vxbush 7/2/2021 6:03:01 AM

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doppelganglander 7/2/2021 7:06:18 AM

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Good morning. The Buckhead section of Atlanta, the wealthiest part of the city, is working to separate from Atlanta and incorporate as a city of its own. This article explains why. In a nutshell, they want to eliminate single-family housing on large lots.

There's a developer who bought several lots and is in the process of tearing down the houses to build high-density housing. The same developer is trying to do the same thing just a short distance from my home but the neighbors are fighting back.

Imagine 50 condos sprouting in the midst of an older single-family neighborhood on what used to be 8 half-acre lots. I'm concerned the city will go for it. They've been building apartments and condos like there's no tomorrow, but they're all on major streets with commercial development. My townhome subdivision and the small neighborhood next door are ideal candidates for that sort of thing, and it will probably happen eventually. We back up to a nice single-family neighborhood, but we are at the corner of two busy streets, so it makes sense. I have no idea where I'll live then.

buzzsawmonkey 7/2/2021 7:49:44 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 2:

One assumes that the purpose of the zoning changes, and the production of multiple dwellings, is to ultimately create a lot of "affordable housing" units where by the inner cities can be imported into the suburbs.

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 8:01:18 AM

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vxbush 7/2/2021 8:15:45 AM

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In #4 Occasional Reader said: And so our slide into banana republic status continues, with the party in power leveling bullshit criminal charges against the party out of power.

Along those lines--the details of the charges against Rudy Guliani seem to be sort of legal arcana, and I'm having trouble understanding it. 

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2021 8:38:04 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 2:

Making suburbs into inner cities is being pushed by the Dems since Obama. Articles and op-eds in Fox and Boston Herald that I don't have time to find.

Once that is done, they'll need federal money for transportation projects and other things that will move all control to the feds.

The town I live in has a couple of buildings turned into apartments (some were built that way, as one built for railroad workers).

And a couple of trailer parks. 

One trailer park is right next to the police station. The other apartment buildings, but not the other trailer park, are within walking distance of the commuter rail.

But that won't stop the feds if they want.

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2021 8:39:11 AM

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In #5 vxbush said: Along those lines--the details of the charges against Rudy Guliani seem to be sort of legal arcana, and I'm having trouble understanding it. 

Simple - his crime was working for Trump. Here, have a banana republic, fresh from the bunch.

buzzsawmonkey 7/2/2021 8:51:44 AM

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JCM 7/2/2021 8:54:15 AM

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Successful ditching off Hawaii.

JCM 7/2/2021 9:00:17 AM

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The GOP should abandon the bipartisan infrastructure deal

So far, the bipartisan infrastructure deal is going through the normal life cycle of such proposals — alive, dead, revived, uncertain.

For Republicans, the best answer should be dead.

They have nothing to gain by blessing a portion of President Joe Biden's spending plans, when an ungodly amount of money is going to go out the door regardless of whether they vote for a chunk of it or not.

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 9:03:20 AM

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In #5 vxbush said: Along those lines--the details of the charges against Rudy Guliani seem to be sort of legal arcana, and I'm having trouble understanding it. 

From a quick persual, it's absolutely shocking.  Rudy is being suspended from the practice of law in NY, essentially for maybe-kinda questioning the legitimacy of His Majesty, Gropey Joe.   They've dressed this up in contorted arguments that he made false statements (which he did not) in legal filings, but that's the gist of it.

The Democrats have gone completely insane.  They need to be driven from power, and confined to the political wilderness. 

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 9:04:58 AM

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In #9 JCM said: Successful ditching off Hawaii.

Lucy: "The plane is pitching."

Mr. Mooney (sitting next to her, having just been awakened by her, groggy): "THE PLANE IS DITCHING?!"  (Panic ensues) 

/The Lucy Show... random memory 

lucius septimius 7/2/2021 9:14:32 AM

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In #3 buzzsawmonkey said: One assumes that the purpose of the zoning changes, and the production of multiple dwellings, is to ultimately create a lot of "affordable housing" units where by the inner cities can be imported into the suburbs.

I don't think that's the aim.  The kind of buildings that have been going up on the north side have been either mixed-use developments or high-end condos.  If anything, the aim is to increase the density of revenue producing units.  

