it's almost got me wondering if it's some kind of combination immigration/prostitution ring - or even warehousing girls for arranged marriages.

some non-indian female students should apply for these rooms, and see what happens.

again - i'm not saying i want to share a room with a teenage girl from india.

but, these ads are really overwhelmingly egregious.

this is happening in a city with a very low vacancy rate, and you see a dozen ads like this come up every day, specifying that they'll only rent to people of a certain age, certain vocation, certain gender and certain ethnicity - while the shelters are overflowing with white people.

it's not a single issue that can be referred to a human rights board - it's endemic. judging from the ads i'm seeing, there must be hundreds of houses run by these people. and they appear to mostly be empty.

some kind of law enforcement really needs to step in and put a stop to this.

and, i'm not going to let somebody discriminate against me on grounds of sexual orientation or gender expression just because they have brown skin or a foreign religious belief, either.

so long as they're secular atheists - which is a reasonable assumption in an oecd country in 2018 - i don't care what the ethnicity of people i'm living with or renting from are.

so, i wouldn't have any issues with renting from or living with an indian or arab or african person or family, just so long as they don't believe in god.

and, likewise, i'm not going to get along well with white christians, either.

but, i've been over this a million times, haven't i? i don't care about ethnicity. what i have an aversion to is religion.

august, 2014 is done.

still no listings.

still no order.

*shrug*.

i'm not going to fight you on gun control; i don't like guns, i don't want one, and i'm not interested in fighting for people that do have guns and do want them.

i would not shed a tear if the government rounded up all of the guns tomorrow.

this is not about gun rights for me, it's about effective public policy. and, we know that guns laws simply do not reduce gun violence.

that doesn't mean we shouldn't have gun laws, anyways - as mentioned, i'm not going to fight you on this. i'm just going to sit back, criticize your proposals, dissent on your projections and instead suggest that your policies will have the opposite effects of what you're proposing.

i'm going to ask the hard questions about culture that the media is afraid to ask. and, i'm going to finger the actual problem: our gun violence is increasing because our culture is americanizing. the root problem is the importation of gun culture values from south of the border. and, to reverse the problem, we need to reverse the process of americanization that is taking place, here.

i want to end gun violence, too. but i understand that prohibition does not solve problems, but causes problems.

we need to get to the root causes through effective social policies and deep self-analysis, not pass well-meaning authoritarian laws that won't work.

so, let's say you ban guns completely.

the next thing that happens is you end up with illegal gun cartels gun-running through neighbourhoods. i think this is obvious enough that it doesn't require elaboration, but that is not my point, right now.

what happens when the cops move in to take down the gun cartel?

i honestly grew out of gaming when i was about 16 or 17.