Residents At Peachtree-Pine, January 27 and 28, 2012
January 31, 2012
On Friday night, January 27, 2012, 554 men and 3 women resided at tne Community of Peachtree Pine in Atlanta.
On Saturday night, January 28, 2012, 521 men and 2 women resided at the Community of Peachtree Pine in Atlanta.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
January 31, 2012
Super Bowl Sunday And Rector Geoffrey Hoare
January 31, 2012
Super Bowl 46 will be played this Sunday in Indianapolis. The New York Giants face the New England Patriots. Last year’s Super Bowl was played on Sunday, February 6. On that Sunday the saints at All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta heard a homily from its Rector, Geoffrey Hoare. The homily was entitled “Doing Justice” and turned out to be a vicious, undocumented, diatribe attacking the “management” of the Peachtree-Pine facility. Rector Hoare naturally lines up with Manny Fialkow, Central Atlanta Progress, United Way, the Peachtree Corridor Churches, Mercy Housing, Inc. in the conspiracy to steal and shut down the community where 600 Atlantans live on hallowed be thy name Peachtree Street. You can read Hoare’s drivel by going to allsaintsatlanta.org. My comments on Hoare’s comments are found in my blog’s argives, February 2011. My two blogs were posted on February 20 and 24, 2011.
Most of the men in the transitional program at The Pine are avid sports fans. They remember that the Green Bay Packers won the 2011 Super Bowl. But they remember even better that Rector Hoare stood in a “Christian ” pulpit and said that they live in a place with squalid conditions, unfit for humans. This and other falsehoods can be read if you go to the All Saints web site. We all at Peachtree Pine wonder what this man of God will say this Super Bowl Sunday. Last year the Green Bay Packers won; last year Rector Hoare lost.
My Episcopal friends tell me that Hoare is one of the highest, if not the highest paid, Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Atlanta. He’s paid more than the outgoing, dear Bishop Neal. Big pay in the Episcopal world, similar to other corporations means SUCCESS. If any protests show up this Sunday regarding Hoare’s Super Bowl homily, they will not be associated with Peachtree Pine. We Pine People love what we devotedly call Varsity Episcopal. Note that All Saints is safely nestled between two other corporate giants, Southern Bell and The Varsity Grill.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
Januaryn 31, 2012
Residents at Peachtree Pine, January 26, 2012
January 27, 2012
Last night, Thursday, January 26, 2012, 557 men, 5 women and 2 children spent the night at the Peachtree Pine facility. Imagine a city whose leadership would seize the opportunity to support a community that struggles to help and serve the unfortunate in its citizenry.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
January 27, 2012
Residents at Peachtree Pine, January 25, 2012
January 26, 2012
Good morning TEAM GOLIATH. Good morning Jack Hardin. Good morning Vince “Godly manner” Smith. It was so good to hear from our volunteer staff that you both visited Peachtree Pine to see for yourselves the exact “head count.” Incidentally did you count any lice? Did you shake hands? Any TB victims? Since you and others of your ilk have questioned our numbers for years, I will help you every day with that information. Believe it or not, last night, January 25, 2012, 651 men, 4 women with 2 children slept at the Peachtree Pine facility. And its not winter yet.
Note: Several of my readers have asked, somewhat alarmed, after reading yesterday’s daily count if something is wrong. What has happened? Are you closing down? We are not closing down!! However a ten-year conspiracy (I call it TEAM GOLIATH) has tried unsuccessfully to close down the Peachtree Pine Community. Its fraudulent schemes implemented to steal the building have landed that CABAL in the juiciest racketeering lawsuit of its life. The conspirators led by The United Way, The AJC, Central Atlanta Progress (CAP), The City of Atlanta, Atlanta Downtown Improvement District (ADID) and many others oppose the presence of Black men on sacred Peachtree Street.
That is why The United Way way is to attack a large shelter as warehousing people, even though Peachtree Pine offers 20 different services to the residents. A volunteer staff comprised of the residents places people five days a week. And with no help, only venomous attacks, from the TEAM of conspirators. TEAM GOLIATH experts say they have no reason to believe that homeless people are being helped at Peachtree Pine. Very few of these drive-by experts have ever deigned to visit the place.
If the conspirators “kick them out” as planned, where will they sleep without 1000 NEW beds? The United Way way promises their experts will find a way. If 15 years of history tells us anything, it tells us that this promise is yet another falsehood spewed by the leadership of TEAM GOLIATH. Sleep warm GOLIATHS. Sleep warm Protip. Sleep warm A. J “Uriah Heep” Robinson. Sleep warm Horace. Sleep warm #81. Rest in peace AJC. Sleep warm Sovereignly Immune City of Atlanta.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
January 26, 2012
Residents At Peachtree Pine, January 23, 24, 2012
January 25, 2012
On the night of Monday, January 23, 2012 690 people spent the night at The Peachtree Pine facility. On the night of January 24, 2012, 632 men and 7 women spent the night at the Peachtree Pine facility. Note please that women or women with their children stay at this facility only when they cannot be placed in any other facility.
When the Peachtree Pine Community is shut down and these people are “kicked out,” where will these 700 people go? United Way? Gateway? Central Atlanta Progress? Wake Up, Stay Up? All Saints Episcopal Church? Emory Hospital Midtown? Cousins Properties? Troutman Sanders? Sovereignly immune City Hall? The Varsity? Ichthus, Inc.? Mercy Housing, Inc.? We shall see. We shall see. Good night Team Goliath. Sleep warm Jack. Sleep warm Manny. Sleep warm Vince. Sleep warm Rector Hoar. Sleep warm A. J.. Sleep warm Rock de Rock Hill. Sleep warm Rhonda Cook. Sleep warm Peggy. Sleep warm Rufus. Sleep warm Bumbot. Rest in peace AJC. Sleep warm Milton. Sleep warm Dave. Sleep warm dear Debi. Sleep warm Number 81. Sleep warm Jim Lee. Sleep warm Judy.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:12
January 25, 2012
Robert Frost on “home.”
January 17, 2012
In Frost’s “Death of the Hired Man” he writes:
“Home is the place where when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
“I should have called it ‘something you somehow haven’t to deserve.'”
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
January 16, 2012
David Copperfirld As Narrator
January 15, 2012
Charles Dickens said repeatedly that DAVID COPPERFIELD was his favorite novel. Point of view in literature refers to narration, not opinion. Narration is HOW the story is told, WHO tells it. The character David Copperfield is the first person narrator of the novel. The first two paragraphs of Chapter XLIII, “Another Retrospect” tell us much about Copperfield as a person and more about Dickens as a writer. Those paragraphs I quote:
“Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession.
Weeks, months, seasons, pass along. They seem little more than a summer day and a winter evening. Now, the Common where I walk with Dora is all in bloom, a field of bright gold, and now the unseen heather lies in mounds and bunches underneath a covering of snow. In a breath, the river that flows through our Sunday walks is sparkling in the summer sun, is ruffled by the winter wind,, or thickened with drifting heaps of ice. Faster than ever river ran towards the sea, it flashes, darkens, and rolls away.”
Note: The river that flows through our summer days runs faster towards the sea.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
January 15, 2012
Dr. Jim Beaty 