Is this Denver or Beijing???
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Larry Gude
Strung Out
chernmax
NOT Politically Correct!!
Lenny
Lovin' being Texican
let Lenny hear about this, he'll be on the first Greyhound bus to Denver.
Jebus, you are out of touch. I don't do the bus, I fly Frontier.
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RadioPatrol
Guest
Oh were you offended by all the Rednecks ... you think St Marys has a lower IQ level as a county ... by all these country folks
SamSpade
Well-Known Member
It's spraying perfume on mounds of sewage.
It's painting rainbow murals on condemned buildings.
It's planting flowers right on top of the trash.
It's drawing smiley faces in the potholes.
If you want to improve a city's image, you do it by actually hauling the trash, cleaning the sewage and removing rat trap buildings - you do not do it by giving it a quick makeover to make everyone feel happy about it for a week.
If you can't afford to fix the problem, the sensible alternative is to draw attention to it, not gloss over it.
But frankly, I think it's quite funny....
drmatsci
New Member
Oh were you offended by all the Rednecks ... you think St Marys has a lower IQ level as a county ... by all these country folks
No, actually most here are quite normal honestly, its mostly formites that tend to be polorized extreme right (or a few left). I suppose that makes sense, the polorized ones that think they have something to say want to find somewhere to say it.
However, one thing that did shock me when I moved here was the number of teens with kids, high school graduation rate and moreover the number of high school kids that don't goto college. Every single one of my friends ended up getting a 4 year degree or higher - my best friend got 2 masters. I guess I just grew up in a totally different world, albeit, still part of the USA.
This_person
Well-Known Member
Maybe I misread your link - I thought it was Catholic Charities that had a center nearby, and has had a center nearby for quite some time, that was keeping it open longer in the hopes of raising awareness of homelessness during the GOP convention (and all of the subsequent media attention that otherwise would not be there).
I may be slow, but that sounds a lot different than free haircuts to make 'em look better. From the city government. Of the same party as the convention. That stops, and is only being done as part of convention preps.
What do you think?
This_person
Well-Known Member
Interesting phrasing.... you're "moreover" shocked that people don't go to college as much as your home area than that they have kids as teens?
Then you go on to espouse how many of your friends went to college.
Do you believe a college educated person is inherently a better, more intelligent person than a non-college educated one? (I have two Bachelor's, so I'm not being defensive here - I'm just amused at your apparent ((and unfounded)) conceit)
itsbob
I bowl overhand
I've never enjoyed politics as much as I am right now and I've enjoyed politics a lot!
cbs4denver.com - Homeless Get Cleaned Up With Free Haircuts For DNC
"And you see how the great plan, yes, is working, you see, you see our people, those, uh, not trapped by the mortgage crisis, yes, are very fine looking people, indeed. Now, we go see the panda's...very nice panda's..."
This is sooo ####ed up!!!
I guess they are going to have someone lip synch Hillary's speech for her then?
I can't imagine they are going to let that ugly buck toothed witch on the stage to represent the democratic party!
Of course the search for a good looking democrat to do the lip synching, they may have to postpone the convention a couple of months..
itsbob
I bowl overhand
Easy peasy..
Make sure your town/ city has the worst welfare programs and homeless programs of ANY other city in the US. Spend about 3 Million a year on advertising, advertising where the cities are that have the BEST welfare systems in the country. 2 years and 6 million dollars later.. NO more homeless!!
SamSpade
Well-Known Member
St. Mary's fares pretty well according to the numbers. High school graduation rates are higher than the national average AND higher than the state average; median household income MUCH higher than the national average AND higher than the state average; the national average for bachelor's degrees is right around 24-25%. St Mary's is 22.6. Teen birth rate for the county is 29.3/1000 - it's 24.2 for the state.
I just don't see where this is coming from. If there's this huge difference, it may be because you want to see it.
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Dixie
Guest
Saint Paul is also providing free tickets to activities for the homeless during that week. As far as free haircuts are concerned that was something local businesses did. Maybe Saint Paul will do that also the nearer to the date the the convention begins. My point is both parties are doing it - it is not being financed by the DNC or the RNC but the cities in which the conventions are being held. I think anytime a city volunteers to do something for the homeless it's a decent thing to do regardless of the reason. Yes it's making them look better, yes it's only for the day, yes it's not even putting a bandaide on the problem, yes it's pure selfishness on the part of the city. I've never been homeless - I hope I never will be - but we've all seen the shots from the flooded areas. A bath, haircut, clean clothes, tickets to something that's probably got air conditioning, - feeling normal if only for a few hours....gotta think Jesus would approve.
chernmax
NOT Politically Correct!!
Agree, at the GOP convention in St Paul, there is a homeless shelter across the street from the convention center that provives food, counselors, beds, and showers. The DNC convention center in Denver is the unofficial shelter!!! The question remains, when the DNC convention is over, will they still get free haircuts? Or out of sight, out of mind...
drmatsci
New Member
Here are a comparison of the numbers for where I moved from:
Medium family income: 74,056
(population 25 and older)
High school grad: 96.4%
BS or higher: 68.6%
Grdaute degree: 36.1%
Lexington Park:
Medium family income: 42,095
(population 25 and older)
High school grad: 86.7%
BS or higher: 20.8%
Grdaute degree: 6.7%
So, yeah, compared to where I lived before, it is uneducated.
chernmax
NOT Politically Correct!!
You should have mentioned available jobs because based on your statistics, you should go back, or does living where you came from make you look like one of the dummy's???
drmatsci
New Member
You should have mentioned available jobs because based on your statistics, you should go back, or does living where you came from make you look like one of the dummy's???
Anyone who has a professional career has to move from time to time.
Unless you want to do the same thing all your life?
So you must be one of the statistics from your home town.
The question, simply put, is: if it's so great where you lived before, and so crappy here, why are you here and not there?
If everyone there is rich and educated, surely your career path would be there and not where people are poor and stupid. Typically people aspire to move up in the world, not down.