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So, how will they make those houses on columns "visitable" to the handicapped?

Great. That ought to jack-up the prices!

I can see it now. Socialist/USSR style housing on stilts.

Zoning and Land Development regulation is becoming an absolute menace to private property rights. Here's a couple true stories from my experiences with land use BS:

In MD, we had to build multiple storm water retention basins because of the supposed storm water runoff from a 12' wide gravel driveway. No joke - a 12' wide gravel driveway. It added tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of the project.

Another one in rural PA involved a couple who bought 21 acres with a 1 house on it 4 years ago. They now want to build a second house on the property for their elderly father. They were turned down because the property had already used its development "allotment". 20-30 acre parcels are allowed to be subdivided for 5 residences maximum. Back in 1974, a previous owner had sold off four 1 acre lots for 4 new houses. Because of that, the new owners cannot further divide, or build a second residence on the property. The board kindly informed them that they are "free" to add a room to the existing house, but they cannot add a kitchen and bathroom because someone might turn it into an apartment in the future - or something. The bottom line it that they own the property only insofar as they are responsible for paying taxes on it. They cannot use it as they want - not even to house their elderly dad.

Another one involved a guy who owns 10 acres in an area zoned industrial - usually the most intensely used and least regulated of zones. The twp recently passed an ordinance saying the property in that zone can only be 60% impervious surface - ie covered with buildings, parking lots, or apparently gravel areas too. This makes 40% of his property essentially useless. But the kicker is that he can buy back rights to cover more of his property with impervious area from another land owner in the same municipality who is not using all of his "allotment". Does this scam sound familiar? Carbon credits? But anyway, the Twp basically stole 40% of his land, and is now offering him an opportunity to "buy back" what they took from from him by decree.

I go to planning and zoning meetings pretty regularly, and I'm expecting to see the torches and pitchforks come out some day soon.

Al Franken campaign event draws one attendee.

1. Cindy Sheehan is so jealous.

2. It's still bigger than his Air America audience.

So why is it OK for pollution to soak into the ground, where it will eventually make its way into the water supply, anyway?

Well - if it really works its way through - I'm okay with it as long as I also get the 1 hour a day, 1 day a week work week as George Jetson at my same pay!!!

Idiots.

Crush these enviro-nazis like the cockroaches they are, before they succeed in destroying my country!

If McCain would reject these idiots, instead of kissing their asses, for the Communists they are, his campaign would take off like a Saturn V-b on the way to the Moon. These anti-American, anti-capitalist groups may have started off with the best of intentions (always thus with the Left and their "ideas"), and there's nothing wrong with conservation and the husbanding of natural resources (within reason), but they're now nothing but obstructionists to everything good for America, trying (and thus far succeeding) in tearing her down to Third World status.

They DO have the 'space needle' don't ya know. (Strongly resembles the structure on the lower right, above.) Now that's a well thought out piece of architecture: Stands a couple of hundred feet, takes up a 2 acres footprint, and accomodates about 100 people. Yep - got to hand it to those rainy-brains. Pretteeee smart.

Houses on columns in Seattle? If memory serves, Seattle is prime earthquake country... they're just waiting for another mountain to blow or a plate to shift, and a lot of things might pancake.

LA Times goes completely unhinged with Obamania

Oblivious to the idea that people might actually have jobs, families, and other responsibilities, Scottish moonbats are requiring doctors to tell people they need 1 and 1/2 hrs of strenuous exercise PER DAY, supplemened by 2 weight-training sessions a week, just to not get more flabby.

The ole' take a stroll, or work out a few times a week for a half-hour are out. In fact, the stroll doesn't even count at all, in the new thinking.

SEXUAL LIBERATION IN AMERICA: PART ONE–THE BEGINNING

Sex sells.

That’s hardly an original observation filled with keen insight. It’s merely a comment on the obvious which has been a fact of American life since the onslaught of the so-called Sexual Liberation/Revolution in the 1960’s.

This website links that revolution with the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Movement, the Black Power Movement, the Students’ Rights Movement, the Womens’ Liberation Movementwith everything but a BM: http://www.hippy.com/php/search.php?cat=17. And it’s pretty much on target.

(Speaking of observations, the present observation does not address the sexual revolution as it has impacted homosexuals in America nor does it address its influence on Europe.)

When Jefferson Airplane sang the rhetorical question, Do you want someone to love? the response was foregone. Who doesn’t want someone to love and vice versa? And Americans responded by the millions, mostly young Americans but even older Americans who were suffering aging pangs and who wanted at least one more shot at “yout.”

But America’s young were the most caught up with it all. Civil Rights was a good thing! Protesting the evil war in Viet Nam was the right thing! Black Power was a wonderful thing! And what better way could kids show their support since most didn’t have the wherewithall to financially back those movements? What else did white girls have but their bodies and they paid their dues with what they had–by marching, protesting, and surrendering their bodies in recompense for the war and for America’s racism. (See Hating Whitey by David Horowitz for lurid examples.)

Some regard the famed 1969 Woodstock Festival and Concert, (http://www.woodstock69.com/, as the capstone, the crowning achievement, of that revolution in what Americans thought of sex, how we practiced sex, and what we wanted from sex.

Woodstock was many things, but it was not a capstone. What it was, or did, was capsulize the angst of the Sixties, not just put a crown on it. What Woodstock did accomplish was the solidification of sexual liberation and helped begin the conclusion of the United States of America.

More on the results of the sexual liberation in America in the next installment. Stay tuned.

ent asked:

So why is it OK for pollution to soak into the ground, where it will eventually make its way into the water supply, anyway?

It doesn't. Most pollutants in water are suspensions in water rather than chemicals which freely associate with the ater molecules. If water with oil or dirt suspensions settles into the soil, the water will slowly sink to the level of the water table, while the oil and dirt will remain on the surface.

Gene,

I'd call Woodstock a crapstone.

For a subculture of society that believes they can control global climate or save the entire planet I do not find it hard to believe they think they have a better idea than nature itself. This is just an expected result of those who have promoted themselves to be gods in their own minds.

Maybe Michelle will be ‘really, really proud of America’ this time she speaks.

Ante JObama to headline as a speaker at the DNC in Denver

Here's member of the PacNW left-wing brain trust explaining his position: Like, the war, is like, bad, so like, we have to, like, protest it, like.

Hey, as long as they start making those Jetson flyng cars that fold up into a briefcase size package, Im all for getting rid of roads! Harrison Ford's flying car from Blade Runner would be nice too.

......and homes built on columns that leave topsoil undisturbed, are well-tested and usually reduce environmental damage."

You just make the bottom end of the column sharp, helicopter the house over the lot and drop it. Voilà, topsoil undisturbed, easy peasy

Javems - good point.

And since we will be forced to conserve, no need for power or water lines to disturb the soil. Forget that hot shower or flushing toilet.

You will have to carry your human waste out in a bucket for the 'human waste tippy bin' on the street.

You won't have a car since they will have been taxed and feed beyond any adv person's ability to afford it - so no driveway to disturb the precious soil.

You will not be allowed to put a sidewalk in to get to your house, but will be fined for wearing a path in the grass/soil.

MoonBat utopia = everyone will stink, be poor and depend on the govt for every need in life.