Homeless man attacks Santa Monica councilman after he is asked to stop littering

NY Post ^ | 07/19/2023 | Isabel Keane

[IYAS9YAS]

So what impressed me was you could pull into a station...hook up the cabling and determine the failing component in a minute. They had determined that a 18-year old kid with minimal training could then watch the repair video....remove the failing part, and install the new part.

Reminds me of the hospital scene in Idiocracy.

[no-s]

> And I say that as someone who taught Algebra 2.

Heheh my algebra teacher in middle school was also a licensed plumber.

[BigFreakinToad]

Kalifornia = I don’t care

[Getready]

Doubt it. They are confirmed unable to reason. Even if you put them in a mortar and grind them, their insanity will not be separated out.

[Getready]

Rootin’ for the homeless guy. What an idiotic councilman. He actually expected someone who is living on the streets and mindlessly tearing off signs off a building to be courteous and throw the signs away in the proper receptacle.
He is just as detached from reality as the homeless man.
Santa Monica, you deserve it.

[Chainmail]

"Many of the problems you mentioned could be solved if they reintroduced trades programs into the high schools. The country will always need skilled carpenters, plumbers, etc.

Agreed. We need to get back to testing kids for acuity, talents, desired career paths and helping them achieve proficiency. We also need to make sure that industry stays in this country and that companies that outsource to foreign countries are penalized/Unions are not allowed to price American wages to the point that the companies can no longer stay competitive.

I was a union worker back a while ago, and I saw what corrupt, self-interested, company-ruining jerks the union leadership were.

[Leaning Right]

I’ve mentioned this before. Bush II’s disastrous ‘No Child Left Behind’ program is the main reason there are no longer trades programs in high schools. NCLB tested only for math and English. And woe to the school with low scores.

So most schools eliminated their trades programs, and shoved everyone into advanced math and English classes.

I taught in an urban high school. We had a superb carpentry program. Inner city kids learned a skill that their neighborhoods needed. The program is gone now, for the reason stated above.

As for unions, before teaching I worked in a union steel mill. The union is a major reason that mill is now gone. They killed the golden goose. Killed it dead.

[fr_freak]

A homeless man attacked a Santa Monica city councilman who asked him to stop littering

You know those people who go to national parks and get real close to wild animals so they can take a selfie? I bet this councilman is one of those people.

[LouAvul]

he said. “Up to 1,000 homeless people on our streets every day. It’s impossible for us to have enough police, enough homeless street resources to assist properly.”

Now that fat liberal knows why we need laws against vagrancy and loitering and public intoxication.

Lock up. Sheriff Joe them. One meal a day.

[Chainmail]

I was in the International Aerospace Workers Local 727 at Lockheed in Burbank CA.I built parts for the L-1011 Airliner and the S-3 Viking. We had workers stealing tools, workers making their own stuff on the machines during working hours, we had workers dogging jobs to extend them into overtime hours.

At the same time, the union stewards were walking around socializing and interrupting the work while they campaigned for higher union positions - and filing grievances against anyone who worked out of level or made suggestions to improved productivity ("eliminating jobs") - and taking a healthy part of my paycheck with compulsory union dues.

Now Lockheed doesn't make airliners or antisubmarine aircraft anymore.

[minnesota_bound]

Three’s Company tv show today would be a lesbian, a tranny and a pedophile.