Fort Lauderdale will buy one-way tickets for homeless to leave city

The Fort Lauderdale Commission approved a $25,000 program yesterday to bus homeless people out of town, with the intent to get them back together with family and friends.

Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve the “Homeless Outreach Unification Program,” which uses funding from the state law enforcement trust fund.

As the vote implies, not everyone was on board with this idea.

Vice Mayor Bobby DuBose noted that several other cities around the country have a similar program, effectively setting up a nationwide bus tour for homeless people.

He reiterated that he’s definitely in favor of helping out the homeless, but said, “I think we can do better than just trying to kick the can down the road.”

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Bag of Randomness

  • The Internet community was excited that there was a trailer for the upcoming Hobbit movie.  I think of all the books I had to read in high school, it ranked at the bottom.
  • A good friend of mine had a great idea for the NHL Classic, you know, that hockey game that is played outdoors once a year.  The Stars should play the Wild in Minnesota and they should wear their old North Stars jerseys.
  • Louisiana Tech receiver Quinton Patton is a first class guy.  Third Paragraph
  • Black Friday offers could violate Oklahoma law, Attorney General Scott Pruitt says
  • Tom Brady’s new mansion
  • I overheard some folks expressing concern about how the Chinese was able to hack the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and how the government wasn’t doing enough to protect them.  I don’t think they were aware that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is not part of the government but a lobbying group.
  • Bacon Christmas tree – language warning – YouTube
  • It’s amazing that a woman swallowed a pen they remained in her stomach for 25 years, it’s amazing that it still writes.
  • NewtGingrich.com was never registered by the former Speaker of the House (but he does own Newt.org) , but when you accessed NewtGingrich.com yesterday, you were redirected to a company website that he may not be in favor with, like FreddieMac.com.
  • The first ‘War on Christmas’ was declared almost 400 years ago, courtesy of our Puritan forefathers
  • Lego Is for Girls?
  • For those that remember Morton Downey Jr, here’s an old show with Ron Paul as a guest.
  • I’m certainly not a Khloe Kardashian fan, but I thought that was a smart and nice thing she did by organizing a toy drive in her new city of Dallas.
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I don’t think he’ll have a job much longer

Here is a video of my monitor being “delivered”. The sad part is that I was home at the time with the front door wide open. All he would have had to do was ring the bell on the gate. Now I have to return my monitor since it is broken.

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