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 9:15:37 AM

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CNN gushes with praise for Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2021 9:19:20 AM

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More on the stabbing of a rabbi in Boston. Still no mention of motive, but they do have a person in custody.

Yesterday, the police had no idea of the motive. Still not mentioned in the news.

Any guess the type of name?

I'm sure you will be as shocked/ as I was to note the name indicates he is likely an adherent to the Religion Of Peace:

That suspect was identified as Khaled Awad, 24, of Brighton, who is expected to be arraigned in Brighton District Court on charges of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer.

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 9:19:32 AM

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In #13 lucius septimius said: I don't think that's the aim.  The kind of buildings that have been going up on the north side have been either mixed-use developments or high-end condos.  If anything, the aim is to increase the density of revenue producing units.  

Embrace the healing power of "and".

Step 1: Developers bribe pols to let them build high-end, high-density housing in suburban areas.

Step 2: Bribed pols enact "housing equity" measures that give tax breaks to developers for dedicating portions of those developments to people who can't really afford to live there, thus making the suburban taxpayers subsidize the ghettofication of their own neighborhoods.

The developers get rich, the pols stay lucratively bribed, AND we get "housing equity" blahblahblah.  Everybody wins!... or everybody who matters, anyway.  

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2021 9:20:18 AM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: CNN gushes with praise for Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping

Communist News Network

Chinese News Network

Counterfeit News Network

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 9:20:46 AM

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In #15 Kosh's Shadow said: Any guess the type of name?

Wait wait don't tell me... is it... Bubba Maga McWhiteman?   Something like that?

/

doppelganglander 7/2/2021 9:24:19 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 3:
That is precisely what they're doing. Affordable housing is a euphemism for the projects.

In Atlanta, most of those units would go to African-Americans, so if you're opposed you must be a racist. I've had a number of perfectly lovely black neighbors and I wouldn't mind more. What they all have in common is the ability to afford their homes. There's nothing racist about wanting to live among people with similar incomes and similar values, i.e. the middle class.

buzzsawmonkey 7/2/2021 9:25:25 AM

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In #16 Occasional Reader said: Embrace the healing power of "and".

+++++

It has long been the object of Leftists to export the lowest of inner-city residents to the most-upscale suburbs they can manage---both to turn such suburbs "blue," and to punish the existing residents for daring to live as they wish.

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 9:25:49 AM

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In #15 Kosh's Shadow said: Yesterday, the police had no idea of the motive. Still not mentioned in the news.

The motive was white supremacy.  Obviously.

(Again, I have a former kneejerk-Dem friend who insists that the supermarket shooting in Boulder, CO by ISIS and AQ fanboi Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa was an example of violence perpetrated by, and I quote, "White, Christian males".  So why not here, too?) 

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 9:28:04 AM

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In #21 Occasional Reader said: I have a former kneejerk-Dem friend

To be clear, the "former" modifies "friend", unfortunately; not "kneejerk-Dem". 

doppelganglander 7/2/2021 9:42:34 AM

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In #16 Occasional Reader said: Embrace the healing power of "and".

This. There are a lot of downmarket apartments and abandoned strip malls at the upper end of the main thoroughfare in my city. The area is targeted for much needed revitalization. So far the completed projects are upscale - nice apartments or condos over cute shops and restaurants. I'm okay with this as long as the goal is to create a city center and leave the suburban neighborhoods untouched. Plopping 50 units in the middle of a neighborhood of three bedroom brick ranch homes is not consistent with that plan. Inevitably there will be below market units occupied by people who, as my mother would have said, don't know how to act.

I live right across the street from a small park with basketball courts, picnic tables, and playgrounds that are used by families and well-mannered teens who happen to be mostly black. I don't want it to become a hangout for drinking and drug use or worse.

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2021 9:51:09 AM

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In #21 Occasional Reader said: (Again, I have a former kneejerk-Dem friend who insists that the supermarket shooting in Boulder, CO by ISIS and AQ fanboi Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa was an example of violence perpetrated by, and I quote, "White, Christian males".  So why not here, too?) 

