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Greening the Ghetto: Can a remedy serve for both global warming and poverty? (Ref: Van Jones)
The New Yorker | January 12, 2009 | Elizabeth Kolbert

Posted on 09/05/2009 7:03:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoczars; communism; communist; czars; economy; obama; vanjones
A puff piece on Van Jones in the New Yorker from January of this year.
1 posted on 09/05/2009 7:03:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Link here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all


2 posted on 09/05/2009 7:03:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $1 million for Sarah Palin if she runs; What will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The things that keep blacks and minorities down are:

1. Voting democrat.

2. Not taking personal responsibility for themselves, their actions, their behavior and their own lives.

3. Using, selling and distributing illegal drugs and narcotics.

4. Committing crimes.

5. Dropping out of schools and going to the kind of government run public schools that only serve to perpetuate their victimhood.

6. Getting pregnant way to early and as a result also contracting various STDs such as AIDS.

7. Collecting welfare and food stamps instead of finding a job and working hard at it. This includes developing and learning marketable working skills.

8. Stay away from gangs. Do not join gangs and do not hang around with gang members.

9. Read and study instead of watching TV, listening to rap music or playing video games.

10. Thinking that the government is the answer to all your problems. Well, it isn’t. The answer to all your problems is YOU. By adopting the principles I have enumerated here, a black person or in fact any member of a minority group can succeed and prosper.


3 posted on 09/05/2009 7:16:46 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Donner Party. He’d go first. Warmth and a full belly. End global warming and hunger. Or is it global cooling. I can’t keep up!


4 posted on 09/05/2009 7:23:08 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

when is the clown going to be gone....


5 posted on 09/05/2009 7:27:30 PM PDT by The Wizard (Democrat Party: a criminal enterprise)
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To: Ev Reeman

Prolly #1 on your list should be something like, “Eschewing marriage, thinking it worthy only of suckaz..”


6 posted on 09/05/2009 7:31:26 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Ev Reeman

You can add an 11th:

Trashed out neighborhoods.

“Going green” is the last thing I’d expect there


7 posted on 09/05/2009 7:33:26 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Ronald Reagan I admire greatly,” he once told me. “You look at what he gets away with in a speech—unbelievable. He’s able to take fairly complex prose and convey it in such a natural and conversational way that the beauty of the language and the power of the language are there, but you stay comfortable. That’s very hard to do.”


8 posted on 09/05/2009 7:43:24 PM PDT by Lorianne
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“Trashed out neighborhoods.

“Going green” is the last thing I’d expect there”

Well maintained lawns, shrubbery and trees are very rare in such neighborhoods.


9 posted on 09/05/2009 7:47:50 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Frank_2001

Actually I was thinking of all the trash that accumulates on the streets and vacant lots. Like no one cares about anything


10 posted on 09/05/2009 9:55:42 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: A_Former_Democrat; Frank_2001

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY&feature=related


11 posted on 09/05/2009 9:57:35 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We read in the link that the “genius from the hood" had a four word prescription for Democrat majority in the house for the next 20 years, namely "Clean Energy Jobs Bill".

I want to thank Mr. Jones for his extraordinary service in exposing the hateful, racist, communist, anti-American nature of the current administration. Along with his unordered scientific mind, Mr. Jones was an ideal inept Obama choice as the unrealistic Green Jobs inept Czar, complete failures all.

12 posted on 09/06/2009 5:52:05 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; Delacon; Entrepreneur; ..
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

13 posted on 09/06/2009 5:56:14 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, but it can make for a combination of Marxism and Ci-cago style bossism that results in lots of money for those on the take while recking the free market economy.


14 posted on 09/06/2009 10:41:50 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No doubt there’s a lot of money to be made by inner-city residents growing their own collard greens in all those vacant lots.


15 posted on 09/06/2009 1:10:44 PM PDT by Kenton
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