If Obama Takes Over We’d Better All Get Use
To These Types of Events On A National Level:
LIBERALS ARE ALL ABOUT APPEASEMENT:
Swell: San Diego plans to declare “National Council of La Raza Day”
Well, they already gave their blessing to “Happy ACLU Day” despite the litigious group’s long-standing efforts to take down the Mount Soledad cross.
Might as well put their weight behind the ethnic supremacist group fighting against assimilation, funding reconquista schools, advocating speech suppressiong, and promoting lawlessness, too! (Michelle Malkin)
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LIBERALS LIKE TO MAKE PROMISES THAT MAKE THEM LOOK GOOD
BUT ACTUALLY DON’T HELP AT ALL
Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy
The candidate endorsed subsidies for private entrepreneurs to build low-income units. But, while he garnered support from developers, many projects in his former district have fallen into disrepair.
By Binyamin Appelbaum Globe Staff / June 27, 2008
CHICAGO – The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can’t afford to live anywhere else.
But it’s not safe to live here.
About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale – a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.
Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.
Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.
Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.
Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers – including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko – collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.
One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations. (Chicago Globe)
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THEY DON’T PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH
BUT THEY WILL MAKE SURE WE PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH
Posted by: Donald Kochan at 6:38 PM Don’t get me wrong, I am completely for salaries based on merit alone and think sex differentials should have zero, no difference. But these reports about the pay in Mr. “Equal Pay” Obama’s offices seem interesting, especially as compared to McCain — although as with most such studies I do not presume a causal relationship to evidence of discrimination. But since Obama, see here for example, does make such presumptions when there is a disparity in pay . . . .
Click here and here for the reports.
I think these reports provide a ridiculous critique, but equally ridiculous are most of the claims, like Obama’s, for coercive equal pay requirements rather than allowing the market to set salaries based on merit.
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THEY DISDAIN AMERICAN TRADITION
“Black national anthem”
stirs controversy for city
DENVER - Mayor John Hickenlooper’s annual State of the City address may get more attention for what wasn’t included than what was.
t the start of the event Tuesday morning, City Council President Michael Hancock introduced singer Rene Marie to perform the national anthem.
Instead, she performed the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” which is also known as the “black national anthem.” (9News.com)
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LIBERALS DON’T MAKE BUSINESS OR
COMMON PEOPLE’S PLEASURE A PRIORITY
Sonics leave Seattle for Okla. City
Thursday, July 3rd 2008, 1:50 AM
SEATTLE – The SuperSonics will move to Oklahoma City for the 2008-09 season as part of a settlement with the city of Seattle, ending a contentious relationship that resulted in a trial in which the judge was due to issue her ruling Wednesday.
Updated: April 28, 2007, 1:18 AM ET
Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire has said she will not call the state Legislature into special session on an arena financing plan, and state House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, is resolutely opposed to taxpayer funding for an arena.
“They already have a place to play. It’s nice. There are no potholes in the court there. Every player has health care. They all had the opportunity to go to college. Let’s get real here,” Chopp told the Seattle Times editorial board. “If they want to [build a new arena], we’re not stopping them. They can pay for it themselves.”
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LIBERALS LOVE MASS ANYTHING;
PUTTING US ALL IN A BOX, MAKING US GO WHERE THEY WANT US TO.
BUT FINANCING, WE PAY OUT OF OUR NOISES.
Feds say they’ll keep closing gap in funding for light rail.
By Debbie Messina
The Virginian-Pilot
© April 21, 2008
NORFOLK
Federal officials announced on Monday that they will do all they can to make up for a shortfall in money previously pledged for the city’s light rail starter line that is now under construction.
Federal Transit Administrator James S. Simpson awarded the city $18.9 million toward the $128 million the government promised for the project.
The FTA had budgeted a $57 million contribution to the project for fiscal year 2008, but Congress appropriated only $23 million. With Monday’s announcement, this year’s federal share is about $15 million less than anticipated.
Information on Eastside Link extension
This is Seattle’s light rail system running from downtown to the airport. This line was originally designed to serve riders from the University District through to the airport, but the line was shortened after costs increased. Soon after voters approved Sound Transit, discussions began on extending the line to Northgate, which has a large regional bus transit center. Even future extensions to the Eastside or to Tacoma were proposed.
Then the problems began. Due to the unique topography of the Seattle area, as well as its urbanization, a significant portion of the line needed to be in a tunnel under Capitol Hill and the University District.. It turned out the tunneling would cost more than predicted due to difficult soils. Then, another large portion of the line was designed to run at street level through South Seattle. The community was upset by this, and demanded concessions. These issues led to years of delays…at a time when property values were just about doubling every year. Note that Sound Transit didn’t own any of the right of way for the project.
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WHEN IT COMES TO REAL PROBLEMS,
THEY CAN’T GET IT DONE!
BUT WHAT ARROGANCE THEY DEMONSTRATE
Gregoire: ‘Watch me” tear down the viaduct
Governor tells the city she won’t let issue be pushed to back burner
OLYMPIA– With or without Seattle’s approval, the state will tear down the earthquake-damaged Alaskan Way Viaduct in 2012, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday.
“It’s coming down in 2012. I’m taking it down — the middle,” she said, referring to the elevated portion of the span that runs roughly from Battery Street Tunnel to Pioneer Square, which has been the most vexing and controversial piece of the transportation puzzle.
“That’s the timeline. I’m not going to fudge on it. And if we don’t have some alternative by then, boy are we going to have a mess on our hands because it’s coming down.”
Asked if she, as governor, could trump the state’s largest city and county and unilaterally tear down a highway that carries more than 100,000 vehicles a day through the heart of Seattle, Gregoire said:
“Yeah, watch me.”
“YEAH, WATCH ME”
Doesn’t that just say it all, “YEAH, Watch Me!”
Isn’t that their real motto, “YEAH, Watch Me!”
Arrogant, self-serving, self-righteous!
