Why can't both be true? Murder your enemy while making your friend a little bit happier. Khashoggi was highly critical of Trump in the month leading up to his beheading.
Whoa crap, I googled hypatia and realized I've been seeing her profile on OKCupid for like 15 years now. Glad I'm the only nerd who can't keep a relationship together!
This was his business, for sure. He went around bidding low on emergency projects with huge bonuses for every day ahead of schedule his crew came in. I read a quote from a caltrans director that he was on the phone with Meyers before the tanker stopped burning. From what I remember he paid his people really, really well and they stayed with him for decades. RIP.
He paid his people really well and they stayed with him for decades.
Any good model does it's best to prevent ambulances. The kink in the USA is that if you cannot afford to go to a family doctor, you call 911, they send you an ambulance, you get a free ride to the general hospital emergency room where you then sit for 5 hours to be told you have bronchitis. That taxi ride cost the taxpayers about $2500, and then the hospital writes off another $1500 (which is what the emergency room would charge you for 10 minutes of doctor time. Really).
I moved from San Francisco to Istanbul a few years ago, and now every time I hear an ambulance or a firetruck I am blown away by the fact that I heard one. In SF you don't hear them because they're going 24/7, mostly for stupid reasons (certainly not fires).
Ambulance frequent fliers also really gum up the works. Take for example Bruce Myers, an alcoholic drug addict who gets picked up in an ambulance on average 90 times per year. There's another drunk in San Francisco who averages 300 times per year and has cost the city $10m.
Pretty much every single aspect of healthcare in America is broken.
As an expat in Istanbul, I imagined you were surprised nobody tried to run you over. My only remaining fear in life is being run over by a taksi in Istanbul
A friend of mine who grew up in Cihangir moved to Portland last year and managed to get hit by a car. She was confused the car was giving her the right of way to cross, so she sort of stepped back. He waved her on, she got nervous, stepped back again, he said "OK" and started going, she then jumped right in front of him.
Why do people mention "clean streets" all the time? Whether it's sparkling white or covered in grime, it's not as if you're going to roll around on it. It's the street, of course, it is filthy.
I have always thought that maybe the USSR was pissed off that they lost 20 million people to Hitler while winning World War 2 for us and were never told, "Thank you". You know, instead of thanking them we immediately labeled them enemies and poured all of our resources into rebuilding Germany .. against them.
I haven't been able to locate these numbers, can you point me to them? Anecdotally, living here, there are very few homeless people in the street, not like my home in SF.
The people you do see on the street are Refugees (for whom there is available housing, whether they choose to take it or not, many of them are either on their way to Europe, or have been waylaid) and Romani.
The Roma are an unbelievably complicated problem globally which transcends the word "homeless".
What I don't see are people with heroin / meth / alcohol problems sleeping on the sidewalks / in the parks, or pooping on the street (at least I haven't the past 5 years). There was one old homeless guy in Izmir last year who asked me to buy him a durum, though.
> Brothers? Sisters? Mothers? Sons? Do their siblings, children not want to help them out so much that they end up homeless?
Americans have this "rugged individualism" to our culture. I left my own home when I was still 15, most people at 17 or 18.
I live in Istanbul, and the first thing I noticed was the lack of homeless people in this city of 15-20million (depending on with whom you are talking). This is because Turks have a much stronger family structure, and most people live with their parents until they're married at the very least.
I'm from San Francisco and have known many of my friends to become homeless over the past 20 years through combinations of, as I stated before, substance abuse, trauma, and a lack of a strong family / social support structure.
My closest friend is a homeless violinist hippy in San Francisco (who just returned after 4 years in Istanbul). He keeps tents in 6 or 7 spots around the bay, most of them with breathtaking views. He just likes being homeless. (Brilliant guy. Oliver. He plays mostly in Bart, the Mission, and North Beach. Say hi in any language, he knows it)
I also know a lot of kids from my various music scenes who are homeless on purpose. The street punks, for example, find a stronger family structure drinking 40s on telegraph or the haight all day than they ever did in their own middle-class homes. (PS: Fuck the kids on haight. They're basically an aging street gang, I used to be in a band with one of them.)
Remember when his family crashed 4 jets in the USA while they were hanging out with Bush? (Really, this is all factual).
Somehow they convinced us to invade Afghanistan and Iraq when it was a Saudi billionaire and a legion of Saudis who perpetrated the attack.