Friday, May 20, 2016
Take the bumbus!
Portland brings back 'floaters'.
The city of Portland on Thursday bought its first bus ticket for a homeless man who wanted to leave town. "Homeward Bound," the city-funded program designed to bus the city’s homeless out of town, officially began Thursday. At least 40 homeless people want to leave Portland, and it's only day one. Officials in charge have been fielding calls and taking sign-ups since March. Dillon Hendershot, 18, was ready to go at 5 p.m. Thursday. “I can't be homeless the rest of my life,” he said. “It breaks you down.” Hendershoot held his $82 bus ticket to Spokane with an iron grip. Friends ditched the New Mexico native in Portland last week, mid-road trip.Note the positive tone. Naturally the vacuum-brained journalists don't know that the 'floater' is an old concept. If they knew, they would be ROARING AND SPEWING ABOUT JIM CROW AND KKK AND KKK AND KKK AND KKK AND HOLOCAUSTS AND NAZIS AND HONKIES AND CHRISTIANS AND TROLLS AND TRUMP AND TRUMP AND TRUMP AND TRUMP AND TRUMP AND TRUMP and other maximally evil boogeymen that zip and zap and ziggle through the perfect vacuum in their teensy-weensy calvaria. Note also how the hope of an improved life in Spokane changed the tense of Dillon's surname from past to present. This opens a whole new horizon in self-define. Currently we allow trans things to define their own pronouns, and slam non-trans unpersons into the gulag for failing to use the define pronoun. Why not your own tense? "My gender is Optimist. My pronouns are Wow (nominative singular); Awesome (genitive singular); Amazing (dative singular); and Schweet! (accusative singular). Awesome tense will have been Future Perfect!!!!!"
Labels: Language update
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