News of the Amused

[Bacle]

I've heard people say the homeless are only homeless because they have a combination of poor life choices and an unwillingness to work. But here we have proof it's not true, the homeless have an entrepreneurial spirit too!
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Yeah, the homeless issue has gotten really out of control here.

There used to be one or two panhandlers on a few street corners, with the number increasing as you got closer to downtown or at least Colfax.

Now, well...since the Wu Flu lockdowns crashed the economy, been a heck of a lot more. More disabled folks than I'd seen before as well, and more senior citizens in the ranks of panhandlers.

The old joke was that 90% of the panhandlers actually lived in nearby ranch-style suburban homes and were able to panhandle enough off liberals in the area they could make more money on the the street than at a low-paying job, even with taxes involved.

Now, well, that joke ain't reality or close to it. Not sure how many homeless are locals on hard times or people from out of town who heard it was safe/easy to live on the streets due to liberal generosity, but the numbers and tech I'm seeing the homeless use, I think it's more like a lot of these folks are genuinely on hard times or in a situation where living on the street is the 'least bad option' they feel.

I think we are headed for something like the DS-9 'Bell Riot's' type Sanctuary Districts or worse in many liberal areas.

 

[Cherico]

I've heard people say the homeless are only homeless because they have a combination of poor life choices and an unwillingness to work. But here we have proof it's not true, the homeless have an entrepreneurial spirit too!
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so basically like the brazilian flavas.

 

[Bear Ribs]

so basically like the brazilian flavas.

Favelas/Favellas are kind of their own weird thing but I don't think they're particularly comparable to American homeless camps. Way higher quality and more attractive.

This is the Favela in Rio for comparison.

 

[gral]

Favelas/Favellas are kind of their own weird thing but I don't think they're particularly comparable to American homeless camps. Way higher quality and more attractive.

This is the Favela in Rio for comparison.

That's a favela set up next to a fairly affluent neighbourhood, though(Favela Dona Marta in Botafogo). They can get much, much worse than that(although the average one would be closer to that than to the worst case).

 

[Abhorsen]

That's a favela set up next to a fairly affluent neighbourhood, though(Favela Dona Marta in Botafogo). They can get much, much worse than that(although the average one would be closer to that than to the worst case).

A Favela, for all of it's badness, is at least a sense of permanence and contained. The issue with a homeless camp is that it intrudes on others everyday lives, because it's on the sidewalk or such.

 

[Jormungandr]

Teacher tried to illegally teach Critical Race Theory/pure and blatant anti-White racism. White students reported her. She's too "triggered" to go back to school, and now asks "how she can trust her students again".
Haha.

 

[Simonbob]

"triggered" to go back to school, and now asks "how she can trust her students again".

And, how can they trust her, I wonder.

Meh. Hope she gets fired.

 

[Cherico]

Teacher tried to illegally teach Critical Race Theory/pure and blatant anti-White racism. White students reported her. She's too "triggered" to go back to school, and now asks "how she can trust her students again".
Haha.

Just fire her ass and replace her with some one better.

 

[Jormungandr]

And, how can they trust her, I wonder.

Meh. Hope she gets fired.

Just fire her ass and replace her with some one better.

Teachers' Union would stop that, I think.

Also, notice the language of the article: "How can she trust them again?", when she was the racist cunt trying to indoctrinate them.

 

[Skitzyfrenic]

If she's got tenure, she's basically unfireable. It's why tenure is a thing. In ye olden days it was to protect teachers from prosecution over teaching irreligious things. Political things.

Tenure, by it's purpose, will protect her.

Granted, they can shuffle her off into the substitute teacher's lounge, like most big cities do with their shit teachers, paying her a full salary, while she spends all day goofing off.

So she doesn't get to be an activist, but she still gets all the bennies with none of the work.

Of course, tenure doesn't protect from 'not showing up' firings. The Union would have to burn capital for that.

 

[Abhorsen]

If she's got tenure, she's basically unfireable. It's why tenure is a thing. In ye olden days it was to protect teachers from prosecution over teaching irreligious things. Political things.

Tenure, by it's purpose, will protect her.

Granted, they can shuffle her off into the substitute teacher's lounge, like most big cities do with their shit teachers, paying her a full salary, while she spends all day goofing off.

So she doesn't get to be an activist, but she still gets all the bennies with none of the work.

Of course, tenure doesn't protect from 'not showing up' firings. The Union would have to burn capital for that.

Yeah. Look up rubber rooms in NYC. They can't even fire teachers accused of sexual assault. But they obviously can't put them in front of kids. So they have them 'teach' to an empty room.

 

[Skitzyfrenic]

Yeah. Look up rubber rooms in NYC. They can't even fire teachers accused of sexual assault. But they obviously can't put them in front of kids. So they have them 'teach' to an empty room.

TBF 'innocent until proven guilty.' That said, teachers molest kiddies and teens at a rate like three or four thousands times higher than Catholic Priests, iirc.

