Sacramento Homeless blog

Duckspeak is a Newspeak term meaning literally to quack like a duck or to speak without thinking. Duckspeak can be either good or "ungood" (bad), depending on who is speaking, and whether what they are saying is in following with the ideals of Big Sister. To speak rubbish and lies may be ungood, but to speak rubbish and lies for the good of "The Party" may be good. In the appendix to 1984 , Orwell explains: Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain centres at all. This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak […]. Like various words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but praise, and when the Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment. 1 A less literary term covering much the same ground as duck...

Mayor Kevin Johnson as he is pictured at the United States Conference of Mayors webspace . A report released on Dec 8 by the United States Conference of Mayors, called " Hunger and Homelessness Survey, December 2009 ," screwed up data relating to homelessness in Sacramento, perpetuating the myth about the nature of homelessness here becoming evermore one of distraught families left to subsist on the streets. The text in the report directly relating to Sacramento is on page numbered 42 (or, on page 45 of the 100-page download), and reads in whole as follows: Profile of Homelessness in Sacramento: Sacramento reported a 31 percent decrease in the number of homeless individuals on a single night in January 2009 compared to January 2008. This decrease was attributed to the city’s success in increasing the number of permanent housing units available for chronically homeless single adults. However, Sacramento reported a 14 percent increase in homeless families during t...

John Kraintz, the ubiquitous visage of Sacramento homelessness, will forevermore be a central character in a significant international drama: Homelessness in Sacramento in the year 2009. He worked hard; he wanted the best for his brothers and sisters in Homeless World Sac; he was on lots of committees; he was scruffy; and he was fully committed to homelessness, and bad hair, as a permanent condition. When he dies, many many decades from now, there won't just be an obit notice in the online Bee , there will be a long story, rehashing his significance to a drama that was played out in front of the whole wide world. And there'll be mention of the 2019 Tarantino movie, "Homeless World" where he was played by Sean Penn, in a starring role. [with Uma Thurman as Sr. Libby; Meryl Streep as Joan Burke; Chris Rock in a tour de force comic-relief performance as Mayor Johnson; Amy Adams as Cynthia Hubert; Madonna as Tracy Rice-Bailey; Drew Barrymore as Cat Williams; and Brad ...

With a goal of providing 2400 units of permanent housing for the area homeless, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson hopes to greatly impact and reduce homelessness over the next three year period, according to a report by KCRA , channel 3. The mayor's initiative, titled Sacramento Steps Forward , will team him with dozens of business leaders. The KCRA report also tells us "The mayor urged the community to be 'part of the solution,' and educate themselves about who Sacramento's homeless are." Also, see Sac Bee report by Cynthia Hubert: " Sacramento homeless initiative eyes permanent, not emergency, shelter " ---- SacHo editorial: From the first, this blog has been eager for the Sacramento metropolis to be better educated about the area homeless population . Unhappily, the region's news organizations preach the myths and are uninterested in reporting the reality . It is the certain knowledge of this writer that homeless people here are in o...