Developers are Crabgrass : WARNING - WARNING - WARNING: The BS meter is unpinned from zero, all the way to the nether end of scale.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

WARNING - WARNING - WARNING: The BS meter is unpinned from zero, all the way to the nether end of scale.

A card came, unpostmarked, but yesterday, Friday, Dec. 22, 2006 -- on the eve of Christmas and New Year holidays starting.

From Our City. Timed that way. While you're looking the other way, they are wisely trash-canning the entire cluster nonsense, or suggesting it be done; but the stealth in it is unwisely going back to 4-in-40; not to the previous workable situation of 2-1/2 acre lots.

The mischief is on the city website, so have a look.

The contact "public servant" is: Amy Geisler (763) 433-9903 [and if you want responses in writing, email = ageisler@ci.ramsey.mn.us ]

Because I would like (and I have the right to expect and do expect) written answers from the contact "public servant" prior to the scheduled Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007, 7 pm meeting, I am emailing Ms. G. the following few simple questions.

I will post her response on this site, as soon as I clear it from my email.

MY FEW SIMPLE QUESTIONS:

1. Your proposed Ramsey Code Sect. 9.20.11 starts off talking about something called "the 2020 Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA)," and this term is a mystery to me. What's it mean? Why is it in the code? What is the "2020 MUSA"? My impression is that all notion of a MUSA line was eliminated in order to cross Alpine with Sewer/water, so as to ultimately route same to gun club & northward to accommodate very specific developer interests. What's up, with that term?

2. What is the point of leaving 9.20.11 Subd. 2(d) "Townhome" language? Isn't that problematic, for that area, and suggesting PUD favoritism might be available to specifically favored developers up north there, as per favoritism in past sewer/water routing decision-making?

3. What's wrong with the Tiger Meadows answer? It seems to have been an ideal and perfect deveopment, with an attractive housing option not available per Town Center crowded circumstances, nor per Peterson crowded circumstances - something for people who do not like crowding. They do exist, to escape crowding is why many moved to Ramsey, Tiger Meadows was promptly sold out and probably would sell out quickly also in today's less-vigorous housing market. Unlike other inventory.

4. Who is advocating going back to the 4-in-40? Cluster housing - bad idea - sure get rid of it; but then --- who's benefited during its tenure, some have gotten approvals, etc.? Again, the question is favortism vs. the rest of us. Has that been a factor at play?

5. Regarding Subd. 2(g), What is "noncommercial horseboarding" and with other changes in city law re horses and their regulation, elimination of a specific board, etc., who would oversee and police "noncommercial horseboarding" whatever it is?

6. BOTTOM LINE QUESTION: Why not have more Tiger Meadows kind of development; instead of abandoning the brain-cramp idiocy of cluster housing; but not going back to what its passage torpedoed? 2=1/2 acre lots worked. It worked fine at Tiger Meadows. Former City Administrator James E. Norman tried to lean on the property owner there to do clustering, and thankfully the man had the backbone to say, in effect, "BS, Jim, I want no part of it and I insterad want to develop precisely in accordance with the Comp. Plan as it now stands." So you guys went and changed the plan so that such a sensible thing would not recur. And it was NICE and it worked FINE!

7. A collateral question: Why not some better kind of notice? Sending a little card over Christmas, when people are "looking the other way" for a change of this magnitude is suggestive that even though James Norman's leaving, his spirit and ways and means linger. Why not more notice for folks to think and talk to one another? Why this way, this style, still? IT LOOKS LIKE MORE OF THAT "TO US" INSTEAD OF "FOR US" OR "WITH US. " Do you disagree, and what's your explanation of the timing, if different from mine?

The history was, 4-in-40, for a long and disliked time. Then 2-1/2 acres were allowed, but when Tiger Meadows actually went and did it; the planner-think folk had the clustering brain cramp. Now, they admit it was error and a mess, but with the 2008 Comp. Plan beginning in swing, they jump us on tricky notice and go to this 4-in-40 again when the Met. Council apparently did NOT quell the 2-1/2 acre lots. This simply looks too much like a crass staff attempt to dictate what is a citizen decision process - determination of our 2008 Comp. Plan - OUR Plan - and I dislike that appearance very, very much and urge other citizens to challenge the methodology of city "public servants" as I am doing.

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

Image is cropped from one of a series of Buzzfeed images. Click the image to access the Buzzfeed coverage of that march. This was a major event in Washington, D.C., and it happened mid-way after Trump had been fired by voters in the 2020 election, and before the one approaching. To assert as MN GOP politicians have that abortion is not an issue is an insensitive fiction concocted in some smoke filled GOP backroom. Do not let a GOP intent to deceive misleed your vote. The issue IS ON THE BALLOT. Women deserve dominion over their bodies, we all deserve privacy in our lifetime decision making.

Cracker fear and loathing toward Critical Race Theory has its precedent.

The precedent - Integration dodging intent behind segregated "non-profit" private schools, after the Brown decision was issued. Leading a twisted mind, Paul Weyrich, to issue-monger.