But I also realize that in many cases Unions have become a 'gang' and anyone who'll hold the party line gets work no matter what.

 

[Abhorsen]

TBF 'innocent until proven guilty.' That said, teachers molest kiddies and teens at a rate like three or four thousands times higher than Catholic Priests, iirc.

But I also realize that in many cases Unions have become a 'gang' and anyone who'll hold the party line gets work no matter what.

This isn't a conviction, this is a job. You should be fired from your job if you are bad at it. They don't deserve special protections just for being teachers. the one place Tenure maybe matters is a college, where the entire point is to let the professor be controversial safely.

 

[Skitzyfrenic]

This isn't a conviction, this is a job. You should be fired from your job if you are bad at it. They don't deserve special protections just for being teachers. the one place Tenure maybe matters is a college, where the entire point is to let the professor be controversial safely.

You are still innocent until proven guilty. If it's only accusations, they don't actually have a 'reason' to fire the individual. They can mitigate any further incidents by removing the teacher from the students. But without a conviction or a large string of incidents, any teacher protected by tenure can get a lawyer to keep themselves employed.

Tenure is something any teacher gets after three years of teaching in the US. At every level.

Unions become gangs and they protect themselves. The Union fosters an environment where members will protect the organization, even to their own detriment. And will protect other Union members even if those Union members are pieces of shit.

Yes, being bad at your job means you should get fired. Every time I worked for a union shop the people bad at their jobs never did get fired. And that wasn't even teachers. I honestly hate working in union shops.

Between tenure and the union it is incredibly hard to fire any teacher. Anywhere in the USA. It's often easier and less expensive overall to have them teach to an empty room or sit in the teacher's lounge all day. 'Earning' their pension, and bennies.

They, of course, don't deserve this much protection. But they have it.

Good luck changing tenure and teacher's unions.

 

[49ersfootball]

Off-Topic: OR State Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum (D) announcing she's NOT seeking reelection in 2024 to 4th full term after 12 years in office.

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[Husky_Khan]

Anyways... getting back to the non-political Amusing News Stories...

A fearless young, handsome Kenyan lawyer named Brian Mwenda Njage has been arrested in Kenya after winning all twenty six of his cases, often argued before High Court Judges, Magistrates and even Courts of Appeal. Why?

Fake lawyer who reportedly handled 26 cases and won all against trained lawyers has been arrested

Brian Mwenda, a young handsome fake lawyer has been arrested after reportedly handling 26 cases before High Court Judges, Magistrates, and Court of Appeal Judges and winning all

www.pulse.com.gh

Turns out he's not a lawyer at all.

Brian has been presenting himself as a lawyer for years in Kenya and his professionalism fooled everyone from the opposing legal teams he crushed to the Judges themselves. He somehow managed to access the identity of a lawyer with a similar name to his on the Kenyan Legal Portal 'The Law Society of Kenya' and stole the mans identity.

When the lawyers whose identity he stole, Brian Mwenda Ntwiga, whose legal work didn't require him to practice law at the time, found out he couldn't access his profile, the resulting investigation led to the arrest of Brian Mwende Njage who has no certification to be a lawyer, despite his undefeated track record.

https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Brian-Mwenda-Njagi-The-fake-lawyer-who-won-all-26-cases-he-handled-1862045

 

[The Whispering Monk]

With that record, I'd hire him.

 

[gral]

With that record, I'd hire him.

He should be given an honoris causa degree.

 

[Cherico]

Anyways... getting back to the non-political Amusing News Stories...

A fearless young, handsome Kenyan lawyer named Brian Mwenda Njage has been arrested in Kenya after winning all twenty six of his cases, often argued before High Court Judges, Magistrates and even Courts of Appeal. Why?

Fake lawyer who reportedly handled 26 cases and won all against trained lawyers has been arrested

Brian Mwenda, a young handsome fake lawyer has been arrested after reportedly handling 26 cases before High Court Judges, Magistrates, and Court of Appeal Judges and winning all

www.pulse.com.gh

Turns out he's not a lawyer at all.

Brian has been presenting himself as a lawyer for years in Kenya and his professionalism fooled everyone from the opposing legal teams he crushed to the Judges themselves. He somehow managed to access the identity of a lawyer with a similar name to his on the Kenyan Legal Portal 'The Law Society of Kenya' and stole the mans identity.

When the lawyers whose identity he stole, Brian Mwenda Ntwiga, whose legal work didn't require him to practice law at the time, found out he couldn't access his profile, the resulting investigation led to the arrest of Brian Mwende Njage who has no certification to be a lawyer, despite his undefeated track record.

https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Brian-Mwenda-Njagi-The-fake-lawyer-who-won-all-26-cases-he-handled-1862045

honestly impressive.

 

[Jormungandr]

That either shows how good he is despite not being an actual solicitor, or it shows how shit the legal system is in that country. Even a failed solicitor can be a pro if the country is like Idiocracy America, for example.