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New Normal Art: "Hobo With iPhone"

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The 20th century gave us Marcel Duchamp and "Fountain"... The 21st century gives us Steve Jobs and Hobo with iPhone.

Actual picture: photo credit Zero Hedge

 

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Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:45 | 3062942 Manthong
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Appearances..

but those who can't appreciate the pained cynicism of that comment deserve what's coming. 

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 11:29 | 3062689 AnAnonymous
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That is some heavy reporting, 'american' style.

An embedded 'american' war reporter would have not done better.

Consider, it is dark, it is NYC, the hobbo is a negro, dangerous situation.

Woooo, worth a Pullitzer.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 11:44 | 3062742 magpie
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...it raises the question if he remains a member of the "king class" ?

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:16 | 3063047 akak
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King classicity is indeed the mattering thing ---- very crusty, very crusty.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:41 | 3062936 akak
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That is some heavy bigotry, Chinese shitizenism style.

An embedded Chinese shitizenism dingleberry would have not stunk better.

Consider, it is dark, it is ZeroHedge, the insanitator is a Chinese shitizen, dangerous situation.

Woooo, worth a Poolitzer.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 11:29 | 3062690 yogibear
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Now Obama giving out free I-phones (thanks to the people that work)? 

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 11:41 | 3062734 BudFox2012
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haaa haaa hahaa Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha  What a moron, a hobo with a new iphone.... oh shit, where's my phone?

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:22 | 3062855 GMadScientist
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Unlimited data plan?! w00t! Streaming pr0n, for the discerning hobo.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 11:41 | 3062735 1000yrdstare
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@AnAnonymous

"it is dark, it is NYC, the hobbo is a negro"

 

I believe the current politically correct term is "African American"

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:49 | 3062959 sdmjake
Fri, 12/14/2012 - 11:46 | 3062749 Leraconteur
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That location is the (Formerly Riggs)/PNC Georgetown Bank branch at Wisconsin and M Streets, NW Washington DC. He is standing to the right of the entrance to the bank on the NE corner of the intersection.

Georgetown always was a Keep Up With The Kennedy's type of neighborhood...

38.905194,-77.062741

Sat, 12/15/2012 - 03:39 | 3065833 Urban Redneck
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Georgetown has been a dump for ages, the only change he's getting there (after sundown) is from the pub crawling zombies...

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 11:47 | 3062752 debtor of last ...
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Makes him traceable when it's Fema-time.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 11:51 | 3062761 Atlantis Consigliore
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Give her a no doc loan and house; she needs it, its her right, and if it goes in foreclosure fha, do it again in 3 years.

Housing is a right. 

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:02 | 3062791 Montezuma
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Is that an Iphone or an Ipod? Anyway it doesnt even matter, dude lost his house and racists are mocking him? Why? because he has one earthly possession?

I mean I dont like poor people but damn you confederates are still pissed about not having slaves... Dont worry in 30-50 years people have to resort to selling their kids or giving themselves up for slavery for a period of a time to pay off debts...

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:28 | 3062839 GMadScientist
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Because noone ever stole an iphone and no drug dealer would ever use a hobo as cover.

And how else is a brother supposed to manage his portfolio, bitchez?

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:07 | 3063022 blunderdog
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Guess he must be a hobo 'cause he's black?

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:36 | 3063121 akak
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Don't you know that you are not supposed to call them "hobos" anymore?

The politically-correct phrase is now "the transportationally disadvantaged".

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:51 | 3063151 blunderdog
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I just see a fat black guy, myself, but the headline said "hobo."

Did they interview him to find out his story, ya think?

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:27 | 3063089 Darkness
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This literally redefines iLeverage

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:32 | 3063104 Intoxicologist
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He vacated his boxcar and took to the streets when they installed a camera and microphones in it.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:33 | 3063112 JR
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Government is a tangle of defenses for the robbery of the taxpayer and buildup of the Democrat base.

The cell phone handouts are a good example; for California for some time has been one of the 36 states providing free cell phones through a federally funded Lifeline program. The only difference was it charged a near zero cost for the service to those who qualified for Lifeline – 250 Minutes for $2.50, 500 Minutes for $5.00, and 1000 Minutes for $20.00.

The concept of a free phone for hobos and homeless is incorrect; it’s actually a welfare phone tied to the government’s poverty line definition. As usual this is the traditional teamwork play between the welfare handouts, the communications company profit centers and the tech industry supplying the phones – all paid by the taxpayers.

Before this latest announcement by the California Public Utilities Commission, there were two ways to qualify in California, according to Free Government Cell Phones, and they were a bit different from other states.  (Note: these number effective through 5/31/12):

Method 1 Program-Based – You can qualify if you or another person in your household is enrolled in any one of the following public assistance programs:

  • Medicaid/Medi-Cal
  • Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
  • Federal Public Housing Assistance or Section 8
  • Food Stamps or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
  • Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC)
  • Healthy Families Category A
  • National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
    1. California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)
    2. Stanislaus County Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (StanWORKs)
    3. Welfare-to-Work (WTW)
    4. Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN)
  • Tribal TANF
  • Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance
  • Head Start Income Eligible (Tribal Only)

Method 2 Income-Based – You may also qualify if your total annual household gross income is at or less than annual income limits for your household size:

Household Size and Annual Income Limits: 1-2 members, $24,000; 3 members, $28,200; 4 members, $34,000. For each addition member, $5,800.

http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/states/california-government-cell-phone-providers 

Perhaps more appropriate "new normal art" would be an unwed mother with iPhone whose massive welfare from the government is not included in her household "poverty level income."

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:51 | 3063155 calgal
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They used to tell me I was building a dream
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow or guns to bear
I was always there right on the job

They used to tell me I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?

Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell
Full of that Yankee-Doodly-dum
Half a million boots went sloggin' through Hell
And I was the kid with the drum

Say, don't you remember, they called me "Al"
It was "Al" all the time
Why don't you remember, I'm your pal
Say buddy, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits, ah gee we looked swell
Full of that Yankee-Doodly-dum
Half a million boots went sloggin' through Hell
And I was the kid with the drum

Oh, say, don't you remember, they called me "Al"
It was "Al" all the time
Say, don't you remember, I'm your pal
Buddy, can you spare a dime?

 

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 14:21 | 3063372 JR
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And, then, instead of drafted, you were Nafted – with all your worker-produced wealth that built America and your standard of living stolen and off-shored by thieves for the common good of the “private owners” of the Federal Reserve System who, by creating money out of nothing, bought up your industries and shipped them off to Third World labor camps, storing their stolen gains  in off shore tax havens.

Next , to keep up the ruse of economic growth in America, the bankers’ Keepers of the Statistics included in America’s GDP “growth” such things as growth in pornography, growth in the abortion and divorce industries, and growth in service industries of doing each other’s laundry and child care while mothers were hustled out of the home to slug for their daily bread.

In short, my Brother, you were shafted.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:56 | 3063171 ali-ali-al-qomfri
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Banker Bonus Map app told him that PNC bonuses go out today and he's waiting for the execs to come out feeling all so powerful that they got their bonus and still have a job, so he’s there to work on their Christmas charity

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 14:11 | 3063281 fishwharf
Fri, 12/14/2012 - 15:37 | 3063818 ZH11
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He might of just stolen it?

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