go? I’m sure it’s not the same trillion my wife’s foundation was funded with…🤓 |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 12, 2024 16:23:14 GMT -5
Mental health issues are at the core of many, nay most cases of homelessness, with prescription drugs dismissed in favor of street drugs. Before I left California, I was just beginning to work on the homeless problem in San Benito, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties. The money is there; unfortunately, so is the graft, which has been true at the federal level for decades. How else do you misplace a trillion dollars? Oops! Where did that pesky trillion dollars go? I’m sure it’s not the same trillion my wife’s foundation was funded with…🤓 It seems to have been forgotten. Rumsfeld had just reported the conundrum on CSPAN just before 9/11. Afterward, it was rarely ever mentioned again, except in conspiracy theories. Cue the X-Files music. |
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Post by laurenfrances on Mar 12, 2024 18:09:33 GMT -5
Multitudes of events snowballs to a homeless predicament. Living in such a precarious circumstances is a sad state of affairs. Where do we create enough legitimate shelters to address the mounting number of homelessness? There is no easy fix. Count myself grateful to be relatively health and financially secure. I’ve talked about it before, so I’ll keep this brief, but my wife has a homeless brother. Nobody can help him. He starts fights with the people that try, and he gets kicked out of public housing for fighting and destroying property… Your wife must feel so painfully helpless to see him spiraling out of control. This is magnified with so many families struggling with similar circumstances. What to do is a huge quandary. |
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Post by inger on Mar 12, 2024 18:44:36 GMT -5
I’ve talked about it before, so I’ll keep this brief, but my wife has a homeless brother. Nobody can help him. He starts fights with the people that try, and he gets kicked out of public housing for fighting and destroying property… Your wife must feel so painfully helpless to see him spiraling out of control. This is magnified with so many families struggling with similar circumstances. What to do is a huge quandary. The worst for her is that we moved 1600 miles away from where we last saw him. He has another brother that lives in the area, but he’s had no sightings. It’s been about ten years since anyone connected to the family has seen nor heard of his well being or whereabouts. Dead or alive? Early sixties on age, living feral it’s a legit query…He likely has no idea of our move to Colorado from Maryland, nor of the recent breath of his eldest brother or the death of his mom a couple years ago. Sadly, she stopped answering the phone when he called about ten years before she passed because he would talk jibberish. He would leave messages on her phone where he would say “mama” in the live of a squeeze mama doll dozens of times waiting for her to pick up… |
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Post by jiminy on Mar 16, 2024 11:46:23 GMT -5
Jack Curry: Wall to well baseball on YES starting w/ Yankees and Blue Jays at 1 PM. After that, we’ll also have the Spring Breakout game featuring the team’s best prospects. Listen to “Old Soul” by Stephen Marley before the opener and “All The Young Dudes” by Mott the Hoople before game 2
All the Young Dudes, written by David Bowie for Mott the Hoople, is one of my favorite songs covered by one of my favorite bands.
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Post by inger on Mar 16, 2024 11:56:36 GMT -5
Jack Curry: Wall to well baseball on YES starting w/ Yankees and Blue Jays at 1 PM. After that, we’ll also have the Spring Breakout game featuring the team’s best prospects. Listen to “Old Soul” by Stephen Marley before the opener and “All The Young Dudes” by Mott the Hoople before game 2 All the Young Dudes, written by David Bowie for Mott the Hoople, is one of my favorite songs covered by one of my favorite bands. A one hit wonder, but what a hit!… |
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Post by jiminy on Mar 16, 2024 13:07:29 GMT -5
Jack Curry: Wall to well baseball on YES starting w/ Yankees and Blue Jays at 1 PM. After that, we’ll also have the Spring Breakout game featuring the team’s best prospects. Listen to “Old Soul” by Stephen Marley before the opener and “All The Young Dudes” by Mott the Hoople before game 2 All the Young Dudes, written by David Bowie for Mott the Hoople, is one of my favorite songs covered by one of my favorite bands. A one hit wonder, but what a hit!… "It’s a great song," Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople told Classic Rock's Scott Rowley. "God knows why he gave it to us. I’ve said that many times, but really, if I’d’ve had that song I wouldn’t have given it to anybody." An irony is that I saw Mott the Hoople in concert with Aerosmith as the opening act. The next time I saw Aerosmith in concert, Mott was the opening act. Mott was what was left of Mott the Hoople after Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson spilt from the band. In that concert, as well, was Montrose playing with Sammy Hager as the lead singer of the band. |
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Post by inger on Mar 16, 2024 14:20:46 GMT -5
