South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards

Los Angeles Times ^ | May 25, 2008 | Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

[sheana]

When her neighbor's roosters and chickens persisted in running through her yard, G. Stone took matters into her own hands.

She marched next door and issued a warning: Do something about the uninvited guests or the birds "were going in my pot."

The incursions stopped. But Stone, a retired Los Angeles County librarian who lives northwest of Watts, shook her head in exasperation as she recalled the incident.

"I've lived here for 50 years," she said. "All of a sudden, there's an influx of chickens. You're not supposed to have chickens in the city."

For many, the image of South Los Angeles is that of a paved, parched, densely packed urban grid. But increasingly, it is also a place where untold numbers of barnyard animals -- chickens, roosters, goats, geese, ducks, pigs and even the odd pony -- are being tended in tiny backyard spaces

[sheana]

I used to. My brother lived down there forever. I still go to Ventura every couple of weeks but actually try to stay away from L.A. Ventura has changed for the worse too.

[Sybeck1]

I have a cousin that whose primary residence is here in North Mississippi “works” right across the border from Texas raising and fighting roosters. He live in a gated compound down there to keep away from the violence.

[La Enchiladita]

Okay, so you rarely visit L.A. Thank you for the answer;^).

[Fiji Hill]

What I posted is still true for the VAST majority of librarians. Get a clue.

Okay, so clue me in. What evidence can you produce to back up your charge?

[Straight Vermonter]

For many, the image of South Los Angeles is that of a paved, parched, densely packed urban grid.

I just looked up this area on Google maps. This country boy can't imagine how people can live like that.

[Straight Vermonter]

http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i06/06b01201.htm

[Fiji Hill]

Much has been made of the left's domination of college and university faculties. Yet in terms of political composition, the library profession makes your typical Ivy League faculty look like the Heritage Foundation.

It's not quite that bad at the public library in suburban Los Angeles where I work as a reference librarian. One of my colleagues on the reference staff is a Republican, one likes Obama, but she doesn't seem to follow politics all that much, and I don't know the prefrences of the most of the other library staffers. Several months ago, I had to work with an obnoxious leftist ideologue--a Hungarian immigrant who wished America could be more like the socialist countries of Europe, but I think he moved on to a small liberal arts college where he will find a more receptive environment.

My immediate superior is a flaming liberal, but she okays most of the conservative titles tht I request for purchase, including books by Ann Coulter, Peter Schweitzer, Mark Skousen, Thomas Sowell, and Czeslaw Milosz. By the way, I also request liberal titles, such as Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal (I have so far been unable to get Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative past the gatekeepers, but i'm working on it).

However, the library serves a largely blue-collar Mexican-American community, and books on political subjects don't circulate well. For example, Blacklisted by History, Stan Evans' book on the spy hunter Senator Joe McCarthy, which has been a bestseller in the conservative community, has never been checked out despite spending months on the "New Books" shelf. However, yesterday someone came in asking for the new Scott McClellan opus.

[steel_resolve]

Alright, check this out:

From here

A survey of the personal, socioeconomic, and professional characteristics of the 100 men and women who served as President to the American Library Association (ALA) between 1876 and 1986 was undertaken to identify those socioeconomic and professional characteristics whose frequency distributions remained relatively constant for all 100 members of the club, and to identify those group characteristics whose frequency distributions changed over the 110-year period during which the group held office. A comparison of presidents from 1906 to 1925 with their counterparts from 1966 to 1985 shows a sharp contrast: the former individual was more likely to be white, male, married, and Protestant; somewhat more likely to be a Republican; and a graduate from a northeastern college or university but without formal library education; and the director of a nonpublic library in the northeast. By contrast, the latter individual was more likely to be white, married, and Protestant; somewhat more likely to be female and a Democrat; either from the midwest, the south, or the northeast, with an undergraduate degree from a midwestern or southern school; more likely to have a Ph.D. in library science; and to be directing a library school at the time of tenure.

Or check out this librarian blog (after running a search for "George Bush"
http://librarian.lishost.org/?s=george+bush

Or read this Human Events story about the ALA and Censorship:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26444

There, that's just a sampling of the left wing democrat bias that exists at the very top of America's library food chain. I'm sure I could find a TON more, but I have a job and have to get to it. So if you plan on running your mouth to me anymore, please make sure to document your laughable assertion that Democrats and Republicans are equally represented in the ranks of librarians.

[Fiji Hill]

For many, the image of South Los Angeles is that of a paved, parched, densely packed urban grid.

That seems to be a more apt description of downtown LA or the mid-Wilshire area. South central LA, including Watts, consists primarily of small bungalows, most of which have front- and backyards.

[dennisw]

baaaaaahhhhhh.....

[tom h]

""I've lived here for 50 years," she said. "All of a sudden, there's an influx of chickens. You're not supposed to have chickens in the city." For many, the image of South Los Angeles is that of a paved, parched, densely packed urban grid. But increasingly, it is also a place where untold numbers of barnyard animals -- chickens, roosters, goats, geese, ducks, pigs and even the odd pony -- are being tended in tiny backyard spaces"

Well, duh.

Any moron listening to liberals talk about "diversity is our strength" back when LA was changing from a lovely city into a cesspool filled with Mexicans and Chinese could have predicted this outcome.

Any idiot with an IQ above 50 could have predicted this outcome once the police were prohibited from asking about immigration status when they pulled over a dark-skinned fellow who couldn't speak a word of English.

Any putzhead with the common sense of a bananna slug could've predicted this once the liberal media and the liberal culture started defending the issuance of American citizenship to illegal alien teenagers who give birth to their illegitimate Mexican babies in American hospitals.

Sheesh.

[Rant over. I was born and raised in LA and still miss the great city it once was.]