Homeless Depot: A Moral Alternative

Home Depot, the nation's largest home-improvement chain, was accused in a Federal lawsuit today of discriminating against the homeless. "The very existence of Home Depot is offensive to the sensitivities of people without homes," says Nadine Strossen, head of the ACLU who filed the case, adding that the word "home" itself smacks of racism, bigotry, and intolerance and thus should be treated as hate speech.

The suit seeks unspecified damages on behalf of seven homeless people, some of them of color, squatting in an abandoned building next to the Home Depot parking lot in the Coney Island area of New York.

"We hope to win a ruling that would make it a class-action suit on behalf of all homeless who ever laid their eyes on the insensitive Home Depot sign and felt offended and/or excluded as a result."

Officials for Home Depot, based in Atlanta, retorted by offering a settlement. "If the ACLU wants to build an alternative national chain called 'Homeless Depot' to counterbalance our chain, we will help them with expertise and supplies," a spokesman for Home Depot said. "We will provide an assortment of items for all your homeless needs - blankets, begging cups, cardboard boxes, pre-fabricated begging signs, and Smell-in-a-Can products."

The ACLU dismissed the offer, saying that such project might get them bogged down with lowly business matters, distracting from the noble cause of supervising an even redistribution of wealth. "But we like the idea," Nadine Strossen declared. "The ACLU will make sure the Court orders the company to build a nation-wide chain of Homeless Depot stores and to pay the homeless to hang out, er, scratch that... work in them."
 

Comrades did you all not know that homes are among the biggest offenders against mother earth?!!!! How many trees must be slaughtered for a corporate Lil Eichmann to have a deck where a man grills our slaughtered pig and cow brethren!!!!
 

In a show of solidarity with the environmentally conscious (Homeless is a term used by the evil capitalistic home "owners") all members of our beloved ACLU will destroy their own homes with tools bought from the more ambiguously named "Lowe's" chain. No longer will the people tolerate these dwellings! The people must live as the livestock does just as nature (NOT G-D!) intended. Comrads! We must eliminate these walls that separate the classes. All hail the progressive environmentally conscious wall-less symbols of revolution!
 

The Collective Depot?
The Gulag Depot? (where you punch your one-way ticket)
The Dacha Depot?

Just a thought........
 

Once the masses have been educated correctly, they won't be able to read, and therefore these things won't happen
 

This is all a crock.
Eminent Domain on behalf of the oppressed!
I think there's a place in Malibu that is under-utilised.
Time to move in.
 

I will admit I am truly at a loss about Home Depot. It is truly biased against the homeless, but if we do away with the Home Depot where will our Mexican brethren hang out ? Where will they plan the Reconquista?!!!!! I say we pretend to ignore the plight of the homeless, because the returning of Texas and the left coast to Mexico is a far more noble cause.
 

If the ACLU says its good, i'm in! We can trust the collective wisdom of the American Communist Legion of Under-achievers!
 

Hey, are these places unionized?

UB
 

Funny picture.

Union Boss,
I used to work for Lowe's, and Hechingers back in the day, and I knew many people at Home Depot. No, they're not unionized. The clostest thing that I know of that is unionized is Costco, which is unionized by the Teamsters.

neat factoid. your average Costco forklift driver makes 40 grand a year after 5 years employment. the same guy at Sam's Club might make 18 to 23 grand. Costco's labor costs are lower per store than Sam's. How? Productivity is higher and turn over is next to nil.
 

I could live in Costco....
 

Alva Goldbook

Funny picture.

