Out of the Litter Box


By Ali Katz

Wednesday, Sepember 22, CNN Crawl: Jimmy Swaggert, while stating he had nothing against Gays, said he would kill any Homosexual who looked at him romantically. Subsequently, he said he was only kidding. Some of Ali’s friends say that Jimmy was only dreaming.


Save this Date: According to 19th century English churchman Bishop Usher, the Earth was created October 23, 4,400 B.C.E. at 9 A.M. (E.T.).

The United Nations has declared that October is Housing Rights Month. The United States has not signed on to that proclamation. But several tenants groups including the National Alliance of HUD Tenants have planned actions through the month of October to highlight the need of safe decent affordable housing for all.

As well-informed B’head readers know, Section VIII, that federal program that attempts to fulfill this aim, is under attack. Soon low-income folks including the “working poor” will be paying as much as 40 % of their income for rent in Section VIII housing. Many households who are not under Section VIII are living in substandard conditions and are paying as much as 70% of their income…and more. If the evisceration of Section VIII continues, low-income people will be marginalized even more, and ghettoization will run rampant.

Previously, low-income tenants were paying 30 percent of their income for Section VIII housing.

The City of Los Angeles is being punished by HUD head Alphonse Jackson for being one of the best housing authorities by cutting back on their funds and forcing the sale of several properties. My. Jackson told a gathering of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants that “poverty is not a condition; it is a state of mind.”

The current administration is trying to get rid of the problem by giving one-time block grants to cities to cope with the affordable housing crisis. After the block grant money is gone, the Feds will give no more.

So during Housing Rights month, call or write your Congressperson and Senators and tell them to continue and expand Section VIII, and that Homeland Security begins with a home.

This is Really True Department: Gov. Schwarzenegger was about to O.K. an act that would cut the stay of animals who landed in the pound from six days to three days. After three days the pound residents would get a one-way ticket to that Great Farm in the Sky. Ali had feeders who talked of their parents disappearing their gerbils, hamsters, dogs, and yes! even cats to a farm. A really nice farm to be seen no more.

Well! Animal advocates and societies for protection of animals heard of this. These animal rights groups phoned, wrote, e-mailed, and faxed the Governor into flip-flopping (changing his mind). The Governor blinked and as a result cute little turtles, gerbils, or compulsively barking puppies have three days restored for a chance at life.

One of Ali’s many admirers and feeders was heard to observe that it would be nice if it were that easy to save affordable housing: Hello Gubernator save our homes save our homes or we’ll e-mail you and my friends will do likewise—we will e-mail phone write fax you…”O.K., O.K., I vill save affordable housing I vill terminate barriers to building and preserving low-income and affordable housing. Just don’t call me a Girlie man.”

Bush’s Health Plan: PRAY YOU DON’T GET SICK.
MEEOW for now.

Posted: Fri - October 1, 2004 at 02:56 PM          

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