Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property rights.
Very good post. Thanks. BUMP!
The left see all of society as SimCity, yielding to their whims.
The ghost of FDR.
Ronald Reagan: “How do we call a liberal? You know, someone very profoundly once said many years ago that if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism.”
“And what is fascism?” Reagan said. “Fascism is private ownership, private enterprise, but total government control and regulation. Well, isn’t this the liberal philosophy?”
“The conservative, so-called, is the one that says less government, get off my back, get out of my pocket, and let me have more control of my own destiny,” he said.
2020: "Everybody into the city!"
When you hear someone say “sustainable”, run for your life!
Well, that doesn't sound good. I mean, the ideal communist is a dead one, so....
Small semi-urban towns where even the poorest people own their own homes on sizable plots, are falling victim to the siren song of HUD grant money.
These small towns want to big-city-fy themselves by convincing the po-folk to abandon their land and kitchen gardens and single wide trailers in favor of government subsidized rentals in tomorrow’s drug-infested housing projects.
Inner cities dont want these projects anymore. People are moving out of inner cities to rural areas where land & homes are cheap and the pace is slower & safer.
But the crypto-commie social controllers at HUD are determined to follow them.
American Policy Center?
After reading that screed, let’s just say, “You will not find a greater hive of scum and villainny” and just plain cluelessness.
I managed to get through most of the excerpt before my eyes glazed over and still don’t know what the alternative to zoning means and does.
“A form-based code is a land development regulation that fosters predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle for the code. A form-based code is a regulation, not a mere guideline, adopted into city, town, or county law. A form-based code offers a powerful alternative to conventional zoning regulation”
What the heck does that mean?
How will the Wildlands Project be enforced when the enforcers are laying in the gutter with their commie brains blown out? I bet the commies never thought of that possibility. That’s because their plans are written in comicbooks and never based on reality.
Gobbledegook....
A 200’ stream buffer would be a huge deal around here. Then again, we have a lot more water than So. Cal.
The fires of California are made more dangerous by oak woodland protections.
Live oaks, which are basically weeds have more BTU’s per volume than any other American wood (yes manzanita burns hotter but not as long)
You can cut liveoak fire wood and it barely needs to cure to burn. 2-3 weeks it’s ready for an evil wood stove
Most counties have ordinances to protect oaks and collect money for your right to cut more than a few small trees each year. It is nothing more than a money generating enviro business.
What the enviros have done to wild lands is make them more dangerous
Granted there are oaks worth preserving but Not Live Oaks.
This is an old “planning” theory, if not practice, and if run well (in certain places), would preserve lands as nature preserves and allow the migration of wildlife around highly developed areas (where they are killed by cars, etc).
Now the question is whether it is a land “grab” and development stopping scheme or not. I haven’t seen anything on these types of “preserves/pathways” in about 10 years or more.
Wildlife near me in increasingly and destructively urban/suburban no. Virginia has made life fascinating for my family to watch (partially because there is a running path/trail along a nice “Run” body of water that goes from near DC to the more rural areas.
My sideporch breakfast and dinner group includes my two cats, my neighbor’s cat, a semi wild cat that might be a son of one of our deceased cats, one opossum (a hawk got the baby one), and at one time 5 raccoons (out of 8 - the five were living in my neighbor’s basement).
Looks like we lost two raccoons within the last year but the “mother of all raccoons”, about a 20-25 pounder, regularly eats the cat food, bread, etc. we put out.
One night he washed his bread in the cat’s water bowl, then sat in it while eating. I have pictures to prove it.
The little milk snakes got killed by lawnmowers or cats/dogs, and someone killed a huge Chipmunk the other day (They moved right next to our house - neighbors have a small dog, we have two cats and my other neighbor has cat, plus one or two semi-wild ones in the hood. We haven’t had a rat in almost 15 years (except one or two neighbors).
A coyote can be heard late at night, the silver/red foxes hunt all over the place (rabbits are having a hard time), and an occasional deer comes down the hiking trail for a drink at 7-11.
We have a pretty good wildlife management program (they relocate raccoons, deer, etc) but there are still enough for us to enjoy. After all before George Washington owned our neighbor/forest, they did.