Union Boss,
I used to work for Lowe's, and Hechingers back in the day, and I knew many people at Home Depot. No, they're not unionized. The clostest thing that I know of that is unionized is Costco, which is unionized by the Teamsters.

neat factoid. your average Costco forklift driver makes 40 grand a year after 5 years employment. the same guy at Sam's Club might make 18 to 23 grand. Costco's labor costs are lower per store than Sam's. How? Productivity is higher and turn over is next to nil.
That's what I always thought - Unions increase labor productivity. That's why the Soviet economy was booming - it was all one huge unionized shop. Another proof of this is the Pittsburgh steel industry. There used to be dozens of steel mills, but thanks to the Unions there's only a couple left. Apparently their productivity has skyrocketed to such an extent that there's simply no need for more mills in the area. Accordingly, the workers' salaries are so high that any new raise will surely break the productivity barrier, eliminating the need in even those few remaining mills. In result, 0 mills will be producing as much steel as the currently operating ones. It can only match the fabulous success of the glorious Soviet labor statistics. Why can't we do it everywhere? I have to write a letter about it to Paul Kurgman right away! Why can't we be more like the Soviet Union? Go Unions!
 

Comrade Red,
Actually one of the first things the Bolseviks did was dismantle all the unions.
 

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Comrade Red,
Actually one of the first things the Bolseviks did was dismantle all the unions.


What part of Union in Soviet Union don't you understand? One.....Big......Union.
Unions do not compete! There should only be one!

Laika
 

Alva Goldbook

Comrade Red,
Actually one of the first things the Bolseviks did was dismantle all the unions.
Are you by any chance getting your info from Professor Kurgman's column? Please back up your future statements with links to sources, especially when dealing with progressive revisionist history.

Lenin called unions "the school of communism." I could, perhaps, believe that the Bolsheviks may have temporarily suspended unions for a short while in the days of "military communism" (if that ever happened at all) - but at all other times they heavily relied on the unions and strongly encouraged union membership. Later union membership became automatic and mandatory. If you worked for a state-run company (there were no others) you were a member of that union. The government made it all easier for everybody by taking away that choice.

There's a great story of how in the 1930 the Party manipulated the unions in its big scam to steal from Western concession owners who were stupid enough to deal with the Workers' State (it was Bukharin's idea and the entire Politburo had a big laugh out of it). I'll tell it some other time when I'm not as busy with other propaganda.

Although we, as anyone in the progressive movement, strive on historical revisionism for the masses, you shouldn't say things like this in the exclusive company of Party comrades who know the difference. It's disrespectful.
 

try to read this ebook. some of all people that have a problem change their live and they share a story for the

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try to visit the full volume of story and feel free to download:

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http://www.thankgodforebooks.com/homeless.html
 

You Know wat im sick and tired about hearing about the homeless you no wat it is their fucking fault their that way they made the choices so they have to deal with
 

Comrades, it seems we have two thoughtcriminals on our hands in one day. A re-education is in order. Should we send them directly to the Commissar of Housekeeping - or try a softer approach at the Commissariat of Mental Health? A more radical comrade may suggest that this is the job for the Commissar of Unanimous Compassion and Impaling for the Common Good. Let the collective decide.
 

Comrade Red Square, after the above mentioned Commissars do their job, please direct the Revolutionary Guard to the thought criminal's homes so that we may properly destroy them For The Greater Good(TM) (Also I call any good loot, after paying off the afore mentioned commissars)
 

scarsacred

try to read this ebook. some of all people that have a problem change their live and they share a story for the

people who suffer their problem. and im the one of them who read and share the inspirational story.

try to visit the full volume of story and feel free to download:

"Try" is an apt term in this case. Check out the blurb that should "try" to induce me to buy the book:

Quote:

[justify]Then mysteriously something happened. Each time I was about to give up, a strange synchronicity showed up in my life, allowing me to go on. I didn’t know why these things kept happening, nor did I realize that one of the most powerful laws in the universe revealed itself — the law of surrender. In other words, as I let go and trusted my life’s process, I drew into my space more and more hidden blessings that allowed me to continue on my journey.[/justify]
[justify]In this ebook you will know the story behind of all the obstacles he encountered,for being thankful without a home.Now you may surprise,startle,delight and not only that,you may also accept and move unto being gratitude.[/justify]




After reading that as well as scarscared's post, I can't help thinking he's also the one who tried to write the book.

