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January 17, 2007

Marin County to Habitat For Humanity: Not in Our Backyard!

The same ultra-left Marin County that gave the world Johnny Taliban is up in arms because Habitat For Humanity plans to build four affordable single-family homes on its snooty turf.

HFH closed its Marin affiliate in the 1990s due to a lack of community support. But now it's plunging onward, even though one resident huffs that the project is "out of character with our neighborhood."

All four homes would be built on less than an acre, each priced for a family of four making $56,000 — barely enough to pay the bill from the tanning salon in this tony San Francisco suburb.

Residents have raised $100,000 for attorneys' fees to kill the project. Mainly they're worried about the effect of middle class hoi polloi on their property values, although some were phony enough to pretend it's a traffic issue.

Maybe Hamas could let Jimmy Carter take some time off from his PR duties to see if he can resolve the conflict.

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Where's Jimmy the Dhimmi when someone finally needs him?

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at January 17, 2007 8:59 PM

Comments

What a bunch of rich conservative moonbats.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 17, 2007 9:33 PM

he's proppin' castro up ala "weekend at bernie's" style:

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6701/589/1600/948323/castro%20carter.jpg

clear case of "of course i like the poor and downtrodden, i just wouldn't want to live next to one."

time to bring back the "gag me" saying.

Posted by: nanc at January 17, 2007 10:08 PM

And I'm supposed to be the one who hates the poor?

Posted by: Big White Hat at January 18, 2007 12:36 AM

Moonbats in Brief this morning:

Dennis Kucinich pushes government control of media.

Prominent Weather Channel Climatologist says Meteorologists Who Question Groupthink on ManBearPig Should Have Their Credentials Revoked. (This on the same day southern California gets hit with a blizzard and record cold kills 75% of the California citrus crop).

Duke University Profs: We railroaded three innocent lacrosse players, and we're proud of it!.

VH will never run out of material.

Posted by: V the K at January 18, 2007 6:22 AM

Posted by: V the K at January 18, 2007 6:57 AM

Oh! Oh! OH! Can I be the one to smack down the troll who was too stupid to fill in his name?

Marin county is a liberal hotbed, not a conservative one. Blame for this goes on Lear Jet Liberals who can't deal with having Nice try idiot!

http://www.businessfinancemarketing.com/2006/business/marin-county-california.html

Marin County is world-renowned for its stunning natural beauty, liberal politics and pockets of extreme affluence, a unique and special place to those who know the area.

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/politicalInfo.php?locIndex=10476

Presidential politics: Marin County voted Democratic in the last two presidential elections. According to unofficial vote totals for 2004, Bush received 26,141 votes and Kerry received 73,946 votes.

In the November 2000 race, Marin County strongly supported Al Gore. Countywide, 34,872 people voted for Bush and 79,135 voted for Gore. Nader received 8,289 votes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_County,_California

Though the county is marked by its fiscal conservatism and isolationism, it tends to support liberal positions on social issues, and it (like much of the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area) has become a stronghold of the Democratic Party in recent decades. Marin County presidential election returns since 1960 can be seen in the adjoining table.

So, Let's you build the case that Marin County, CA is a conservative hotbed?

Posted by: Metalgarth at January 18, 2007 8:13 AM

rippin'!

Posted by: nanc at January 18, 2007 8:41 AM

You said it yourself, smartypants: "Though the county is marked by its fiscal conservatism ..."

Preventing affordable housing is a conservative position, not a liberal one.

The community of Strawberry is the home of a very conservative Southern Baptist seminary. I don't know if that has any influence on the community though.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 18, 2007 12:16 PM

Anonymous,

I'd say the answer to that is "apparently not."

It's NIMBY for Nancy's Marin County pals or they could put up some shacks right out there in the middle of one of their favorite cornfields - "Build it and they will come". Except for Jimmy Carter, I think he might be more concerned about being called on the relative apartheid in practice by his political allies as they square off against his HFH samaritans. Besides, there doesn't seem to be any way to pull down another Nobel prize here. Reality is complicated but Moonbat hypocrisy is just downright confounding!

Posted by: tfhr at January 18, 2007 12:38 PM

"Preventing affordable housing is a conservative position, not a liberal one."

Can you cite your sources on this anonymous, or atleast take of your tinfoil hat.

Posted by: Eric at January 18, 2007 2:14 PM

"Preventing affordable housing is a conservative position, not a liberal one."

Kind of odd then, isn't it, that the places run completely by moonbat liberals... SFO, NYC, Boston... have the least affordable housing in the country.

But then, hey, if moonbat liberals could deal with facts, they wouldn't be moonbat liberals.

Posted by: V the K at January 18, 2007 2:34 PM

the Nameless One is pulling the fallacy of the "glittering generallity". Who could possibly not be in favor of "affordable housing"? Only conservatives could be, according to him. It is already a given that in his world that Conservatives = evil and Liberals = good. Therefore since only evil people would dare appose "affordable housing" (even though he never defines what that really means) the people of Marin County must be evil Conservatives at heart.

Posted by: Metalgarth at January 18, 2007 3:12 PM

But Anonymous, it's the LIBERAL-SOCIALTSTS who always want to raise taxes, making it harder to own homes!
Lately they are renewing the push for a $20 increase in gaoline taxes, just when the price of crude is going down. I want you to think about all the many products that are transported and manufatured are dependant on fuel. Then I want you to think about how PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION is also dependant on fuel. If fuel is given a heavey tax, even if it is over a few years, the price of EVERYTHING, goods and services, will go UP. So what then, raise the minimum wage AGAIN?
By the way, raising the MW will ALSO cause prices to go up and benefits to be lost because the businesses will have to PAY it! It's happened before and it will happen again.

Posted by: KHarn at January 18, 2007 4:57 PM

Maybe one of the reasons it's more expensive to live in a liberal-run city is that nobody wants to live in a conservative-run city.

Then again, when was the last time NYC had a liberal mayor??? It's had all Republicans since 1993 now.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 18, 2007 5:01 PM

Anonymous, you have got to be kidding. The fastest-growing parts of the country are all red states. People are leaving the liberal Northeast in droves. Mayor Mike is a left-wing liberal. In NYC, you can run to the left of Karl Marx and call yourself a Republican, which is why people are leaving. I just hope they don't bring their politics with them.

Posted by: Van Helsing at January 18, 2007 5:06 PM

Detroit has had nothing but uber-left liberal mayors and city councils for forty years. If left-liberals are good for cities, Detroit should be paradise.

But, at least, there is plenty of affordable housing.

And, Bloomberg? Please. Bloomberg was a lifelong liberal democrat who changed his party registration just in time to run for mayor. He bears as much resemblance to a conservative Republican as Rosie O'Donnell does to a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.

Posted by: V the K at January 18, 2007 7:03 PM

Same with St Louis, V the K...

Posted by: Metalgarth at January 18, 2007 8:24 PM

Anonymous knows he's just making things up. You can give him fact after fact and it's not going to help him. He's just here to annoy people.

Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at January 19, 2007 4:32 PM

Pardon me, I was just checking on the old posts and I noticed that I had a typo. I ment to write that the Libs are demanding a TWO DOLLAR tax on gas, NOT "twenty". My bad.

Posted by: KHarn at January 19, 2007 7:24 PM