kylejack

Well if you take the medal, you can always sell your medal for food if times get tough.

Gold medal and/or Olympic Record. The thing about world records is that they're sometimes deceptive. Using swimming as an example, world records can be held for an attempt that used a speed suit while the Olympics has stricter requirements about the type of suits you can wear. When an Olympian misses a WR, you can always say to yourself, "Yes, but he wasn't wearing a speed suit." http://www.examiner.com/article/london-olympics-2012-swimming-speed-suits-out-track-speed-suits-in

Asking for money is an exercise of free speech. If you're talking about harassment or violence, we have statutes to cover those, and people should report offenses to the police.

They provide what they can. If other individuals are choosing of their own volition to lay on the sidewalk because they don't have anywhere else to sleep (there are more homeless than beds available in Houston), what's SEARCH have to do with that? And if they weren't laying in front of SEARCH, maybe they'd be laying in front of your house. There's the civility ordinance, but that's only so powerful, and a person can make a civility ordinance complaint regardless of whose business/home the person is sleeping in front of.

Well, at least Atlanta already has a light rail network.

Correct, it is in the financial interest of insurances companies to provide birth control. That's why almost all of them do. Many of the ones that don't have an ideological objection, not a financial one (such as the Catholic Church).

Sidewalks are public property, not your property, so again, you're trying to impose. But anyway, SEARCH has numerous housing arrangements that they're providing.

You're right, you have every right to decide how your property is used. SEARCH also owns property.

Then you should support organizations such as SEARCH, which provide job placement services. http://www.searchhomeless.org/programs/employ/

I'm not proposing that we stop prosecuting people for crimes. People are still responsible for their actions, but dire circumstance does often lead to crime, and it's a story as old as time. Poverty can be a motive, but certainly not the only motive. It isn't billionaires committing B&E in Midtown, that's for sure.

I'm not aware of a government plan. What I've heard of is they're going to create a market where you can shop private market plans. Large companies have been required to offer HMO for their employees for some time now. Small companies have not been required to, and I don't think Obamacare forces them to either. Obamacare does have an individual mandate, though, whereby if you make over a certain amount you have to either buy a plan or pay more taxes not to buy a plan.

Supposing all homeless aid organizations in Midtown and Downtown closed: There would still be tons of homeless living here, because this area has public transportation hubs and pedestrian traffic. But the people in more desperate circumstances than before would be looking for a way to eat, clothe themselves, etc. What do you think they would choose?

Would that we could all be as awesome as you, but my point was that people who cannot meet their basic needs might resort to bad things such as crime to meet their needs. If we can help arrange good outcomes, then we can reduce the crime the community experiences. It's kind of like crosswalks. If there are dozens of people crossing a road where there are no crosswalks for a long ways, it makes sense to install a crosswalk. Yes, people who cross without a crosswalk are themselves at fault if they get hit, but why not just make it easier and more reasonable to cross so that fewer people get hit?

Being someone intimately involved with purchasing healthcare plans, what is the name of the "government plan" that you are saying that companies can sign up for?

Pepper Jack's: I went today. I had a couple tacos and really liked them. One was shrimp and the other fish. Both were served on 2 decent-size grilled corn tortillas each, and had lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese, cilantro, and sauce. I particularly liked the sauce on the shrimp diablo taco. I don't know if they're going to implement lunch specials eventually, but the food at the place is pricy. My two tacos were $8.28 plus tax. Fajitas for one is $14.99 for chicken or 16.99 for beef. Enchilada plates are $10.99 to $13.29. They have a build-your-own-burger option that's $10.99 for unlimited toppings (toppings like poblano, jalapeno, bell pepper, cheese guacamole, slaw, mushrooms, etc.) Bacon costs extra. There were other things on the menu that looked interesting: chicken posole, gumbo, crawfish tails, honey chipotle bbq ribs. There were happy hour specials 3 - 7 with some half price apps and drink specials.

Hm, items eligible for Amazon Prime are usually (but not always) fulfilled by Amazon, so if there's a distinction, I would assume it would be the Amazon-fulfilled orders that would definitely apply the tax. Sevfiv, your recent order was after 7/1?

Supposing University of Houston was completely uncooperative, could Metro have just eminent-domained them?

I prefer them to be in close proximity to public transportation hubs and social services that can assist them. The more stable their lives can be, the better it is for the population at-large.

Some do not want, some do. I live downtown and do not mind the homeless because I do not think of them as human refuse but just people trying to get by, for the most part. You may say "we" in Midtown do not want such and such, but I don't think you've asked their entire population of Midtown what they think.

Then all of the Texas Election Code violations are dismissed. That leaves only the Federal Civil Rights violations under 42 USC 1983. IANAL

http://www.london2012.com/venue/olympic-village/

"we"

I went to college in Marshall TX, and pretty much the only game in town was the Walmart. It wasn't even close to walking distance, so people would hitch rides with friends who had a car. We had no kitchen in our dorm, so all we had to buy food-wise was some frozen dinners or ramen. We did the food plan for some meals and went out to eat for others. We didn't really need to do big grocery trips, because we didn't have anywhere to cook it and didn't have much room to store it. But anyway, walkability isn't just about grocery stores. Being able to catch the rail to go visit family, see a movie, go to a sporting event, go to the park, etc. would certainly improve the college experience for many.

.4 miles to Phoenicia (Rail stop Capitol @ ~Chenevert) .5 miles to Kroger (Rail stop Leeland @ Scott)

Kroger on Cullen?