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2005-07-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-05 15:50|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wonder if SCOTUS realizes what they did.

The goofiness of trying to take Souter's house for a tourist hotel is only the tip of the iceberg.

Some city bureaucrat is going to try this with the wrong person.

There will be violence, then jury nullification at a trial.

That blood will really be on the hands of the five doofuses in black robes in DC.

Posted by BigEd 2005-07-05 16:32|| 2005-07-05 16:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Two words that are going to become a verb: Carl Drega

As in "To get Carl Drega on his ass."

www.geocities.com/northstarzone/drega1.html

Posted by Secret Master 2005-07-05 16:49|| 2005-07-05 16:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I forgot to put in the article:

Hat tip to Vodkapundit for the link and google information.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-05 17:04|| 2005-07-05 17:04|| Front Page Top

#4 The Big Wheel gonna run over some folks, methinks.

Posted by .com 2005-07-05 17:06|| 2005-07-05 17:06|| Front Page Top

#5 I did some read up on the situation here in Germany.
The German Basic Law stipulates that expropriations are only possible when it's done for the "public good" (Gemeinwohl).

While this seems to be a rather broad brush, it is practically nearly impossible for private businesses to get an expropriation of private property.

If the project serves the "public good" or "public welfare", this has to be defined by law.

Generating more taxes or creating jobs will not do. Typically almost all expropriations happen to realize public works: mainly streets, water supply etc.

A private housing development? Quite impossible. If you want it, buy it. And if the owner want 3 times of the market value, you pay it. Some got lucky this way.

And why shouldn't they?

Posted by True German Ally 2005-07-05 17:20|| 2005-07-05 17:20|| Front Page Top

#6 And why shouldn't they?
Because city councilmen cost good money, bub!

Posted by Land Developer 2005-07-05 17:24|| 2005-07-05 17:24|| Front Page Top

#7 100 bucks a square foot? New construction in that area is many times that. They are going to push the wrong person and there will be hell to pay.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-05 17:26|| 2005-07-05 17:26|| Front Page Top

#8 The nmost worrisome thing in that respect is that in the US, corrupt city officials can make deals that would be impossibe in Germany. Expropriations that favor a private company would be extremely time consuming and face steep legal hurdles.
I remember that there was a case in a smaller Bavarian town. The mayor conspired with a private construction company to expropriate a private owner with dubious methods. When all recourse seem to have failed the owner had an idea. He "donated" small parts of his property to famous persons, including the Dalai Lama, the Pope and... heh... Mikhail Gorbachev.
The city found that it would be a lot of trouble and time to "expropriate" the Pope...
The guy still has his property...

Posted by True German Ally 2005-07-05 17:38|| 2005-07-05 17:38|| Front Page Top

#9 $100/sq ft is theft! I had some contractor quote me that $225/sq ft is a good estimate for new residential construction here in CA and that DOESN'T INCLUDE THE UNDERLYING LAND.

Posted by Leigh 2005-07-05 17:42|| 2005-07-05 17:42|| Front Page Top

#10 He "donated" small parts of his property to famous persons, including the Dalai Lama, the Pope and... heh... Mikhail Gorbachev.

lol! goddam brilyent! :)

Posted by muck4doo 2005-07-05 17:46|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-07-05 17:46|| Front Page Top

#11 I wanted to mention here that former CA GOV Jerry "moonbeam" Brown is the current Under-Furher of Oakland.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-07-05 18:25|| 2005-07-05 18:25|| Front Page Top

#12 He "donated" small parts of his property to famous persons, including the Dalai Lama, the Pope and... heh... Mikhail Gorbachev.

You know TGA, you may have something there.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-07-05 18:27|| 2005-07-05 18:27|| Front Page Top

#13 California Uber Alles

I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president

Carter power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school

California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face

Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay

California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California

Now it is 1984
Knock knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool neice

Come quitely to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower

Die on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will crack, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown

California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California

-The Dead Kennedys

Posted by Secret Master 2005-07-05 18:34|| 2005-07-05 18:34|| Front Page Top

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