"Can you give us some beer for breakfast, eh? These are almost empty."
Posted on 03/10/2008 6:03:32 AM PDT by Braak
EDMONTON -- Students at universities across Canada may come across a surprise when they show up for class this morning -- groups of fellow students huddled against the cold, asking if they could spare something to eat for breakfast.
Dozens of students are camping out on the campuses of 10 universities from last night to Friday night to raise awareness and money for a variety of charities aimed at helping homeless youth.
The students will have no money or access to food, drinks or showers. They will have to survive on donations and must sleep outside unless temperatures plunge low enough to put their health at risk.
"They have a sleeping bag, a pillow, they find some cardboard to sleep on top of to stay dry, their coats and their mitts and their toques," said Chantel Pitcher, a University of Alberta student and part of the national organizing committee of Five Days for the Homeless.
It is all liberal claptrap but it should be a good experience, a lot of kids get this experience by camping with Dad and they don’t ask for donations.
"Can you give us some beer for breakfast, eh? These are almost empty."
“Ok, this is useful how?”
Career training for future humanities graduates.
They should have given them all guns and told them to hunt for their food.
Plus a coupon good for a free MadDog 20/20 or NightTrain.
BTW, there's a funny French film from way back in 1931 called Boudu Saved From Drowning. A well-to-do academic type man looks out the window of his fashionable riverside apartment and sees a homeless man drowning. He rescues him, and generously invites him to live with him for a while. The man's high society wife and friends are appalled, but the rich man is bored and finds the homeless man entertaining. The homeless man continues to act like a slob. Even so, the rich man insists on keeping him around, being socially committed to improving the life of one of society's less fortunate. But the homeless man eventually falls in the river (on purpose) and fakes a drowning so he can escape and go back to living on the streets again, which he prefers.
They ought to show that film on college campuses instead of An Inconvenient Truth or Bowling for Columbine.
Clearly the best way to help the homeless is to contribute to global warming.
The reason why homeless people are homeless is because the last friend or relative who was willing to put up with their mental illness or drug abuse finally said: "Enough!"
Down and out in Beverly Hills?
It indocrinates the young ones into the cult of the "poverty pimps."
For a different take on such checkout: John Stossel - Creating Dependency
I believe it was remade also in the late 50s early 60s. (IIRC)
No, braak should NOT join them in a pointless endeavor.
But those feel-gooders could read about not sounding a trumpet before giving alms as do other hypocrits, or perhaps about noisy gongs or clanging cymbals. Doing such does not help to avoid the fate of the "rich man," which is a separate lesson altogether.
In the words of that immortal song: Yip Yip Yip Yip Mum Mum Mum Mum, get a job!
Well just in case they really are this stupid as they appear to be, they may end up homeless beggars so this way, they are being trained for their future. The village idiots in action!
So let ‘em freeze their asses off, their brains are already frozen.
>>Ok, this is useful how?<<
Maybe it will convince the kids that homelessness is a thing to be avoided and get better grades?
GET A JOB, YA BUMS!
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