A one hit wonder, but what a hit!… "It’s a great song," Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople told Classic Rock's Scott Rowley. "God knows why he gave it to us. I’ve said that many times, but really, if I’d’ve had that song I wouldn’t have given it to anybody." An irony is that I saw Mott the Hoople in concert with Aerosmith as the opening act. The next time I saw Aerosmith in concert, Mott was the opening act. Mott was what was left of Mott the Hoople after Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson spilt from the band. In that concert, as well, was Montrose playing with Sammy Hager as the lead singer of the band. “Ladies and gentlemen, please stand and remove your hats for the playing of “All The Young Dudes.”” What a world that would be!… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 16, 2024 19:24:04 GMT -5
A one hit wonder, but what a hit!… "It’s a great song," Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople told Classic Rock's Scott Rowley. "God knows why he gave it to us. I’ve said that many times, but really, if I’d’ve had that song I wouldn’t have given it to anybody." An irony is that I saw Mott the Hoople in concert with Aerosmith as the opening act. The next time I saw Aerosmith in concert, Mott was the opening act. Mott was what was left of Mott the Hoople after Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson spilt from the band. In that concert, as well, was Montrose playing with Sammy Hager as the lead singer of the band. Always glad to see another Mott fan. They had much more chart success in the UK than here, where "Dudes" was the only huge one, but I do recall "All The Way From Memphis" getting quite a bit of airplay and also "The Golden Age Of Rock And Roll" among others. I really liked their take on the Velvet Underground/Lou Reed "Sweet Jane" on the ATYD album. I wonder if you are among the few who remember The British Lions, the group the remains of Mott formed after Ian Hunter left to go solo and Mick Ralphs joined up with Paul Rodgers from Free to form Bad Company? The British Lions were an excellent band who seemed like they should have been commercially viable, but alas it was not to be. I can remember them being on the late-night music show "Midnight Special" in the late 70s. I still listen to their stuff from time to time. I am guessing you probably appreciated Ian Hunter's solo work as well -- my favorite of his was "Temporary Beauty" and of course he had "Cleveland Rocks" among his many efforts. He will be 85 years old later this year. How did that happen? I remember liking the cover artwork on the "Dudes" LP. It looked like a group of jazz-age swells at the racetrack. It was credited to an album cover artist (can't recall his name) who also did work for Bowie and T. Rex and Procol Harum. But I did some research on it and it turns out to have been lifted almost completely from a 1917 magazine ad for some clothing company. One of the casualties of the displacement of vinyl by CDs was the loss of highly visible cover artwork. |
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Post by jiminy on Mar 17, 2024 13:40:35 GMT -5
"It’s a great song," Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople told Classic Rock's Scott Rowley. "God knows why he gave it to us. I’ve said that many times, but really, if I’d’ve had that song I wouldn’t have given it to anybody." An irony is that I saw Mott the Hoople in concert with Aerosmith as the opening act. The next time I saw Aerosmith in concert, Mott was the opening act. Mott was what was left of Mott the Hoople after Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson spilt from the band. In that concert, as well, was Montrose playing with Sammy Hager as the lead singer of the band. Always glad to see another Mott fan. They had much more chart success in the UK than here, where "Dudes" was the only huge one, but I do recall "All The Way From Memphis" getting quite a bit of airplay and also "The Golden Age Of Rock And Roll" among others. I really liked their take on the Velvet Underground/Lou Reed "Sweet Jane" on the ATYD album. I wonder if you are among the few who remember The British Lions, the group the remains of Mott formed after Ian Hunter left to go solo and Mick Ralphs joined up with Paul Rodgers from Free to form Bad Company? The British Lions were an excellent band who seemed like they should have been commercially viable, but alas it was not to be. I can remember them being on the late-night music show "Midnight Special" in the late 70s. I still listen to their stuff from time to time. I am guessing you probably appreciated Ian Hunter's solo work as well -- my favorite of his was "Temporary Beauty" and of course he had "Cleveland Rocks" among his many efforts. He will be 85 years old later this year. How did that happen? I remember liking the cover artwork on the "Dudes" LP. It looked like a group of jazz-age swells at the racetrack. It was credited to an album cover artist (can't recall his name) who also did work for Bowie and T. Rex and Procol Harum. But I did some research on it and it turns out to have been lifted almost completely from a 1917 magazine ad for some clothing company. One of the casualties of the displacement of vinyl by CDs was the loss of highly visible cover artwork. Yes, I have been at two Ian Hunter concerts with Mick Ronson. In fact, I got their autographs as well at a record store promotion. I have never heard of the group British Lions, which kinda surprises me based on your description of the band. |
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