I get it. They identify as white males.////////

vxbush 7/2/2021 10:14:21 AM

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In #23 doppelganglander said: There are a lot of downmarket apartments and abandoned strip malls at the upper end of the main thoroughfare in my city.

In our case, the strip malls are doing better. The actual mall, which I visited last weekend, only has about 10% occupancy. It is a ghost town. What can cities do with all these empty stores when everyone was taught to buy online this last year? 

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2021 10:22:18 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21:

So Wokies think Jews have "white privilege" and are white supremacists, but that most hatred of Jews is by white supremacists.

Reminds me of an old joke from when SNL was funny. When the UN passed the "Zionism is racism" resolution, SNL said "Sammy Davis, Jr. said 'What a breakthrough! At last I can hate myself!'"

JCM 7/2/2021 10:37:28 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 19:

In King Co. WA a UW prof show 50% of the cost of a home was due to regulations and limitations on construction. It probably has gone up significantly since that study. One of the things is that the area with new construction is a "affordable" housing fee, or with apartments a certain percentage of the units dedicated to "low income". This means a lot of projects don't get built because with those requirements the cost margins are too thin. That restricts supply, which further spirals the cost.

Also in this area a lot of things are funded on property tax levies. WA has no income tax, so sales tax, business taxes, property taxes and levies are the funding source. In an area like mine they put essential services on a levy, police, fire, schools, instead of primary tax sources, which suckers people into voting for them and raising their own taxes. Then when the levy is up, OH were going to have cut services if the levy doesn't pass. Meanwhile the local entities waste money an all kinds of other crapola.

A home near mine and very similar to mine just went on the market for $1.1million. That's real affordable.

JCM 7/2/2021 10:43:05 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 23:

They are taking some of those run down things in this area and turning them into upscale "town centers" they think it's new, but it's really old, mixed use. Retail on the ground level, services and offices on the 2nd and 3rd, and apt. or condos above. Usually includes a small transit hub, or close to one. Of course it's really not affordable.

doppelganglander 7/2/2021 11:32:05 AM

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Reply to JCM in 27:
The small subdivision next door consists of modest single family homes and duplexes. Half of one duplex went on the market last month for $525K. 2800 sq. ft., no back yard, nothing fancy. The 60-year-old ranch houses behind me are going for $500K and up. Some of the infill McMansions are north of a million. Same thing in Lucius's 'hood and many others.

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 2:01:02 PM

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Andy Ngo, again, doing the job our so-called journalists will not do:

https://tinyurl.com/65y45f5p

JCM 7/2/2021 2:46:15 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 30:

Does BLM think such a thing would be legally binding? What purpose other than intimidation does such action have?

Once again imagine the shit storm if they had been wearing MAGA hats.

buzzsawmonkey 7/2/2021 3:00:37 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 30: Reply to JCM in 31:

These people need to be shot and/or run over in large quantities.

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 3:09:17 PM

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In #31 JCM said: What purpose other than intimidation

Just that.

Occasional Reader 7/2/2021 3:10:26 PM

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In #32 buzzsawmonkey said: These people need to be shot and/or run over in large quantities.

I’m good with “or”, as “and” would result in needless tire wear or ammo expenditure, as the case may be.

buzzsawmonkey 7/2/2021 3:15:02 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 34:

Well, we must conserve resources.

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2021 3:30:37 PM

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In #31 JCM said: Does BLM think such a thing would be legally binding? What purpose other than intimidation does such action have?

They might think it can be binding, but it was clearly written and signed under duress, including threat of kidnapping and bodily harm. That invalidates it, and can make anyone suing in court to enforce it parties to criminal behavior, kidnapping and assault.

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2021 3:39:28 PM

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The person who stabbed the rabbi yesterday is from Egypt, and possibly here illegally

A 24-year-old native of Egypt is being held without bail after being accused of stabbing a city rabbi “seven or eight times” in a daylight attack some are demanding be treated as a hate crime.

That stabbing suspect, Khaled Awad of Brighton, is also being investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and won’t be let out until at least a dangerousness hearing is held July 8, a judge ruled today at his arraignment in Brighton District Court.

Kosh's Shadow 7/2/2021 3:47:53 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 37:

BTW, we lived not so far from there in the early 1980's.