As for ANRGWinkler, I wouldn't worry about him anymore. As you can see by his post, he got whacked with a shovel mid-sentence.
 

Premier Betty

Once the masses have been educated correctly, they won't be able to read, and therefore these things won't happen

As usual, Comrade Betty is able to distill a complicated and difficult issue into its most essential form and by reframing it, express the most simple and elegant solution.
 

Red Square

Comrades, it seems we have two thoughtcriminals on our hands in one day. A re-education is in order. Should we send them directly to the Commissar of Housekeeping - or try a softer approach at the Commissariat of Mental Health. A more radical comrade may suggest that this is the job for the Commissar of Unanimous Compassion ad Impaling for the Common Good. Let the collective decide.

My Glorious Roseate Hexahedron,

I am honoured that you would think of me for such an important mission, especially one that also involves etiquette, but as re-education would certainly involve English lesson - their posts are barely comprehensible - and I write Kanadistanjian English, I may not be the best re-educator for the job... On the other hand, they will certainly both smell better when I'm done with them.

I await your judgement on the matter with bated blowhole, working my whetstone and having young Aki and Chicken Sushi watch "Dexter" on DVD, as they do not have much practice on live proxies... or rather, with starting with live proxies... Aki is beside himself with such youthful excitement that I have sent him to wash the limos to help him work off some of that excess energy, lest he run amok with the Sawzall, which we "liberated" from a non-unionized Home Despot, by the way...

Oh... an interesting point.. up here in the wilds of Kanadistan, the venerable International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees: IATSE Local 873 Picture Studio Production Technicians, Toronto, is the only IA local to have a transportation department that is not controlled or staffed or in any way affiliated with Teamsters. We are very proud of this fact, because Teamsters are mean and bury people in weird public places encapsulated in concrete... And we are just not those kinds of filmmakers... we are gentle filmmakers... (AKI! For Laika's sake, stop chasing that cat with that reciprocating saw!!!)

I'm sorry... where was I? Oh yes... Comrade Director Red... just let me know if you'd like me to pick the fucktards up and and make them disappear... or not...

Right now, I gotta go and save the cat from an overexcited sociopathic adolescent dolphin...
SMO
 

Judging by the spelling and grammar, those two consecutive posts that contradict each other were made by the same person who is suffering from a split personality syndrome, or as we call it on the Cube, "multiple inner comrades." So not all is lost and there is hope for this one in the Party ranks. So I'd say, stop the presses and concrete mixers.
 

Ok, but what do we do with the concrete already mixed? (Inner Comrade #3, thinks we should start building the Glorious People's Cube is The Path to True Socialism as Inspired by the Revolution of 1917 Highway.)
 

Colonel 7.62

Ok, but what do we do with the concrete already mixed? (Inner Comrade #3, thinks we should start building the Glorious People's Cube is The Path to True Socialism as Inspired by the Revolution of 1917 Highway.)

Fuck Inner Comrade #3. Dolphins have dibs on the concrete!!! Yours is not to know the reason why.
 

Inner Comrade #3 is not happy. Inner Comrade #3 is going to go sit in a corner now and cry. Inner Comrade #9 will take over now. Inner Comrade #9 likes Dolphin. Especially in sandwiches. Cheaper than tuna. Wants to know why we can buy dolphin safe tuna, but not tuna safe dolphin. Most confusing.

Mmmmph. Finally make the Inner Circle(TM) and there are STILL secrets. Damnit.
 

I think I saw this person at the Homeless Depot. . .

 

Yes, that is the one that chased me out to my car, demanding Change(TM). Finally I threw a handful of coins at the creature and it went away. But the coins were simply tokens for the Gulag Express, so perhaps this person will end up toiling in the Beet Fields for the Greater Good(TM)
 

Hahahaha. . . or perhaps we can have it do some more alternatives for the Greater Good, like chasing RethugliKKKans out, or keeping our MTE entertained (talk to Theo on that one), or just have her shovel the beets in the field.

The possibilities are growing.
 

Oooh it would make a great bedroom companion for our MTE.