Politico in 2014 posted the true history of the ginned up propagandized opposition to abortion among the nation's hordes of Evangelicals as the "Weyrich solution" to energize the base. Leading to grave mischief. Evangel-Jesus-jockeys, with fellow travelers, (many of whom are surveyed as not as worked up about Roe as Alito would want you to falsely believe). Some, "foaming-at-the-mouth" rabid, however -

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

Click that Wikipedia image, get THE STORY (and a link to the enlarged image, copyright info and all). GET: Online info leading into a new year via some pre-1947 new "old thoughts." New to many first time voters - this cycle. Not the thoughts, but the history. A history not to be found in Gipper speech transcripts, nor the Gipper's presidential library papers. Hello, Joe, Dem Party history, so pay attention. Pre-Clinton, Pre-Obama, but Dem party new-old nostalgia. Good old ways. Show the guts to walk that talk.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

Let's go Brandon?

Yes, it relates to a NASCAR event, NASCAR attendees making a statement. But given how fifteen bucks got disappeared, and now Build Back Inconsequentially is pending, shouldn't we all chant? Trust whoever you care to, but wouldn't you like to see trust earned? Actions speak louder than words, while inaction when action is needed speaks loudest? Truthfully so? Pharma prices if anything have gone upward since Trump left while Manchin's daughter's a part of it via her grotesque EpiPen market manipulation and price gouging (a/k/a contract, combination, conspiracy in restraint of trade to gain market segment monopolization). Who might they want to fool? Biden's Justice Department appearing to not be looking at EpiPen under antitrust criminal law? Student debt relief is an aim of many, yet Biden has made no move to be helpful. Never mind Medicare for All sidetracked - Not even cosmetic change is being made to Obama's Romneycare? Taking progressives for a buggy ride? DC redux? Money talks? A Congress of old owned lackeys? Let's go Brandon?

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MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

A RIGHT - not a privilege - EVERYBODY'S RIGHT - no limits

JOE BIDEN DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL. That is because Biden's billionaires want to keep every last one of the people beholden, manageable that way, willing to compromise and to worry about the next paycheck and the mortgage, rather than worrying abstractly over the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and power in our nation. Reform of that situation is needed. HOWEVER, with the Biden White House team, we must wait for HOPE and CHANGE. He owes, as a career politician now a millionaire himself, after NOT ever biting a feeding hand. We need Bernie.

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie Sanders early 2019 crowds from before the Democratic Party oligarchs did him in, Clyburn, Bloomberg, Biden - the usual suspects. What resonated with those crowds - a candidate for justice and fairness, finally and for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0 Joe Biden could have a Lincolnian legacy, if he cuts and runs from the big donor class he has so far courted, makes his platform the heart of that speech and delivers on the promises. If there is the will, there is the way.

More meddlesome in U.S. of A. politics. More money spent over Russians? Does that compute?

click here for image source plus NYTimes coverage.

Will there be blowback? There seems to be a disproportionate sense to DC's media-mania focus. Russians seem to make better theater, while Israelis generate movement on a scale Putin could only dream of? Essays and books could be written . . . However, in 2012 Romney and Bibi preceded Donald and Vlad mischief, in attempted outsider bias of U.S. national elections. Donald never visited Vlad in Russia. Romney did visit and schmooze Bibi, in Israel. "Double standard?" Go figure.

Doug Wardlow's police pal, Bob Kroll.

POLICE ENDORSED has to have a meaning, a context, and a discernible personality. G.R.Anderson writing over a decade ago, in a CityPages item, puts in a context, Bob Kroll, further fleshed out, here. It behooves the public to know who the supporters of a politician are, (photo above), since that reflects on the politician. "Rule of Law" must have a meaning to Kroll, one which few would share. Why is Mainstream Media not asking about POLICE ENDORSED, a Wardlow tout point?

IN ADDITION: In this image, isn't it Bob Kroll standing to the right hand of friend Wardlow? Looks like him. Paired Ellison haters? Anti-Muslim cohorts? How far back does the pairing go? And how has the pairing grown over time or evolved, from what start? Is there some Dobson joinder? The press should inquire.

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

He unleashed an ADF salvo, earning his ADF paycheck. Read about it, here, here and here. Outlawyered on appeal, Wardlow now apparently has no ADF paycheck. Others for ADF are pressing on. ADF appears to be a win-or-go-home team. James Dobson's team, so walk the line. Whatever you think you want, trust me, you do not want James Dobson anywhere near our attorney general office. A Berniecrat is the other choice, and is a good choice because Bernie's policies are the only future the Democratic Party has whether they accept that or not. Aimee Stephens is as human as I am, as human as Wardlow and Dobson and Hillstrom and Pelikan, the latter two seeming to have gone silent. Ms. Stevens should not be bedeviled in this Twenty-first Century. She merely wanted to be herself, do her job, and get her share. That is what each of us wants for ourselves. Evolution of politics is overdue. Ellison got piled on; is getting piled on. Click the above image.

Sell 'em Prosperity Gospel and feed 'em beans. Some never catch on.

What is Prosperity Gospel? It is: Channeling the mind of a brick into GOP and related dogma. Read this Minnesota story. Click the image to read its fine print. (image source: Bluestem Prairie) The image shows a part of the "mind" of a 30 yr. and still-going Prosperity Gospel faithful attendee. A Dev Crabgrass post fleshes things out. Islamaphobia is but one dimension of a larger "GOP base" stupidity. Stupidity you can bank on. HINT: Follow links in items linked here. Questions will get answered. And --- There's more -

DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.

a DINO with an up-top money slot

This link. Al Franken in the linked WashTimes item is quoted:
“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."

Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.

Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.