(Filed: 18/12/2005)"Forty-two people have been killed and 37 injured after a stampede at a homeless shelter in southern India, officials said. "When the school gates opened to let in a vehicle,the crowd thought the center had opened and surged forward. A stampede ensued, crushing those in the front, mostly women. At least 11 policemen who tried to control the crowd were among the injured. "Chennai and many other parts of Tamil Nadu have been lashed by heavy rains in the past few weeks. Many coastal villages have been flooded, leaving thousands homeless."

Real quick. If we are dealing with HOMELESS we must disregard exteraneouns conditions that in point of fact have nothing to do with "homeless" except that both are states of being. What have drugs or mental illnesses to do with "homeless" when the people you are dealing with are not mentally ill or addicted?

At some point they have to be seperated and each dealt with individually. This is carefully done for clarity's sake. In fact this on-going combining, developing, and balancing-out is what we call "living our lives". How these social and natural currents are navigated results in who we are.

Entangled with the "homeless" condition is Real-estate and it's availability. Just as the weather affects our daily lives, so real-estate concerns determine what the physical "home" one seeks will be, or how attempts to maintain a home one already has will play out, as well as the appropriate strategies to acheive ones territorial goals. But it does not explain why any particular person would persist in "homeless" behavior.

Looking at possibilities afforded by any given situation, we can measure the likelihood that a given event will, or will not, occur. For example: if people are denied ready access to water and indoor toilets (a possibility)... then waste will accumulate in unwanted places (a probability).

"Homeless camps uncovered as riverbed clearing proceeds."

"OCEANSIDE ---- Workers discovered several homeless camps in the San Luis Rey River bed while removing dense stands of giant reeds..."

"A crew of five workers from Rancho Del Oro Landscape Maintenance worked Friday to haul several truckloads of trash from a large encampment that was discovered just west of the Murray Bridge...

"We have been out here for three days," said Alejandro Perez, a worker with the company as he carried an armload of debris through mowed-down reeds. "We have been taking out between four and six truckloads every day. "These people have probably been living out here for about two years."

"The Army Corps of Engineers ordered the clearing effort in advance of a much more comprehensive push to remove overgrowth from the river's flood control channel before it causes a flood. However, because the river is home to several endangered birds, the Corps said it could not begin a major clearing effort in the riverbed until it finishes a 20-day environmental comment period."

Most of these people? Here is what someone posted about that report.

TW wrote on December 17, 2005:/"OK, how many homeless people do you take in your house every week. Most of these people are homeless because of substance abuse and being lazy. They commit crimes against those of us that work for a living. There are plenty of places for free loaders to take shelter at tax payers expense. They also creat a big enviormental mess, who many homeless bums have you seen keep a clean "house". "